Zhang Cui’e and his wife originally had a falling out with the Han family. They didn’t have the nerve to come and bring up the matter of getting married again, but her daughter happened to fall into the water and was saved by Han Aiguo. Han Aiguo hugged his daughter. This was a good opportunity, just in time to make Han Aiguo take responsibility for his daughter, and the two families to get married again.
Originally, they were very optimistic about Han Aiguo. Such a son-in-law is very rare. If they hadn’t seen his leg broken, they would not have broken off the engagement with the Han family. Now that his leg has healed, it is just the right time to get married again with such a thing, it seems that the two families are destined to be in-laws.
Old Man Wang and Zhang Cui’e also knew that it was a bit unkind to force people to get married because of this matter. Now that everyone around them was blaming their own family, they didn’t dare to be so tyrannical anymore. They rolled their eyes and acted pitiful again, “Oh! , we don’t want to, but my daughter, a good young girl, has been looked at and touched by men, and so many people have known about it. How can any man be willing to marry my daughter in the future? I can’t let it happen. How can my daughter, just stay at home and be an old girl. You also have daughters. What would you do if something like this happens to them ?”
After thinking about it, the onlookers felt that it was reasonable for the Wang family to do this. Such a thing is indeed not good for girls. The child’s reputation is tarnished, and what should the daughter do if she cannot get married? They can’t stay unmarried for the rest of their lives. If their daughter encounters something like this, they will also want the person who rescues them to be responsible for their daughter.
Now that Han Aiguo has saved his daughter and ruined her innocence, marrying his daughter is also a good thing for both parties. Anyway, Wang Cui’e’s appearance is considered to be top-notch in the brigade, so marrying her is not a disadvantage.
So at that moment, several people shouted that Han Aiguo should just marry Wang Yaru.
Su Yue almost wanted to roll her eyes at these people. They really couldn’t stand and talk without pain in their backs.
Seeing that they were turning towards the pitiful act of the Wang family, Su Yue finally stood up and started to slap the Wang family in the face.
She came out specially wearing a thin quilt, her hair was disheveled, her hair was not completely dry, and she looked like she had just been in the water. She walked up to Wang Yaru and said with an expression of extreme surprise: “What’s the matter with you? I obviously saved you, how can you say that Brother Han saved you?”
” Ah?” Wang Yaru was confused by her sudden words. She was stunned, and the people around her were also confused by Su Yue’s words.
Su Yue simply showed off her lifelong acting skills, perfectly interpreting the expression of surprise, a little contempt, and a little aggrieved, “I saw you fell into the water and called for help. I happened to be passing by. I saw Brother Han’s legs were inconvenient, so I thought it would be better for me to rescue you, so I went down to rescue you. After I rescued you, Brother Han was kind-hearted and gave me some clothes to wear, but I saw that you were disheveled. I gave you my clothes and gave you some water. I didn’t leave until you woke up. How do you say it was Brother Han who saved you? He didn’t look at you.”
” Impossible!” Wang Yaru screamed, her face suddenly turned pale.
”How is it impossible? When I rescued you, Aunt Sun and her two sons saw it. I can’t lie to you. My wet clothes are still unwashed in the house. If you don’t believe me, go and take a look at my wet clothes. Go and call Aunt Sun and her son over for a confrontation. ”
Just at this time, Aunt Sun heard about this and rushed over. As soon as she came in, she caught Wang Yaru and criticized: “What’s going on with your daughter? It was obviously Su Yue who rescued you. The eldest son of the Han family watched the whole process. He haven’t seen you, so how can he ruin your innocence? You are telling lies with your eyes open! ”
Wang Yaru’s face was ashen, and she almost lost her legs and fell to the ground, “I…I…”
Su Yue and Aunt Sun’s words were like thunder, exploding in the crowd with a huge bang. Everyone turned their heads and understood the sinister intentions of the Wang family: The Wang family was deliberately blackmailing Han Aiguo.
Everyone looked at the Wang family with contempt in their eyes. Such families really cannot get along with each other, too Shameless.
The Wang family never expected that things would turn out like this. How could the person who saved people be changed from Han Aiguo to a female educated youth?
