Zhuang Keqing's eyebrows were slightly clustered, and a slight sadness floated on his face. Before he spoke, he showed some weak and pitiful temperament, which made the women feel pity for a while. Compared with Qian Qian's wrinkled face, gnashing of teeth, and purple complexion.
The old lady, her heart suddenly turned a bit off.
"The banker split up decades ago, and everyone knows this."
"My father is a gambler and never comes home all the time. Even when he comes back, he just grabs money and leaves. Although my mother is weak by nature, she still tries her best to resist everything and just works every day so that I can grow up.
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Some of the older people still remember clearly what happened when the Zhuang family split up. Now when Zhuang Keqing mentioned it, they all frowned and nodded frequently.
"When I was five years old, I was seriously ill and my mother had no money. I begged my grandma for help, but she was coaxed out of the house. My mother had no choice but to fry a piece of medicine again and again until it turned into water.
He fed me for several days."
"Fortunately, I was lucky enough to recover."
Having said this, Zhuang Keqing turned his back and gently pressed the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, looking like a pitiful little white flower.
"Is there anything else?"
"I don't know either! Oh, I said the same thing for the Qin family. Why don't such big things come to us? If the girl can't get through it at that time..."
The words faded away, but everyone knew at this time that if they were not saved at that time, it would have been a life!
Before anyone could sigh more, Zhuang Keqing continued, "Dad passed away not long ago. Thanks to the help from the village, he was able to be buried on time. But at that time, my mother came to the door and wanted to invite grandma over, but she was humiliated.
Scolded him out."
This incident happened not far away, and everyone in the village knew about it at the time. But at that time, everyone just sighed for a while, saying that the mother-in-law was cruel, and no one was really free enough to come to help others.
To be fair, it's just a conversation piece after dinner.
But at this time, the girl was sobbing and leaning against the young man with a very weak look. Then everyone gradually remembered that in the past, every winter, the farmer's house would come to borrow food from people to live. They all lamented that the girl had lived in the past.
How painful it was, and how wronged Dafang was.
"But the good news is that after disaster there will be blessings."
Zhuang Keqing wiped away the tears that were rising from the corners of her eyes and forced a smile, "Thanks to everyone's many years of care, my mother and I have survived and have the good life we have now."
After all, she was a blessing to everyone, and the excited peasant women felt pity and sympathy for her.
Isn’t that what it is!
What the girl said was quite merciful. If Mrs. Qian hadn't given too few things to the eldest family when they separated, why would they have lived like this?
At this time, the women all felt deeply that this mother-in-law was evil, but they never thought that the root cause of the miserable life of Dafang was still Zhuang Keqing's gambling father.
It can be said that according to today's universal concept, it is still most important when people die, and people are gone. To put it more seriously, it is always disrespectful to the dead.
Therefore, the old lady Qian is now considered unjust. She has even taken the blame for her dead son, so she is destined to be unable to avenge her.
Seeing that the women's sympathy for Zhuang's mother and daughter had reached its peak, Zhuang San secretly said something bad.
I didn't expect his eldest niece to be so powerful. She just cried a few times and without even mentioning what happened today, she already put her on the fire!
He wanted to make a few excuses, but the time was not right now, and he was not very clean, so he might get burned, so he had better keep his mouth shut.
Zhuang San lowered his head, avoiding the condemning gazes of others, and simply acted like a quail.
But Mrs. Qian couldn't bear it.
This little girl had a head-on confrontation with me just now. She didn't speak softly and refused to give in. Who would have thought that she would turn around and act weak in front of such people.
Just like her own mother, she is the best at pretending to deceive and sympathize with others!
"you!"
Old Mrs. Qian was so angry that she jumped up and wanted to say a few words, but she only started to talk. When everyone turned to her to realize the truth, she opened her mouth again and couldn't say anything.
It’s not that she didn’t want to say it, it’s just that her granddaughter never said a single lie from beginning to end!
"If you ask me, Mrs. Qian is indeed unreasonable!"
