After forty years of marriage, she raised several stepchildren, put them through school, bought them houses for marriage, and even helped raise their grandchildren. She served her aging and ill hus...
Tang Youliang then revealed Tang Su'e's idea: to get Chen Wanping drunk, send her to Wang Pizi's house to impersonate Wang Yunyun, and have her sleep with Wang Pizi for the night.
Grandpa Tang yelled at Tang Youliang, "Don't talk nonsense in front of your fifth sister! If Erzhuang finds out, won't he come to our house and cause trouble? Erzhuang's family is all unreasonable!"
Tang Suxiang realized that her father was trying to keep her at bay.
She's being vilified by the villagers, her spine has been broken by their gossip, and some villagers are even throwing excrement and urine in her yard. Her elderly father is also wary of her and keeps everything from her.
"Dad, what do you mean? Are you saying I'm in cahoots with Erzhuang?"
"I told him about you hiring that scoundrel Wang to harm his family."
"Do I need to tell you? The police came to our village yesterday. Now everyone in Songzhuang Village knows that Xiaowei hired Wang the scoundrel to swindle money and seduce Yinhua!"
"The villagers who were cheated hate me now. They throw excrement and urine into my yard in the middle of the night. Dazhuang even scolded me for it."
"Dad, I beg you, please stop doing such despicable things to Erzhuang's family and drag me down with you!"
"What exactly did Erzhuang's family do to you that you treated them like this?"
"Tang Suxiang, I did all this for your Erniu!" Old Master Tang said angrily, "And now you're blaming me?"
"What's wrong with my Erniu? If it weren't for Erzhuang's family, would my Erniu not survive?" Tang Suxiang no longer believed that her old father had asked her to slander Song Yinhua as a jinx so that Erniu could find a good husband.
Seeing that the topic had shifted to Erniu, Tang Su'e steered the conversation back to her children, "Let's not talk about Erniu for now, let's talk about how to save Xiaowei and Yunyun. If word gets back to the village, Yunyun won't be able to stay there anymore."
"It's all the fault of Song Erzhuang's family!" Old Master Tang was so angry that his eyes almost popped out. "It was Erzhuang's family that caused Xiaowei to be arrested and caused Yunyun to be gossiped about. It's all Song Erzhuang's family's fault. Our family must settle this score with them!"
Tang Youliang: "Dad, your thinking is wrong. What does this have to do with Erzhuang's family? Isn't it because you, old man, don't like Erzhuang's family and sent Wang the scoundrel to Songzhuang Village to swindle and smear Erzhuang's daughter?"
"You have grain? Whose side are you on?" Old Master Tang was furious with his son. "The Song family caused Xiaowei to be arrested and Yunyun to be called a slut, and you're still defending Song Erzhuang? Are you still Xiaowei and Yunyun's seventh uncle?"
Tang Youliang noticed that his two older sisters were also looking at him with displeasure, and he didn't want to offend his own family because of outsiders' affairs.
"I'm just worried about Xiaowei and Yunyun!" Tang Youliang explained.
The group was discussing solutions inside the house when they suddenly heard Tang Dafei's voice coming from outside the door.
"Mom, what are you doing here?"
Tang Youliang immediately went to open the door, and with a forceful shove, Zhou Qiaoyun, who had been eavesdropping, stumbled and fell inside.
"What are you doing here?" Tang Youliang asked angrily.
Tang Dafei complained, "Mom was eavesdropping on your conversation."
Zhou Qiaoyun was furious with her eldest son, that damned brat!
"I'm worried about Su'e's two children. Xiaowei was arrested. What will happen if he goes to jail?" Zhou Qiaoyun said, her voice filled with worry but also with anger. "And Yunyun, she's just a young girl. She was defiled by an old scoundrel, and the whole village knows about it. How will she ever get married?"
Tang Su'e grabbed Zhou Qiaoyun's hair and said, "Zhou Qiaoyun, if you make fun of my son and daughter again, you'll regret it!"
"Tang Su'e, let go! When did I ever make fun of your son and daughter?"
Zhou Qiaoyun reached out to grab Tang Su'e's hair, but Tang Su'e had short hair, so it was difficult to grab. Instead, she grabbed Tang Su'e's collar.
"Zhou Qiaoyun, don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Did you report it to the authorities?"
As soon as her son got into trouble, Tang Su'e suspected that Zhou Qiaoyun was behind it all.
"You're always the one who can't stand to see my son and daughter doing well, and you're jealous that my dad likes my Yunyun. This time, you're definitely up to something!"
