Everyone clicked their tongues in disbelief, thinking, "They really dare to ask for that!" Zhang Datao started crying again.

"My poor granddaughter and grandson, you've been stuck with a mother like this. How are you going to live in the future?"

You'll be ridiculed by the villagers. Your mother doesn't even like you little kids. How will my poor grandchildren survive?

Good heavens! Why don't you open your eyes and let this little child have such a mother?!

Everyone felt indignant on behalf of the two children. The Xu family mother and daughter were truly heartless; they had ruined a perfectly good family.

Who can disagree? The most pitiful ones are the children. They're so young and already without a mother. Who knows if they'll have a grandmother later on? No one will take care of them.

After listening, everyone agreed that it made sense, so they looked at Captain Xu and said, "Xu Hongxia, you and your mother will compensate Enjia and Yang Weimin's family a total of 92 yuan. That's settled then."

"If that doesn't work, they'll sue the government, and then they'll raid your house—and that won't just be what they've done."

When Xu's mother heard that she would have to pay so much money, she sat on the ground, slapped her thigh, and prepared to get up. Captain Xu looked at Xu's mother.

Xu's mother immediately stopped talking obediently. She didn't want to go to that place; it was full of ruthless people who would devour others. Many people had been sent down to the countryside over the years, and she didn't want to go there.

She cried out, "Captain, where would our family get so much money? We all make a living by farming."

The brigade leader couldn't bear to watch any longer; they did bad things without considering the consequences. "Then just wait for the government to come and ransack your homes! They'll send you all to the farms; think about how much better that is than that money."

Having no other choice, Xu's mother went home and painstakingly gathered a wad of cash, containing various colors of bills, until she had scraped together 92 yuan, which she gave to the brigade leader.

The captain took the money and counted it again; the amount was exactly right. He then handed it to Zhang Datao, and Zhang Yatao didn't stand on ceremony, taking the money and putting it into his pocket.

"Captain, write us a divorce agreement and a letter of severance for the two children. Have the entire Xu family put their fingerprints on it, and that will be the end of today's matter."

"Once the child grows up, he/she will have absolutely nothing to do with Xu Hongxia. Whether you live a good or bad life afterward will have absolutely nothing to do with the child."

Hearing this, Xu Hongxia was so anxious that she wanted to retort, "They are my children, and they will always be my children."

Zhang Datao looked at Xu Hongxia and said, "You gave birth to her, and what mother doesn't stay home to take care of the child? She just leaves the child with the man and goes back to her parents' home and never comes back. If it weren't for us watching over her, she wouldn't be home for so long."

"That's why I came to find you. Were you just lying on someone's bed, waiting to give my son an even bigger cuckold's horns in a while?"

Xu Hongxia knew she was in the wrong and stopped arguing. Afraid of being beaten by Zhang Datao again, she could only shut up and dare not say anything.

The brigade leader didn't give them a kind look. He lay on the top of the bricks inside the house, wrote two documents, and took them to Zhang Datao.

After Zhang Datao showed the written document to Song Yining and Yang Chunlin, he wrote three copies for each of them. All three copies were stamped with the brigade seal and the fingerprints of the brigade cadres.

Once everything was verified, the third son was called in to sign his name, and the two certificates became valid.

One copy for the Xujia Village brigade and one copy for each of the two families, and the divorce agreement becomes effective. The Xu family and the Yang family will no longer be in-laws.

For safety reasons, Zhang Datao also spent money to publish a notice in the county newspaper stating that she was severing her parent-child relationship.

This prevented Xu Hongxia from blackmailing the child in the future; it was Song Yining who reminded her to do this.

After finishing their business, the villagers of Yangjia Village took their tools and returned to the village.

Old Yang's oxcart was waiting at the entrance of Xujia Village. Zhang Datao, Wang Zhaoli, and Song Yining went back first to cook a meal for everyone to thank them for their help to their son today.

Grandma Yang knew something big was going to happen today, so she didn't let the children go out to play. She was relieved when she saw Grandpa Yang driving the oxcart over.

After all, he had been gone all morning and hadn't returned yet, so I was so worried that I couldn't sit still at home.

It's good that they're back. Zhang Datao and the old lady went home and told her that their third son had divorced and demanded compensation.

The old lady sighed, "These good days are over. Oh dear, she'll have plenty of time to suffer."

Zhang Datao said nonchalantly, "I'll find my son a better one another day, and then I'll make him regret it!"

After saying that, he and Song Yining quickly tidied up and cooked, as they would be eating when they returned.

Yang Weimin felt much lighter after writing the divorce certificate; he had been feeling suffocated by the pressure lately.

After the matter was over, Yang Weimin and his elder brother decided to have a family meal together so that everyone wouldn't be too tired before the summer harvest.

Song Yining would study martial arts with Zhang Wulang for an hour every night, and then she would train even harder in her spatial dimension after returning home.

Seeing Song Yining's progress, Zhang Wulang felt that he was a true prodigy.

I found a talented apprentice who taught me so quickly; I didn't even have such talent back then.

Song Yining had no idea what Zhang Wulang thought of her. She believed that she could make up for her shortcomings through diligence and that she could achieve such results by making good use of the space.

The tomb raiders on the mountain had almost finished cleaning up, and they also went into the houses at the foot of the mountain, finding many skeletons, all of them women.

Judging from the remains, they were all from the last few years. According to the messages sent back by the rats, the girl inside was already dead, barely clinging to life.

When the soldiers entered the cellar, they saw the girl who was barely alive.

The girl's last remaining hope was that soldiers had come to rescue her. Overwhelmed with emotion, she wept and died with resentment.

Finally, they discovered that the girl was a sent-down youth from the next brigade, with an outstanding appearance, who went up the mountain to collect firewood and never came back.

Only when they entered the village did they realize that the houses at the foot of the mountain were a hoax created by enemy agents, and there was nothing there at all.

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