Liu Shichu took Cui Jinrong out to play for several days before Wen Rumin came back from her parents' home and went to Liu's house to pick up her son.
"Have you finished your mother's family affairs?" Liu Shichu asked, looking at his daughter-in-law's face which seemed a little haggard.
"I'm done. My mother has been sick for a few days, so I went back to see her." Wen Rumin smiled and replied, then stretched out her hands in front of Cui Jinrong, wanting to hug him.
When he saw his mother, little Jinrong danced with joy and couldn't wait to lean over to be hugged by his mother.
"Is she feeling better now? If not, you can stay at her parents' home for a few more days to accompany your mother." Liu Shichu said. In that era, women could not return to their parents' home casually after getting married, so they could only see their family members a few times a year.
"My mother is much better. The doctor said that she will recover as long as she rests well. I have lived in my mother's house for a long time. It is time to come back. Besides, I am not sure if my husband, a grown man, can take care of Jinrong." Wen Rumin said embarrassedly, "I didn't expect that he would be so smart and bring Jinrong here for you to take care of. I am sorry for the trouble."
"Why should I be so tired? I'm not old, and it's easy for me to take care of a child." Liu Shichu said while pinching Cui Jinrong's chubby face. The little guy forgot about his mother as soon as he saw her.
Little Jinrong was giggling and hiding from her hand. He was so lively that Wen Rumin could hardly hold him.
"Oh, by the way, mother, my father went back to the border a few days ago, and my grandmother suddenly asked me to be the housekeeper - to take care of her and the new wife. I refused." Wen Rumin looked at Liu Shichu's face cautiously, and saw that she was teasing her son and had no reaction to the word "new wife", so she breathed a sigh of relief and continued,
"My grandmother said that the new wife was very tired from being pregnant and didn't have the energy to manage the household affairs. She was also old and had never managed a household before, so they wanted to find someone to help them."
Liu Shichu sneered, "You refused well, but you can't be so foolish as to get involved in the new wife's affairs. You have separated your families now. If you interfere in their affairs again, then the previous separation will be in vain. I don't know how much trouble it will cause. Before the divorce, I did everything I could to make you separate your families and be the masters of your own families, just to avoid trouble."
Wen Rumin quickly shook her head: "I know your painstaking efforts, mother, and I will naturally not interfere in their affairs. Even if the new lady and grandmother cannot manage the household themselves, they have their confidants who can help manage the affairs."
Then she suddenly smiled bitterly and said, "After I declined, my grandmother was a little angry. She said that we were unfilial and refused to do anything the elders asked us to do. She said that I watched these two weak women with no one to rely on and did not help them. I was heartless and ungrateful. She also scolded my husband..."
When Liu Shichu heard this, he immediately became angry: "How dare she teach you a lesson? I think their lives are too easy, how dare they teach you a lesson? I will personally go to their house and scold them. I am not afraid of my reputation."
Seeing how angry she was, Wen Rumin quickly advised her, "Don't worry too much, mother. When grandma lectured us, no one was around, and her words didn't spread outside, so it wouldn't affect our reputation. If you go to their house and scold them in person, it would make us look petty and come to you to complain."
"You are my son and daughter-in-law. Isn't it normal for you to come to me to complain? The child I raised with great effort is not the one to be taught and ordered around by them." Liu Shichu said with a cold face.
"But I'm afraid the new wife will write to father about this. Father dotes on the new wife very much. If you go to his house and scold her, I don't know what father will do..." Wen Rumin said worriedly.
When Liu Shichu thought of Cui Anhua's love-brained personality, the anger in her heart subsided a little. She was not afraid of meeting smart people, but she was afraid of meeting people whose thinking circuits were different from others, because such people would do unpredictable things and could suddenly give you a bomb in an unexpected place, catching you off guard.
Cui Anhua is such a confused person. Once he meets his true love Jiang Wenyue, who knows what he can do
Although Liu Shichu was not afraid of trouble, he did not want to invite trouble, so he gave up the idea of going to the door to scold them in person, but said: "I will write a letter to Cui Ying's grandmother to scold them, to save their face."
Seeing the determination in her eyes, Wen Rumin swallowed his words of persuasion.
After sending his daughter-in-law and grandson away, Liu Shichu really went back to his room and wrote a letter to Cui's mother, scolding her for being confused, saying that Cui Ying had been separated, but she still let Wen Shi take care of their affairs, which was just to create chaos in the world. He also asked Cui's mother to be careful and not to vent her anger on Cui Ying and Wen Shi for no reason, because they were the next generation of the Cui family and she could not let her scold them.
Liu Shichu didn't know how Cui's mother reacted after reading the letter, but she knew that Cui's mother was a weak, indecisive, and timid woman. After seeing her letter, she would definitely not dare to scold Cui Ying and others for being unfilial, heartless, and ungrateful.
When Cui's mother heard that Liu Shichu had written a letter to her, she thought that Liu Shichu regretted the divorce and wrote to her to complain.
"Liu is so old now, how can she have a good life after the divorce? She even wrote me a letter, she must be regretting it, but it's too late to regret now. Who made her so strong in the first place, and she forcibly broke up a good family and insisted on dividing the family. I don't think she will get anything good..."
Mother Cui said to her trusted nanny with some pride that when Liu Shichu was the mistress of the Cui family, she was the one who made all the decisions on the family affairs. She was so powerful that even she, as the mother-in-law, had to obey her in front of Liu Shichu.
Therefore, at this moment, Cui's mother felt happy when she thought that Liu Shichu might regret it and write a letter to her to admit his mistake.
"The old lady is right. Liu must have regretted her decision and that's why she asked you for mercy. It's too late now." The trusted nanny agreed with her master with a smile.
Cui's mother couldn't wait to open the letter and read it. As she read on, her face began to look ugly, turning blue and white. By the end, she had wrinkled the letter paper into pieces.
"This Liu! I'm so angry. She even dared to call me old and confused..." Cui's mother was so angry that her face was purple. "Does she still take me, her elder, seriously?"
Although Cui's mother had a weak character, she couldn't help but get angry when she saw Liu Shichu's letter.
"What? Liu dared to scold you? How could she be so bold? Although she and the master have divorced, she is still the mother of Young Master Ying, and you are Young Master Ying's grandmother. How could she disrespect you as an elder?" Mo Mo, the confidant, immediately followed Cui's mother and stood up, indignantly accusing Liu Shichu together with Cui's mother.
"She even dared to warn me not to care about Cui Ying and the others..." Cui's mother said, clutching her chest, "Cui Ying is my grandson, so what if I care about him? Shouldn't I care about him? I just asked his wife to help a little, and Liu came to slap me in the face like this. She really doesn't take me seriously at all."