At this time, Mrs. Han stood up, with her hands on her hips, pointing at the group of people from the Wang family scolded them: “You guys, you guys, came here deliberately to frame my eldest. What grudge does my eldest have against you and why do you want to do this to him? Back then, my eldest son injured his leg. You saw that he had no future, so you came over and made a fuss and wanted to break off the engagement with him. Now that my eldest son’s leg has healed, you want to get married again. You knew I wouldn’t agree, so you came up with such a vicious idea. The method is really to feed the dog with conscience. If Su Yue hadn’t happened to pass by and save your daughter, would you have relied on my family’s Eldest? I have never seen such a shameless person repaying kindness with hatred! ”
Old Mrs. Han’s fighting prowess was so great that she even scolded people without even taking a breath. She even scolded a group of people in the Wang family and lost all their dignity. Under the old lady’s wild curses and the contempt of the people around them, a group of people just wanted to crawl into a hole in the ground and don’t want to see her.
Zhang Cui’e and Old Man Wang were even scolded until their faces turned blue and white. Their whole life’s face was lost here.
After all, what they did was so shameless. Under the disdainful eyes of everyone, it seemed as if they had been ripped off in public. It was so embarrassing that Wang yaru cried out, turned around and rushed out of the crowd and ran away, “I’m not going to live anymore.”
Zhang Cui’e saw her daughter running away and wanted to run with her, but Mrs. Han caught her with quick eyes and hands, “You want to just leave like that?” no way! Second, third, and fourth, please guard the door for me. The Wang family won’t be able to leave until they give our family an explanation today! ”
When Han Lao Er, Han Lao San and the youngest Han Aimin heard this, they immediately ran to the gate, like door gods, and would never let the Wang family leave.
The Wang family was dumbfounded when they saw the Han family’s fight, and asked without confidence. : “What are you doing? Once the misunderstanding is resolved, our family will never hold Han Aiguo responsible again. ”
”I bother! “Old Mrs. Han spat fiercely, “You just said forget it? If you don’t come to us, our family has to come to you! Do you think our Han family is easy to bully? If you want to get married, then you get married; if you want to withdraw from the engagement, then also we have to agree ; if you want to make false accusations, then you make false accusations.”
” We are being harassed by so many people from your family for no reason, ruining the reputation of my eldest, and throwing dirty water on him. Are you just going to leave like this? ”
Old man Wang’s head was covered with sweat. He knew that his family would not be let off easily, so he hesitated and asked: “Then what do you want?
Mrs. Han: “Compensate! ” Must pay for tarnishing my Eldest’s reputation and causing trouble in our family”
Zhang Cui’e stopped when she heard about the compensation, “We didn’t do anything. We just misunderstood and asked, why should we pay? You are blackmailing! ”
Mrs. Han snorted coldly, ” Okay, you don’t want to, right?” Then let’s go find the party secretary to make an evaluation and see if we should lose money in this situation. ”
The old couple of the Wang family immediately panicked when they heard that they were going to the brigade cadres for comment, because it turned out that something was wrong with their family today, and whoever they asked to comment would be on the side of the Han family.
After much thought, Old Man Wang finally decided to admit his bad luck. After losing money, he asked tremblingly: “Then how much do you want?
Mrs. Han held out two fingers without politeness: “If you pay 20 yuan, we will forget it. If you don’t pay, we will go to the brigade for review. I want to see if the reputation of a patriotic soldier in my family is worth twenty bucks! ”
The old couple of the Wang family were frightened by the twenty yuan and were about to say no, but the next second they were frightened by the words “soldier’s reputation” and choked.
Yes, Han Aiguo’s leg is healed, and he will be able to do it again in the future. If you can return to the army, your future will be bright. It should be easy to deal with them. You can’t offend them.
Is twenty yuan more important or the safety of your family? Of course, safety is more important. If the money is gone, you can make more.
So, Old Man Wang endured his heart and scraped together 20 yuan from relatives who came and gave it to Old Mrs. Han. They just hope that this matter can be over quickly and not mentioned again.
Now it has severely beaten the Wang family’s face, and gave the Wang family a severe blow.
Old Mrs. Han felt comfortable physically and mentally, and naturally did not want to quarrel with these scoundrels anymore. She immediately let the Wang family go with a wave of her hand.
