Chapter 39

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Author: 打字机N号

Chapter 39: The search for one’s mom second spring 7/For the sake of my mother’s remarriage 7

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On another side, Jiang

Liu felt that instead of unable to pick up his hint, it was more like that the

other party perhaps was not willing to talk about this sensitive topic with her

own son.

If he wanted to talk

about Hu Guirong with her, he needs to choose a good time.

“Mother already

prepared the hot water for you. You go and soak your body immediately. Wait for

mom to come and help you take a bath.”

Upon returning home, Meng

Yun-niang quickly moved around busying herself. Perhaps because of the probing

stare from his son was like an annoying fly, she wanted to quickly send her son

for a bath.

“Mother, I am already

going to school soon, so I should take my bath on my own.”

After coming to this

body, for a while, Jiang Liu had always washed his own feet by himself. He

almost forgot that whenever he took a bath, it was his beautiful mother who

always carry him around to complete the ritual.

If you change it to the

original, that person might not feel that there is any problem with that

situation. But for the mature Jiang Liu, he could not help but feel awkward. He

could not really let this beautiful girl help him take the bath while baring

his naked body to her!

“You are not that

tall and still dare to say that you are an adult? Stop delaying my time, hurry

up and let this old lady give you a bath quickly.”

Meng Yun-niang seemed to

have a short temper today. With her hands on her hips, she looked at her son

with a pair of sharp eyes.

“I tell you, even if you go to school to learn, even if you become a champion in the future, you are still my son. Don’t act like those prissy scholars. Even at home, they kept spouting hard to comprehend words.”

Meng Yu Niang did not see

those who read the names of the students who cannot afford to see the relatives

of the mud legs. As for those white-eyed wolves who already forget the people

who had feed and sacrifice themselves to cultivate them into a scholar, she had

always disdained them. So she did not want her own son to become that kind of

person.

“Mother, I

know.”

The savageness that this

beauty had displayed previously was still embedded deeply in Jiang Liu’s heart.

Therefore, he did not dare to provoke the authority of his mother. He took the water

scoop and his clean clothes before he honestly walked to the bathroom.

Although it was called a bathroom it was actually just a spacious empty room.

There is a bucket of water and a low stool inside. On usual days, the two of

them used this room to take their bath. At this time, the hot water was already

been filled on the tub, so Jiang Liu just stood on the low stool as he lowered

himself inside the tub.

After he entered the warm

water, he could not help but let out a refreshing sigh. Jiang Liu then used the

water scoop to scoop the water before pouring it from the top of his head.

Because of the condition of their house, there is no available soap around, so

he could only use the clean water to wash his body. He soaked himself as he

washed his hair with the water and soon he was done with his bath.

In the middle of his

bath, Meng Yun-niang had come in to add two more barrels of hot water for her

son. After seeing his skin started to wrinkle then did she scooped her son out

from the tub.

In Meng Yun-niang’s

hand, there was a loofah made from the pulp of a fruit. The pulp was left to dry

at the yard and after the outer skin was stripped off, it can be used to remove

the dead skin on the body. In the country, they did not only used this stuff to

clean the dishes but also used it to remove the sludge from the body.

After grinding the tofu for so many years, Meng Yun-niang’s strength was not

small. After being scrubbed a few times Jiang Liu already started to scream in

pain.

“Stop shouting! I

was only bathing you, why are you acting like you are being drowned ah?!”

Meng Yun-niang patted her

son’s head. She quickly grabbed his little hand as she stopped his attempt to

escape. Then she quickly helped him to clean up inside out.

“Look at the mud on

your body. You still dare not wanting me to help you clean it. Do you want

other people to laugh at you and calling you dirty children when you go to

school?”

Meng Yu Niang picked up

her son’s hair and helped him clean the place where is vulnerable to dirt such

as at the back of his ear. Jiang Liu gritted his teeth, as his neck shrunk from

the pain. Even though he tried to make an escape, he seemed to be unable to break

free from this beautiful girl’s iron grip.

In the end, Jiang Liu

could only give up on himself. He comforted himself that he was still a boy who

is yet to have any hair down there. He looked at a distance with a lost

expression. Anyway, there is no part in this body that the beautiful girl had

yet not seen.

Nevertheless, even though

the process was painful, but, by the end of the bath, Jiang Liu started to feel

wonderful. He felt that he had lost more than three pounds of mud, and the

whole body feel so light.

“A

mud monkey. Mother only wanted to let you feel comfortable by helping you take

your bath. Even then you are still unwilling to let me. Just wait, another year

or two, even if you wanted mother you help you scrub your back, it was still

unknown whether I will be willing or not.”

Meng Yun-niang laughed as

she finished bathing her son. She then took a clean parch of clothes and let

him used it to dry his body as she prepared to left him to do her other chores.

“Mother, that man

who took the hare to exchange the tofu today is Hu Guirong mentioned by the

second uncle, right? It seemed that he still likes mother.”

When Meng Yun-niang was

about to throw away the dirty water, Jiang Liu suddenly spoke of such a sentence.

“What are you

saying? Don’t listen to your second uncle’s nonsense.”

