FSC [QT] Chapter 191.1

“Oh, what a rare guest. I thought some people had forgotten their mothers after getting married and were ready to become those ruthless people.”

At night, every household had finished dinner and was ready to rest. Miao Fengmei heard a knock on the door outside the yard, so she put the basin in her hand beside the well, wiped her hands, and walked over to open the door.

Standing at the door was Xie Changzheng.

Seeing her son, Miao Fengmei was delighted at first, but then her face quickly turned stern and she spoke to her son in a bad mood.

During the day, she had heard from gossipers that her son had returned to the village with his wife and daughter. She also learned that as soon as her son returned, he went to the shabby house of Old Liu at the entrance of the village.

Miao Fengmei was angry.

In her opinion, no matter how excessive the parents’ actions were, children should not be unfilial.

Moreover, in her opinion, she did not do anything excessive at all. She just did not allow Xu Chunxiu to take the money-loser to the hospital for treatment and did not go out to ask which family would be willing to spend money on a money-loser.

As Miao Fengmei comforted herself day after day, she felt from the bottom of her heart that she was not wrong in her actions.

But since she was not wrong, then it must be her daughter-in-law who was stubborn and insisted on taking the money-loser to the hospital for treatment who was wrong, and also her disobedient and unfilial son who was wrong.

For the entire day, Miao Fengmei couldn’t lower her head to go to Old Liu’s shabby house to look for someone. She was just waiting for Xie Changzheng to lower his head first and bring the annoying pair of things to her house to apologize.

“Zhuzi’s wife, what you said is too much. In our Hongxing Commune, can we find a child more filial than Changzheng? Which child will honestly hand over all the allowances after getting married? Your behavior will chill the children’s hearts.”

A strange male voice made Miao Fengmei startle.

Only then did she notice that there were several elders standing behind her son. However, Xie Changzheng was too tall and strong, and it was a little dark at night, with only the full moon in the sky for lighting. As a result, she only noticed their presence when they spoke.

“Captain, what are you doing?”

Miao Fengmei frowned. Looking at these uninvited elders, her heart gradually sank.

***

All the adults of the Xie family were gathered in the main hall of the Xie’s house. Even Xie Hongjun, the eldest grandson of the Xie family, was not allowed to listen.

However, Xie Xiuzhu, because of Miao Fengmei’s favor and her high enough generation, was allowed to participate in the separation of the family, even though she was only thirteen years old.

“As long as the parents are alive, the family will not be separated. This is the rule passed down by our ancestors.”

As the head of the family, Xie Zhuzi understood the purpose of the captain and the elders’ visit. He suddenly looked several years older. Regardless of the occasion, he picked up his favorite pipe and started smoking, filling the whole room with smoke.

Miao Fengmei was usually quite arrogant, but at this moment, there were also elders from the Xie and Miao families present. Miao Fengmei had to call the oldest one ‘grandfather’.

Don’t underestimate the power of the clan in remote villages in this era. The respect and fear of these elders for the clan could not be changed even if all the clan halls were demolished during the most chaotic years of the revolution.

Therefore, Miao Fengmei, a woman, did not dare to step forward easily at this time. She just twisted the soft flesh on the waist of Old Man Xie implicitly, indicating that he should bite.

Xie Zhuzi was silent for a long time before blurting out this sentence.

“That’s what you said, but wasn’t it your wife who proposed the separation? Everyone heard it.”

Miao Dashan looked at his cousin standing beside him and said in a muffled voice.

It was Miao Fengmei herself who said that day that if Xie Changzheng dared to go to the hospital to visit his daughter who had injured her head, she would make him get out of the house.

And to be honest, now that the Xie family was in such a mess, separation was the best choice.

“I was just angry!”

Miao Fengmei couldn’t hold it in anymore and jumped up without caring about the occasion.

“Xie Changzheng, if you dare to separate the family, you don’t recognize me as your mother. Are you going to piss me off to death!”

Miao Fengmei felt that she still knew this son very well. He was very filial, and he also understood the difficulties of her as a mother, so he would never make such a disobedient and unfilial choice.

“Mom, even if we separate the family, you are still my mother.”

This was the first time Xie Changzheng spoke since he entered Xie’s house.

“Ah Wu has been in the hospital for nine days. During these nine days, did you and the rest of the family remember to visit Ah Wu in the hospital and bring her some eggs? I respect you and I am filial to you, but do you treat Chunxiu as your daughter-in-law and Ah Wu as your granddaughter?”

 

 

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