As word got out that Liu Laosan still cared more about his biological mother, Di Heping also threatened to have Liu Laosan's wife sue him.

Compared to Liu Laosan's still-unshakable image of blind filial piety, Di Heping's words certainly attracted a lot of gossip.

Even though some people say that Di Heping was almost killed by his grandmother, many more, especially the older generation, believe that Di Heping was unfilial.

Although they have entered the new society, these people's ideas have not completely changed.

They also indulged in the idea that a son could accuse his father of being unfilial, and that a father could kill his son without consequence.

These gossips didn't affect Di Heping at all. He only regretted one thing: when he said those words, there were too many people watching, and because he grew up in his uncle's house, it did affect his uncle's reputation to some extent.

Neither Di Shengli nor Jiang Xianjun blamed him, and even Yin Yin only offered words of comfort.

Di Shengli even said to him, "If you feel bad about it, please take good care of Yinyin after she gets married, and don't let her be bullied."

Di Heping nodded firmly: "I will definitely protect Yinyin. If anyone bullies her, I will beat them up!"

Di Shengli smiled and patted him on the shoulder, telling him to go back to his studies.

Yin Yin, however, approached him privately and said, "Brother, we can't just fight like that. We should reason with people."

Di Heping became alert: "Did someone bully you?"

“No,” Yin Yin said, “I just feel that fighting hurts both the person fighting and the person fighting. If something happens accidentally, you could go to jail. So no matter what happens in the future, we should try to reason with each other first.”

Knowing that she hadn't been bullied, Di Heping relaxed.

Based on his understanding of Yin Yin, he knew that Yin Yin's words were definitely not that simple.

He thought for a moment and then added, "If reasoning fails, you'll resort to force to subdue people, right?"

Yinyin's eyes lit up: "Brother, you're right. First, convince people with reason. When reason doesn't work, then convince them with virtue."

“But this virtue,” she said, waving her fist. The brother and sister smiled at each other.

No matter how big the news is, people will gradually forget about it after discussing it for a while, and Yin Yin and Di Heping's lives returned to normal.

It wasn't until Monday of a new week that Yin Yin was pulled aside by a classmate from Qinghe Village as soon as she entered the classroom.

"Yinyin, I have something terrible to tell you!"

"What?" Yin Yin looked at her in confusion.

The classmate glanced at Di Shengli and said excitedly, "Aunt Liu, she really went to sue!"

Yinyin unconsciously raised her eyebrows: "Tell me in detail quickly."

“I knew you were interested,” the classmate continued. “Isn’t Aunt Liu San taking care of herself at home? Old Liu San seems to treat her quite well.”

"But back then, Liu Laosan came to see Heping, and Heping scolded him. When the news got back, Liu's family said he was unfilial."

As she spoke, she realized the topic had strayed a bit, so she brought it back on track.

"Anyway, someone told Aunt Liu this, and a few days later, Aunt Liu asked someone to send a message to her family and bring her back."

“My mom and the others said that Aunt Liu was going to make Liu Laosan suffer so that they could control him. I didn’t expect that the police would come to arrest Liu Laotai yesterday. My mom and the others even came to visit her.”

“My mom also said that the police asked about the time when my classmate Heping was almost killed by Old Lady Liu.”

That classmate was actually a little excited, after all, this was such a rare thing. So many women who were bullied to death by their mothers-in-law could only keep it to themselves at home due to various circumstances.

"Yinyin, tell me, how dare Aunt Liu? Does she not want to stay together? My grandma said that if this gets out, she and Liu Laosan will definitely break up, and maybe no one will dare to marry her in the future."

Yin Yin's eyes flickered as she said, "This is a new era. Aunt Liu has been bullied so much, can't she seek legal help?"

"I think that with Aunt Liu's family supporting her and her being a good woman who dares to love and hate, there will be plenty of men willing to marry her in the future."

“But she can’t have children after all,” the female classmate sighed. “My mom said that the Liu family has ruined Aunt Liu’s future. She will only be able to marry someone else and become a stepmother, and she may not even get a good outcome.”

“You can’t say that. The leaders said that women hold up half the sky,” Yinyin said, holding her classmate’s hand. “I believe that with Aunt Liu’s abilities and the support and love from her family, she will likely have a good life, whether she remarries or not.”

"But if she continues to stay in the Liu family and live with Liu Laosan."

Yinyin paused for a moment: "You see, before, Liu Laosan treated Liu Sanshen so well, everyone thought he was no longer blindly filial, but what was the reality?"

“If Aunt Liu continues like this, she’ll suffer the consequences later.”

The classmate nodded: "I also think Yinyin is right. When we get back, I'll tell my mom and grandma the same thing."

"Then don't tell them that I said it," Yin Yin whispered. "I'm afraid that if others find out, they'll think I'm biased towards my brother and can't stand seeing the Liu family doing well."

"Definitely not," the classmate promised, and just as it was almost time for class to start, she returned to her seat.

Yinyin glanced at Di Heping, who seemed to have either heard or not heard what he said, and then focused her attention on the blackboard.

Since Yin Yin had already heard about this from her classmates, naturally some busybodies would find out from other places and tell Di Shulan about it.

Di Shulan's reaction was that if Liu Laosan got divorced, he would keep clinging to her son.

However, she didn't have any better solutions, so she was in a bad mood for several days.

Soon, the classmate who had previously told Yin Yin about the Liu family's affairs came to find Yin Yin again.

"Yinyin," she said, her expression somewhat off.

Yinyin pulled her to sit down: "Did something happen?"

The classmate nodded: "Yinyin, you said that the educated youth who came to the countryside are clearly more educated than us and have seen more, so how come they are more feudal than us?"

Yinyin was somewhat bewildered, but she could still answer her question: "Whether a person is feudal or not has nothing to do with how many books she has read, but rather with how many ideas she has been exposed to."

“You’re right,” the classmate breathed a sigh of relief. “Luckily, you told me those things last time. I’ll go back and tell my mom and grandma about them.”

“My mom and Aunt Liu are actually from the same village and married into the family. They have a good relationship. A few days ago, my grandma fell and my mom went back to her parents’ home. She was thinking of going to Aunt Liu’s house to see her.”

"When my mother saw that Aunt Liu was not in good spirits, she thought that she was worried about the future, so she used the words I had told her to persuade Aunt Liu."

"Aunt Liu didn't say anything at the time, but later she came to thank my mother with her mother and sister-in-law."

"Guess what."

Yinyin followed up with, "What's wrong?"

The classmate slapped his thigh: "Aunt Liu said that some time ago, Feng, a young educated youth from our Qinghe Village, saw her and advised her not to sue Old Lady Liu, but to live a good life with Old Lady Liu."

“Once this is revealed, even if she curses Old Lady Liu to death, no one will say she's wrong.”

"They even said that Aunt Liu San can't have any more children, so it's better to control Liu Laosan and keep all his money in our hands."

"Anyway, Liu Laosan has a son, so she doesn't have to worry about who will take care of her in her old age."

“If Heping doesn’t care about them anymore, she can sue Heping. Heping is really that unfilial; the law won’t allow it.”

"Yinyin, tell me, how could an intellectual like her be so wicked? Heping has never even met her or spoken to her, yet she still managed to harm him like this."

As he spoke, the student shuddered: "My mom came back and told me not to get too close to Feng Zhiqing in the future. She said he's unreasonable and you should be careful with Heping too."

Di Heping, who was sitting in the front row, had turned around at some point, his expression inscrutable.

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