36 Meng Yao Indifferent
In the end, Zhao Dahe didn't insist on accompanying Meng Yao, but he did say that if Meng Yao didn't return in half an hour, their siblings would go to the Meng Family to fetch her.
Meng Yao nodded, it takes less than fifteen minutes to go back and forth from home to the Meng Family, and the remaining time is enough to talk.
Meng Yao followed the memories of her original self and headed to the Meng Family.
Zhao Dahe also went to Zhao Xiaoshu's room, Zhao Xiaoshu was writing on the sand tray.
Zhao Xiaohua, on the other hand, was muttering to herself while poking herself here and there.
Meng Yao taught Zhao Xiaoshu and Zhao Xiaohua to recognize words, which Zhao Dahe was unaware of. So now Zhao Dahe was directly shocked, he actually thought what his mom said earlier 'if you don't study well, Xiaoshu will surpass you' was a joke.
Now looking at it, it's not at all.
Although Zhao Xiaoshu was writing words with a stick on the sand, the words he wrote seemed more imposing than his own, thought Zhao Dahe.
Zhao Dahe suppressed his inner surprise and casually spoke, "Xiaoshu, when did you learn to write? Come on, let your second brother see, how's your writing!"
"After second brother left last time." Zhao Xiaoshu answered obediently.
Zhao Dahe couldn't control his expression, "Ah?"
"Second brother, do you want to see mine too?" Zhao Xiaohua pushed her sand tray in front of Zhao Dahe.
Zhao Xiaohua's writing was quite ordinary, each character was loose and varied in size.
As soon as this thought emerged, Zhao Dahe wanted to hit himself in the mouth, Zhao Xiaoshu learned after he left last time, doesn't that mean Zhao Xiaohua did too? All in all in a month, writing like this, how could he call it ordinary? He practiced writing for more than half a year, and it's only at Xiaohua's level?
No wonder mom said such things.
Even if he studied well, he would fear being surpassed, right?
"Second brother, how's my writing?" Zhao Xiaoshu asked eagerly.
"Just, just okay. Studying and writing should not be done arrogantly, focus more and you can do even better." Zhao Dahe mimicked the tone of the tutor.
Zhao Xiaoshu nodded deeply in agreement, "Second brother is right, I think so too, mom says I write well, but compared to mom, I can't compare!"
Zhao Dahe felt a bit dizzy, had he not been home for a month? Was it several years?
Why does everything feel so unfamiliar?
His mom knows how to write? How come he didn't know?
No, what else is there he doesn't know?
Wait, if his mom can write, why did she just ask him to write that recipe for Qin Zheng?
"What else did mom teach you?" Zhao Dahe tried to appear calm.
"After teaching the three-hundred-thousand, she made me recite the Tang poems with Xiaohua, and then told me some stories about immortals." Zhao Xiaoshu said, "Mom said dad taught her all kinds of things besides medical books, but in terms of studying, I'll need to go to school to learn."
Zhao Dahe still had a strong impression of Zhao Ting, and knew indeed, his dad was literate.
However, he clearly remembered, at that time, his mom was very reluctant to learn and they had an argument about whether dad despised her for not being knowledgeable.
So, in the end, dad won and mom was forced to learn?
No, no, if mom writes better than Xiaoshu, that's not forced, right?
If forced learning could lead to this, then he wanted to be forced too!
Zhao Dahe mumbled to himself, thinking he must ask his mom properly when she returns.
Flower blooms two blossoms, each shows a branch.
Meng Yao was now standing in the Meng Family's main hall.
Original self's parents Meng Qingshan and Mrs. Sun were seated in chairs, with a faint look of anger on their faces.
Meng Ruyu was crying desperately on Mrs. Sun's lap.
"I called Ayue to fetch you, if you have any anger, direct it at me, what's the point of being fierce with Ayue?" Mrs. Sun began with accusations.
Meng Yao blinked, Meng Ruyu seemed to have said only one sentence when she went to the Zhao Family?
"Grandma, it wasn't aunt, it was second cousin." Meng Ruyu sniffled and explained.
"That second cousin is her son, if it wasn't her instigation, what was it?" Mrs. Sun said irritably.
Meng Yao didn't plan to waste her breath arguing with the Meng Family, straight to the point, "Pretending to be sick to get me back for what?"
"Listen, listen, is this what a child should say to their parents?" Mrs. Sun roared in anger, "I am your mother, I told you to come back and you must!"
"When you pushed me out, you weren't saying that. When I came begging you for help, you weren't saying that! So what, none of that counts, now we're mother and daughter again?" Meng Yao said sarcastically.
"A Yao, how can you talk to your mom like this? You are flesh that fell from your mom, would she not care for you? Saying this is really wrong." A middle-aged woman spoke.
Oh, Meng Yao knew who this was, the original self's sister-in-law, the mother of Meng Ruyu, Mrs. Lin.
"Looks like, this time it's you being mean again, inciting others, right?" Meng Yao asked without lifting her eyelids.
Before, why the Meng Family forced Meng Yao into marriage, it was all Mrs. Lin's instigation, of course, she also found the person.
Not to mention who the person is, just with Meng Qingshan and Mrs. Sun still alive, Mrs. Lin, a newly entered sister-in-law, meddling in the younger sister-in-law's marriage, shows she had no good intentions.
And indeed, the marriage Mrs. Lin arranged for the original self wasn't good.
The family was wealthy, but the person was over ten years older than the original self, with two sons, and the previous wife reportedly died inexplicably.
The original self wasn't foolish, accepting such a marriage proposal.
That's why later Zhao Ting was picked up by the original self.
"A Yao, how can you say that about me!" cried Mrs. Lin in a wronged manner, tears swirling in her eyes, trembling as if she was ill.
Wow, a pretty little girl not fully crying looks pleasing, but Mrs. Lin is almost forty, right? Acting like this is really an eyesore.
"Mrs. Lin, you really are living backwards, an old woman almost a grandmother can't even cry properly?" Meng Yao said leisurely, speaking words that infuriated, yet not roundabout, straightforward, making it impossible to pretend not to understand.
Mrs. Lin's expression froze, unable to cry, nor remain without tears.
"You ungrateful thing, elder sister-in-law is like a mother, is this how you talk to your sister-in-law?" Mrs. Sun scolded pointing at Meng Yao.
"You're still alive and well, what kind of mother is she?" Meng Yao said indifferently, "Or, you mean you're done living? Even so, it doesn't come down to her! Old man is still healthy, might as well find another one, then there's a stepmother, what is she?"
Mrs. Sun was too angry to speak.
Meng Qingshan, whom Meng Yao named, bizarrely followed Meng Yao's words in his mind, if the old woman were to pass now, he certainly wouldn't keep mourning her, when finding another, he'd definitely look for a gentle and tender one, to live some enjoyable days. Avoid living this life so stifled!