Wang Tianxiao went next door, kicked the door open, and walked over to Yu Xiaofeng, who was huddled in front of the stove. He grabbed a rag from the side and slapped it across her mouth twice.

The rag was wet, and Wang Tianxiao was strong. It was obvious to the naked eye that two red marks immediately appeared on Yu Xiaofeng's face, and she swelled up.

"Ah! You...you dare to hit me!"

Yu Xiaofeng jumped up, pointing at Wang Tianxiao and about to curse, but seeing his fierce appearance, she was immediately frightened and lost her confidence.

"Watch your mouth. If I hear you spewing shit or piss again, I'll beat you every time I hear it."

After saying that, he threw the rag at Yu Xiaofeng's face and turned to leave.

Back on the cliff, Li Wanfu told him to push the things back and unload them, as he himself needed to go back.

"Uncle, come down and sit for a while."

"No, no," Li Wanfu shook his head timidly, "Going down there will embarrass you and Lili..."

“What’s shameful about it? You’re my dad. What’s shameful about it? If anyone says anything bad about you again, I’ll slap their mouth shut.” Wang Tianxiao said with a laugh.

Li Wanfu looked at his son-in-law in surprise, wondering why the boy had suddenly changed his personality; he had never been so headstrong before.

"Never mind, I came here secretly, my family doesn't know..."

Wang Tianxiao sighed inwardly.

Every family has its own troubles.

There are also a lot of problems with his wife. His brother-in-law and his wife are stingy and mean. If they knew that his father-in-law was giving grain and firewood to his married daughter, who knows what kind of trouble they would cause.

According to local custom, a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup; once she's married, she's considered gone.

How can you possibly be paying out of your own pocket!

The kind old man in front of me is my wife's father. He doesn't know where his parents are, so he loves his poor daughter dearly.

But he never even had the chance to step into his daughter's house.

If it were just this reason, Wang Tianxiao could handle it, but when it came to his brother-in-law, he was temporarily helpless.

He had no choice but to take the wheelbarrow from his father-in-law and ask him to wait.

The wheelbarrow was a bit difficult to handle. Wang Tianxiao hadn't pushed one in decades, so his skills were a bit rusty. Plus, it was cold and the ground was slippery. When he pushed it down the slope in the courtyard, the wheelbarrow overturned, and everything inside spilled out.

The straw on top had fallen to one side, revealing two cloth bags underneath: one bag of corn and one bag of ground flour.

There was also a large Chinese cabbage and a small bag of potatoes.

Seeing that the overturned truck was not far from his cave dwelling, Wang Tianxiao did not load the truck, but carried the bags back to the cave dwelling one by one.

"I'll ask my parents how they are later," Li Yali said, feeling unwell today because the floor was too slippery and she didn't dare get off the kang (heated brick bed).

"Okay, we'll have Uncle come over after we move it upstairs."

Both of them tacitly avoided the awkward truth.

"Is that Grandpa?" Little Wang Fang was lying on the bed with her legs crossed, flipping through a half-volume of "The Heroines of the Yang Family" that was missing both the front and back. It was a copy that Wang Tianxiao had picked up.

The child loved reading stories, but Wang Tianxiao didn't have enough money to buy them. Later, she grew up to become a writer, perhaps to make up for the regret of her childhood.

"It's your maternal grandfather, do you want to go see him?"

Wang Fang shook her head. "I don't know him well. Didn't you say we shouldn't greet strangers?"

Wang Tianxiao and his wife looked at each other, speechless with bitterness.

It's not the child's fault that she doesn't recognize her maternal grandfather, and they can't blame her for speaking out of turn.

When they went outside again, Zhang Meifeng, the mother, lifted the curtain and came out, saying coldly, "A man should have backbone. Are you surnamed Wang or Li? You take food from a beggar, don't you feel ashamed?"

My mother always spoke loudly, showing no regard for my father-in-law's feelings on the cliff edge.

Although the two families are related by marriage, they have many complicated conflicts.

Firstly, there is an irreconcilable conflict between Wangjia Village and Lijia Village.

The previous generation of Wangjia Village, namely Wang Tianxiao's great-grandfather, was a large landowner. Almost all of Wangjia Village and Lijia Village belonged to the Wang family ancestors.

Later, Old Master Wang developed a gambling addiction. He not only lost money to a man surnamed Li, but also lost his concubine to the Li family.

This led to the formation of Lijia Village.

Because the Li family were descendants of concubines, while the Wang family were descendants of the principal wife, the Wang family members of the Wang family not only disliked the Li family, but also looked down on them.

The two villages have changed drastically over the generations, yet the conflict between them persists, with countless village brawls occurring.

As the eldest of the current generation in Wangjia Village, Zhang Meifeng naturally inherited the grudges of the previous generation. Even the third son's wife, Yu Xiaofeng, would join in scolding Li Wanfu for this reason.

This is why the Wang family generally dislikes Li Yali, regardless of whether she is a good person or not.

Wang Tianxiao and Li Yali met through people at a forest farm. One of Li Yali's uncles worked at the forest farm and, seeing that Wang Tianxiao was hardworking and reliable, introduced the two of them when his niece visited him.

Unexpectedly, Li Yali took a liking to Wang Tianxiao at first sight, and with her uncle's matchmaking, they eventually got together.

The two elderly people in the Li family are kind and simple. Although they felt that their daughter might suffer after marrying into the family, they believed that it was the young couple's business to live their lives together, and they agreed without interfering.

But the Wang family did not agree to the marriage.

From the beginning, Zhang Meifeng obstructed Wang Tianxiao in many ways, and even forbade him from returning home, threatening to sever ties with him.

But Wang Tianxiao had already grown very fond of Li Yali and was unwilling to give her up. He was also a stubborn man. Since his mother disliked her, he stayed in the mountains with his wife for more than a year until their daughter Wang Fang was born. At this point, Zhang Meifeng saw that the die was cast and there was nothing she could do, but she still disliked Li Yali.

There's an even more subtle reason why Zhang Meifeng dislikes Li Yali.

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