??Chapter 568: Chapter 560: The Compassionate Heart of Parents Throughout the World
Chapter 568: Chapter 560: The Compassionate Heart of Parents Throughout the World
By the ti Jiang Yan brought back the egg custard and millet porridge to the hospital room, only the father-in-law, mother-in-law, Hong Jing, and the child were left.
“Dad, Mom, I’ve already made the als, so you guys can go ho and eat,”
His expression was normal as he placed the items in his hands on the table and urged his parents to go ho.
He made no ntion of his uncle’s family.
“Xiaotie,” Hong Jing’s father stood up and said to him, “Your cousin-in-law’s personal opinion does not represent your uncle. He’s criticized her before, but after all, she’s his daughter-in-law, so he can’t say too much. I don’t an anything else, I just hope you don’t have any hard feelings towards your uncle.”
Before Jiang Yan could speak, Hong Jing pursed her lips displeasedly, “Even if uncle isn’t to bla, my aunt must bear so responsibility. Her daughter-in-law gave birth to twins for her, and everything she says is right, would she really dare to contradict her? Seeing her like that, she might have even been gossiping behind our backs. It’s really annoying. We are just trying to live our lives, what have we done to provoke her?”
Hong Jing’s father glared at his daughter, thinking this isn’t helping and why are you adding fuel to the fire?
Ever since this girl married Xiaotie, she’s been getting more and more spoiled. Just before her brother left, he apologized to her, and she still didn’t acknowledge him.
“Jingjing…”
“Enough, she’s doing her postpartum confinent now. Why do you keep bothering her with this?”
As she spoke, Hong Jing’s mother pushed her husband, urging, “Go, go, go, hurry ho to eat. I have to co back later to take Xiaotie’s place. The child has prepared all the als, are you waiting for soone to feed you?”
“You…”
“What ‘you’? Hurry up and go.”
The couple kept talking as they moved towards the door. When the hospital room door closed, Hong Jing’s mother glared at her husband, “I understand you want to stand up for your brother, but it also depends on the situation. Considering what his daughter-in-law said today in front of Xiaotie, without any restraint, do you really believe that he didn’t indulge her?”
He believed it, but wasn’t the point to smooth things over now?
“But after all, he’s my brother.”
“And precisely because he’s your brother, Jingjing is even angrier. They seek harmony in their own family but co to disrupt ours, is that sothing a real brother should do?”
“He didn’t intend to disrupt…”
“Alright, let’s not talk about this anymore. But I just want to remind you of one thing, who will you rely on when you’re old? Will it be Jingjing and Xiaotie, or your brother?”
As the voices outside grew fainter, inside the hospital room, Jiang Yan helped Hong Jing sit up and arranged the table on the bed, placing the egg custard on it and ladling the millet porridge into a bowl to cool.
“Mom said you can’t eat too much salt now, so the egg custard is a bit bland, but give it a try and see if you can eat it,”
With a spoon in her hand, Hong Jing looked at him, “Husband…”
“Hmm?”
“Today… I’m sorry.”
Truthfully, she felt very guilty. Throughout the years of their marriage, it had always been Xiaotie who gave, and while she took it for granted, she had failed to prevent her own relatives from hurting him.
Recalling the ti shortly after their marriage, her cousin-in-law had said she had married an ‘uppity’ son-in-law, and at that ti, she had firmly corrected her, thinking she understood and wouldn’t have such thoughts again. But it turned out that the whole family thought this way.
Were they sick in the head?
Now, thinking back to the presents they had brought for her elder uncle and his wife, as well as for their two children during holidays, she felt heartache.
All the gifts were bought with her husband’s hard-earned money. In the past, she didn’t mind because she thought they deserved such treatnt, but now it just felt like all the good things had been thrown to dogs.
She felt very upset.
“Why are you apologizing? It’s not your fault,”
Jiang Yan sat beside the crib, looking at their son who was soundly asleep inside, extended his index finger to touch the baby’s cheek, and contentedly said, “Having you and our son is all I could ask for in this life. As for what others say, I really don’t care.”
At his words, Hong Jing felt even more guilty.
“I care though, and if they continue like this, then we might as well just cut ties with them.”
But how could they cut ties? That was her only elder uncle. Didn’t you see her father trying to diate just now?
Therefore, Jiang Yan took her words as said in anger.
“Husband, is Jiajia really angry?”
Thinking back to what Mu Jiawen had said in the hospital room today, Hong Jing felt annoyed that Jiang Yan and Jiajia had witnessed her relatives treating Xiaotie in such a manner… Ah, she wondered what they must think of her since not a single one of them had imdiately refuted her cousin-in-law.
Or perhaps those words echoed her father’s true sentints, maybe he really wanted her son to bear the Hong surna.
That would not do.
“Not at all, you know what kind of person she is. She just can’t stand seeing anyone treating
unfairly and speaks her mind on the spot, instead of bottling it up. But once she says it, she lets it go and doesn’t dwell on it.”
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