Chapter 866: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 866: Zhang Zhongtian's Way of Handling Matters

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Seeing Zhang Zhongtian point at her nose and curse loudly, Ma Xiaolin couldn't help but feel some fear.

Zhang Zhiqiang, however, gripped her hand tightly:

"Xiaolin, don't be afraid, I'll protect you!"

Zhang Zhiqiang also said to Zhang Zhongtian:

"Dad, I'm your son, how can you not stand on my side? Instead you go help Li Xiaohe?"

Zhang Zhongtian was about to be angered to death:

"It's precisely because you're my son that I must scold you awake! Acting like this as a man, you'll face retribution! Anyway, I absolutely won't let you be with this woman, unless I die!"

Zhang Zhiqiang then said:

"If you don't agree to me being with Xiaolin, then I'll never come back to this home again!"

Zhang Zhiqiang thought that as long as he threatened like this, Zhang Zhongtian would soften up and make concessions.

After all, he was Zhang Zhongtian's only child!

Zhang Zhongtian couldn't possibly not want this only child, right?

However, to Zhang Zhiqiang's surprise, Zhang Zhongtian immediately pointed at the gate:

"Get out, get out right now, and never come back again!"

Seeing this, Zhang Zhiqiang huffed angrily:

"Fine fine fine, that's what you said, I'm leaving and you better not regret it!"

Having said that, Zhang Zhiqiang turned to leave.

Yao Aina hurried forward to grab him:

"Son, don't be impulsive!"

Then she hurriedly turned back to say to Zhang Zhongtian:

"Old man, let's talk nicely, don't just chase people away at every turn, he's our only son!"

Zhang Zhongtian huffed angrily:

"I don't have a son like this, a son like this throws away all of Zhang Zhongtian's face!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhiqiang also acted out of spite:

"Fine fine fine, then I'll just go!"

Immediately he took Ma Xiaolin and left, and as he went out the door he still dropped a ruthless line:

"Don't you come begging me to come back later!"

Seeing this, Yao Aina wanted to chase after them, but Zhang Zhongtian said:

"You get back here, no chasing allowed!"

Yao Aina sighed:

"Family misfortune, family misfortune ah, how could such a thing happen!"

And to the side, Li Xiaohe and Zhang Jiajun were both still crying.

Yao Aina saw Li Xiaohe's tearful appearance, and not only did she not sympathize, she instead felt some resentment in her heart:

"Xiaohe, did you do something to let Zhiqiang down ah!"

Li Xiaohe hurriedly denied it:

"I didn't! I've been staying in Shangou Village the whole time, even if I wanted to do something to let him down, I couldn't manage it ah!"

Yao Aina had nothing to say.

She and Li Xiaohe lived under the same roof, bowing their heads they'd see each other when they looked up; actually, even without Li Xiaohe saying it, she knew Li Xiaohe hadn't done anything to let Zhang Zhiqiang down.

It's just, no matter how you put it, Zhang Zhiqiang was her son, so in her heart she was definitely biased toward Zhang Zhiqiang.

"Dad, Mom, Zhiqiang doesn't want me anymore, what am I to do? Do you not want me either?"

Li Xiaohe cried, eyes full of grievance.

If both Zhang Zhongtian and Yao Aina didn't want her, then she could only go back to her maternal home.

She'd been married over here for so long already; if she went back now, she didn't know what attitude that side would have toward her.

She just felt her life was bitter.

Clearly she hadn't done anything wrong, devoted herself wholeheartedly to raising children in the rural area, so how did she end up abandoned by her husband in the end?

Can only say, this thing called love really cannot withstand the test of human nature.

And within human nature, desire occupies the majority.

So most men and women who go out to work in big cities inevitably stir up some trouble out there.

Just some hide it well, and nothing happens.

Some hide it poorly, to the point that a perfectly good family ends up shattered because of it.

In that era, in big cities like Dongguan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, there were too many temporary couples.

Some were both single, and after coming and going they got together.

Some were one single, one already attached, like Zhang Zhiqiang and Ma Xiaolin's case.

