Chapter 519: The Mother-in-Law Seems Like a Different Person

Shi Youxuan is not someone who likes to nag or talk about people behind their backs.

But she has already endured it for quite a few days; she really cannot endure it any longer, nor does she intend to keep enduring it.

So, she told her husband about these trivial little things from the past few days, including what happened this morning.

"I'm losing weight, and following the teacher's requirements to build a parent-child relationship with Zichen while losing weight. Originally, the two of us were playing quite well, and Zichen was quite happy, but Mom insisted that I would drop the child."

"I asked her to take Zichen away, and then she said I shouldn't lose weight, that if I get thin I won't have milk to feed the child... blah blah blah, she kept saying it in my ear, kept saying it, I was about to go crazy!"

Wang Yinghao was not like this before.

Ever since Xiao Erbao was born, it is as if she has turned into a different person!

Sheng Hanyu comforted his wife: "Don't worry, I will go talk to Mom, she will change."

"She won't."

Shi Youxuan shook her head.

She wants to live separately from the elderly now.

Shi Youxuan thinks quite far ahead; right now Xiao Erbao is still small, so these trivial bumps and stumbles are nothing.

Of course, she could also accommodate her mother-in-law to keep her happy.

But what about later?

Seeing one spot, one can see the whole leopard.

From now, she can imagine that in the future, Xiao Erbao will definitely be spoiled rotten by his grandparents.

If they don't live together and only see each other once a week, spoiling him a little is fine.

But if everyone lives together, seeing each other every day, every time she tries to discipline the child, the elderly will come over to interfere...

Shi Youxuan gets a headache just thinking about it.

She wants to live separately.

She brought this idea up to her husband, but her husband, who has always been completely obedient to her, did not agree this time.

Of course, he didn't say he disagreed either.

Instead, he avoided the important and dwelt on the trivial, emphasizing that he would go talk to Mom, and they would discuss it after he finished talking.

Her mother-in-law is incredibly stubborn when it comes to Xiao Erbao; will she change just from a talk?

She doesn't believe it.

Sheng Hanyu said: "We have to try to know; wait for my good news."

"Mm."

Shi Youxuan agreed, though she didn't hold much hope.

Sheng Hanyu went to find Wang Yinghao, and before he could even open his mouth, his mother started shedding tears.

She didn't say anything, just cried.

Her crying threw Sheng Hanyu's original plan into disarray.

He pulled a few tissues from the box and handed them over: "Mom, don't cry. If you have any grievances, tell me, I will make the decision for you."

Wang Yinghao spoke: "Hanyu, although you have called me Auntie since you were small, you know what kind of person I am, right? Am I an unreasonable person?"

"You are not."

Having received his son's affirmative answer.

Wang Yinghao's belly full of bitterness finally found an outlet, and she began to pour it out: "You know how I am toward you, and you should also see how I am toward your wife and children. I have no other thoughts now, I just want the whole family to live together harmoniously, but why is it so difficult?"

"Xuanxuan is a good woman, she is good to you and the children, but her temper is always like a child's, which is no good. She treats raising children like playing with toys, and my heart goes up and down following her, yet she won't let me speak..."

"And usually, when the child is sleeping soundly, she insists on waking him up, saying it's to play with him? You listen, is that something a mother should say?"

"And what family has such a small child who doesn't sleep when they want to sleep and eat when they wake up?"

"She doesn't allow it, she wants to fix Zichen's schedule..."

Sheng Hanyu interjected: "Mom, those are things the maternity matron and infant care specialist said; nowadays everyone practices scientific parenting!"

Wang Yinghao started wiping her tears again: "Fine, fine, you are scientific, I am not scientific. I wasn't scientific, yet you still grew up this big. You never talked back to me from childhood to adulthood, and now that you have a wife, even you have become a parenting expert!"

Sheng Hanyu:...

He finally discovered that his wife was right!

Mom had suddenly become unreasonable, without even a transition.

