Chapter 1877 - 1879: Wake Up
Inside the hall
Mr. and Mrs. Guo sat there angrily.
Upon seeing their son enter the room, before he could speak, Mr. Guo said, "Get over it. Isn’t the Yang Family very capable? They had the nerve to bring people to raid our home, so why bother asking us? Let them find someone on their own."
Mrs. Guo was also indignant, "Son, didn’t we tell you to find a girl from a compatible family? But you refused and insisted on marrying that Xiaotian. She had no family backing her back then, but now that she has found her family, look at what kind of family they are!"
"They seemed like honest farmers usually, but now? Even Yang Qiu, who always looked gentle and weak, is no different—causing a big fuss, uneducated, and can’t be presentable."
"And to have had relations with another man before marriage, such an undisciplined woman is just not acceptable."
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Listening to his parents’ complaints, Guo Feng felt very disappointed. His parents were always talking about Xiaotian’s family, but were their actions right? Were the words they were saying not below their own station? How were their words any different from those spoken by farm folk?
Finally, he shouted, "Enough!"
He looked at his parents sitting there and said painfully, "If you hadn’t been unwilling to reveal Xiaotian’s whereabouts, would today’s events have happened? It was you who pushed a teenage girl to this point; you can’t blame her."
"She was wrong to raid the house, but look what it’s come to, our family will become the laughingstock of Lin County, and you’re still siding with them? Haven’t you considered the face of the Guo Family?" Mrs. Guo said angrily.
Guo Feng didn’t want to argue about this matter with his parents anymore; he only wanted to know Xiaotian and her mother’s whereabouts, so he said, "Father, Mother, things have come to this point. Today it was only Yang Qiu, and she already made our house so chaotic. If the Yang Family were to find out, it wouldn’t just be like today. Are you still unwilling to reveal Xiaotian and her mother’s whereabouts?"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Guo became even angrier and bluntly said, "Now I’m not afraid to tell you, I sent them away. Since the Yang Family is like this, I’m even less likely to reveal it. They caused the Guo Family such harm, they have to suffer too."
Hearing this, Guo Feng’s heart sank, he was extremely disappointed. He had hoped to see how his parents’ actions would play out, but he didn’t expect, with things as they are, they still didn’t realize their mistake. He shook his head, "Father, Mother, I am very disappointed in you."
Such words also made Mrs. Guo very angry. Her good son was now drifting apart from her because of that woman and said he was disappointed in her. How could her heart not hurt? Immediately, she said, "For whom am I doing this? Isn’t it all for you? If Xiaotian liked you, wholeheartedly followed you, would I have sent them away? Even if she had a child with someone else, I could have kept them for your sake. But how did she act? She stayed openly in our home but thought about someone else in her heart. Wasn’t that openly bullying you? How can I, as your mother, tolerate that? Son, wake up, even if you find Xiaotian and her mother, it won’t matter; her heart is not with you. If she was with you, would she have left even if I forced her?"
These words were clear to Guo Feng, but hearing them spoken felt like a knife, taking his breath away.