Some were both already with families, and to solve physiological needs they got together.

Both sides knew each other's situations, very tacitly not piercing that layer of window paper, waiting until Spring Festival to very tacitly each return to their own home.

"Xiao He, don't cry!"

Seeing his daughter-in-law crying with tears streaming down her face, Zhang Zhongtian hurried over to comfort her, and he also said:

"You remember this: today it's not that Zhang Zhiqiang doesn't want you anymore, it's that we don't want Zhang Zhiqiang anymore! You continue living well in our family! Take good care of Jia Jun, don't think about anything else! Anyway, I definitely won't let you suffer!"

Zhang Zhongtian truly lived up to being an old hand who had served as Village Committee Secretary for over a decade; once these words were spoken, Li Xiaohe's heart settled considerably.

At a time like this, what Li Xiaohe needed most was her father-in-law and mother-in-law's support; if even her in-laws didn't support her, then her world would truly come crashing down.

But if her father-in-law and mother-in-law both supported her, then her life could at least carry on.

Hearing Zhang Zhongtian's words, Yao Aina felt somewhat unhappy:

"You really don't want your son anymore!"

As she spoke these words, her tone carried a complaining meaning.

Zhang Zhongtian said coldly:

"A worthless son like this, better off without! One more doesn't make it many, one less doesn't make it few! Don't we still have this grandson Jia Jun! Raise Jia Jun well, and in the future all the family assets will go to Jia Jun and Xiao He; let's see how much longer Zhang Zhiqiang can keep jumping around!"

Yao Aina felt Zhang Zhongtian's words were very inappropriate; no matter what, Zhang Zhiqiang was their only son, how could he be so heartless?

However, before she could open her mouth, Zhang Zhongtian said:

"Don't say anything, I'll handle this matter!"

Yao Aina could only shut her mouth.

Because she knew, in the family Zhang Zhongtian had always had the final say, not allowing anyone to refute him.

After Zhang Zhongtian went and soothed Li Xiaohe, he had Li Xiaohe take the child upstairs to the second floor to rest.

While he and Yao Aina went to the kitchen to cook.

At this time Zhang Zhongtian then said to Yao Aina:

"Don't think I'm being too ruthless doing this; if I didn't do this, I couldn't settle Xiao He's heart. If Xiao He left, what would we do about our grandson? He's still so young, he absolutely cannot be without a mother!"

Yao Aina said dejectedly:

"Then you just don't want your son anymore?"

Zhang Zhongtian immediately made a "tsk" sound:

"How can you not understand? What words should be said and what words shouldn't be said, what things should be done and what things shouldn't be done, what things can be done openly and what things must be done secretly — all of this has its ways!"

Yao Aina was even more confused:

"What do your words mean?"

Zhang Zhongtian said:

"You call Zhang Zhiqiang right now, then let me say a couple of sentences to him."

Yao Aina said coldly:

"Why don't you call yourself?"

Zhang Zhongtian said:

"I just said so many harsh words to him; if I call now, with that stubborn temperament of his, he definitely won't pick up."

Only then did Yao Aina take out her mobile phone and call Zhang Zhiqiang.

"Hello, son, where did you go?"

The call connected, and Yao Aina asked with concern.

"Mom, Xiaolin and I went back to the city; since you don't want me anymore, I'm never coming back."

Zhang Zhiqiang was still sulking; his parents' reaction just now had hurt his heart too much.

Yao Aina hurriedly said:

"You mustn't be like this; if you're like this Mom will be very sad."

At this moment Zhang Zhongtian took Yao Aina's mobile phone:

"Zhang Zhiqiang, you brat, can't your brain be a bit sharper? Always doing brainless stupid things! If you find a woman outside I have no opinion, but you bring the woman back and don't even give me advance notice — that's truly stupid beyond measure! My scolding you just now was all for your own good, you know that?"

Zhang Zhiqiang was stunned; his father said so much, but he only heard the sentence "I have no opinion on you finding a woman outside," and didn't take in a single other sentence.

"Dad, you mean... you approve of me and Xiaolin being together?"