Chapter 437 Chapter 439: Going Home

Another person, with a gossipy look on his face, came forward to take a look at the things in the truck bed, "Wow~ Your family is really polite with this birthday gift! Aren't you here to celebrate the birth? Why are you taking things out again?"

Zhou Huaian said calmly: "My sister gave birth to a girl. Let's take my sister home and find a place for He Jia to give birth to a son."

After he said that, he walked into the yard, leaving a few people there whispering to each other.

Mother Zhou took out two sheets, took out all of Zhou Yumei's clothes and the children's clothes from the cabinet, packed them up, and said, "Take them out and come back for more!"

"Oh!" Father Zhou picked up the package and went out.

Mother Zhou took out all the quilts that were given as a dowry for Zhou Yumei and gave them to Father Zhou to put in the tractor bed. She used the remaining quilt to wrap her up and shouted to the door, "Youngest, come in and carry your sister out."

Zhou Huaian strode into the room and looked at Zhou Yumei with a smile, "Sister, I'll take you home!"

"Yeah!" Zhou Yumei also smiled.

Mother Zhou put the snow cap on her and said, "Let's go. I'll carry you!"

"Let's go home!" Zhou Huaian carried Zhou Yumei, who was wrapped tightly, on his back, and Zhou's father supported her from behind. The three of them went out and walked towards the tractor parked at the gate of the yard.

"..." He Jianjun looked at Zhou Yumei who didn't even turn around and opened his mouth, then hung his head in frustration, muttering to himself, "How come it took only two or three months to recover? Why don't you think about my family? If the He family doesn't have a son, there will be no descendants!"

Zhou's mother came out holding the child who was wrapped tightly in a blanket and whose face was covered with a small piece of clothing. She walked out without looking back and handed the child to Zhou's father on the tractor.

He held the child skillfully and said lovingly, "Little one, go home with your parents-in-law and uncle!"

"Pah~" Zhou's mother turned around and spat at the He family, then climbed onto the tractor, "Let's go, youngest son. We'll take your sister home."

The neighbor next door heard the noise and walked to the door and looked at them in surprise, "Are you really leaving?"

"You have to leave!" Zhou's mother wiped her tears, "The He family despised my Yumei for giving birth to a daughter, so they gave birth to a daughter here..."

Some soft-hearted people also shed tears, "People are made of flesh and blood, how can they do such a thing?"

"That's right. Giving birth is like going through the gates of hell for a woman. It's so pitiful that she encounters something like this right after escaping death!"

The old woman next door to the He family curled her lips, turned her head and looked at He's mother with disgust, "What's so strange about this? I don't know how many girls his family had drowned in the past!"

Another person also looked over and said, "This is a new society. Mrs. He wouldn't dare to drown the baby. If it were in the past, your family would have come more slowly. I'm afraid this person today..."

"Do you think she doesn't dare? She can even kill her own child, let alone her granddaughter."

Mrs. He looked at her neighbor next door who was peeking out of the door and became so angry that her eyes turned black. She rushed to the gate and started cursing.

"You can't even lay an egg, and you think you're so precious! I'm telling you, once you get out, don't even think about coming back through this door. You have plenty of life ahead of you!"

Mother Zhou patted Zhou Yumei, who was shaking with anger, and said, "There's no point getting angry with an animal! It's not worth it to get yourself hurt by the anger!"

Zhou Huaian was so angry that he jumped off the tractor and rushed into the He family. He grabbed He Jianjun, who was sitting there with his head in his hands, and slapped him in the face.

"I wanted to hit you last time, you shameless thing..." Before he finished speaking, he threw another punch...

He Jianjun fought back with great pain, but he was no match for Zhou Huaian, who was experienced in fighting. After a few punches, he didn't even have the ability to fight back.

“Jianjun~” The old couple of the He family rushed forward, “Let Jianjun go, someone come quickly, this idiot is beating people up…”

None of the onlookers outside moved, and some even said that the beating was good, and that people like this deserved to be beaten!

Zhou's father ran into the yard and pushed He's father away. "You want to fight, right? I'll go back and get all the Zhou family members here. If we're going to fight, let's have a big fight!"

Father He looked at the ferocious face of the usually mild-mannered Father Zhou and was so scared that he dared not take a step forward. "You are going too far..."

He's mother cried and cursed, "Yan Bang, bandit..."

"You don't even care about your wife and children. Even beating you will make my hands dirty!" Zhou Huaian pushed He Jianjun towards the old couple of the He family, and the three of them fell into a ball.

"Old man, let's go!"

"Let's go!" Father Zhou glanced at him and suddenly felt that doing this would be much easier than enduring the pain in his heart before.

The father and son came out of He's house. Zhou Huaian sat on the driver's seat and drove the tractor away from He's house.

Zhou Yumei hugged her child and lay in the truck bed, which was cushioned softer than a bed. She looked at her parents worriedly and said, "Mom, old man, don't worry. I'm not angry. I'll take care of Xiaoyao!"

Zhou's mother is now worried that the gossipy women in the village will gossip about her when she returns, so she hides away and gets angry. "Just take good care of yourself after the baby is born. We will take care of everything."

"Yeah!" Zhou Yumei also knew that she would be criticized when she returned, but compared to her sisters in the village who were bullied by their husband's family and could only swallow their anger in their husband's family, she was already very lucky.

My parents and brothers don’t despise me and they protect me, so let those people say whatever they want.

After the tractor drove up the mountain road, Zhou Huaian was worried that it would be too fast and bumpy, so he slowed down and climbed up slowly.

