CHAPTER 51: CHAPTER 050: UNWILLING TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE WANG FAMILY

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"How is it? Has your heart pain been happening too often lately?" Xie Tiesheng helped his wife back to the inner room, let her lie down to rest, poured her a cup of warm water, watched her finish drinking, and then asked anxiously.

"It’s all because of the fifth family! They don’t care about their child; the Boss’s family has to go back to take care of her mom. I wouldn’t mind, but she insists on dragging the eldest daughter over too, isn’t that just stinging my heart! The Fourth Family is expecting, so I can’t speak out. These past two years, the silver that has come into the house has indeed been mostly taken by the Fourth, but the fifth family is just so thoughtless, really brainless!"

"What happened?" Xie Tiesheng stroked her back to help her relax.

"She dared to say Ni is not pure and claimed she has no family!"

Even if Ni truly had no family and moved into the Xie Family before getting married. But today is the grand celebration of her wedding; to point fingers and curse her like that is letting her off lightly!

Moreover, whether Ni has shared a room with San’er, I already knew. She is a hundred times better than Wang Xiaocui!

Zhou Xiuhua, infuriated, pounded the head of the bed. "To speak of impurity, her entrance to our family was the most shameful! She wasn’t even yet a member of our family when she was already pregnant. If it wasn’t because Fifth truly cared for her and I feared that getting an abortion would be too cruel, afraid that it might curse Wu’er’s fortune, I truly wouldn’t have wanted her!

Look, she’s just a domestic vixen! She’s just relying on her family having a bit of silver and power, not even considering us old folks in her eyes anymore!"

"This, this, I’ll let Fifth divorce her!" Xie Tiesheng’s face darkened, and he indignantly said in agreement with her anger.

"Divorce what? She’s pregnant again! Sister Chun just found out; it’s almost two months now!"

"...Can’t divorce, then should we send her back to her parental family? Let her go back to her family to reflect, since her family loves to dote on her, let them take care of her."

"Yes, we should send her back to her family and let her parents nurture her for a year and a half, then she will understand where her real home is! I don’t believe the Wang Family will want to support her for a lifetime!"

"Alright, I’ll listen to everything you say." Xie Jingyang, who was standing outside the door and heard his parents’ entire conversation, saw that his mother had a resolution and then respectfully pulled back the curtain and spoke.

"Mao Dan, don’t blame your mother for being harsh. If it wasn’t inappropriate for a father-in-law to criticize his daughter-in-law, I would have spoken out against her!" Xie Tiesheng had suffered through hardship, and he really couldn’t stand Wang Xiaocui’s spoiled and pretentious behavior!

In the eyes of the elders of this era, the expectations for a daughter-in-law are very simple: be industrious and respectful.

These two requirements, for the first two years after Wang Xiaocui entered the family, she had them. But after the birth of Xiao Si, and her family suddenly prospered, this daughter-in-law started to feel self-righteous, and where was her previous appearance of a virtuous wife?

"Mother, it’s all my fault for not disciplining her well, making you angry." Xie Jingyang knelt beside his elderly mother, seeing his father helping his mother ease her anger, he felt downhearted.

"Fifth, get up, it’s not your fault. This time, don’t indulge her anymore, just send her back to her parental family. If she remains unaware, you are not allowed to let her enter the doors of Old Xie Family! And don’t let her stay in the county either! Don’t think I don’t know, these past two months, instead of staying at her parent’s home, she has been bothering you with your studies in the county!"

"Yes, I’ll listen to everything you say!"

"You, you’re always accommodating her, that’s why she dares to be so presumptuous! Which daughter-in-law isn’t working at home? Even if her family supports her, she wouldn’t dare to act like this! Look how worried you are, she treats you like a filial son! Has she ever cared so much for Xiao Si and Xiaoqi? She’s just too lazy, can’t live without a man?"

"..." Xie Jingyang blushed with shame at his mother’s blunt words, stammered, and didn’t know how to respond!

