Lin Zijun looked at Yu Lanhua: "Mother, you can see that they don't want you to come home at all. They are just greedy for those five pounds of food. What will they do to you if they finish eating those five pounds of food? When you married Dad, it was like the Yu family sold you here. Have you forgotten the miserable days you went through in the Yu family? How could you forget all the hardships you have told me about since you were a child, just by their few words of deception?"

Pain flashed across Yu Lanhua's face, as if there were two selves in her body pulling at her. She kept muttering, "I can't watch them starve to death. I can't watch them starve to death!"

"Yu Lanhua! You and I have been married for more than twenty years. You should ask me conscientiously how I have treated you. If you make up your mind to leave the Yu family today, our marriage will be over, and our children and grandchildren will cut off all contact with you. The Yu family is like a wolf's den. After the food is gone, you will be the first one to be abandoned. Why don't you listen to what I say?" Lin Changfa was reluctant to part with his old wife of so many years, but if he let her continue, his children and grandchildren would slowly die due to lack of food!

Yu Lanhua was silent, only sobbing. It was clear to everyone that neither side wanted to give up, using silence, procrastination, and years of marital affection to try to force Lin Changfa to compromise.

In the past, she had always used this trick to win in all the family disputes, big or small.

But now Yu Lanhua has obviously used it in the wrong place. It concerns food and the life and death of the whole family. Even if Lin Changfa has to bear the pain of severing the relationship between husband and wife, he cannot let any of his children and grandchildren starve to death.

Seeing Yu Lanhua so stubborn, Lin Changfa looked at Lin Rui with red eyes: "Clan leader, we have decided to divorce. Today, I would like to trouble you and the village head to be witnesses for us. From now on, Yu Lanhua is Yu Lanhua of the Yu family, and no longer the daughter-in-law of my Lin family."

"father!"

"father!"

The three sons were obviously reluctant to let go. Niu Qin and Zhu Ying held their children and pursed their lips tightly without saying a word. They were daughters-in-law and did not have such deep feelings for Yu Lanhua. But if her mother-in-law stole their own food to feed her family and starved their children, they would want to bite this ignorant mother-in-law to death.

No matter how Lin Zijun and the other two tried to persuade her, Yu Lanhua remained silent and was determined not to leave the Yu family alone.

The three brothers finally gave up!

Lin Rui, Lin Pingmao and everyone else in the Lin family became witnesses to this divorce. It was obviously impossible for them to carry paper and pen with them while fleeing from famine. Moreover, not many people in Linjia Village were literate. Lin Rui only knew a few words from a private school he attended for a few years in his childhood. To be honest, if he were asked to write a divorce letter now, he wouldn't be able to do it.

It is not uncommon for anything to happen while fleeing famine, but it is a bit strange for Yu Lanhua to use the limited food in her family to continuously subsidize her parents' home, not to mention the divorce.

Feng Zhenniang and her two daughters whispered, "Your aunt is so ungrateful for what she has. We've seen so many men selling their wives and daughters for a few bites of bread and steamed buns along the way. Your uncle has taken good care of the family all along the way, and even when your aunt had this foolish idea, he didn't take any harsh action. Now he has agreed to divorce her, showing her respect. If your aunt insists on doing this with such a good man, it will be useless for her to regret it in the future."

"I hope my aunt can wake up. Her family is not reliable at first glance. After all, what kind of woman in this world would rely on her brothers and nephews instead of her husband and children? How foolish!" Lin Susu also shook her head.

Lin Pingmao leaned on a cane and looked at Yu Lanhua with cloudy eyes: "Lanhua, have you really thought it through? Is it worth it for the Yu family?"

Yu Lanhua kept her head down: "Uncle, the Yu family can't survive without me."

"In the past, the Yu family lived happier than anyone else without you. Why didn't I see them remember your kindness and help you more?" Chen Mei was a straightforward person. When Yu Lanhua married into Linjia Village, they were both newlyweds who had been married for only a year. She knew very well that her family was asking for a huge dowry.

Lin Rui looked at Yu Lanhua: "Aunt, I'm asking you one last time, are you sure you don't want to give up the Yu family?"

If you ask someone like her if she really wants to divorce, the answer is of course not. She wants to take care of her parents' family, and she can also take care of her own family. With so little food, she can't even take care of one, let alone both. It's impossible to think about it. So Lin Rui picked one side to ask, since it was the Yu family that caused this incident, and he had to rely on the Yu family to achieve this result.

Yu Lanhua faced everyone's gaze and nodded slightly, expressing her attitude.

"Okay!" Lin Rui said happily when he saw that he couldn't persuade the damned ghost with good words. Some things can only hurt when you hit the wall, and there is no chance to turn back.

People can only learn profound lessons through constant losses.

"Today, thirty-six members of our Lin family, both big and small, witnessed the divorce of Lin Changfa and Yu Lanhua. The Lin family will provide Yu Lanhua with three pounds of rice and two pounds of taro. From now on, both parties will cut off contact, marry separately, and have no further ties. Yu is no longer a member of the Lin family's clan, and her name will be removed from the Lin family tree." Lin Rui tried his best to explain it with simple and easy-to-understand words. He was not a liberal arts student who could easily recite a long paragraph of classical Chinese that fit the background of the era.

With his level, it's difficult for him to speak in vernacular here.

Although Linjia Village was formed by outsiders who fled famine, the family tree of the Lin family has been well preserved. Now the tree is in the hands of the patriarch Lin Rui. He has looked through a lot of it and met many great figures with the surname Lin from the previous dynasty. Wow, the reason why Linjia Village has fallen into desolation and is hiding in the remote countryside is that the luck of the ancestral tombs for decades has been absorbed by those people, and the people born after that are mediocre and find it difficult to keep the family business.

Yu Lanhua was taken away by Yu Silang and Yu Liulang while carrying food and looking back every few steps. Her three sons Lin Zijun, Lin Zikun and Lin Zizheng felt very uncomfortable when they saw this. They really couldn't understand what their mother was thinking.

"Stop looking at her, you're useless! Can't you see that she doesn't want our family anymore? Don't mention her again. Zhuying and Niu Qin, take good care of the food at home and don't let thieves steal it again!" Lin Changfa said angrily. He was not happy about Yu Lanhua's departure. He was shocked and angry!

Yu Silang and Yu Liulang happily walked in front, holding the food. With the food, their thin bodies felt much lighter despite carrying the weight.

Seeing Yu Lanhua's reluctance to leave, Yu Silang had already prepared a response: "Sister, you are too honest. What are you afraid of if your brother-in-law divorces you? You still have sons and grandchildren. How can they watch an old woman like you starve to death?"

Yu Lanhua stuttered, "What do you mean? How can I have the nerve to ask them for it? Didn't you say that Liang'er, Dao'er, and their father would be filial to me, their aunt?"