Hearing this, the Song father and son outside the door exchanged a worried glance.

After Song Qiuxue got dressed, Tang Su'e fixed her curly hair like a mother would, "Qiuxue, go live with your godmother. Your family can't accept you. From now on, your godmother's house will be your home!"

Song Qiuxue nodded, "Godmother, you're still the best to me."

Tang Su'e also cried with heartache.

The two hugged each other, like a mother and daughter.

Qiao Guilan became jealous.

How can the girl I raised with such difficulty be close to someone else?

The door to the inner room opened, and Song Qiuxue wanted to go with Tang Su'e, but Song Erzhuang and his wife were not happy about it.

"Erzhuang, Guilan, it's not that I want to take your daughter away, it's that someone in your family can't tolerate your third daughter." Tang Su'e looked at Song Yinhua meaningfully, "Someone is jealous of Qiuxue and caused this to happen to her. Although Qiuxue is kind and magnanimous, and helped her eldest sister out of trouble without holding a grudge, I can't stand it. Qiuxue is such a good girl, and she's still studying at a university in the provincial capital. If your family can't tolerate Qiuxue, then Qiuxue will be our family from now on."

"What are you talking about?" Song Erzhuang asked, bewildered. "What you're saying is utter nonsense. Qiu Xue and her sisters are very close. There's no such thing as jealousy. What happened last night was caused by your father and Dafei."

"I don't want to argue with you. Let's just say it was our fault! I apologize on behalf of my family. Are you satisfied now?"

Tang Su'e spoke in a strange and sarcastic tone.

Song Erzhuang retorted angrily, "What are you talking about? It was your father who hired someone to harm my daughter."

"I've apologized to you, what more do you want?" Tang Su'e retorted sarcastically. "Is it okay if my family was wrong?"

Song Yinhua asked Song Qiuxue, "Qiuxue, did you see the attitude of your sixth cousin's family? You still want to go with your sixth cousin? I don't believe you're so confused that you don't know who's trying to harm you?"

"Yinhua, what kind of attitude am I talking about? I just feel sorry for Qiuxue. No one in our family has harmed Qiuxue. It's just that someone is jealous of our Qiuxue." Tang Su'e has always looked down on Song Erzhuang's family, and she despises Song Yinhua even more.

Song Qiuxue followed Tang Su'e without looking back.

Tang Su'e's second daughter-in-law went to pack Song Qiuxue's luggage.

Qiao Guilan wiped away her tears, "Qiu Xue is blaming us! It's all Yin Hua's fault, Qiu Xue was just trying to shield her from the disaster."

Song Erzhuang's gaze towards Song Yinhua also turned displeased. "Yinhua, find some time to apologize to Qiuxue and bring her back."

Song Yinhua realized that her parents were blaming her, believing that Qiu Xue had helped her avoid disaster and that she was the one who had harmed Qiu Xue.

"Dad, Mom, it's only right that I was schemed against and bullied, but Qiuxue can't be hurt?"

"Yinhua, don't be jealous of Qiuxue." Qiao Guilan's words also represented her attitude.

“Last night, Qiu Xue and my uncle forced me to drink; they deliberately wanted to get me drunk!” Song Yinhua said. “My uncle’s family wanted to frame me. They’re so close to Qiu Xue, wouldn’t they have told her beforehand?”

"Qiu Xue got into such a big mess because of you, and you still criticize her. I think you're just jealous of her!" Qiao Guilan said.

"I've analyzed the situation for you, and you say I'm criticizing Qiu Xue. Don't you all wish I was the one who was tricked by Uncle's family last night?"

Ignoring Li Wenxiu's objections, Song Baogen stood beside Song Yinhua, saying, "I believe in my elder sister!"

Li Wenxiu angrily went into the house and slammed the door shut to express her dissatisfaction.

Qiao Guilan and her husband glanced at their son's room. "Baogen, what happened between you and Wenxiu again?"

"She's sick, ignore her!"

Song Baogen also started to sulk.

