Shen Dong was stunned, her eyes wide.
Sister Weiwei was really too unfilial. Even if her parents refused to take care of Grandma, it should still be Sister Weiwei’s turn, right? She was still a student making her take care of Grandma was going too far.
Besides, she was currently the only high school student in the Shen family. In the future, she was supposed to go to university and bring honor to the family.
“Grandma, w-what is going on?” Shen Dong stamped her feet anxiously.
Old Madam Shen felt the world spinning. She was so angry that she didn’t even want to open her eyes and face all this.
That unfilial wretch Shen Wei would definitely face retribution.
At this moment, Shen Wei was busy doing something “bad.” Didn’t Yu Li say that granddaughters also had the duty to support their grandmother?
She directly pulled the cart to Yu Li’s parents’ home.
Yu Li’s family naturally recognized this young girl. Recently, Yu Li had come back to her parents’ house often and complained about this “ungrateful wretch.”
“Shen Wei, what brings you here today?” Yu Li’s mother asked with a fake smile.
Shen Wei replied, “My aunt asked me to come. She said she feels sorry for you taking care of your grandmother every day, you don’t eat well or sleep well. She told me to bring Grandma over so she can be taken care of and shown some filial piety for a while.”
Yu Li’s mother was shocked. She knew her daughter well she wasn’t a filial person. When Yu Li herself had been exhausted with back pain before, she never offered to help even a little.
Had she suddenly become filial?
No matter what, this was a good thing for Yu Li’s mother.
Her own mother-in-law had been paralyzed for years, and taking care of her day and night had left her desperate for rest.
“Alright, wait here. I’ll go pack her things now.”
Soon, Yu Li’s grandmother was carried out and placed onto the cart. Shen Wei pulled it and headed toward Hongqi Street.
Along the way, she told everyone she met that her “little aunt” Yu Li had asked her to bring the old lady back to be cared for, effectively putting Yu Li on the spot and making it hard for her to send the old woman back again.
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On her way home from work, Yu Li gritted her teeth and spent 1.2 yuan to buy a piece of pork. These past few days, that old woman had worn her down she hadn’t eaten well or slept well.
Now that she had sent the old woman off to Shen Wei, the burden in her heart was finally lifted. She planned to treat herself to a better meal.
Humming a tune, Yu Li walked into the house then froze at the sight inside.
Not only was Old Madam Shen, whom she had just sent away, lying in the main room, but even her own grandmother, who had been paralyzed for years, was there too.
The two old women lay on the ground, both staring at her pitifully with the same helpless eyes.
“Ah!”
Yu Li thought she was seeing ghosts in broad daylight.
“Mom,” Shen Dong walked out from inside, “what’s going on? Sister Shen Wei even brought Grandma to my school gate.”
Overcome with emotion, Yu Li started slapping her daughter’s face. “Don’t call her ‘sister’! Call her that little bitch! That damn wretch why doesn’t heaven strike her dead with a bolt of lightning?!”
She had just sent that old hag to Shen Wei’s bun stall, and right after that, Shen Wei sent her to her daughter’s school was that something a human would do?
That cursed girl no wonder her parents are dead!
Her head throbbed with anger. Yu Li bent down and asked her grandmother, “Grandma, why did you come here and add to the chaos?”
The old woman, toothless, said, “I-it was Shen Wei… she said you were bringing me here… to enjoy some comfort. Li, I didn’t dote on you for nothing.”
Yu Li: …
That damned Shen Wei! She was so furious she screamed again.
As soon as Shen Jianguo got home, he heard his wife raging. He suddenly felt exhausted he was becoming less and less willing to return to this home.
He had already compromised and sent his mother to Shen Wei, so what was Yu Li still making a fuss about?
He was about to scold her, but the moment he stepped into the main room and saw two old women lying side by side, he shut his mouth.
What was going on now? He thought he only had one mother now he felt like shouting too.
“Shen Wei did this!” Seeing Shen Jianguo, Yu Li rushed over, grabbed him, and started shaking him. “Those two old hags were both brought here by that little bitch Shen Wei! We had barely left when she took your mom to Xiao Dong’s school gate, then went to my parents’ house and brought my grandma here too! What are we supposed to do now?”
She was completely at a loss.
Shen Jianguo slumped to the ground. “Then we take care of them. What else can we do?”
They were the ones who said that granddaughters also had the duty to support the elderly. Shen Wei was a granddaughter, Shen Dong was a granddaughter, and Yu Li herself was also a granddaughter.
Shen Wei had really put them in a tight spot.
Yu Li glanced at her grandmother, resigned, and carried the meat into the kitchen. What else could she do now? She could only swallow this loss.
If something really happened to her grandmother because of neglect, she wouldn’t even be able to return to her parents’ home anymore.
Ahhh! She was so furious!
After finishing her business, Shen Wei went to a state-run restaurant to treat Xu Song and Xu Yue to a meal.
Today, the siblings had not only helped her sell all her buns, but also packed up her things and stayed there waiting for her the whole time.
“Sister Shen Wei, we can just eat something simple we’re not very hungry,” Xu Yue said.
“Yueyue, do you like fish?” Shen Wei planned to order a few proper dishes. “If you don’t have any dietary restrictions, I’ll just order.”
She ordered braised pork, steamed fish, stir-fried mushrooms, and three small bowls of rice.
The three of them chatted as they ate.
“You really took that old lady straight to the school gate? Sister Shen Wei, you’re amazing!” Xu Yue was full of admiration.
If she had been as capable as Sister Weiwei, maybe she wouldn’t have suffered so much back in her hometown.
“Yes. She said it herself that granddaughters have the duty to support the elderly. I just helped her follow through.”
Thinking about how Yu Li must be fuming right now improved Shen Wei’s appetite.
“Some people are like that if you’re too soft, they’ll keep bullying you. But when you stand firm, they back down,” Xu Song said, looking at Shen Wei with gentle eyes. “If they come trouble you again, you can come to us. My brother is quite capable he’ll definitely help you.”
It was rare for a girl to have such courage. If it were his own sister, she probably wouldn’t be able to face such things. Xu Song couldn’t help but develop a favorable impression of Shen Wei he liked girls who were brave and resolute.
“Alright.”
When Lu Cheng went to the market to look for Shen Wei that day, he didn’t see her only the siblings watching over the bun stall.
He mentioned his relationship with Shen Wei and said he would help watch the stall, but the young man firmly refused him, which made Lu Cheng quite angry.
After leaving in frustration, he went home and got scolded by his mother again. Not wanting to stay, he went out for a walk.
Unexpectedly, when he passed by the state-run restaurant, he saw Shen Wei sitting and eating with the siblings.
He frowned deeply. How could Shen Wei behave so improperly?
For some reason, ever since the blind date, Lu Cheng had developed a sense of possessiveness toward Shen Wei.
He knew very clearly it wasn’t love, yet he couldn’t help feeling that Shen Wei should be his wife.