“I understand.” Fu Jingting nodded his head.
The old lady pounded her chest, “So once again, after your father pa*sed out from drinking because of your mother, I couldn’t hold back any longer and approached your mother to ask her what she really wanted. Why did she not keep her word? If she thinks so little of my son, why didn’t she agree when the Fu family withdrew their marriage? Why did she have to marry? Didn’t the Fu family give her a chance? No, our Fu family did. After the withdrawal, she could live with Su Cheng and our Fu family would also help the Zhong family, but she refused.
No one else would be able to bear it, right?
Fu Jingting lowered his eyes and did not answer the question.
As a son, he knew that his mother’s behaviour was wrong, and he could even say it was immoral.
Yet, he could not say so directly.
Even though he no longer had much of a mother-son bond with her, she was his mother after all.
The old lady had never been a very reasonable old lady, and she knew the reason for Fu Jingting’s silence, so she would never blame her grandson.
After all, as a son, not saying anything about his mother’s faults was supposed to be the right thing to do.
If he had spoken, she, the grandmother, would have felt that he was wrong instead.
“But grandmother, didn’t you offer to let them get a divorce?” Fu Jingting pursed his lips and asked suddenly, “According to your character, seeing father living such a miserable life and seeing mother bent on thinking about another man, you should have let them divorce, so that it would be better for everyone.”
“Why not.” The old lady sighed, “On the time I talked to your mother, I proposed that the couple should divorce, although at that time, your mother was already pregnant with you, but I also told your mother clearly that you could abort the baby and go after your love, but”
“My mother still refused?” Fu Jingting guessed again what was behind it.
The old lady nodded, “Yes, your mother, this person, although she has some love brain, but she still has a sense of responsibility, she refused my proposal, saying that she promised to give your father an heir, so she can’t go back on her word, so she won’t abort the baby, and she won’t divorce for the time being, until the baby is born, grows up a few years old, and can understand that there is no affection between her parents and divorce She was leaving, she was very serious about what she said at the time, plus my old lady really wanted to hold her grandchild, at that time your mother was already pregnant with you in her belly, I really wanted her to abort it, I was actually a bit intolerant, I just didn’t want to see her and your father tormenting each other, so I let her abort it, since she said she didn’t want to abort it and wanted to have it, then naturally I wouldn’t advise it anymore.”
“What happened afterwards?” Fu Jingting asked again.
The old lady sipped her tea, “Later I told your mother that as long as you don’t regret it, then let it be. Your mother smiled then, rubbed her belly and said she didn’t regret it, she said that although she would be with Su Cheng many years later, Su Cheng would wait for her and, like her, would still keep it for her, she and Su Cheng had made a pact, a pact that I had known about when I was investigating, but didn’t tell your mother. but did not tell your mother, and even when your mother said it, I deliberately pretended to be surprised and said that was very good.”
Speaking of this, the old lady hummed mockingly, “Although I said that at the time, I felt ridiculous in my heart, that she would actually believe that a man would hold out for her? She really overestimated Su Cheng’s feelings for her. If that man, Su Cheng, really loved her that much, why did he never stand up against her when she was engaged to the Fu family, or when she was about to get married? It wasn’t even public about being with your mother, instead it was your mother herself who came forward and made it public before the wedding. Would a man, if he really loved her that much, not oppose her getting married to another man and not make her girlfriend status public? So, I never thought that Su Cheng loved your mother much, but that person of your mother, hey”
The old lady let out another long sigh, “It turns out that what I thought back then, was right, Su Cheng’s illegitimate daughter has been made out, and is almost the same age as Shushu, which obviously means that Su Cheng had already unilaterally broken the contract when your mother was not even two years into the marriage, that’s why I said, if your mother knew about it now, I’m afraid she would have to live with anger.”
“Just don’t tell her.” Fu Jingting lowered his eyes and said.
The old lady laughed at his words, “That’s true, but although your mother is hateful, she is also pitiful. If she really forgot about Su Cheng and lived a good life with your father, she would be happy now, and there would be nothing wrong with Wang Shuqin.”
Fu Jingting still believed in this point.
Grandma had said that her father used to love her mother.
If his mother hadn’t not loved him and kept pushing him out, he obviously wouldn’t have fallen in love with Wang Shuqin.
However, although Wang Shuqin was vulgar and not up to par, she was really a good person and treated him as if he was her own son because she felt that she had been a third party and that she had killed his mother.
It was because of this that his grandmother acknowledged Wang Shuqin as her daughter-in-law, even though she did not like her.
“Perhaps, father was not destined to have a destiny with his mother, his real destiny was his stepmother.” Fu Jingting looked at the old madam and said, “And don’t you think, grandmother, that father is indeed much happier with his stepmother?”
The old madam grunted, “If I hadn’t made sure that the two of them did have feelings for each other and that Wang Shuqin was good for you, even if your father had endured the family law, I wouldn’t have agreed to Wang Shuqin entering the house.”
Fu Jingting laughed lightly, “Although grandmother doesn’t like her stepmother, the various distinctions that should be given to her have never been lacking, you just don’t like her as a person, but that doesn’t mean, you don’t recognise her as a daughter-in-law of the Fu family.”
The old lady sighed, “Yes, she is rude and vulgar, I don’t like her in any way. I have to admit, but I don’t ask too much of her, as long as she does her duty as a wife and mother, I won’t ask for anything else.”
With that, the old lady waved her hand with a look of disgust.
Fu Jingting laughed lightly for a moment, then his expression returned to its cool look once again, “Right grandmother, you still haven’t told me how you found out that mother had raised me to Su Cheng’s character?”
Hearing this, the old lady coldly lowered her face, “I really didn’t know at first, your mother said she wanted to personally cultivate your character, I didn’t think much of it, I thought it was normal for a mother to cultivate her son, and I couldn’t deprive your mother of her rights as a mother, so I just went along with your mother, until the year you turned eight, I went to the capital to attend the 80th birthday of a revolutionary comrade of your grandfather when he was alive. The first impression I had when I saw Su Cheng was what you said, how Shushu felt when she saw Su Cheng, I instantly understood what your mother had done, I was angry, your mother was so confused, raising her own son as a stand-in for her own lover, is this still what a mother should do?”
The old lady’s face turned red with anger.
However, Fu Jingting suddenly thought of something and raised his eyes to look at Old Madam, “No wonder you suddenly proposed that I should come and live with you at the old mansion when you returned from the capital at that time, you were trying to stop my mother from continuing to brainwash me, so that I would completely develop Su Cheng’s nature.”