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Chapter 437: Chapter 437: Are we going to the northwest to drink the wind?
Tong Yao knew he was off to see Lin Fengying, so she didn’t say anything. She had proposed the divorce for Lin Fengying to see, and now that the agreement was signed, she naturally had to inform Lin Fengying.
As for whether Lin Fengying would try to kill herself again upon seeing the divorce agreement, she didn’t care.
Of course, she hadn’t forgotten that Lin Man was also implicated in this matter. As soon as her father was discharged from the hospital, she was definitely going to settle the score with Lin Man.
Meanwhile.
Si Chen didn’t go directly to see Lin Fengying but went to a phone booth to make a call. Si Boyi and Zhang Lijuan had returned home for the New Year. They were used to living in the city, so suddenly coming back home felt strange for both of them.
If Chen Jinlan hadn’t strongly insisted that they, the couple, return to the village for the New Year, they wouldn’t have been willing to do so.
When Si Chen’s call came in, Si Boyi had been planning to go to Chen Jinlan’s house for dumplings. Having received a call from Si Chen on the first day of the New Year, he thought something had happened and anxiously asked.
"Brother, did anything happen to our mom?"
Ever since Lin Fengying drank rat poison, Si Boyi had lost contact with them. Now getting a call from Si Chen, the first thing he thought of was Lin Fengying.
Without beating around the bush, Si Chen got straight to the point and said, "She and Xiaohui sent Yaoyao’s dad to hospital. I’ve now agreed to divorce Yaoyao. The shop has been run single-handedly by her. I didn’t earn much in these two years, so I’m leaving empty-handed. Our family will have no relation to the tea shop from here on. Yaoyao will find someone to manage it, and you guys don’t need to worry about it anymore".
Si Boyi didn’t expect so much to have happened during this period. What their mom did was more than enough, and now she had even sent Tong Yaohui to the hospital.
The more he thought about it, the more upset Si Boyi felt. His brother had suffered for many years and just when he finally got married and started having a good life, it was disrupted by their mother again.
"Brother, you must not divorce your wife. Once you divorce her, where can you find another wife like her?"
Si Chen pursed his lips, "Who do you think could accept a family like ours?"
Si Boyi choked, anxiously arguing, "Brother, apologize sincerely to your wife and Uncle Tong, and stop caring about our mom. You and your wife are such a loving couple. You can’t let her ruin your marriage. We mean nothing to mom now, otherwise, she wouldn’t have done all these things".
"Your mom has prepared the dumplings, and if you don’t hurry over, they will get cold!" Zhang Lijuan thought it was Lin Fengying calling and was unhappy about it. She stood at the door and urged Si Boyi impatiently.
"You go eat first."
His brother was going to get a divorce, and he was about to lose his job too. Si Boyi had no appetite to eat at all.
Zhang Lijuan rolled her eyes and said, "Mom has called you over several times. Can’t you just talk after eating?" Owing to her mother-in-law’s temper, seeing her already annoyed Zhang Lijuan. And then the rat poison incident... Zhang Lijuan wished she had actually died from it.
It would have been better if she had really died, that would have saved them from disgrace in the village.
"You eat first." Si Chen heard Zhang Lijuan’s voice too. He said, "The main reason I called was to inform you about transferring the shop."
"Brother, are you really going to divorce Sister-in-law? You two have such a good relationship. It would be a pity if you divorced." Si Boyi knew he couldn’t make such decisions for his brother, but he deeply cared for him.
Si Chen was silent for a few seconds and said, "I have something else to do. I’ll hang up."
After that, he hung up the phone.
Zhang Lijuan, having heard Si Boyi shout "brother," realized that the call had been from Si Chen. She rushed over and asked, "What were you saying earlier? Is Brother going to divorce Sister-in-law? Didn’t Mom recover? Why on earth would they divorce?"
Honestly, Zhang Lijuan didn’t want Tong Yao to divorce Si Chen right now. With her abilities and contacts, she could help them earn a significant amount of money, unlike any other woman.
"Mom infuriated Sister-in-law’s dad into being hospitalized, so in anger, Sister-in-law decided to divorce. Now the divorce agreement has been signed."
Si Boyi wasn’t entirely clear about the purpose of a divorce agreement, but he guessed it would serve a similar function to a divorce certificate. Bo Yi added, "Brother is leaving penniless and from now on the milk tea shop belongs to my Sister-in-law. We won’t have to work after the New Year."
"What?" Hearing this, Zhang Lijuan exploded. Not only the divorce but also Si Chen leaving everything behind. Wouldn’t they be unemployed then?
What will the family live on?
Zhang Lijuan couldn’t keep calm anymore, "How can Brother be so foolish? When a couple gets a divorce, it’s not the man who should leave everything behind. From what I’ve seen, it’s always the women who leave with nothing."
"All of these things were bought by Sister-in-law. Why should she leave with nothing?" Si Boyi had strong moral values. Their family hadn’t spent much while marrying or setting up the store, as most of the money was from Tong Yao’s family. Why should she leave with nothing when they divorced?
It’s not okay to do something immoral for the sake of money.
"Then what do you propose we do?" Zhang Lijuan was furious. "We just heard that the city is constructing new apartments. If we bought a house, our child could go to school in the city in future. Now that this has happened, are we supposed to just starve?!"
Si Boyi was also very distressed, but he had no solution.
Suddenly a thought hit Zhang Lijuan and she replied brightly, "Why don’t we negotiate with Sister-in-law to continue working at her shop? After all, we didn’t offend her, and she would need someone to manage the shop anyway. It’s better if it is us, saving her the worries."
"After what Mom has done to her father, how can we have the face to face Sister-in-law?" Every time Si Boyi thought about what Lin Fengying had done, he felt ashamed to face Tong Yao.
"If this doesn’t work and that doesn’t work, then what should we do? Are we all supposed to die from starvation?" The more Zhang Lijuan thought about it, the angrier she got, and she complained, "It’s all Mom’s fault. She didn’t want to live peacefully and had to cause trouble. Now she’s ruined my brother’s marriage and our lives. I’m so unlucky to have a mother-in-law like this."
Why did her father-in-law die instead of her mother-in-law?
She might as well have drunk rat poison and died instead of causing all these problems. 𝚗ovp𝚞b.𝚌om
Everyone in the village is currently laughing at them!
Every time she went out and met someone from the village, they would maliciously ask her how her mother-in-law was doing in Kyoto with Si Weimin. Also, some people even more maliciously suggested that her mother-in-law might give birth to her half-sibling, which annoyed her and ended up in a fight.
Si Boyi sighed heavily with a gloomy face, "Let’s go eat!" It was the New Year, and everything had already happened. It was no use thinking about it anymore. He was sure his brother was feeling much worse.
"How can I eat with this on my mind? Let me tell you, if we really do lose our jobs at the milk tea shop, I will act as if I don’t have this mother-in-law, never calling her ’Mom’ again. She shouldn’t expect me to take care of her when she’s old. I haven’t seen such a despicable mother-in-law ever before. Is my brother’s happiness a problem for her?"
Eat, eat, eat, they’re losing their only source of income and yet they’re supposed to eat? Who could possibly have the mood to eat!
