"Shut up!" Liu Xicai couldn't tell that his wife was telling Xiaoya on purpose.
He had just entered the house, and he had not lived a good life in the Tang family before. He was ridiculed and ridiculed as soon as he entered the door... He just refused to call him dad. If he didn't protect him, it would be even harder for him to be recognized.
Mrs. Qin used to endure it as long as she could. She watched the man take the child back, and her son was stupid. Such a big business probably had nothing to do with his son. She really couldn't bear it anymore. She sneered and said: "I
That’s right.”
She raised her chin slightly and said: "Xiaoya, you should have heard someone tell you who your biological father is. Are you a bloodline of my Liu family?"
"I don't know." Chu Yunli's expression was calm: "Originally I didn't want to come, but the Tang family can't accommodate me. If I don't get on the carriage obediently today, they will tie me over directly. Actually, I think what you said is quite right.
Yes, it’s best to find out and stop making mistakes and making people laugh.”
"It's not wrong." It was Liu's mother who spoke. She smiled and said: "I have a red mole under my left ear. Your aunt also has one. You also have one under your ear. It can't be such a coincidence. If it is such a coincidence,
Then I accept it. My child, you have suffered a lot in the past few years. Now that you are home, if anyone dares to make you suffer, you will yell back. Don’t be afraid, I will support you!"
When Mrs. Qin heard what her mother-in-law said, her expression changed slightly. She subconsciously looked at the girl's left ear, and sure enough she saw a small red mole not far below the earlobe. Her chest heaved with anger immediately.
"I am the daughter-in-law of the Liu family. If you want me to accept this girl, we have to discuss some things first."
Liu Xicai didn't expect Mrs. Qin to be so bold. He slapped the table with his hand, making the dishes clatter: "Mother Yu, when I told you about this, you didn't say no. Now that people are here, you
But after talking so much, I think you don’t want to have a good life. Do you want me to find a carriage to take you back to your parents’ home?”
Mrs. Qin was startled, and then tears fell all over her face: "I have been with you for so many years, and I have given birth to children for you... Yes, Baoer is not smart, and I am sorry for you. But Baoer is you.
My biological son, you yourself have taken care of him for a day or two, and you know how difficult it is to take care of him. I have looked after him for so many years, and I am exhausted both physically and mentally. I have watched the child grow up. You have also discussed with me that Bao'er will be born.
We have a child, and we will raise a grandson... At this time, you have brought a child back, and you want me not to be angry at all, and to accept it happily. Liu Xicai, you think too highly of me. I am a human being, not a saint.
Not that generous."
The more she talked, the angrier she became, and then she lay down on the table and burst into tears.
Seeing her crying more and more, Liu Xicai got really angry. He grabbed her by the collar and threw her to the ground: "I didn't say we couldn't discuss it. Why do you have to make trouble today? This child is eating in the Tang family.
You heard what my aunt said that day about how much suffering she suffered, could you give her some dignity and wait until today is over?"
"No!" Ms. Qin tried hard to control her crying, but she still couldn't stop sobbing: "I can't bear it!"
She stretched out her hand and pointed at Chu Yunli: "Are you planning to let this girl get married so that she can support you until you die?"
Liu Xicai coughed slightly, he did have this idea.
This person will get tired. He has taken care of his stupid son for many years, and there is no hope at all. He is really afraid that he will be lying on the bed when he is old and no one will take care of him. He also thought about adopting someone else's child before... But even if it is
He was not willing to hand over all the family property to his own sister's child.
Now that I'm fine and have a biological daughter, what else is there to say?
When Mrs. Qin saw that he didn't answer, she became even more angry: "I was right! Liu Xicai, this home belongs to my son. She can come back. There will be no shortage of food for her and money for her dowry. But
She can't stay and steal my son's things."
There was a "pop" sound.
