"I'd like to ask you, does your family consider it filial piety to have to feed her directly to her mouth?"

Before she could finish speaking, she raised her voice again.

"Look at this, now that the daughter-in-law has come in, she doesn't do any chores, but she acts like she's the most important person in the world!"

"Go ask around outside, which family's wife doesn't start running around as soon as she enters the door?"

She pounded on the window while angrily complaining.

"Which daughter-in-law doesn't have to fetch water to wash her mother-in-law's feet, do laundry, cook, and take care of the children? But in my family, it's different. My daughter-in-law has become a princess and I have to serve her!"

"She's got it all figured out, throwing her family around like they're something special, acting all high and mighty all the time. What does she think she is!"

Zhu Xiuqin spat and gave a disdainful sneer.

"Look at her, does she really think she's a rich young lady? She's probably some fairy who fell from the sky!"

The sharp and sarcastic voice echoed throughout the Shen family courtyard.

Inside the courtyard wall, several old hens that were foraging for food were startled and flew away.

Liu Yuelan was pampered by her parents from a young age and lived under their care every day.

I've never been treated like this before, having been waited on hand and foot.

Her face turned ashen instantly, then from white to green, and then from green to red.

Liu Yuelan glared fiercely at the man in the east room.

The east room was where Zhu Xiuqin lived.

Shen Zhiyu knew something was wrong.

He was also extremely anxious, so he quickly grabbed Liu Yuelan's hand and whispered, "That's just how my mother is. She's stubborn and doesn't know how to talk. She's uneducated and doesn't know how to reason. Don't take it to heart. Just listen to her rambling."

"Just treat it like a passing breeze; it'll be over soon."

But Liu Yuelan was not going to listen to any advice at that moment.

She suddenly shook him off, causing Shen Zhiyu to stumble and lose his balance.

"Don't touch me!"

She uttered those words coldly.

Liu Yuelan turned around and shouted at the east room.

"How can you expect your daughter-in-law to kneel and be welcomed into the house, only to be met with cold stares and even insults from the whole family after entering? The Shen family is really something else; have they survived this long by exploiting their daughter-in-law?"

She raised her voice very high.

"Who gets married not to make their life better? But your family is different. You've married a wife, but you treat her like a servant?"

“Once you get married, you have to worry about everything, from food and clothing to clothing,” she said, wiping away tears. “If he can’t support me, he should just say so! I don’t necessarily have to marry into the Shen family! I don’t care about your family’s lifestyle!”

Zhu Xiuqin was so angry she felt like her lungs were about to explode.

She originally intended to continue sitting in the house and make a few more sarcastic remarks.

But after hearing Liu Yuelan's words, she was so angry that she almost couldn't stand up.

Zhu Xiuqin slowly walked out, leaning on the wall, her face full of indignation.

As she walked, she kept calling out, "What terrible things did I do in my past life...?"

"The wives I've married are all so restless, it's such a torment! Such a torment!"

"It must be some incredible luck that your ancestors must have been blessed to have allowed you to marry me!"

Liu Yuelan responded in kind.

She stood in the yard and shouted angrily, "You'd be more like I'm unlucky!"

The two voices went back and forth.

"Alright!"

Su Chenwei sneered.

"Have you argued enough? If you can't stand it, then separate! Stop arguing over trivial matters."

"Mom, now that your younger brother is married, Cunpu will be going to report for duty in a few days."

"If you ask me, it would be better to separate sooner rather than later, for peace and quiet."

The entire Shen family compound was almost turned upside down!

"Separate the family?"

Zhu Xiuqin cried out in surprise, her thin fingers pointing directly at Su Chenwei's face.

"I thought you were more sensible than Liu Yuelan, at least you wouldn't leech off me, but I didn't expect that you, my daughter-in-law, are also unreliable!"

"What are you dividing up?"

"Are you out of your mind?!"

"The eldest son is going to join the army. If we split up the family again, who will farm the land? Who will feed the chickens and ducks? Who will take on all the farm work?"

"As long as I live, the Shen family is not to be divided! None of you may even think about it!"

"Once you're in the Shen family, you have to work!"

"Which wife didn't endure hardship?"

"If you want to live a comfortable life, you'd better go back to your parents' home as soon as possible!"

Shen Zhiyu, however, thought that separating the family was a good idea.

"Mom, my sister-in-law is right. It's better that we've separated; we can each live our own lives!"

Actually, he was holding back his anger, and he had long been unhappy that Su Chenwei had started acting like a sister-in-law only a few days after marrying into the family.

He's too lazy to even cook a few extra meals; he clearly doesn't take his uncle seriously.

If we could separate the family sooner, it would save us a lot of trouble.

"Shut up!"

Zhu Xiuqin almost shouted as she interrupted Shen Zhiyu.

He then raised his hand and slapped Shen Zhiyu across the head.

"You know nothing! This family can't fall apart!"

"What do you know about dividing a family property! You idiot whose brain was kicked by a donkey!"

Shen Zhiyu was hit and retreated, covering his head, with a clear red mark on his cheek.

But he didn't say anything, nor did he dare to talk back.

He could only stand there, staring at Zhu Xiuqin and Su Chenwei with resentment.

waste!

Chaos erupted once again in the courtyard.

Standing there, Liu Yuelan felt a surge of revulsion rising within her.

She secretly despised him.

How come she never noticed before?

Shen Zhiyu is the kind of person who has no opinions of his own.

If Zhu Xiuqin scolded him a few times, he wouldn't even have the courage to stand up; he could only shrink back and listen to her reprimand.

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