A charming widow in her 70s married a factory manager and raised his children.

Chapter 47 What a coward!

Sun Yongxian was shocked when Liang Xinzheng confronted her.

"Didn't I tell you? Sister Zhuang has no plans to remarry."

Liang Xinzheng was furious: "Didn't you tell her it was me?!"

Sun Yongxian found him unreasonable: "I'm doing this for everyone's good. Wouldn't it be awkward if I just made it clear then and there? You just need to know that Sister Zhuang doesn't have those kinds of feelings."

If it weren't for the fact that he was almost as old as her father, she would have really wanted to give him a good scolding.

Sun Yongxian was stunned for a moment, and almost slapped her thigh.

Why didn't I think of that sooner?

Sister Zhuang is thirty years old, and Liang Xinzheng is over forty. Their ages are incompatible, and she should have made things clear to Liang Xinzheng a long time ago.

Sun Yongxian's eyes darted around: "Well... judging by age, you could be my uncle. Can I call you Uncle Liang? Uncle Liang, these things are all about fate, you can't force it, right?"

When Liang Xinzheng left, his face was ashen; he was furious.

They keep calling him "Uncle Liang," which is blatantly an insult to him.

So what if he's older? He's not even fifty yet, why can't he remarry?

Besides, his children all have jobs, and he himself is a permanent employee with company-provided housing. With such good conditions, who wouldn't want to marry him? In the past few years, he was worried about his children and delayed getting married, but now that he's willing to marry Zhuang Qingxiang, this rural widow, she actually refuses? She's really asking for it!

Liang Xinzheng grew increasingly angry and couldn't help but spit out: This isn't over!

At Lu Congyue's home.

Since Liang Xinzheng left, Zhuang Qingxiang has not left the inner room.

Lu Congyue had keen hearing and could hear the soft sobbing.

It seems she was so angry she cried, but she didn't dare to cry out loud.

He's a coward, just like his mother.

Lu Congyue was somewhat lost in thought.

His father left home shortly after he was born. Later, his grandparents passed away one after another, and there was no news of his father. No one knew whether he was alive or dead. In the eyes of the villagers, his mother was either abandoned or a widow.

When my grandparents passed away, my mother was just as pathetic. People gossiped about her behind her back, mocked her to her face, and she cried secretly because no one wanted her back. People threw stones at her door and windows. Someone climbed over the wall in the middle of the night, and she cried secretly behind his back. She didn't leave the house for two days and kept crying because an old bachelor took advantage of her...

As the only male in the family, he had to protect his mother and the household. So he grew up quickly, learning skills from hunters. If anyone dared to bully them orphans, he would deal with them directly with a woodcutter's knife and a bow and arrow. Only then did their lives become stable, and his mother also became more assertive, no longer cowering and crying in secret.

But Zhuang Qingxiang...

Lu Congyue glanced at the window in the middle of the room.

Her daughter is her stepdaughter, only five years old, and her son is only two months old. She has no children to help her stand on her own at this age, so she can only rely on herself.

Hiding here with him was probably the only way out she could think of; she was clever.

However, hiding and crying now is not a smart move.

Lu Congyue glanced at his watch: "You've been crying for so long over such a small thing?"

"Cough..." Lu Congyue coughed lightly.

The sobbing inside the room suddenly stopped.

Soon, Xiao Qianyue came out with a worried look on her face and sat in the courtyard, sighing.

Lu Congyue squatted down beside her, raising an eyebrow: "What's wrong, Yueyue?"

"Shh..." Little Qian Yue quickly covered her mouth with both hands. "Uncle, Mom keeps crying and crying, what should we do?"

"So you ran away? Didn't you even try to persuade your mother?" Lu Congyue asked.

Xiao Qianyue sighed dramatically, "I can't persuade her. My mother's crying is truly horrible."

"Does she always cry like this?"

"No, not at all." Xiao Qianyue shook her head. "My mother never cries normally, but she cried once last time, and she cried even harder than this time."

"Oh? When?"

Xiao Qianyue thought about it seriously, then said angrily, "Grandma was kicking us out. Mom said she would take us to Uncle's house, but we knocked on the door for a long time and Uncle wouldn't open it, even though he was clearly home."

Lu Congyue fell silent, regretting that he hadn't beaten her enough today.

Inside the room, Zhuang Qingxiang was hurriedly washing and wiping her face.

Her eyes were red and swollen in the mirror. How could she go out and face people like this? She could only try to soothe them with a towel.

Zhuang Qingxiang was even more worried that Lu Congyue would misunderstand her.

What if he thinks she's a flirt and tries to drive her away?

Zhuang Qingxiang was furious. Why was it so hard to live a peaceful life?

She felt angry and wanted to cry again, but Zhuang Qingxiang forced herself to hold back her tears.

"daughter."

Xiao Qianyue ran in from outside, "It's getting dark, shouldn't we make dinner?"

Zhuang Qingxiang didn't care about her swollen eyes. She smoothed her bangs to cover her eyes and hurriedly walked out.

"Mother will cook right away."

As soon as she entered the kitchen, she saw Lu Congyue there, and she quickly stopped and said, "Director Lu, let me do it."

Lu Congyue glanced at her, his features and expression unreadable, and said calmly, "What do you want to do? I can help you."

Zhuang Qingxiang refused. He was the factory manager and the head of the household; how could he help with the kitchen work?

Besides, the kitchen isn't very spacious, and he felt very uncomfortable there.

Lu Congyue could see her nervousness and unease, so he had no choice but to leave the kitchen to her and go inside to look after the two babies.

As soon as you enter, you see Xiao Qianyue skillfully changing a baby's diaper.

Seeing him come in, Xiao Qianyue immediately smiled and asked, "Uncle, don't you have anything to do right now?"

"Hmm, it seems so," Lu Congyue replied.

"Then you stay here and watch over the two younger brothers, I'm going to wash the diapers." Xiao Qianyue quickly got off the kang (a heated brick bed), picked up the wooden basin for the diapers, and walked out.

Lu Congyue quickly took the wooden basin from him, frowning as he said, "You don't need to do this. You watch over the younger brothers, and I'll go wash them."

Little Qian Yue looked at him in surprise: "No, Uncle, how can you wash diapers?!"

"Who said you can't wash it? It's not like your uncle hasn't washed it before." Lu Congyue patted her head.

"But my dad said before... that the job of washing diapers was mine," Xiao Qianyue said nervously. "Uncle, I washed them very clean, and my mom praised me."

Lu Congyue wanted to say that what your father said was all nonsense, but when he thought that the man had already passed away, he shut his mouth.

"My family has to follow my rules. As long as I'm resting at home, you don't need to do these chores." He patted Xiao Qianyue's little head again, then took the basin and went out to wash diapers.

After washing and hanging them up to dry, I saw Zhuang Qingxiang's clothes hanging next to them, and my gaze quickly darted away.

After washing and drying the vegetables, he tended to the small vegetable garden. When he finished, Zhuang Qingxiang had prepared the meal and called him to eat.

When Lu Congyue washed his hands and sat down at the table, a bowl of rice was placed in front of him. He looked up at Zhuang Qingxiang, who was still the same, with her head down and her eyes hidden, so he couldn't tell anything.

Lu Congyue couldn't stand her pathetic state and frowned, saying, "Next time Liang Xinzheng comes, you should scold him away. If you can't scold him away, beat him away with a stick."

Zhuang Qingxiang looked up at him in surprise.

Lu Congyue stared at her with a stern face: "Since you don't like him and have no intention of remarrying, his coming to you is just unreasonable harassment. You can express your dissatisfaction, you can resist, and I will take care of everything."