The eldest son knelt and admitted his mistake, and Chen Suozhu looked at Li Min beside him.
"Hmph!" Li Min stepped back, sat on the dining chair, and looked at her kneeling eldest son:
"Chen Fu, I have decided. The storefront at Wenquan Valley Scenic Area will be taken back. It's time to pay the land deed, and it's written under your father's name."
"I'll also learn from Brother Niu and rent out the storefront. If you and Hua'er still want to continue running this store, I'll rent it to Hua'er, and she'll manage all the income."
"The saying that men change when they have money is not wrong, so it's most appropriate to keep the money in women's hands."
Saying that, Li Min looked at her eldest daughter-in-law at the kitchen door: "Hua'er, I'll be upfront with you too. The income from the storefront will be managed by you, but it's not for you to squander arbitrarily."
"You have three sons, and you need to consider the future of your three sons."
"I suggest you divide the profits into three parts, and save one part under each child's name, impartially."
"When the three of them grow up, there will be enough dowry for the three sons' wives."
"If you can't control your man, you must control your man's money, so it's not spent on other women."
"However, if you take the money and your intentions change, I'm sorry, I'll take back the storefront."
"The money of my Chen family cannot be spent by other women, nor by other men, only by the descendants of my Chen family."
"The money my husband and I have is none of your business. Just like your reckless behavior, my money might not even be given to the three grandchildren Ji Qing, Ji Nian, and Ji Yang. I'll give it to whoever I please."
"Thump."
Lin Hua'er knelt down beside Chen Fu: "Mother, I will definitely not disappoint your expectations. I will bring you the profits from the storefront, and you can help me save it for the three children."
"I'm not managing this," Li Min refused. "The three children are your sons. I can help take care of them and urge their parents to save money for them. I won't do anything extra, and I won't take on extra work."
"As for whether you can meet my requirements, we'll see in the future. Boasting now is useless."
Lin Hua'er nodded: "Okay, I will work hard for my three sons."
"Hmm," Li Min replied faintly. "You can get up."
After Lin Hua'er stood up, she coaxed the two sons in Chen Fu's arms away.
Chen Fu looked at his mother: "Mother, I..."
Li Min's gaze at her eldest son became calm and stern: "Chen Fu, I heard that you have repeatedly planned to let that woman go?"
Chen Fu flinched: "I, I just think one should be forgiving when possible."
Li Min's eyes were full of disappointment: "I also heard that you took a step back to avoid the responsibility of unlawful detention?"
Chen Fu lowered his head.
Li Min suddenly stood up and slapped him across the face repeatedly:
"You're not afraid when you go up to women, but you flinch when asked to tie up a suspicious person?"
"I never knew that the son I raised was a coward, a bully at home."
"Your father seems like an invisible person, but he's never been cowardly. Your maternal uncle seems to be controlled by your maternal aunt, but your maternal uncle has never done anything cowardly either."
"You're amazing. You not only dare to hit your wife, but you also dare to go after other women, and you dare to retreat when others stand up for you."
"Not only have you disgraced the backbone of the Chen family, but you've also lost the face of the Li family. I wish I had drowned you in the chamber pot back then."
"You cowardly good-for-nothing!"
Chen Fu didn't dodge, letting his mother slap him.
Everyone in the living room watched Li Min vent quietly. The anger was even more surging than yesterday.
When her mother-in-law rushed at her husband, Lin Hua'er turned her two sons away.
Li Min, tired from slapping, put her hands on her hips and panted: "Chen Fu, no matter what that woman's intentions are, her targeting you is enough to show your weakness."
"But your weakness is your own choice. You wanted to drop out of school, and I chased you around the village with a broom. You yelled at me that you couldn't study, and you even had your grandmother protect you."
"Hua'er is also the wife you chose, and now you're changing your attitude towards her."
"Even that woman knows you're insecure, but your insecurity is self-inflicted."
"You're not satisfied with your marriage, which is also self-inflicted. No one will pity you!"
"You don't want to make up for it while you're young, you don't want to change while you have the energy, you just want to find excitement in regret."
"Fine! I'll give you some excitement."
Saying that, Li Min rushed into the kitchen again and quickly came out with a rolling pin: wΑp.kanshu伍.net
"I'll beat you more than a dozen times a day, is that enough excitement?"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The rolling pin hit Chen Fu's back with a thud.
Chen Fu gritted his teeth and endured.
"That's enough," Tian Jing stepped forward and snatched the rolling pin. "You've forgotten what I just said."
"You never beat him properly since you were young. Is it useful to beat him now?"
Li Min, with her beating tool taken away, was so angry that she sat back on the dining chair:
"Little sister-in-law, I'm not reconciled! I've put a lot of effort into him. An An wasn't as worrisome as he is."
"It seems like he doesn't say anything, and he seems to listen to us, but in the two major events of his life, did he listen to us in either one?"
"He didn't want to study, I accepted it. He married Hua'er, I accepted it. He had children, and I raised them. What more should I do for him as a mother?"
"My younger brother became the county magistrate. I had to be careful even when speaking in Kushan. I told him when I left, saying I was going out to hide."
"That Tong Xinhua was arrested after the New Year. Vice-county magistrate Tong was removed from his post. The whole county knew about it. How could he not know?"
"Why did he still dare to contact that woman? Why did he still give that woman a chance to get close to him?"
"It's because of his vanity, and more because he knew we had his back!"
"I actually raised a troublemaker. If I don't beat him to death, I'll suffocate myself!"
Li Min roared and shed tears: "My mother beat me for thirty years, and I never understood. Now I understand, but I don't want to beat him for thirty years, I just want to beat him to death in one go."
For a moment, only Li Min's crying could be heard in the living room.
Chen Fu's ears echoed with his mother's words, each sentence hitting his heart.
Scene after scene of the past, he really seemed to have been acting up, although not as obvious as his mother.
Mother Li carried her great-granddaughter out of the room: "Alright, I've beaten you for thirty years, and it's finally paid off."
"From now on, you'll stay by his side and watch him closely. Who told you you're his mother?"
"Mother~" Li Min was displeased. "You're trying to smooth things over again."
"Not at all," Mother Li shook her head and denied it. "Teaching a failed descendant is a great and long-term project. Whether you're willing or not, you have to take it on."
"Hurry up and start making lunch. Lili, Shi, and the others will be back for dinner soon."
Ouyang Meihua quickly got up: "I'll do it. Let Li Min rest. She's really angry this time."
Li Liguo followed his wife into the kitchen.
Chen Suozhu sighed: "Get up, Xiao Fu. Your maternal grandmother is right. Since your mother and I have nothing to do, following you around and watching you every day is also a way to pass the time."
Chen Fu lifted one leg, about to get up.
Li Min blew her nose: "Alright, since we have nothing to do, let's beat the child."
"Bang!"
The leg Chen Fu had lifted weakened, and he knelt down again.