Yang Zinuo nudged Gu Zhiyun next to him with his elbow: "Your wife is going to get into a fight. Are you sure you can handle her alone?"

Gu Zhiyun wasn't worried at all: "Jingya has never been afraid of physical work like fighting."

Thinking of the fierce scene of the little girl single-handedly wielding a battle axe to teach eight strong men a lesson, and pinning Chen Feng and Shen Yuqin to the ground and beating them, Yang Zinuo nodded in deep agreement.

Just as Shen Jingyan and An Zi reached the Shen family's door, Chen Feng's loud and unpleasant cursing voice rang out.

"You good-for-nothing, you jinx! You've been married for almost a year, and you're not conceiving, and you're not even a good person! If you had left the Ding family with a son or daughter, you wouldn't have been kicked out!"

"Pah! You're just like your father, all doughy and useless. How could I have given birth to such a good-for-nothing daughter? Even if the Ding family slept with you for a year, they should at least pay you! And you just came back empty-handed? How could you be so cheap, letting them sleep with you for free for a year!"

Shen Jingyan was utterly shocked to hear these offensive words.

Chen Feng liked to spew filth, and she had already experienced that before. She never expected that Chen Feng would curse her own daughter so rudely.

As she approached, Shen Jingyan saw the figure standing outside the door, thin and frail, silently weeping with trembling shoulders.

This is Shen Yulan, the eldest daughter of Shen Honggang and Chen Feng.

She was only 22 years old, but her face was haggard, pale, and weak, as if a gust of wind could blow her over. She wore her hair in a single bun with a white flower in it, a faded polyester shirt, and a patched bundle slung over her arm.

Faced with her biological mother's scolding, Shen Yulan was so aggrieved that she couldn't utter a word and could only weep silently.

Originally, Chen Feng thought that after being kicked out by her husband's family, she could find refuge in her parents' home. However, when she heard that Ding Jianjun had been run over by a train, her first question was whether there had been any compensation.

Shen Yulan stammered that there was money. Ding Jianjun was a railway worker, and the railway bureau had given him more than 2,000 yuan in compensation for the accident. Chen Feng hurriedly asked where the money was.

Shen Yulan had married far away and was helpless in her husband's family. Ding Jianjun was an honest and simple man who gave all his salary to his mother-in-law. His mother-in-law was greedy and had an unmarried sister-in-law. The mother and daughter kept a tight grip on the money. A year after she got married, Shen Yulan hadn't seen a single penny.

When the compensation money arrived, her mother-in-law not only didn't give Shen Yulan a single penny, but also beat her severely, saying that she was a jinx who had brought death to her only son.

Now that she no longer has a son, she naturally doesn't need a daughter-in-law. In addition, Shen Yulan and Ding Jianjun rarely see each other, and although they have been married for almost a year, they have not been able to have a son or daughter. Ding's mother-in-law is unwilling to keep an idle person in the house, and with the encouragement of her sister-in-law, she sent Shen Yulan back home.

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng's face immediately changed. She cursed a bunch of nasty things, saying that Shen Yulan's husband had just died and that it was unlucky and would spoil the joy on Shen Yuqin's body. She then beat and cursed her eldest daughter and kicked her out of the house.

With nowhere else to turn, Shen Yulan could only stand at the door and silently weep.

Shen Jingyan's feelings for Shen Yulan are completely different from his feelings for Shen Yuqin.

Shen Yulan was gentle and quiet from a young age, and hardworking and conscientious. Although she was Chen Feng's biological daughter, she did not look like Chen Feng at all. Instead, she resembled her aunt Shen Qiuye by three or four points. She had an oval face and big eyes like black grapes. She was particularly delicate when she smiled. Many people thought that Shen Jingyan and Shen Yulan were the real sisters.

He just inherited Chen Feng's height and wasn't very tall.

Chen Feng naturally doted on Shen Yuqin, who looked most like her, spoiling her so much that she was lazy and ignorant of farming, while leaving all the heavy and tiring work at home to Shen Yulan and Shen Jingyan.

Chen Feng was still ranting and raving on the other end of the line, while Shen Yuqin sat indifferently on the kang (a heated brick bed), cracking melon seeds. Watching her own sister being wronged, she didn't even want to say a word in her defense.

"Look at Yuqin, your sister is really something! She found the son of a high-ranking official, and he gives her money every few days, a hundred or two at a time. As her mother, I can only enjoy some happiness because of your sister! Your sister will soon be moving to the city to become a high-ranking official's wife, while you, on the other hand, have become a widow! What sins did I commit in my past life to give birth to such a jinx like you!"

Shen Jingyan sneered and walked into the courtyard, saying to Chen Feng, "Aunt, haven't you heard? The list of the first batch of educated youth returning to the city has been released. All three educated youth from the forest farm have decided to stay, and Zhou Zhengqing immediately took their place! It's only a matter of a day or two before he returns to the city. What, such great news, didn't your good son-in-law come to tell you and Sister Yuqin right away?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng immediately forgot about scolding Shen Yulan and eagerly asked, "Are you telling the truth?"

Shen Yuqin couldn't sit still any longer. She threw down the melon seeds in her hand and ran out from the inner room.

Since getting engaged to Zhou Zhengqing, Zhou Zhengqing has been giving her a lot of money in order to keep her calm. Shen Yuqin is also a person who does not know how to restrain herself, spending money extravagantly and making herself even fatter than before.

Now her round face looks like it's covered with three pounds of pork, her eyes are squeezed into two thin slits, and you can hardly see her eyeballs.

"What did you say? Brother Zhou is going back to the city?"

The mother and daughter did not doubt Shen Jingyan's words, because Shen Jingyan was in the forest farm and spent every day with the educated youth, so the information she received must be the most accurate.

"Of course it's true! He's been packing his bags all night, Sister Yuqin, why don't you go and ask him?"

Shen Yuqin was losing face.

Logically speaking, as Zhou Zhengqing's fiancée, she should have been the first to know about such a big event as his return to the city.

But in the end, I learned the news from Shen Jingyan.

From this perspective, it seems that she holds little weight in Zhou Zhengqing's heart.

Chen Feng urged, "Jingya is right! Hurry up and go ask Xiao Zhou. If you're really leaving tomorrow, I need to pack your luggage!"

Shen Yuqin was most unwilling to lose face in front of Shen Jingyan, so she stubbornly said, "No need to ask, it must be because it's too late tonight and Brother Zhou is tired from packing. He will definitely tell me tomorrow morning!"

Shen Jingyan winked meaningfully at Shen Yuqin: "I hope so."

She didn't want to spend another second with Chen Feng and her daughter. After saying what she needed to say, she turned and walked out of the yard.

She took Shen Yulan's hand and said, "Big sister, come home with me. I have a place to stay."

Shen Yulan wiped away her tears and looked at Shen Jingyan in surprise.

"Jingya...you...oh my god...you've changed so much...I almost didn't recognize you!"

I remember when she got married, the little girl was so abused that she was pale and thin, and she could barely walk. I never expected that after only a year, the little girl would grow up to be so beautiful and charming, like a lotus emerging from the water.

Shen Jingyan and An Zi each took one of Shen Yulan's arms, and the three of them walked intimately toward the forest farm.

Along the way, Anzi chattered on and on, recounting all the things that Chen Jing had done that were so eloquent and capable.

Seeing that Shen Jingyan was living such a good life, Shen Yulan was genuinely happy for her.

When the three of them reached the entrance of the forest farm, they suddenly noticed a dark figure carrying a large bag, sneaking towards the main road.