?Chapter 269: Chapter 269: Rupture   Chapter 269: Chapter 269: Rupture                                   The two daughters-inw brought the dishes to the table, and the piping hot dumplings were also served. The two little grandsons, one three years old and the other one year old, were making a ruckus all over the kang bed. Seeing the delicious food, the two little guys had already crawled over, wanting to grab a dumpling from the te.


    The olddy pped her grandson’s hand, “You can’t eat now, wait for your uncle toe! We’ll eat the New Year’s Eve dinner, the reunion dinner together!”


    Old man Wang looked out into the courtyard. Their house was not far from the vigemittee’s cave dwelling. Why haven’t these three rascalse back yet?


    The olddy saw him looking into the courtyard and chuckled.


    Old man Wang’s face fell in embarrassment, “I’m hungry. If we wait any longer, the dumplings will get cold, and the grandsons will have upset stomachs. Why haven’t these two damn foolse back yet?” His attempt to conceal his concern was obvious.


    Smiling, the olddy said to the two grandsons, “Yes! Your grandfather here has always been insincere. We must not learn from him when we grow up. Did you hear that? Otherwise, you won’t be able to find a wife in the future!”


    Old man Wang’s face turned red, “What nonsense are you spouting? You’re old enough to watch your words a bit.”


    While they were talking, the two sons walked in.


    They lifted the curtain and entered, a burst of cold air blowing in with the curtain. Old man Wang immediately straightened up with feigned dignity, not even raising his eyelids, and the conversation was abruptly interrupted.


    “Hey, is it just the two of you? Where’s your older brother? Don’t tell me his stubbornness is keeping him away?” The olddy hastily asked when she saw only two sons hade back.


    The eldest son was also stubborn, exactly like his old man.


    Old man Wang quickly looked up, his face showing urgency, fearing that the stubborn mule would hold a lifelong grudge against him.


    Wang Erhu and Wang Sanxi shook their heads, “It’s not that our older brother doesn’t want toe! It’s that he’s just not there. We knocked for a long time and nobody was home. It was pitch ck inside the cave dwelling, so we had toe back.”


    “Where could your elder brother have gone by himself?” Suddenly, the olddy fell silent.


    Yes, where could he have gone?


    Isn’t there the Bai Family’s house?


    It’s a given that Wang Yan went to Bai Yue’s ce. They’re definitely having the New Year’s Eve dinner now. This year, all of Bai Family’s siblings came back home, and the vige saw that the Bai Family had gotten quite a lot of New Year’s goods. They too were happily weing a prosperous New Year.


    In a rage, Old man Wang harshly tapped his smoking pipe, “Who asked you lot to embarrass me like that? Wang Yan is Wang Yan, he has nothing to do with me anymore. If you keep nagging about ‘older brother this, older brother that,’ I’ll disown you as my sons.” He was infuriated by shame.


    He felt his authority had been challenged by his son like never before, especially since the so-called destitute life he imagined for his son was actually far from the truth. His son was living well in that woman’s home. A grown man spending such a night in someone else’s house, what’s the difference from a live-in son-inw?


    Old man Wang felt like he was going to fly into a rage.


    Wang Erhu and Wang Sanxi didn’t dare to make a sound anymore. The whole family silently ate their meal, no one daring to speak, with Old man Wang’s face looking frighteningly grim. Aside from the two oblivious little grandsons who continued to babble and y, the house was devoid of conversation.


    This Chinese New Year was probably the most ufortable one that Old man Wang had ever spent.


    After dinner, the old man Wang called his two sons and his wife into the room.


    The two daughters-inw, with their children, went to that room because the atmosphere today was too eerie. The daughters-inw did not want to get involved,cking rity on how the household could suddenly face the eldest brother—at his age—threatening to leave home. They knew the eldest brother’s pig-farming skills were far superior to those of the second and third brothers.


    With the eldest brother around, the two brothers relieved much of their burden, even enjoying more free time at home with their children. But now, the second and third brothers were busy as dogs, barely seen day or night. The sisters-inw held resentment in their hearts, yet they could not voice their concerns.


    In this family, it was Old Man Wang who called the shots, and no one dared to argue with him. The sisters-inw sighed.


    What a good man the eldest brother was!


    Meanwhile, Old Man Wang spoke to his two sons with a stern look, “You two brothers must work hard in the future. Our pig farming business is thriving, and today, I’ll make it crystal clear: Don’t ever bring up Wang Yan’s issue again. I will act as if I never had an eldest son in this lifetime. None of you are allowed to have anything to do with your elder brother from now on. Whether he fares well or poorly, it’s no concern of ours. Do you understand?” In Old Man Wang’s mind, it was his eldest son who had betrayed him and the family. He did not believe that Wang Yan could make a living with that woman without farming pigs.


    The Bai Family had nond; they relied solely on raising pigs and chickens for their livelihood. Now that Wang Yan couldn’t raise pigs, only chicken farming remained!


    Ha, as if chicken farming were so easy. Besides, what a waste of Wang Yan’s talents.


    But he was confident that only after Wang Yan suffered, followed that woman and saw himself be like trash, incapable of anything,ughed and pointed at by others, would he realize the fickleness of human rtions and appreciate how wonderful life at home was.


    This time, Old Man Wang was determined to properly deal with his eldest son.


    He did not believe that Bai Yue, who had been divorced, could truly live a good life with someone like Wang Yan. He wanted his son to see through that woman’s true colors, otherwise he would never understand the genuine concern his parents held for him.


    Wang Erhu and Wang Sanxi were stunned. Knowing their father well, once he said such words, it meant he truly intended to utterly disown their eldest brother. The brothers shook their heads, unable to understand how a happy family could fall apart sopletely.


    The stubborn old man and his son, both equally inflexible, now found themselves at an impasse, leaving no room for reconciliation.


    “Did you hear what I said? If I discover that any of you are secretly aiding your eldest brother, don’t me me for turning my back on you and driving you out of this family as well,” said Old Man Wang fiercely.


    The two sons reluctantly agreed, “Understood, Father!”


    Both thought of secretly seeking out their eldest brother to talk and persuade him to change his mind. After all, it was just a matter of finding a wife to have children with—why be so stubborn and resist their father? This way, not only would they be the ridicule of the vige, but the eldest brother’s future would also not look bright.


    As a man with such skill in pig farming, what could the eldest brother do if he could no longer pursue this profession, especially now approaching the age of forty?


    The mother sat silently, shedding tears.


    She had hoped that the New Year’s Eve would present an opportunity for reconciliation between father and son, but it had turned into the spark that caused their rift.


    The grandmother loathed Bai Yue.


    She believed no good person woulde from a woman who had divorced, a woman who had ruined her good son.