Chapter 660: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 660: Wang Zhanggen Doesn't Feel He Did Anything Wrong

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

At noon Wang Dashan accompanied Du Xiaojuan to find a cha chaan teng to grab a meal.

As for Wang Xiaohua and Wang Erhai, they found a restaurant of decent style, reserved a table, then called Liu Mei Qi to ask her to drive Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan over for dinner.

At this time Liu Mei Qi, Wang Zhanggen, and Li Xiulan were still in the living room.

Wang Zhanggen's face was black as iron.

Li Xiulan was quite displeased, and she couldn't help but say a few words to Wang Zhanggen:

"It's the Spring Festival, can't you keep your mouth shut? You keep saying unlucky things, and if because of what you said today Dashan and Xiaojuan get divorced, I'd like to see what you do!"

Wang Zhanggen was completely unaware of his own mistake:

"If they divorce, that's even better. I still say the same thing: what use is a hen that doesn't lay eggs? Dashan should divorce her and find another! I don't believe that with Dashan's conditions, after divorcing Du Xiaojuan he couldn't find another woman!"

Wang Zhanggen simply couldn't see the situation clearly. If Wang Dashan divorced Du Xiaojuan, he could indeed find another woman, but finding one as good as Du Xiaojuan was probably impossible.

Meeting Du Xiaojuan was actually Wang Dashan's best luck in this life.

"Listen to yourself, what are you saying!"

Li Xiulan was huffing with anger.

Liu Mei Qi hurried over to smooth things over:

"Dad, Mom, stop quarreling. It's the Spring Festival, no need for this."

Wang Zhanggen then asked Liu Mei Qi:

"Mei Qi, you judge for me—is this my fault or Du Xiaojuan's fault?"

What could Liu Mei Qi say?

She couldn't just say it was Wang Zhanggen's fault, after all Wang Zhanggen was her father-in-law.

"Dad, you're not wrong, what you said has some truth, but..."

"See, even Mei Qi says I'm right!"

Liu Mei Qi wanted to say another sentence to turn things around, but was interrupted by Wang Zhanggen.

Wang Zhanggen spoke with weighty words:

"I don't care how capable Du Xiaojuan is or how much money she earns; if she can't bear children, it's no good!"

He also said:

"I'm doing this for Dashan's own good! Otherwise, when he gets old and can't have children, he'll regret it!"

Li Xiulan said coldly:

"Why do you care so much? Their life is their own to manage. Besides, if having a child means the child suffers poverty, it's better not to have one!"

Li Xiulan had experienced the hard years of one person taking care of three children, she knew that hardship well, so she wouldn't insist that Wang Dashan must have children.

Wang Zhanggen was different.

He had never taken care of three children, always acted as a hands-off manager, and had never experienced the hardship of raising children, yet he enjoyed all the benefits brought by three sons—not just financially, but also in honor, enjoying them to the fullest.

So he felt children must be had, and they must be sons; daughters were not enough.

"Look at what you're saying? Did water get into your head? Are you fit to be a mother? Anyway, having children must be done quickly. We as parents must keep urging them!"

Wang Zhanggen said thus.

Li Xiulan said nothing.

Wang Zhanggen turned his head again to ask Liu Mei Qi:

"Mei Qi, do you think what I said makes sense?"

Liu Mei Qi gave a dry laugh:

"It makes sense, it makes sense..."

She couldn't help but sympathize with Eldest Sister-in-law's plight, thinking that if she herself couldn't bear children, would Wang Zhanggen treat her the same way he treated her sister-in-law?

So she said tactfully:

"Dad, is there a possibility that Half-Immortal Wu got it wrong?"

Wang Zhanggen said categorically:

"Impossible. Half-Immortal Wu's calculations are very accurate! He can even calculate who dug our ancestral grave, let alone this small matter?"

Wang Zhanggen got more and more excited, and said to Li Xiulan:

"Why not, let's just have Dashan and Du Xiaojuan divorce! We don't care about her money! Dashan has hands and feet, he doesn't need to eat her soft rice!"

Li Xiulan sighed, feeling quite overwhelmed. She didn't want to take up Wang Zhanggen's topic, so she said:

"Did you forget to take your medicine today when you came here?"

Now Wang Zhanggen had to take a large pile of medicine every day. His underlying illness did severe damage to his body.

Li Xiulan felt it might be because he hadn't taken his medicine that his emotions were so unstable.

"I'm fine, I don't need medicine!"

Wang Zhanggen said thus.

Li Xiulan was stunned:

"So you really didn't take it? I was saying, why is your temper so irritable?"

Li Xiulan sighed again:

"Didn't the doctor say? Every morning when you get up, you must take one Euthyrox!"

Wang Zhanggen said instead:

"I take Euthyrox; without it I have no saliva and feel terrible, and I can't get any energy!"

Wang Zhanggen had thyroid surgery and has to take Euthyrox every day; he indeed takes it on time every morning after getting up, because not taking it makes his mouth dry and leaves him listless.

What he didn't take was the medicine for controlling cerebral thrombosis.

Not taking that stuff for a day or two doesn't seem like anything.

But if you take it, you have to take it together with stomach medicine.

It's very troublesome, and it has side effects too.

So recently he's been taking it every few days, not continuously.

The side effects of this three-days-fishing-two-days-drying-nets approach are obvious: now his thinking isn't as clear as before, and he easily loses his temper.

Just then, Liu Mei Qi's mobile phone rang; it was Wang Erhai calling.

She answered, then said to Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan:

"Dad, Mom, Erhai says he's found a restaurant for lunch; let's go together!"

Wang Zhanggen threw a tantrum instead:

"I'm not going; I don't want to eat with a chicken that can't lay eggs!"

Li Xiulan darkened her face:

"You're not going, huh? Then you stay here by yourself!"

Wang Zhanggen was stunned:

"Then what about my lunch?"

"Just go hungry; see if you starve to death!"

Li Xiulan said coldly.

This New Year was truly vexing; she no longer had her former patience.

Wang Zhanggen thought Li Xiulan would come to persuade him, but unexpectedly Li Xiulan simply didn't want to manage him anymore.

He had nothing more to say.

Liu Mei Qi, seeing this, at this moment persuaded Wang Zhanggen with one sentence:

"Dad, let's just go together; later I'll help you persuade Eldest Sister-in-law, maybe she'll agree to have children. If we speak nicely, maybe tomorrow Eldest Sister-in-law will give you a big fat son!"

Seeing a way out, Wang Zhanggen hurriedly came down.

He still wore a sour old face, but his mouth had already changed its address:

"Then hurry up and set off, don't waste time!"

But he also said coldly: "I think Du Xiaojuan just can't give birth; I've already stopped hoping for her, I can only hope for you, Mei Qi. You and Erhai try harder!"

Liu Mei Qi laughed dryly:

"Okay, Dad, Erhai and I will try hard."

Compared with Wang Zhanggen, Liu Mei Qi, who was always willful and unreasonable, now seemed very virtuous, gentle, and considerate.

Liu Mei Qi drove, carrying Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan, to the hotel where Wang Erhai had reserved a table.

After parking the car, the three went in together.

As a result, inside the private room there were only Wang Erhai and Wang Xiaohua.

Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan were not there.

Wang Zhanggen exploded again:

"Where are Dashan and that egg-laying chicken? Dead somewhere again?"

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