“I’m not cleaning it up, it stinks. You clean it up if you want!” Tian Lingling replied, her eyes red.

Whoever wants to live here can live here; she certainly won't.

She turned and walked towards the door, but Wang Shigen caught up with her and grabbed her arm. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going back to the educated youth settlement. I don't want to live in this dirty and smelly house..."

"Smack!"

Wang Shigen slapped her across the face. "You old hag, you're my wife now, Wang Shigen's wife. This is your home, and you're not allowed to go anywhere. Get inside and tidy up!"

If he could handle things, what would he need her for?

Tian Lingling was stunned by the beating. When she came to her senses and tried to fight back, she was dragged into the house, the door was closed, and cries and screams soon came from inside.

"Pah! Do you think you're some high-class city folk? Get inside and tidy up right now, or I'll beat you to death!" Wang Shigen opened the door and came out, his face fierce.

With her face bruised and swollen, Tian Lingling got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and cleaned up while tears streamed down her face and she endured the stench.

An hour later, the house was cleaned, wiped, and put away as usual, looking brand new.

Wang Shigen looked at his home, which he had lived in for nearly forty years and had never seen so clean before, and nodded in satisfaction.

"This isn't doing a good job, you old hag, you just need to be taught a lesson."

Wang Shigen sat down on the stool like an old man, "Hurry up and cook, then go to work and earn work points after you eat."

Doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning the house are one thing, but I also have to go to work.

If she does everything, what does he do?

But she didn't dare ask, and went to the kitchen while rubbing her aching arms.

When Wang Jiaxing returned home from work, he received a letter from home. After opening and reading it, his face suddenly darkened.

"What's wrong?" Huang Xinrui asked.

Wang Jiaxing handed her the letter.

After reading the letter, Huang Xinrui was furious. When Wang Jiaxing's family learned that Tian Lingling had gotten into trouble and that Wang Jiaxing had not helped her, they actually wrote a letter to scold him.

Wang Jiaxing clenched his fists and stormed out the door.

"You're asking for leave to go home?" Xu Guoqiang, who was already eating, asked the young man in front of him in surprise.

This child has been working in the countryside for so many years and has never been home. Why does he suddenly want to ask for leave to go home?

Wang Jiaxing said, "Yes, Captain, don't worry, I will be back before the summer harvest."

Xu Guoqiang didn't make things difficult for him and gave him a letter of introduction. There were still half a month before the summer harvest, as long as he could get back on time.

"Old Wang is going home tomorrow?" Li Xiyue was cooking when she heard this and was also a little surprised.

Huang Xinrui helped her tend the fire at the stove. "I thought that annoying Tian Lingling was finally gone and I could have some peace and quiet for a while. But I didn't expect that Lao Wang's family would write a letter and scold him. Lao Wang is really angry this time. I have never seen him with such a dark face before."

"Given his personality, can he manage his family when he gets home?" Li Xiyue expressed her concern, saying that he was being manipulated by his family through both soft and hard tactics.

Huang Xinrui said, "I believe he can do it."

"That's true. After going through so much, he should have grown up."

Huang Xinrui poked at the firewood in the stove. "After he goes home, he can't sell the wine anymore. He said he'll take all the wine to the black market tonight."

Li Xiyue nodded. "Alright."

Chu Xun isn't coming back tonight, so she plans to go to the black market to sell the feather dusters she's accumulated in her spatial storage.

She never expected that instead of selling the feather dusters, she would encounter a thrilling incident.