Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 406 - 401: Is Jiang Xiaoying Not Being Honest?

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"You little rascal, what have you done to wrong someone?" Zhou Xiuhua slapped Xie Jingyang a few times, but seeing his innocent shaking head, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, her son hadn’t actually done anything to make him feel responsible.

However, Jiang Xiaoying seemed quite reliable to her, so why have one or two people mentioned her in the past few days?

Zhou Xiuhua looked intently at her son, and upon mentioning Jiang Xiaoying, a trace of awkwardness and undeniable loss appeared on his handsome face, causing her eyebrows to frown:

It must be that this kid did something unreliable, which Third Sister-in-law noticed, and that’s why the little girl started asking her so soon!

"Mom..."

Xie Jingyang, seeing his mother’s unhappy expression as she stared at him, couldn’t help but call out uneasily, though his mind was complaining: His mother usually likes Xiao Ying quite a bit, so why does she seem to despise her now?

"This won’t do!" Zhou Xiuhua really didn’t want this; her own Fifth getting involved with a widow, and to her, a widow meant bad luck!

"Fifth, let me tell you, this really won’t work. No matter how good Jiang Xiaoying is, you can’t erase the fact that she’s a widow! Plus, she has a daughter, almost eight or nine years old, even older than Xiao Si!"

"Mom, your thinking, a few years ago, would have been considered breaking old customs!" Xie Jingyang murmured quietly after being lectured by his mother.

"Break what? Fifth, you still don’t understand, if she was just divorced I wouldn’t oppose so strongly, but her husband died!"

"Even if he died, how can you blame her? She’s just a woman, could she have stopped her late husband from joining the military? Can you stop Third Brother from doing the same now?"

"You, you scoundrel!" Zhou Xiuhua exploded with anger upon hearing this.

"Mom, I...I misspoke, please don’t be angry!" Xie Jingyang, both worried and with a headache, supported his mother, taking advantage of Third Brother and his wife being out at a gathering to discuss private matters with his mother.

At this moment, Dad and the youngest sister were downstairs watching a show, so Zhou Xiuhua’s shouts didn’t attract outsiders.

"You damn son, you’re really being obnoxious!"

"No, Mom, I do like Xiao Ying, but she’s unwilling. I was thinking of asking you for advice."

"What? You were the one who brought it up first? She wasn’t willing?" Zhou Xiuhua got even angrier!

She had instinctively thought that it was Jiang Xiaoying being dishonest, secretly seducing her Fifth, but it turned out her own son was the one who provoked her?

"Um, I got drunk that day, plucked up the courage to bring it up with Xiao Ying, and as soon as she heard, she got scared and ran away, now she avoids me like a plague..."

As he said this, Xie Jingyang also felt wronged.

"Now you still try to justify yourself, you fool!" Zhou Xiuhua, after hearing this, felt that her anger was misplaced, becoming rational again but still upset, she hit her son a couple of times.

"Mom, you also know that Wang Xiaocui is still eying fiercely back in our hometown. If I really married a woman who’s never been married before, how would she withstand her constant nagging?"

"You idiot, if others can’t bear it, how could Jiang Xiaoying bear it?"

"Mom, don’t be upset, I’ve been thinking, Xiao Ying is only one year older than me, and most importantly, after living together for two months, you probably have a good idea of what kind of person she is. I appreciate her virtues. We’ve both been married before, we both have children, and nobody should be criticizing anyone else.

Although Jiang Xiaoying is a bit strong-willed, she doesn’t always try to stand out, but rather, she’s just trying to protect herself and her child! She’s a widow, if she wasn’t strong, she couldn’t survive like this, you know?! Besides, I’ve seen how well Xiaoqi and Xiao Si get along with her, which is why I started considering this."

Zhou Xiuhua calmed down after hearing Fifth speak his thoughts so evenly.

"Mom, think about it, Xiao Ying is a local, and she’s registered in the county town. Marrying her would make buying a house here easier for me. Moreover... you see, Jiang Xiaoying looks very ordinary, I don’t care about her looks, I really feel that Xiaoqi needs a good mother who can take care of her and guide her..."

"Don’t try to fool me, if you just wanted to find a local registered woman, there are plenty of women with good conditions!"

"Mom, don’t be misled by what people outside say. Look, with the recent change in national policies, how many divorced people have returned to the city from the countryside? Would you really dare to take such a wife?"

No matter what, women who dare to divorce and return to the city seeking a way out must be very assertive, and such people are most likely to look out for themselves first.

Anyone considering marriage wouldn’t divorce so easily.

Such women, no matter how good their conditions are, are more than Jingyang Xie can handle. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

"Don’t judge everyone with the same standard, it’s not only women’s fault!" Zhou Xiuhua glared at her son as soon as she heard this.

"Mom, be realistic. Just pity Xiao Si and Xiaoqi a little, let’s not aim too high, just be practical."

Zhou Xiuhua glared at him, and with a "smack," she directly addressed Xie Jingyang’s back, annoyed: "Even if we are being practical, it shouldn’t be so careless! You,"

"Mom, you’re being nitpicky. Listening to those old ladies’ nonsense. I’m just a divorced man with two children, would a woman marrying for the first time truly care for Xiao Si and Xiaoqi?"

"..." Once she heard her grandsons being spoken of unfavorably, the old lady stopped talking.

"I heard it the other day, Old Lady Zhong said she had a granddaughter she wanted to introduce to me, but do you remember what she said after that?"

"..." Zhou Xiuhua felt stifled: of course, she remembered, she almost kicked that old woman out at the time!

What nonsense, saying her granddaughter has good conditions and only had one requirement, that Xiao Si and Xiaoqi should stay with their grandparents and not interfere with her granddaughter’s new life—

What a ridiculous requirement, as if her granddaughter was some fairy. Even if she was, the Xie Family wouldn’t want her, marrying a daughter-in-law was meant to take care of grandchildren, not to have her grandchildren disliked!

As for the other big items, new houses and such, Zhou Xiuhua didn’t have the heart to listen anymore.

"Mom, what would I do with such a wife?" Xie Jingyang looked at his mother, seeing that she was swayed by his argument, he felt hopeful!

"..." Zhou Xiuhua felt heartbroken from Fifth’s words and stared at him silently, turning her body slightly away, unwilling to engage with him.

Xie Jingyang was not willing to give up just like that, he moved his body a bit, meeting his mother’s angry gaze and said calmly:

"Mom, aside from everything else, there is one thing, Jiang Xiaoying has something that other women can’t compare to—"

Since the divorce, Xie Jingyang had met women of various temperaments.

In his college, several female classmates, knowing he was divorced, also expressed that they were willing to date him, but more or less, they all had conditions, which made Xie Jingyang’s regard for women steadily decline.

This also made him view issues more realistically.