Siheyuan: Revenge of the Stupid Pillar

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Upon hearing this, Yan Bugui was so angry that he trembled all over. The words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them. He could only glare at Yan Jiecheng angrily.

Seeing Yan Bugui's face pale and trembling with anger, Yang Ruihua roared:

"Yan Jiecheng, look how angry your dad is. Can't you just say a few words?"

Yan Jiecheng snorted coldly, turned around and walked out of the house.

When the siblings Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi saw their eldest brother leave, they also left immediately.

Seeing Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi leave silently without even a word of concern for Yan Bugui, Yang Ruihua's face instantly became solemn and he said in a cold voice:

"Yan Bugui, come back to my room with me. I have something to discuss with you."

Yan Bugui breathed rapidly and spoke with difficulty, "I'm so angry that my heart aches. Let me calm down first."

Yang Ruihua said indifferently, "Why are you slowing down? Come with me to the room."

Yan Bugui said dissatisfiedly: "Can't you talk about it here?"

"No!" Yang Ruihua's voice revealed that there was no room for doubt.

Yan Bugui said helplessly: "Then you go to the room first, I will be there soon."

Upon hearing this, Yang Ruihua turned around and went into the bedroom without saying a word.

Seeing this, Yan Bugui endured his physical discomfort, stood up, and followed him into the room with unsteady steps.

"Old woman, what do you want to discuss? Tell me now!"

Yang Ruihua did not speak immediately, but closed the door and said:

"Yan Bugui, don't you realize that because you scheme every day, you've alienated the four children, and now they all hate you?"

Yan Bugui said without hesitation: "Impossible, I am their father who gave birth to them and raised them, how could they hate me?"

Yang Ruihua said angrily, "Yan Bugui, are you really stubborn and unwilling to change your ways?"

"The eldest brother won't even talk to you now. He looks at you like an enemy. The second brother wrote back to curse you profusely and even threatened to sever the father-son relationship with you..."

Yan Bugui quickly retorted, "The eldest and second oldest are ungrateful ungrateful people. The third and fourth oldest are the good kids. They both care about me and respect me."

Yang Ruihua sneered, "Yan Bugui, are you dreaming?"

"If Jie Kuang and Jie Di really cared about you, why didn't they even say a word of concern and just left when you were so angry just now?"

"Yan Bugui, I feel really sad for you that your father treats you like this."

Upon hearing this, Yan Bugui's heart ached again, his face pale as he said:

"Yang Ruihua, Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiecheng are not angry enough with me, are you trying to piss me off too?"

Yang Ruihua said calmly, "I'm not trying to anger you, but I want you to recognize the reality and make changes. Otherwise, we four children may not even have anyone to take care of us in our old age."

Yan Bugui was horrified when he heard this. The example of Yi Zhonghai was right in front of him. He didn't want to be like Yi Zhonghai, lonely and helpless in his old age without anyone to talk to.

Thinking of Yi Zhonghai's miserable condition, Yan Bugui's face was filled with panic and he spoke incoherently:

"Old lady, do you have any good suggestions?"

Yang Ruihua thought for a moment and said in an almost indifferent voice:

"It's more about quality of children than quantity. I think we can learn from Qin Huairu and give up on useless children and focus on raising useful ones."

Yan Bugui's pupils trembled, and he said in a trembling voice, "Isn't this too cruel? After all, the four of them are our children. They are all our flesh and blood. I don't want to give up on any of them."

Yang Ruihua said angrily, "Yan Bugui, stop pretending to be a loving father in front of me. If you really cared about your children that much, you wouldn't have ignored Jiefang and let him fend for himself."

"Of course, if you really want to die alone, you can continue to deceive yourself."

Yan Bugui's face turned pale and blue, he took a deep breath, and said seriously:

"Then who do you think should be given up and who should be trained more?"

Yang Ruihua said disdainfully, "Don't you already have the answer in your mind?"

"The eldest and second oldest treat you like an enemy, and the fourth oldest is a girl, so she'll get married sooner or later. That leaves the third oldest."

Yan Bugui said with a slight embarrassment: "My idea is the same as yours. Among the four children, only Yan Jiekuang is worth cultivating. But how should we cultivate Yan Jiekuang?"

Yang Ruihua said calmly, "Jie Kuang will be sixteen next year. What he fears most now is going to the countryside. If you really want Jie Kuang to be grateful to you, find a way to buy him a job and avoid his fate of going to the countryside."

"Of course, to prevent Yan Jiekuang from turning his back on you later, you'd better ask him to write a letter of guarantee."

Yan Bugui hesitated and said, "Now it costs four or five hundred yuan to buy a job. I'm a little reluctant to spend it."

Yang Ruihua was furious: "Yan Bugui, when the hell are you coming? You're still worried about your few hundred dollars. Do you really want to live a miserable old age and take all your money with you into your coffin?"

Yan Bugui smiled awkwardly and said, "Wife, don't be angry. I promise you."

"By the way, are we really not going to care about the boss's marriage?"

Yang Ruihua rolled his eyes and said unhappily:

"You've already decided to give up on him, why are you still caring about him?"

"Besides, even if you wanted to, could you really do anything? We've searched all the matchmakers in the capital, but no one is willing to introduce him to a partner. What else can we do?"

"We as parents have done our best. Whether the eldest son can find a wife depends on his own luck."

Yan Bugui nodded and said, "You're right. We have done our best for the boss. He can't find a wife because he's incompetent. It's not our fault."

Yang Ruihua complained, "It really has nothing to do with me that the boss can't get married, but you have an unshirkable responsibility."

"If you hadn't done those awful things back then, the eldest brother would have been married a long time ago, and my son would probably be too old to do anything now. What a sin!"

Yan Bugui was dissatisfied and argued with his neck stiff:

"Even if I made mistakes back then, they were unintentional. There are no parents in the world who are not wrong."

"But even so, I'm still willing to compensate the eldest brother. I don't need him to pay back the money he owed me. But I've never wronged the second brother before, so I can't let him go like this."

"We raised him with great difficulty, spending countless efforts and money. Now that he's married into another family, he wants to cut ties with us. How can such a thing be so easy?"

Yang Ruihua frowned and said, "This second brother is indeed a bit too much. So what do you want to do?"

Yan Bugui said confidently, "Of course I'm going to ask Yan Jiefang's father-in-law for compensation. I raised my son with great difficulty, and now he's become a member of his family. Shouldn't he compensate me?"