Chapter 461: Dad is Away, I Will Protect Mom

Using death as a threat is useless.

Jian Yining knew his mother wouldn't actually die over such a matter, and he wasn't saying he wouldn't get married; he would just drag it out anyway.

He could afford to drag it out, but Lady Jian could not wait.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became; what kind of love potion had Shi Youxuan fed her son and daughter?

The children she had raised with such hardship were now wholeheartedly thinking of Shi Youxuan; by what right?

Lady Jian dialed Shi Youxuan's number—she had been blocked.

This infuriated her; she didn't think Shi Youxuan blocked her because she didn't want to lower herself to her level, but only felt that Shi Youxuan was feeling guilty.

So, she stormed over to her Apartment to demand an explanation, but she couldn't even get through the front gate.

The last time Lady Jian had come to the Apartment to make a scene, Shi Youxuan had already notified the property management, telling them not to let this person in if they saw her again, so as to avoid getting upset.

That's right, Shi Youxuan wasn't afraid of getting upset herself.

She just didn't want to have a conflict with Lady Jian and end up upsetting her!

Shi Youxuan's good intentions were not appreciated by Lady Jian.

She only believed that Shi Youxuan was in the wrong and feeling guilty, which was why she didn't dare to see her.

So, she waited outside the unit.

She thought that Shi Youxuan was already five months pregnant, surely she had to go downstairs for a walk, right?

As long as you come out, I will settle the score with you.

Shi Youxuan didn't come out, but Shi Ran came home from school.

The little girl got out of the car and spotted Lady Jian at a glance; she greeted her very politely: "Grandma, are you here to see Mom? Why are you standing outside instead of going in?"

If she had just gone in with Shi Ran, she would have seen Shi Youxuan.

However, that didn't happen; Lady Jian was bursting with anger that she hadn't vented, and now, seeing Shi Ran, she actually lost her temper at a child.

"You little brat, as cunning as your mother. Do you really not know why I'm standing outside? Your mother had people block me from entering; she's feeling guilty and afraid I'll expose her scheme..."

The little girl was stunned at first, then asked with concern: "Grandma, are you not feeling well? Are you okay?"

She couldn't understand why the Jian Family grandma was suddenly so angry; every time they met before, she had been kind and affectionate, and very good to Shi Ran. Shi Ran had always had a good impression of Lady Jian.

Shi Ran's form of address made Lady Jian even angrier.

Her daughter's words had made her very angry, and now Shi Ran calling her "Grandma" with every sentence made her even angrier.

"Don't call me Grandma! Just because of you and the little thing in your mother's belly, I can't even hold my own biological grandchild. It's all your fault, it's all your family's fault..."

Although Shi Ran was young, after listening for a while, she understood.

So, it was their fault that the aunt wasn't having children?

This was too unreasonable.

"Miss, let's go back." Fang Jie's face turned pale with anger, but she wasn't good at arguing with people.

Fang Jie, like the aunt, had a gentle and soft personality, and besides, their social statuses were not equal.

"No!"

Shi Ran shook off Fang Jie, stood in front of Lady Jian, stared into her eyes, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Go away. Don't come here to harass my mother again, or I won't be polite to you."

After Shi Ran was bullied by a classmate at school last time, Shi Youxuan told her that she could not bully others, but she didn't need to be afraid of those who bullied her, and she certainly didn't need to endure it!

Some people bully others not because the person being bullied did something wrong, but simply because they are easy to bully.

Shi Ran remembered, and now she was using it.

Lady Jian didn't take the threat of a six-year-old girl seriously at all. Her belly full of anger hadn't been vented yet, and seeing Shi Ran dare to talk back to her, she angrily raised her hand to hit her.

"You stinky girl, just like your mother, sharp-tongued."

Shi Ran was as agile as a loach; before Lady Jian's slap could land, she darted out from her side, circled behind her, and gave her a hard push—"Hey, ouch!"

Lady Jian lost her balance, stumbled forward two steps, and fell.

She fell flat on the ground, on all fours.

This was bad; she was almost sixty years old, hopefully she wasn't hurt.

Fang Jie hurried over to help her up. Lady Jian climbed up from the ground, her lips trembling with rage: "No upbringing, absolutely no upbringing!"

She was a person with "upbringing," so she wouldn't chase after a child to get revenge.

Lady Jian left the residential complex angrily and called her son and daughter one after another.

She accused others first, blaming Shi Youxuan for being vulgar and saying the daughter she raised had no upbringing either.

She also told both of them separately: "Between me and Shi Youxuan, you two siblings choose one. You're grown up now and have hardened wings, so I can't control you, but if you two don't cut ties with Shi Youxuan, then cut ties with me!"

At Shi Youxuan's home.

Fang Jie recounted what happened downstairs to Shi Youxuan, point by point, without any exaggeration and certainly without concealment.

Shi Youxuan rubbed her forehead.

That's right, she did teach her child not to bully others, and not to be bullied.

But she shouldn't have pushed someone; she should have just run away.

The aunt wanted to smooth things over, thinking Shi Ran was a child and that pushing someone was definitely wrong, so she planned to have her granddaughter apologize to Lady Jian.

Shi Youxuan stopped her: "No need to apologize to her. Ranran didn't do anything wrong in this matter. She is acting disrespectfully for her age, so we have no upbringing; that's it, let it be whatever it will be."

The aunt:...

Soon, Jian Yining called, but he wasn't there to demand an explanation; instead, he took all the blame upon himself.

Jian Yining apologized to Shi Youxuan: "Xuanxuan, I'm sorry. My mother is just being protective of her own. Because I refuse to get married early according to her wishes, she is taking her anger out on you all. Ranran was implicated by me; tell Ranran I apologize to her..."

Soon, Jian Yixin also arrived, bringing a pile of snacks and Lego toys for Shi Ran as compensation.

What she said was much the same as her brother's; she took the blame upon herself, apologized to Shi Youxuan and her daughter, and said she would keep her mother in check so she wouldn't come here again...

Shi Youxuan finally understood what was going on.

She first criticized the sister and brother, telling them that those who should get married should get married, and those who should have children should have children.

If they delayed the important events of their lives because of guilt, she would also feel guilty and uneasy.

Shi Youxuan even took the initiative to call Lady Jian, telling her that she would persuade Jian Yining to get married soon and persuade Jian Yixin to have children soon, and asked her not to be angry anymore.

Shi Youxuan was magnanimous, and Lady Jian also began to blame herself.

After all, Sheng Hanyu went missing because he saved her son; although Jin Wan'er was also saved, Jin Wan'er was also a member of her Jian Family.

Lady Jian was protective of her own, but she was not completely unreasonable.

Shi Youxuan gave her a way out, and she took it.

Lady Jian also took the opportunity to apologize to Shi Youxuan, saying that she had been blinded by anger at the time, and that she was the one who was wrong first...

A storm was dissolved into nothingness.

Small Fishing Village.

The women stood on the shore, craning their necks in anticipation, with several strings of bright red firecrackers hanging on the racks behind them.

Today was the day the men of the Fishing Village returned from the sea, but today was different from previous voyages because they were going to sail back the largest fishing boat.

Yano said the new fishing boat was eighty meters long, had three thousand horsepower, was not only faster, but could also withstand level ten wind and waves at sea!

Withstanding level ten wind and waves; this meant that if they had had such a fishing boat earlier, many of the shipwrecks that had occurred could have been avoided...

The whole village was in an uproar.

All of this was Yano's credit.

He was like a lucky star for this village; ever since that broken fishing boat was repaired, Yano had led the villagers to continuously create miracles and rapidly build their wealth.