Old Mrs. Zhang was also outside watching the fun. She and Zhang Yubing's wife stood together, chatting with each other. Xu Manqiu was also next to them, with flour on her face.
Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei went in and asked them, "What are you doing?"
"Su Jianing brought Lu Xiangqian back. Before they even had time to sit down, the Lu family came with people, demanding compensation from Lu Xiangqian." Zhang Yubing's wife showed contempt.
"Most of Lu Xiangqian's salary was taken away by them, forcing Su Jianing and his children to borrow food. Now that he is paralyzed, they still want the compensation. Tell me, is this something a human being would do?"
Mrs. Zhang said, "If I hadn't been the one who delivered Lu Xiangqian when he was born, I would have thought that Lu Xiangqian came out of someone else's belly."
When Old Mrs. Zhang was young, she was a midwife. It is only now that she is old that she no longer does this job.
"No human being would do such a thing." Jiang Youtao echoed and looked towards the center of the crowd.
Su Jianing's proposal was naturally not recognized by the Lu family. Lu Xiangqian's mother Du Erniu put her hands on her waist and said, "Listen, listen, my son just became disabled, and Su Jianing couldn't wait to kick him out. Who would dare to marry a daughter-in-law like this?"
Du Erniu said it better than she sang: "I've known for a long time that she is a cunning person, so she told me to take my son's compensation money and I'll give them some money every month. Otherwise, the money will be in Su Jianing's hands, and I don't know which wild man will end up with it."
Du Erniu spoke with great righteousness, and if the people who came to watch the fun were not neighbors who had lived with the Lu family for decades, people would have believed it.
Zhang Yubing's wife was the most outspoken, and she raised her voice on the spot: "Oh, that's a nice thing to say, Aunt Du, since you are so worried about your son and grandchildren being in Su Jianing's hands, why don't you take your son back? And what Su Jianing said is right, you took all the money, and want her to take care of your son and grandchildren, do you want her to be starve to death?"
"That's right, I also think Su Jianing's suggestion is good."
"Yes, yes, yes."
"Why don't you just get a divorce? That way you can take care of your son. You are not confident about Su Jianing, but you should be confident about yourself, right?"
There were so many onlookers speaking in agreement with Su Jianing that Du Erniu could no longer hide the sadness and resentment on her face.
Su Jianing looked at the people who spoke for her, and her heart relaxed and warmed.
When she first traveled through time, she was still in a daze. The Lu family also came to her house to ask for compensation, but that was two weeks later. After all, at that time, she didn't dare to let Lu Xiangqian be discharged from the hospital so early.
After all, he is disabled, who knows what problems will arise later?
This time it was different. In order to get Lu Xiangqian discharged from the hospital early, she cried and begged in front of the doctor. Finally, the doctor relented and helped her.
In order to establish a good reputation for herself when she came back, she hired a tricycle to send Lu Xiangqian back.
Just like what she told Jiang Youtao yesterday, she would never let Lu Xiangqian die in her lifetime without torturing this scum Lu Xiangqian completely. As for whether being discharged early with a tricycle and moving around would worsen his wounds.
It's so funny. Whether his condition gets worse or he feels pain or not, what does it have to do with her? The pain isn't on her body anyway.
Su Jianing was not worried at all that Du Erniu would ask her to divorce Lu Xiangqian. After all, Du Erniu's family was selfish and they only wanted money. They even complained behind Lu Xiangqian's back about why he didn't just die in a car accident. This way, the compensation would be a little more.
It is better to hope that the little fool in the commune will suddenly come to his senses than to expect them to take care of Lu Xiangqian.
Sure enough, Du Erniu was unhappy: "What does it have to do with you? It is said that it is better to destroy a temple than to ruin a marriage. Why are you still trying to get my son and my daughter-in-law to divorce? You have bad intentions."
"How can you be so mean?" Du Erniu pointed at them and jumped up and down.
Su Jianing picked up a big stick and beat Du Erniu out: "Get out of here now, or I will beat you every time I see you."
Du Erniu was not prepared for Su Jianing's sudden attack and was hit by the broom twice. She ran out of the yard in pain: "Look, look, the daughter-in-law hit the mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law hit the mother-in-law."
Su Jianing held the broom across his body and said, "I'm going to hit you. So what? If you don't agree, call the police to arrest me. Now you have two choices. Either you take the money and take your eldest son and grandchildren away, or you shut your mouth and don't say a word to me."
