Chapter 173: Not Completely Stupid
Now they're giving all the good food and drink to that little monster, but not to her grandsons. When she gets old and can't work anymore, her grandsons definitely won't be willing to take care of her in her old age and see her off in her final days.
If no one takes care of them, they will freeze or starve to death, which is a terrible tragedy!
Li Chunhua nodded in deep agreement, "That's exactly the point!"
Ma Xiulian ignored them and stared sharply at Chen Jianye, asking, "Third brother, is that what you think too?"
Chen Jianye dared not lie, and nodded stiffly: "...Yes."
After all, almost everyone thinks this way these days: once a daughter is raised and married, the parents have fulfilled their responsibilities.
But for some reason, under his mother's sharp, knife-like gaze, he felt a strange sense of unease and shame.
Ma Xiulian was not surprised by his answer at all, nor was she angry, because she had thought the same way at the time.
It's only after your daughter is actually married that you realize you still think about her and worry about her.
However, the third son and his wife will probably never think about it or care about it for the rest of their lives. Li Chunhua should be thankful that she doesn't go to her husband's family to beg for money.
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore; just thinking about it makes me feel terrible.
So she got back to the point, her face serious, and said, "Putting everything else aside, compared to the other fathers in our Chen family, do you think you're a decent father?"
After a moment of silence, Chen Jianye shook his head: "Not very presentable."
Compared to his mother-in-law's family, the Song family next door, or even other families, he would feel that he was a pretty good father.
Because he wouldn't beat or scold his daughter all the time, wouldn't starve her or leave her with all the hard, tiring, and dirty work.
But compared to his father and two older brothers, he was indeed somewhat lacking.
Then he heard his mother say indifferently, "At least he's not completely stupid."
Chen Jianye's face flushed instantly, and he began to doubt himself, wondering if he was really that stupid, otherwise his mother wouldn't have said it so bluntly.
Ma Xiulian didn't care about his inner thoughts and continued to ask, "Then do you think your wife is a decent mother?"
Upon hearing this, Li Chunhua immediately tensed up: What did her mother-in-law mean by asking this? Did she want her mother to take her back to her parents' home?!
The thought of this possibility terrified her, and she quickly begged for forgiveness, saying, "Mom, I know I was wrong. I promise I'll treat Sanni and Guaibao well from now on!"
Li Chunhua's eyes betrayed her panic and fear, for she knew that if she were sent back to her parents' home, she would surely suffer the consequences.
Old Mrs. Li glared and shouted, "Mother-in-law, what do you mean by that? How is my daughter not good enough?! She has given birth to three children for your Chen family, and she's still pregnant with another one!"
One more person means one more mouth to feed!
Besides, my little girl is heavily pregnant right now, eats a lot, and can't do much work!
Thinking about it this way, she immediately felt that the tigress was doing it on purpose, deliberately finding an excuse to send her pregnant daughter-in-law, who only ate and did not work, back to her parents' home so that her family could support her!
You, Ma Xiulian, you've got quite the cunning plan in your mind!
But Wang Dahua wasn't a fool who would be taken advantage of; you couldn't get even a single grain of rice out of her hands!
So she immediately grabbed Chen Jianye's arm and started wailing, "Jianye, you can't let your mother send Chunhua back to her parents' home! She's carrying your child!"
(End of this chapter)
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