"Zhihao, I don’t like Shen Qiuyun." Liu Sanmei’s triangular eyes looked somberly at Xu Zhihao. As she listened to his usual placating words, her heart couldn’t feel any joy. Her grandson, whom she had cherished since childhood, was at this moment engaged in an extremely dangerous affair.
"Grandma, Qiuyun is quite nice," Xu Zhihao felt a jolt in his heart and rapidly wondered if something had happened recently.
Was Grandma dissatisfied with Qiuyun?
"Nice?" Liu Sanmei let out a mocking smile and said, "If you know she’s good, why would you still mess around with other women?"
Liu Sanmei’s last sentence was spoken in a suppressed voice, yet through clenched teeth.
Just as Xu Zhihao was thinking about having Qiuyun come back to coax Grandma, he was startled by Liu Sanmei’s words and immediately retorted out of guilt, "I didn’t."
Liu Sanmei said nothing, just looking at him.
Xu Zhihao, his head bowed and his hands gripping his pockets tightly, explained, "Grandma, where did you hear such gossip? Those people are just full and have nothing better to do but to spread rumors."
"Zhihao, I raised you from childhood, and when you lie, you always like to fidget with your pockets."
As soon as Liu Sanmei finished speaking, Xu Zhihao quickly let go of his hands, little did he know, this action only further confirmed his lies.
"I can understand that you, as a man, might cheat outside. But are you the same as everyone else?" Liu Sanmei stepped forward, anxious and upset, "If it weren’t for Shen Qiuyun’s mother, could you have worked at the cannery? For this job, even my great-grandson bears the Shen surname. Can’t you just bear it?"
Liu Sanmei looked at him with disappointment. She indeed became angry when she first heard Hu Aihong say this, but she worried more about everything coming to light. However glorious Xu Zhihao was now, he would be equally miserable later.
"Ah...," Xu Zhihao stared blankly at Liu Sanmei, thinking she was going to scold him for knowing about it, but it turned out she was mainly worried about this...
"Grandma, rest assured, no one knows about this." Xu Zhihao’s ears turned slightly red. Talking about such matters with his very own grandma embarrassed him. Those women were all from the factory, and though they were slightly older than him, they were much more uninhibited in bed, unlike Shen Qiuyun, who was like a log.
"No one knows? Then how did I come to know?" Liu Sanmei raised her finger and poked Xu Zhihao’s head as she scolded, "Has your brain been kicked by a donkey? There’s no wall in the world that doesn’t leak. Do you really think no one knows what you’ve done? Let me tell you, break it off with those flimsy women outside immediately. Although I don’t like Shen Qiuyun, I’m still waiting for her to bear another great-grandson, and this time, he must be surnamed Xu!"
"Xu Zhihao, if you dare to mess around again, see if I don’t thrash you." Liu Sanmei warned fiercely, "You were even talking about building a big house for me, but you haven’t earned that money yet. If you mess up your job, I won’t even have a house to live in even if I die."
Liu Sanmei’s tone then shifted as she sat down on the grass next to her, wiping her eyes while lamenting in a sorrowful voice, "Ah, this old woman has no luck, I’m afraid I won’t live to see that big house."
"My son is useless. A grandson I raised with so much effort also despises this old woman. What’s the point of me living? I might as well be dead," Liu Sanmei turned away, her shoulders shaking as if she were crying.
Grandma, don’t you think your words are a bit too exaggerated?