"My kitchen knife is not at home today. If my kitchen knife was at home, I would have made you go out with some injuries today. If you don't believe me, you can try it." Su Jianing had killed Lu Xiangqian many times, and there was a murderous look in her eyes. Du Erniu was frightened, and she couldn't say the slanderous words that were about to come out of her mouth.
She was a person who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. The reason why she dared to be so arrogant in Lu Xiangqian's house was because Lu Xiangqian wanted to get the approval of her mother. She had used this method to get a lot of money out of Lu Xiangqian before. After knowing that Lu Xiangqian was paralyzed, she wanted to ask for Lu Xiangqian's compensation.
Anyway, this is what he, as a son, owes her. When she gave birth to Lu Xiangqian, she had a heavy hemorrhage and almost lost her life. She struggled to give birth to him, and didn't give birth to the second child until he was five or six years old. How much grievances did she suffer during those years when she didn't give birth to the second child.
A life plus so many grievances, and she just asked him for some money, what's wrong?!
Su Jianing has a very stubborn temper and is completely controlled by Lu Xiangqian. Du Erniu used to come to Lu Xiangqian's house whenever she had nothing to do and she would take whatever she liked.
She never went out empty-handed, and even when she took Su Jianing's dowry, she didn't dare to say a word.
This was the first time that Du Erniu was kicked out like this. No one sympathized with her angry accusations. Instead, a few people who disliked her laughed out loud.
Du Erniu pointed at Su Jianing and said, "You are disrespectful to your mother-in-law. Just wait, I will let Xiang Qian divorce you."
These are what Du Erniu often said to Su Jianing. At this moment, Du Erniu even forgot that Lu Xiangqian had become a cripple.
"Okay, your son is disabled and is lying in there. Go quickly. I'd love to see you there."
Du Erniu's face turned pale and blue, and she walked away dejectedly amid the laughter of people around her.
Among the onlookers, some who had a good relationship with Su Jianing comforted her with a few words.
Su Jianing had already figured out how to live her life from now on.
In the life after she traveled through time, she was like a fool, and was forced by someone she didn't know what to do to do a lot of stupid things. Her reputation was actually not very good.
In the eyes of Lu Xiangqian, she is a wife who controls him extremely strictly and does not give him any private space.
In the eyes of her two children, she is just a bad mother who only cares about grades, and she is not as gentle and considerate as other mothers.
Her request that they study hard eventually became a sword for them to accuse her.
In this life, Su Jianing is clear-headed. Since she had a bad reputation before, she will try her best to keep a good reputation now.
A good wife and a good mother, right? Give them everything.
She wanted to see what kind of life those two elite children from the previous life would live without her encouragement. She didn't plan to raise those two ungrateful people herself in this life. Since the original owner had abandoned them to the original owner's parents before escaping, they would continue to live in the original owner's parents' home.
She just gave a little money every month as child support. Don't they like to be left alone? This just happened to be what they wanted.
Su Jianing took the kitchen knife that Jiang Youtao handed to her, put it back in the kitchen, and then went back to the house.
Lu Xiangqian was lying on the kang with the familiar towel stuffed in his mouth.
Su Jianing walked up to him and said, "Why are you staring so hard? Do you want to give your compensation money to your mother? I didn't say I wouldn't give it to her, I just wanted her to take care of you, but you heard it yourself, she's not happy about it. So what can I do?"
"Do you want to scold me?" Su Jianing felt that she was so stupid when she just traveled through time. Lu Xiangqian was indeed good-looking.
He has a nose and eyes, but compared with the men in the entertainment industry in later generations, he is too ordinary.
Why did she think she was handsome in her previous life? Was she blind?
She really want to go back in time and donate her brain and eyes to people in need.
"Don't worry about it. I won't take off your towel. Now I feel sick when I hear what you say."
"Sure enough, the great man is right. This man can only be put on the wall to make people worry-free." Su Jianing took out a pair of very sharp scissors from the kang and gestured at Lu Xiangqian's face and body: "You tell me, or I'll be cruel and let you hang on the wall."
Su Jianing's words were particularly gentle and calm, but it was this emotion that made Lu Xiangqian even more scared, just like yesterday, when he opened his eyes and saw Su Jianing chopping towards him with a kitchen knife.
Lu Xiangqian wet his pants.
