Chapter 98: Going back to my mother's house and getting slapped in the face
"grandmother!"
Man'er lay in Tong Huaqiong's arms, unable to get up, her voice filled with infinite grievance.
Tong Huaqiong was heartbroken.
"Grandma, I will never go to grandma's house again." Maner said.
She was at her grandmother's house in Chenjiazhuang. Her grandmother and grandfather said she was a money-loser, and her aunt rolled her eyes at her and pinched her.
It was even more terrifying to her than when she was living under her grandmother's control.
Tong Huaqiong rubbed Maner's head and comforted her softly, "Grandma loves Maner. If you don't want to go in the future, I will make the decision not to let you go."
Maner nodded vigorously.
Chen Sufen felt sad after listening to the conversation between her daughter and her mother-in-law.
She felt sorry for her daughter, for letting her daughter suffer injustice at her parents' home; she felt even more sorry for her mother-in-law, who bought a cartload of things for her to show off, but her parents treated her so badly that they were reluctant to let their family sit at the table for lunch.
Not only that, her parents also made many unreasonable demands on her.
She was too embarrassed to tell her mother-in-law.
"You must be tired after traveling all night. Have you eaten? If not, there's still rice in the pot." Tong Huaqiong said.
Chen Sufen felt even worse!
Not only did they not eat a good lunch, they didn't eat dinner at all.
"I haven't eaten." Maner said, touching her rumbling stomach.
Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but shake her head.
The Chen family is going too far.
"Well, Mom, I'll deliver the flatbed cart to the Qin family first, and I'll also deliver Uncle Liu's donkey on the way." Gu Dahan said.
Tong Huaqiong said, "It's not urgent at this late hour. The donkey has been traveling all day, and you're just going to send it away like this? It won't be too late to send it away tomorrow morning after you feed it well."
Tong Huaqiong felt that Gu Dahan was sometimes really like a fool and too honest.
Gu Dahan nodded and went to feed the donkey.
"Mom..." Chen Sufen hesitated to speak, her voice filled with timidity and grievance.
"Stop talking and eat first."
Tong Huaqiong stopped Chen Sufen and called Liu Yue'e who was in the house to help heat up the meal for the eldest brother's family.
Fortunately, the meal was ready and was quickly served on the table.
Liu Yue'e looked at her sister-in-law's depressed face and knew that she had suffered a setback at her parents' home, and she felt a little happy in her heart.
"Sister-in-law, you haven't been back to your parents' home for several years. Your parents don't even provide you with meals?" Liu Yue'e said to Chen Sufen, adding fuel to the fire.
See, you got slapped in the face for bringing so many things to your mother's house.
Not to mention returning the gift, I wasn’t even allowed to eat my fill.
My mother-in-law is a vengeful person, and she will definitely be cold towards the Chen family in the future.
Before Gu Jingzhe got married, only her mother's family was the official relative of the Gu family.
Chen Sufen didn't know how to respond to her sister-in-law, so she took Man'er to eat in silence.
"What's wrong with Maner's hand?" Tong Huaqiong asked.
With the help of the oil lamp, Tong Huaqiong saw that there was a purple bruise on Maner's right wrist, which showed that she had been pinched.
Chen Sufen was flustered and her eyes turned red.
"What's going on?" Tong Huaqiong frowned.
"It was my aunt who pinched me." Maner said with a look of grievance.
"What's going on?" Tong Huaqiong was furious.
"You and Dahan are dead. You can't even protect a child."
While Tong Huaqiong was cursing, she went into the house, took out some medicine for bruises and applied it carefully on Maner's hand.
Chen Sufen and her husband are amazing. They can't even take care of their daughter when they go back to her parents' home to visit relatives.
In this respect, they are really not as good as the second brother and his wife, and even not as good as Tong Dajiao in the past.
No matter how bad the second brother and his wife and Tong Da Jiao were, they were very protective of their own children and no one could bully them.
Maner had been white and tender for these days, but she was pinched by her aunt when she went to her grandmother's house.
What kind of person is this aunt? She doesn't even let a little kid go.
"That's right, sister-in-law, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you banged your mother's head against the doorstep to protect Man'er from going to Zheng's house, and Dahan beat up my third brother for Man'er. You two were so arrogant in the Gu family, why are you bullied like this when you come to the Chen family?" Liu Yue'e said.
