When Gou Dan arrived at his maternal grandparent’s home, he saw his grandparents and other family members already eating. Seeing that they were almost done eating, he strode towards them furiously.
As soon as he entered the living room, he asked angrily, "Why didn’t you wait for me to eat?"
Hearing his arrogant words, his eldest uncle glanced at him and asked displeasedly, "Jiande, how can you speak to your elders in this tone? Where are your manners?"
After hearing what his uncle said, Gou Dan frowned and said, "I always talk like this at my home. Why can’t I do it here?"
Putting down the bowl and the chopsticks in his hand, Gou Dan’s maternal grandfather looked at him coldly and said, "In my family, we all eat at regular times and will not wait for you. If you are late, just wait until the next meal."
Gou Dan was very angry when he heard his grandfather’s words and wanted to refute him. But before he could speak, Gao Shun walked over quickly and pulled his clothes, trying to stop him.
Seeing that his daughter’s son hadn’t realized his situation, Gao Gang said, "If you want to continue living in my house, you must follow my family’s rules."
"You must get up at five o’clock every morning and go to the foothills with your cousin to collect firewood and pigweed. If there is work in the farmland, you get up at four o’clock and follow me to work in the field. After you come back from work, if there is work to do at home, you must help your uncle and aunt. If you want to eat, then you need to work.
My family will not raise an idle person," he said firmly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Gou Dan pointed at him and said, "Old man, who do you think you are?! Why should I listen to you?"
Hearing her son’s wanton words, Gao Shun’s face turned pale, and cold sweat broke out on her back. She held her son’s hand, looked at her father in horror, and said, "Father, Gou Dan didn’t mean it. Please don’t take it to heart."
Gao Gang looked at his daughter and asked, "Does your son have no name, so you called him with that name?"
Hearing her father’s words, Gao Shun quickly explained, "Father, I was wrong. Jiande didn’t mean what he said. Just now he..."
Before he finished speaking, Gou Dan pulled his clothes from his mother’s hand and said, "Mother, I am not wrong! Why are you so afraid of this old man? If he dares to go against me, I will beat him like how I beat my grandpa!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard his words. Even if they don’t have close relationships with him, they still want him to be able to live a good life in the future. That’s why they agreed to Gao Gang’s strict control over him and let Gao Shun and her sons live in their home, hoping that he could change Gou Dan’s bad behavior.
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