After dinner, Lu Shengmin and Xu Yuqin came to the old house.
Xu Yuqin's expression was obviously gentler than before.
Even, there is some guilt.
Only now did she realize that it was their mother and son who had disrupted other people's lives.
As soon as she came in, she started to apologize, "Dad, Lu Hao, I've been sorry to you all these years."
Mr. Lu was a little flattered when his daughter-in-law suddenly lowered her attitude so much, "Yuqin, what are you talking about? As a family, there is nothing I can be sorry for."
"In the past, I always felt that Lao Lu owed us mother and son, so after we got married, he was not very kind to you and Lu Hao. When the two children had conflicts, I also turned to Xu Zheng. I always felt that he had no father.
For my child, Lao Lu is the stepfather, so you should let him go, but I forgot that Lu Hao is also facing me, the stepmother."
When Xu Yuqin said this, she felt extremely ashamed.
"Later, you had no choice but to take Lu Hao into the city. I know you suffered a lot, and I'm sorry."
Now that Lu Hao is married and has a life of his own, she doesn't know how to make it up to them, so she can only say the cheapest apology.
Mr. Lu's wrinkled face looked kind, "It's all over. Let's not talk about these things as a family."
"Nan Nan, thank you too for helping us all uncover the truth."
After Xu Yuqin finished speaking to Jiang Nan, she looked at Lu Shengmin and mustered up the courage to speak in front of the family,
"If...if you want to divorce me now, I agree, and we will move out when we get the yard in Yinshui Village back."
She thought that she should be wiser and not embarrass Lu Shengmin.
Put the choice in his hands, no matter what the outcome, she will accept it.
Even if she has no place to go now, she will not let others bully her like before when she returns to Yinshui Village.
After hearing her words, Lu Shengmin raised his head and said with a majestic expression, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can you get divorced at such a young age?"
Others also looked at Xu Yuqin in surprise.
Xu Yuqin's tone at this moment was surprisingly calm, "Lao Lu, you married me back then just out of responsibility. Now that things have been clarified and the children are grown, I don't want you to give in anymore."
It must be very painful for an intellectual to make do with an illiterate shrew like her.
Now that she has come to this point, she wants Lu Shengmin to regain his freedom. Maybe... maybe, he will run to find Lu Hao's mother to make up for his regrets.
For so many years, Lu Shengmin had never mentioned anything about Lu Hao's biological mother to her.
She once asked arrogantly, and the man, who had always been good-tempered, got angry at her angrily.
From then on, she never dared to inquire more.
However, she had heard a distant grandma of the Lu family tell her that Lu Hao's mother was brought back to the city because her family did not agree with the marriage.
Later, Lu Shengmin often went to the city to look for someone.
It wasn't until she brought Xu Zheng to marry him that Lu Shengmin gave up completely. No, to be precise, he gave up.
Over the years, she was actually quite scared. She was always worried that Lu Hao's mother would suddenly come to her door one day.
Now that things have turned out like this, she is no longer afraid and accepts Lu Shengmin's choice unconditionally.
Lu Shengmin looked gloomy and growled at her, "The child is grown and doesn't need me anymore, right?"
Xu Yuqin lowered his head and said nothing.
Mr. Lu became anxious when he heard that his daughter-in-law was thinking of divorce.
"Yuqin, you must not think wildly. How can you get divorced at such a young age? You are not afraid of people laughing at you. Besides, everything has been resolved and the knots in everyone's hearts have been resolved. You want to divorce and break up the family.
, then what happened?"
Lu Hao and Jiang Nan were also surprised. They both looked at Xu Yuqin in unison.
Jiang Nan said in a deep voice, "Aunt Xu, the original intention of telling you that Xu Zheng's father left a suicide note was to untie the knot in Xu Zheng's heart and make him stop hating my dad so much and stop targeting Lu and me in the future.
Hao, if you all can live a good life, I have no intention of getting you divorced."
She never expected that this illiterate rural woman would have the courage to file for divorce.
She nudged Lu Hao and whispered, "Say a few words."
"We juniors are all married. Is it appropriate for you to divorce now?" Lu Hao looked at Xu Yuqin and asked coldly.
"Xiao Hao, I can't face you."
The person she feels most guilty about right now is Lu Hao.
As Jiang Nan said at their home last time, Lu Hao lost his home because of the arrival of their mother and son.
"No need to feel guilty." Lu Hao looked at the middle-aged woman standing there, dressed simply and with traces of time on her face, and he slowly said, "Aunt Xu, actually, I am very grateful to you. At least, you let my dad,
Got a family."
Everything has two sides.
Yes, he did lose his place in the family because of the arrival of his stepmother and stepbrother.
But also because of their arrival, his father, a man who was once so decadent that he drank all day long, cheered up because he took on greater responsibilities on his shoulders.
It would no longer be like before, or he would be away from home all day long, and he and his grandfather would look for him everywhere in worry.
Or, he would hold him and cry nervously.
For him, no matter what kind of life, it is painful.
If Xu Yuqin hadn't married him, his father probably would never have remarried in his life.
He will spend his whole life in loneliness.
As a son, he didn't want to see him live that kind of life.
If his father had not cheered up back then, his grandfather would not have been able to take him into the city.
As soon as Lu Hao finished speaking, Lu Shengmin's weathered cheeks trembled slightly, and he looked at Lu Hao with complicated eyes.
Let my dad have a family...
Lu Shengmin's eyes turned red instantly.
Xu Yuqin was also stunned.
Thank her? Why should you thank her? She felt her face burning and uncomfortable.
Jiang Nan also said at the side, "Now that you are divorced, the family is really broken up. Xu Zheng wants to marry a wife, and Lu Xiaoyue wants to get married. Who will handle their marriage? Someone can take care of your Xiaoyue's bad temper.
Virtue, no one can care about it and can’t abolish it?”
"If you don't want to affect your children's future lives, don't mention these people who are in their forties. Can you be more mature when you think about the problem?" Lu Shengmin looked at her and growled angrily.
Everyone in the family tried to persuade her, but no one agreed to divorce. Xu Yuqin's nose became sour and she burst into tears.
"Thank you, thank you."
She stood there, slowly opening her clenched hands, her palms full of sweat.
Even though she said those words just now, she was so afraid that Lu Shengmin would really agree to her divorce request.
How scared that Lu Hao had a problem with her, and now that the truth is revealed, they will look down on her even more.
If Lu Shengmin really wanted to divorce her, she would accept it.
But, that's not what she wants.
My daughter is already eighteen years old.
Why divorce?
And she, in fact, had fallen deeply in love with him during so many years of getting along with him and couldn't live without him.
Everyone from the father-in-law to Lu Hao and Jiang Nan spoke out against their divorce, which made Xu Yuqin feel warm in her heart.
At the same time, she also decided that she would be a competent elder in the future and would not be as selfish and careless as before.