"Old woman, I'm not trying to be mean, but you're still the mother of that Qin boy. Look how difficult things are for our family right now. Could you go and make a trip to the Qin family?" Old Guo said.

He looked at Li Xiuying with a hesitant expression, clearly gambling with his words.

Anyone with a brain would know that Qin Zheng would never help the Guo family. Given their past grievances, it would be a miracle if Qin Zheng didn't embarrass them.

But Old Guo just wanted to take a gamble.

Before, none of them had anything, so they were harsh on Qin Zheng, and Qin Zheng was also ruthless towards them. But now that Qin Zheng is so successful, the money he earns is enough for them to eat and drink for a lifetime. He can't be so heartless as to sit idly by and do nothing about his own mother, can he?

Old Guo felt that Qin Zheng still cared about his biological mother, Li Xiuying.

Otherwise, why would Qin Zheng rush to demolish Li Xiuying's house with an excavator after hearing that they had taken over the Guo family's house?

"Don't even think about it! Don't even think about it!"

To Lao Guo's surprise, his words were met with a strong rejection from Li Xiuying.

Li Xiuying suddenly stood up, hands on her hips, and gritted her teeth as she cursed, "Old Guo, don't think I don't know what you're up to! You want me to go ask my son for money? What will I do with the money after I get it? Give it to you? Support your whole family?"

"Pah! Wasn't what I gave you enough before my son got married?"

"Now you're saying all these nice things, but back when you were tormenting my son, you bastards were no slouch either! So you weren't the ones who kicked me out of the Guo family?"

He spat directly onto Old Guo's face.

Thinking of the cold and misery she endured when she was driven from her home and forced to live in a dilapidated shack in the east of the village, Li Xiuying's resentment deepened, and she gritted her teeth, saying with hatred:

"A whole family of old beasts and their little beasts, and they want me to go to my son for money? Keep dreaming!"

He launched into a tirade of abuse.

Her mouth went on and on like a machine gun, and the five members of the family, including Old Guo, were scolded so badly that they couldn't even open their eyes.

The eldest son's wife was so scolded that her eyelids twitched, and she almost fainted.

Old Guo was rendered speechless by the scolding. He raised his eyelids to look at Li Xiuying, but had no words to refute her. He plopped back down in the corner, pulled out his old pipe from his waist, and started puffing on his pipe.

Guo Lao Da and Guo Lao Er were also furious.

However, due to Qin Zheng's influence, they dared not do anything to Li Xiuying, their faces flushed, gritting their teeth.

The second son's wife inside the house didn't say anything. She just held the child and had a long face. No matter what she said, she wouldn't go out to start a fire and cook.

Li Xiuying was very pleased with herself.

Having won a great victory, she straightened her back, stood at the entrance of the main room, happily finished cracking open the melon seeds in her hand, and then turned and went inside.

Then she came out carrying a basket of things.

The frame was covered with a red cloth, and no one knew what was inside.

But you can see that it's packed full.

Seeing that the Guo family members were all looking at her, she rolled her eyes and snorted coldly, expressing her disdain for them.

Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, a smile curving her lips, and she even hummed a little tune in a good mood. Under the watchful eyes of several people, she swaggered out of the courtyard with her basket slung over her shoulder.

"Second brother, what did she take out...?"

After Li Xiuying left, the second son's wife stared at the empty front door for several seconds before she came to her senses and turned to look angrily at her second son by the window.

The second son said impatiently, "How should I know?"

"Were they wild eggs? I saw her trade some of our things for a basket of wild eggs a couple of days ago," the second son's wife said, getting more and more agitated. She grabbed her son's arm and started yelling, "Did she give the wild eggs to Ye Yun? What right does she have? I didn't even get a single egg from her during my postpartum period! What right does she have to give eggs to Ye Yun!"

Her crying was very irritating.

Guo Lao Er was already feeling aggrieved by Li Xiuying's scolding, and now that she was disturbed by her crying, a surge of anger rose in his heart.

"Alright!"

He shoved his second son's wife's hand away, pointed at her nose, and yelled, "Aren't you ashamed? It's just a basket of eggs! Have you never eaten anything good before?"

The second son's wife, who was holding the child, was suddenly thrown aside.

Fortunately, she was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) and managed to pull out one hand to support herself, but she still woke up the baby in her arms who was only a few months old.

The child was frightened, grunted twice, and then burst into tears.

Seeing that Li Xiuying was so biased, and that she was not only denied eggs but also scolded by her second son, the second son's wife, holding her crying child, also began to cry loudly.

One big and one small.

One was wailing loudly, and the other was sobbing softly; they were incredibly noisy.

"Cry, cry, cry! All you do is cry! You haven't done anything productive for months!" The second son was the most annoyed. Feeling ashamed, he raised his hand to reach through the window and hit his wife.

Snap!

Suddenly, Old Guo threw down his pipe, stood up, and stomped on it, breaking it into two or three pieces. He was furious: "That's it! None of you will have an easy time!"

The second son's actions were thus interrupted.

But the second son's wife was frightened and shrank back, afraid of being slapped by her second son.

The two eldest sons stood blankly in the kitchen shed, looking at each other, not daring to speak.

They only wanted their second son's wife to do some chores, but who would have thought things would turn out like this...

"Big brother, second brother, come here."

Old Guo, with a gloomy face and his hands behind his back, sternly called his two sons to his side.

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