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Chapter 420: Chapter 410: A Dog Can’t Change Its Habit of Eating Excrement
Shen Yunfang waited until the door had closed for a short while before rising from her chair. She first went to the bedroom to tell the two children not to open the door for anyone while at home, then she got dressed and followed.
After some thought, Shen Yunfang headed towards the guesthouse. Indeed, it wasn’t long before she saw two figures walking ahead—it was Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen.
Aunt Shen was cursing as she walked, and without having to think, Shen Yunfang knew that she was the "good-for-nothing" Aunt Shen was berating.
Shen Yunfang kept her distance, tailing the couple until she saw them enter the guesthouse they had visited that afternoon and didn’t come out for a long time. Only then did she turn around and head back to her own home.
As for what had happened that day, Shen Yunfang had no regrets. If Shen Yunxiu managed to achieve her goal through Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen this time, knowing Shen Yunxiu’s character, she wouldn’t stop at a single request. She would surely develop a taste for it and would keep demanding whatever she desired from them through Uncle and Aunt Shen. This would cause headaches for Shen Yunfang, and Uncle and Aunt Shen would suffer too. So, in order to save future trouble and provide Uncle and Aunt Shen with a peaceful life in their old age, Shen Yunfang resolved to be the villain.
Moreover, she didn’t believe Shen Yunxiu’s life was as hard as Aunt Shen claimed. If it were truly hard, could she have stayed with the Fang Family for over two years? Shen Yunxiu was not someone who would let herself be at a disadvantage.
Lost in these thoughts, Shen Yunfang realized she had reached home.
"Mommy, that grandmother was so fierce. She doesn’t live with us, does she?" Pangpang heard the sound of the door opening. Since Taxue wasn’t barking, he knew it was his mother returning, so he ran out to her in his slippers.
"Manman doesn’t like her either, stinky stinky." Manman pouted unhappily; that grandfather smelled of smoke, which was foul.
Shen Yunfang took off her shoes and picked up Manman to give her a kiss. Ah, her very own daughter had her dislikes too.
"Alright, I know. Manman doesn’t like the smelly smell, right? When Daddy comes back, you have to tell him too, okay?"
"Mmm-hmm." Manman nodded vigorously; Daddy always listened to her.
"Pangpang, come on up, let’s go inside." Since the dining table in the living room hadn’t been cleared and was in disarray, it was better for the children not to stay there.
"Pangpang, Mommy wants to tell you that when you were little, the grandparents who visited today used to hold you." Shen Yunfang placed the child on the bed, took off her shoes, and climbed onto the bed to chat with the child.
"I don’t remember." Pangpang shook his head.
Of course, Pangpang was only a few months old at the time, so what could he remember?
"It’s alright if you don’t remember, but we recognize them now, don’t we? They’re Mommy’s family, just like you are with..." Shen Yunfang tried to come up with an example but realized the children weren’t familiar with her cousins, except for Jiajia. "Just like you are with your eldest aunt."
Pangpang seemed to understand and nodded earnestly.
Seeing her brother nod, Manman also earnestly imitated him.
"Do you like your eldest aunt?" Shen Yunfang asked.
"Yes." The children chimed in unison.
"And do you like your cousin Jiajia?" Shen Yunfang asked again.
"Yes." This time they answered even louder.
"Right, the eldest aunt and cousin Jiajia are your family, and the grandparents who came today are also Mommy’s family. In the future, when we see them, we should be polite, okay?" Shen Yunfang guided them gently, step by step.
She didn’t want her children to grow up alone, she wanted them to have loving relatives around them, besides her and their father, both families had many other relatives for the children.
Both children nodded their heads in a puzzled way. Although they didn’t quite understand, they had been taught by their teacher to be polite, and they were both well-mannered good children.
Shen Yunfang spent some time chatting with the children in the room and told them two stories before letting them play on their own while she went out to the living room to clean up the table.
Seeing the messy cups and plates, she sighed softly. She had been very happy to see Uncle Shen and his wife and had sincerely invited the elders to stay with them for a few days, but no one expected it to end like this.
Shen Yunfang sighed unconsciously again while she tidied the table, contemplating that if this issue was stirred up by that woman Shen Yunxiu, it wouldn’t just end so easily. Oh, she hoped it wouldn’t ruin her good mood for the New Year.
Indeed, the next day, when Shen Yunfang took the children back to the quadrangle to clean up, there were two people waiting for her at the door again, but this time the personnel had changed, Uncle Shen wasn’t there, and in his place was Shen Yunxiu.
Shen Yunxiu looked at Shen Yunfang with eyes that seemed to ooze venom, she wished she could go up and scratch Shen Yunfang’s face, wondering why she, who was inferior in every way, still ended up living a better life than her own.
Of course, Shen Yunfang saw the hostility in Shen Yunxiu’s eyes but found it baffling, she had never done anything to harm Shen Yunxiu, so why would Shen Yunxiu hold such a grudge against her. If anything, it should be her who resented Shen Yunxiu, right?
When Auntie Shen saw Shen Yunfang, she had an indifferent expression on her face, in reality, she felt ashamed, after the incident that took place the day before, when she received such a slap in the face from Shen Yunfang, she wouldn’t have come today if her daughter hadn’t insisted.
"Auntie, do you need something from me?" Shen Yunfang ignored Shen Yunxiu and asked Auntie Shen directly.
Auntie Shen snorted, "What’s the use of asking if you’re not going to agree anyway?"
"What do you mean? My mother is your auntie, and you have objections when she comes looking for you?" Shen Yunxiu couldn’t help but exclaim.
That was just her nature, something she could never change, just like a dog can’t change its habit of eating filth.
"Bad person," Pangpang called out. Seeing that this woman started scolding her mother the moment they met, he immediately judged her as a bad person.
"Bad person, mommy, fight," Manman, hearing his brother call out ’bad person’ and sitting in the front, became restless and started kicking his legs as if he was getting ready to rise.
Shen Yunfang hurriedly freed one hand to hold down this little troublemaker, wondering what sort of tempers they had to want to go after a ’bad person’ right away, it must be Li Hongjun who hadn’t educated them properly.
"You two little brats, who are you calling?" Shen Yunxiu couldn’t take it anymore, seeing the kids in Shen Yunfang’s car yelling ’bad person’ at her, she charged towards the children.
"Shen Yunxiu, are you a mad dog?" Shen Yunfang asked coldly, looking at Shen Yunxiu. If not a mad dog, why would she go crazy at the sight of her and her children?
"You..." Shen Yunxiu was lost for words.
"Auntie, did you need something from me?" Shen Yunfang didn’t want to deal with Shen Yunxiu, and with Auntie Shen there, it wouldn’t be easy to take Shen Yunxiu down anyway.
"I...," Auntie Shen struggled to find the words, despite being able to ask her daughter for this or that without hesitation, she truthfully didn’t have the nerve to ask for herself.
Shen Yunxiu had the nerve; seeing her mother silent, she bluntly stated, "My mom and dad want to go home for the New Year’s, and they’ve got no travel money left, you should chip in," her tone was one of entitlement.
Shen Yunfang looked at Auntie Shen and saw her embarrassed face, knowing this must have been Shen Yunxiu’s idea.
However, she didn’t really mind paying the travel costs for Uncle Shen and his wife to get back home. Besides, if Uncle Shen and his wife had stayed at their house yesterday, in the end, she would have had to buy their train tickets as well.