The Wang family felt like they had been granted amnesty, and a group of people came in high spirits , but finally left in despair.
After the Wang family left, the spectators gradually dispersed, and in the end only the Han family and Su Yue were left.
Su Yue directly gave Mrs. Han a thumbs up, “Auntie , you are really awesome, you are so powerful. Your fighting power is off the charts.”
Old Mrs. Han smiled a little sheepishly, “I was so angry with the shameless Wang family. If I didn’t teach them a lesson, they would think my Han family could be bullied by them. ”
With that said, Mrs. Han stuffed the twenty yuan she got into Su Yue’s hand, “Good girl, this money should be yours. I really want to thank you. If you hadn’t had the foresight to take one step in advance and went into the water to save her, your Brother Han, would have gone down to save her, and then he would have been blackmailed by the shameless Wang family.
Su Yue resisted, “I don’t want it, aunt. You keep the money and treat Brother Han’s leg.”
Who knew that Mrs. Han insisted on Su Yue accepting it, saying that the money was Han Aiguo’s money to ward off disasters, and Su Yue was the one to ward off disasters, so she naturally had to take it.
Han Aiguo saw the two pushing each other, so he gave twenty yuan and stuffed it into Su Yue’s trouser pocket, “Take it, don’t argue.”
Su Yue stopped arguing when she saw this, accepted the money, and gave Han Aiguo a look of “Look, I was right.”
Han Aiguo touched his nose, and he didn’t expect that Su Yue was right. Anyone who saves anyone will be blackmailed. If Su Yue hadn’t gone into the water at that time, he would definitely be the unlucky one.
The Han family was all at work today, so they hurried back home when they heard someone came to make trouble at home, and they were delayed for most of the day, it was not easy to go back to work, so Mrs. Han simply asked everyone to come into the house and have a meeting together.
Everyone was confused by the meeting, and sat at the table and listened to Mrs. Han talking.
Su Yue saw that a family meeting was going to be held. It was not suitable for her as an outsider to listen here, so she wanted to stand up and leave, but Mrs. Han took her hand and asked her to sit down and listen together. The others didn’t think much about it. After all, everyone felt that Mrs. Han regarded Su Yue as her biological daughter. It was probably because the old lady had no daughter and wanted to adopt a goddaughter.
The first words Mrs. Han said shocked everyone, “Today Let me tell you about the separation. ”
As soon as these words came out, the Han brothers changed their expressions one after another and looked at Mrs. Han in shock and surprise. Even the second daughter-in-law was so surprised that her eyes widened.
The second Han said hurriedly: “Mom, what are you talking about? Seperation ? Didn’t you say that you should wait until the eldest brother’s leg is healed before we seperate? Why bring it up now? ”
Mrs. Han glanced at him, and then said: “Originally, mother wanted to wait for your eldest brother to settle down before dividing your family, but your eldest brother’s legs cost too much, and the whole family was upset because of this. I’m a lot older and don’t want to see the whole family noisy, so I’ll just separate you and let each of you live your own life from now on. ”
” Second and third son, you can live your own lives well. Mother and fourth child will follow Yueyue and earn some money to treat your eldest brother’s leg and help your eldest brother and fourth brother get married in the future. If I still have money in the end, mother will then divide it equally between the four of you brothers. ”
When Mrs. Han said this, she raised her hand to stop what third son was about to say, “Third son, I know you are a good person. I don’t want to blame your wife. If you have your own family, you will inevitably have to think about yourself. Mom couldn’t figure it out at first, but now I’ve figured it out, why don’t I let you go out and live alone. But there is one thing I will give you a little bit so that you can go out and build a house in the future. But the skill of making cakes was taught by Yue Yue, not from our family. Mom will never teach this skill to the second daughter-in-law and the third daughter-in-law, you need to be clear about this and don’t think about things that shouldn’t be yours. ”
When she said this, Mrs. Han was looking at Han’s second daughter-in-law. Han’s second daughter-in-law knew that her mother-in-law was telling her specifically. Although she was eager for the cake-making skills, she still had a clear mind and knew this. She couldn’t mention it, so she didn’t show it at all. Only Han Lao Er, her bed partner, knew that she wanted to learn how to make pastries. This was also the reason why Han Lao Er agreed to separate the family. He didn’t want his wife to end up like the third daughter-in-law. It’s better to separate the families as soon as possible.