Everyone present turned to look at Zhou Qiaoyun.
Tang Youliang angrily asked, "Did you report it to the authorities?"
"Tang Youliang, I'm your wife. You believe everything Tang Su'e says?"
"Who else could it be but you?" Tang Su'e grabbed Zhou Qiaoyun's hair with both hands in anger. "You spoke ill of me in front of Wanping, don't think I don't know!"
"Did Chen Wanping tell you?" Zhou Qiaoyun shouted angrily, "Did Chen Wanping tell you?"
Hearing the arguing coming from the main house, Chen Wanping ran over to see what was going on, only to find that the fight was about to break out on her own, so she quickly hid to the side.
"You think you and Wanping are that close? Wanping told my Yunyun everything you said behind her back. What do you think you are in my Tang family? I could give away your newborn daughter with just a word..."
"Tang Su'e!" Old Master Tang shouted angrily, "Who told you to bring this up?"
The entire Tang family knew that this matter was a thorn in Zhou Qiaoyun's side, and she was never allowed to mention it.
Tang Su'e deliberately wanted to anger Zhou Qiaoyun and provoke her.
The more Zhou Qiaoyun cared about something, the more she would bring it up.
"Tang Su'e, I'll fight you to the death!" Zhou Qiaoyun screamed, scratching and hitting him frantically. "Give me back my daughter!"
The two had harbored resentment for twenty years, constantly vying for each other's attention, and long since disliked each other so much that they wished the other were dead.
“Grandpa said that the entire Tang family will be left to my son and daughter. Look, Grandpa gave away your newborn daughter, but my daughter not only wasn't given away, she's also the Tang family's lucky star. Grandpa even changed my daughter's diapers himself!”
While fighting with Zhou Qiaoyun, Tang Su'e also spoke to provoke Zhou Qiaoyun.
Tang Youliang felt very uncomfortable hearing these words.
He rushed forward and forcibly separated the two.
Tang Su'e's mouth was like a machine gun, saying how much the old man favored her, that he made her son and daughter live in the main house, and that all the Tang family's things would go to her son in the future. She mocked Zhou Qiaoyun for being nothing, saying that even the fate of her newborn daughter was up to her.
Whenever that daughter was mentioned, Zhou Qiaoyun would rush up and fight with Tang Su'e again.
Tang Su'e mocked Zhou Qiaoyun, thinking that if she got close to Chen Wanping, Chen Wanping would join her side? In fact, Chen Wanping had already betrayed her.
Zhou Qiaoyun was covered in dirt and grime from the fight, her hair a complete mess.
He couldn't out-argue Tang Su'e, nor could he out-talk her, and was driven to hysteria by Tang Su'e's provocation.
The villagers of Tangzhuang who were passing by outside the gate heard Zhou Qiaoyun shouting and yelling, but they were not surprised. Everyone in the village knew that Zhou Qiaoyun had a bad temper, was difficult to deal with, and liked to pick fights and cause trouble.
The Tang family members in the courtyard all advised Tang Su'e to stop provoking Zhou Qiaoyun, but Tang Su'e wouldn't listen and kept bringing up Zhou Qiaoyun's newborn daughter.
She deliberately claimed that she personally pushed the baby into the urinal and drowned it.
Zhou Qiaoyun lunged at Tang Su'e like a madwoman, and Old Master Tang ordered Tang Youliang to drag her into the house and lock her up.
Although Tang Youliang did as instructed, he harbored resentment towards his father and Tang Su'e.
After Zhou Qiaoyun was locked in the house, Tang Su'e saw Chen Wanping standing with her daughter and had another idea in mind.
"Dad, it was Wanping who was with Wang the scoundrel. We can't let my Yunyun take the blame for Wanping."
“Su’e, what are you saying? If your fourth sister and her husband find out about this, do you think they will let you off the hook?” Old Master Tang disagreed. “Your fourth sister’s husband is also an unreasonable person. His daughter-in-law gave birth to a girl, and he went to his daughter-in-law’s family home to make a scene, blaming his daughter-in-law’s mother for giving birth to a girl who was not fertile enough.”
"So you're going to sacrifice my Yunyun?" Tang Su'e asked Old Man Tang. "Yunyun is our Tang family's lucky star. If anything happens to Yunyun, our Tang family will be doomed. Dad, do you really want to watch Yunyun's reputation be ruined?"
Old Master Tang was so angry he gritted his teeth: "Song Erzhuang, I'll never let your family get away with this!"