"What nonsense! Fifth, is this how you attend school? How did your grades turn out this semester?"

Xie Tiesheng really didn’t know about this matter. Hearing his wife say this now, his face darkened. Squinting his old eyes, he stared intently at his eldest son and stated in a displeased tone:

"Wu’er, don’t forget, how you got into college! Can you face your Third Brother? To let you go to school, our family gave it their all for you!"

For the spot at Gongnong University, the old lady had handed over all the savings for San’er’s marriage these past years. It could be said that Wu’er’s education was entirely thanks to Third Brother’s money and effort.

"Dad, it’s my fault. I won’t dare to do it again. When I go back, I will cancel the rental of the apartment!" Xie Jingyang replied, his face flushed with extreme guilt.

This would also block Wang Xiaocui’s path and prevent her from following him to school.

"Alright, go back to your room. Get your wife up to cook, don’t keep indulging her laziness!" Xie Tiesheng waved his hand for his youngest son to leave.

Xie Jingyang, seeing both his parents show an attitude of unwillingness to deal with him, couldn’t express how uncomfortable he felt in his heart, but he couldn’t complain because the person who had done wrong was indeed him.

The fact that Wang Xiaocui could be so presumptuous was half his fault as well. If it weren’t for him being too soft-hearted, how could things have gotten to this point?

The most important thing is, if he continues to let his wife behave recklessly, won’t he truly regret it in the future? Neglecting even his own children, he really needed to discipline her properly.

Xie Tiesheng glanced at the disappearing back of his son and sighed inwardly, though his face did not show it. Instead, he patiently consoled his wife:

"Old lady, your temper is getting fiercer. I say, grandchildren have their own blessings. You can’t take care of so much.

We should just live our own little life well. As long as we’re healthy, that’s the best blessing for our children. As for their future lives, they need to live it on their own. Don’t think too much now. There’s a saying ’not deaf, not inane, not a spinster,’ listen to me~"

Xie Tiesheng comforted her, recently he could feel that his old wife’s temper had gotten much worse and the pains in her chest were more frequent, which was not a good sign.

"Alas, we’re getting old. Look, is it time to divvy up the house?" Zhou Xiuhua asked in a soft mumble. The sons were grown, and the grandchildren were not young either. She knew that keeping the whole family tied together like this would only lead to more cracks.

"..." Xie Tiesheng fell silent for a moment, sighed, and shook his head in disagreement: "It won’t work. Not now. Fifth is still in school, if we split, where will his income come from? Xiao Si and Xiaoqi are still young, and now that Fifth’s wife is pregnant, it’s even less possible to split."

Xie Jingyang, who had been waiting outside his parents’ door, felt a pang of sourness in his heart when he heard this. His parents were all doing it for his own good. How could Xiao Cui hurt the elders’ hearts like this!

Thinking this, he quickly returned to his room in shame. He needed to get her up and make her do more work. When people are occupied, they don’t have time to think about messy, nonsense things. It was all caused by his indulgence.

"Never mind, let’s help them out for another two years. Third Brother only has ten days of leave. If Ni could get pregnant, that would truly be a joyous event!" Zhou Xiuhua mentioned Third Brother, and when she thought of the new daughter-in-law, she didn’t know if the couple would argue after they returned.

"Let’s hope so."

"Hey, maybe I should ask Sister Chun for a special remedy tomorrow, to see if it can help Third Brother’s wife get pregnant quicker!"

"Sure, whatever makes you happy. Forget about it, let’s go outside, to avoid making the kids anxious." Xie Tiesheng saw his old wife’s eyes light up when she talked about Third Brother’s wife and did not oppose her idea. In his heart, he was also happy to see this happen. After all, his son was nearly thirty and approaching the time to establish himself. To say he wasn’t anxious would be a lie!

Because of Wang Xiaocui’s provocations, when dinner came, the adults all smiled weakly and forcedly, and the children, sensing the lower spirits of the grown-ups, became restrained and dared not laugh or make a fuss.