Just turned over a new leaf and became a wise and intelligent student

Chapter 49: Unfilial in Life and Screaming in Death
"Dad, stop talking."

Xu Qingshan said.

Xu Xuejun didn't care and didn't wait for Lin Yuehua to refute. He seemed to want to vent his anger that had been accumulating for a long time in front of his mother-in-law and son.

Lin Yuehua stubbornly stared at Xu Xuejun with a look of grief and anger, wanting to hear what else he had to say.

Xu Xuejun was furious. He suddenly stood up, stood in front of the coffee table, stretched out his hand condescendingly, pointed at Lin Yuehua's nose, and started to scold with a sullen face.

"The last time you talked about the worship, it was the same thing. It's unreasonable. There are so many things to do in the unit now. Everyone is competing for the deputy section chief. You are the only one holding me back. I really want to marry a woman like you."

Xu Xuejun was about to scold Lin Yuehua loudly.

"I said, shut up!"

Xu Qingshan stood up suddenly and grabbed Xu Xuejun's hand.

He stopped in front of his mother, his face calm, looking directly at his father.

His tall body was like a giant grown tree, and the light from the warm yellow light on the ceiling fell on Xu Qingshan.

The light and shadow are divided into two petals.

One petal of Lin Yuehua, one petal of Xu Xuejun.

Lin Yuehua looked at her son who was standing in front of her to block her husband's way. The tears that she had been holding back could no longer be hidden.

Xu Xuejun was surprised and angry. He looked up at his tall son.

"open!"

Xu Xuejun ordered sternly.

He would never allow his son to challenge his authority.

The little old lady who had been standing aside with a worried look on her face, immediately stood up when she saw Xu Qingshan stand up. She wanted to come over and pull them apart, but she was at a loss as to what to do.

"You take a look at this first."

Xu Qingshan took out a file bag from his schoolbag on the sofa and put it in Xu Xuejun's hand.

"Sit down and talk while you watch."

Xu Xuejun's attention was diverted.

The original anger and momentum were suddenly cut off, and for a moment he was at the mercy of Xu Qingshan.

Xu Qingshan pressed his shoulder and asked him to sit down.

"Grandma, take my mom to wash her face and go back to the room to rest."

Xu Qingshan let go of Xu Xuejun's hand, turned his head and spoke to his grandmother.

Although he was just a child in their eyes, the panic-stricken grandmother obeyed Xu Qingshan's unquestionable words and pulled her daughter back to the room.

Only Xu and his son were left in the living room.

"beep"

The water boiled, Xu Qingshan took the kettle and moved the tea tray in front of him.

"Dad, can we talk?"

"What are you talking about? Children shouldn't interfere in adult matters. Just read your book."

Xu Xuejun held a file bag in his hand, looked at him coldly, and never forgot to preach.

"You don't even know that your mother is such a idiot. Our unit is investigating corporate tax evasion recently, and this is the key to promotion to deputy section chief. Your mother is sick and needs someone to take care of her, and she's making a fuss about this and that, holding me back."

"I can't get promoted in my life, and my career is unsuccessful. It's all your mother's fault. If..."

"Drink tea."

Xu Qingshan pushed the teacup in front of Xu Xuejun.

Xu Xuejun picked up the teacup, took a sip, and took out some information from the file bag. As soon as he saw the title of the information, the tea choked his throat.

"Where did you get this information?"

He flipped through the document quickly in shock, and suddenly looked up at his son who seemed a little unfamiliar to him.

Xu Qingshan was calm and did not answer.

He poured another cup for Xu Xuejun and sipped the tea himself.

"Come, have some tea."

Xu Xuejun wanted to speak, but after hearing what Xu Qingshan said, he could only drink another cup. However, before he could swallow the tea, Xu Qingshan suddenly said something lightly.

"Dad, you're anxious."

"Shhhhhhhhh I'm not in a hurry!"

Xu Xuejun was choked again and argued loudly.

"Look, he's in a hurry."

Xu Xuejun originally wanted to criticize him a few more times.

Looking at Xu Qingshan's calm appearance, he swallowed his words back.

"Rage without power is a cowardly act. Learning to be calm and not panicking when faced with difficulties is the true quality of a man."

“Be calm in big matters, slow down in urgent matters, and change in difficult matters.”

"Dad, you taught me all this."

"You have always been the pillar of our family in my heart, but what you are doing is different from what you taught me."

Xu Qingshan held the tea bowl lid in his hand and slowly brewed tea.

