The little black dog in our house was found in this cave.

Song Caixing and Xie Daguang then chose to meet secretly in this secluded cave.

After the passionate moment ended, Song Caixing leaned against Xie Daguang's chest and asked him about the marriage proposal.

“Our family is renovating our wedding room. My mom said that once the harvest season is over and the room is finished, we’ll go to your house to propose marriage,” Xie Daguang coaxed. “Just wait a few more days, and soon we can be together openly.”

"Brother Da Guang, I'm yours now, you can't favor me."

"You're so beautiful, how could I bear to lie to you!" Xie Daguang lifted Song Caixing's chin and kissed her. "Besides, my cousin Jianguo will be your brother-in-law in the future. If I were to lie to you, he would beat me to death!"

"Is your cousin that fierce?"

"He's killed someone, what do you think?" Xie Daguang looked down on his cousin, who was only two or three months older than him, and their relationship was just so-so.

He would only ask his cousin for help when he needed someone to do chores, but he was almost always refused. The only exception was when he helped Song Caixing build a new house, he agreed without hesitation.

He was puzzled as to why his usually aloof and taciturn cousin had become so easy to talk to.

"His mother is a madwoman. She runs around the village every day and even wanders outside the village. She gets bullied by old bachelors. He is a bastard born from his mother's abuse."

Song Caixing went home and told Song Yinhua, advising her not to marry him.

"How do you know all this?" Song Yinhua asked casually.

The little black dog on the ground wagged its tail, its round body running around Song Yinhua's feet.

“I happened to overhear people from Huojiabao Village talking about this when I went to town,” Song Caixing lied. “They said his mother is crazy and he was born after she was violated.”

"Everyone has a past. As long as he's an upright person, nothing else matters."

"Big sister, you can't think like that!" Song Caixing exclaimed anxiously. "Once you marry into the family, you'll have to serve a crazy mother-in-law, and she's even killed someone before."

"If he has really killed someone, the government will deal with him."

"Big sister, why can't you understand what I'm saying? You can't marry someone who has killed someone and has a crazy mother."

Song Caixing was so anxious that she kept pacing around Song Yinhua, arguing endlessly that she shouldn't marry into a family like Xie Jin's.

"Caixing, stop talking. I've already made up my mind."

When Song Caixing realized she couldn't reason with Song Yinhua, she ran home and told her mother, Qiao Guilan, and her second brother.

As soon as Qiao Guilan saw her, she asked her to go to the field to harvest rice.

Hearing the fourth sister talk about killing people and having a crazy mother, Qiao Guilan secretly gloated and said, "Your eldest sister's temper needs someone to teach her a lesson!"

Song Caixing relayed Qiao Guilan's words to Song Yinhua.

Song Yinhua didn't care.

In her past life, her mother, Qiao Guilan, saw that she was living a hard life and secretly helped her with tears in her eyes. When she died, she held her hand and said that they were both unfortunate people.

Her loving mother, who had always doted on her, seemed to have changed completely in this life.

In her previous life, it wasn't until last summer, when Baogen graduated from high school, that she resigned and had Baogen take over her job.

Less than a year later, she married Han Zhiyuan.

Therefore, she wouldn't have had so many experiences in this life, and she wouldn't have had the opportunity to get to know her parents and other family members more deeply.

-

A few days later.

Song Baogen came to find Song Yinhua.

He secretly took half of his newly received salary and gave it to Song Yinhua.

"Baogen, what are you doing?"

“Big sister, if it weren’t for you earning money to support us for the past ten years, we wouldn’t be where we are today. I don’t have anything else to offer, so please take this money. It’s my way of showing my respect to you.” Song Baogen felt guilty and always felt that he owed his big sister something.

“I’m not your mother, you don’t need to give me money.” Song Yinhua refused to accept the money. “I’m only in my twenties, I have hands and feet, I can earn money myself. You just got married, and after Wenxiu has a child, there will be many expenses. I appreciate your kindness, but I will come to you when I really need money in the future.”

