Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

"Cough cough," Xu Ancheng was eating his pancakes perfectly fine when he suddenly started coughing.

Just then, Gu Jinfeng's porridge arrived, so he was quickly told, "Hurry up and have a sip to smooth things out."

Xu Ancheng picked up the glass and took a big gulp, but he still felt choked.

He choked so much that he couldn't open his mouth.

He stared at his own mother in disbelief, and after a long while, he finally managed to stammer, "Wh...what happened?"

Gu Jin stammered, unsure how to tell his son about pouring out Xu Huaishan's foot bath water. Wen Tang, sitting beside him, couldn't stand it any longer and spoke up, "What's wrong? Don't you want to serve the master anymore?"

Wen Tang and Chi Yue sat on a long bench by the wall, which was originally inconspicuous, but once she opened her mouth, Xu Ancheng could not ignore her.

Xu Ancheng looked at her, even more puzzled.

Don't want to serve this big shot?

Don't want to serve some big shot?

Xu Ancheng had many questions in his mind, but he was too embarrassed to keep staring at his younger brother and sister-in-law. He quickly shifted his gaze to Gu Yanli, hoping that his cousin could answer his questions.

Before Gu Yanli could answer her question, Wen Tang started chattering again, "A family that's half-hanged and whose roof is about to fall off can still bestow upon themselves the title of king. They even need someone else to pour their foot bath water for them. Tsk, it's a good thing they didn't meet me."

Chi Yue immediately chimed in, "It's a good thing they didn't run into me, otherwise I would have made the whole family taste whether the foot bath water is salty or bland."

Wen Tang silently gave her best friend a thumbs up.

Gu Jinfeng silently moved the bench around and shrank into the corner.

She didn't want to taste the saltiness of the foot bath water.

Foot bath water?

Xu Ancheng was once again filled with question marks.

Finally, Zhong Meixian spoke up to clear his mind, "Ancheng, you have to talk to your father about this. Your mother is so old, and he's not an official. How can your mother be expected to pour the foot bath water?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Ancheng, who had been engrossed in watching the drama unfold and had even moved the pancake back to his mouth, silently moved it away again.

He opened his mouth, intending to say that he didn't know anything about it!

But the words were on the tip of his tongue, and he swallowed them back.

Do you really not know?

Over the years, only his mother has been carrying water out of the house. His father has always gone inside and never left. It's not like he doesn't wash or wipe, so where does the water for washing go?

So it's quite obvious.

Is it really that you're suddenly upset about something like this?

Holding the pancake, Xu Ancheng couldn't help but say, "Mom, if you're worried about this, I'll talk to Dad about it for you later. It's not a big deal."

Wen Tang couldn't help but say, "Yes, it's not a big deal. The last straw that broke the camel's back wasn't even that heavy!"

Xu Ancheng "..."

He glanced at his cousin again, signaling him to intervene.

But Gu Yanli just smiled as he looked at his wife, and even in the dim light, the doting look in his eyes was clearly visible.

Xu Ancheng "..."

"Yes, my father was wrong, but the two of them have been together for decades. If we can't argue about it now, won't we just become a laughing stock?"

Wen Tang laughed. "You said all this without being afraid of being laughed at, didn't you?"

Xu Ancheng "..."

"Sister-in-law, you're just arguing for the sake of arguing."

Wen Tang didn't look at him, and replied with a smile, "I think my cousin is just arguing for the sake of arguing."

Xu Ancheng "..."

"Never mind, I won't talk to you," he said, looking at Gu Jin. "Mother, what are you thinking?"

"You really don't want to live with my dad anymore?"

"Isn't this ridiculous?"

"What would it look like if people knew?"

He then looked at Gu Juyuan beside him, "Uncle, please help persuade my mother. This can't be done. All three of us brothers are married. If she doesn't live with my father anymore, wouldn't people laugh at us?"

Wen Tang shook her head. "Tsk tsk, it's better to have a piece of barbecued pork than a son like that."

"...What kind of fire?" Xu Ancheng scratched his head, not understanding, but he knew it wasn't anything nice.

Regardless of whether he understood or not, Wen Tang said to Gu Jin, "Aunt, don't listen to him. He's the kind of person who, before marriage, makes you think about his marriage, and after marriage, makes you think about his children. When you die, he'll dig up your grave and make you think about his descendants."

Gu Jin “…”

Xu Ancheng "..."

Zhong Meixian and the others were speechless.

Zhong Meixian: She always thought that if she died one day, she must choose a good place to bury herself, and maybe then she could control this daughter-in-law.

But Wen Tang's words just now made her despair. She thought that by dying, she could get revenge for the humiliation she suffered at the hands of her daughter-in-law while she was alive. But according to Wen Tang, she could dig up the grave!

If she gets really angry, she might just throw her old bones into a stinking ditch, and then she'll be lying in that stinking ditch every day...

Just thinking about it makes Zhong Meixian feel like she's going to faint from the stench.

She thought that she should be obedient from now on, just like Wen Tang said, "Ten years to see the mother-in-law, ten years to see the daughter-in-law." She would behave herself and treat her well from now on.

Thinking this way, Zhong Meixian finally calmed down a bit.

Zhong Meixian calmed down, but Xu Ancheng was so choked up that he couldn't say a word.

Gu Jin was initially hesitant, but Wen Tang's words made her understand. "Xiao Tang is right. All you men think about every day is your reputation and your face. You act like big shots when you go out and when you come back. You're spoiled."

Wen Tang and Chi Yue immediately agreed, "They're just spoiled."

Xu Ancheng opened his mouth, “…”

In the end, he could only take the last piece of scallion and egg pancake from the table, and then he got up and said, "I'm going back to get my dad. He caused this trouble, so I can't take the blame."

As he spoke, without waiting for Gu Juyuan and the others to get up and see him off, he quickly rushed into the darkness.

After her son ran away quickly, Gu Jin felt the frustration in her heart dissipate a bit, and she also realized that it wasn't so difficult to say some things.

No one laughed at her when she told the truth; on the contrary, the person who was questioned fled in panic.

Perhaps, as Wen Tang said, it's all because she spoiled him.

Thinking this, Gu Jin smiled and got up, then started clearing the table again. "I'll clean up the dishes. You all should rest. It's getting late."

"It's cold, get some rest."

Xu Ancheng ran home; the Xu family had almost finished their dinner.

The steamed buns I left for him were all cold.

With the cold steamed buns and pickled vegetables, Xu Ancheng drank another bowl of porridge.

After finishing the meal, Xu Ancheng pronounced a "death sentence" on his father, saying, "Dad, my mother said she's not living with you anymore."

The moment he said that, everyone in the Xu family was stunned.

His wife, Zhang Fen, even placed her hand directly on his forehead, then checked her own forehead, saying, "No fever!"

Xu Ancheng "..."

He then thought of Wen Tang calling him "barbecued pork." He thought, "This cousin's wife is quite a formidable person. No wonder she dared to hit that educated youth from the city, even though that educated youth probably deserved it."

Xu Ancheng waved his wife's hand away and told everyone, "I don't have a fever."

“It was our mother who said that our father always made her pour out the water for washing his feet, so she didn’t want to live with him anymore.”