Chapter 220 Everyone Comes to Borrow Grain 4

Ma Xiulian simply shook her off.

She worked in the fields year-round and was as strong as a man. Old Mrs. Li was as thin as a piece of paper, and she fell to the ground when she was thrown like that.

She immediately started yelling again, "Help! Ma Xiulian has hit people! She even hit her own in-laws! If you beat me like this, I'll stay at your house and not leave until you compensate me for the grain!"

"Then you can just sit here." Ma Xiulian wasn't buying it at all and walked straight into the main room.

Old Mrs. Li gritted her teeth and suddenly stood up from the ground, blocking her way, and threatened, "If you don't lend me grain today, I'll smash my head against your door and die, and I'll haunt your Chen family for the rest of my life as a ghost!!"

After saying that, he actually started banging his head against the wall, but it was just for show; he didn't dare to use any real force.

If it were someone else with a thinner skin, they probably would have been forced to agree to borrow grain.

But Ma Xiulian rolled up her sleeves, grabbed Old Mrs. Li's head, and slammed it against the door frame: "Fine! I'll fight you to the death today, a life for a life!"

She used some force, and Old Lady Li, with her tiny body, couldn't break free at all. She could only follow her force and slam into the wall.

After only a few bumps, his head started to throb, his vision began to blur, and he yelled at the top of his lungs, "Ma Xiulian is going to kill someone!!"

Old Mrs. Li struggled free with all her might, tumbling and crawling back several steps, then cursed viciously, "People like you who refuse to help those in distress will never have a good ending. Your daughters will never be able to get married, and your sons will never be able to find wives."

Ma Xiulian grabbed a broom from the doorway and swung it at her, her face as black as the bottom of a pot: "I'll tear that stinking mouth of yours apart!"

Fortunately, Grandma Li ran fast and managed to avoid the broom.

Seeing Ma Xiulian charging towards him with a ferocious expression, he didn't dare to linger any longer. Without even brushing the dirt off his body, he quickly turned and ran away.

If her younger daughter couldn't borrow grain from her husband's family, she could borrow from her second daughter's family!

Ma Xiulian snorted disdainfully and threw the broom away.

No sooner had they sent away Old Lady Li, who had come to borrow grain, than Zhao Mei's mother arrived.

Upon seeing Zhao's mother arrive, Zhao Mei immediately went to greet her: "Mom, what brings you here?"

"I heard Chunhua has given birth again, so I brought some eggs," Zhao's mother said, handing over a basket of eggs.

Ma Xiulian smiled and said, "Our in-laws have arrived. Please come inside and sit down."

He welcomed her into the house and said to Zhao Mei, "Go and make a bowl of sweet water. Your mother has come all this way and must be thirsty."

Hearing that she was to be given sweet water, Zhao's mother was quite flattered and silently sighed in her heart, "The Chen family's life is indeed getting better and better."

The warm water tasted sweet, and Zhao's mother drank the whole bowl with great relish. Then, she smiled shyly at Ma Xiulian and said, "Only here with my in-laws can I share in this good fortune and get a bowl of sweet water to drink."

No one in the countryside doesn't love sweets, but every family is too poor, and when such delicious food is available, everyone prioritizes their children. Zhao's mother has almost forgotten the taste of this sweet drink.

“That’s how it is in every family; when they get these sweets, they let the kids eat as much as they want,” Ma Xiulian said, expressing her understanding.

"I heard that Chunhua from the third wife's family gave birth to another big, healthy grandson. The in-laws are so lucky."

Zhao's mother sincerely congratulated her, but her expression darkened again when she remembered that Zhao Mei's three children were all daughters.

My China Unicom connection is terrible; it takes forever to send a message.

(End of this chapter)