"If you're not back before dinner, don't bother coming back. Don't try to scare me with divorce threats. Your family is so poor, how dare you even mention divorce?" Zhao Di's husband grumbled as he went back.

Hu Chuncao was furious and wanted to chase after the villagers to yell at them, but she was worried that her husband would get cold, so she quickly had the tractor take them to her eldest daughter's house.

When the eldest daughter's in-laws saw this family arrive, they didn't give them a friendly look, but they were too embarrassed to kick them out, so they let them stay in the lower room where they stored miscellaneous items. There wasn't even a stove in the room.

The Yan family had witnessed the coldness of human nature these past few days. Hu Xiangcao wiped away her tears and said, "Da Ya, your father and brother are both injured, and you're just letting them stay here? If we weren't in such a predicament, would we have come to your house?"

The eldest daughter lowered her head and said, "Mom, our family hasn't separated yet. My mother-in-law has the final say."

Hu Xiangcao: "You good-for-nothing! I've been supporting a bunch of useless trash like you, you're a money-loser!"

Yan Dagen's teeth chattered from the cold. "Stop yelling! Get me something to eat right now!"

"Aren't you going? What are you still standing here for? Do you want us to starve to death?" Hu Xiangcao hugged the man with heartache, using her body to warm him.

The eldest daughter should hurry up and cook.

Baogen huddled on the bed made of wooden planks. "Mom, if we live here, we'll freeze to death."

"No, no, Mom won't let anything happen to you. Our family will live well," Hu Xiangcao said, holding one child in each arm to comfort them.

"Mom, I'm going back now." Yan Zhaodi felt that her older sister's in-laws were going too far. How could they let her stay in their house? But her in-laws wouldn't even let her in the door, so she was too ashamed to say anything.

"Mom, my sister's family is going too far! We're guests, how can they treat us like this! I'm going to the front door and tell all the neighbors to come and see. They're bullying us! We're already in dire straits, otherwise we wouldn't want to come to their house."

Yan Xi didn't want to freeze to death and wanted Hu Chuncao to stand up for her, so she had to ask her father and brother for help. For them, her mother would do anything.

"Come on, Zhao Di, shout louder for me, or I'll skin you alive." For her man and son, Hu Chuncao was willing to risk everything.

Yan Zhaodi quickly nodded in agreement; it was better than causing trouble for her in-laws.

Three women sat down at the front door and started yelling at the top of their lungs.

The man was so angry that he slapped the eldest daughter twice. He said it was already a favor that they were allowed to stay, and they dared to go out and humiliate their family.

The neighbors, disregarding the cold, rushed out to see what was happening.

"Neighbors, come and see! My eldest daughter married into this family, and we haven't visited even once in ages. We've never even had a meal with our in-laws!"

This year we're having some difficulties, so we came here to stay for a few days. This heartless bastard made us stay in the lower room, which doesn't even have a kang (heated brick bed). It's freezing inside. If you don't want us to stay, just say so. What do you mean by this? Do you want us to freeze to death?

"My daughter married into your family, bore children, worked like a slave, and served your entire family. She deserves all the credit, and this is how you treat her family? Don't you have any conscience?!"

Hu Chuncao sat on the ground, slapping her thigh, crying very sadly.