He was saying that he would allow the first child to have the surname Miao, but Ning Shu expressed that she didn’t even want Zhang Jiasen, this person, so would she have a child with Zhang Jiasen?
Why did the Zhang family feel that she insisted on having Zhang Jiasen? Without the halo the Miao family gave Zhang Jiasen, Zhang Jiasen was worthless. He had no money and his moral quality was trash.
However, for some reason the Zhang family seemed to feel that she should be faithful unto death no matter what Zhang Jiasen was like.
Ning Shu expressed that it was ridiculous. It almost felt like she had gone back in time to the ancient era where women had to follow the Confucian moral injunctions. Even though times were changing, some ways of thinking were still very deeply rooted. In some places, women couldn’t even eat at the dinner table.
No matter the age, people were always trying to put thick stocks and chain on women. Modern women didn’t necessarily live more happy lives than the women of the ancient era.
Women nowadays needed to give birth to children, raise children, take care of the household, and manage work.
Didn’t they say that women could hold up half the sky? So now hold up half the sky.
When Zhang Jiasen’s mother heard that the child was going to have the surname Miao, her facial color worsened and her lips moved slightly, but she didn’t voice any opposition. It was clear that she didn’t dare to challenge Zhang Jiasen’s father’s authority as head of the family.
The entire Zhang family looked towards Ning Shu, clearly waiting for her answer.
Ning Shu was about to explode from anger. What the hell was this? She had to spend money to get Zhang Jiasen out, then be pregnant for ten months, endure the pain of childbirth, and just allowing the child to have her surname of Miao was some great grace?
What the f*ck?
Ning Shu took a deep breath, then said, “That works, but the company doesn’t have much money. There’s not enough money, so no matter what, you guys have to contribute some money as well.”
“How could we possibly have money? We don’t have money,” snapped Zhang Jiasen’s mother.
Ning Shu said mildly, “Then there’s nothing I can do either. Due to the designs being stolen last time, the factory couldn’t start making new products, but we still had to pay the workers’ wages. The company doesn’t have much money left. This bit of money isn’t enough to save Jiasen.”
“I want to get him out too, but the conditions don’t allow for it.” Ning Shu spread her hands helplessly. “If it comes to it, we’ll just have to let Jiasen spend a couple years in jail.”
Zhang Jiasen’s mother glowered as she pointed at Ning Shu angrily. “You damned heartless bitch! Who talks about their husband this way!? How can Jiasen go to jail!?”
Ning Shu looked at Zhang Jiasen’s mother. She was even skinner than before and her cheek bones perturbed sharply, causing her eyes to look even more sunken in. Her hair was whiter as well. Even though she was speaking angrily to Ning Shu, her lack of confidence and fear could still be felt.
Zhang Jiasen’s mother was someone who simply made threatening gestures to bluff.
Ning Shu paid no attention to Zhang Jiasen’s mother who was making a ruckus. Zhang Jiasen’s mother was a woman, but she insisted on protecting the idea of male dominance and even asked her daughter and daughter-in-law to view men as most important.
She especially demanded that Ning Shu, this daughter-in-law, viewed her son as the center of the world. If she could be servile and bow and scrape to curry favor, that was even better.
Ning Shu was made simply speechless by this unbelievable way of thinking.
