strictlysupreme Chapter 411 The Old Lady's Thought Process
Chapter 411 The Old Lady's Thought Process
Zhou Jing nodded. "Yes, when I was pregnant with my daughter Tingting, she urged my husband to persuade me to have an abortion. I refused no matter what, and she kept talking badly about me behind my back. After I gave birth to Tingting, I didn't even hold her once. For the first few years, Tingting was raised at my mother's house."
Seeing that we bought a new house and our lives are getting better and better, she's become even more resentful. Now she's trying to get her husband to divorce me. It's ridiculous, as if if I divorce my husband, all the money he earns will go to her!"
"Then what are you going to do? Your mother-in-law doesn't seem like a kind person. Maybe you should have another son."
"I won't have any more children. My daughter is just fine. I'm determined not to have any more."
"What if your husband really listens to her and divorces you?"
"I couldn't be happier. Humph, he's out all day long. What difference does it make whether he's here or not? If I divorce him, I won't have to put up with his mother's temper."
Everyone suddenly realized.
I wonder how Zhou Jing could be so capable; she hit her mother-in-law without hesitation.
She started talking nonsense, and I slapped her twice across the face. Turns out she wasn't threatened at all.
The old woman's biggest threat was encouraging her son to divorce her, but he wasn't afraid of divorce at all.
After the neighbors left, Zhou Jing returned to the house, looking exhausted, and hugged Lan Tingting, saying, "Yu Yao, thank you for your help today."
"It's alright, Sister Zhou, are you... alright?"
Zhou Jing twitched the corner of her mouth and said with a faint smile, "What could I possibly have? I'm not afraid of her."
"This isn't the first time she's caused trouble, is it?"
Zhou Jing nodded. "Every time she finishes dropping her eldest grandson off at school, she goes to the bookstore entrance to take a look. Before picking her grandson up every day, she comes downstairs to check if my lights are on before she feels at ease. If my lights aren't on, she comes up and knocks on the door."
What is she doing?
"She said she would keep an eye on me for her son, afraid that I would go out and find other men, but she was just trying to disgust me and force me to get a divorce."
That was indeed both disgusting and repulsive.
Zhou Jing wasn't afraid of her; she had never lost a verbal or physical fight.
But that Zhang woman is like a toad crawling on your foot; she doesn't bite, she just disgusts you.
……
When Lin Yuyao returned, Fu Huaiyi had already been back for a long time.
"Is it at Sister Zhou's house across the street?"
Lin Yuyao nodded. "How did you know?"
"The sound was so loud, I heard it."
Lin Yuyao: “…”
Good grief, the building across the street heard it.
"Sister Zhou and her mother-in-law are fighting again?"
"Yes, Brother Lan is coming back, and her mother-in-law is going to be really demanding."
"What? You think you can marry someone better after getting a divorce?"
"How wonderful! Brother Lan is always at sea, you can't even see him. Where can he find someone better? Sister Zhou even wants to divorce him."
"So what does she want to do?"
“She wants money, but Sister Zhou controls Brother Lan’s salary, so she doesn’t get a single penny.”
"What does she need so much money for?"
"It was left for her eldest grandson. She looked down on Sister Zhou for not having a son and didn't want outsiders to benefit from the money they earned."
Lin Yuyao sighed and said, "In Sister Zhou's mother-in-law Zhang's eyes, girls will belong to other people's families in the future, only boys are family. In her opinion, the money her youngest son earns also belongs to their family. It's okay to use it on her eldest grandson, but it's not okay to use it on her money-losing granddaughter."
That's why she's making a scene, hoping to force them to divorce, and she wants to label Sister Zhou as unfaithful so that she and Tingting will leave with nothing.
Fu Huaiyi clicked his tongue, "I don't understand this old woman. With her son's situation... what did Sister Zhou say? After he went to sea, she couldn't contact him. It's like he's dead. It makes no difference whether he's there or not."
That daughter-in-law is lucky she didn't run away; she's just being difficult, practically hoping for a divorce. She says it's for money, as if the money would just go to her mother if they divorced.
That's true.
Lin Yuyao thought to herself, "If you really cause someone's wife and children to break up, their son will hate you to death, you old bastard."
Give me money? Give me fire tongs.
Besides, one can remarry after a divorce, and wouldn't the daughter-in-law in the remarried family also have to control the money?
It's not going to end up in my pocket anyway.
The next day at work, Lin Yuyao noticed that Sister Zhou looked tired and had obvious dark circles under her eyes.
She has to work and take care of her child, which is already hard enough for her.
With her husband away, she said she was living worse than a widow.
Widows don't have to deal with their husbands' relatives or fight with their mothers-in-law.
She lived like a widow, having to deal with a bunch of relatives and fight with her mother-in-law. Wasn't she even worse off than a widow?
She's already worked so hard, and Zhang is still causing trouble, which is quite a hassle for her.
I definitely didn't sleep well last night.
Lin Yuyao walked over and said, "Sister Zhou, when Brother Lan comes back this time, you should have a good talk with him."
Zhou Jing got angry and said, "What's the point of talking anymore? It's over. We'll get a divorce when he comes back."
They got married because they were in a free-love relationship, and they had feelings for each other.
Lin Yuyao used to hear Zhou Jing complain about her in-laws and how useless her husband was. She thought her husband was the kind of person who would just sit and watch his wife and mother fight while he pretended to be dead.
But when Lan Xu returned last year, Zhou Jing's smiles became noticeably more frequent.
She then realized that their feelings for each other had always been there.
Zhou Jing may have been cursing and complaining, but she definitely didn't want to get a divorce.
"Are you just saying that out of anger again? If you really get a divorce, your mother-in-law will be overjoyed. Why would you sacrifice your marriage to please your enemy?"
Saying he wanted a divorce was just an angry outburst; hearing Lin Yuyao say it made him even angrier.
"It's true, I can't leave, but I can't live well either."
"Didn't you say before that Brother Lan could transfer back to work?"
"You can switch back when you're older; it's still a long way off now."
Every family has its own troubles, and that's absolutely true.
A good family life doesn't necessarily mean a happy marriage.
Even couples with good relationships may have a troublemaker in the family who always tries to add some obstacles to their happy and ordinary life.
That's probably how life is.
……
I promised to get Fu Huaiyi a new motorcycle.
The car I had before fell into a ditch and was damaged. When I took it to get repaired, the price was surprisingly expensive.
After thinking it over, he decided not to repair it and just sold it secondhand. These past few days he's been driving or cycling to work. If he gets off work early, he takes the company shuttle bus, just waiting for Lin Yuyao to get him a new car.
He was too busy to choose one himself, so Lin Yuyao picked it out for him. It was a brand new model that had just come out, costing over five thousand yuan, and it looked very stylish.
Fu Huaiyi didn't get home until almost ten o'clock. Lin Yuyao was watching TV in the living room waiting for him. As soon as he got home, she couldn't wait to drag him to test drive the car.
"I have a surprise for you. Go downstairs and see."
Fu Huaiyi: "Bought a big motorcycle?"
Lin Yuyao: "..." Not surprised at all.
"Yes, I bought the latest model motorcycle, exactly the one you liked. Do you want to go take a look?"
"Yes, of course I'll go see."
"Here's the key." Lin Yuyao handed him the key and instructed, "Come back quickly after you've looked at it, I'll go boil some water for you."