I couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I tried, so I might as well go back to the Shen family and find out.
Shen Siyue thanked Shitou: "Thank you for coming to tell me the news, I will pay attention."
After saying that, he rearranged some of the wood he had chopped, said goodbye to Shi Tou, and walked back directly.
Shitou waited until she was out of sight before he came to the wood, gathered some wood together, half-carried it and dragged it towards his home.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around in the morning, Shitou dragged all the wood that was almost chopped into rafters back to his yard.
After closing the gate, he started chopping wood in the yard with an axe.
When Shen Siyue returned to the Shen family, there was no one in the yard.
She slowed down her pace, tiptoed to the window of the west room, leaned against the wall and listened.
After listening for a while, the room was filled with Wang Huilian's repetitive words persuading Chen Hongmei and Zhao Changgui to live a good life.
This made Shen Siyue feel a little strange.
Could it be that the "Zhao Changgui" that Shitou heard had nothing to do with him?
But this doesn't explain why Wang Huilian and her daughter followed her to the broken house so early in the morning.
Just as she was wondering, footsteps were suddenly heard at the gate of the courtyard.
Shen Siyue paused, and quickly stepped to the door of the small east room. Before she could hide in the room, she saw Zhao Changgui coming in from the door.
Now that she was discovered, Shen Siyue simply looked at Zhao Changgui openly.
Shen Siyue wanted to observe his face to see if she could find any clues.
Zhao Changgui felt uncomfortable being stared at by Shen Siyue as if he was sizing up prey. He was originally full of anger and wanted to get angry as soon as he entered the Shen family, but his arrogance suddenly became a little lower.
He looked at her for a few seconds and quickly walked into the east room.
Isolating himself from Shen Siyue’s gaze, the uncomfortable feeling on Zhao Changgui’s body finally disappeared.
The courage returned.
As Zhao Changgui walked into the house, he shouted angrily, "Chen Hongmei, come out!"
Hearing Zhao Changgui's voice, Wang Huilian in the west room was stunned, while Shen Hongmei shuddered subconsciously.
No matter how firm she was when speaking to her mother at home, Shen Hongmei was still subconsciously afraid when she heard Zhao Changgui's voice.
Old man Shen in the east room also heard Zhao Changgui's voice. Before he could get downstairs, Zhao Changgui lifted the door curtain and entered the room.
"Changgui is here? Come and sit on the kang." Old man Shen greeted.
Zhao Changgui had a gloomy face, and he suppressed his anger and called out in a muffled voice, "Master."
Then he started to question: "Did Hongmei run away from home?"
Old man Shen nodded and was about to speak, but before he could open his mouth, he was interrupted by Zhao Changgui.
"What does your Shen family mean by this? You're running back to your parents' home right after you got married? And you did it secretly behind my back. Is she trying to break off my marriage? Or are you guys just trying to cheat on me?"
Zhao Changgui became angrier and angrier as he spoke. Yesterday evening, he discovered that Chen Hongmei was missing. At first he thought she had gone to visit someone's house.
As a result, after waiting for a long time, it was completely dark and no one came back.
Zhao Changgui asked his daughter to go ask around in the village, and everyone said that Shen Hongmei was not at their home.
Zhao Changgui then realized that Shen Hongmei might have run away.
Apart from the Shen family, Shen Hongmei had nowhere else to go.
That night, Zhao Changgui wanted to settle accounts with the Shen family.
But he was stopped by Zhao Ping'an.
It’s late at night and the weather is cold. What if something happens on the way?
Since she has returned to her parents' home, it makes no difference whether we go there at night or during the day.
Zhao Ping'an had to persuade Zhao Changgui with all his might.
So, early the next morning, Zhao Changgui came to the Shen family in a hurry to settle the score.
Old man Shen took a puff of his cigarette and his face looked very unhappy.
Zhao Changgui's questioning just now made him feel very embarrassed.
After all, he is the elder. How can Zhao Changgui, a junior, speak to him in such a tone?
Originally, he wanted Shen Hongmei to apologize to Zhao Changgui and then let him take the child back, but now old man Shen suddenly changed his mind.
He looked at Zhao Changgui and said, "Hongmei came back last night and has been crying ever since. I asked her nothing, but she wouldn't say anything."
"But I know my own granddaughter. If she hadn't suffered a great injustice, why would she run back to her parents' home after dark?"
"I married you my granddaughter who is as young as a flower bud, and this is how you take care of her?"
"It hasn't been long since they got married, and you let her go back to her parents' home crying?"
Old Man Shen's tough attitude made Zhao Changgui stunned for a moment, and he blurted out: "She went back to her parents' home without telling me, so she is right?"
Old Man Shen put his pipe heavily on the kang and said, "I don't care whether she told you or not. Just tell me, did you bully her?"
Zhao Changgui stood up immediately and said, "What do you mean I bullied her? I married her so that she could wash my clothes, cook for me, and clean the house, but she can't cook well, can't wash my clothes properly, and cries every day."
"I'm marrying a wife, not a jinx."
Old man Shen originally thought that he could use his status as an elder to put pressure on Zhao Changgui, but it turned out that Zhao Changgui didn't buy it at all.
Standing there, he laid out everything about Shen Hongmei's time at the Zhao family in front of Old Man Shen one by one.
Zhao Changgui's voice was like a huge bell, instantly suppressing Old Man Shen's momentum.
What Shen Hongmei did does not meet the current social requirements for women.
This left Old Man Shen with no chance to refute.
Finally, I could only say weakly: "Then you can't fight with her, right? She's still young, if you can't do it, just teach her slowly!"
Zhao Changgui immediately retorted loudly: "I didn't teach you. You can't do it after I told you once. You still can't do it after I told you once. But after I beat you up, you can do it immediately. What can I do?"
"I don't want to do it either, but if she has done everything she wants, can I beat her?"
Zhao Changgui's loud voice made Old Shen's head buzz.
Old man Shen could only try his best to save face: "I know you are a good worker, but Hongmei is still young and she hardly did any work at home."
"You are older than her and you are newly married, so you should be more considerate of her."
"I'm already so old, and I'm a man buried in the ground. I just want you two to live a good life. I'm also looking forward to you two giving me a big grandson!"
Old Man Shen's words really touched Zhao Changgui's heart.
He also knew that Shen Hongmei was reluctant to marry him, so he was eager to get her pregnant as soon as possible.
Once a woman has a child, even the wildest heart will settle down.
Just then, Wang Huilian lifted the door curtain and walked in.
Wang Huilian's face was expressionless, but anyone could see that she was very unhappy.
Without even saying hello to Zhao Changgui, he just sat down on the edge of the kang and looked at Zhao Changgui.
"Changgui, as Hongmei's mother, your mother-in-law, what can I say to you?"
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