Liu Xicai slapped him away hard, still angry: "I'm still alive. Everything in this house belongs to me. Who dares to say it belongs to Bao'er? He has that brain that allows him to guard
Can you live there? Your natal family will have to pay two taels of silver for any help or marriage. If you leave all these things in Bao'er's hands, I'm afraid they will move them all away in less than three days. Anyway, I have already thought about it.
, I will recruit a wife for Xiaoya in the future and let her take care of Baoer."
Mrs. Qin was slapped and was full of grief and anger. After hearing this, she became even more angry: "I don't want it. After all, I am your legal wife, and she gave birth to a daughter in an adultery..."
Those things in the past were always disgraceful, and Liu Xicai was most afraid of anyone mentioning it. Unexpectedly, the first person to mention this matter was his wife. Before he could react, he had already slapped her away hard.
"Shut up!" He glanced warily at the door, not knowing if there was anyone there, so he lowered his voice and said, "You want to put your man in jail? Just yell! Louder!"
Hearing this, Mrs. Qin burst into tears.
Mother Liu frowned: "Why are you crying on such a great day?" She raised her hand and said, "If you are really aggrieved and feel that the Liu family has treated you badly, go away!"
How could Qin dare to leave?
At her age, she will definitely remarry after leaving. Not to mention whether she can marry into a family as good as the Liu family, what will happen to her son after she leaves?
Chu Yunli sat aside and watched, not getting involved in the Liu family's quarrel from beginning to end, as if it had nothing to do with him.
When the commotion was getting serious, there was a knock on the door outside. Mother Liu rubbed her brows and said, "Someone is here. Wipe your tears and don't make others laugh."
Qin couldn't help it, got up and went into the kitchen.
Standing outside the door was Jiang Huixin, her eyes were red. When she saw Mother Liu, she said with a troubled face: "They don't want to give it back. I even knelt down, but they still refused to give it."
Mother Liu sighed: "I don't blame you for this, just let it go. Thank you for giving birth to little girl, let's go!"
Jiang Huixin glanced at the yard and happened to see the food on the table and her daughter at the table.
She said so many words at the door, and everyone in the yard should have heard her, but Xiaoya didn't even look this way from the beginning to the end.
This daughter... really hates herself.
Originally it was a good thing that the Liu family did not force her to take the remaining two taels of silver, but Jiang Huixin just couldn't be happy.
On the way back, she cried as she walked. When she got home, her eyes were swollen like walnuts.
When Tang Qianqian saw her coming back, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Mom, the guests asked for food just now. I said no one was cooking at home, and they said they were not hungry yet. Fortunately, you are here, otherwise I would have to go to the opposite side to help them.
"
When guests asked for food, they were earning money. Jiang Huixin's sadness disappeared in an instant, and she hurriedly rolled up her sleeves and went to work in the kitchen.
By the time she finished her work, it was already two hours later and it was already dark. She only felt a soreness in her waist and back. She was just thinking about making some food when she saw Tang Qianqian coming in carrying a lively old hen.
Tang Qianqian had never caught a chicken before, and she was quite embarrassed at the moment. She tried her best to move her body away, but the chicken was in her hand. As long as she fluttered it, dust and chicken feathers would fly into her face.
"Mom, my grandma just sent this, and asked you to stew it to replenish your brother's health. My brother heard that there is chicken soup, but he didn't even eat the noodles you just sent, so hurry up and stew it!"
It would take at least an hour to kill the chicken, pluck the feathers and stew it. Jiang Huixin felt exhausted: "Let's do it tomorrow. I'll put it in a small pot and stew it while the fire is on."
"But my brother said that drinking chicken soup at night is the best for health, and dad wants to drink it too!" Tang Qianqian threw the chicken away and went back to her room.
Jiang Huixin: "..."
She looked at the chicken flapping on the ground, and suddenly remembered that she hadn't killed it for several years. Even if there were guests who wanted to eat it, they had either killed it and brought it back, or Xiaoya had taken care of it.
It was already night, and she really didn't want to do it, so she went back to her room to get ready for bed.
