Zhu Chunhong had witnessed for many years how the Song family abused and bullied Song Zhaodi.

As a woman who had grown up in the same village, she understood Song Zhaodi's situation, empathized with her, and couldn't help but feel sympathy for her.

There are some things she simply cannot get involved in, and she really doesn't have the ability to bear the consequences of getting involved.

After all, it was just her and her mother, two women, at home most of the year. It was already difficult enough for them to protect their family from being bullied. Even if she felt sorry for Song Zhaodi, she could only watch helplessly.

At first, all she saw was the Song family treating Song Zhaodi like an animal, ordering her around to do this and that, and beating or scolding her for the slightest dissatisfaction, keeping her completely under their thumb.

It's not like treating a living, breathing person, but like treating a domestic animal that can be beaten and scolded at will.

However, the situation of women in this village is generally not good, and it is not uncommon for them to be ordered around by their families to do chores like cattle and horses.

In this village, there are many families where the men don't work and just stay at home like ancestors, waiting to be fed and drunk, while the heavy burden is placed on the women.

Grandma Liu at the village entrance, before she married into her husband's family, her husband was also lazy, but after all, he was a farmer who made a living by farming, and he knew the principle that if you don't work, you won't have food to eat.

Therefore, I would at least go down to the fields every day to check on things and do some work.

Although it was done perfunctorily, it didn't leave the fields barren, and at least some grain could be harvested each year, enough to eat for a while.

But ever since Granny Liu married him, her husband's lazy nature has been fully exposed. From the first day of their marriage, he has never picked up a hoe or gone to the fields again. Every day he makes various excuses to go to the village entrance to drink and play cards with people, and he never even glances at the fields.

To put it bluntly, he was taking advantage of the fact that there was another person in the family. He knew that Granny Liu wouldn't just watch him starve to death, and that if he didn't do any work, Granny Liu would naturally do it. So he was fearless.

Grandma Liu had no other choice but to carry a hoe to the fields every day.

Even in the dead of winter, when the weather is so cold that fingers and toes can freeze off, people are still forced to go out and dig up edible tree roots and mushrooms to make a living.

Even on the day she gave birth, Liu's husband didn't let her off the hook, forcing her to get out of bed by yelling and kicking her.

Grandma Liu kept doing this, and by the time she was over fifty, she had developed a host of illnesses, and her fingers and legs had become deformed.

Even so, I still have to find ways to get things done every day.

If she doesn't do it, her whole family will starve to death.

There are many more examples like this in the village.

Even Zhu Chunhong, whose parents were kind and not too harsh on her, still had endless work and tasks to do all day long.

Zhu Chunhong thought about it and realized that she really didn't have any right to say anything about this matter, and even if she did, it probably wouldn't make any difference.

After all, someone has to do the housework. He Caixia and Song Yongfu could say they were too old, and Song Yaozu, who had been spoiled by his parents since childhood, was also not capable of doing any work.

In the end, these tasks fell back on Song Zhaodi's shoulders.

She can say it once or twice, but can she say it every day for the rest of her life?

Moreover, she is of low status and her voice carries little weight. Even if she spoke up, He Caixia's family would not listen; instead, they might scold her for meddling.