Chu Xianglan wasn't just saying this; she was speaking from the heart.
Although Bai Ying was an abandoned baby she picked up and was not her biological daughter, she rarely remembered this over the years.
She started taking care of Bai Ying when she was still in swaddling clothes, feeding her and coaxing her to sleep, raising her little by little, and participating in Bai Ying's entire growth. How could she not be her daughter?
If something happens to my daughter, and I as a mother cannot protect her with all my strength, who else can?
Besides, she has three sons. Losing one of them wouldn't be a big deal. Huang Xia still thinks she can control her? This is hilarious.
Bai Ying came back after sending someone away and just heard Chu Xianglan's words. Her nose felt sore and her eyes became moist.
After a day of fighting wits and courage with Huang Xia and a desperate battle with Chen Gouzi, she was already exhausted. However, in order to punish those who bullied her, she could only force herself to cheer up.
In order to seek justice for herself, she must not fall down!
But... she is not made of iron, she is a human being, and she will get tired too.
Seeing Chu Xianglan defending her so much, Bai Ying felt much more relieved in her heart. It was great that her mother always cared about her.
Bai Ying sniffed and said with emotion, "Mom, you are so kind to me."
"Silly child," Chu Xianglan smiled gently, like the warm sunshine, "I am your mother. If I don't treat you well, who else can I treat well?"
"mother!"
Bai Ying raised her hand and ran towards Chu Xianglan, like a young swallow returning to its nest. After hugging Chu Xianglan, her heart, which had been empty all the time, seemed to fall back to its original place.
Since her rebirth, until this moment, Bai Ying finally felt that she was still alive!
She felt the difference very clearly!
Everything she lost in her previous life finally came back...
Looking at the affection between the mother and daughter, Huang Xia was furious. She snorted coldly and turned back to the west wing where she lived.
The mother-in-law actually wanted to kick her and her husband out of the house for her sister-in-law?
Huang Xia sat on the kang, feeling extremely anxious.
Although separation and expulsion from home both mean moving out of the house, they are fundamentally different things!
All the work points earned by the Bai family were counted together. The food rations and money obtained from the autumn grain were all in the hands of the parents-in-law. If the family were to split up, they would at least get one-third. If they were kicked out of the house, they would be left with nothing!
All the items needed for daily life have to be bought on credit from the brigade, and the autumn grain distribution has to be paid back before the famine, leaving no money left. How can life be good like this?
Huang Xia could not accept the latter situation no matter what. She thought about it for a while, and finally her eyes were full of determination.
Just wait! When her husband comes home from work, he will come to support her!
Although what she did was indeed dishonest, what man wouldn't protect his wife? Bai Ying, a sister-in-law who was about to marry off, how could she be more important than her, a great hero with a baby son in her belly!
In the yard.
Chu Xianglan touched her daughter's hair and said softly, "Yingzi, I didn't let your sister-in-law and your brother divorce. Just don't blame me."
"Yeah, I understand."
Bai Ying nodded, and when she let go of Chu Xianglan, her expression had returned to its previous calm.
It was still the seventies, not the era of later generations when divorces were more frequent than marriages.
The word "divorce" was still a taboo in rural areas in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. If someone really got divorced, they would not be able to raise their head in front of the whole village, young and old.
It’s not that transportation was slow in the past and a lifetime was only enough to love one person.
But once a woman gets married at this time, she has no way out. She has nowhere to go if she leaves her husband's family, and her own family will not want her. In addition, due to secular constraints, there are almost no divorces, but a lot of women die from taking poison.
It was only after the reform and opening up that farmers were able to go to the city to work, and the situation of suicide among rural women improved somewhat.
She couldn't cry and force her elder brother and sister-in-law to divorce just because of her own affairs. How was she any different from her previous life in being so selfish?
In her previous life, she was timid and afraid of things. She didn't dare to take responsibility when things happened. She was a coward and only knew how to cry. She made the Bai family fight for her, but ended up hurting their entire family.
Bai Ying relived her life to change her fate, not to end up with the same ending as her previous life!
Seeing Bai Ying's concern for her family, Chu Xianglan felt even more distressed for her. She couldn't help crying, "It's all mother's fault. When your grandmother suggested a marriage for the eldest son, I shouldn't have objected. How could she bring home such a troublemaker? Normally, she would just make trouble for me and your father, but how could she hurt you like this?"
Bai Ying smiled and tried to comfort him, "Okay, Mom, I'm fine, right? I'm getting married and moving out in a few days. Even if my sister-in-law wants to do something bad to me again, she won't be able to do it anymore."
Upon hearing this, Chu Xianglan felt even more distressed for her daughter.
How can the environment on the farm be so comfortable?
The mother and daughter chatted for a while. Seeing that it was getting late and Bai Maozhong and Bai Hongbing were about to come back from work, Chu Xianglan hurried to the kitchen to cook dinner.
"Mom, I'll go with you. This way we can do it faster." Bai Ying followed in with a smile.
Chu Xianglan pushed Bai Ying out, "No, no! You must be scared after what happened today. Go back to your room and get some rest."
Bai Ying hugged Chu Xianglan's arm and said coquettishly, "Mom, it's because I was scared that I want to stick with you all the time. You won't even satisfy this little request of mine, right?"
Chu Xianglan scolded with a smile: "You are such a smooth talker, girl. Does my son-in-law know that you are such a scoundrel?"
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