Chapter 225: Chapter 225 Calm Waters Chapter 225: Chapter 225 Calm Waters After the sisters returned to their room, Madam Xie called them into hers and lectured them for a long time, teaching them that they must always endure, saying things like endure a moment of calm, step back for a boundless view.
Mo Yaner was very impatient, occasionally rolling her eyes and pouting, indicating that she didn’t agree with her mother’s arguments.
Mo Yaner, truly bored, couldn’t help but interrupt Madam Xie’s continued nagging, saying, “Mother, I understand what you’re saying, you just want us to be ‘shrinking turtles,’ don’t you?”
“What do you mean ‘shrinking turtles’? That sounds so awful. You, girl, are out of line; don’t you know to endure things a bit? Suffering is a blessing, do you understand?”
“I don’t, I only know that when I can no longer endure, I need not endure any longer.” Mo Yaner turned her face away in disdain; it was clear she was being asked to act like a shrinking turtle, yet she found the term unpleasant.
Before she was married, she had indeed lived according to Madam Xie’s words, but she was bullied just the same, and after getting married, she found that some people, the more you yield to them, the more they oppress you, but as soon as you dare to resist, they back down. Given that, life is too short for one to live so miserably.
Mo Yaner, not heeding the advice, had infuriated Madam Xie. The scene of her chasing Concubine Sun with a knife earlier that day still sent a chill down her spine.
“Mother, don’t be angry.” Xuexue moved forward to pat her back, comforting her while carefully saying, “The people of the Mo family are no saints, and that Concubine Sun is even worse. Last time she almost ruined my purity. My elder sister did right by hitting her; it was not wrong….”
Xuexue hadn’t finished her sentence when Madam Xie glared at her, indicating her displeasure.
Noticing this, she emphasized her tone and hurriedly added, “But, elder sister was also wrong, she shouldn’t have taken Big Bull’s chopping knife to chop her. That knife was newly bought and very sharp; if she had really hit Concubine Sun, she might not have died but would have been seriously injured.”
“Yes, too dangerous.” Xuexue’s support finally lightened Madam Xie’s face, and she didn’t forget to instruct Xuexue, “Xuexue, in the future, you must not learn from your elder sister and go around chopping people with a knife.”
Unexpectedly, before Madam Xie had even finished speaking, Xuexue turned to Yanyan and said, “Elder sister, the next time you chop at Concubine Sun, don’t take Big Bull’s knife, take mine. It’s not as sharp, and it won’t kill anyone, just cripples them at most.”
Mo Yaner couldn’t help but burst out laughing when she heard it, wondering when Xuexue had become so scheming.
Madam Xie turned her head and glared at Mo Yaner, “You dare to laugh?”
Realizing that it was inappropriate to laugh in such a serious setting, Mo Yaner quickly covered her mouth with her hand, but her shoulders were still shaking, clearly still laughing.
“You two sisters! I… I can’t be bothered with you two anymore.” Both her daughters were not listening to her advice, and Madam Xie, frustrated, left abruptly.
“Mother is so naive. She has suffered and toiled so much in the Mo family over the years, why can’t she see it?” Mo Yaner muttered to herself as she watched Madam Xie’s retreating figure.
“Elder sister, you should understand Mother. She is just too worried about us sisters, that’s why she keeps on compromising,” Xuexue, having lived two lifetimes, understood Madam Xie very well.
“I know that Mother is also doing it for our own good, it’s just that sometimes, I really can’t help but talk back to her.” Mo Yaner, already a mother to two children herself, did understand Madam Xie’s intentions. But Madam Xie was too weak, too willing to compromise, and still wanted her own daughters to live so meekly. Sometimes, she just couldn’t help herself and had to talk back.