"It hurts to see my niece's hand being pinched like this."
Tong Huaqiong felt that what Liu Yue'e said was unpleasant, but very reasonable.
"At lunch time..."
Chen Sufen put down her chopsticks. She felt sorry for her daughter and Dahan.
She had been holding in her grievances for the whole day and couldn't help but want to vent them out.
Chen Sufen dressed up and happily went to her parents' home today with Gu Dahan and Maner. She thought that her parents would be very welcoming to her since they hadn't seen each other for several years.
When her parents first saw that she was wearing new clothes and looked good, and that she brought a car full of gifts, they were overly enthusiastic towards the three of them.
Chen Sufen was so moved that she burst into tears. When she was chatting with her parents, she told them everything about her mother-in-law's transformation.
Regardless of whether Tong Huaqiong had changed or not, the Chen family suddenly changed their attitude when they heard Chen Sufen stopping Man'er from going to the Zheng family. They accused her of being ignorant and shouldn't stop Man'er from going to the Zheng family to get married.
Her father's original words were, "A little girl is a money-loser after all. There's no point keeping her at home. If you send her to the Zheng family for a happy occasion, you can also help your two brothers and nephew. Now that Man'er is not going to the Zheng family, the future of our Chen family has been delayed by you."
Her brother was so angry that he slammed the table on the spot, despising Chen Sufen for blocking his son's future.
Chen Sufen was stunned. She didn't expect her parents' reaction to be like this.
This is even more excessive than what the mother-in-law and brother-in-law did before.
My mother-in-law has raised Maner for several years, but the Chen family has never made a pair of shoes for Maner, and they want to rely on Maner to exchange for their future.
You are so shameless.
Then her father and two brothers calculated the family expenses, saying that they needed money to renovate the house, the two pigs they raised died and they needed to buy new piglets, and their eldest nephew would be getting married in a few years and needed a dowry...all in all, they needed one hundred taels of silver.
He immediately asked Chen Sufen for one hundred taels of silver.
Chen Sufen didn't expect that a meeting at home would cost money, not to mention that she couldn't afford that much.
Her brother and sister-in-law once again accused her of not letting Maner go to the Zheng family, saying that the Nie family had money and asked her to borrow money from her eldest sister-in-law's house.
Chen Sufen was so angry that she cried.
Her parents didn't stand on her side either. They both accused her of being a girl who didn't care about her brothers. They scolded Chen Sufen for being selfish and said that she had been married to the Gu family for so many years and had never given anything back to the family, so she should give one hundred taels of silver to her brother and sister-in-law.
Amid the scolding, Chen Sufen realized that her temporary enthusiasm was all fake. They wanted to take advantage of her because they saw that she was living a good life, but before they succeeded, their true colors were exposed.
Her sister-in-law even asked for the new clothes she was wearing. She said that her mother-in-law bought them for her and she was afraid of being scolded when she got home. Her sister-in-law's face was longer than a donkey's, and she implied that she was like a hen that couldn't lay eggs because she couldn't give birth to a son.
Just as Tong Huaqiong guessed, the Chen family learned from the villagers that Tong Huaqiong's cake business at the market was booming, so they wanted Chen Sufen to get money from her husband's family.
He forced Chen Sufen to agree to give him one hundred taels.
The words are as ugly as they sound.
Chen Sufen kept enduring it.
At lunch time, the Chen family prepared the chicken, fish, and mutton that Chen Sufen brought and cooked a large table of dishes.
Chen Sufen and her family of three did sit at the table, but they had leftovers from the morning placed in front of them. They said they were living a good life in the Gu family, and the meat and vegetables were for Chen Sufen's brother, sister-in-law, and nephew.
Maner developed a temper that was not easy to mess with after following Tong Huaqiong. She wondered why?
In the Gu family, even Yaozu has to give in to her, so why should she endure the bullying of her cousins at the dinner table?
Besides, all the meat on the table was brought by her parents, so she should eat it.
So she stretched out her chopsticks to pick up the chicken leg, but her cousin held the meat to prevent her from doing so. During the struggle, her aunt accused Maner of bullying her son and grabbed Maner's hand.