Chapter 271: Chapter 271: Overbearing Mrs. Qin

The next day

Fu Xiaoxiao got up with sore waist and back. Last night, she couldn’t resist the three guys’ coaxing and agreed to have a little brother or sister. A certain dog of a man asked for her four or five times, insisting on giving her a little padded jacket.

Thinking of Lu Feng’s excitement last night, Fu Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but smile.

Seeing Little Linlin, she also wanted such a little padded jacket. Seeing how eager Lu Lin and Lu Chen were, her heart softened and she agreed.

In the end, it was her waist that suffered the harm.

Rubbing her waist as she got up, Fu Xiaoxiao saw that both of the kids had already gone to school. Lu Feng knew she didn’t like outside breakfast, so he stopped buying it.

Fu Xiaoxiao cooked herself a bowl of noodles, sat in the yard, basked in the sun, eating breakfast, in utter leisure.

"Where is everyone? Where did the family go? I’ve come back, why isn’t there anyone to greet me?" A sharp voice broke the tranquility.

Fu Xiaoxiao was startled for a moment, recognizing the voice as Mrs. Qin from next door.

"Mom, it’s already this late, they must have gone to school!" Qin Shuang’s voice also came over, seemingly comforting Mrs. Qin.

"But your sister-in-law, it’s already this late, and she hasn’t gotten up yet? Obviously taking advantage of my absence to sneak in some more sleep! Lili, quickly get up and bring me a basin of water." Mrs. Qin’s voice clearly came over, and Fu Xiaoxiao chuckled, it seemed the noise would soon get louder.

Now that Liu Lili and Qin Ye had already moved out, just as Qin Shuang had said, she hadn’t informed Mrs. Qin about this matter. Now Mrs. Qin would discover that her daughter-in-law had run away with her grandson, she would surely go mad.

Sure enough, just as Fu Xiaoxiao swallowed a mouthful of noodles, she heard Mrs. Qin’s shrill voice coming from next door.

"What? They’ve moved out? Who agreed to her moving out? Where has she taken my precious grandson? Make her come back immediately! Right now, at once, come back!"

Mrs. Qin shouted a couple of times, and when Liu Lili did not return, she rushed to her room, finding it empty, with neither people nor things anywhere in sight.

Feeling something was amiss, Mrs. Qin immediately dialed her son’s phone.

Upon learning that mother and son had moved out during her two-day hospital stay, Mrs. Qin immediately exploded.

"I don’t agree, parents and family should not be separated, this is an age-old principle! Don’t give me that modern talk, I’m your mother, you’re my son, she’s our family’s daughter-in-law! So she should listen to me!" Mrs. Qin said through gritted teeth.

"If you recognize me as your mother, make Liu Lili bring my grandson back immediately, or none of you should return home!" Mrs. Qin threatened in anger.

Fu Xiaoxiao could even hear her heavy breathing, she must be quite furious.

Qin Shuang snuck out and ran to Fu Xiaoxiao’s house, seeing her eating noodles.

"Heard the commotion, huh? I came over here to hide for a bit, there’s a war going on over there!" Qin Shuang sat next to Fu Xiaoxiao, not daring to go home to provoke her mother.

Whoever gets involved, gets it.

"The way she was on the phone with my brother, you’d think she wanted to tear my sister-in-law apart." Qin Shuang shook her head, she knew too well her mother’s temperament.

"Do you think your brother will come back?" Fu Xiaoxiao asked curiously.

"Depends on whether my brother caves in or not." Qin Shuang shrugged. "I, for one, hope they don’t come back, just this once, don’t come back even if she curses, wait until my mom calms down before coming back."

"If he backs down even a little, my mom won’t consider them filial, she’ll just think she’s got control over them again and will only get worse." In Qin Shuang’s understanding of her mother, she is the type that gets carried away by small gains.

Fu Xiaoxiao didn’t expect Qin Shuang to see it so clearly.

"What about your dad? What’s his stance?" Fu Xiaoxiao asked.

"My dad? Although he’s quite fierce and authoritarian, however... he actually dotes on my brother a lot." Qin Shuang thought for a moment, although her brother was strictly demanded by their dad, in a way, it’s a form of affection.

"I think the problem lies with my mom, not my dad." Qin Shuang thought that even if her dad said something and her brother didn’t listen, that would be it.

Her dad wouldn’t be as hysterical, nor would he keep pushing like her mom does. Her mom just wants the results she desires, without caring about others’ wellbeing.

"Insightful." Fu Xiaoxiao chuckled, looked at Qin Shuang, and gave her a thumbs up.

"You’re amazing! I’ve lived with her for years to know this, how come you’ve only seen her a few times and can see it so clearly?" Qin Shuang felt Fu Xiaoxiao was impressive, even though she hadn’t interacted with her mom much, yet could precisely analyze her family’s issues.

"If the father loves, then the mother is calm; if the mother is calm, then the children are at ease; if the children are at ease, then the family is harmonious; when the family is harmonious, everything prospers. If the father is lazy, then the mother suffers; if the mother suffers, then the children are afraid; if the children are afraid, then the family declines; a family’s decline lasts three generations." Fu Xiaoxiao slowly recited a classic saying from the Three-Character Classic looking at Qin Shuang.

"My dad isn’t lazy, but my mom always felt she’s had a hard life. When I was young, dad was in the military and didn’t come home all year. Although the family wasn’t poor, mom didn’t have anyone around, raising my brother and me alone. My dad, due to his duties, didn’t come home, and she would get very upset..." Qin Shuang thought about it, their lives weren’t exactly bad growing up.

But the one thing they missed was father’s love, because of his military duty, he wasn’t home much, mom used to always complain, get angry, and when dad finally came home, she would drive him away in anger.

Over time, they got used to life without a father.

It’s just that mom got used to being domineering, not allowing them to go against her will.

Fu Xiaoxiao shrugged, this issue had no solution. "Your dad made your mom suffer, but he’s not wrong, he’s supporting both family and duties, and your mom, for taking care of you all, toiling her whole life, she isn’t wrong either. You guys are innocent, so it’s not your fault, nobody is wrong."

"Indeed, it’s unsolvable." Hearing Fu Xiaoxiao’s words, Qin Shuang also felt that was the case.

They couldn’t possibly demand their dad give up everything to accompany their mom every day, right? That’s not practical either.

And when mom complained about dad not being home and wouldn’t let them leave her sight, saying they should listen to her, perhaps that wasn’t wrong either.

She and her brother were just kids, they couldn’t change the fact that dad couldn’t be home every day, it had nothing to do with them, so they weren’t wrong.

It’s like a deadlock that can’t be untied no matter what.

"Actually, just don’t think too much, it’s just that your mother, having worked hard her whole life, now that she’s got a bit of authority, she wants to assert her status, hence she’s fixated on your sister-in-law." Fu Xiaoxiao shook her head, Mrs. Qin couldn’t bring herself to be harsh on her own children, so Liu Lili became her target.

"Now it makes sense to me, since we are her biological children, she can’t bear to do anything to us, no wonder she always calls my sister-in-law an outsider." Qin Shuang understood why her mom always targeted her sister-in-law. In her eyes, her sister-in-law seemed useless, nothing she did was good enough, even bearing Qin Ye didn’t earn her a place in her mom’s heart.

Because she’s an outsider, she can be bullied without consequence, used as a scapegoat to vent her own hardships.

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