From last night till now, she had paid two or three cents to have someone change Lu Xiangqian's clothes in the hospital to change them. Now, looking at Lu Xiangqian's wet trouser pocket, she gave him some friendly suggestions.
"I heard that father-in-law in the past could control his own peeing, but you can't even control your peeing and shitting. You're worse than your father. How about I cut it off for you? You won't be able to use it for the rest of your life anyway."
Su Jianing pointed the scissors at Lu Xiangqian's vitals. Lu Xiangqian cried in anxiety and tears came down.
Lu Xiangqian really couldn't understand why his submissive wife became like this after he fell ill. He saw Su Jianing when he was driving a sports car with his master.
He thought Su Jianing was very beautiful at that time, so he asked about her family background and easily married her. After marriage, her personality was exactly the same as the rumors said, gentle, family-oriented, and without temper, and he could do whatever he wanted with her.
He gave all the money to his parents and she didn't say a word. When the family ran out of food, she went back to her parents' home to borrow money. It was really a relief for him.
If he had known that Su Jianing would be in this situation after the accident, he would never have married her.
Su Jianing didn't care what Lu Xiangqian thought, she was unbuckling his belt. She really thought it would be better for Lu Xiangqian to be castrated. In the life she just traveled back to, she was sent to a mental hospital and found out that Lu Xiangqian was looking for women outside because his dog coin was just right in his legs.
No wonder people in ancient times called this thing the root of evil. Since it carries the connotation of evil, it must be bad and should be cut off and thrown away.
Just like how Lu Xiangqian abandoned himself without hesitation.
There was a knock on the door. Su Jianing showed regret on her face. She picked up the scissors and put them where Lu Xiangqian couldn't reach. Although it was a little difficult for him to do anything to her with his useless body, she had to develop the habit from the beginning, otherwise one day she would kill herself if she was not careful enough.
Just like the life she just traveled through, if she had been more careful, how could Lu Xiangqian's little actions have been hidden from her?
She really traveled through time and forgot to bring her brain.
Su Jianing opened the door and went outside. It was Old Lady Zhang who came to bring food to Su Jianing: "You just came back, so you must not have put everything away. This is not a good dish. You can keep it and eat it."
Su Jianing swallowed her saliva. When she was in the mental hospital, she often couldn't eat, which caused her to feel hungry reflexively when she saw food.
She still accepted Mrs. Zhang's craftsmanship. She needed this warmth so much to fill her desolate and dark heart.
"Thank you, Auntie." Old Mrs. Zhang's family is of a younger generation. She is about twenty years older than Du Erniu, but they are of the same generation.
"Why are you so polite, kid? We are from the same village, why are you talking like that?" Mrs. Zhang said, and then she looked into the house: "I heard you talking to Xiang Qian in the house, what did he say?"
Su Jianing wiped her eyes, lowered her head, and sighed: "He just became disabled. He couldn't accept the gap in his heart for a while, and he got angry inside."
Old lady Zhang thinks of others in her own way. When she got old, her teeth couldn't bite anymore, and she was angry for several days because of this. Lu Xiangqian must be feeling even worse now that he is disabled. It's normal for him to lose his temper.
"Good girl, I'm sorry for your hardship. If you have any problems in the future, come to my house and tell me."
Su Jianing nodded and said she understood. Old Mrs. Zhang had gone out, and before she even got home, the news of Lu Xiangqian's violent temper after he became disabled spread all over Xingfu Lane.
Jiang Youtao also came to bring food to Su Jianing. What she brought was stir-fried king crab meat with chili peppers and green onions. In order to stir-fry this dish of crab meat, she used all the small green onions that she grew on the kang in the house.
Su Jianing hadn't eaten crabs for a long time, and she was a little stunned.
Jiang Youtao said: "This is what my family sent me. It's not much. Please don't despise it."
Su Jianing shook her head: "I don't mind, I don't mind, thank you, thank you."
Su Jianing hadn't eaten crabs for a long time. The food in the mental hospital where she was staying was extremely poor. Every day they had cabbage stewed with Chinese cabbage, fried carrots with white radish, and fried onions with green onions.
Jiang Youtao went back, and after walking a few steps, she ran back to tell Su Jianing, "You must remember that we don't need to sacrifice ourselves just for one or two bad guys."
Su Jianing said she remembered it.
She took the dishes back to the kitchen, then took out a black steamed bun and a teacup of water from the cupboard.
You scumbag, you only deserve to eat this.