He couldn't raise any objections; as long as he opposed her, it meant he was on Shi Youxuan's side and disliked her.

In the end, he came out of his mother's room, having returned empty-handed.

He couldn't go back to his room now either.

He had been so certain in front of his wife when he left, how could he go back now that he hadn't accomplished it?

His brows were tightly locked.

When Sheng Hanyu dealt with business matters, he never even had to frown.

No matter how difficult a problem was, it wasn't a problem to him, but now he felt it was difficult to handle.

They had weathered so many great storms, and the whole family could withstand the test of life and death, yet he had a splitting headache over such a small matter as how to raise a child.

Sheng Hanyu sent a WeChat message to his wife: There is an emergency at the company, I am going to handle it, I will probably be back later, if you are sleepy, go to sleep first, don't wait for me.

Shi Youxuan only replied with one word—Get lost!

She threw the phone onto the bed and hugged her pillow, feeling unhappy.

What going to the company?

It was just an excuse.

He couldn't communicate with his mother at all; Shi Youxuan had thought of this long ago.

If he couldn't communicate, he should think of other ways; what is this business of simply escaping?

……

The office in the Ginza Building.

Several men sat in a circle around the coffee table.

On the coffee table were beer, spicy gluten strips, peanuts, and beef jerky.

The few of them chatted while eating.

Yun Zhe Hao complained, "You two are truly brothers, henpecked and afraid of your wives."

"You're in a bad mood and came out to drown your sorrows in alcohol, but you didn't even dare to go to a nightclub, and instead ran to an office. If this got out, wouldn't it make people laugh their heads off?"

Sheng Hanyu glanced at him, picked up a few peanuts to eat, and didn't make a sound.

Sheng Zerong said, "That's enough out of you, that's about enough. We're all buddies, who doesn't know who? You're still putting on airs in front of the two of us."

"When Ma Ling'er is at home, why don't you say things like that?"

Ma Ling'er had gone to the United States to attend an academic seminar at a medical school and was not at home.

If she were at home, Yun Zhe Hao would have to report even for drinking; otherwise, he would have to kneel on a keyboard when he got back. Others might not know his glorious history, but these two brothers knew it well.

They were all men afraid of their wives, the pot calling the kettle black.

Yun Zhe Hao chuckled and raised his glass, "Cheers!"

Then the three brothers clinked glasses.

Sheng Hanyu urged, "Stop talking nonsense, you two. Think of a way for me: how can I ease the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law?"

Yun Zhe Hao: "I just said it, just don't live together. But you don't agree, so there's nothing I can do."

Sheng Zerong was more straightforward and only said one word: "Correct!"

Sheng Hanyu: ……

This was the same as saying nothing.

He did not want to live separately.

The more things he experienced and the older he got, the more he felt that what his grandfather said back then made sense—when parents are alive, the family should not be divided!

Moreover, he felt that the situation at home now had not reached the point where it was absolutely necessary to divide the family.

It was just a small conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, not something irreconcilable.

But how to reconcile it?

The two brothers in front of him clearly were the same as him and had no way either.

"Ring, ring……"

Sheng Zerong's phone rang; Jian Yixin was urging him to go home, so this guy forgot to even say goodbye and left in a hurry.

Yun Zhe Hao mocked him, "Ze Rong really can't see things clearly. Back then, so many gentle and lovely girls were chasing him, but he only had eyes for Jian Yixin. And look at the result, he has no freedom at all now..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Ma Ling'er called via video—a spot check!

Seeing him in the office with Sheng Hanyu sitting next to him, Ma Ling'er nodded with satisfaction.

However, upon seeing the beer bottles on the coffee table, the smile on her face vanished: "Yun Zhe Hao, go home immediately and check the children's homework. If you aren't home in half an hour, you're dead."

The screen went black.

Ma Ling'er hung up directly.

"This woman is too much. Who does she think she is? The King of Heaven? She's on a business trip and still controlling me. I'm not going back, let's see what she can do to me."