Chapter 388: Instigation
Lin Fengying felt wronged, but considering that Liu Qing is a close neighbor to Tong Yao, she wasn’t sure about their relationship, and she dared not express her grievances for fear Liu Qing might tell Tong Yao.
Now that she heard Liu Qing bad-mouthing Tong Yao behind her back, she knew they must not have been getting along well. With nothing holding her back, she began to pour out her woes, sobbing along the way.
"If it hadn’t been for her father, my husband wouldn’t have died. I spent so much effort raising three children on my own. Now that the children are grown up, I thought the hard times were finally over. Yet, every daughter-in-law I got was more dominating than the previous. They say one has a wife and forgets one’s mother, but in my family, they’ve downright forsaken me."
As she spoke, Lin Fengying felt even more aggrieved, "When they first got married, Tong Yao did nothing at home. She ate her fill and then complained about the food. Which day did I not cook a special pot of rice just for her? Even when she went out shopping with other men, I never dared to tell Xiaochen, for fear of damaging their marriage. Anything that I could have done to help, I did. What more could they have wanted that I still didn’t fulfill, for them to treat me like this now?"
"She has been married for two years and hasn’t shown any signs of being pregnant. As parents, how can we not be worried? She wouldn’t even eat the folk remedies that I asked around for. I brought my grandchild hoping to bring her some luck so that she can have a chubby boy, but the couple instead conspired against me. Xiaochen wasn’t like this before he got married. Before he was very respectful, always listening to what I said. Now he would prefer me to shut up and not say anything."
Lin Fengying’s heart sank in bitterness and irritation. She voiced out everything that came to her mind, without considering whether or not Liu Qing could comprehend. Regardless, speaking up made her feel much better.
No matter whose fault it was in the past, she single-handedly managed to raise three children, surely that had to make up for it, right?
She never had huge expectations from her children, but she’d appreciate it if her eldest son could have more children and agree to let her live in Kyoto and take care of Si Weimin, wouldn’t she?