Chapter 161 Such Cruelty
It wasn't something to be proud of for a grown man like Chen Jianye to be forced to kneel as punishment in front of his mother-in-law, so he remained silent.
But there was no escaping it, so he tried to remain calm and said, "It's nothing, I just made a mistake and was punished by kneeling."
He was too ashamed to tell his mother-in-law what "good deeds" he had done.
Li Chunhua said indignantly, "Jianye has been kneeling all afternoon and hasn't even had lunch!"
Grandma Li was even more shocked: "They won't even give us food? Why?!"
She simply couldn't understand what terrible mistake he had made that his parents would be so cruel as to punish him like this.
Seeing that Li Chunhua was about to answer, Chen Jianye quickly interrupted her, saying, "Mom, if you have something to say, go back to your room with Chunhua and talk."
Although he'll find out sooner or later, let's at least save him some face and not say it to his face.
"right!"
Li Chunhua nodded knowingly and said in a low voice, "Mom, let's go inside and talk."
I can't let my mother-in-law hear this.
After returning to the house, she embellished the whole story and told it to her mother, leaving Old Lady Li dumbfounded, incredulous, and unable to believe it.
"Is your mother-in-law senile?! How could she beat her three sons for a good-for-nothing who eats off others?!"
She only knew that Ma Xiulian favored that money-losing girl, but she never expected that the favoritism would be so severe!
That's a son who can take care of you in your old age and see you off when you die!
Hearing her loud voice, Li Chunhua immediately said nervously, "Mom, keep your voice down. My mother-in-law can't stand that brat being called a money-loser."
"What else is a little girl but a money-loser?!" Old Mrs. Li said dismissively, her voice lowering as she curled her lip.
After all, Ma Xiulian had actually beaten her out of the house with a broom before.
"That's right! Back then, everyone in the surrounding villages knew that my mother-in-law favored boys over girls!"
Li Chunhua immediately felt like she had found her people and began to pour out her grievances: "That damn girl is really strange. From the moment she was born, she bewitched her in-laws like they had gone mad. They don't love any of their grandsons but only treat her like the apple of their eye and dote on her to death! If their tempers hadn't remained unchanged, I would have suspected that they were possessed by a ghost!"
Upon hearing this, Old Mrs. Li said with certainty, "Your parents-in-law are definitely possessed by evil spirits!"
Otherwise, why would someone not love their grandson but instead dote on their granddaughter?!
"What should we do then?"
Li Chunhua frowned, her face full of bitterness and resentment, and said, "Mom, you have no idea how many good things in the house have been wasted by that wretched girl these past few years! My mother-in-law not only feeds her rice and meat at every meal, but also gives her White Rabbit milk candy, malted milk powder, and canned beef that are only sold in department stores every day. Each of these costs several yuan!"
She went to see the newly built department store in Sanqiao Town once, but everything there was ridiculously expensive, and there was nothing she could afford. She never went there again.
Most importantly, she never realized the Chen family was so wealthy!
She knew that the Chen family was well-off before, but she didn't expect them to be this well-off, able to afford things from department stores!
Thinking of this, she suddenly reached out and pinched Li Chunhua's thigh hard, glaring at her fiercely and saying, "Why didn't you tell me these things sooner? Did you think that just because you married into the Chen family, you could stop taking your father and me seriously?!"
If she had known earlier that the Chen family had so much money, she would have been willing to go to any lengths to squeeze every last drop of profit out of them.
(End of this chapter)
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