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Zhao Huifang and others gathered at Yang Chunyan's house, anxiously waiting for him to come back with news. The sisters-in-law brought the children's clothes, chickens and eggs that they had prepared to Zhou Yumei for mending.

Zhou Jiakang ran in from outside, "The tractor is back, and Dad is back."

Yang Chunyan and the others walked out and saw the tractor stopped at the intersection leading to the old house. "Jiekang, go and see what's going on?"

"Oh!" Zhou Jiakang ran away.

Yang Chunyan and the others closed the gate and walked to the grove. Zhou Jiakang came back panting. "My grandma brought the little girl back, along with a baby. I'll go check on her."

Before the four of them could react, he had already run a long way away.

Yang Chunyan said to the others, "When my mother came to call Huai'an to go to town, I told her..."

Zhao Huifang scowled, "Jiakang said that Yumei and the child were taken back. It must be that the He family abused Yumei."

Zhang Xiuxiang cursed, "The damn He family will get their comeuppance sooner or later."

As they were talking, the sisters-in-law arrived in front of the tractor and saw bedding inside. The things they had sent in the morning were being pulled back.

Yang Chunyan opened the car door and said, "Second sister-in-law, go up and fold the bedding. We will take it back and make the bed for Yumei."

"Great!" Zhang Xiuxiang and Zhao Huifang climbed up, quickly folded the bedding and handed it to her and Li Qiuyue. They put the rest in the basket, tied it up and carried it back.

On the way, I met Zhou's mother who came back to get something, "Mom, Yumei is back?"

Mother Zhou nodded and said, "If you have anything to say, come home and tell me. I'll go back and kill a chicken and stew it for Yumei."

"That's right!"

The group returned to the old house and saw the old man sitting on the steps with a sullen face, smoking leaf cigarettes non-stop.

Mother Zhou took a chicken out of the cage and said, "I'll go make a bowl of poached eggs for Yumei. Huifang, take the chicken and lock it in the fenced pen in the backyard."

"Great!" Zhao Huifang put down the basket, picked up the chicken coop and walked to the backyard.

Yang Chunyan felt that Zhou's mother might be very angry and her speech was a little incoherent.

She and Li Qiuyue carried the quilt and cotton to the room where they used to live. They saw that the bed had been made and Zhou's father and Zhou Huaian were laying out the straw mat.

Yang Chunyan put the cotton wool on the bed and said, "Old man, let's do it."

"That's right!" Father Zhou looked at his daughter-in-law, "We've brought Yumei and the child back."

Yang Chunyan nodded, "We know! We have no objection!"

Li Qiuyue also nodded repeatedly, "Old man, we really have no objection!"

"Okay, you are all fine!" Zhou's father said with relief and walked out.

Li Qiuyue then asked Zhou Huaian, "What happened to the youngest one?"

"When we arrived at the He family, my sister had already given birth..." Zhou Huaian recounted what had happened.

Li Qiuyue cursed loudly, "God damn this old hag, you deserve to be childless..."

Zhang Xiuxiang said angrily, "If we had known earlier, we would have followed and given that old whore a good beating."

Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang made the bed. "Huaian, go and carry Yumei over. Let's go see our little niece."

A few people went to the main room and saw Luo Haili accompanying Zhou Yumei in the room. The cousins ​​had red eyes and smiled when they saw them come in.

Seeing that her sisters-in-law and her younger brothers and sisters-in-law were still the same as before, Zhou Yumei felt relieved. She was afraid that returning home would cause unrest at home and make outsiders laugh at her.

The sisters-in-law talked for a while, Zhou Huaian carried her over and settled her down, and Zhang Xiuxiang took the child over and put him to sleep next to her.

Zhou's mother came in with a bowl of poached eggs. "Look how good your sister-in-law and brother-in-law are to you. Live happily and raise yourself and your children to be plump and healthy to do them justice."

Zhou Yumei said heartily: "I know!"

Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the child and asked, "Has the baby had any milk?"

Zhou Yumei shook her head, "Not here yet!"

Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Boil the sponge gourd pulp in water and drink the milk. It would also be good to eat the crucian carp. I will call Huai'an to go back and get the fishing net to catch fish."

Mother Zhou nodded and said, "We have loofah pulp at home. I'll go get some and boil some water for Yumei to drink!"

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the kitchen, and Zhou's mother took out a handful of loofah sponges and asked, "Is one enough?"

Yang Chunyan took one and said, "That should be enough. Drinking this for two more times won't have any side effects!"

Luffa sponge is not only a magic tool for country people to wash pots and take baths, but also a very good traditional Chinese medicine.

Luffa is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It tastes sweet and is mild in nature. It belongs to the lung meridian, liver meridian and stomach meridian. It has the effects and functions of promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, promoting lactation, beautifying the skin, dispelling wind and relieving pain, and regulating blood lipids.

Mother Zhou poured some warm water and washed it, "Chunyan, thanks to you for reminding me when you left, otherwise I would not have made up my mind to bring your sister back."

She sighed as she spoke, "If He Jianjun could stand up and speak for your sister, I would still not be able to make up my mind. That bastard didn't say a word from beginning to end. I think what Huai An said last time about him having an affair was probably true!"

Yang Chunyan thought of the hardships Zhou Yumei had endured in her previous life. "The main thing is that He Jianjun was not on the same page with her and was not even willing to protect them. If we didn't help, Sister Yumei would have to endure it slowly at his house."

(End of this chapter)