“Mum, I’m your biological son!”
“If you weren’t my biological son, I wouldn’t bother with you, wouldn’t even call you.”
The Second Madam said, “Alright, knowing you’re fine puts my mind at ease. Treat Yumeng well, she’s a good girl, I like her a lot. This New Year, I hope you’ll be off the market.”
“Once you’re settled, your younger brother should find a girlfriend too. When all three of you brothers are paired up, I’ll be waiting to hold my grandkids.”
“I’ve saved up quite a bit for your future wives, but it seems you lot don’t need it. You’re all capable, earning your own money to marry. So, I’ll keep that money for my granddaughters.”
“I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to hold a granddaughter. Sigh, seeing adorable Yanyan, I finally get why your grandma is so obsessed with someone else’s granddaughter, wanting to take her home.”
“That kid is too cute, not just pretty and adorable, but easy to look after, doesn’t cry or fuss, and so clever.”
Zhan Yiyang: “…Mum, you went to the Jun family too.”
“Yeah, out with your grandma to clear my head. Staying home every day is boring as hell. You lot don’t give me grandkids to look after, so I’m stuck twiddling my thumbs.”
“No grandkids to mind is bad enough, but I also have to face you and your brother, two single dogs. Other people’s sons are chasing girls in middle school, but my sons, in their late twenties, even thirty, need your grandma to arrange things before you’ll go after a girl.”
“Thank goodness your grandma worries about your love lives. If it were up to me, I’d be complaining about your grandparents for raising you all to be so outstanding yet clueless about pursuing girls.”
“Mum, didn’t I say? If I don’t have to worry, I won’t complain. Heh, with Mum worrying, I’m at ease. Mum’s the best mother-in-law in the world, I love my mother-in-law.”
The Second Madam went on, flattering the old lady over the phone.
No need to ask, Zhan Yiyang knew his grandma was by his mother’s side, listening to their call.
“Mum, enjoy your holiday with Grandma. Hanging up now.”
Zhan Yiyang didn’t want to hear his mother’s nonsense.
Their parents were the most irresponsible.
They claimed Grandpa and Grandma’s retirement was too boring, so they liked raising and training grandkids, but really, their parents were the ones shirking responsibility, too busy living their lovey-dovey lives. They claimed Grandpa and Grandma’s retirement was too boring, so they liked raising and training grandkids, but really, their parents were the ones shirking responsibility, too busy living their lovey-dovey lives.
They’d have one kid, hand them to the grandparents, have two or three, and do the same, happy to be free of the burden.
Zhan Yiyang still remembered how, as kids, their parents would come home from work and tease them, but often made them cry.
When the kids cried, they’d bolt.
Still, as kids, they didn’t like being with their parents, preferring Grandpa and Grandma.
Though Grandpa and Grandma could be strict in raising them, they were mostly kind and treated them so well, so they loved them.
“Alright, when you’re fully recovered, send me a message. We’ll talk again. Don’t speak now, hearing your duck-like voice makes me want to laugh.”
“Hahaha.”
The Second Madam burst into unrestrained laughter over the phone.
Zhan Yiyang quietly hung up.
Mother-son bonding was a joke, his real mum only cared about watching his drama, only mocked him!
Unlike other mums who’d be heartbroken knowing their kid was sick.
His mum just laughed at him.
The Second Madam, hung up on by her son, wasn’t upset. She kept laughing, saying to her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, “Fourth’s voice is worse than a duck’s quack, that spice really did him in this time.”
Tang Junye chuckled, “You laughed so loudly over the phone, Fourth must feel awful hearing it. You’re his real mum.”
“If you wanted to laugh, at least wait until the call ended.”
