When she got home, Wu Hongmei noticed the scratches on Wu Yatou's face. She exclaimed and asked distressedly, "What happened?"
Han Ze didn't answer her. The fifth girl fell asleep again. He put her on the bed and covered her with a blanket, thinking that he would go to the drugstore to buy some medicine for her later.
The third girl next to her pouted and complained: "Han Xuchen and Han Haoran scratched me. I didn't let them poke my sister with a stick, but they hit me."
There was an endless amount of grievances on her little face.
"This, this..." Wu Hongmei looked at Han Ze anxiously. She felt sorry for the child's scratches, but the ones who scratched the child were the two ancestors of the second and third children. She was really at a loss. Looking at the third girl, she couldn't help but push her angrily and scolded: "You are just watching there, why don't you protect your sister? What's the use of you?"
The third girl staggered for a moment after being pushed by Wu Hongmei. She stood firm, tears welling up in her eyes. Her little face was tense, and she pursed her lips stubbornly without saying a word.
Han Ze glanced at Wu Hongmei coldly, pulled the third girl to his side, and said, "She is so young, what does she know? You as a mother can't even protect your own child, but you blame the third girl?"
Han Ze was very dissatisfied with Wu Hongmei leaving the child to be taken care of by San Ya. It was not too much to keep an eye on a child who was less than two months old. How could she leave the child to a child who knew nothing
Wu Hongmei was stunned. She didn't expect the man to blame her for not taking good care of the child. She blushed and felt very aggrieved. She explained hesitantly, "I was cooking..."
"Is cooking more important than having children?" Han Ze looked at her coldly, "You are so virtuous. The second and third children's wives are sitting there playing, and you are helping to cook?"
Han Ze's words were merciless, he was so angry, looking at Wu Hongmei with moist eyes, he sighed, it was all the original body's fault, and Wu Hongmei could not be blamed, after all, this was how they usually lived their lives, no matter which brother or sister came, it was Wu Hongmei who cooked and busied herself serving the whole family.
Looking at Wu Hongmei, he said sadly: "After what happened today, don't you understand yet?"
Wu Hongmei asked him blankly: "What do you understand?"
Han Ze said in a gloomy tone: "Ever since Blind Han said that I would never have a son, our mother has changed."
Wu Hongmei looked at the man in confusion. She did not notice that her mother-in-law had changed. Instead, she felt that the man had changed since he heard Blind Han say that he was destined to have no son. He no longer despised his daughters. Instead, he doted on them more than anyone else. He prepared delicious food for them every meal and of course treated her very well too. She was happy with the change in the man, so she was happy to see it happen and said nothing.
Han Ze believed that his mother had changed, and said sadly and disappointedly: "I have always known that my mother favors sons over daughters, but I didn't expect that just because she heard that I would not have a son, my mother, who loved me the most, abandoned me and went to the second son's house. Today, she even beat me. Did my mother lie when she said she loved me the most? Sons are not as important as grandsons?"
Wu Hongmei's eyes widened. Although her mother-in-law didn't like her and the maids, she was really good to her husband. Why did she beat him
Han Ze sat on the stool, clenched his fists, and said, "Hongmei, we don't have a son. Everyone looks down on me, even my mother. Even so, I don't plan to adopt the second and third sons. After all, I don't have a son. Although my nephews are ignorant, I can't harm them. From what happened today, I clearly understand that it is not reliable to rely on a few nephews to support me in my old age. From now on, I will only treat them as nephews, and I will no longer love them as sons..."
At the end of his speech, there was a look of self-mockery on his face, the kind of self-mockery that came from being hurt by his family.
Although Wu Hongmei was not very knowledgeable, she knew that human hearts were hard to predict and the sea was immeasurable. She did not think that her nephew would provide for them in their old age, but she did not give birth to a son, so she had no confidence. Whatever the man said was what it was, and she could not, nor did she dare, refute it.
Now the man cannot argue with the second and third sons, and does not expect them to support him in his old age. She is happy in her heart. After all, if she does not expect them to support her in her old age, she will not let the daughters in the family suffer and will not have to please the nephews unconditionally.
Han Ze continued, "Although our children are girls, they are filial and sensible. They will be our support in the future, so you, as a mother, must stand up and protect them. We, as parents, cannot protect our own children, so who else can we expect to protect them?"
Wu Hongmei's eyes were slightly red. She also wanted to protect her children. Her children were all girls and were not valued in this family. What could she do
Han Ze knew what she was thinking and said in a blaming way, "You two younger siblings know how to sit there and play, but you just came out of confinement and have a baby to feed, why don't you know how to be lazy?"
Wu Hongmei looked at Han Ze blankly. It turns out that she could be lazy
Han Ze continued, "You are the children's mother. No matter when and in front of anyone, you should protect them and prevent them from getting hurt. This is your responsibility as a mother. You must always remember that nothing is more important than your children.
"Nothing is more important than children?" Wu Hongmei repeated in a daze.
"Yes, they are your children. What do you think is more important than them?" Han Ze said with a smile, patiently teaching her: "Just like today when they asked you to cook, you could have just said you had to take care of the children to get rid of them. With you taking care of the children, how could the fifth girl be scratched by two brats? You blame the third girl instead."
