Siheyuan: Cooking journey

"Stop talking about those nonsense."

Qin Huairu looked at her calmly, "Didn't you say you were going to die? Why don't you hurry up and go?"

"Qin Huairu, what are you talking about? How dare you scold me and hope I die." Grandma Zhang stomped her feet in anger.

"I'm not cursing you, nor am I scolding you."

Qin Huairu smiled gently and corrected her coldly: "I mean, why haven't you died yet?"

"Qin Huairu, you, you..."

Granny Zhang was breathing heavily and her eyes were full of stars due to anger.

"Ah, meeting a good mother-in-law like you is really a blessing from my previous life."

Qin Huairu sighed with emotion and said calmly:

"Bang Geng said that I no longer wanted them as siblings. I guess that came from you.

“You were the one who taught me to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, right?

“Your ‘credit’ is definitely to say that I am a shameless woman;

"You were the one who told him that I ate his steamed buns, right?

"Bang Geng went to the steel mill to steal sweet potatoes. No need to guess, it was you who instigated it.

"You are such a good mother-in-law and grandmother. You have educated the children so well."

"I……"

Granny Zhang's face turned pale and blue.

Qin Huairu looked at her coldly and said regretfully:

“Do you know that teaching him like this will kill him?

"Do you understand? If anything happens to him when he runs away this time, it's all your fault.

"It was you, the grandma who always said you loved your grandson, who ruined him."

Granny Zhang panicked and said hurriedly:

“Qin Huairu, I, I didn’t know it would be like this, I was really wrong;

"Can you please find a way to get Bangteng back? Please."

"That's right, that's right."

Granny Zhang looked at her expectantly, "You're not in a hurry, has Banggeng been found? Do you know where he is?"

"I'm not discussing with you whether you are wrong or not."

Qin Huairu's expression was as calm as water. "I'm telling you where you should go to spend your later years."

"Awesome..."

Qin Huairu's voice trembled slightly, then she regained her composure, speaking coldly as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

“If Bang Geng comes back, you, the good grandmother, will take your good grandson back to live in the countryside;

“Every month, I will arrange for someone to deliver food to you;

"If he doesn't come back, you, the incompetent grandmother, please go back to your hometown.

"You won't be short of food either."

Granny Zhang looked at her in disbelief with a gloomy face and said resentfully:

“Qin Huairu, how could you do this?

“How can you be so cruel?

“He is simply a snake with a heart of blood;

"My son gave his life to get this job, and now you want to drive an old woman like me back to starve to death.

"I misjudged you. I shouldn't have let you in in the first place..."

Qin Huairu quietly watched her mother-in-law jumping up and down and cursing.

In a trance, she remembered He Yuzhu's calm appearance.

When he was like that, was his heart also as calm as still water?

Qin Huairu didn’t know, and felt that she would never know.

What she knew was that at this moment, her heart was extremely calm, without a trace of emotional fluctuation, and she didn't even want to look at the person in front of her any longer.

"I'm not discussing this with you, I'm just letting you know."

Qin Huairu scooped up the softened bun with a spoon and gently fed it to Xiao Huaihua, saying calmly:

“If you don’t go, then I will;

“I’ll leave the child to you to raise while I go find my man.

"What if I lose my job? I don't have the burden of these children. I'm good-looking and young, so I'm not afraid of being rejected.

“Even if no one wants me, I can still live well by doing shameless things;

“It’s so much better than our current life.

"If you leave of your own accord, I will not do anything that goes against my conscience, and I will not take away a cent of the food you deserve.

"If you don't leave, then I will leave. Don't you care about your grandchildren? Then let them follow you back to the countryside to live."

Granny Zhang panicked, completely panicked, and stopped cursing or blaming.

She put a smile on her old face and said flatteringly:

"Huai Ru, you are kidding me, right? You are so kind, how could you be so cruel as to drive me away?

"Bang Geng is your own flesh and blood. As a mother, how can you bear to let him suffer in the countryside?

"Let's just write off the past, okay? From now on I won't say anything, and I'll listen to you in everything.

"Huai Ru, Mom really knows she was wrong, and I apologize to you now."

Granny Zhang stole a glance at her and slapped herself.

Qin Huairu remained indifferent and didn't even lift her eyelids.

Granny Zhang hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, and slapped herself hard again, her old face burning with pain.

But compared to going back to the countryside, Granny Zhang felt that this little pain was nothing, and was even willing to endure it:

“Huai Ru, look, Mom really knows she was wrong;

“I will never teach my children casually again;

"Even if you don't like me as your mother-in-law, you can't just ignore Bang Geng. He's your own son, your flesh and blood.

“Also, if I go back to the countryside, who will take care of Xiao Huaihua and Xiao Dang?

"Even if you hire someone from outside, who can love the child and care about the child as much as I, the real grandmother, do?"

Qin Huairu raised her eyebrows slightly, glanced at her coldly, and said calmly:

"It is precisely because you are a good grandmother that I allow you to return to your hometown with the 'good' grandson you have taught;

“Two little ones, just stay away, you are not needed;

“If you come to take care of her, then Little Sophora japonica will no longer be my daughter, but your good granddaughter, and I will not want her anymore;

“I still say that if you don’t leave, I will leave, and if you starve to death, it has nothing to do with me;

“On the other hand, if you leave and go back to the countryside, you will just change your living environment and you will definitely not starve;

"You can choose between the two options. As for who will take care of the two little ones, you don't have to worry about it. You just need to take good care of your good grandsons.

Granny Zhang's face turned pale and frighteningly blue, and she said resentfully:

"Qin Huairu, do you really want to be so ruthless?

"I'm already this old, and I've lived enough. I don't believe you would have the heart to watch your own flesh and blood starve to death."

"I don't believe it either."

Qin Huairu raised her head, smiled gently, and said in a soft voice: "Why don't we give it a try? I really want to try it."

"you you……"

Granny Zhang was so angry that her whole body was shaking. She fell to the ground, her neck twitching and her hands and feet cramping.

"You, you have no conscience. God will punish you..."

"grandmother……"

Xiao Dang screamed in fear.

"grandmother……"

Xiaodang started to cry.

Qin Huairu's eyes were still gentle as she glanced sideways at Xiaodang. Xiaodang pursed his lips, lowered his head and took a bite of the steamed bun with tears in his eyes.

There was silence in the house.

Granny Zhang was lying on the ground, shivering, her whole body twitching.