Chapter 100 Severing Relations with My Mother's Family
Chen Sufen looked shocked.
Completely severing ties with your parents will be criticized wherever you go.
She herself had never thought about completely severing ties with her natal family, and the thought of those moral condemnations made her scalp tingle.
But what my mother-in-law said was right. All the things in the house were earned by my mother-in-law. She was the daughter-in-law of the Gu family. It was against her mother-in-law's wishes to move things to her parents' home without her knowledge.
Going against your mother-in-law's wishes is unfilial.
She was too embarrassed to tell her mother-in-law about it. The one or two taels of silver that her mother-in-law gave her as private money was also taken away by her own mother and given to her brother.
"Sister-in-law, let's break it off. Break it off cleanly and be done with it." Liu Yue'e kept adding fuel to the fire.
Tong Huaqiong felt that Liu Yue'e's fire was good tonight.
Liu Yue'e didn't really care about Chen Sufen. She felt that the Gu family had a relative from the Chen family who would hinder their business.
She was very angry. Her family had been so good to her. Her father and older brother worked so hard to farm and mine stones in the mountains, but when they saw the Gu family rising, they never said anything about taking advantage of the Gu family.
The nephew of the Chen family, who has not been in contact for 800 years, wants to work as a waiter at Taohua Dessert. Are they qualified?
Liu Yue'e was somewhat grateful for the environment in which she grew up.
She secretly planned in her heart that after Taohua Dessert opened a shop and business picked up, she could talk to her mother-in-law and ask her brother to come to the shop as a clerk. With her brother's honest and upright character, her mother-in-law would not refuse.
"You are now the daughter-in-law of the Gu family. Since you married into the Gu family, the Chen family has nothing to do with you." Tong Huaqiong said again, and then gave Chen Sufen another heavy blow, "Not only do you have to break off ties with your natal family, but I also plan to break off ties with the Tong family."
Chen Sufen was shocked all over, and Liu Yue'e also widened her eyes.
If Chen Sufen's contribution to her mother's family is at the bronze level, Tong Dajiao's is at the king level.
The attitude of the Tong family towards their daughter is not much better than that of the Chen family. Which good family would marry their daughter of prime age to a widower with two children? Tong Da Jiao married into the Gu family just like Chen Sufen did. Both of them accepted money from the Gu family for the sake of their brothers.
Tong Da Jiao has a worse temper than Chen Sufen. In order to get things from her mother's family, she dares to throw a tantrum, confront Old Gu, and disobey her parents-in-law.
Why did the Gu family live such a tight life? Apart from the fact that Gu Jingzhe took away most of the money for his studies, most of the remaining food and money were transferred to the Tong family by Tong Dajiao.
After Old Gu died, she acted even more unscrupulously towards her natal family for a while. If Tong Huaqiong had not come through, this phenomenon would have continued until Gu Jingzhe became a high-ranking official in Shengjing.
"No wonder mother hasn't mentioned the Tong family recently."
After Liu Yue'e reacted, she sighed.
Chen Sufen also came to her senses.
That’s right. If you don’t think about it carefully, you won’t realize that my mother-in-law has not been to Tong’s house once since she woke up from being knocked unconscious, and she has never asked anyone to bring anything to them.
If it were in the past, the cakes would have been sent to the Tong family long ago. Now that the wheat is almost ripe, I would have rushed to work for the Tong family during the Gu Dahan and Gu Dashu periods.
"Why mention their family? I was confused and blinded by greed in the past. I treated them so well but couldn't get a single good word in return. Believe it or not, if I were to remarry now, my brothers and my father would be eager to grab the bride price." Tong Huaqiong said.
Liu Yue'e: "......"
Chen Sufen: “…”
Tong Huaqiong now does business in the town, and everyone in the surrounding area knows about Taohua desserts.
The Tong family might not be unaware of this, and she had the psychological expectation that sooner or later the Tong family would come to the Gu family to ask for a share of her business.