Tang Mingshan was so upset that he couldn't sleep at all. When he saw her coming in, he took off his coat and looked like he wasn't ready to go out. He frowned and asked, "Where's the chicken soup?"
"No more stewing." Jiang Huixin touched her forehead: "I have a headache and feel weak all over. I must have caught a cold. I really can't do anything."
"Don't fall down, the family is pointing at you." Tang Mingshan reached out and pushed her: "Hurry up, don't force me to do it."
Jiang Huixin: "..."
It is better to work than to be beaten. You know, the family is short of money. If you only suffer some skin injuries, you will definitely not ask a doctor to treat it, and you will not even buy ointment. You will have to carry it through forcefully.
She didn't want to suffer.
After staying up for another half night, the chicken soup was finally delivered to the father and son. Not long after she lay down, the chickens crowed outside. So, she could only stand up and change buckets of water for the guests to cook.
The Tang family's inn needs two very capable people to keep it running. Now Jiang Huixin is the only one left, and because the family's expenses are too high, she can't hire anyone. Within two days, Jiang Huixin fainted from exhaustion and couldn't work at all.
.
Tang Mingshan could only stand up reluctantly, and Tang Qinghe was about the same, so he pointed at Tang Qianqian.
Where can Tang Qianqian do these jobs?
The guests couldn't stand their perfunctory behavior and left quickly. Moreover, even if new guests came, they would only stay for half a day at most.
Even though Brother Shili didn't come to collect the debt, the family knew in their hearts that if this continued, they wouldn't even be able to pay back the interest.
*
Here at the Liu family, the meal was dull.
Compared to the Tang family, the Liu family treated Xiaoya much more carefully. The tables and chairs in the house were all complete, the bedding and a set of utensils were all new, and the mattress was quite thick. When Liu's mother made the bed, she specifically mentioned
She personally selected this for her granddaughter.
During the day, she was interrupted when she wanted her granddaughter to call her. At night, after her mother made the bed, she couldn't help but said: "Niuniu, please call me, okay?"
Chu Yunli lowered her eyes: "I can't shout."
Liu's mother: "..." Forget it, the future is long.
At night when Chu Yunli was sleeping, she vaguely heard the couple next door arguing again.
Serving the Liu family is not a lot of work, mainly because Mother Liu and Mrs. Qin are very capable. They can do everything properly without Chu Yunli's help at all.
Chu Yunli had nothing to do and planned to go shopping on the street. When he was about to go out, he saw Liu Xicai in the yard. He held his big belly and asked cheerfully: "Want to go out for a walk?"
Seeing Chu Yunli nodding, he took something out of his sleeves and handed out a handful of broken silver: "Little girl, you can't be short of money on hand. You can buy whatever you want."
"I don't want it." Chu Yunli avoided his hand: "I still have some. By the way, I heard you guys quarreling. No need to ask, I know it was because of me. I never wanted to come back from the beginning, so
, I will go out to find a yard to rent in a while, and I will move out today."
Liu Xicai raised his eyebrows and said sternly: "You are my daughter, where are you going to live?"
He ran into the kitchen in a few steps, pulled Qin out and beat her hard: "I think you want to make me a loner... a heartless thing. I have raised you for so many years, and raising a dog is more considerate than you."
Mrs. Qin was washing the dishes when he suddenly made a move and screamed in pain.
Mother Liu took one look, but did not step forward to start a fight, or even made a sound to stop her son.
Just two seconds later, Qin's nose was bleeding again. Chu Yunli couldn't stand it, so she stepped forward and pulled him away.
Liu Xicai wanted to take action, clenched his fists, raised his eyes and saw his daughter, he said angrily: "Give her to me."
Chu Yunli didn't give her to him. Instead, she hid behind her back: "It's none of her business that I want to move away."
"If she hadn't talked nonsense and made you unhappy, why would you have moved?" Liu Xicai was furious: "This woman has been making trouble with me recently. I think she is just asking for a beating. A beating will be enough."
