Eighties Sweetheart Wife
Chapter 354 Shameless

Chapter 354: Chapter 354 Shameless

All four of them were stunned and looked at Xia Bowen in unison.

Deep down, there was always the hope that it wouldn’t be as severe as imagined. At worst, she’d be detained for a few days for education and would be released without a pension, and their mother didn’t care about the pension at all.

Xia Liying stood up, her eyes reddened, "Dad, are you serious? My mom will be sentenced?"

Her hands wringing together, she pleaded softly, "Dad, please help my mom. She’s old and has never suffered in her life. Time will crawl for her in there."

"How can I help?"

Xia Bowen said in a somber voice, "There are national laws and family rules. She broke the law, shouldn’t she be punished?

If we’re being honest, the Xindongs are strangers to you, and they are strangers you can’t afford to provoke now.

Don’t get any wrong ideas.

You can’t deal with Xindong now, let alone Little Nuan.

Xia Zhi and Xia Liying, you both know what Little Nuan is capable of.

If she really wanted to take you down, she could make you face calamities from which you could never recover.

She spared you, do you understand?

I’ve been at work all day and am very tired. Is there anything else?"

The four of them sat on the couch, all falling silent.

If things were really as their father said, their mother would face criminal punishment.

Xia Ming, clear-headed, grabbed his hair and said dejectedly, "How did it come to this today?"

Xia Bowen asked sharply, "You’re not holding a grudge against Xia Xindong and Song Yunuan, are you?"

Xia Zhi hurriedly said, "No, we don’t hate them."

"I hope you four can be sensible, able to hold me, your father, in regard, instead of disregarding me like Shangguan Heng and your mother did."

Their faces all turned sour.

The eldest uncle was just too despicable.

Xia Bowen grew more resentful as he spoke, "They used me to seize the control from the Shangguan family; then they used me to go to Xiangjiang. If I were just Second Child Xia who farms in the Xia family village, do you think your mom would have fancied me? She has always looked down on me from the bottom of her heart.

I’m not afraid to let you know today that if she truly respected me, she would have considered my feelings in her actions.

Because she knows, even if I ignore those three, I would never be so heartless as to wish them dead.

All of them are not worth killing Xia Xindong over.

Imagine someone locked up in a basement for thirty years, enduring daily whippings, torture, intimidation, and abuse. Can you imagine how he survived those thirty years?

What was your eldest uncle thinking when he raised that whip? Did Xia Xindong have a bitter feud with him?

Did those three children have a deep grudge with your mother?

Even your little uncle, now in a pitiable state, isn’t this his retribution?"

At this point, Xia Bowen’s face was etched with indignation, "That damned Third Child Xia poisoned your first aunt to death."

The four of them were stunned again.

They only knew that their uncle was hospitalized with an illness and could not move; they had visited him once.

But everyone was too busy to look after him.

Furthermore, he had his own children; it wasn’t their place to help.

The situation didn’t seem good.

It seemed like the current aunt didn’t want to bother with him, her face looked terrible.

Their cousin’s expression also seemed off. Could he know something?

Xia Bowen said with self-mockery, "Everyone says that good people are rewarded, but in our Xia family, good people don’t get rewarded.

Third Child Xia was shameless to the extreme. He neglected your sick grandparents; he didn’t care at all, and it was Zhu Feng who took care of them from beginning to end. She even managed the funeral arrangements by herself.

I was out of town then and hadn’t divorced her. When I returned, Third Child Xia shamelessly told me that Zhu Feng neglected everything, that she was either hitting or scolding your deceased grandparents."

I was young and naive back then. I didn’t like Zhu Feng, and I believed the words of my own brothers. Plus, I was already preparing to divorce and marry your mother, so I didn’t ask anyone before I accused Zhu Feng.

By the time Xia Xindong was sold by your mother to Xiangjiang, she wrote me a letter. No matter how cruel and heartless I was, had I received that letter, I would surely have looked into the matter, and it wouldn’t have escalated to this point, nor would Xia Xindong have been locked in the basement for thirty years.

But the letter was burned by your mother.

From the incident until now, I have repeatedly told her that I would take the reputation of being unkind and unjust upon myself. At this age, having lived a lifetime, I would still treat her well.

All I hope for is that she can finally resolve this issue properly.

But why does your mother still think she did nothing wrong up to this point?

Just because Xia Xindong is my son, does that mean he deserved to be sold, locked up, and beaten?

I want to ask you all, was what she and Shangguan Heng did right?

Why haven’t they come to repent even now?

She hasn’t even said a simple apology to me, but instead blames me for not helping her.

So, the Shangguan siblings are all extremely selfish, caring only for themselves, treating me, Xia Bowen, like a mere dog for the Shangguan family, slaving away for years in dedication to them."

At this point, Xia Bowen was agitated, his hand on his chest, face an ashen color.

Xia Liying was startled, quickly moved to support Xia Bowen, gently patting his back, her voice tearful, "Dad, my mom was wrong, truly wrong, but she’s been pampered all her life, how could she ever admit she was at fault?"

Xia Ming’s face also looked bad.

In fact, his father wasn’t wrong.

He didn’t know what his uncle currently thought, but he knew that, up to now, his mother still didn’t think she’d done anything wrong.

Did she really not see his father as human?

But if that were so, how could she have borne four children with him?

Perhaps she simply hated the three children born to Zhu Feng.

But what right did she have to hate them?

Up to this moment, Xia Ming couldn’t understand.

A deep sense of powerlessness surged up from the bottom of his heart.

Xia Bowen looked at his three unmoving sons with disappointment.

He had to admit, they had grown distant and emotionally detached from him.

In truth, this was also a kind of retribution.

This family had long been in a state of chaos.

Waving his hand to steady his emotions, he said, "Since everyone is here today, I might as well tell you some things clearly, so you don’t go misunderstanding right and wrong and affect your futures.

And speaking of your little uncle, Third Child Xia, after Xia Xindong went missing and Zhu Feng left home, she entrusted Xia Guilan and Xia Xinshan to Third Uncle’s care before she went to look for the child.

But that Third Child Xia was heartless. He almost starved the two children to death.

He would beat them whenever he felt like it, one millet bun being enough for the two kids to eat for three days.

Even with that, he was not satisfied. Before giving them the bun, he would break it into pieces, toss it onto the ground to make it muddy, and then demand that Xia Guilan and Xia Xinshan kowtow to him for each piece he broke."

Had he not brought this up, Xia Bowen would have felt his heart was made of iron, but at this moment, he almost wished he could go and kill Third Child Xia himself.

"These things I only found out after going to the Xia family village to investigate and being told by your great-uncle on his deathbed."

"What do you think, being born as the children of Xia Bowen, how unlucky must they have been?"

"Even now, the four of you haven’t been affected, nor have you suffered the slightest hardship.

So, what gives you the right to sit here and accuse me, discussing justice for your mother with me?"

"Little Nuan is right about one thing. You only know the pain when the knife is stabbed into your own flesh. But I don’t want that knife to be in you. Because that would mean something has happened to you or even your children."

Nobody liked to hear this.

All had gloomy expressions.

"Go back, each of you write ’justice’ ten thousand times for me, within a limit of three days."

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