She guessed it was after the wheat harvest.
Because in the past, Tong Da Jiao would send her son to the Tong family with his own dry food to help harvest wheat. If she doesn't go this year, the Tong family will definitely be puzzled and angry, and will come to the Gu family to ask her for an explanation.
She was not afraid of the Tong family coming to her house.
As an only child who grew up in modern times, she would never be a woman who supports her younger brother or older brother.
What's more, she is not Tong Dajiao, and the life and death of the Tong family has nothing to do with her.
"So Sufen, I will cut off ties with the Tong family, and you have to cut off ties with the Chen family. It's better for us to live a good life." Tong Huaqiong said.
Chen Sufen's wavering mind was influenced by Chen Sufen, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I will listen to my mother. I will never have any contact with the Chen family again."
"However, when your parents pass away, I will allow you to go home and wear mourning clothes." Tong Huaqiong added.
Chen Sufen felt a little better.
For an ancient person, being willing to completely sever ties with one's mother's family was already a breakthrough for oneself, but Chen Sufen probably couldn't accept not going to the funeral when her parents died.
Therefore, the thoughtful Tong Huaqiong specially added an agreement for Chen Sufen.
It's nothing more than making her feel less guilty. Once the guilt is weakened, she will not be morally criticized by the Chen family.
At the same time, it also reiterated the determination to separate Chen Sufen from the Chen family, meaning that you cannot have any contact with the Chen family until your parents die.
"Mom, why do I see no cakes baked today?"
After Chen Sufen decided not to have any more contact with the Chen family, she calmed down her depressed mood and started focusing on her own family.
She hadn't smelled any fragrance since she returned home, so she thought that Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua were too tired from working at the stall, and Liu Yue'e was unable to take on the main responsibility at home, so the snacks were not baked.
Tong Huaqiong shook her head and said, "I don't plan to open the stall for the next three days."
Chen Sufen looked surprised and asked, "Why? Mom is worried about the work in the wheat field. Dahan and I can handle it."
The wheat is almost ripe, and Chen Sufen naturally thinks of the wheat field.
Before harvesting wheat, the threshing floor needs to be cleared to facilitate threshing and drying the wheat.
Tong Huaqiong said, "That's not the reason. Your third brother has already cleared part of the wheat field today."
Liu Yue'e said quickly, "Mom and Dashu were robbed by the owner of Sushiyuan on the way back today, and all our pastry recipes were taken away."
"What?" Chen Sufen was so frightened that she completely put aside the matter of her mother's family.
"That damn shopkeeper Feng..."
Liu Yue'e told Chen Sufen about what happened to Tong Huaqiong and Gu Dashu, cursing with gnashing teeth as she spoke.
Chen Sufen's face turned pale when she heard this. She knew that Gu Dashu and her mother-in-law were fine, except that the cake recipe had been handed over. She said, "Just hand it over. As long as you have the green mountains, you will never worry about having no firewood to burn."
"The more this is the case, the more we should not be afraid of Sushi Garden."
Tong Huaqiong was cursing Chen Sufen in her heart for not being straightforward enough in treating her family members, but the next second she was impressed by the way Chen Sufen treated Shopkeeper Feng.
She is more cheerful than Liu Yue'e, the peach blossom girl in the Valley of Dashu.
Chen Sufen didn't even ask Tong Huaqiong what to do next, because she believed in her mother-in-law and that Taohua Dessert would definitely continue to operate.
"Su Fen is right. The recipe is meaningless. The most important thing in business is people. With people around, we can come up with better recipes. It is impossible for us to quit Taohua Dessert because of the threat from Sushiyuan." Tong Huaqiong said.
Tong Huaqiong thought, let Manager Feng of Sushiyuan be proud for three days.
She must vent her anger today. She doesn't know whether Sushiyuan can be defeated, but she wants Manager Feng to leave Yanguan Town.