Chu Yunli didn't care how Liu Xicai treated his family, and he didn't really care whether Mrs. Qin was beaten or not. However, if these people made a fuss about her name and it spread to the ears of outsiders, some people would definitely say that the daughter Liu Xicai had just brought back was not
He is a good man, but he makes the whole family jump into chaos as soon as he walks in.
This family was always noisy, and Chu Yunli didn't want to bear this bad reputation for nothing.
"After I learned about my life experience in the Tang family, I had already planned to move out and live on my own." Chu Yunli emphasized: "I didn't want to come back from the beginning. They had to send me here."
Liu Xicai later realized that the girl in front of him was not being pretentious or trying to achieve a certain goal. She really disliked herself and didn't want to recognize herself.
"I am your father."
Chu Yunli said every word: "I would rather not have a father."
"Bastard!" Liu Xicai was annoyed: "I'm not good enough for you?"
Chu Yunli asked back: "How did you let my mother get pregnant with me in the first place? I am also a woman, and I hate people like you the most."
Hearing this, Liu Xicai frowned: "What kind of person? Jiang Huixin and I are in love with each other. She didn't tell me when she had a child, but left you in the Tang family to suffer so much. I didn't find it."
She is settling accounts...how did she arrange for me?"
Hearing this, Chu Yunli was stunned for a moment.
Jiang Huixin always said that she was forced, and no one doubted her.
But Liu Xicai said no... Chu Yunli couldn't figure out whether it was true.
"What happened back then?"
Liu Xicai touched his nose: "She is short of money, and I happen to have it, just... it's just once anyway. I don't owe her, the only one I owe is you."
Hearing these words, Mrs. Qin, who had been subdued by the man, was so angry that she jumped: "Well, Liu Xicai, we are about to get married and you went to find a woman... You just found a woman, and you even found a good woman.
No one like you."
Many years have passed since the incident, and they have children. Ms. Qin can't let go of her son and leave completely. No matter how angry she is, she can only vent a few words and endure it. The more she thinks about it, the more uncomfortable she becomes.
Chu Yunli rubbed her eyebrows: "I'm going to ask."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
She didn't have much money on hand, which was all given by Tang Mingshan before. She made up her mind to go back and ask. When she got to the street, she stopped a carriage. Half an hour later, she had arrived outside the Tang Family Inn.
It was very quiet in the inn, which was actually not a good thing. Chu Yunli didn't take it to heart and walked to the backyard.
There was no one in the yard and there was no movement in the kitchen. Chu Yunli looked around and knocked on the door of the main room.
Jiang Huixin's weak voice came: "Come in!"
When she saw her daughter coming in, her eyes lit up: "Why are you back?" She asked expectantly: "Did you hear that I was sick and came back to visit us?"
"No!" Chu Yunli exposed her delusion and asked, "How did you get pregnant with me back then?"
Hearing this, Jiang Huixin's expression changed slightly: "It's been so many years, so don't mention it anymore. Your father is still here!"
When he said the last sentence, his voice was particularly loud, which was intended to remind him.
Tang Mingshan is not a good-tempered person, and he doesn't like anyone mentioning Jiang Huixin's humiliation. If he is unhappy, he will attack others. And Jiang Huixin is the most suitable punching bag.
"I want to find out." Chu Yunli said with a serious face: "I wanted to move out today, but Liu Xicai didn't want to, and kept saying that he didn't owe me. So I asked a little more, and what he said was that he was willing to move out, and there was no force.
I don’t owe you either.”
Jiang Huixin started to tremble: "He's talking nonsense!"
Tang Mingshan narrowed his eyes: "Did he really say that?" Seeing Chu Yunli nodding, his suspicious eyes fell on Jiang Huixin.
"That's not the case." Sensing the man's unkind eyes, Jiang Huixin's face was full of grief and anger: "I can swear to God that I really didn't know him before that. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given my daughter to his son. He
Dad, you believe me!"
Seeing that the man remained silent, his eyes became darker and darker. Jiang Hui became impatient and pointed to the sky with four fingers: "I can swear to God. If I really fall in love with Liu Xicai, I will die a good death!"
