Surprise! The rough husband is the hidden boss of the period literature

Chapter 432 Struggle
Jiang Xingye was in a hurry to go back and see his children. He thought the two kids would be crying and calling for their father at home. But when he entered the yard, he heard his daughter laughing. He stopped in his tracks and exclaimed, "You little ingrate!"

Xu Qinghuan couldn't help but chuckle, "You worried for nothing, didn't you?"

These past two days, Jiang Xingye has been unable to eat or sleep well. He's not worried about failing the exam, but rather about his son and daughter crying at home.

As soon as the couple entered the gate, the two little ones, who were initially fine, started to cry when they saw their parents.

The son was still sobbing softly, while the daughter was crying her heart out, reaching out to Jiang Xingye, "Daddy, Daddy!"

Jiang Xing's ambitions were shattered, and he quickly hugged the two children in his arms, as if the two children had suffered a great injustice at home.

The old lady said helplessly, "It was good that you didn't come back. Now that you're back, you've become so spoiled."

Jiang Xingye held them for a while, then his son and daughter wanted their mother back. He handed his son to his wife and held his daughter himself. "Did you miss your dad?"

"I want to!" she said, sounding incredibly aggrieved.

Jiang Xingye pressed his face against his daughter's, his eyes reddening, "Daddy misses my baby too!"

Apart from Xu Qinghuan, who else had ever seen Jiang Xingye like this? They were all amazed and relieved for him.

In recent years, his family has witnessed him living a more human life, especially after being with Xu Qinghuan. He has become more down-to-earth every day.

He was holding his daughter and almost cried, and he had become just an ordinary person again.

Jiang Baohua asked, "Why are we seeing you all here? Where's Meizi?"

Xu Qinghuan said, "Meizi is walking behind. This man misses his precious daughter terribly and wishes he could grow two wings and fly back."

"Haha, everyone says that a daughter is a father's little cotton-padded jacket. What father doesn't love his daughter? Sons and mothers are close. When you're not home, Chichi keeps looking towards the door and calling for his mother."

As soon as she heard this, Xu Qinghuan's eyes welled up with tears. She pressed her forehead against her son's, and the two looked at each other.

Jiang Baohua quickly asked again, "How did the exam go?"

"Not bad!" Jiang Xingye replied, and sat down on the kang (a heated brick bed) with his daughter in his arms.

Jiang Xingmei rushed in like a gust of wind, "Sister-in-law, hurry! Something's happened to Kong Lijuan again! Dad, brother, you two need to go quickly, or someone might die!"

Kong Lijuan solemnly entrusted her son to Sun Laizi because she thought Sun Laizi could intimidate his mother and make her pay more attention to her son.

Sun Laizi has to go to work and can't stay home to take care of the children, so in the end, Qiu Linghua is the only one who can take care of them.

However, it's unclear whether to say Sun Laizi or Kong Lijuan, but in the end, they overestimated Qiu Linghua.

Even on such a cold day, Qiu Linghua still goes out for a stroll, cracking sunflower seeds and eating melons. She's always around gossiping about everyone.

So much so that when Sun Laizi came home from get off work, he heard his son crying. He rushed in and saw that his son's head was bleeding, and his head, neck and body were covered in burns.

The child wanted to drink water and reached for it on the table. The thermos tipped over, scalding the child and then rolling down, hitting the child who was writhing in pain on the floor.

Sun Laizi was completely stunned and didn't know what to do.

Just then, Qiu Linghua returned, yelling, "What are you wailing about? What kind of animal are you raising? All you do is wail all day long..."

Before she could finish speaking, Sun Laizi grabbed a shovel and swung it at his mother. Luckily, it was winter and Qiu Linghua was wearing many layers, so she wasn't injured by the shovel, but she was thrown out and landed on the well platform, bleeding from her head and fainting.

When Kong Lijuan returned, this was the terrible scene she saw. Ignoring everyone else, she fainted on the spot when she saw her son in this state.

The commotion alerted the neighbors, and the educated youth, who hadn't had time to go back, all came over. Jiang Xingmei quickly returned to look for them.

