Chapter 635: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 635: You Must Play the Role of a Virtuous Wife and Good Mother

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the blink of an eye it was evening; Wang Dashan brought his parents back after strolling outside, Du Xiaojuan was busy with work and hadn't returned yet, so Wang Dashan thought he would cook some rice and dishes and wait for Du Xiaojuan to come back to eat together.

Wang Changgen said:

"How can a man cook? Don't cook, wait for her to come back and cook!"

Wang Dashan's face was full of embarrassment, and he could only laugh dryly.

"I'll do it."

Li Xiulan got up and went to the kitchen at this time.

She didn't want any conflict to arise over such a small matter.

Wang Changgen pulled her back:

"We're guests here, so you don't need to cook either; just wait for the meal."

Wang Dashan was quite speechless:

"Dad, Xiaojuan is very busy at the company; we came back first, what's wrong with me cooking a meal?"

Wang Changgen was very firm:

"Anyway, a man absolutely cannot cook; if you go cook, I'll look down on you!"

Wang Dashan felt anger rising in his heart because of Wang Changgen's attitude.

With his attitude, it was absolutely impossible for him to get along well with Du Xiaojuan.

Only now did Wang Dashan deeply understand why Du Xiaojuan had opposed them coming to live here long-term in the first place.

"Fine, then let's wait for Xiaojuan to come back and go out to eat together."

Wang Dashan answered like this.

Wang Changgen said:

"Aren't there still plenty of dishes in the refrigerator at home? Why go out to eat? Anyway, I'm not going out to eat; it's expensive and not hygienic."

Wang Dashan was speechless to the extreme.

He couldn't help but say:

"Why don't we just go back to Shanggou Village later? I think you're not used to living here either."

Wang Changgen immediately became unhappy:

"What do you mean? Are you trying to drive us away?"

"I don't mean that." Wang Dashan took a deep breath, then suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing." Li Xiulan hurried over to smooth things over, "I'll cook the dishes; I'm not a guest of Dashan and Xiaojuan, I'm their family. If you cook and don't want to eat, then you can just go hungry!"

Li Xiulan also pulled Wang Dashan: "Dashan, help me in the kitchen; don't mind him, he's just got this bad temper!"

"Okay, Mom."

Wang Dashan followed Li Xiulan to the kitchen; Li Xiulan cut meat, and Wang Dashan washed vegetables.

Wang Changgen smoked in the living room with a gloomy face.

It was obvious he had wanted to assert his authority just now but hadn't succeeded, so he was sulking in his heart.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Li Xiulan was comforting Wang Dashan:

"Dashan, don't mind your dad; don't you know his temper? Don't talk back to him. If you think he's wrong, just don't do what he says, but don't argue. Once they argue, he gets excited, and once he's excited, he might lose consciousness. He's had a cerebral infarction and left with aftereffects."

"Mm, I know, Mom." Wang Dashan nodded in agreement, but still couldn't help muttering, "I just think he's a bit unreasonable. Xiaojuan is busy with work, and today I happened to come back early; what's wrong with cooking a meal? At noon it was still Xiaojuan who cooked for us."

"He's just like that—old-fashioned, a male chauvinist, and obsessed with face."

Wang Dashan glanced at Li Xiulan and suddenly asked:

"Mom, you've followed him for half your life; don't you feel wronged?"

Li Xiulan was stunned for a moment, then gave a helpless, bitter smile:

"Saying I'm not wronged would be false. We women—marriage is like a seed. Once this seed is thrown out and takes root and sprouts, there's no going back. Even if it grows in a crack in the stone, you have to grit your teeth and persist. Fortunately, we have you three brothers; otherwise, I might not have lived to this day."

Hearing this, Wang Dashan couldn't help but feel sympathy in his heart.

Thinking about how his mother had come this far, it was indeed not easy.

And his mother's hardships were almost all directly or indirectly caused by his father.

This made this old man seem especially hateful.

But as his three sons, they couldn't do anything to this old man.

Now they three had all become successful.

This old man, who hadn't contributed much in his youth, was now naturally enjoying the benefits brought by his three sons.

And now he was even meddling in his Wang Dashan's marriage.

Although Wang Dashan wasn't highly educated, after being tempered by society, he had gained some enlightenment.

He naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to listen to Wang Changgen and insist that Du Xiaojuan cook. He admitted that sometimes he would unconsciously show male chauvinism and a love of face, which was caused by the powerful influence of genetic inheritance, but he would try his best to control himself and constantly remind himself that he absolutely must not follow that old man's old path.

Du Xiaojuan was now worth tens of millions, a successful female CEO at a young age. As long as his Wang Dashan wasn't addled in the head, he would definitely choose to respect Du Xiaojuan and try to make her life more comfortable, instead of creating difficulties where there were none and manufacturing conflicts where there were none.

If Wang Changgen really insisted on forcing him to create difficulties and conflicts, then he would really immediately send him back to Shanggou Village, no negotiation even if he was his biological father.

In the blink of an eye it was past eight in the evening.

Du Xiaojuan returned.

Li Xiulan and Wang Dashan had already prepared a table full of dishes.

Li Xiulan's cooking wasn't very good; she was just a rural woman who made home-style dishes, nothing as refined as city restaurants.

But Du Xiaojuan didn't dislike it either; she smiled and praised Li Xiulan's stir-fried greens as delicious, saying she couldn't replicate that flavor no matter how she cooked them, and that she'd ask Li Xiulan to teach her when she had time.

Li Xiulan wore a simple smile; being praised by her daughter-in-law made her feel proud inside.

"In the rural area, I've stir-fried greens for a lifetime; this is all I know!"

Li Xiulan was being humble.

Wang Zhanggen beside her had kept a dark face, then suddenly blurted out:

"Delicious my ass! I don't want to eat this after one bite."

As soon as he said that, the whole dinner table suddenly fell silent.

The atmosphere changed abruptly.

Wang Dashan finally couldn't hold back, slamming his chopsticks down hard on the table:

"If you're not comfortable here, I'll send you back tomorrow morning!"

Wang Zhanggen pulled a long face, stewed in silence, and said nothing.

No one knew why he suddenly became so unreasonable.

Everything had been fine before.

It could only be said that ever since he learned Wu Banxian said Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan had wealth without children, his attitude changed.

Strangely enough, in other families the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict was more prominent, but in this family, Li Xiulan and Du Xiaojuan got along quite well; instead, Wang Zhanggen and Du Xiaojuan, this father-in-law and daughter-in-law, didn't get along anywhere.

Actually, ever since Du Xiaojuan first went with Wang Dashan to meet the parents, Wang Zhanggen hadn't liked Du Xiaojuan, didn't know why, anyway just didn't like her; later after Du Xiaojuan spent the New Year and then broke up with Wang Dashan, he liked her even less.

That kind of emotion only weakened later when Du Xiaojuan earned a lot of money.

But now that he learned Du Xiaojuan and Wang Dashan had wealth without children, that emotion surfaced again, impossible to suppress.

"Dad, if you're tired of Mom's cooking, I'll take you out to eat something else later; tell me whatever you want to eat."

Du Xiaojuan had already sensed the strange atmosphere, but still kept her emotions steady, patiently comforting Wang Zhanggen.

Wang Zhanggen still kept a stern face, even lecturing Du Xiaojuan:

"Going out to eat so late at night? Stop always thinking about going out to play; you married Dashan, so you must play the role of a virtuous wife and good mother!"