(no doormat female lead ➕ male lead appears later ➕ slice of life ➕ farming life ➕ no golden finger/cheats ➕ revenge on scumbags ➕ sweet romance ➕ ensemble cast ➕ family affairs)
Qin Xue saw her mother's voice choking with sobs, and quickly turned around to comfort her, "Mom, I don't blame you, I just, I just feel it's not worth it for you."
Qin's mother also remarried. She and her ex-husband had a son and a daughter. Her husband was conscripted and died on the battlefield. She remarried into the Li family with her children.
The Li family also had three children. The family was poor, and they had to raise five children, so they rarely had enough to eat.
Qin's mother is cowardly and her husband is strong. The first three children are older and are also under the supervision of his parents-in-law.
Qin Xue and her brother almost starved to death in that home. Later, the uncles and aunts of the Qin family learned about this and gritted their teeth to bring the boy, Qin Yang, back to the Qin family.
The uncles and aunts took turns raising Qin Yang, each one of them taking care of him for a year.
Because Qin Xue was a girl, the Qin family didn't want her, so she continued to live a hard life with her mother in the Li family. Her life didn't get better until she got married at the age of 19.
A few years ago, Qin Xue's stepfather passed away, and Qin's mother was driven out by the stepson and stepdaughter-in-law on the Li side.
She had nowhere to go, so she could only shamelessly return to the Qin family from Chongqing to find her biological son Qin Yang.
Qin Yang was already married and had children at this time. He didn't say much about his mother's return except for being a little cold. However, his wife and uncles and aunts of the Qin family did not have a good face towards Qin's mother.
Qin Xue has feelings for her mother. Even though the Qin family didn't want her at the beginning, at least her mother always kept her by her side and never thought of abandoning her.
Especially during the famine years, starvation to death was very common.
Her mother risked her life to protect her, and she saved her little food rations to send to Qin Yang, allowing her and her brother to survive.
Her mother was petite and could not earn much money, so she spent her whole life working around the stove.
She was weak and cowardly all her life, never dared to speak loudly, never got angry with anyone, and worked hard all her life, but she never received a good word in her life.
She and her brother resented her, and her step-grandfather's children also hated her, so neither side was in a good situation.
Before, I was a humble servant in my stepfather’s house, and now I am a humble servant in my brother and sister-in-law’s house.
Qin Xue's nose was sour, "Mom, I used to blame you, but now I have a child.
I understand that you were helpless at the time. You couldn't support me and my brother, so you remarried and took us with you.
At that time, my uncle and grandmother kept asking you to leave us alone, saying that you could pick a good wife by yourself without any burden, but you still took us with you.
Even in the most difficult times, you did not abandon us. You have done what a mother should do. The biggest reason why my brother and I lived a hard life was that we had no parents. ”
Mother Qin sobbed softly, "It's my fault, it's my fault.
Because I've been through this, I want you to find one early while you're still young.
If we have our own children in the future, we will have someone to rely on. If I had a child in the Li family, I wouldn't be kicked out of the house at this age.
Mom knows that you are thinking about Zhuzi and want to leave some money for him, but the family your aunt told you about is willing for you to take Zhuzi there and has asked about it several times.
You should go and meet him. His wife died of illness and left behind a daughter who he couldn't raise. If you go there you won't have to be a stepmother.
Besides, this is your hometown. I'm here, and your brother and sister-in-law are here too. If anything happens, we can take care of each other. ”
Qin Xue finally nodded and followed her mother back to the village. Her sister-in-law looked unhappy when she saw her.
At noon, she followed her aunt to the man's house to look for him. As soon as she entered the door, she saw a large crowd of people sitting in the man's house, from old men and women with uneven breathing to babies in their arms, a total of more than 20 people.
The aunt introduced Qin Xue to them, "These are all my relatives, come and meet them."