“The future is the future, you can keep this money.” Song Baogen felt even more guilty because his wife had a problem with Song Yinhua. “Sister, please accept it, otherwise I won’t feel at ease.”

Song Baogen insisted on spending money on Song Yin.

"Don't tell my wife about this. She's pregnant, and I'm afraid she'll get stuck on it."

"Wenxiu is pregnant?" Song Yinhua exclaimed in surprise. "Baogen, congratulations! You're going to be a father!"

Song Baogen scratched his head and grinned foolishly, "Wenxiu's period was a few days late. She went to the health center for a check-up yesterday and found out she's pregnant."

...

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Busy farming season.

Every household is working in the fields.

Song Yinhua also returned home to help with the busy farming season.

Song Baogen took leave and went to harvest rice in the field with the pregnant Li Wenxiu.

Song Caixing was in charge of bundling rice in the field, while Song Yinhua carried the bundled rice onto a cart, tied it with rope, and transported it to an open area to prepare for threshing.

The four men were working hard in the field, their foreheads covered in sweat.

Qiao Guilan was working in her sister-in-law's field when Song Erzhuang went to call her home, but she was also kept behind.

The couple and San Hongyan were all helping with the work in the fields.

Song Dazhuang needs to go to work to earn a salary, Tang Suxiang needs to take care of her granddaughter, and Song Hanwen and his wife are busy looking for partners to start a factory and do business.

After Wang Xiaowei went to jail, Song Hanwen had to find a new partner on his own, and he had no time to help with the farm work at home.

San Hongyan had been harvesting rice for less than a day when she was too exhausted to continue. She excused herself to go to the toilet, put down her sickle, and went to rest.

Song Erzhuang looked up at her, then continued working.

Previously, several families had a very ugly falling out over a loan issue.

But now, it's like nothing happened.

After using the toilet, San Hongyan rested for a while on the edge of the field, when Aunt Song happened to pass by.

"Isn't this San Hongyan? She's back to help your older brother harvest rice?"

Aunt Song knew that San Hongyan had a good relationship with Da Zhuang's family.

“My brother’s family is busy, so they asked me to come and harvest rice for two days. My sister-in-law has already come to invite me, and I felt bad not coming, since we’re all relatives.”

San Hongyan didn't really want to come, but Tang Suxiang told her that Hanwen was going to open a factory and start a business, and that he would be a big boss in the future, and that his youngest son, Xuewen, would become a high-ranking official. After hearing this, she came without saying a word.

Aunt Song and San Hongyan chatted for a few minutes.

"Who are those men?" San Hongyan saw a man wearing a straw hat with his back to her in a field not far away, deftly loading bundles of rice onto a cart.

“Isn’t that your second brother’s silver flower?” Aunt Song said.

San Hongyan stared at that figure for a few seconds. She hadn't seen her second brother's children for many years.

The last time Song Yinhua poured liquid on her to force her to repay the money was at night, and she didn't pay attention to what Yinhua looked like.

"Yinhua? She's broad-shouldered and burly, I thought she was a man."

"I heard Yinhua is getting married."

San Hongyan was unaware of this matter. "Where is your husband's family from?"

“It’s in the next village, quite close to your husband’s family. His surname is Huo, and his mother is mentally ill.”

The moment the name "Crazy Mother" was mentioned, San Hongyan knew which family it was.

"Huo Jianguo?!" San Hongyan exclaimed. "That old lady from the Huo family is no pushover! She was quite shrewd when she was young. She took a fancy to Old Man Huo from the same village, and even though his wife was pregnant, she seduced him and even lied that she was pregnant with Old Man Huo's child. She managed to steal him away, which angered his wife so much that she threw herself into the river, resulting in the deaths of both her and her unborn child. As a result, she miscarried every time she got pregnant for the next seven or eight years. The villagers all said behind her back that it was karma."