After all, Father An could only endure it. When An Xiaolu was born, Grandma An abandoned her as a baby girl. She even took advantage of when Father An and Mother An worked in the fields, throwing her directly into the cold-water washbasin.
As a small child, how can she stand it?
If Mother An hadn’t come back in time, An Xiaolu might have died. Because of this, Father An, who had been thinking about his parents’ upbringing, exploded, and Grandma An seized the opportunity to purge her son from the family.
Then they left the house and started living on their own. But she still came around from time to time because of the proximity of the two families. It’s not like she wasn’t known for stealing money, but she would cry when caught, shouting Father An was ungrateful and won’t even let his mother come to see him.
Father An didn’t have many feelings for her, but she always made trouble. When she wasn’t allowed to take anything, she went to the police station, sued Father An for being unfilial, and even went to An Xiaolu’s school to make a scene.
These days, people were afraid of seeing the police, and Father An was worried about affecting her daughter’s future, so he could only endure this.
An Xiaolu didn’t know these things before, and only thought that her Father was caring for Grandma An as his biological mother, so she indulged her. Although her heart disapproved, she didn’t say anything.
Until that incident at home, when she became mute and stayed at home. Only then did she realize that Grandma An was simply relying on Father An and Mother An’s affection for their daughter, which was why she was so evil.
But now she’s a mute and can’t communicate. She had been studying at school all the time and didn’t know how to deal with it.
Grandma An used to take advantage of using threats, but now she had settled down. Mother An was sick and laid on bed. Father An’s leg was broken, and he couldn’t walk normally. An Xiaolu was mute and had little strength.
It just evolved into an open robbery.
The family of three couldn’t stop her anyway.
Now that she smelled meat, Grandma An’s eyes lit up. Without even bothering to look at her Son or Granddaughter’s face, she walked right in, stretched her neck, and sniffed:
“Ai yo, it really is meat, great. Eldest, your nephew is craving meat these days, I’ll take this meat back to your nephew to eat.”
With that, she reached out for the meat without being polite.
Father An hurried forward on crutches: “No, Changze brought it to us.”
“Changze?” Grandma An found out that Ji Changze was here. She didn’t take this lad seriously, and asked, “If he gave it to you, it’s yours. I’m your mother, what’s yours is mine. Why wouldn’t you let me take it?”
Saying that she wanted to reach out again, and An Xiaolu subconsciously went to block it, but she was pushed away. Grandma An did farm work all her life, and her strength was much larger than that of An Xiaolu. She fell in the direction of the stove.
Ji Changze had sharp eyes and hurriedly strode forward to pull her so that An Xiaolu’s face wouldn’t hit the stove.
But even so, it was enough to make one’s heart palpitate.
Father An’s face was livid with anger: “I won’t let you take it; put it down!”
“I’m your mother, and you’re eating your meat without giving me any, ah you unfilial! I should have never given birth to you in the first place; I should have drowned you, a f*cking bastard.”
Grandma An scolded with her filthy mouth, while her hand neatly took out the meat.
Anyway, the weak, sick, and disabled couldn’t stop her.
She turned to go, but Ji Changze strode forward and stood in front of her.
He was a little taller than the old lady and looked at her condescendingly at the moment. Grandma An wasn’t afraid at all.
She was old. If Ji Changze dares to do something to her, she would immediately fall to the ground and shout in pain, and then she could ask for some money.
“What? Do you still want to hit me? Come on, should I be afraid of you?!”
Ji Changze looked at the old woman’s mouth again and was not angry, smiling, and laughing: “How is it possible? You are Xiaolu’s Grandmother, also my grandmother. It’s just a bit of meat; you can take it, isn’t it only proper for a grandmother to take something from her granddaughter?”
Grandma An was stunned, she didn’t expect Ji Changze to say this, but she soon got proud: “You are wise.”
Father An looked surprised and pulled Ji Changze to speak, but Ji Changze patted his arm first: “Uncle, Grandma is old, I’ll help her back. When the elder is old, we should be filial to her.”
As he spoke, he smiled brightly at Grandma An: “Don’t you think so?”
Grandma An became more and more proud. “You have a good conscience.”
“That’s right; I can have a conscience.”
Ji Changze smiled, took the initiative to help Grandma An, and said with a smile, “Grandma, I’ll take you home so that you won’t tire yourself.”
While talking, he waved at Father An and An Xiaolu: “Uncle, Xiaolu, I’ll be right back.”
Father An and An Xiaolu watched them leave with a clueless look on their faces, then looked at each other.
Father An: “Ji Changze, this boy, is soft tempered??”
An Xiaolu blankly shook her head; she too didn’t understand the situation.
Then, they heard the chickens flying and dogs jumping from Grandma An’s house next door in less than ten minutes.
“Get out!! Get out of here!! Put those things down!!”
Grandma An drove someone away with a big broom, but Ji Changze still smiled, his feet moving in dodging, flashing with precision every time, with the bowl of meat in his left hand and a pile of things in his right.
Grandma An’s angry voice trembled: “Who told you to take my things?! You put it down!!”
Ji Changze’s tone was innocent: “Grandma, why are you so angry? I am your granddaughter’s husband; you are my grandmother. Isn’t it normal for you to give me something?”
Grandma An cursed while holding her waist: “When did I give it to you? You f*ck*ng snuck into the house and stole this yourself!”
“Calling it was stealing is so ugly. We are relatives. How can I steal from you? Didn’t you like me? Didn’t you say I am filial to you, and you gave it to me?”