Wu Hongmei looked at her sobbing third daughter and felt guilty for the first time. The man was right. The child came out of her belly. How could it be more important than them? It was her fault. She wiped her face and said, "I always cook for my third brother and the child's aunts. It's not good to stop cooking all of a sudden. It will hurt the relationship."
Han Ze said calmly: "There's nothing wrong with that. Even if you treat them like ancestors, it's not as good as your brothers and sisters giving birth to a son for mother to like."
In Mrs. Han's mind, not being able to give birth to a son is a sin. No matter how good you are, they are not as good as a grandson.
Wu Hongmei: “…”
Han Ze smiled and gave Wu Hongmei enough confidence: "It's not your fault that you can't give birth to a son. It's my fate to be sonless. I've brought you trouble. You don't have to feel inferior in front of your younger brothers and sisters. If you don't have a son, then you don't have a son. I can make money with my skills and give you and your mother a rich life. In this respect, you are better than them."
Wu Hongmei was used to hearing the man say that he was destined to have no sons. She was not surprised. Thinking of the thick stack of savings at home, she felt relieved. The man was right. Even if her two younger siblings had more sons, the second and third sons could not earn tens of thousands of yuan in more than a month. A woman still had to rely on a man. No matter how many sons she had, when they got married in the future, the money she earned would not belong to her.
Han Ze suddenly said, "So I decided that we should go to your mother's house tomorrow to bring the fourth girl back."
Wu Hongmei's eyes were red, and she nodded: "Okay."
Even if the child was given to her eldest brother, she would still feel bad. After all, she knew her eldest sister-in-law's character. The child in her eldest brother's house was not necessarily better than in other families. She could only see him more often. The man was willing to take her daughter back. What else could she be dissatisfied with
She felt that it was a good thing that her mother-in-law beat her husband today. After all, after her husband was beaten by her mother-in-law, the usually honest and filial man seemed to have a grudge against her mother-in-law. That beating also made the man completely give up his unprincipled dedication to his family.
Thinking that she would no longer have to worry about her brothers and sisters-in-law’s faces, or watch her nephews bully her children without doing anything, she felt a little excited.
... ...
There was no market today, so Han Ze didn't have to go to town to set up a stall to sell noodles. After breakfast, he drove his family's tractor, caught a chicken, a few bottles of wine, and a few pounds of meat and put them in the tractor carriage, then drove to his mother-in-law's house with his wife and a few maids.
Wu Hongmei's parents kept talking about their eldest daughter coming out of confinement, but they never came home to check on her. They didn't know how she was doing during the confinement period, and they didn't know whether the fifth daughter was given away by Mrs. Han. If so, to which family, and what the situation was like...
Speak of the devil and he will appear. We were still talking about them in the morning, and in the morning they drove their tractor and came as a whole family.
Mother Wu was very happy. She pulled her daughter to look at her worriedly and said with a smile, "She has become fatter and whiter. It seems that she has done a good job in this confinement period."
When Wu Hongmei heard her mother's words, she smiled and glanced at her husband. This was all thanks to her husband. When Wu's mother saw her daughter looking at her son-in-law, she looked at Han Ze and found the swaddling clothes in his arms. She asked hesitantly, "Is this... the fifth girl?"
After returning to her parents' home, Wu Hongmei smiled and said, "Yes, mother, look how pretty she is. She used to be less than five pounds, but now she is plump and well-behaved."
Mother Wu was a little surprised. Her daughter gave birth to another girl this time, but Granny Han didn't give her away? She looked at her daughter and saw that she was just smiling. She thought about asking her in private later.
Han Ze asked Han Yao to take the things out of the car, and said to Wu's mother with a smile: "Mom, kill the chicken and stew it into soup. Hongmei drinks soup every day now." Only by drinking soup can you produce milk.
Mother Wu was even more surprised. How could her son-in-law not only treat Hongmei better than before because she gave birth to a girl, but also improve her salary? Could it be that she remembered it wrongly and Hongmei actually gave birth to a boy
Wu Hongmei saw her mother in a daze and couldn't help but call out, "Mom, what's wrong?"
Mother Wu came to her senses and said uncomfortably, "It's okay."
After saying that, he looked at Han Yao and the other sisters and said, "It's vacation time now. Zhaodi should be graduating from elementary school. Do you plan to continue studying?"
When her daughter gave birth to her child, she went to her daughter's house. She seemed to hear Mrs. Han muttering that Zhaodi had graduated, no longer had to study, and could come back to help with housework.
Wu Hongmei said stubbornly, "Of course she will. Her father said that as long as she wants to study, he will support her even if he has to sell everything he has. The children also changed their names. Zhaodi changed to Han Yao, Er Yatou changed to Han Min, and San Yatou changed to Han Jin."
Han Yao's eyes lit up when she heard her mother's words. She wanted to go to college very much. She checked the answers in yesterday's exam from primary school to junior high school. Except for the composition, for which she didn't know the score, she got everything else right. There would be no problem for her to be admitted to the experimental class of Shuangji Middle School. She believed that she would have no problem getting into high school and college in the future and would definitely be admitted.
Mother Wu looked at Han Ze in surprise. Did her son-in-law take the wrong medicine? He didn't listen to his mother in everything? He even changed the children's names. Wouldn't Mrs. Han make a fuss