Xu Xuejun was silent.

"We are the only two of us here now. If you didn't say anything that is not conducive to family unity, I wouldn't have heard it."

"There's no rush for the information, let's talk about family first." Xu Xuejun held the teacup and lowered his head slightly.

Somehow, his butt went from being completely pressed against the sofa to only half touching it.

"I am a small person with little knowledge, but I can still chat with you, Dad."

"If I'm not mistaken, this incident happened when my uncle came to Longjiang Commercial Street to set up a stall and was blackmailed by gangsters, which led to a conflict, right?"

Xu Qingshan recalled some of his unpleasant past.

In his previous life, he first fell into hell and then slowly climbed out. But sometimes young people who have experienced too many things are beaten before their minds mature, which naturally makes it easy for them to develop a deformed heart.

Therefore, after the matter was resolved, he had a conflict with his father, fled to Shanghai, embarked on a road of no return, and was eventually thrown into prison.

Everything has a cause and an effect.

These things that happened when he was a senior in high school were also the fuse for the Xu family to gradually fall apart and become heavily in debt, igniting the accumulated explosives under the mountain of shit that was barely maintaining their existence.

Xu Xuejun nodded.

"So what you wanted to tell my mother just now was to talk about the difficulty of helping my uncle, but you will do your best to help. It's just that I hope she will also fully support the economic affairs of my second aunt's family and let me go back to worship, right?"

Xu Qingshan's tone was soothing and non-aggressive.

After hearing this, Xu Xuejun looked at Xu Qingshan with even more surprise.

How did this guy know?

"Um"

Xu Xuejun responded, but then he remembered something and frowned.

"Don't worry about it, kid. Just listen to me and don't let your mother lead you astray."

"Dad, let's talk about worship first."

Xu Qingshan interrupted Xu Xuejun's complaints and continued.

"Let me ask you, did I go back that year?"

"Ah."

"Okay, did we follow the secular rules of mourning that year?"

"Ah."

"Okay, I asked my mother to get up at five o'clock every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month and eight festivals a year, ride her motorcycle back to the mountains, burn incense and worship, and then go out to work. Didn't my mother do it?"

"Done."

"Then I can't go back to my hometown to prepare for the college entrance examination. Does that violate local customs?"

“No, it’s not, but this.”

Xu Xuejun wanted to argue, but Xu Qingshan didn't give him a chance.

"Since my aunt wants me to go back, why did she say I must go back last year? Why didn't my eldest cousin go back?"

“He needs it for work.”

"My oldest cousin didn't find a job last year."

Xu Xuejun was stunned and wanted to defend his nephews, but he couldn't find a reason.

"Although my grandparents didn't take good care of me, do you think my grandpa in heaven would rather see me achieve academic success or would he rather see the family quarreling?"

"There's no internal fighting, just some misunderstandings, it's not that serious."

"Children should not believe everything they hear."

Xu Xuejun was embarrassed.

"Really? Then why did the first uncle's family and the second uncle's family swear to never have any contact with each other because of the matter of the first aunt? When grandpa was alive, he didn't see how filial the first aunt was. Isn't this what it is?"

"You are unfilial when you are alive, and you scream when you are dead."

Xu Qingshan kept smiling and said something that shocked Xu Xuejun.

He found it hard to imagine such words coming out of his son's mouth.

He stood up suddenly, his temper flaring up again.

"Don't talk nonsense, little kid!"

"Then what are you in such a hurry for?"

Xu Qingshan showed no sign of weakness and also stood up, looking his father in the eye without backing down.

"You didn't have anyone to accompany you during your lifetime, and you didn't have any money. You paid for everything. Is this filial piety?"

"Being unfilial during life was for their own benefit, and being filial after death was for their own face. All the funeral gifts were taken away by their family. Isn't this deep-rooted selfishness?"

"After Grandpa passed away, Grandma didn't care about things, and Uncle was useless. So what did Auntie, as the eldest sister-in-law, do?"

"Within a year, the eldest and second families fell out, and the third family got divorced."

"Marrying an unvirtuous wife will ruin three generations. Now look at me, is your aunt virtuous?"

Xu Qingshan's eyes were bright and his momentum was as strong as a rainbow.

Xu Xuejun's fingertips trembled slightly.

"How do you know that your mother and I are getting a divorce?"

"呲"

Xu Qingshan sneered and shook his head. He sat down and invited Xu Xuejun to take a seat.

"Take a seat, don't be in a hurry."

(End of this chapter)