Entering the room, Zhang Qiuju still couldn’t quell her anger: "You spineless thing, you only know how to be strong against a few old maids and your own mother! I’ve raised you in vain. I’ve been humiliated like this, and when I want to teach a little wench a lesson, you stop . Could it be that just because your father slept with her, you’re willing to wear a green hat and even take her as your little mother?"
Tian Sihai...
If she weren’t his own mother, he would have slapped her.
In the end, he held it in, the big picture was more important: "Mother, let’s talk about this later! Have you thought about it, if Father cos back and finds out we treated Lady Fang like this, and he gets angry..."
"He has the nerve to be angry? If he cos back, I’m definitely going to spit on his face and ask him, with so many won in the world, how could he be so shaless and co back to sleep with his daughter-in-law? Having done such an immoral thing, does he still dare to show us his face?" Zhang Qiuju hamred her chest in anger.
Tian Sihai saw that Zhang Qiuju only cared about these trivialities and didn’t understand his point at all, so he gritted his teeth, pulled Zhang Qiuju closer, and whispered his plan in her ear.
After hearing Tian Sihai’s words, Zhang Qiuju was dumbfounded, her face turned pale. She swallowed her saliva before saying, "You... this is treasonous, your father won’t agree!"
Tian Sihai’s lips curled into a cruel smile: "He has no choice but to agree! With Lady Fang as our leverage, if he doesn’t agree, hmph—"
Zhang Qiuju looked at Tian Sihai as if she had never known him.
Tian Sihai snapped back to reality and saw Zhang Qiuju’s expression, then sneered coldly: "What? Could it be, Mother, that you’re still thinking of the old feelings of you as a couple? Let tell you, our father kept more than one woman outside, and they’ve even had several children. It’s just because they were daughters that they weren’t brought back!"
"Those won are living a much happier life than you, Mother. They’re adorned in gold and silver, with several maids serving them. At their house outside, aren’t they the lady of the house?"
...
"What did you say? Your father kept won outside?" Zhang Qiuju only heard this part.
Tian Sihai sneered: "I know there’s one household in Dongjia Alley and another in Wangjia Alley, the others I don’t know about."
Zhang Qiuju felt dizzy and had to hold onto the table to barely stand firm.
After a long while, she gritted her teeth and squeezed out a few words: "I’ll do as you say!"
Only then did Tian Sihai breathe a sigh of relief, forcing a smile to comfort Zhang Qiuju: "Mother, don’t worry, we’re only taking over the business and silver coins first, lest Father gets senile in old age and it falls into soone else’s hands. Don’t you think that’s reasonable? Once Father hands over the business to , I can stay ho and keep you company!"
Zhang Qiuju nodded, breathing heavily.
She knew her son probably had bigger ambitions, but she didn’t care anymore.
After all, this son had crawled out of her own stomach, surely he wouldn’t let her go hungry or cold in the future.
And Shopkeeper Tian, thinking of Shopkeeper Tian, Zhang Qiuju’s eyes turned dark.
The Tian Family’s fortune was thanks to her, Zhang Qiuju. Without those Golden Leaves, that bastard Shopkeeper Tian, he would still be carrying a load and walking from village to village at his old age, rather than enjoying today’s splendor?
And there he was, getting successful and using her silver to keep concubines outside, raising those illegitimate children.
She at ho, scrimping and saving, and the silver she saved probably all went to those won outside.
Thinking of this made Zhang Qiuju so furious she could vomit blood!
Since Shopkeeper Tian dared to do it first, he can’t bla her, Zhang Qiuju, for doing it worse.
Tian Sihai watched as Zhang Qiuju’s expression slowly shifted, realizing his mother truly hated his father now.
Excellent, it had to be like this for him to gain total control.
If there was anyone in this world Tian Sihai feared most, it was Shopkeeper Tian.
Don’t look at Shopkeeper Tian, everyone could tell he was biased toward him over Tian Wuhu.
At first, he was happy, proud, thinking the Tian Family would be his in the future.
If not, if not for that day, when he accidentally overheard what Shopkeeper Tian said while drinking with his confidant, he might have been deceived his whole life.
He heard with his own ears, his own father saying, saying how unsatisfied he was with both his sons, claiming they both took after Zhang Qiuju, their mother, and were not presentable.
Choosing Tian Sihai was just the lesser of two evils, as he was slightly better than Eldest Brother Tian Wuhu.
He even ntioned that a woman outside was pregnant again, and that if it was a son, he would definitely raise him personally to ensure a good successor.
He also said, given his current age, he could easily wait for this unborn child to grow up for another ten or twenty years.
At that mont, Tian Sihai felt as if a bucket of icy water had been dumped over his head in the dead of winter.
He was anxious until the woman outside gave birth to a daughter, then finally, he relaxed.
Originally, when the matter at the Rouge and Powder Shop occurred, he saw his father sacrificing Big Brother’s entire family to protect him, Lady Fang, and Lady Fang’s unborn child. At that mont, he forgot all past grudges.
Later, when the Rouge and Powder Shop’s issues were temporarily resolved and they returned ho, Tian Sihai wanted to forget those words and live piously with his parents and have a good life.
However, he never expected to see Lady Fang sneaking to the front door, waiting to see if his father would co back, lingering until she would finally return inside.
He grew suspicious, and looking at Lady Fang from then on, realized ever since she got pregnant, she never showed any happiness. Instead, she always looked worried.
He often saw Lady Fang holding her belly with a frown.
Later on, he noticed Lady Fang trying all she could to talk to his father.
He also observed that lately his father had beco quite temperantal, always scolding and fighting at ho. Yet with Lady Fang, he was patient and spoke kindly.
Even after knowing Lady Fang had secretly offended Wang Yongzhu and Old Granny Zhang with Mother, it wasn’t until the issue was publicly revealed that he rely half-heartedly reprimanded Lady Fang, while his own mother took a slap instead.
Tian Sihai’s suspicions grew over ti.
Until last night, when he returned, he noticed Lady Fang looked different from usual, as if she had made up her mind, and her face was much less troubled.
That night, after Lady Fang fell asleep, he sneaked to her window and peeked inside, seeing her clenching a pouch that, just that morning, belonged to his father.
Tian Sihai’s mind exploded.
There and then, he burst in to demand answers.
But he heard, he heard Lady Fang saying, "Father... I had no choice... I’m sorry... I can’t let Sihai and them find out, or I’ll be dood..."
Tian Sihai suddenly understood: His father had gotten involved with Lady Fang without anyone knowing, and the child in her belly wasn’t his but his father’s! No wonder, no wonder Shopkeeper Tian so readily agreed to send him and Lady Fang away! It wasn’t for him, it was for the child in Lady Fang’s belly! That was his father’s own blood!
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