Ye Shuhua's voice broke down: "Why did you drag my Ye family into your conflict and cause us to suffer losses? Ah—ah—why?"
Ming Yunshan's voice was filled with anger: "Yunshan, you've gone too far."
Ming Zhengyang roared again, "Ming Yunshu, what exactly are you trying to do? What you're doing is bad for everyone, including you."
Ming Yunshu sneered: "I'm happy as long as you're unhappy. I'm betting my future on this, and you'll have to trade yours for it."
Ming Zhengyang couldn't believe it: "Even if you destroy yourself, you want us to be punished, and both of us to suffer losses. What exactly are you after?"
Ming Yunshan's voice came again: "We are brothers. I've been helping you since you were little. Could you have gone to school without my help? I pleaded for you when your grandparents punished you, and I helped you when others mocked you. How can you be so ungrateful?"
Ming Yunshu's unusually calm voice rang out: "What did I do to help you? Your mother was the first wife, and my mother was also married through proper channels. Why should you be able to go to school while I have to be your page and work like a slave just to go to school? You're a good-for-nothing. It's my responsibility that you're bullied. I should be beaten for not protecting you? I was punished for hitting the person who bullied you, just because I used my fists and behaved rudely, disgracing the Ming family. Is the Ming family royalty or an official family? We're just a bunch of country landlords. Do you think you're some high-ranking official?"
"Everything I deserve, I have to beg you for before you give it to me, and I'm expected to be grateful. Ming Yunshan, put your hand on your heart and tell me, when I was a child, people called me a burden, did you ever defend me? When people mocked me for being just a servant, a slave, you just said no without a word of explanation. Do you dare say you didn't agree with that in your heart?"
“I carried your schoolbag to school and did all the chores at school. You just acted like a young master. When you came back, I had to work with your mother. When things got busy, I had to work in the fields. I didn’t get a single day off. Don’t forget that I’m five years younger than you. You, on the other hand, were waited on hand and foot. All you had to do was study hard. Is this what I mean by fairness?”
"Why did Grandpa and Grandma punish me? It's because you tattled on me, and after you tattled, you acted like a good person, so Grandpa and Grandma punished you even more severely. Is this what you call pleading for mercy? A beneficiary expects me, an oppressed person, to be grateful, and to pave the way for you with the achievements I worked so hard for. Why should I?"
"Your job is to cause trouble for me, to isolate you in the Political Department. That's what you owe me. And the Ye family too. If it weren't for the Ye family backing Ye Shuhua up, would she dare to target my mother like this? Since the Ye family dared to do it, they have to bear the consequences. It's just that you guys are too useless. You can find a whole bunch of flaws, and you don't have to put in much effort."
Then came chaos. Everyone's voices were mixed together and indistinct until the sound of fists hitting flesh rang out. Zhu Fanfan knew that he had started to fight. The screams of the women and the cries of the children joined in.
The fight went on for a long time until all the sounds of fighting ceased and silence fell. Ming Yunshu said, "My whole family will not come again tomorrow. We will never see each other again. When I need to fulfill my filial duties, I will definitely provide financial assistance. As for things like father-son or brotherly affection, forget about them. We never had any to begin with, so let's not make ourselves a laughingstock."
No one spoke until the sound of Ming Yunshu leaving with his family reached Zhu Fanfan. Only then did she realize that her mental energy was about to be exhausted again, and she quickly went to sleep, as she couldn't stay up any longer.
The next day, after Zhu Fanfan woke up, she thought she would never see Aunt Xiaoxiao again. But as soon as she finished eating, Yan Xiaoxiao came and said to her grandfather, "Uncle Zhu, Yunshu asked me to come and look after the children. I brought my own food to your house today. He will come to pick me up tonight."
Zhu Jiabao didn't ask anything: "Here's the key. You know how to use the kitchen. You don't need to bring food when you help me take care of the kids. Consider it a favor from your family's food rations."
Yan Xiaoxiao hurriedly waved her hands, almost losing her grip on the third brother: "Yunshu said that it is our duty to take advantage of the Ming family, and we cannot give everything to Ming Yunshan, but Uncle is so good to us, we cannot take advantage of Uncle's family, or we will be struck by lightning."
Zhu Jiabao: ...No wonder Xiaoxiao is not popular in the Ming family. No one can stand her straightforward personality.
Yan Xiaoxiao said cautiously, "Uncle Zhu, you must come back tonight!"
Zhu Jiabao looked at her with a complicated expression. This was his home, where else could he go if he didn't come back? It seemed that Yun Shu had something to say to him and had asked Xiaoxiao to pass on the message.
Zhu Fanfan looked at Aunt Xiaoxiao speechlessly, wondering what had happened with her thieving expression.
After Grandpa left, Grandma Da Mei came and asked Xiao Xiao, "Yun Shu didn't say anything after he went back, did he?"
Xiaoxiao opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing. Lin Damei sighed, "He's angry with me. I'm such a failure."
The children she raised with her own hands were met with hostility from her eldest son and resentment from both her own children. She was caught in the middle and made a mistake.
Yan Xiaoxiao quickly replied, "Mom, it has nothing to do with you. You did very well. Yunshu said that you were the best to him before he met the Zhu family."
The original quote was that before he joined the army, only his mother cared about him when she had free time, so that he wouldn't feel rejected by everyone.
Lin Damei: ...You might as well not say anything.
Yan Xiaoxiao wanted to comfort him: "Yunshu said he doesn't blame his mother at all, he only blames himself for not being considerate of you."
The original words were: "I don't blame my mother. She was doing this to repay a debt of gratitude. She felt sweet in her heart to suffer some grievances for the sake of her benefactor's son. I didn't understand her, so now she doesn't understand my feelings of wanting to repay the Zhu family."
Lin Damei: ...If Xiaoxiao's lies weren't so obvious, that would be great.
Yan Xiaoxiao wanted to offer some comfort, but Zhu Fanfan suddenly said, "Drink some water."
Grandma Da Mei's face darkened with each word Aunt Xiao Xiao spoke, though she didn't know why, but she had to stop her.
Yan Xiaoxiao quickly put her third child down: "Mom, I'll go get Fanfan some water. You keep an eye on the child."
After saying that, he left, but returned a little while later: "Mother, I can't find Uncle Zhu's kettle."
Lin Damei: ...
Zhu Fanfan gestured for Yan Xiaoxiao to hug her, and Yan Xiaoxiao laughed and said, "Fanfan still wants me to hug her, Mom. Fanfan likes me. We are destined to be together."
Lin Damei: ...It seems Yunshu has something on his mind. Xiaoxiao is really not good at talking.
Zhu Fanfan gave directions to Aunt Xiaoxiao, showing her the kitchen and guest rooms. When they returned, Yan Xiaoxiao said, "Mom, Fanfan is so smart! She knows everything. I knew where everything was after just one walk around."
Lin Damei could only smile. Did it even need to be said that Fanfan was smarter than her?
Lin Damei said to Yan Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, I'd like to meet Yunshu. Is he coming tonight?"
She reflected on herself and realized that she hadn't been a good mother, letting her son suffer such injustice right under her nose. She wanted to apologize to him and hoped he could forgive her.
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