Zhang Ling took Xiaodouzi and walked out of the bedroom talking and laughing.

His father was telling Li Li with a solemn expression:

"Both parents haven't met, they haven't held a wedding, they haven't registered with the Civil Affairs Bureau, and they still want my daughter to sacrifice for your family, Li Xiang, and the genealogy of your Li family last time. No, this is absolutely not possible!"

As his father spoke, he became more and more excited and slammed the table, stood up and said loudly:

"Li Xiang! What is this? Talk to me! Who do you think my daughter is?"

Li Xiang originally thought that he had been vaccinated against Zhang Pengtian.

He didn't expect Zhang Pengtian to shout excitedly.

He also stood up immediately, wanting to reach out and grab Zhang Pengtian's hand, drag him back to the chair and talk calmly.

"Uncle, I've already said it, please don't get excited! Wait for me to say..."

Li Xiang also thought that Xiaodouzi was at home.

I'm worried that my father's emotional state will scare his children.

"Shut up!" His father opened Li Xiang's hand and pointed at his nose with a disappointed look on his face. "Well, Li Xiang, I've misjudged you."

For the sake of Zhang Ling's reputation, her father didn't want to hear any more nonsense from Li Xiang.

I don’t even want Li Xiang to stay at home anymore and be an eyesore.

Then the father's eyes were on fire, he moved his hand and pointed at the door again and shouted:

"Get out, get out, get out of my house right now! Do you hear me?"

Xiaodouzi was frightened by his father's appearance, and immediately hid behind Zhang Ling and said:

"Grandpa looks so scary! Mom, I'm scared!"

Xiaodouzi's trembling voice made the three of them focus their attention.

Zhang Ling felt distressed and stroked the child's head first to comfort her and said:

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. With mother here, Xiaodouzi is not afraid."

Then she looked at her father and said with a bit of complaint:

"Dad, after all, you have raised me since I was a child. Don't you know if there are children at home? It scares Xiaodouzi. Can you please sit down and talk to me about something?"

Zhang Ling's words are considered extremely normal by many parents.

After all, many parents often say similar words when arguing in front of their children.

Little did they know that this way of expression would have a greater impact on children.

Murray Bowen, a psychologist from China and the founder of systems family theory, once proposed a theory.

Triangulation of family relationships means that the conflict between the two parties is diverted through the intervention of a third party, but it does not actually resolve the conflict.

In the family environment, children are most likely to become such a "third party".

Mentioning children is most likely to cause adults to lose focus on the problems they are about to solve, and it can also cause children to unconsciously enter a "filling position" state and fall into a "victim" mentality.

At this time, Xiaodouzi, as a child, probably thought so because of Zhang Ling's words:

"I'm really hurt. It's my fault that my dad and grandpa (or parents) quarreled."

When the parents who are closest to each other quarrel, they will still think ambivalently:

"Do I need to help dad or mom?"

For young children, no matter who they choose to help, they will feel guilty about "betrayal".

Remember that children are not responsible for resolving conflicts between adults.

It is irresponsible for adults (parents) to use children to fill their seats again and again.

So it’s better to ask the adults who are quarreling to let themselves be adults first.

What Zhang Ling just said can be said afterwards, in private, or during the review.

But never say it during an argument.

Only then did the father suppress his anger towards Li Xiang for the sake of his children.

I quickly found a few pieces of fruit candies from a drawer.

He walked to Xiaodouzi and squatted down, and forced himself to put on a kind smile and said:

"Child, don't be afraid! Grandpa was really in a bad mood just now. Don't worry, grandpa promises that what he said just now was definitely not directed at you. Here, here are some pieces of candy for you to eat to calm your shock."

Xiaodouzi's eyes shone when he was tempted by a few pieces of candy, and he seemed to have forgotten the fear just now.

However, the sensible child did not immediately reach out to take the candy in his grandfather's hand.

Instead, she looked up at Zhang Ling beside her and called "Mom."

After Zhang Ling nodded in agreement, Xiaodouzi happily reached out and grabbed the candy from his grandfather's hand.

He quickly peeled off a piece of candy, put it into his mouth and ate it with a smile.

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Xiaodouzi's smile again.

Sit around the table.

Zhang Ling then looked at her father with some confusion and asked:

"Dad, what did Gang Li want to do to you? To make you, who has always been steady, act so rude!"

"He..." My father still couldn't completely suppress the anger in his heart. When he saw Li Xiang, he was afraid that he would no longer be able to control his emotions, so he said angrily, "Ask him!"

Zhang Ling was a little helpless at her father's attitude, but she still looked at Li Xiang on the other side.

Li Xiang seemed to have been waiting for her gaze.

So before she spoke, he looked very serious and said:

"Ling'er, here's the thing. Just now, my uncle asked about the specific details of filling in the score during today's family sacrifice ceremony. I just told my uncle the truth as we agreed before. My uncle..."

When Li Xiang mentioned Zhang Pengtian, he felt helpless and couldn't go on.

It was also because Zhang Ling saw what happened next.

"What?"

When his father heard Li Xiang's story, he stood up immediately like an explosion.

When he saw Xiaodouzi in front of him, he suppressed his anger and sat down again to question Zhang Ling:

"So you agree with everything he said?"

"Yes!" Zhang Ling nodded.

"My silly daughter! Why did you agree to such a big matter without discussing it with your father?"

The father's words revealed endless sorrow and sorrow.

After all, the father does not know the true thoughts of his daughter and Li Xiang.

She deeply felt that her daughter, whom she had raised for many years, was abducted by Li Xiang.

It's a bit like what's often shown in movies and TV shows, where the daughter is deceived by a bad boy and steals her household registration book to secretly register for marriage.

It's just that his daughter was kidnapped without even considering her legal status.

How can Zhang Pengtian bear this?

As Zhang Ling looked at her father, there was a voice in her mind that kept condemning her for being unkind.

What made her feel uncomfortable was that her whole body was exhausted due to hunger, and she staggered and almost fell sideways.

Fortunately, Li Xiang appeared at his side in time and pulled her into his arms.

"Zhang Ling, are you okay?" He asked worriedly.

She looked at him with a pale face and shook her head and said:

"No, it's okay. Maybe, maybe I have low blood sugar and my body is a little weak."

Xiaodouzi didn’t know where he got it?

Hypoglycemia requires sugar supplementation.

So the little girl immediately stuffed one of the candies Zhang Pengtian gave her into Zhang Ling's mouth.

He looked at her with distressed little eyes and asked:

"Mom, are you feeling better now?"

Zhang Ling smiled and nodded without saying anything. At the same time, she gently passed her palm across the child's cheek, pinched and gently stroked and rubbed the earlobe.

Xiaodouzi smiled as if he was enjoying it very much, and his little head felt as if he had completely fallen asleep on his palm.

My father's tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

Just a little weird!

Zhang Ling has never had hypoglycemia before.
To be continued...