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Chapter 123 : Get Out of the Xu Family
Xu Haicheng was helpless. “Mom, I didn’t mean it like that. Isn’t this all a misunderstanding? Besides, Lingling’s face is injured, I can’t force her to apologize to Jiang Li.”
Fang Peilan looked at Xu Haicheng with eyes full of disbelief and disappointment, which made Xu Haicheng feel a chill in his heart.
“Xu Haicheng, kneel down. I didn’t expect you to become so confused about right and wrong. Where have all the moral principles you learned gone? Even if Du Ling wanted to harm someone else instead of my good girl, she is still vicious. If you did something wrong, you did it wrong. Apologizing is the most basic thing, and then comes compensation. Don’t try to smooth it over by saying it was a misunderstanding, like you always do. I am so disappointed in you! From today on, you must stay at home and reflect on your mistakes! And you, Du Ling, get out of the Xu family!”
“Mom, calm down! I will definitely ask Lingling to apologize to Jiang Li.”
Xu Haicheng pulled Du Ling, who had been stunned by the ruler. Now she was scared out of her wits when she heard that she was going to be kicked out of the Xu family.
Zhou Hui finally understood that Jiang Li was actually the child of the youngest daughter of the Xu family, who had died early, and therefore Fang Peilan’s granddaughter.
Xu Haicheng kept pleading, and Zhou Hui gradually became unconvinced. She was just a granddaughter, how could she be as close to her as her own granddaughter?
Besides, the male is usually the head of the family. What is Fang Peilan, an old lady over 60 years old, doing jumping around all day? What’s the use of her words?
Fang Peilan didn’t want to see her disappointing eldest son, his wife, or his stepdaughter again, so she just watched the housekeeper pack up Du Ling’s things.
Du Ling just cried. Zhou Hui held Xu Haicheng and said, “Haicheng, you are the eldest son and grandson in the family, why do you still listen to your mother? In my opinion, this old lady is confused due to her age, and what she says is not reliable. She doesn’t live with us, so can we just ask Lingling to move out?”
A loud slap landed on Zhou Hui’s face. Xu Haicheng looked at the eyes and ears in the yard outside the door, and for the first time, he regretted bringing Zhou Hui back home.
In the countryside, he had a bad reputation and lived in a cowshed. Only Zhou Hui would give him some food from time to time to help him.
Once he had a high fever, if Zhou Hui hadn’t sent him some herbs from the mountains, he would have died on that rainy night. He was truly grateful to her.
After being rehabilitated, he took Zhou Hui back to the city. Zhou Hui didn’t know how to socialize and often made a fool of herself in public. He just thought that Zhou Hui was uneducated, but not a bad person.
He never expected Zhou Hui to say such things, showing no respect for her elders.
Even though Fang Peilan didn’t accept her, she never made things difficult for her in public. Yet, Zhou Hui had actually instigated disobedience toward her mother.
“You disappoint me so much! Zhou Hui, you were a kind person in the village, why did you change when you arrived in Haicheng?”
Zhou Hui was dumbfounded. There were many elderly men and women in the village who were thrown out of their homes by their sons and not allowed to eat at the table. Why hadn’t this happened to Xu Haicheng?
In fact, the reason why Fang Peilan had the final say at home was not only because of her son’s filial piety but also because of the will left by Mr. Xu.
All the Xu family’s property was distributed by the late wife, and if there were any unfilial or unrighteous descendants in the family, they would be punished by Fang Peilan.
What’s more, the Fang family was not poor, and what they held in their hands also included what they already had, which made Fang Peilan stand tall.
In less than two hours, all of Du Ling’s belongings were packed up and thrown in front of the Xu family’s gate.
With Fang Peilan’s tacit consent, Xu Haicheng sent Du Ling to a house near the school.
The family quarters, with three bedrooms and one living room, were very comfortable. But for Du Ling, it felt like falling from heaven to hell.
The Chinese-style garden where she used to live had a different view at every step, and it took several hours to walk through, but now the house had a panoramic view.
In the past, she had a driver when she went out, a nanny to cook for her, her clothes were always clean, and her house was tidy. Now, she had to do everything herself.
Zhou Hui couldn’t bear to leave her daughter, but she was also worried if she didn’t live with Xu Haicheng, so she was in a dilemma.
Du Ling threatened to commit suicide and cried a lot. Fearing that her daughter might do something drastic, Zhou Hui had to move in to take care of her.
After two days, Du Ling couldn’t stand it anymore.
“Mom, can you talk to Dad and ask him to let me move back home? This house is as small as a pigeon coop. I really can’t stand it anymore.”
“Doesn’t Dad listen to you the most?” Du Ling pulled her mother to make a fuss, and Zhou Hui also looked helpless.
These days, she had asked him indirectly, but Xu Haicheng just wouldn’t give in. Once she got anxious, he turned around and left.
“Mom, you mentioned what happened in the village. Didn’t you save Dad’s life? Dad is a soft-hearted person. If you bring it up, he will definitely agree.”
Zhou Hui covered her mouth and said, “Don’t mention saving lives anymore. Be careful not to be overheard.”
Du Ling opened her hand nonchalantly. “This is not the Xu family, no one here can hear it. Mom, you’re too cautious.”
“You don’t know. Aside from the medicine delivery that day, I don’t know anything about the previous events. If your father asks for any details and I don’t match them, what should I do if he becomes suspicious?”
Zhou Hui felt very guilty. Ever since she came to the city, the hard days she spent in the village seemed like a nightmare. She didn’t want to think about it, and even more, she didn’t want to go back.
She had married young, but her husband was a gambler and alcoholic. Not only did he idle around all day, but he also beat people when drunk.
Finally, one day, he got drunk on a snowy night and fell into the village well and drowned. She became a widow and returned to her parents’ home with her daughter.
She had an unmarried older sister in her mother’s family. She was born with a disability and became mute due to a fever when she was a child. She couldn’t speak, so she had never married.
One time, Zhou Hui accidentally discovered that her elder sister was giving the saved food to the people in the cowshed, which scared her to death.
But soon, she overheard the villagers talking about how the bad elements in the cowshed were going to be rehabilitated. They all came from big cities and would go back sooner or later.
She was very excited after hearing this, as she had never been to a big city.
Finally, on a rainy night, her mute elder sister limped down the mountain, holding a bundle of herbs.
She couldn’t speak but kept gesturing, asking Zhou Hui to deliver the herbs to a certain place.
Zhou Hui knew that the place was a cowshed. She wouldn’t have been willing to go there in the past, but as the rumors in the village became more and more frequent, she began to have other thoughts.
So she agreed, not only delivering the herbs but also boiling the medicine, stripping the man naked, and wiping his body.
Finally, she followed Xu Haicheng back to Haicheng.