Chapter 1856: Endure for a Moment, Winds Calm and Waves Cease

At this moment, Xiao Changkun in the car also saw Qian Hongyan walking over together with Xiao Weiwei.

After seeing who it was, his jaw almost dropped to the ground as he blurted out: "Fuck... Ma Lan... Is your broken mouth blessed at Qixia Temple? How come whenever you shout 'Qian Hongyan,' Qian Hongyan suddenly pops out?!"

Ma Lan was also stunned, muttering: "That shouldn't be... I haven't been to Qixia Temple in two or three years..."

Xiao Changkun said awkwardly: "This is too spooky... I thought I was seeing ghosts."

Ma Lan collected herself and said: "Didn't you see Qian Hongyan walking with Xiao Weiwei? Maybe Xiao Weiwei called her back."

Xiao Changkun lightly nodded, muttering: "That makes sense, after all, they're mother and daughter..."

Meanwhile, on the balcony, Xiao Changgan's angry shout made Old Mrs. Xiao also follow the direction of his finger.

Upon looking, she indeed saw Qian Hongyan timidly hiding behind Xiao Weiwei, her face full of nervousness and fear.

As for hating Qian Hongyan, Old Mrs. Xiao hates her no less than Xiao Changgan does.

Besides giving her son a green cuckold, bearing outsiders' illegitimate children, and even infecting her son with a disease, Old Mrs. Xiao actually hates Qian Hongyan most because she stole her hard-earned hundred yuan from the supermarket, as well as the hundred yuan compensation she was owed after being slapped in the face at the entrance hall of Tang Chen Yi Pin.

Although two hundred yuan isn't much, in Old Mrs. Xiao's eyes, Qian Hongyan's crime deserves execution eight times over!

In her view, stealing men can be forgiven, but stealing money cannot!

Moreover, no matter whose money it is, one cannot steal Old Mrs. Xiao's blood-and-sweat money!

Thus, Old Mrs. Xiao instantly flared up, pointing at Qian Hongyan downstairs and shouting angrily: "Surname Qian, you stole Old Lady's money and still have the nerve to come back! Get lost right now, never darken my door again!"

Qian Hongyan cried, not knowing how to plead, but Xiao Weiwei spoke up: "Grandma, it was I who asked Mom to come back! Although Mom stealing your money was indeed wrong, she also had her difficulties. I hope you can forgive her this time for my sake."

"Dream on!" Old Mrs. Xiao almost without hesitation blurted: "As long as I, the old lady, am still alive, Qian Hongyan will never think of entering my house's main gate!"

Saying this, she immediately told Xiao Changgan: "Changgan! Call the police now, say the thief who stole my two hundred yuan of blood-and-sweat money has returned! Have the officers come and take her away!! Sentence her to ten or eight years!"

Xiao Weiwei hurriedly said: "Grandma! If there's fault in this matter, it's shared, certainly not just my mother's fault! If you hadn't kept oppressing her back then, not even letting her eat a full meal, how could she have done such a thing?!"

Old Mrs. Xiao said emotionally: "Weiwei, think carefully—why didn't I give this slut food? Because she did many things sorry to your father! She not only wronged your father, but also wronged you and Hailong, even wronged me, wronged our Xiao family's Liezulie Sect! She has lost all face for our Xiao family!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Changgan immediately chimed in: "Weiwei! Your grandma isn't wrong at all—our whole family's face has been thrown away by your mother, I've been ruined by her! Though she ran off before and that was fine, now you're bringing her back—isn't this just adding trouble for us? Hurry up and make her leave, never to return!"

Xiao Weiwei's eyes turned red as she said: "Dad! Grandma! My maternal grandmother passed away recently, and my mother was bullied by various uncles at her natal home, so she now has nowhere to stay. As her daughter, I can't just watch her sleep on the streets!"

Qian Hongyan also couldn't help but cry out, walking downstairs and kneeling with a thud, crying: "Mom... Changgan... Before, it was my fault—I failed my duties as daughter-in-law and wife. I beg you, for the sake of my raising children for the Xiao family, give me a chance to reform... Please!"

Old Mrs. Xiao said disgustedly: "As a woman, marrying into our family and raising children for us—how is that anything? Isn't that just your duty? How come I hear your words and feel like you're claiming great merit?!"

Qian Hongyan cried: "Mom... I'm not saying I have merit, but even if I have none, I've been in the Xiao family for so many years—I must have at least some hard labor? Even if I have no hard labor, I must have at least some fatigue? After so many years, even if you raised a dog, you'd develop feelings—why are you so heartless toward me?"

Old Mrs. Xiao sneered: "If I raised a dog, would it steal my money?! If I raised a dog, would it give my son a green cuckold?!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Changgan felt a prickling discomfort all over and said softly: "Oh Mom... you... what kind of analogy is this? Too inappropriate..."

Old Mrs. Xiao gave Xiao Changgan a white look and snorted: "What's inappropriate about it? My words are rough but reasonable! In my eyes, Qian Hongyan is not even as good as a dog! And she still has the face to claim merit for bearing children? She doesn't deserve it!"

Ma Lan, who had been silent, upon hearing this instantly flared up and blurted: "You dead old hag, your words stink worse than a fart! Do you think us women bearing children and laboring for your Xiao family is just natural?! Don't forget—you're also a woman! If you encountered a mother-in-law like you when you were a daughter-in-law, you'd probably not live past thirty before she starved you to death!"

Old Mrs. Xiao coldly snorted: "Hmph! My fate is good—my short-lived mother-in-law died early! By the time I was thirty, my mother-in-law had already been dead for two years!"

Ma Lan immediately retorted: "Yes! I truly envy you! Your fate really is good! Unlike me and Qian Hongyan, whose fate is so miserable—encountering a mother-in-law who not only ruins things to the point of diarrhea, but also happens to be an old immortal!"

Old Mrs. Xiao was so angry she vomited blood, blurting: "Ma Lan... you... you say what about me?!"

Ma Lan coldly said: "I say you ruin things to the point of diarrhea, and you're an old immortal! An old immortal who ruins things to the point of diarrhea!"

"You... you..." Old Mrs. Xiao, furious and defeated, pointed at Xiao Changgan and gritted her teeth: "Changgan!! Quickly smash her to death!!"

Xiao Changgan's expression was beyond astonishment, recalling what his mother had just said, so he advised: "Mom, endure for a moment and the wind will calm and waves will cease, retreat a step and the sea will be wide and the sky vast—this is what you just taught me!"

Old Mrs. Xiao, unable to contain her anger: "There's also a saying: 'Endure for a moment and the wind will calm and waves will cease, retreat a step and the more you retreat the angrier you get'! Today you can retreat, but I cannot!"

Saying this, she reached out and grabbed Xiao Changgan's crutch, angrily saying: "You useless thing! Let go! I'll smash her myself!"