“Mrs. Shi, what choice do you have right now? Would you like me to bring the police and Sze Lingyun over to your house immediately, or would you like Sze Lingyun to come back tomorrow?”
“You brat! You girls think you’re so great just because you read a few books and know a little bit of the law, so I can’t control you. Is that what you think?”
“Alright, Mrs. Shi. Then I’ll instruct the police to escort Sze Lingyun home, lest you scold her.” Upon saying that, Nangong Nuannuan said to the said, “Officer, her mother insists she must go back now, or else…”
“Who says she has to come back home right away? Pass the phone back to her.”
Nangong Nuannuan handed the phone over to Sze Lingyun. She took the phone and coldly asked, “Why? Don’t you need me to come back now?”
“You have to be home by noon tomorrow. I’ll ask the guests to return tomorrow afternoon.”
Upon saying that, she hung up the phone without waiting for Sze Lingyun’s reply.
Sze Lingyun glanced at the phone, looking at the call that her mother had just ended. Her eyes were dim as she kept the phone back inside her bag. She glanced at the people who were looking at her with concern and said, “I’m sorry to have troubled you.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Our Wu family isn’t very big to begin with. This old man likes the atmosphere around this table. I’m very happy that you girls are willing to be our guests. Girl, come, eat more. You’re too skinny!”
After Elder Wu said that, he picked up a large piece of fish with his chopsticks and placed it on Sze Lingyun’s plate.
Sze Lingyun did not expect Elder Wu to personally serve her food. She stood up nervously.
“Sister, sit down! My grandfather is very kind. You’re my future senior and a good friend. From now on, my grandfather will be your grandfather too!” Wu Pingting smiled as she served Sze Lingyun more food.
“Girl, how big is your family?” Elder Wu could not help but ask.
“I have my father, mother, brother, and grandmother.”
“Your mother is not good to you. What about your father? Does he also strongly prefer sons?”
“My father tries to be a good man, but my mother has the final say in the family.”
“What about your brother? Is he a good person?” Wu Pingting could not help but ask.
Shi Lingyun laughed self-deprecatingly. “Everything in my family revolves around my brother. My mother taught me from a young age that girls are born to serve boys. So, my brother thinks that he’s owed everything.”
“Why?” Wu Pingting asked in disbelief, “Do girls deserve to die? Isn’t your mother a woman herself? Then, doesn’t everything she own also belong to her brother? So, why didn’t she give your family’s property to her brother? That’d just be her following her logic to its expected conclusion!”
Everyone in the Wu family was angry about Sze Lingyun’s call. Elder Wu sighed and said, “Fortunately, she still let you attend school. It’s good that you’ve always worked hard. Otherwise, you would have been ruined by your mother.”
Nangong Nuannuan said, “Her mother didn’t allow her to attend school after she completed junior high school. Her boyfriend funded her tuition. If she hadn’t saved her boyfriend’s life at the foot of that mountain and formed a good connection with him, she would have dropped out of school long ago.”
“This is just too much!”
Wu Pingting was a hot-tempered woman who could not stand such unreasonable things. After hearing Nangong Nuannuan’s words, she began to criticize Sze Lingyun’s mother.
“Pingting!” Elder Wu called out to her and said, “Whether or not Yunyun’s mother did the right thing, it’s not our place as outsiders to criticize her.”
Wu Pingting’s eyes widened. Just as she was about to say how her grandfather could not understand the concept of uniting against a common enemy, Elder Wu continued.
