Liu Zhaodi was furious. When the village chief arrived, she quickly went over to him and complained.

"Village chief, you be the judge. I've been married into the Shen family for the past few years and given them a grandson."

I was earning work points, and now I'm seen as a traitor.

As she spoke, Liu Zhaodi pretended to cry, but unfortunately she couldn't cry at all.

He could only wear a sullen face, looking as ugly as could be.

No one wanted to expose her, but her mother would come every few days, and everyone was not blind to see it.

The village chief ignored him; he knew that Old Mrs. Shen had a granddaughter whose husband was a military officer.

He has two sons. If they're willing to lend a hand, that would be better than anything else.

"Auntie, do you want to separate from the family?"

"Yes, village chief, how do you plan to divide this property?"

In rural areas, dividing a family property is no small matter, but the old lady insisted on doing so.

The village chief stopped trying to persuade her, and the news of the Shen family's division of property quickly spread, reaching Liu Zhaodi's mother.

She also came over, and as soon as she arrived, she hugged Zhao Di and started crying. This old lady was much better at pretending than her. Knowing that the Shen family had divided their property, the old lady also wanted a share of the pie.

"My dear in-law, you can't do this! Zhao Di should also have a share in the family division. She was at home before..."

I treated her like my own eyes, never letting her do any work. Now that she's in your house, look what you've done to her!"

"Old Liu, you're kidding me. My daughter-in-law and your Zhaodi are from the same village."

Everyone knows how you treated Zhaodi before.

"That's right, the Shen family is splitting up, what are you doing here, an outsider?"

“The Shen family is right. This Liu Zhaodi is a traitor. I saw her take such a big piece of meat to her parents’ home during the New Year.”

Every year, the village distributes pigs for the New Year. Liu Zhaodi took the meat back to her parents' home, but she didn't expect that others would see it and even talk about it.

"It's because of Liu Zhaodi that no one dares to marry a girl from our village anymore, for fear that she'll plunder their husband's family's property after they marry her."

In those days, things were scarce to begin with, and there was no way to support a spendthrift wife. People had many complaints about Old Lady Liu and Liu Zhaodi.

Now, Liu Zhaodi and her mother were speechless, and Erzhuzi, who was standing next to them, was ashen-faced. He now regretted finding such a wife.

"Alright, the important thing to do today is to divide the family property."

Under the village chief's guidance, the Shen family successfully divided their property, with each family receiving grain and two houses. Even Shen Jianxing and Li Cuiping received some.

The two of them don't want anything else now, they just want to earn work points to make a living.

Only Liu Zhaodi and Erzhuzi received nothing. Erzhuzi felt ashamed and tried to leave with Liu Zhaodi, but Shen Jianjun stopped him.

"Erzhuzi, you are our family's only son, and you have an obligation to support us."

"From now on, you'll have to pay us five yuan every month. If you don't, we'll report you to the commune."

Shen Jianjun knew his son well; he was weak and incompetent, and Liu Zhaodi had him completely under her control.

Although they didn't lack the five yuan, they just couldn't stand Liu Zhaodi subsidizing her family.

Five yuan a month is a lot of money in the countryside. Erzhuzi was wondering where he was going to find so much money and was about to refuse when the village chief spoke up.

"It's settled then, everyone can go home now."

——

In Kyoto, Lin Yanke got up early in the morning because Ye Zhaozhao and Gu Yunduan were going back to the military region.

Pack up all the cured meat, sausages, pig's head meat, stuffed tofu, fried salted fish, bean sprouts, and vermicelli that we made for the New Year for them.

"Grandma, remember to pack the shrimp chips and spring rolls for us."

Yuanyuan saw Lin Yanke packing her luggage and hurriedly said something. Lin Yanke smiled and said that she had already packed it. The children went to pack their snacks.

Zhu Lin gave them all the cookies and chocolates from home to take with them. Ye Zhaozhao told her to leave some for Jingzhou, but Zhu Lin waved her hand.

"If he wants to eat it, I'll buy it for him later."

After packing their things, the children sat in the car and talked to Lin Yanke and Gu Linyuan.

The children had only been staying for half a month, and the couple told them to come back during their summer vacation.

"Alright, drive carefully."

Gu Linyuan said something, and Gu Yunduan set off, returning to the family compound without any problems.

Ye Zhaozhao took out her key and opened the door. Before leaving, she had cleaned the house thoroughly.

However, Ye Zhaozhao still wanted to wipe off the dust, so Gu Yunduan went to fetch water and brought over towels, and told Ye Zhaozhao and the children to sit aside, saying he would take care of it.

With Gu Yunduan's help, the place was cleaned up in no time, and Ye Zhaozhao was tidying up her things.

Tie Zhu arrived, and upon seeing him, Ye Zhaozhao took out the fried shrimp chips from her bag.

"Where's your brother? Why didn't he come with us?"

"Aunt Ye, my younger brother is at home taking care of my mom."

Ye Zhaozhao then remembered that Sun Xiuhua was always the first person to visit them when they returned home in the past.

"Why didn't you come this time?" Tie Zhu took the shrimp chips and told Ye Zhaozhao that his mother was injured.

"How did you get injured? Where are you hurt?"

Never mind, Ye Zhaozhao decided not to ask Tiezhu anymore and told him to go inside and play with her child.

They took the things and went to Sun Xiuhua's house when Ye Zhaozhao arrived.

She encountered many military wives who came to see Sun Xiuhua, and everyone brought gifts.

Eggs, sweet potatoes, cabbage, and strangely enough, even Jin Mandong, a woman, came.

Upon seeing Ye Zhaozhao, Sun Xiuhua quickly stood up and noticed that her head was wrapped in gauze.

Ye Zhaozhao asked her to sit down, and Sun Xiuhua still poured her a glass of sugar water.

"Sister-in-law Sun, what's going on with your end?"

"That's a long story."

Sun Xiuhua then told Ye Zhaozhao that it turned out that Zhu Cui and Qi Hongmei were fighting.

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