Though Grandma An was a veteran in talking, she speechless a long while because of Ji Changze’s wide-eyed nonsense.
She used the killer move: “Put things down now! Otherwise, we will see the Public Security Bureau!”
Ji Changze wasn’t afraid at all: “I’ll see you at the Public Security Bureau, but Grandma, aren’t these things from our family’s Xiaolu?”
Grandma An: “These are all my family’s!!”
Even if they used to be in An Xiaolu’s house, she brought it here, and that’s hers!
“Yeah, then we can go to the Public Security Bureau. And let the public security comrades have a look.”
Ji Changze: “Your family bought this pen, so why does it say that it’s a prize with the name of Xiaolu’s High School on it? Why is it when I look at these pieces of cloth, they look like they are only available in the city where Xiaolu went to school? Ai-yo, you’re amazing. You went so far by train to buy a few pieces of cloth, and this watch. Do you have a ticket to buy a watch? I don’t believe it.”
How did she know she needed a ticket to buy a watch, and the name written on the pen…?
Just knowing that these things were valuable, they were forcibly taken when she went to An’s house.
Ji Changze didn’t mean to let her go, and continued to ask, “Did you buy this meat with a meat ticket? Where did you buy it? Who did you buy it from? Go to the Public Security Bureau, if you don’t make it clear, you will be suspected of profiteering.”
Grandma An: “… the malted milk in your hand belongs to our family!!”
She bought it specially. She was reluctant to give it to her son and grandson, so she hid it in her room and ate some every day. She didn’t expect Ji Changze would find it.
Ji Changze looked down at the malted milk: “Oh … yes.”
Before Grandma An could get proud that he couldn’t say anything about that, she watched Ji Changze put things down, open the malted milk jar, and sprinkled it into the air.
She was reluctant to eat or drink it. She saved up for so long and was only willing to eat a little malted milk every day, but it was sprinkled clean.
It was a heartbreaking moment.
Ji Changze also specially held the things away to avoid the malted milk in the air, still grinning:
“Grandma, look at you, how careless. Spilling such a good thing.”
Grandma Ann was furious: “I?! You! I !!”
“Are you going to say I spilled it? What am I doing spilling your stuff in your house for? Do you have proof?”
Grandma An: “… You, you, I saw it with my own eyes!”
“That’s hilarious. This is your yard. Your malted milk spilled. It’s none of my business. I think your eyesight is getting old. Otherwise, let’s go to the Public Security and discuss the pen and this watch. Say, they add up to a lot of money, how many years is the sentence for stealing them? Oh!”
Ji Changze exaggeratedly covered his mouth and looked surprised: “It can’t be indefinite, but the person would stay in prison for the rest of their life.”
She only talked about going to the Public Security Bureau to scare others; how dare she go to the public security bureau after doing so many bad things?
As Ji Changze spoke, he stepped forward and said, “Grandma, let’s not waste time. Go for a walk, go to the Public Security Bureau and ask the public security comrades how to deal with this.”
Seeing that he was going to pull her, Grandma Ann was so scared and hurriedly stepped back:
“You get out!!! Get out!!!”
Ji Changze could only stand there, hugging a pile of things, his eyes full of hurt: “Grandma, am I not your grandson-in-law? You just said that everything in my family is yours. I am Uncle’s future son-in-law, so I am your family.”
“How about this, I’ll stay at your house tonight, seeing as there are so many good things in your house, so you can give me, your granddaughter’s husband, something to taste. By the way, I think I just saw that you have eggs at your house, I love eggs, I can eat five a day, how about…….”
Grandma An: “Aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!”
She turned, threw away her broom, ran back to the house, and locked the door.
Ji Changze called a few times but got no answer. He sighed regretfully: “Er, really, you’re the one who said I was filial, and you ignore me now. Grandma, you’re really hard to understand.”
After that, he raised his voice and shouted into the house: “But don’t you worry, Grandma! I’ll go to Xiaolu’s house often, and when I see you, I’ll come with you to stay at your house again.”
“There’s~ a long~ way~ to go~.”
Grandma An, hiding in the house: “…”
She never wanted to go to An Xiaolu’s house again!!!
Making sure that Grandma An didn’t come out, Ji Changze just hugged the things and strolled back to An Xiaolu’s house next door.
Upon entering the door, he saw the Father and daughter were looking at him.
An Xiaolu was full of worship. She turned and ran to the house, took an egg out, and gestured that she would make Ji Changze his favorite egg.
Father An still had a blank expression.
Mother An, who happened to be in the house, woke up and called out a few times. He hurriedly entered the house.
Inside, Mother An was greeting Father An when she heard Ji Changze’s spirited voice outside:
“Xiaolu, I love scrambled eggs. Put in more oil, and chop green onions.”
Mother An recognized Ji Changze’s voice, and her expression became speechless.
Nowadays, a guest in their host’s home is considerate, especially when oil is so expensive. Ji Changze could say such things when he came to his future wife’s house.
She opened her mouth and hesitated to ask her husband, “Is it the Ji family’s? Isn’t that a little too… cheeky?”
Father Ann suddenly came to his senses.
Patting the uninjured leg: “How cheeky?! Cheeky and good-natured!!”
He couldn’t help laughing, now that the depressing mood had dispelled, he boasted:
“It’s my good son-in-law, hahahaha!!”
Mother An, who had no idea what happened: “…”