Rebirth Must Be Happy

Chapter 255 [254] A Huge Protest of Filial Piety (Third Update)
"Wang!"

Big Yellow ran over, and Chen Xingzhu showed it the fish in the basin. It immediately barked twice, whether it wanted to eat or was afraid that the fish would become a new pet and threaten its position.

"You're not allowed to eat it!"

Song Zhiyu warned it, poured water into the basin, and then said, "Let's put the basin down and keep catching fish, there are still many more!"

"It won't just jump out, will it?"

Chen Xingzhu vividly remembered the scene of the fish jumping around, and asked worriedly, "What if it gets away?"

"Makes sense!"

The two looked around and decided to put the basin on the bank. But they were worried about Big Yellow, so they led Big Yellow into the water and watched it.

Xie Wanqing's clothes had some mud and fishy smell from the fish on the front, but fortunately it didn't affect her appearance much. Seeing Xu Jinhuan still wringing out his pants on the shore, she called out to him softly, "Are you alright?"

"fine."

Xu Jinhuan couldn't take off his pants, so he gave up after wringing them a couple of times. "Anyway, the sun's out, they'll dry in a bit... Keep going!"

He went back into the water, grabbed two teacups and continued splashing water, while the three spendthrift women caught fish in the water.

"dong dong dong"

After the water was mostly cleared, Xu Jinhuan joined in catching fish. The fish that Xie Wanqing had just caught was the biggest, and it was far ahead of the others. After that, most of the fish were small.

The four of them were having a great time when Xu Jinhuan's phone rang. His father was calling to urge him to come home. Xu Jinhuan was exhausted from washing up the water, so how could he give up now? He pushed the three girls out as shields and kept picking up mud until after six o'clock, turning over all the mud to make sure it was gone before he finally stopped.

As he was walking quickly, he dug through the mud and spotted an eel, but unfortunately it was too agile and he couldn't catch it.

"So you're taking everything with you?"

Back at her maternal grandparents' house, after showing off nearly a third of the fish in the basin, Song Zhiyu saw that her maternal grandparents refused to take it, so she gave up insisting on sharing half as a filial gesture and packed it all up to take with her.

Grandma laughed and said, "With so little fish, there will be even less after processing. If we divide it up, how will we have any left to eat?"

Grandpa also said, "Go home, coat them in flour, fry them in hot oil, and they'll be fragrant, crispy, and delicious."

Because having a car made things convenient, we brought a lot of things this time. We not only packed the cucumbers and green beans that Song Zhiyu and the others had picked before the meal, but also a lot of other vegetables and several watermelons that we had stored.

"Let's go, let's go home!"

Song Zhiyu was very happy and said goodbye to her grandparents. "When my uncle learns to drive in a few days, he can bring my aunt to come again, and I'll come too."

Xie Wanqing and Chen Xingzhu also said their goodbyes politely. Then Xie Wanqing continued driving her Haval, while Xu Jinhuan drove his Mercedes home, following the assignments made when they arrived that morning.

"Hey, Old Chen, you're back?"

At a villa in Honolulu, Beijing, as dusk was falling, Chen Xingruo finished her tutoring session and politely saw her teacher downstairs. Just then, she saw Chen Guiliang driving his Cayenne back into the yard, grinning as he greeted his father, "Go park your car, I have something good to show you!"

Chen Guiliang quickly returned from the garage and saw his daughter waiting for him in the living room with her legs crossed. Panda was chasing a glass ball on the floor like a fool. He frowned and asked, "What are you showing me?"

He had a bad feeling.

"Hey hey hey!"

Chen Xingruo opened a video and showed it to her father on her phone, "Look, my sister is catching fish in the river... Look, isn't she happy?"

Chen Guiliang glanced at the video and saw that there were not only his daughter, but also two girls he had never seen before. They were both very pretty, but they were barefoot and covered in mud, holding wild small fish in their hands and showing them off to the camera with bright and happy smiles.

Finally, the camera shifts again, revealing a much larger fish at close range, almost touching the lens. In the area not obscured by the fish, the face of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy appears, grinning with his teeth showing.

Although they had never met before, Chen Guiliang immediately recognized the other person's identity:
Xu Jinhuan!
That annoying Xu Jinhuan!

"Is my sister smiling happily?"

Chen Xingruo said with a grin, "Xu Jinhuan drove the Mercedes you gave her, taking my sister to catch fish in the river... This can be considered as you, as her father, providing support for your daughter's happiness. Aren't you proud?"

Chen Guiliang almost spat blood onto this unfilial daughter's pretty face, and said sternly, "What does this prove?"

"That means you delivered a great car! My sister loves it, and Xu Jinhuan loves it too..."

Looking at her father's expression, Chen Xingruo smiled even more happily than her sister in the video, "Aren't you proud?"

"Alright, stop making your dad angry."

Yu Peishan led Chen Xingyu downstairs, chuckling as she scolded him, then smiled at Chen Guiliang and said, "You too, if you're wrong, you're wrong. It won't kill you to admit it."

"You wouldn't understand even if I told you."