Xu Qinghuan handed the child to Jiang Xingye and rushed over. She ignored Qiu Linghua on the well platform and went straight to the child. The three-year-old child had just gained some weight, but the burns had left him unrecognizable.

Even in later generations, a skin graft could not restore him to his former state.

Xu Qinghuan has been taking care of this child for almost a year. Every time Kong Lijuan goes to her place to study, she takes the child with her and leaves him there. When she's studying, she doesn't care about her own family. The child will come to her for food, water, or to relieve himself, calling her "Auntie." Sometimes he wants Xu Qinghuan but not Kong Lijuan.

Although Kong Lijuan loves her son, she doesn't have as much patience as Xu Qinghuan.

Seeing her child like this, Xu Qinghuan felt extremely distressed.

Without saying a word, she plucked off a quarter of a rare pill and put it into the child's mouth.

The child's mouth was burned. When Xu Qinghuan touched it, he twitched in pain, opened his eyes, saw Xu Qinghuan, and whispered "Auntie," his eyes lighting up.

Xu Qinghuan exclaimed, "Ah! It will stop hurting after eating it!"

The child was very well-behaved and tried his best to open his mouth.

After the pill was taken, it seemed as if a force drove away all the pain.

A bottle of boiling water was poured over his head, soaking all his clothes. The adults were fighting and no one paid any attention to him. He rolled on the ground for a long time until he fainted from the pain.

Xu Qinghuan picked up the child, intending to take him back to treat the child's wounds.

Kong Lijuan stumbled over and tried to snatch the child from her, crying, "No, this is my child, this is my child!"

She is not in good condition.

The child was terrified, clinging to Xu Qinghuan and crying uncontrollably.

Xu Qinghuan was a little irritated, so she pressed one of Kong Lijuan's acupoints, and Kong Lijuan collapsed.

"You watch her!"

Sun Laizi finally perked up a bit. He pointed to his mother outside, "Xu Zhiqing, my mother, she..."

As Xu Qinghuan went out, she checked Qiu Linghua's nose and found she was still alive. She quickly stopped the bleeding and said, "Let's get her inside first, lest she freeze to death."

When Xu Qinghuan took the child back, Jiang Xingye had just brought the two children back. When he saw them, he was shocked and asked, "How did they get like this?"

"Poor thing, he got scalded by boiling water."

Xu Qinghuan asked Jiang Xingye to prepare the bath tub. She took out some spiritual water from her spatial storage, stripped the child of his clothes, and put him in the tub.

The child had just taken the medicine and the wound had been soaked in the spiritual water, and the pain had disappeared. He was unaware of how terrible his appearance was and laughed happily.

Xu Qinghuan felt a lump in her throat as she looked at the child and said to Jiang Xingye, "I always feel that this child doesn't resemble Sun Laizi or Kong Lijuan at all."

Jiang Xingye said, "Personality is one thing, but the environment in which you grow up is also very important."

No one understood this better than Jiang Xingye.

Qiu Linghua was badly injured this time. She lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) wailing, but neither her son nor her daughter-in-law paid any attention to her.

She had three sons and two daughters. After the first four sons got married and established their own families, Old Man Sun finally died from exhaustion. She and her youngest son were kicked out by her two eldest sons and their wives to live separately.

"Dog Egg, you heartless bastard, do you want me dead? If I die, you'll have to eat lotus seeds. Go and call Xu Zhiqing to come and treat me!"

Sun Laizi was extremely agitated. "Kong Lijuan, I promised you I would take good care of our son. How can I feel comfortable with him injured like this?"

Kong Lijuan woke up and wouldn't let it go.

“You’re not feeling well, you’re only feeling unwell for a short time, but he’ll be unwell for the rest of his life, a whole lifetime! How is he supposed to live in the future?” Kong Lijuan cried. “Sun Zhigang, I can’t live in a family like yours anymore, let’s get a divorce!”

When Sun Laizi started working at the factory, he asked Jiang Xingye to give him a name: Sun Zhigang.

　My dears, happy reading!
　　(End of this chapter)