"Qiuqin, I overheard your conversation. Why do you want to do laundry?"

The second-floor woman sat cross-legged on the sofa, staring at Ge Qiuqin.

Ge Qiuqin thought to herself, "This mother-in-law is really something, she actually eavesdropped on my conversation with Xia Enruo."

"Mom, I'm planning to do laundry with Xia to earn some pocket money to help with household expenses. With four children in the family, we'll have more and more expenses in the future, and I also want to help Zhang Xin share the burden."

The second-floor woman curled her lip, thinking to herself, "Get out of this house. My son married Chen Yan, and the two of them earn more than they can spend."

"How dare you say that? If you hadn't been secretly sending money home to your sickly mother, would my son be struggling so much? Tell me honestly how many times you sent it?"

The woman on the second board slapped the sofa and shouted.

“Mom. I’ve only sent it once before. I’ve never sent it before. I just couldn’t bear to see my mom lying in bed.”

Ge Qiuqin's eyes welled up with tears when she thought of her mother, wondering how her mother was doing back in her hometown.

“Ge Qiuqin, you married into this family and should listen to Zhang Xin. It is your duty to serve him well. Don’t try anything funny or try to earn money by washing clothes.”

"Do you have time to take care of my son while you're doing laundry? I won't allow you to!"

The woman on the second board cursed viciously.

"But I just promised Xia, I can't go back on my word, how can I face people in the family compound after this?"

Ge Qiuqin was truly embarrassed; she genuinely wanted to work with Xia Enruo.

"Whether you live or die is none of my business, but you can't do the laundry. I'll talk to Xia Xia about it."

The second-hand woman got up and walked out, and Ge Qiuqin prepared to follow her.

"You stay home and behave yourself, or I'll beat you with a feather duster again."

Ge Qiuqin froze, standing rooted to the spot, too afraid to move. Her mother-in-law was really capable of doing this again.

"Zhang Lei, come with me."

The second-hand woman pulled Zhang Lei and knocked on Gu Shaoxuan's door.

"Aunties, what brings you here?"

Xia Enruo came out.

"Xia, I'd like to talk to you about something."

Xia Enruo felt strange when she heard the second-hand woman call her that.

"Auntie, just call me Xia Xia. You can tell me what's wrong."

The woman on the second board paused before speaking.

"Xia Xia. Qiu Qin is too busy with too much work at home, she really can't spare the time to do the laundry with you."

"I see you're making a lot of money washing clothes. My daughter Zhang Lei is here and has some free time anyway, so I'll have her help you."

Xia Enruo knew that the second-hand woman coming to see her was definitely not for anything good. She was deliberately preventing Ge Qiuqin from making money, while pushing her own daughter out into the limelight. She was really wicked.

“Auntie, I can’t afford to use your daughter. Her belly is so big, she must be pregnant. If she bumps into something and gets hurt, I can’t bear the responsibility.”

The woman on the second board got angry when she heard this.

"You're talking nonsense! My daughter is a virgin, how could she be pregnant? She just had indigestion from overeating!"

Zhang Lei knew that she had done that thing with that educated youth more than once, but her family didn't know. She didn't dare to look Xia Enruo in the eye and lowered her head.

Xia Enruo stared at Zhang Lei, and seeing her guilty look, she knew that her guess was pretty much right.

"Auntie, you don't need to act all tough with me. Just take her to the hospital for a checkup and you'll know everything. Trust science!"

The woman on the second board was furious and no longer cared about being the leader's wife.

"You...you, you young girl, how dare you slander our daughter's innocence! You are truly hateful! I'm going to find your man and have him teach you a lesson."

Gu Shaoxuan had already heard the commotion in the courtyard. He was about to open the door and go out when he heard Erbannu say this.

He stood in front of Xia Enruo and, before the second-hand woman could complain, said:

"Auntie, my wife is right. Whether your daughter is pregnant or not can be found out with a simple check-up at the hospital."

In the courtyard, Tian Xiuli and Liu Cuiyun came out when they heard the noise.

When the woman on the second board saw her daughter rubbing the hem of her clothes with her head down, she immediately sensed something was wrong. Could it be that she was really pregnant?

Zhang Lei, perhaps due to excessive nervousness, suddenly felt nauseous and ran to the side to vomit.

Hearing the noise, Ge Qiuqin also came out and gathered around.

The second-hand woman looked embarrassed, and when she saw Ge Qiuqin, she gritted her teeth and punched her.

"You jinx! We asked you to buy hawthorn berries, and you bought so many that my daughter felt nauseous. What did we do to deserve this? You're ruining our lives!"

Gu Shaoxuan couldn't stand it any longer, so he grabbed the second-hand woman's arm.

"Auntie, if you keep making a scene like this, we'll call the police."

Upon hearing that the police had been called, the woman on the second board immediately sat down on the ground and started throwing a tantrum.

"My God, I can't live like this anymore! The whole courtyard is bullying my daughter and me. How can we go on living like this? Let me die, then you can all rest easy."

Ge Qiuqin was about to help her mother-in-law when Xia Enruo stopped her, wanting to see how this old hag would end up.

"Why don't we just call the police? We'll find out what happened as soon as we ask."

Liu Cuiyun stood aside and said. These past two days, everyone in the compound knew that Ge Qiuqin had suffered a lot of mistreatment from her mother-in-law, and they all felt indignant on her behalf.

"They say we're bullying them? I think they're really getting cocky. They think there's no one left in our compound and they're so easy to bully."

Qiuqin, the police are here. Tell them everything that she bullied you.

When Zhang Lei heard that the police were coming, she was so frightened that she wet her pants. In addition, she was so nervous that she fainted.

"Call an ambulance! Someone has fainted."

Tian Xiuli shouted...

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