Chapter 41: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter Forty-One — Hard

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Many things appear ordinary, no different from before, but that was only because Su Wan had always endured and yielded in the past.

The events of these past few days, Su Wan has also seen with her own eyes and kept in her heart.

Hearing Chai Mi say this, she didn't even raise her head; in her heart she agreed, yet she still had some reservations: "Chai Mi, you understand your maternal grandmother's family situation... that... sigh..."

Chai Mi couldn't help but sigh as well: Every family has its own hard-to-recite scripture.

Chai Mi has three maternal uncles, and also three aunts. Da Jiu Chai Rong, Second Uncle Chai Tang, Youngest Uncle Chai Qing.

Among them, only Da Jiu Chai Rong is a biological son, while Second Uncle Chai Tang and Youngest Uncle Chai Qing are the sons of Chai Mi's maternal great-grandfather's real brothers. Unfortunately, during Liberation, Chai Mi's maternal great-grandfather's real brothers sacrificed themselves for the country and became martyrs, leaving behind only orphans and widows. Chai Mi's maternal grandfather and grandmother helped raise Second Uncle and Youngest Uncle.

Chai Tang and Chai Qing also acknowledged Chai Mi's maternal grandfather as their own birth father.

Those bitter days were just endured and passed.

Now with Reform and Opening-up, in the first two years the state posthumously recognized martyr survivors. Chai Tang and Chai Qing's mother was still alive, and the two brothers along with their elderly mother were also designated as survivors, receiving a very large sum of compensation money.

It is said this money is in the hands of Chai Qing and Chai Tang's elderly mother.

And it just so happened that Chai Mi's Da Jiu Chai Rong's son Chai Zongxun was marrying a wife. Chai Rong calculated that they were all real brothers, and their father had raised them for twenty-odd years. Now his own son was marrying a wife, so going to borrow a bit of money should still be acceptable.

The result was that they didn't manage to borrow any...

This caused Chai Mi's aunt-in-laws, the several sisters-in-law, to harbor dissatisfaction, each resenting the other.

One side said: "My father raised you brothers for so many years; never mind other things, you ate so much of his rice, you ought to give back at least something."

The other side said: "That is the martyr subsidy money from the old father; it was exchanged for the old father's life back then. This money cannot be given."

Chai Mi's maternal grandfather Chai Shouli was also caught in a dilemma on both sides. As a result, he suppressed his anger, and afterward he collapsed. Now he is still hemiplegic, with slurred speech.

And Chai Mi's maternal grandmother, due to excessive toil in her youth, became paralyzed many years ago...

Chai Mi thought of this and her head ached a little.

Grandmother paralyzed, Grandfather hemiplegic, Da Jiu capable but worn down with consumption...

Aunt-in-law is also a competitive, sharp-tongued one, her mouth never idle, speaking with extremely slick and cutting remarks...

Paired with Cousin Chai Zongxun, married just a few years, a lazy, gluttonous sister-in-law, and a slick-tongued four-or-five-year-old niece...

Hiss—

It is said Aunt-in-law goes to the back area to quarrel with Second Aunt-in-law every few days...

Chai Mi gets a splitting headache just thinking about it, but if Mother doesn't go to Grandmother's house, there really is nowhere else to go.

"Mom, it's fine. It's not like you're staying for a year or half a year. You just go back and stay a few days. Later I'll be at home, I'll arrange a full-month banquet for Old Third. Hehe, by then whether they invite you back or not, they'll all be unable to get off the stage."

Chai Mi's words indeed moved Mother Su Wan somewhat. Although she didn't want things to become too stiff with Chai Youqing and Chai Zhongxiao and his wife, matters having come to this, going back to avoid them for some peace and quiet was also good.

Moreover, no matter how you put it, the matter of Chai Youde's broken leg hasn't ended. If Che Lianyun goes over every few days to find fault, Su Wan also feels her confinement month won't be comfortable.

The child is just twenty-odd days old. If he doesn't eat or sleep well, it's too detrimental to his physical development.

Especially during this period right after a small child is born, they need to sleep to shape their head.

That is to say, when the child sleeps, maintain a relatively good posture, lying straight and proper, to avoid lying crookedly, lest the head grow a big flat spot later.