Chapter 496 Selfish and mean

   "Shushu, do you think I shouldn't have promised Xiuming to marry the deputy mayor's daughter back then? Her family background is much higher than ours, so she looks down on a mother-in-law like me from the countryside..."

  Thirty or forty years ago, when she was young, Chang Chunfang would not have said such self-deprecating words to blame the other party, commonly known as yin and yang.

   But now, Chang Chunfang has lived in the countryside for decades. When she was young, she was shaped and polished into a different kind of mind under the influence of life in the village.

  Even if she has settled down in the city these years, the people she can come into contact with are all elderly ladies who have also experienced short-lived parents and complicated mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships.

  The age they lived in, they were used to suffering when they were young, and their tempers were also tempered to be selfish. Most of the time they only valued their own interests and seldom thought of others.

   Surrounded by people like this, Chang Chunfang was gradually assimilated, and became the arrogant and unreasonable little old lady.

  Lan Shu took a deep breath before suppressing her resentment and speechlessness towards the adoptive mother's statement.

  If it were someone else, maybe she would have changed her attitude a long time ago, and she would no longer be so angry.

   But after all, Chang Chunfang has been kind to the original owner for eighteen years. After she came to this world, she has been kind to herself.

   Lan Shu even Gu Nian Chang Chunfang's kindness to the original owner and kindness to herself, she must be patient, follow the words of the adoptive mother, and persuade the adoptive mother not to get angry with her son and daughter-in-law.

   "Mom, you and I know what the second sister-in-law is like. When the second brother talked to the second sister-in-law, no one knew that she was the daughter of the deputy mayor. Didn't you like her at that time?"

   "Second sister-in-law definitely doesn't have that kind of idea of ​​family status, otherwise she wouldn't have married into our family."

   "What she likes is that the second brother is excellent and sincere, so the two of them can get together and live together for so many years."

   "Speaking of it, it's because you and dad educated well that you can train your second brother to be a talent."

  Hearing her daughter's flattery, Chang Chunfang only felt happy in her heart.

  But she suddenly thought that the son she raised at a young age was called a "white-eyed wolf" by her mother. Isn't this saying that she failed in education?

  Chang Chunfang realized that she shouldn't have said that about her son before.

  Seeing the adoptive mother's reaction, Lan Shu continued, "Mom, how could there be so much anger between mother and child? If the second brother didn't have you in his heart, why would he stand in the yard for so long without leaving?"

   "Second sister-in-law is indeed busy with work, sometimes you have to be more considerate. Besides, the child is not second sister-in-law's child alone. She has no time to go to her natal house to pick it up and show it to you. Maybe second brother is free?"

   "If you blame the second sister-in-law, you might as well blame the second brother. As a son, he didn't make time to get off work early, so he went to the father-in-law's house and brought your little grandson over."

   "If you are still angry in your heart, I will call the second brother back later, if not, you can beat him severely to calm down!"

   Lan Shu said this on purpose, because she expected her adoptive mother to be reluctant to beat her son.

  Sometimes mother-in-laws are like this, they will only blame their daughter-in-law for family problems, even if they are angry, they will subconsciously treasure their sons.

  Hearing what her daughter said, Chang Chunfang was suddenly speechless.

  When Lan Shu saw this, she gave a 'puchi~' laugh, and then said to her adoptive mother, "Mom, I'm hungry, what shall we have for dinner tonight?"

  Chang Chunfang knew that her daughter was giving herself a step down.

   Now she was indeed not that angry anymore, so she followed her daughter's words and replied, "Whatever Shushu wants to eat, Mom will do for you."

"By the way, don't you like to eat the crispy fried chicken in our previous store? Although the store has been sold out, the owner of that store is now an apprentice brought by your father himself, and the crispy fried chicken tastes delicious. It's exactly the same as your father's! Mom will buy one for you to eat later."

  Seeing her adoptive mother caring so sincerely for her, Lan Shu smiled and said, "Okay."

  That night, Lan Shu did not go back to her home in Qingyang County, but stayed with her adoptive mother for the night.

  During dinner, Chang Chunfang was very happy that someone was with her at first, but later, for some reason, she brought up her wife, Lan Shengli.

  So Lan Shu listened to all kinds of complaints from her adoptive mother to her adoptive father, saying that the two were obviously husband and wife, and their relationship was so good when they were young.

  Lan Shengli had to take care of his father, so he couldn't live without people there for a day, so he hasn't returned to Linjiang City for six years.

  Chang Chunfang hated getting along with a strange old man under the same roof, so she seldom went to the capital.

  At the beginning, during the first two years of her stay in Kyoto, Lan Shengli had been to Kyoto three or four times.

  For the next four years, Chang Chunfang didn't go to Kyoto, and Lan Shengli couldn't come back. The couple haven't seen each other for four years.

   It's unbelievable to say this!

  Chang Chunfang complained that Lan Shengli ignored the family for the sake of the old man. These words were repeated in Lan Shu's ears, which showed how deep the adoptive mother's complaints were towards the adoptive father.

  Lan Shu listened to it, but didn't comment.

  Although the adoptive mother complained that it was true that she would live apart from her wife when she got older, but her adoptive father couldn't come back in Kyoto, and he didn't intend to do that.

   After all, his biological father is not in good health. As a son, he can't just ignore it and see that the old man can't survive.

  Perhaps Lan Shengli can persuade the old man to go back to Linjiang City or Tianshui Village with him, but his adoptive mother Chang Chunfang doesn't want to live with the old man, so there is no solution to this matter—

   Lan Shu can only help her second brother speak well in front of her adoptive mother. As for other things, she has nothing to do.

   You can't let your adoptive father ignore your real father, can you?

  Although taking care of an old man is a way of thinking as long as you spend money to hire someone, but if you spend more money, you are taking care of outsiders after all. How can you have your own son to take care of him?

   Lan Shu knew that her adoptive father, Lan Shengli, had also thought of this, so she took care of her father herself.

  At the end of the meal, Chang Chunfang was so angry that she even hoped that Old Man Lan would die soon~!

   In this way, her wife will not be dragged down.

  Lan Shu listened, but couldn't help shaking her head in her heart.

   Such a adoptive mother has really changed a lot from the Chang Chunfang she met when she first came to this world more than ten years ago!

  She wondered if people would become selfish and mean when they got old.

  She thought that in another twenty years, maybe one day when the biological parents of this body, Lan Weicheng and Xu Shan, were old and needed care, she would bring the elderly to the home and ask a nanny to take care of them.

  As long as it is under your nose, you will not be afraid that the nanny will not be dedicated.

  Therefore, there are still ways to solve the situation where adoptive parents live separately.

  But Chang Chunfang's rejection of old man Lan made it impossible to proceed!

  (end of this chapter)