Chapter 136 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (30)
Chapter 136 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (30)
"I don't know what your wife did to make you like this..." The woman's words were hesitant and tentative, and she didn't finish her sentence.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jingyi feigned sadness, wiping away tears with one hand:
“My son is going against me because of this bitch. That bitch even brags in front of me. It really makes me furious.”
Lin Jingyi said through gritted teeth.
The woman was secretly delighted; the more the old woman disliked that woman, the more opportunities she had.
"Your daughter-in-law is really incompetent." The woman patted Lin Jingyi's back lightly, subtly trying to sow discord between Meng's mother and Lin Jingyi.
Lin Jingyi seemed to have found a kindred spirit and showered the woman with compliments.
"Ah, if only I had a daughter-in-law as good as you." Then, remembering that he didn't know the woman's name, Lin Jingyi asked, "What's your name, young lady?"
Lin Jingyi smiled kindly.
"My name is Yang Mei," the woman said, looking embarrassed.
"...Yangmei, what a nice name." Lin Jingyi forced a compliment; names from this era... were pretty much all like that, weren't they?
“Young lady, if you don’t mind, I can introduce you to my son. He’s good at making money.”
Lin Jingyi then spoke solemnly to the woman.
The woman was Meng Fei's lover to begin with, and now with the old lady's support, she felt that things would be much easier.
However, she couldn't ruin the old lady's good impression of her, so she awkwardly said to Lin Jingyi:
"Auntie, I can't break up someone else's family."
"Oh, what destruction? My son and daughter-in-law have no feelings for each other anymore, so there's no such thing as destruction." Lin Jingyi quickly waved his hand, looking completely indifferent.
"That won't do." Divorce isn't common these days, so it's difficult to persuade someone to get a divorce.
Even though Grandma Meng disliked Meng's mother, she did not advise the two to divorce.
"It's alright, my son has disliked my daughter-in-law for a long time." In the end, Lin Jingyi made the decision to introduce the two of them.
The woman reluctantly agreed.
After chatting for a while, Yang Mei offered to take Lin Jingyi home, but Lin Jingyi refused. Yang Mei had no choice but to give up, and the two parted ways.
To prevent Grandma Meng from ruining her plans, Lin Jingyi took advantage of the night to pass on her memories of Yang Mei's good impressions to Grandma Meng.
This made Grandma Meng feel happy about the bayberries.
After that, Lin Jingyi stayed at the Xia family's house with peace of mind, occasionally observing the situation from the Meng family's perspective.
Grandma Meng woke up one night feeling like she had a dream. In the dream, there was a girl named Yangmei, who was a good person and also brought good fortune to her husband.
The key is that she loves her son and doesn't mind that he has a family.
Thinking of what he had said to Yang Mei in his memory, he took advantage of the fact that Meng Qing and her daughter were busy in the kitchen and that his grandson was watching a black-and-white TV series.
Meng's mother secretly called Meng Fei aside.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Meng Fei was puzzled as her mother suddenly sought her out without the help of the rest of the family.
"You know I've never liked your wife," Grandma Meng said bluntly.
"I met a kind girl the day before yesterday. She's quite pretty. Shall I introduce you to her?"
Meng Fei was raised by his mother and has always respected her. He only disobeyed her when he got married, and he is usually quite filial.
Hearing his mother's outrageous suggestion, he suspected that his elderly mother had suffered some kind of trauma.
Grandma Meng is usually quite conservative and has strong patriarchal views. She knows that her son is having an affair, but she won't bring it up openly.
This surprised Meng Fei that he was now being asked to introduce women to his son.
"Mom, I'm almost forty." Although Meng Fei was curious, he felt that his mother's taste was not very good, so he politely declined.
"I've already promised that girl." Just based on that girl's face, which is said to bring good fortune to her husband, she felt she was much better than that scheming woman.
Meng Fei was somewhat tempted. He was curious about a woman like his mother, so he pretended to compromise.
"Alright then, when?"
"I've eaten." Lin Jingyi also included Yang Mei's home address in his dream, which is why Grandma Meng remembered it.
After the family finished lunch, Grandma Meng took Meng Fei out.
Looking at the familiar house in front of him, Meng Fei's eyelids twitched. Wasn't this the house he had bought outside?
Despite this, Meng Fei followed Grandma Meng without changing his expression and knocked on the door.
Upon seeing the person who had arrived, Yang Mei's face lit up with a smile.
"Grandma Meng, please come in." She politely invited her in, pretending not to know Meng Fei.
"Okay, okay." Grandma Meng smiled as well; the girl looked just like she remembered.
As she spoke, she took Yang Mei's hand and followed her inside.
Meng Fei was carrying fruit in his hand. He had been guessing who the girl his mother was talking about was ever since he saw the house, which was also unexpected.
Yang Mei led Grandma Meng ahead, not forgetting to turn around and wink at Meng Fei.
She then smiled and helped Grandma Meng sit down, and Meng Fei followed suit and sat down as well.
"Xiaomei, what do you think of my son?" Grandma Meng leaned closer to Yangmei and asked in a low voice.
Yang Mei glanced shyly at Meng Fei, nodded, and remained silent.
Seeing his lover so demure and shy in front of his mother, yet so passionate and unrestrained in front of him, Meng Fei felt a surge of heat in his heart, and his gaze towards Yang Mei became even more ardent.