When Tang Mingshan thought about his wife being bullied and even having a knot in her belly, she couldn't get over it. But Jiang Huixin couldn't blame her for such a thing. She just hated that man for not doing human affairs. But if Jiang Huixin took advantage of his absence
He was really going to get angry after trying to keep up with someone and then lying to him for so many years.
"I want you to confront him."
Hearing this, Jiang Huixin was stunned.
Any woman who encounters this kind of thing will wish she would never mention it again in her lifetime, and confronting someone face to face would be a nightmare again.
She asked weakly: "Is it okay if I don't go?"
Tang Mingshan sneered: "Okay, you can get the divorce letter and go back to your parents' home later."
Over the years, Jiang Huixin has clearly seen the face of her mother's family. Even if she helped her daughter to marry her, her mother would cheat her out of money... The Jiang family and the Qin family each took one or two taels of silver. And when she went to ask for it, who would it?
I didn't admit it either, and later I simply said I wouldn't give it to him.
If she returns to her parents' home, she will definitely be forced to remarry. It will just be like selling her again.
Tears fell all over her face, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I'll go!"
Anyway, there were no guests in the inn, so there was nothing to worry about. The only trouble was that they were injured and sick, and it took a lot of effort to get on the carriage.
On the way to Liu's house, Jiang Huixin kept explaining.
Tang Mingshan closed his eyes, not sure whether he heard it or not.
When the group arrived at Liu's house, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked unhappy. They must have been quarreling again before the Tang family arrived.
Seeing Chu Yunli coming with a group of people, Ms. Qin's face was full of ridicule. Mother Liu was also a little unhappy: "What else is there?" She looked at her granddaughter with disapproval: "It's not easy for you to break up with this kind of person.
If you already have a relationship with them, why do you come to your door and interact with them again? This is a group of shameless people. They abused you before, and now they come to please you. In the final analysis, they are doing it to get benefits. The ugly words are ahead, I will never allow you to take advantage of your family.
Give them money to spend."
Chu Yunli asked directly: "Where is Liu Xicai?"
Mother Liu became even more dissatisfied: "That's your father."
"My mother has something to do and she needs to confront him face to face." Chu Yunli went directly to the house to look for him.
Liu Xicai is not here.
Mother Liu frowned: "He went to have a wedding banquet, and he might not come back until midnight. It would be the same if he told me something."
"It's different!" Jiang Huixin was already sick and angry, and her whole body was shaking: "He's talking nonsense. I, Jiang Huixin, am short of money, but I will never betray myself for money... For so many years, I have been driving
He is a well-known decent man at the inn. He is not bad at all. He bullied me back then without telling me, but now he is slandering my reputation with his mouth. He knows that my man has a bad temper, but he also arranges ridiculous things, clearly trying to harm me.
My family is ruined. What on earth have I done to deserve such a bastard? Tell him to come out. I can’t explain it now, so I will fight him tooth and nail."
She is weak-tempered and timid. She is probably pushed to the extreme and talks a lot without even pausing.
Mrs. Qin looked like she was watching a good show. Anyway, no matter whether she was forced or whether they were content with each other, the man had already felt sorry for her and already had a child. It would be useless to get angry again.
Mother Liu frowned at first, and after understanding what was said, she said: "This matter... I didn't know about it at first, but after learning about Xiaoya's existence, he told me about it."
She looked at the crying Jiang Huixin and said, "There is indeed something wrong with what he said. But it's not nonsense. If you really want to know the truth, you don't need to confront him. Just go back and ask your mother."
Hearing this, Jiang Huixin shivered all over.
Because she suddenly remembered that during the time of her accident, her parents' family hired people to build three houses. When she went back to her mother to cry and complain, she had to help cook for the people who built the houses... It was clear that her family had purchased a dowry for her before that.
They all asked, but they were stunned and said that they had no money at home.
After building a house, she thought her mother was reluctant to buy things for her...