Seeing her husband like this, Madam Chen didn't feel good either. She could only pat her husband on the shoulder, trying to ease his sadness.
Father Chen lowered his head and fought back his tears. He had always known that his mother hated him, but he couldn't do anything about it.
He had always tried his best to be filial to his mother, hoping that she would believe that he wasn't the person who would jinx her according to the fortune-teller.
He and his wife had worked hard for so many years, from the time they got married until now, when their two children had grown up. But his mother still hated him, still thought that he would jinx her, and even wanted to strangle him.
All his persistence was meaningless in the face of his mother's stubbornness.
Father Chen moved his lips and said to Madam Chen, "I'll think about building a house."
Father Chen and Madam Chen had saved enough money. In fact, when they came back this time, they had thought about replacing the mud house with a brick house.
But Grandma Chen's sudden words dispelled all of Father Chen's thoughts.
If the house in the back was replaced, the front would naturally be replaced as well, and his two children would naturally have to stay here for many years.
Since his mother hated him so much, would she take good care of his children if she hated him?
Father Chen used to think that even a vicious tiger wouldn't eat its cubs. But now, he had warmed his mother's heart for more than ten years, but it still hadn't warmed up. He began to wonder if his mother's heart could be warmed up.
Madam Chen couldn't say anything about the matter between her son and his mother. After all, they were mother and son. If she said too much, it would be bad.
Father Chen was so angry that he slowly walked to the back of the house after calming down. He lay down on the kang to rest, with Jiujiu and Chen Chen next to him.
Chen Chen was young and didn't think about anything. After eating and drinking to her heart's content, she lay down on the kang and soon fell asleep.
Jiujiu thought for a while, sat up from the bed, and said to Father and Madam Chen, "Dad, Mom, I don't want to be with Grandma."
Father Chen was angry because of Grandma Chen's words. Hearing his daughter's sudden words, he was stunned and asked, "Why don't you want to be with Grandma?"
After Father Chen asked the question, his eyelids twitched uncontrollably. He subconsciously felt that his daughter's words definitely had something to do with what her mother had just said.
Jiujiu pursed her lips. She carefully looked at Mother Chen, then lowered her head and said, "Grandma told me every day that my parents are bad people. She told me not to be filial to you when I grow up. I don't want to be with Grandma. My parents are good people. I want to be filial to my parents."
At Jiujiu's words, Father Chen's and Madam Chen's faces instantly changed.
Father Chen, in particular, was as pale as a sheet of paper and his lips trembled uncontrollably. It was a long time before he blinked and two streams of tears fell from his eyes.
He knew that his mother hated him, but he didn't expect her to hate him to such an extent that she would teach his child such words!
Madam Chen already felt that there was something wrong with Grandma Chen. Now that she heard what Jiujiu said, her face darkened.
It was already ridiculous enough for a mother to hate her son because of a fortune-teller's words. In the end, not only did she hate her son because of the fortune-teller's words, but she also instilled in her son that he should not be filial to his parents in the future.
How could there be parents like this in the world?
Madam Chen looked at Father Chen and said, "I know you want to be filial to your mother. Chen, let me tell you, if you let your mother raise the children again, they'll be ruined."
Father Chen had only been angry for a moment, but after hearing what Jiujiu said, he straightaway stood up. "I'll think of something."
Holding back his anger, Father Chen went out without sleeping. Madam Chen hugged Jiujiu and asked in a low voice, "What else did your grandma say to you?"
Jiujiu thought for a moment, then said, "She said that you and my dad aren't good people and are especially bad to her. When you and my dad come back, she told me and Chenchen to ignore you and piss you off."
She and Father Chen weren't good people?
What a joke. Her eldest son was rich, but he was so stingy that he wouldn't give her a single cent.
As long as her eldest daughter was full, she didn't care about anything. She was lucky that she didn't ask her for anything.
Her youngest daughter was filial, but with so many children at home, she didn't even have enough to eat, let alone take care of her. Every year, Madam Chen had to subsidize her youngest daughter out of her own pocket.
She had paid for Grandma Chen's cataract surgery, otherwise she would have been blind long ago.
She knew that Grandma Chen didn't like her and her husband, so she and her husband did their best not to stay at home. She and her husband worked hard outside and paid on time every month in the hope that Grandma Chen would treat the two children a little better on account of them being her biological grandchildren.
But she never thought that Grandma Chen would actually treat the two children like this.
Madam Chen's heart hardened little by little.
Since she couldn't stay at home anymore, she might as well leave.
Father Chen didn't return home until two days later. When he got home, he told his wife the good news.
"I found a house in the county. It costs thirty thousand yuan. As long as you give me the money, I'll transfer the ownership right away." After saying this, Father Chen said to Madam Chen a little embarrassedly, "The house is a little run-down. If we buy this house, it'll be years before we can build a new one."
He had wanted to give his wife and children a good life, but in the end, it was all because of him that his wife and children were in trouble. Father Chen felt very guilty.
Jiujiu's words completely chilled Madam Chen's heart, and she said directly, "It doesn't matter if the house is a little run-down, as long as we can take good care of the children."
Father Chen and Madam Chen discussed it, and the two of them immediately went to look at the house.
Madam Chen looked at it. Although the house was a little run-down, it could still be lived in. Moreover, it was relatively close to the county school, only five hundred meters away. It would be convenient for the two children to go to school in the future.
If the house was run-down, they could continue to live in it, but if their hearts were broken, then it would really be over.
Madam Chen nodded, and Father Chen directly made the deal with the other party.
On the day of school, Father Chen and Madam Chen directly took Jiujiu and Chen Chen to the county primary school to register.
After the registration, Father Chen and Madam Chen directly put the two children in the new house, locked the door, and directly called a car to go to their old home to pick up their things.
It was only then that Grandma Chen and Grandpa Chen realized that their son and daughter-in-law had actually done such a big thing without a word.
Grandma Chen was instantly dumbfounded. When she came back to her senses, she immediately sat down in front of the furniture and cried. She pointed at Father Chen's face and scolded, "Your father and I are still alive, and you want to split up the family assets? How can there be such a rebellious son in this world?"
Father Chen's call for a car to move the things had already caused quite a stir, and with Grandma Chen's shout, half of the village had come over to watch the show.
If it had been before, Father Chen would definitely have admitted his mistake. However, when he thought of what he had heard with his own ears and what his daughter had said, his heart instantly turned as hard as iron.
Grandma Chen had been acting all along, and had been waiting for Father Chen to help her up. In the end, Father Chen stiffened and didn't move an inch. It wasn't until she stopped speaking that Father Chen opened his mouth. "I've never seen a mother who hates her son as much as you do. I admit that you hate me because of what the fortune-teller said, but why did you say that in front of my children? Is this something a grandmother like you should say? "
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