Grandma Meng smiled with satisfaction, then looked at her son staring intently at someone else, and she knew what was going on.
So he said to the bayberry:
"You two young people should get to know each other better. This old lady is going to go for a walk outside." She then moved closer to her son.
"Son, seize the opportunity, I still want to hold my grandson." It was as if Meng Qing didn't exist.
After Grandma Meng finished speaking, she prepared to get up.
"Auntie, please... stay for lunch."
Yangmei's ears were bright red, and she looked shy.
Grandma Meng looked at her son, smiled, and shook her head at Yang Mei:
"I've already eaten, I'm going out to digest my food."
Sure enough, her son liked the daughter-in-law she chose. If she had been allowed to choose decades ago, there wouldn't have been any problems.
It's hard on her, at her age, to still worry about her son's marital happiness.
After Grandma Meng left, Meng Fei hugged Yang Mei tightly and gently licked the tip of her ear.
"Meimei, how did you manage to win over my mom?" The voice was low and hoarse.
Yang Mei trembled slightly, her heart overflowing with joy.
"Brother Meng, something doesn't sound quite right," Yang Mei said softly, leaning against Meng Fei's chest.
“A few days ago, my aunt fell down and I helped her up. She praised me for being a good girl. Later I found out that she was Mongke’s mother.”
"Really?" Meng Fei didn't let Yang Mei off the hook, continuing to grope her all over.
"Meng Ge..." Yang Mei called out to Meng Fei unconsciously, her voice filled with emotion.
Meng Fei remembered that his mother had asked him to have a grandson before she passed away, and he couldn't wait any longer.
Since his mother supported him, he had no more worries.
Meng Fei leaned over and pinned Yang Mei down, his eyes filled with undisguised lust.
A charming room...
Grandma Meng listened to the sounds inside the room and left satisfied.
Even though Meng Fei had women outside the marriage in the past, he never stayed out all night.
Now that he has his mother's support, he no longer has any worries. Besides, he now really likes bayberries.
Meng Fei preferred facing Yang Mei's face, which was in her twenties, to facing Meng Qing's mother's bitter face.
Having seen many beautiful women, Meng Fei's lover naturally found Yang Mei to be quite attractive.
Meng Fei started living at Yang Mei's house. Meng's mother would occasionally go over to keep Yang Mei company, and Yang Mei would also accompany Meng's mother shopping.
Meng Fei and his mother were naturally aware of the changes in Meng Fei and his mother, but Meng Qing and her daughter dared not ask.
Although Meng's mother had her suspicions, she couldn't do anything about her husband and mother-in-law, and she could only endure it for the sake of making a living.
Meng Qing was always worried that Xia Lin would cause her trouble, so she rarely paid attention to her mother's emotions. Meanwhile, Meng Qing's brother was engrossed in watching TV all day and didn't care what his father and grandmother were doing.
This continued for two months.
One day, Yangmei was cooking at home when she suddenly felt nauseous.
Thinking about how she hadn't consciously used contraception when she was intimate with Meng Fei recently, she had some vague suspicions in her mind.
So, after enduring the nausea, she cooked a meal, but Meng Fei noticed something was wrong while she was eating. She was taken to the clinic for a checkup and it turned out she was pregnant.
This was also within Meng Fei's expectations.
After Grandma Meng learned about this, she took Yangmei to the Meng family home.
"Mom, husband, who is this?" Looking at the woman following her mother-in-law and husband, Meng's mother felt a vague unease but still asked the question that had been bothering her.
She called Meng Fei and his son by name, also wanting to reveal her identity to that woman.
Yang Mei glanced at Meng's mother and thought that this woman was indeed... not good enough for Meng Fei, and she felt very smug.
"Hello, sister, my name is Yang Mei." Yang Mei smiled broadly and introduced herself to Meng's mother before Meng Fei could introduce her.
"Hello Yang Mei, I am Meng Fei's wife." Meng's mother emphasized her identity again.
Yang Mei's smile vanished upon hearing this. Indeed, no matter how much a man liked her, she could never stand openly beside him.
Meng Fei frowned slightly.
Grandma Meng was more direct. Holding Yang Mei's hand, she said somewhat angrily to Grandma Meng:
“I don’t acknowledge you as my daughter-in-law. The only daughter-in-law I have my eye on is Xiaomei.”
As she spoke, she pulled Yangmei past Meng's mother and sat down on a chair in the living room.
Meng's mother turned pale and looked at her husband in disbelief.
She knew her mother-in-law didn't like her, and no matter how hard she tried over the decades, she could never win her mother-in-law's favor.
Meng Fei met his mother's gaze somewhat evasively: "Meimei is pregnant with my child."
As if struck by lightning, Meng's mother felt all her strength drain away, and she collapsed helplessly to the ground.
Meng Fei only glanced at his mother with guilt before walking past her and going inside.
Mother Meng's tears fell silently.
What about their more than 20 years of marriage?
“I know what you’ve done for our family over the years, and I don’t plan to send you away. I hope you’ll treat Xiaomei well.”
Seeing that her son seemed to have really lost interest in her, but thinking of all the sacrifices she had made over the years, Meng's mother still spoke to her.
Seeing that Meng's mother remained unmoved, he continued:
"If you can't accept her, then leave the Meng family and take your good-for-nothing daughter with you."
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