"What's wrong with you two?" Qiao Guilan asked, puzzled. "What's going on in this family? It's a perfectly good family, why are you all arguing?"

Song Baogen and Li Wenxiu both took a few days of wedding leave.

Qiao Guilan tried every means to find things for Li Wenxiu to do, including cooking, washing dishes, and mopping the floor.

If you don't know how, she'll teach you step by step.

He was determined to teach Li Wenxiu everything so that she could take good care of his son in the future.

Song Caixing wanted to help, but Qiao Guilan told her to go aside.

She is training her daughter-in-law well.

Li Wenxiu, who had just entered the house, could only sulk in her heart, too embarrassed to talk back to her mother-in-law.

Tang Suxiang came over at this moment, "Guilan, the new bride is only here for the first time, and you're already harassing her?"

"I was teaching Wenxiu how to cook, I wasn't bullying my daughter-in-law," Qiao Guilan said politely with a smile, not daring to utter a single word about bullying her daughter.

"Wenxiu, come visit me sometime. My daughter-in-law isn't much older than you. Ask her if you don't understand anything." Tang Suxiang said with a smile, then turned to Qiao Guilan and said, "I'm here to help Qiuxue get her clothes. She has a few pieces of clothing hanging on the clothesline."

"Is Qiu Xue at your house?"

“That’s right. Qiu Xue and Su E are very close at my house. They said they would go back to Tang Village after having lunch.” Tang Su Xiang deliberately teased Qiao Gui Lan. “My dad used to like Su E the most. He always said that she was the lucky star of our Tang family. Now my dad dotes on Qiu Xue the most, just like he would his own granddaughter.”

Qiao Guilan felt uncomfortable after hearing this.

Tang Suxiang felt a sense of satisfaction seeing Qiao Guilan unhappy.

It will be even more amusing when the uncle's whole family finds out that the girl they raised with such difficulty isn't actually from her family.

She was the one who switched the two children back then!

...

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Song Qiuxue went to Tangzhuang, and Qiao Guilan was heartbroken until night.

She harbored some resentment towards the young woman.

If it weren't for the eldest daughter, her great-uncle's family wouldn't have targeted her family, and the third daughter wouldn't have gotten into trouble.

Qiao Guilan shared this idea with Song Erzhuang.

She knew she shouldn't blame her eldest daughter, but the thought of her third daughter, whom she had raised with great difficulty to go to university in the provincial capital, going to Tangzhuang made her feel uneasy.

She shared this idea with Song Erzhuang.

Song Erzhuang harbored some resentment towards the eldest daughter.

After the third daughter left, the couple felt a deep emptiness in their hearts.

“Yinhua is a junior and hasn’t had much contact with her great-uncle’s family. She has never offended them before, so I don’t know why her great-uncle’s family dislikes her!” Song Erzhuang said.

"Qiu Xue doesn't recognize us anymore, what are we supposed to do?" Qiao Guilan asked, her voice trembling with tears. "I shouldn't have burned Baogen's admission letter last year!"

"Why are you bringing this up again all of a sudden?" Song Erzhuang asked impatiently, lowering his voice. "Our family can't afford to support two!"

"It's all because you're incompetent, making your daughter support the whole family, and the villagers gossip about you!" Qiao Guilan complained.

Song Erzhuang didn't have any way to make money before, so he just sold some grain at home, which didn't earn him much.

When the harvest was bad, life became even harder, and they relied on their daughter's salary to make ends meet.

Even so, he would secretly embezzle a portion of his daughter's salary and lend it to his older brother and sister, who were wealthier than him, and secretly buy snacks for his nephews and nieces.

In recent years, as every household has moved from thatched houses to tiled houses, he earns a little money by helping build houses. With the addition of selling grain every year, his family's life has improved.

Sending one child to school is no problem.

But supporting two children at the same time doesn't come up with that much money.

Song Erzhuang had no choice; he could only have one of his two children.

He and his wife argued about this a lot in private.

Finally, he went to ask his older brother what he thought.