Han Laosan was so ashamed that his face turned red. “Mom, don’t listen to Fangzi’s nonsense. She dared to make such a request because she was possessed by ghosts. I won’t care. if she wants to stay at her parents’ house, just stay there. I will divorce her! ”
”What nonsense! ” Mrs. Han scolded him: “What’s with divorce?” What would Maomao do if he didn’t have a mother? Do you want him to have stepmother? After this incident is over, you two should stop arguing. Live a good life in the future, and don’t let your mother worry about you even though she is so old. ”
Han Laosan felt so uncomfortable that his eyes were red.
”Okay, it’s settled. Now let’s talk about how to divide the family. “Old Mrs. Han went to the room and took out her money box, opened it and showed her savings to the four brothers, “Mom made some money making cakes during this period, and the fourth brother made some money from selling cakes. The money, as well as the money your eldest brother sent back from the army all these years ago, are all here. The total is more than one thousand two hundred and thirty yuan.
Han Lao Er hurriedly shouted: “Mom, don’t do this. We agree with you no matter how you divide it. You don’t need to show us your money.”
Mrs. Han smiled and said, “You have to see clearly. It’s fair.”
” Because Mom doesn’t want you to provide for her old age yet, so the money will be divided into five parts. Each will get 240 yuan.” The second and third children each take away 240 yuan, while your eldest brother’s and fourth brother’s will be kept with me until they get married. ”
After the old lady gave the money to Han Lao Er and Han Lao San, she continued: “The room you are living in now is yours alone. As for the chickens at home, each person will have one. Everyone can use the other things together. Three, you make a stove behind and fire it alone. As for the food, the autumn food will be divided soon. After the autumn food is divided, mother will divide the food into five equal parts. Do you have any objection to your mother dividing up like this? ”
Everyone shook their heads and had no objections.
Seeing that no one had any objections, Mrs. Han smiled and said, “From now on, my mother will live with your eldest brother and your fourth brother. When they get married, my mother will live with your fourth brother , then you will support your mother in her old age. ”
The old lady spoke very calmly, even smiling, but the brothers felt very uncomfortable, as if a home had been torn into several parts.
When the old lady Han saw them like this, she smiled and said: ” Why are you acting like this? Aren’t we still living together now, that just living separately? It’s no different from before. Let’s all be happy. ”
Everyone was silent, and Su Yue also felt a little heavy. Compared with other families who were divided into wars, the Han family was very peaceful. Mrs. Han is a good mother and a good mother-in-law.
Mrs. Han finally said : “Then it’s settled. Tomorrow mother will ask the secretary to testify, and we will officially separate our families. Third child, go to your father-in-law’s house tomorrow to tell your wife about our separation. If your wife has any objections to my separation, then you should solve it yourself and don’t come to your mother. ”
Han Laosan said “Yes” with red eyes and quickly wiped his eyes with his hands.
Surprised Mrs Han wants to follow fourth child and not eldest with his future yueyue wife 😂
ikr i was surprised too…
No, I’ve read in another story before that in some areas, the custom for family separation is for the old parents to follow the youngest son, not the eldest. I was also confused at the time and thought that the translation might have been mistaken, but it really was the case for the parents to follow the youngest son and all the others will just give them monthly retirement money. Maybe because, usually it is the youngest who will marry the latest and will have to stay with the parents for longer while the others already have their own families.
In the region where I’m from (I’m talking about my grandparents hometown) the tradition was for the youngest daughter to remain single so that she can take care of her parents until they die, and once they die, my mother told me some of the women would go to convents, other would depend on their siblings, and a few would marry as a stepmother. Although my mother didn’t remain single, she widowed early on, so my aunts and uncles would send her money to take care of my grandparents. I met a few of her friends, and one of them even decided to get a license as an auxiliary nurse and after her parents died, she started working privately taking care of rich elderly people.
It’s very entertaining seeing this aspect from different cultures and how they are similar or different to each other
Sigh. The separation of family is inevitable. But, it’s really sad for the Han siblings.