Chapter 18 Chu Tian proposes a division of the family!
Chapter 18 Chu Tian proposes a division of the family!
Chu Miao guessed correctly; Chu Tian did indeed go to see Old Madam Chu.
Old Mrs. Chu and Liu Yufang were still talking to Chu Yan about Si Yelin.
They felt that everything about this was strange. Si Yelin came to the Chu family twice, seemingly very interested in Chu Yan, but he left without ever seeing Chu Yan.
But Chu Yan felt very good about herself. She said, "Oh dear, it's just that we made Young Master Si wait too long this morning. Young Master Si is such a person, he definitely cares about his reputation!"
"He already gave us a way out!"
"We can't keep making them pay for everything! Grandma, Mom, how about this? Tomorrow I'll go to the Si family myself to see Young Master Si and ask him out for dinner!"
As they were talking, Chu Tian barged in.
"Grandpa! Grandpa!"
The servants tried their best to stop him, but to no avail.
"Why are you back when you weren't at the company?" Old Mrs. Chu was displeased when she saw Chu Tian. "What's with that expression? You barged into your own mother's yard with such an angry look on your face. Are you trying to cause trouble?!"
"Mom, I know you look down on me, so you bully my wife as well. But if you have a problem, come at me instead of making my wife kneel in this scorching sun for six hours! Do you know that Xiao Li almost died!" Thinking of Wen Li's weak appearance, Chu Tian's heart was bleeding.
His eyes became increasingly red.
Grandma Chu then realized why Chu Tian had barged in. She laughed angrily. She was busy with Chu Yan's affairs and hadn't even gone to cause trouble for Wen Li yet, but they came to question her first!
"Good! Look at my good son! My good son whom I have raised with great care for over forty years! And he actually comes to question his own mother for the sake of a woman!"
"So what if I made her kneel? As her mother-in-law, am I not allowed to punish her by making her kneel after she did something?"
"She's just a farmer's daughter, how could she be so delicate? She died after kneeling for a while? Did she actually die?"
Old Mrs. Chu's words were quite harsh.
“That’s right, brother, that’s where you’re wrong,” Liu Yufang chimed in. “You haven’t even figured things out before you question Mom. It’s really disheartening. Putting aside the fact that it’s only natural for a mother-in-law to make her daughter-in-law kneel down, why don’t you ask your sister-in-law what they did? Didn’t you notice how empty the house is? They’ve smashed it all up!”
"My sister-in-law is really something. Mom only said a few words and made her kneel down once, and she and Chu Miaomiao wrecked the house!"
“That’s right, Uncle, Mom gave birth to you and raised you for decades. How can you hurt her feelings for a woman?” Chu Yan also sided with Grandma Chu: “Grandma didn’t do anything wrong. She just made Aunt kneel down for a little while!”
"Your aunt isn't really dead. She deliberately made such a commotion to get you to argue with Grandma. What are she up to as a daughter-in-law?"
Chu Tian looked around the hall and, sure enough, there were fewer items.
"Look at the wife my son married! I haven't even looked down on her because her family is from the countryside, and she's already trying to drive a wedge between my son and me!" Old Mrs. Chu pounded her chest. "Go ask around the whole capital, is there any wife who has wrecked her house?! Go ahead and ask, go ahead and tell me! Let's see if people blame me or her!"
Grandma Chu, Liu Yufang, and Chu Yan took turns arguing, pushing all the blame onto Wen Li and Chu Miao.
Even the servants chimed in, saying that Wen Li and Chu Miao were at fault first.
Chu Tian's expression had turned completely cold.
Looking at Old Mrs. Chu, her eyes were filled with disappointment.
"Mom, I never expected you to say such harsh things."
"Xiao Li is my wife of over twenty years, and I know her character well."
"She's not the kind of person you're talking about."
"I know it wasn't easy for you to raise me."
“When I was a child, my family was poor. You had to work on construction sites to support the family. You always said that my younger brother didn’t go to school because all the family’s money was used to support my schooling.”
"So all these years, no matter how much you favored my second brother, even though I founded the company from scratch, even though you made me a junior manager and my second brother the general manager, I never said a word!"
“If you have any complaints, take them out on me. I am your son, and I have an obligation to support and respect you, but my wife does not.”
“Over the years, I have wronged Xiaoli and Miaomiao many times…” Chu Tian said with red eyes, “This time, I almost lost her.”
"Mom, if you really can't tolerate her, then we'll have to separate."
"From now on, we'll each go our own way."
"A family split up?!"
Grandma Chu couldn't believe that she had heard those two words come from Chu Tian's mouth.
Chu Tian is a person who values family ties very much; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to have him so firmly under her control all these years.
She pressured him with filial piety and bound him with family ties, but now he's actually proposing to separate the family!
"you you!"
Grandma Chu was furious and clutched her chest, which was throbbing with pain. This time, Chu Tian didn't care about her anymore and turned to leave.
Old Mrs. Chu was so angry she almost fainted.
"Grandma, how can Uncle say such things! Humph! Let's divide the family then!"
"Don't talk nonsense!" Old Mrs. Chu said in a low voice, "This family absolutely cannot be divided!"
at this point.
Grandma Chu was very clear about it.
The Chu family is supported by Chu Tian. The Chu family cannot do without Chu Tian, and this family absolutely cannot be divided.
……
In the small bungalow.
Chu Miao gave Wen Li two acupuncture needles. Wen Li had woken up, but was still very weak.
She brought her the porridge that Chu Tian had cooked and told her what had happened in the front yard.
"He said, 'Mom, if you really can't stand her, then we'll have to separate.'"
"From now on, we'll each live our own lives!"
"Mom, look how protective Dad is of you this time! Why don't we just take this opportunity to separate the family property!"
Wen Li smiled happily. With a husband who protects her, it was worth it for her to suffer a little.
"Miaomiao, your father is on our side, and we should also think about him. I know you don't like Grandma very much, but this family can't be divided, understand?"
"No matter how bad your grandma is, she raised your father with great difficulty, so we should be filial to her."
Wen Li wasn't really being cruel to Old Madam Chu; she just felt sorry for Chu Tian and didn't want him to be in a difficult position.
Chu Tian is filial; it must be very upsetting for him to separate from the family.
She didn't want her husband to be sad.
Just then, Chu Tian returned, and Wen Li signaled to Chu Miao not to talk about it anymore.
Chu Tian entered and was overjoyed to see Wen Li awake.
"Honey! You're awake! The doctor said you wouldn't wake up for four or five hours! But you woke up so quickly!"
Are you unhappy that I woke up early?
"Of course I'm happy!" Chu Tian strode to the bedside and took her hand. "How are you, wife? Are you still feeling unwell?"
“A little bit, especially when I wake up and don’t see you, it’s a little more painful.” Wen Li smiled gently: “But now that I see my husband, it’s not painful anymore.”
Chu Tian blamed himself: "Wife, I just went to..."
“I know.” Wen Li’s hand slowly reached up and enveloped his hand. “Honey, I know what happened in the front yard. I’m happy that you’re protecting me. But we won’t separate.”
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