bookrandom Chapter 59 The elderly couple develops a rift
Chapter 59 The elderly couple develops a rift
“Your older brother has been sending them gifts for two or three years in a row, and he has never said he wouldn’t accept them. He’s so familiar with their manager that they can’t do that out of politeness.”
Shen Jiangchuan said angrily, "Mother, the manager said that the texture of our tofu is different from before. Their restaurant can't sell tofu dishes anymore, so they don't want it anymore, and they won't take our eggs either."
Sun raised an eyebrow, looking incredulous, and asked, "What the heck?"
"Different texture?"
"They're both tofu, both ground little by little, so why do they taste different?"
"Could it be that the eldest son and his wife can somehow manage to create something extraordinary?"
She worked tirelessly from dawn till dusk to grind the tofu, and her son painstakingly delivered it to the town, only to be met with complaints. In her opinion, it must be the person in charge deliberately causing trouble.
and many more……
Could it be that the eldest son and his wife were up to something behind the scenes, which is why the person in charge wouldn't accept their tofu and eggs?
Her eyes flashed with malice, and she gritted her teeth, saying, "It must be that ingrate boss who wouldn't let the manager accept our tofu and eggs. I'm going to ask him. If it really is him, I won't let him get away with it!"
Shen Jiangchuan was startled by his mother's ferocious expression and whispered, "If there's no evidence, what's the point of you going there?"
In the past, my mother would just lie around doing nothing, spending half the day lying down and then the other half, sometimes even the whole day lying at home.
Ever since my eldest brother and sister-in-law separated and moved out, my mother has had to cook, feed the chickens and pigs, and do farm work. Now she wants to grind tofu to earn more money. Her temper is getting worse every day.
Alas, even ghosts dread him!
Sun gritted her teeth and said, "Since he dared to do this, am I not allowed to deal with him without evidence?"
Old Mr. Shen came out of the house and angrily rebuked, "What nonsense are you spouting? The restaurant won't accept our tofu, how can you blame the boss? Does he think he can control everything and control whose ingredients the restaurant accepts? If he had that kind of ability, he would have opened his own restaurant!"
Sun was stunned after being scolded by her husband.
Her husband actually yelled at her because of their eldest child?
In the past, no matter what she said or did, her husband would just stand by and watch. This was the first time her husband had taken the initiative to speak up for their eldest daughter.
Could it be that the husband has started to favor the eldest child?
Sun felt extremely sad and her eyes reddened as she began to sob.
"Woooooooo..."
"You heartless bastard! You didn't even ask, you just trusted the boss, but you don't trust the person who bore your children and shared your bed with you. If the two of you aren't of one mind, how can you live like this? God, why is my life so miserable..."
Sun cried her heart out, pouring out her grievances, and her sons, daughters-in-law, grandsons, and granddaughters gathered around her one after another.
The two daughters-in-law were overjoyed to see that their mother-in-law had become quite haggard and had lost favor with her father-in-law.
Why did the mother-in-law, unable to torment her eldest sister-in-law, try to torment her and her sister-in-law instead?
Fortunately, the two women were quick-witted and immediately banded together against the common enemy, which prevented their mother-in-law from dealing with them.
The second son's wife, Song, suppressed a laugh and said, "Mother, we're all family. My eldest brother would never do such a thing. If you suddenly run over and make a scene, wouldn't you just be making a fool of yourself in front of the neighbors?"
Zhao, from the third son's family, immediately chimed in, "Yes, Mother, Father is right. How could my eldest brother possibly have the ability to persuade the manager of that restaurant?"
Anyway, all the income from delivering tofu and eggs went into the mother-in-law's pocket. Their husbands had to go to town to deliver them before dawn, and their feet would be blistered from the trip. They didn't get a penny, and it even delayed their husbands from studying to become top scholars.
Hey, now look what's happened, they're not accepting it anymore.
It's better if you don't accept it!
If the eggs don't sell, they can keep them to eat, and then the children will be able to taste what eggs are like.
Sun was so angry she almost vomited blood, and wouldn't listen to anyone's advice.
First, she resented her stepson for sabotaging her income, and then she was angry that her husband was not on her side, not speaking up for her, and even scolding her.
She reached out and grabbed her snot and tears, gritting her teeth and howling, "I don't care, I'll find out if it's him or not by asking. If it's really not him, I'll have him talk to the restaurant manager and ask him to continue accepting the money. The boss has to give me an explanation for this!"
With such a large family and so many mouths to feed, and this season's harvest being so meager, what will be left after another six months of eating and drinking, if we save the seeds?
Without any income, how are we supposed to make ends meet?
After listening to his wife's crying and fussing for a long time, Mr. Shen's brows furrowed more and more, and his patience ran out.
"Alright, stop yelling. You're so clueless. You can't stand not causing trouble every day. This definitely has nothing to do with the boss. He's too stupid to do something like this!"
"You don't even trust me, so how can you trust him so much? Fine, Shen Yunting, I see now, you're just selfish and biased towards the boss..."
Seeing his wife being unreasonable and making a fuss, Mr. Shen also got annoyed.
"I'm biased towards the boss?"
“For so many years, the two of them have done all the work in the fields. You didn’t skip the fields this year, do you know how tiring it is? Our whole family of seven or eight adults are doing the work, and we still complain every day. In previous years, the eldest son and his wife did all the work, and they didn’t say a word.”
I didn't say anything!
In the past, as long as someone was doing the work in the fields and someone was busy with the things at home, he would pretend not to see it and ignore it.
He only truly understood it after doing it himself.
tired!
No wonder the eldest son and his wife are splitting up!
If the whole family had worked together in previous years, would the eldest son and his wife have avoided the conflict of dividing the family property?
This is the first time Mr. Shen has ever reflected on himself!
Sun was questioned by her husband and wanted to refute him, but she couldn't find the words. She felt extremely frustrated.
She cried for a long time, but her husband, son, and daughter-in-law didn't speak up for her. In her opinion, it was obvious that her two sons didn't want to deliver the tofu and eggs.
She then vented her anger on her son, "I told you to deliver some tofu and eggs, and you dragged your feet! Can't you deliver them sooner when you're doing farm work? It's been so long since you delivered them, no wonder people won't accept them. Saying the taste isn't good is just an excuse!"
The second son sat down on a small stool, took off his shoes, looked at the blood blisters on the soles of his feet, felt a burning pain, and couldn't help but mutter.
"If you don't want to accept it, then don't. It saves you the trouble of grinding tofu."
Sun glared and retorted, "With so many expenses for the whole family, I'm just trying to bring in more income. Who am I working so hard for?"
White-eyed wolf!
Whether they're stepsons or biological sons, they're all ingrates!
Not a single one of them understands their own mother!
Mr. Shen said in a deep voice, "Alright, you've been making a fuss for so long and haven't even eaten yet. Hurry up and get ready to have breakfast!"
After saying that, he didn't even glance at his wife before sitting down at the dining table in front of the small kitchen.
Sun was dumbfounded!
In the past, no matter how much she argued or cried, her husband would always coax her to make up afterward. But today, he didn't even say a kind word to her.
She was so upset that she refused to eat and ran back to her room to lie on the bed and cry her heart out.
They were childhood sweethearts who stayed together until old age, but from then on, the elderly couple developed a rift.
In the end, they still didn't ask the boss if he had done anything behind their back, and the business of delivering tofu and eggs to the town was also canceled!
With less income, the family's finances became increasingly strained.
……
One month later!
Shen Xiaotang stood on the edge of the field, looking up at the crops and couldn't help but smile.