Chen Guiliang, still with a stern face, picked up Chen Xingyu and carried him upstairs. "Just wait and see. You'll understand the purpose of my car delivery later." Chen Xingru pouted and said, "Is this car going to become the wedding car my sister rode in when Xu Jinhuan picks up his bride?"

Chen Guiliang was going upstairs when he heard this and almost tripped. Fortunately, he was well-mannered and experienced enough that he didn't get so angry that he vomited blood. He then carried his less annoying son upstairs.

"Aren't you done yet?"

After Chen Guiliang left, Yu Peishan lowered her voice and scolded, "Why do you keep up these days and making your dad angry?"

"Just to make me happy."

Chen Xingruo rolled her eyes and snorted, "I'll stay angry with him as long as he doesn't admit his mistake..."

"Didn't he admit his mistake?"

Yu Peishan laughed and said, "Otherwise, how did the person in front of me get there?"

"I was the one who drove them away."

Chen Xingruo picked up her phone, pretending not to see her sister's message at the bottom of the video saying "Don't show this to Dad," and texted her sister: "Are you home yet?"

Yu Peishan sat down next to her and asked with a smile, "Your dad doesn't want her to leave, but can you make her leave?"

"Anyway, it was his fault to begin with,"

Chen Xingruo opened Flappy Bird with a straight face and started playing, contributing advertising revenue to Xu Jinhuan. "It's so obvious that she's a Daji, and you can't even tell... If I hadn't been bullied by that bad woman, would I have needed to rack my brains to find a better stepmother?"

"Don't be so stubborn!"

Yu Peishan tapped her forehead with her finger. "You really think I don't know the reason?"

Chen Xingruo remained silent.

Yu Peishan asked, "Does your sister hate him?"

What my sister thinks is none of my business.

Chen Xingruo rolled her eyes. "My sister is a bit silly. She just endures being bullied. I'm not as silly as her."

"This is just fate playing tricks on you. Do you think your dad doesn't regret it?"

Yu Peishan comforted him, "He's too proud to admit his mistake. You know in your heart that he regrets it and knows he was wrong, that's enough. Why do you have to force him to bow his head? He's your father, not an ox. Are you going to force him to bow his head?"

For many years, the relationship between the family of four has been rather delicate.

Chen Guiliang and Yu Peishan are a common couple in the industry, a big boss and a kept woman, and they both fulfill their responsibilities in a reasonable way. Chen Guiliang provides economic support and excellent material conditions, while Yu Peishan is gentle and beautiful, a good wife and mother, not greedy, and not arrogant because of her favor.

There may not be love between the two, but there is affection between them, and they are both satisfied with this situation.

Although Chen Xingyu is only five years old, he doesn't seem to be very smart at the moment, but he is well-behaved; Chen Xingruo is the opposite. Everyone knows she is smart, but she is not well-behaved in any way.

Yu Peishan and Chen Xingruo are nominally from different generations, but in reality they are sisters and allies, working together to resist those malicious women outside.

However, in recent years, as Chen Guiliang has grown older and Chen Xingyu has also grown up, this threat has become less significant, and Yu Peishan has focused more on mediating the conflict between the father and daughter.

Chen Guiliang undoubtedly loved his daughter very much and felt guilty, but he was too proud to admit it.

Chen Xingruo knew her father felt guilty, but she felt that his mistakes went beyond that. She believed that he and Kong Lingyu should never have been together in the first place, because their irresponsibility as adults led to the tragedy that happened to her and her sister.

The two parents gave the sisters a very happy childhood, but then cruelly destroyed it after their divorce. The more wonderful their childhood was, the more painful it was when it was destroyed.

Chen Xingruo harbored hatred in her heart.

As Chen Xingruo grew older and more sensible, and with Yu Peishan mediating, the relationship between father and daughter had improved considerably in the past two years. Chen Xingruo's Land Rover was a product of this improved relationship.
This was the first time Chen Xingruo had asked her father for a birthday present since she turned eight.

She explicitly stated what she wanted, which was much more humane than her previous request for the same gift for her older sister. On her eighth birthday, Chen Guiliang was so exhausted that he didn't get a good night's sleep for several days and was almost bald before he finally realized that his daughter was upset because he had forgotten about his other daughter.

Although the stated reason for wanting the car was to spite a classmate named Wei Yixuan at school, even a blind person could see the real reason.

Otherwise, what's the point of having a car if she doesn't even drive one?
I bought it and it's just been sitting in the garage; I've never seen it taken to school to show off.

This was fine until two months ago when Chen Xingruo found her sister, and the relationship between the father and daughter became tense again.

She believes that all the grievances her sister has suffered over the years stem from Chen Guiliang and Kong Lingyu.

She ignored Kong Lingyu, feeling that she was beyond saving, and naturally vented her resentment on Chen Guiliang, who was still salvageable.

During the few days Chen Xingzhu was there, Chen Xingruo was in a good mood with her sister by her side, and they were quite a loving father and daughter. But once her sister left, her mood soured, and she remembered all the bad things her father had done, so she started to act all sorts of "filial piety".

(End of this chapter)