Chapter 422: A Good Opportunity to Test the Waters

"No, I want to be the heroine of my own life," Si Rong refused decisively, "When it's time to travel, I'll go travel!"

"I'll be waiting for our 'short separation being better than a new marriage'!"

Jiang Cheng was moved by her words; his gaze, resting on her pink lips, grew thick as ink, wanting to kiss her at any moment.

"Big Brother, we're on the street."

Si Rong gave a light cough, "Wait until we get home."

Si Rong had handed over the work at the garment factory to a manager promoted this year, Wang Jia.

Three years older than Si Rong, she addressed the other woman as Wang Jie.

She was very capable.

Her work ability was beyond reproach, and the key was that her personal charisma was also powerful.

At first, she was a pitiful woman suffering from domestic violence, but later she apprenticed to learn martial arts and had now become the head of her household.

As long as she didn't sit down, neither her husband nor her mother-in-law dared to pick up their chopsticks.

When she said east, no one in the family dared to say west.

Si Rong had once asked her why she didn't divorce, but Wang Jie said that she could keep this household under control!

Otherwise, after a divorce, the next woman to marry into this house would only be another victim.

Si Rong admired her very much; she respected all women who saved themselves from fire and water.

Wang Jie would now beat her husband whenever she felt like it, leaving the man covered in bruises, crying bitterly, and acting timid; overall, he was just like she had been in the past.

What was interesting was that when the target of the beating changed, those relatives who had previously urged her to endure it changed their tune.

"Wang Jia, how can you beat your own husband? That is truly outrageous."

Wang Jia replied, "I was just drunk and my head was muddled. Now that I'm sober, I feel more heartache for him than any of you!"

"I definitely won't hit him next time. It's fine, these are just external injuries, they heal fast! It won't delay the housework, hurry up and go make dinner for me!"

When the next time came, she continued to beat him, and the relatives came to advise her again.

This time, Wang Jie didn't waste words and beat the relatives as well.

"Didn't you all advise me to endure it before? Why aren't you advising him? He's doing it for the children and for this family, so what's wrong with enduring a little?"

"Haven't you heard that it's better to tear down a temple than to break up a marriage? If you dare to talk my husband into running away, I'll go to your house and live with you!"

They were so scared that no more relatives dared to go to their house to mediate.

Calling the police didn't work either; when she saw the public security officers, Wang Jie's attitude was better than anyone's, but once they left, she beat him even harder.

In short, the good days for Wang Jie had truly arrived; the mother-in-law did the housework, the husband took care of the children, and she was only responsible for working and beating people.

In short, Wang Jie was capable in both civil and martial matters, and Si Rong was very at ease leaving the garment factory to her.

Knowing that Si Rong was going out to travel, Jiang Qi felt somewhat uncomfortable.

So she wasn't willing to help her take care of the child because she wanted to go travel.

Although traveling was her freedom, she was, after all, Jiang Cheng's sister.

She felt that Si Rong might not love Jiang Cheng that much; if one truly loved someone, one should be willing to do anything to help them.

The reason she wanted to go abroad was because her true love was abroad.

But now her family was making her choose between her lover and her child.

Yes, her current lover was not Jiang Zhi's father.

Jiang Zhi's father was an overseas Chinese in America; he had the common flaws of all Huaguo men—arrogant and boring.

Therefore, she had never thought about being with that man.

The arrival of this daughter was just an accident.

Regarding her mother asking her to stay and take care of the child, Jiang Qi still decided to have a good talk with her when she had time.

If she were made to keep taking care of a child who only knew how to cry and make a fuss, she would go crazy.

She was a woman of the new era and could not just revolve around a child.

She had to go to work and see the world.

Hearing these words, Hu Qian felt like her brain was about to explode.

Thinking of the gossip those people in the compound said behind her back, she really couldn't keep her temper gentle.

"I don't agree. I don't want to hear those messy, nonsensical reasons. I only know that you have a child now, so you must learn to be a mother! Once you've learned how to be a good mother, then you can talk about other things."

"You are truly unreasonable!"

"I want to take Xiao Zhi abroad!"

Slap—

Hu Qian gave her a slap directly, "How can you be so selfish? You're just like your Nainai!"

This sentence made the room suddenly quiet down.

Actually, after Hu Qian finished saying this, she immediately regretted it in her heart.

But she had already been pushed out by Jiang Qi, who then locked the door.

For the whole day, Jiang Qi refused to come out of the room, neither eating nor drinking.

When Si Rong received the call, she felt a headache; she felt that this matter was not Hu Qian's fault.

All of Jiang Qi's thoughts started from her own perspective; if only she had stood in her parents' and Xiao Zhi's shoes for even a moment, perhaps Hu Qian wouldn't have been able to say that.

Si Rong didn't know what she could do when she went back, but she couldn't just do nothing.

When she returned, Xu Yan and Jiang Yu were already at home.

Hu Qian's eyes were very red; clearly, she was blaming herself deeply.

"I don't know why I said that back then, even though I knew she hated your Nainai the most."

"Mom, don't be upset," Si Rong comforted her, "It's not entirely your problem."

"Big sister will surely understand eventually; you not letting her take the child abroad is for her own good."

Someone as emotionally immature as Jiang Qi would find it difficult to provide a good life for the child abroad.

It might even be worse than leaving the child at home.

"It's all my fault, Rongrong, please try to persuade her; at least have her come out to eat something," Hu Qian worried about what would happen if she got so angry that her breast milk dried up.

"Mom, have you not eaten today either?" Si Rong said to Jiang Yu, "Let Mom eat something first."

"Alright, I'll eat."

Si Rong walked to the room where Jiang Qi was staying and knocked on the door first, "Sister, it's me."

Then Jiang Qi opened the door.

This left Hu Qian and the others stunned, and then, not knowing what Si Rong had said to her inside, Jiang Qi came out to eat.

It was just that the relationship between her and Hu Qian remained somewhat stiff.

"Sister-in-law, what did you say to sister when you went in just now?" Jiang Yu was even a bit impressed.

Si Rong saw he was anxious and deliberately kept him in suspense, "I won't tell you."

Jiang Qi's knot in her heart was that remark about being like her Nainai; Si Rong simply spoke from her own perspective and shared her opinion, which was that being like Old Madam Jiang was not a bad thing.

Although she was bizarre and often left people speechless, she did have merits; her merit was that no matter what happened, Old Madam Jiang would always start from her own interests, putting herself before others.

For example, the time when she was young and ate white steamed buns while letting her husband and children eat cornmeal buns.

An excellent woman should be like that, putting herself first.

Of course, this was the high-emotional-intelligence way of putting it; to express it with low emotional intelligence, it was still just being selfish.

It was merely phrased in a way that Jiang Qi could more easily accept.

Si Rong didn't intend to meddle too much in her affairs; as long as she was willing to come out to eat, she considered Hu Qian's request fulfilled.

Tomorrow she had to go to Yunchuan with Ming Zi, and on the way home on foot, Si Rong ran into Li Xuan and her daughter.

The mother and daughter were ahead of her, likely having just come from the direction of the vegetable market.

Li Xuan was looking down and saying something to Shen Yuan from time to time, walking with hurried steps.

Si Rong suddenly felt that this was actually a particularly good opportunity to test them, so she shouted loudly behind Shen Yuan, "Bai Mo!"