"Eldest son! Please come back quickly! Your parents are so angry with your second brother's family!" After hitting him a few times, Chen Shi sat down on the ground and cried out in grief.

She raised two sons. The eldest son was both scholarly and martial, but he did not pass the imperial examinations. However, this was because the family was too poor to afford the exams. The second son was the complete opposite of the eldest son. If the family hadn't kept an eye on him, he would have caused countless troubles long ago.

Now the eldest son's fate is unknown, and the second son is causing chaos in the family. How can we live like this?

Jiang Qinyu watched the farce unfold before her and felt nothing but irony.

Lu Yancai and his wife are inherently bad and beyond redemption. Lu Tianbao has also been corrupted by them and turned into a crooked tree. No one can guarantee that they can be straightened out.

She didn't want to get involved, but the whole family was crying and wailing in the yard. Wouldn't that make them a laughingstock?

Jiang Qinyu released Shufan and Pan'er's hands and helped Chen Shi up. "Mother, don't be angry. Getting angry will harm your health."

“I was just thinking about the eldest son. If he were here, how could the second son treat you like this?” Chen said, wiping away tears again.

Jiang Qinyu comforted him, "Brother Zheng must have been delayed by something. He'll be back once he's done. Let's wait a little longer."

It's best she doesn't come back; she only wants the child, not her husband!

"Yes, A-Zheng will definitely come back!" Chen kept telling herself that her eldest son was definitely still alive!

Her family couldn't flee the famine; she had to stay and wait for her eldest son to return!

After his grief subsided, Old Man Lu came over to comfort Mrs. Chen, and the elderly couple forcefully took Lu Tianbao back to their room.

Old Man Lu said, "From now on, Tianbao will live with me and your mother. You two are not allowed to come near us!"

Madam Ma naturally made another scene, but no one paid any attention to her. In the end, she could only shut up awkwardly and glare at Jiang Qinyu before returning to the house.

Lu Yancai didn't want to get a beating from his father, so he ran off somewhere.

Jiang Qinyu took the two children back to the house, ate something, and then the three of them had a good sleep.

In the late afternoon, the sound of the broken gong under the big locust tree at the village entrance rang out again.

"Come quick, everyone! It's time to distribute the grain!"