"That's right! How can a mother-in-law be so harsh on her daughter-in-law and granddaughter? There has never been such a family in our village before!"
"I'm really cruel. I couldn't bear to give him just a few bucks for medicine. I almost killed someone."
Everyone's eyes were full of contempt and anger. Several old women who had sympathized with Mrs. Qian just now even spat at her, as if just looking at her was dirtying their own eyes.
Zhuang Keqing saw everyone's reaction in his eyes, turned slightly sideways, and glanced at the nominal grandma who dared to be angry but dared not speak, and felt some inexplicable joy in his heart.
She is not a mean person, but she has always repaid kindness with kindness and revenge with hatred. Compared with the suffering that her mother and she suffered in the past, it is really an advantage for them to only receive these cold looks today!
"Mrs. Qian, how come you still have the face to come to the door today?"
"Exactly! Could it be that I heard that Shen Xiaolang was the head of the case and came here deliberately to curry favor with him?"
Although they are all ordinary peasant women, there is no one who is not smart.
From the moment Zhuang Keqing talked about the past experiences at home, and Mrs. Qian's harsh treatment of orphans and widowers, to the strange fact that she came to the door with heavy gifts today, how could you still guess what she had in mind?
"Who said that? I just miss my little grandson, right?"
What she did before was just fine if someone took advantage of it and ridiculed her, but what happened today cannot be criticized. Otherwise, how will her family be able to gain a foothold in the village in the future?
At least we have to put this in perspective without making it look too ugly!
Mrs. Qian was anxious. When she spoke, her voice trembled and her breath became unsteady.
But how could Zhuang Keqing let her be fooled so easily? He just raised his eyebrows and asked in a clear voice.
"Seeing the grandson?"
"If I were to ask you now what my brother's nickname is, you probably wouldn't be able to tell me."
Sure enough, Mrs. Qian hesitated and didn't answer for a long time, which made everyone look at her with even more disgust.
She kept thinking about her grandson, but she didn’t even know her grandson’s nickname. How could this grandma be a kisser?!
"It has been more than a year since my mother gave birth to my brother. Have you ever asked me or taken a look at me?"
Zhuang Keqing sneered, and his contemptuous eyes slowly glanced at Mrs. Qian. He didn't care about her face, which turned pale with anger. At the end, he even said another irritating sentence.
"Why, now that Aling has just passed the hospital examination, you suddenly remembered that Dafang has a grandson?"
"You! You! You are unfilial!"
Mrs. Qian had no choice but to resort to filial piety in an attempt to save her last bit of face.
But it's okay if she doesn't mention this. It's even more funny when she mentions Zhuang Keqing.
"Filial piety?"
"I haven't eaten a morsel of rice from you, or used a piece of cloth from you. You have never done anything to raise me. I owe my growth to my mother and everyone in Erli Village!"
These words not only removed Mrs. Qian's last fig leaf, but also praised the moral character of everyone present. Regardless of whether they had really helped the banker before, their hearts were full at this time. A sense of satisfaction from doing something good for someone.
that is!
If you neither generate kindness nor cultivate kindness, how can you talk about filial piety?
This kind of person is not worthy at all!
This time, not only Mrs. Qian, but also Zhuang San, who lowered his head, sighed in his heart, secretly thinking that the situation was over.
What kind of crazy thing is going on in my head? It's not enough to suffer the losses from the previous time, but I still want to take advantage of it?
Now I can neither advance nor retreat, and I don’t know how to get out!
Zhuang San scratched his head and head anxiously, and couldn't help but glance at the people around him.
I didn't mention my father anymore. Shen Ling had already been knocked back in anger and was ridiculed by a group of women. At this time, he just squatted on the side and covered his face with his hands without saying anything.
As for my mother, her face was bright and red with anger. She didn't look like she was domineering at home. She pointed at such women and couldn't let it slip.
Second brother, yes! Isn’t there still a second brother?
Zhuang San glanced at the dumbfounded Zhuang Er, stepped on him without leaving a trace, and signaled him to express his goodwill. No matter what, he must let them pass today's test!