Mrs. Chu covered her chest and squinted her eyes at her son: "What the hell are you talking about?" Before Chu Hongtian could answer, she pinched her eldest son's arm with her withered hands:
"Learn it all over again."
Chu Hongtian sighed, avoided the old lady's gaze, tilted his head slightly and frowned, saying:
"It was Xiaofeng's mother who messed it up. She wasn't very enthusiastic when she went to the Bi family. Yiqing was drunk again, and without Lao Liang's knowledge, she barged into the house and started saying nasty things, cursing the parents.
As a result, the girl scolded him so much that he got angry and wanted to abort the child, saying that he would not marry her anymore.
Mother, let’s study first…”
The old lady sat there blankly wrapped in a blanket, interrupting calmly:
"Call her up."
"Mother." Chu Hongtian's face showed anxiety:
"There's no point scolding her so late at night. If you continue to do so after this, I won't stop you.
But our top priority is to solve the problem first.
I want you to go and plead for mercy tomorrow. Have Lao Liang accompany you again and apologize to the Bi family.
You said that as a future father-in-law, I can't discuss that matter with my daughter-in-law when she is pregnant?
The only thing we can do is for you to go first and tell that girl to slow down, and then I will take Xiaofeng with me to apologize to my in-laws.
Lao Liang handled this matter in our family in a very unfair way.
Didn't you get along with that girl before? Mom, Xiaofeng will be back around nine o'clock tomorrow morning. He took the train at around four o'clock this afternoon. By then..."
"Liang Yinqiu! Get up here!"
Chu Hongtian closed his eyes. In the middle of the night, the sharp voice made his ears ring and his heart tremble. He felt exhausted and his stomach ached.
Anyone like him has to worry about such household matters.
Chu Hongtian stood by the bed with a lawsuit on his mind, imagining the scene of a big fight that was about to happen.
One is my mother and the other is my daughter-in-law. They can lead troops to fight and lead more people. But for decades, neither of them can lead a good one.
All the lights in the old lady's bedroom were on. Liang Yinqiu stood at the door with her head lowered, sobbing softly.
She felt very ashamed. At such an old age, she was ordered around and was scared.
She wanted to explain, she wanted to say that her attitude was bad because she was unwilling to accept it and that they were not a match.
She acted like that on purpose when she came to the house, wanting to say a few words between the two situations, to make herself feel better, to vent her anger and swallow her resentment.
She doesn't like Bi Yue, can't she say a few words? Can't she express her dislike?
But she didn't expect that her daughter would make the ambiguous matter completely unclear after she left.
After Mrs. Chu let out that loud roar, she gasped for breath and angrily pushed away her son's hand that was about to stroke her back. She just stared at Liang Yinqiu.
Only she herself knew what it felt like to be so angry that she couldn't speak for the first time. All kinds of emotions flooded her heart.
The old lady didn't understand. She couldn't read a single word and she was still dissatisfied with Liang Yinqiu. Liang Yinqiu's entry into the Chu family was a scar in her heart, a hurdle she couldn't overcome.
But didn't she accept it anyway? Everyone said she was acting up, but she knew she had a bad temper and could accept it. So why did Liang Yinqiu go through so much trouble?
The worst thing is that you don’t love your son!
Just when Chu Hongtian and Liang Yinqiu thought that the old lady would start to curse as usual, the old lady actually just said in a low voice:
"Liang Yinqiu, I won't mention your heartless nature, nor will I mention that I've been on the verge of death for decades, and now that I see you, I regret you entering the Chu family. I won't mention any of that."
Liang Yinqiu's eyes were filled with tears, and she looked at her mother-in-law with resentment in an instant.
Old Madam Chu sneered:
"I told you that I want four generations living under one roof, and you tried to kill your own grandson.
Let me tell you, if my great-grandson is gone, I’ve lived enough.
You can try, I'll let you act like a lady from a noble family, and I'll let everyone know you're a traitor!"
"Mom!" Chu Hongtian was anxious.
The old lady pretended not to hear and continued:
"Before I die, I will go to the gate of your workplace and have a good talk with you about the pretentious behavior you've been carrying around these years.
Your daughter is a good-for-nothing and curses at others. This is what you have brought her up to be.
What do your superiors, the Bi family, think? I know you better than you know yourself.
You just want to insult me? You're even worse than that troublemaker Chu Yiqing.
She looks like a good wife and mother, but she despises the poor and loves the rich, and she flatters the weak and has a very bad heart.
I have to sit at the gate of our compound and tell them how this family fell into ruin."
Liang Yinqiu was threatened and angry, and immediately held onto the door frame.
Chu Hongtian's hands were shaking with anger:
"Mom, can we not say these angry words? Can we be a little more reserved? She is wrong. Let's talk about useful things first."
“Useful?
Liang Yinqiu, if you still want your son and don't want me to do that, come with me tomorrow morning.
Just do whatever you are told to do and lower your expensive head.
Don't act like a wife of an official. I'm the mother of a high-ranking official. Am I older than you? Why are you pretending?
Chu Hongtian, send me a car. This family can't rely on you for anything. Useless thing, turn off the lights and go to sleep! "
Even Chu Hongtian was stunned. For a moment, he had the illusion that his mother shouldn't be so calm. Compared to the usual scolding of her parents, this was not right.
But the more Old Lady Chu acted like this, the more panicked Chu Hongtian and Liang Yinqiu became. They felt that now that their grandson was gone, the old ancestors in the family would really tear the roof off the house.
Only when the lights went out did Mrs. Chu's eyes begin to moisten. With trembling hands, she reached under the pillow and fumbled for the medicine bottle.
She felt herself to be quite useless.
If she cursed Liang Yinqiu tonight, she would not be able to get up tomorrow. If she fainted at the Bi family, no one would stop Bi Yue.
By then, whoever cares about her Xiaofeng will have his grandson ruined.
The old woman swallowed the pills dryly and gnashed her teeth in the darkness:
Wait for her until Bi Yue comes in.
The day has come when Liang Yinqiu can no longer speak easily at home.
…
The sun rises as usual, and life goes on as usual.
Old Mrs. Chu sat upright in the car, and she didn't care what Liang Yinqiu was thinking.
He only took a quick glance at me at around five in the morning when he ordered the driver to move something. His eyes were red and swollen, and it looked like he hadn't slept all night.
The old lady thought to herself that when she met the Bi family, she would first communicate with them emotionally, flatter them, sing their praises, and make the person feel comfortable after just one face-to-face contact, and then communication would be almost done.
Bi Tiegang was used to living in the countryside. He would remove the bolt and open the door when he got up in the morning, no matter it was winter or summer. But this morning, he regretted opening the door.
With a "creak", what came into Bi Tiegang's sight was an old lady, Chu Yifeng's mother, and a young soldier in military uniform, who were taking things down from the car. There were already a lot of things piled up at the door.
The old lady was smiling, and Liang Yinqiu behind her also pulled the corners of her mouth stiffly.
"You're Yue's father, right? Oh, nephew, I'm Xiaofeng's grandmother."
Liu Yafang stood in the yard and shouted, "Bi Tiegang, are you sick? Who told you to open the door?!" (To be continued.)
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