Chapter 15 — Breakfast Changes Destiny

Outside the crowd, Chu Yuan and Zhou Tieu Tue also arrived. Chu Tieu Tue cried and called: "Mom, do you not need me anymore?" I looked at him: "Mom, it's not like you don't need me. If you want to follow me, you have to wash your own dishes, brush your own hair, go to school properly, and don't bully your sister. Can you do that?" It hesitated. Chu Vien immediately said: "I don't want to follow mom. Dad said sooner or later mom would regret it." I nodded: "Then stay with your father." Chu Vien didn't expect me to be so decisive, on the contrary, a look of panic appeared on his face. Chu Kien Thanh pushed the two children forward: "You see, my children can't bear to leave you. Are you cruel?" I looked at my children who were so spoiled by me that they took everything for granted. There was no feeling of happiness in my heart, only coldness. "I had the heart to not let myself bear the resentment anymore." That day, reconciliation failed. Chu Kien Thanh refused to sign. He thought that as long as I was involved, I would have to obediently go home. On the third day, Vuong Que Lan led Chu Vien and Chu Tieu Tue to block the door of Ngoc Xuan Lau. Her hair was drooping, she sat down on the ground and cried: "The daughter-in-law has become rich and no longer needs her mother-in-law, abandoned her own children, and gone to enjoy a happy life with outsiders!" Chu Vien held a piece of paper and read: "My mother is unfilial, does not take care of the family, and abuses the elderly." Chu Tieu Tue cried bitterly: "Mom, I'm hungry." Guests gathered in a circle. Treasurer Do was about to call someone, but I stopped him. I walked up to Vuong Que Lan: "Mom, you must make a fuss today?" She slapped her hand on the ground: "I keep making noise! If you don't go home, I will make you unable to do business anymore!" I looked at Chu Vien: "Who wrote the paper?" His eyes avoided: "I wrote it myself." "You don't even know how to write the two words of abuse." Someone in the crowd laughed. Chu Vien's face turned red: "Dad wrote!" Vuong Que Lan quickly covered its mouth, but it was too late. I squatted down and looked at Vuong Que Lan: "Kien Thanh told mom to come here to cause trouble, what did he promise her? Tell me to pay money? Tell me to go home? Or let Ly Thu Lien work at the store?" Her expression changed: "Stop talking nonsense." I stood up and said to the crowd: "If you like to watch the excitement, then listen to everything. She said I was unfilial. When I was at home, I went to work during the day, and at night waited on her every time she woke up. She said I was abusive. I wasn't at home for a few days, her biological son was still at home, why did I have to go hungry? She said I didn't need a child. This boy was the first to come to the door asking for a fountain pen, this girl wanted leather shoes, did she ever ask? Can I ask if you're tired yet? Chu Tieu Tue's crying gradually subsided. Chu Vien argued: "You are the mother, you have the responsibility to raise us!" "Yes, I have to worry." I said: "So today I'm worried about you. You took the paper your father wrote to slander your biological mother. Tomorrow I will take you to school so the teacher can see how good you are at this essay." Chu Vien panicked: "I'm not going!" Vuong Que Lan rushed forward and tried to hit me: "You dare to threaten my grandchild!" Old Tan stepped forward to stop him: "Old lady, don't move your hands or feet." In the crowd, Aunt Truong pushed her way out, still carrying the food basket. "I testify. When Xuan Duong was at home, the old woman called eight times a day. Xuan Duong left, Kien Thanh couldn't even cook a meal for her children, only then did she remember her daughter-in-law." Behind her there were two more neighbors. One person said: "The girl Minh Nguyet was called home to wash clothes, we all saw it." The other person also said: "The day the old lady pretended to fall, I was also there. Both my left and right legs complained of pain, and I stood up faster than anyone else." Vuong Que Lan's screams were completely choked. Chu Vien looked at the neighbors, then

looked at me again, his voice mumbling: "Dad said, just make a fuss, mom will give you the money." I looked at him: "So now do you know that your father lied to you?" It said nothing. Chu Tieu Tue hugged her stomach, tears still on her cheeks: "Mom, I'm really hungry." I told Minh Nguyet to get two bamboo shoots, give one to Tieu Tue, and give the other to Chu Vien. Tieu Tue took it and took small bites. Chu Vien looked at the tender curtain and refused to accept it. I said: "If you want to save face, don't eat. If you want to eat, then keep it. No one will coax you." It finally snatched it away, turned around and gnawed voraciously. Vuong Que Lan angrily scolded: "Useless thing!" Chu Tieu Tue suddenly mumbled: "Grandma, you don't cook for me." Vuong Que Lan was stunned. This was the first time Tieu Tue argued with her. I glanced at my daughter, neither praising nor hugging her. A pampered child is born spoiled, and can't be straightened with just one meal of Mantou. When the women officers arrived, Vuong Que Lan was still sitting on the ground. After hearing the whole story, the officer bluntly said: "Old people must be taken care of by their sons, and cannot put all responsibility on the daughter-in-law. Children cannot be used as tools to intimidate the mother. Where is Chu Kien Thanh?" Chu Kien Thanh couldn't hide anymore, so he slowly walked out from the corner of the street. Turns out he was still standing there watching. I'm not surprised at all.