Meng Yun-niang did not

expect her son to suddenly mention this matter. Her steps immediately halted

but she dare not turn to face her son.

To talk to her own son about feeling, Meng Yun-niang did not know that her son

knew about her past relationship that she could not help but replied to him

awkwardly.

“What Hu Guirong?

You must not mention that name outside.”

Meng Yun-niang said as

she tried to find a way to escape.

“Mother, in fact, if

you like that man, I am okay if you want to remarry.”

Jiang Liu really

sincerely wanted Meng Yun-niang to remarry. He knew that one of his tasks was

to let Meng Yun-niang be able to live happily for a lifetime. If he continued

down the road like how his original son did, sooner or later Meng Yun-niang

bound to have some conflict with her future daughter-in-law.

Her life was too focused

on her only son. In the future, once another woman started to enter her son’s

life, Meng Yun-niang’s mentality might become unbalanced. Even if that woman was

outstanding and perfect, Meng Yun-niang might still be able to pick a bone with

her.

But if Meng Yun-niang

remarries, it will be a different story. She is still young and she might be

able to give birth to another child in the future. Even if Jiang Liu was the

one that she valued the most, her attention will definitely be divided with

her others’ child. Her husband also needs her attention. Her new child also

needed her care. She will no longer a widow whose life revolved around Jiang

Liu. All her joy and anger will no longer tied solely on Jiang Liu’s.

Of course, the reason why

Jiang Liu wanted Meng Yun-niang to marry was not solely due to his task.

A woman can only guard

her son for so long. As for the bitterness in her heart, only she alone knows

it. That’s why Jiang Liu wishes to give a chance for Meng Yun-niang to choose.

If she wants and willing to remarry, no matter what method, Jiang Liu will do

his best to help her fulfilled her wish.

“Shut

up!”

This was the first time

Meng Yun-niang had ever become furious at her son

“Although mother

might feel that this son is not filial to his own father, this son still has

this idea. The winter night is too cold. Son still remembers that when he was

sleeping alone for the first time, it difficult to do it. I miss the past where

mother and father accompanied me to sleep. It was so warm. But now is not the

same. Father is no longer here. Son always wonders how mother is sleeping at

night. Is there someone who will hold my mother to keep her warm?”

Because this body was

still a child, Jiang Liu could only say something that was easy to understand,

like how a child will say it.

“Hey, that kind of

thing can easily be solved by using more quilt. You don’t have to worry, you

will not be sleeping alone this year.”

Hearing his son’s

concern, Meng Yun-niang looked a little bit stunned.

“But I will have my

own wife in the future, my wife will help me to warm the bed for me.”

Jiang Liu continued to

act like a child as he spouted words those insane words.

“When I got married,

my mother will still be sleeping alone. Ten years, twenty years, or even fifty

or sixty years, this son will also feel distress for you.”

Yes, her son will marry in the future, and in the end,

she is still going to be alone.

Meng Yun-niang couldn’t

help but think about it. In the big winter, the scene of her trembled under the

quilt, her heart couldn’t help but felt sour and pained.

Hold on, how did she end up being confused by this

naughty boy!

Feel full of zeal and

acrid feeling, Meng Yu Niang gently knocked her son’s head with the water

scoop.

She finally realized that her son no longer imitating the sounds of bird, animal and insect instead he seemed to change entirely in a matter of overnight. Perhaps it was really like what the patriarch had said. Her son had great wisdom. If this were the case, she did not need to treat him like a child all the time. Some things need to be discussed with him properly.

“Mother knows that

Da-lang is filial, but you should think deeply about it. Mother is someone who

knew about the tofu recipe of the Jiang family. The Jiang family will not allow

me to remarry outsiders. Secondly, the patriarch is now looking at your

talents. He won’t be willing to let me bring you with me once I remarried. I

will have to leave you with the Jiang’s clan. Based on the logical action, you

will fall under your second uncle’s jurisdiction. If it is going to be like

that, how can I be assured they will treat you well?”

Meng Yun-niang did not

want much. She was willing to suffer as long as she can stay with her son. To

be honest, she was also moved with her son’s concern. No matter whether this

son will remember the word he uttered today, isn’t this already considered that

he had been filial to her? Meng Yun-niang felt that all her sacrifice until now

was worthwhile.

“Don’t say such

nonsense in the future. You just need to remember that in mother’s heart, you

are more important than anyone or anything.”

After saying that, Meng

Yun-niang wiped her tears and turned away.

She thought that Jiang

Liu would listen to these words and would not mention the topic of remarriage

after this. She did not know that in Jiang Liu’s heart he had already planned a

countermeasure.

From the beginning to the

end, Meng Yun-niang had avoided showing her inclination to marry Hu Guirong

directly. Looking back at the scene in the memory of the original, Jiang Liu

had grasped six or seven points of the truth. It seemed that this beautiful

mother of his did have a feeling for that man.

The reason why she

refused was due to the shackles that had been placed on the woman in this era

and the second reason was due to her son.

All in all, the most

problematic thing in his hand was due to his lack of power over the decision

making within the clan.

If he stood tall enough and make the Jiang clan had no other choice but to rely on him, once he sends his mother to remarry, who will have the power to oppose him, right?

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