Wang Laoer's ox cart broke down halfway. Old Lady Wang waited at the train station until dark but saw no one, so she decided to go out and find a place to stay.

She was a single old lady, carrying a lot of bags, and had long been a target. As soon as I got out of the train station, a group of hooligans rushed up and started stealing things.

There was money sewn into Old Mrs. Wang's clothes. It included eighty yuan given by Wang Heyi, and ten thousand yuan of her own private savings that she had saved for many years.

You can rob things, but you must not rob your money! So Old Mrs. Wang threw her things away and ran away.

Unexpectedly, it was dark and she didn't see the road clearly, so she fell into the ditch beside the road.

Logically speaking, how high can a ditch be? Even if you fall into it, it won't cause much damage. However, Mrs. Wang was just like that. Someone threw a big rock into the ditch, and her lumbar vertebrae just hit the rock, injuring her nerves and causing her to become paralyzed.

The news that Old Lady Wang was paralyzed was delivered to the troops via telegram three days later.

Liao Sanmei: "The old lady is lying in bed and can't move. She wanted me to take the children back to take care of her."

Zhou Meihua hurriedly said, "You can't go back! Going back is hell! The old lady loves to torture you, and your personality will definitely become even more weird if you become paralyzed."

An Hua looked at Liao Sanmei and saw that she looked peaceful, so she probably wouldn't go back.

As expected, Liao Sanmei shook her head and said, "Before I even said anything, the child's father said he wouldn't let me go back. He said if I left, he would be alone and it wouldn't feel like a home anymore."

Liao Sanmei spoke with a rare shyness on her face. She found that ever since her mother-in-law passed away, everything seemed to have returned to the way it was before.

Indeed, the root of all the problems lies with the mother-in-law.

When she heard that her mother-in-law was paralyzed, Liao Sanmei knew that it was wrong, but she couldn't help feeling happy from the bottom of her heart.

My mother-in-law will never come again.

Zhou Meihua also said: "Your future life will be over. Without your mother-in-law, Wang Heyi will still be good to you."

Liao Sanmei smiled and sighed, "Yes, now he doesn't care about the family affairs. I have the final say. I can buy whatever I want for the children."

Listening to the conversation between the two, An Hua felt that the reason why Wang Heyi didn't let Liao Sanmei go back to serve his mother was probably purely because there would be no one to serve him if Liao Sanmei left.

But she didn't say this out loud, as she didn't want to sow discord between the couple. Anyway, as long as she has money to spend, no one is bullying her from above, and she can raise her children well, that's all that matters to Liao Sanmei.

Zhou Meihua turned to An Hua and said, "By the way, my Xiaojun said that Uncle Xiao will take them horseback riding tomorrow."

An Hua smiled and said, "Yes, I originally just wanted to take Dong Dong with me, but after Xiao Jun heard what Dong Dong said, he also wanted to go, so he ran to Xiao Chen and asked Uncle Xiao to take him with him."

Zhou Meihua said with a sigh, "Your Xiao is quite good to the children. My son starts fiddling with his junk whenever he has a break and never thinks of taking the children out to play."

"I want to go too." An Hua invited Zhou Meihua and Liao Sanmei, "Are you going?"

The two of them waved their hands at the same time, "There are so many things to do at home, how can we have the time to do that."

"I have to take apart and wash all the quilts in the house tomorrow. There is also a mountain of dirty clothes from the children waiting for me to wash... Shi Xiaojun is a naughty boy. He changes his clothes three times a day and they are all dirty!"

"I also want to do the laundry and tend to the vegetable garden. I also want to dig up some earthworms to feed the chickens."

"After we finish washing the clothes, let's go dig together..."

Zhou Meihua and Liao Sanmei discussed it.

An Hua listened and suddenly realized a problem.

There is a lot of housework to do. Apart from cooking, she seems to have done nothing else.

It’s such a big house, including the front and back yards, and she only cleans them occasionally, but it can always be clean and tidy every day.

She took care of the vegetables at the beginning, but later she didn't take care of them much because she was working, but the vegetable garden was thriving.

The dirty clothes and bed sheets flew to the clothesline in the yard without anyone noticing...

In order for the family to function normally, any work she doesn't do must be done by Xiao.

An Hua knew this, but when she carefully counted it, she found that Xiao Qi had done a lot. To be honest, this has something to do with her going to work. In dual-income families of this era, it is common for men to do housework.