Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Ye Ping smiled and hugged her, "Good girl. You'll support whatever mom wants to do, right?"

"Mm-hmm." Yu Shu nodded.

"Even if I want a divorce?"

Yu Shu looked at her in surprise. Ye Ping calmly returned her gaze.

A few seconds later, Yu Shu nodded firmly, "As long as you're happy, I'll support whatever you do."

Ye Ping looked at Yu Yang. Yu Yang let go of Yu Feng and came to her side, "Me too."

Everyone else started talking all at once, saying pretty much the same cliches.

"There's a saying, marry young, grow old together."

"The kids are so big already, what's the fuss about?"

"Life is good nowadays. Just close one eye and let it go. Every family has some headaches."

"Think carefully now..."

...

Ye Ping smiled and brushed them off, not taking their bait, "I'm sorry I didn't entertain you properly today. I'll host you all another time at a nice restaurant."

Everyone had their own thoughts and didn't want to overstay their welcome. They left in twos and threes. Yao Jinhua was also dragged away by some aunties. Only the family of four remained.

Yu Feng seemed to have just come to his senses. He asked why, why she wanted a divorce from him.

Why? How dare he ask why?

Ye Ping was extremely weary. She didn't want to say another word to this man.

"Yu Feng, I only have one question for you. All these years, have you been giving your mother a monthly allowance?"

Before Yu Feng's accident, the Yu family lived pretty well, often with surplus money. Yu Feng gave his mother 500 yuan each month, with a couple hundred extra on holidays.

Ye Ping never begrudged that money. No matter how Yao Jinhua acted, she was still Yu Feng's birth mother. Ye Ping had no right to stop a son from fulfilling his filial duty.

But later, when the Yu family fell on hard times, how difficult was it?

Yu Shu raised her sore neck and heaved a long sigh - vexing!

Yu Shu tidied up the kitchen, dining table, living room, exhausted from the effort. She'd just collapsed on the sofa to rest when the doorbell rang again.

That jinx Yu Yang was back.

"Not spending more time with Dad?" Yu Shu walked back, kneading her waist.

Yu Yang diligently massaged her back and shoulders. "Heaven knows I'm innocent! I'll always support the two wise and martial women of this family! I'm not cut from the same cloth as that wretched old man!"

"Sis~ Is this force okay?"

"A bit more pressure."

"Mom's not out yet?"

"Nope."

"How come there's no sound at all? Do you think she might..." Yu Yang trailed off meaningfully.

"Might want to end it all?" Yu Shu finished for him. "Don't joke around. Our mom is so tough. She's trudged through so many valleys and crossed so many knives. How could she do something to gratify her enemies?"

Yu Shu knew very clearly - the fierce Madam Ye was not one to seek death.

Back then, she'd dared to brandish a watermelon knife against hoodlums.

Tsk, it happened the second winter after Yu Feng's accident, when Yu Shu had just started college. Ye Ping's snack stand business was gradually taking off. She was always a good cook. After working out tricks of the trade for snacks, the taste got better and better, with endless streams of customers.

At night, Ye Ping would push her cart to the only vocational school in the county to sell midnight snacks outside the gates. There was another snack stand there, owned by a middle-aged couple about her age. They were polite to Ye Ping at first, but grew envious as her business boomed.

So they found some distant relatives involved with gangs to intimidate Ye Ping. Ye Ping was scared, but couldn't bear to lose that income source from the school gates. She dragged Yu Feng along for courage.

The fourth time those hoodlums came to cause trouble, they directly overturned Ye Ping's stand and threatened to cripple her if she set up there again.

Ye Ping also had a fiery temper. She threw caution to the wind, brandishing the watermelon knife she kept hidden in her cart.

The hoodlums feared her recklessness too. They fled from Ye Ping's wild slashing. Only after chasing them several hundred meters did Ye Ping stop pursuing with knife in hand. When she returned to her overturned stand, Yu Feng hadn't budged an inch off the stool.

The man she thought would support her, who she brought for courage, was useless.

Dammit! The more she thought about it, the more she felt her dad was worthless!

A wretched old man and scumbag!