Mrs. Qian, lying on the cart, was very quiet on the road, afraid of making any noise and attracting more people to watch. By the time she got home, the anger in her heart was about to make her explode.

"Old lady, hurry up and boil some water for me to take a bath!" Old Mrs. Qian yelled at her eldest daughter-in-law Yu Min.

Yu Min deeply resented her overbearing and overbearing mother-in-law. However, she knew living with the old lady had many advantages. Her sister-in-law, Qian Jinling, was very filial to her parents, often giving them money and gifts. The old couple would squeeze a little out of their pockets, and that was enough for the family to eat and drink.

That way, she could save more money to help her son get married. She knew her dead husband, Qian Jincai, was having an affair with Widow Ma. But what would that mean? Divorce? She had no family to support her, and divorce would leave her with nowhere to go. Her son would be looking for a wife in a few years, and her daughter was only ten years old and needed school. How could she, a woman, support two children? Furthermore, given the Qian family's preference for sons over daughters, it was impossible for her to let her son go with her.

She couldn't bear to leave her children, so she could only endure it for now. When the two children grew up, if they could have some success, then all the humiliation she had endured in the Qian family for them would be worth it.

Hearing the old lady's cry, Yu Min was angry, but she didn't show it on her face. She came over and asked the old lady with great concern: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

The old lady said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense and go boil some water for me!"

Qian Jincai looked at Yu Min, who was almost fifty years old and looked old and withered, and followed his mother's arrogant words, saying, "Just do whatever I tell you to do. Hurry up and go. You're as slow as a pig..."

Even though Qian Jincai said such insulting words, Yu Min felt nothing inside. She had long been accustomed to it. Her heart did not turn cold in one day. It was the result of a very long and painful process.

When she was young, she had quarreled, made a scene, and even gone crazy, but in the end, she had almost become a mute in front of Qian Jincai, and the relationship between husband and wife had long been dead in name only.

After filling a large basin with water for Mrs. Qian to take a bath, Yu Min called out to her again, "Mom, the water is ready. Come over and take a bath!"

Old Madam Qian said nothing. Still wearing her filthy clothes, she went to the makeshift bathroom in the yard. After entering, she took off her clothes, threw them out, and shouted, "Old man, go wash my clothes!"

The smell of that outfit was so strong it could make one breathless even from a distance. In the summer, odors spread quickly, and people's noses were very sensitive. Yu Min was naturally very reluctant to do this. Normally, washing clothes would be fine, but today's clothes really didn't need to be washed.

She said with some disdain, "Mom, why don't you give up this dress? I'll buy you a new pair of pants when we go to the market tomorrow!"

This sentence really ignited Mrs. Qian's anger, and she started cursing in the bathroom: "You cheap bastard, do you really think that the good life you have now is blown by the wind? You don't need money to buy clothes? Where does your money come from? It all comes from our Qian family.

You bought it for me, bah! After all these years of marriage, is all the money in the family earned by you? What? You dislike my old lady’s dirty clothes and don’t want to wash them? How can you not be lazy! No wonder your husband wants to cheat on you. You can’t control your husband, and you want to take your anger out on me, an old lady? Just wait and see how I’ll deal with you when I get out! "

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were in a stalemate when Qian Longbin came back from watching a movie with his sister Qian Meijuan.

Qian Longbin, now 17, graduated from junior high school last year and hasn't been back to school since. He scored over 100 on the high school entrance exam. But this eldest grandson is like the lifeblood of the Qian family; how could he not go to school?

The old lady immediately asked her second son Qian Jindou and her youngest daughter Qian Jinling, who were both well off, to inquire about schools that would accept him. Of course, if she had to pay, she would have to rely on them.

Qian Jindou had Zhan Jinhua, that insatiable old woman who only took in and never gave out, to look after him. Besides, he himself wasn't one to suffer any loss, so it was okay for him to ask about the school and give him money, but asking him to pay for his nephew's education? No way.

Qian Jinling, the aunt, was quite attentive and found a technical school in the provincial capital for him, but Qian Longbin refused to go, saying that his aunt looked down on him and believed that he would only be able to do hard labor for the rest of his life. This offended Qian Jinling, so she simply stopped caring.

So, Qian Longbin stayed at home after graduation, wandering around the village every day, and waiting for food and drink when he returned home.

However, he is the treasure of the family. Although Old Lady Qian looks down on her eldest daughter-in-law Yu Min, she is very good to her eldest grandson. She has said more than once that all her money and property will be left to her eldest grandson, saying that her eldest grandson's parents are incompetent and she has to make plans for her eldest grandson.

Therefore, this is also an important reason why Yu Min did not dare to act rashly in front of the old lady.

When Qian Longbin and his sister entered the house, they heard the old lady cursing their mother in the bathroom again. She asked, "Grandma, how did my mother offend you again? You're almost seventy years old, why are you still so angry? Calm down, being angry is bad for your health!"

Qian Longbin took good care of old lady Qian and knew how to make her happy. As long as he could make his grandmother happy, he didn't have to do anything and he would get pocket money every day that made his younger brothers envious.

The old lady didn't want her grandson to know about her embarrassing appearance, so she hurriedly said, "Xiao Bin, go back to the house first. It's nothing serious. Don't worry about me!"

Qian Longbin uttered a "oh" and was about to walk out into the yard. It wasn't that he didn't want to stand up for his mother, to make her feel more confident at home. When he was a child, he would defend his mother when she was scolded by his grandmother and beaten by his father.

But later, he found out that his mother was just like his grandmother said, a "cheap bitch". Even though she was treated like that, she still stayed at home and did all the laundry and cooking for them, and did all the work in the house and fields. So he had become accustomed to this kind of mother and had long been accustomed to the various unfair treatments she received in the Qian family.

But ten-year-old Qian Meijuan couldn't bear to see her mother being bullied like this all the time. She smelled a very unpleasant smell and pinched her nose and said, "What's that smell? It stinks!"

If Qian Meijuan hadn't said anything, Qian Longbin wouldn't have paid special attention to the taste. When his sister mentioned it, he unconsciously took a deep breath and almost vomited with a "ugh" sound.

When the old lady heard her eldest grandson's vomiting sound, her face flushed red instantly. Now she was too embarrassed to scold him anymore, and her tone became a little better to Min: "My eldest grandson's wife, please throw the dirty things on the ground into the trash can quickly, don't let it stink my grandson."

Yu Min breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and to save the old lady's face, he sent his daughter and son back to the house. Then he shoveled up the disgusting clothes and went straight to the garbage dump in the village that had recently been built with bricks and cement.