Chapter 967: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 967: If You Want to Work, Play Dead!

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

To put it bluntly, Wang Zhanggen is the same as many men of the older generation — the thoughts in his head are both conservative and extreme.

In his understanding, once married, one must hurry up and have children.

So he doesn't just urge Wang Xiaohua; previously, when Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai got married, he also urged them to have kids early.

And if they had one child, he'd probably urge them to have a second.

Although the family planning policy hadn't been abolished at that time, in Wang Zhanggen's eyes, that policy simply didn't exist.

Think back to those years — no matter how strict the family planning policy was, he and Li Xiulan still had three, didn't they?

More children, more blessings — this ideology is branded like steel into Wang Zhanggen's mind.

And now, his three sons are precisely that promising, which in turn proves the correctness of his thinking, so his urging for grandchildren is even more justified, even more unwavering.

Yet he fails to see that nowadays, men from the countryside generally find it extremely difficult to find partners; leftover men in the countryside are increasing, and some even have university degrees yet still can't find a partner.

People accept only the information they want to accept, intentionally or unintentionally blocking out what they don't want to accept — Wang Zhanggen is exactly like that.

Li Xiulan doesn't want to argue with Wang Zhanggen, so she says she'll call back later to persuade Wang Xiaohua.

But at this moment Wang Zhanggen says:

"No need to call back — you call that brat right now, I'll personally persuade him!"

Li Xiulan can only smile bitterly.

She doesn't want to quarrel with Wang Zhanggen.

After all, they've been quarreling for most of their lives.

So she says:

"Fine then, you talk to him."

She then takes out her mobile phone and dials Wang Xiaohua's number.

Wang Xiaohua had just hung up his mother's call not long ago; now she calls again, leaving him a bit baffled, but he answers anyway.

"Hello, Mom, anything else?"

But Wang Zhanggen's voice comes from the other end:

"Wang Xiaohua, I won't force you on the wedding banquet, but on having a child — you must hurry up and take action for me!"

Wang Zhanggen opens his mouth with a condescending, commanding tone that brooks no refusal.

Wang Xiaohua secretly sighs, utterly speechless.

Still, he suppresses his emotions, because he's no longer that teenager who understood nothing of human relations; on the contrary, he possesses a maturity and emotional intelligence beyond his years.

"Dad, no need for you to remind me — I'll do my best to get it done as soon as possible."

Wang Xiaohua speaks a well-intentioned lie.

Wang Zhanggen is momentarily stunned, completely unexpected that Wang Xiaohua would answer like this.

"For real or fake? You'd better not deceive me — you young people nowadays, not a single one wants kids! Only thinking about enjoying yourselves!"

Wang Xiaohua says:

"Why would I lie to you? I really want to have one early — while you and Mom are still young, we can have a child early and you two can help look after it; if we wait too long and you get old, there'll be no one to help, and Jianjia's parents can't help us either."

With Wang Xiaohua putting it like this, Wang Zhanggen can't refute for a moment.

All the prepared lines criticizing Wang Xiaohua get stuck in his belly, and he can't spit out a single word for a long while.

In the end he can only say:

"If you have this ideological awareness, that's good!"

"Anything else?" Wang Xiaohua laughs inwardly.

This old man just can't be confronted head-on.

As long as this old man asks, he and Li Jianjia have been trying hard to conceive — as for when they actually get pregnant, that's another matter.

"That's it… oh right, make Jianjia eat better — she's too thin, being too thin makes it hard to conceive, let her eat some nutritional supplements."

Wang Zhanggen instructs like this.

"Okay, I'll tell her later — she wants to get pregnant early too."

"For real or fake? Don't lie to me!" Even Wang Xiaohua saying this makes Wang Zhanggen a bit suspicious.

"It's true — why would I lie to you? If you don't believe me, you can call Jianjia yourself and ask her directly!"

Wang Xiaohua is certain Wang Zhanggen won't personally call Li Jianjia.

Never mind that he doesn't have Li Jianjia's phone number — even if he got it, with that stubborn temperament of his, he'd never take the initiative to call and ask Li Jianjia about this.

Because Wang Zhanggen has a very absurd notion in his head: elders cannot call juniors.

"Alright alright, let's leave it at that then!"

Wang Zhanggen hangs up and hands the phone back to Li Xiulan.

Then a smug expression appears on his face, and he exclaims:

"Among the three sons, Xiaohua is still the most sensible — Dashan and Erhai gave us plenty of worry, only Xiaohua, whether it was studying, getting married, or having kids, never once made us worry!"

Wang Zhanggen's old face wears a smile — he is genuinely proud of Wang Xiaohua.

Li Xiulan at the side sees through it but doesn't expose it.

She only says:

"Isn't this a good thing? Xiaohua is an educated man — he not only understands reason, but also knows how to be filial to us!"

Wang Zhanggen spoke at this moment:

"Having such sons is all thanks to our ancestors' protection. You hurry and kill a rooster; in a bit we'll go worship the ancestors and have them bless Xiao Hua and Jianjia to quickly have children!"

Li Xiulan couldn't help but laugh:

"Alright, alright, I'll go boil water and kill the chicken right now!"

Li Xiulan turned to go to the firewood room, but at this moment Wang Zhanggen called her back:

"You come back!"

Li Xiulan turned her head:

"What now?"

Wang Zhanggen said very solemnly:

"Kill three roosters — one to pray for Xiao Hua to have children, one to pray for Erhai to get married, one to pray for Dashan's wife to have a smooth delivery! Speaking of their three brothers, Erhai is the most worrisome; now with that female teacher, who knows what progress there is!"

Li Xiulan didn't know whether to cry or laugh:

"Kill one, kill two, kill three — aren't they all the same worshiping the gods?"

Wang Zhanggen immediately scolded:

"How can it be the same! Worshiping the gods must have sincerity! One is to bless Xiao Hua, one is to bless Erhai, one is to bless Dashan's wife — they must be worshiped separately!"

"Fine, fine, I can't win against you. Since we need to kill three, you come help pluck the feathers, otherwise I alone can't manage!"

But Wang Zhanggen flung his hand away:

"I'm going to check the new house, don't know if the renovation smell has dissipated yet."

Li Xiulan was quite speechless.

Couldn't help cursing a sentence: "Just knows how to give blind orders; when there's work to do he plays dead!"

Wang Zhanggen pretended not to hear, turned and left.

Li Xiulan didn't bother arguing with him either.

After being together so many years, what rotten character this rotten man has, she doesn't know?

Wanting Wang Zhanggen to lend a hand with housework — that's impossible!

This man would rather starve to death than touch a bit of housework!

If there's a next life, she Li Xiulan absolutely would not marry a rotten man like Wang Zhanggen!

But then again, if she didn't marry him, could she still have given birth to three such promising sons?

She doesn't want Wang Zhanggen, but she can't bear to part with three good sons!

Stop wild thoughts, have to hurry and kill the chickens.

If it's late, Wang Zhanggen will be unhappy again.