"You're just a child, you don't understand!" Qiao Guilan asked Xiao Xiaohua, "Grandma is asking you, your mother and your uncle are siblings, shouldn't she help her brother? Besides, your mother doesn't have any other children. After you get married, when your mother gets old, won't she have to rely on your uncle and your uncle's son to take care of her?"
"After I get married, I'll bring my mom to live with me, so my uncle and his son won't have to take care of her in her old age!"
"How can you be so insensible!" Qiao Guilan scolded Song Yinhua. "Yinhua, look what you've done to Caixing's daughter!"
"I'm not Fourth Aunt's daughter!" Little Flower exclaimed excitedly.
She would throw a tantrum whenever she heard someone say that she wasn't Song Yinhua's biological daughter, but Song Caixing's. She even bit a villager who joked about it with her.
Song Yinhua comforted Xiao Xiaohua for a while, then invited her biological mother outside.
"Mom, you should go back. I won't get involved in Wenxiu's shop business. I believe Baogen won't blame me."
Qiao Guilan said with difficulty, "Wenxiu said that if you don't help her, she will take back the house and land at the foot of the mountain."
"casual."
"Yinhua, why are you so stubborn?" Qiao Guilan stormed off in a huff.
After learning of Song Yinhua's attitude, Li Wenxiu said to Song Baogen in a huff during dinner, "Baogen, we'll farm that piece of land at the foot of the mountain ourselves from now on, and your older sister won't have to farm it anymore."
"What's gotten into you again?" Song Baogen asked, displeased. "Which piece of land was reclaimed by my eldest sister? She even gives us 2,500 yuan in rent every year. What do you need that land for? If you're going to manage the wonton shop in the county town, do you even have time to take care of it?"
Qiao Guilan and Song Erzhuang, the elderly couple, were taken aback. What rent?
“The wonton shop is about to go out of business, and your older sister isn’t helping us at all,” Li Wenxiu said.
"You went to see my older sister?" Song Baogen asked.
Li Wenxiu fell silent.
"Are you going to find my older sister and ask her to continue making wonton filling for you?" Song Baogen asked loudly, "Is that right?"
"Yes!" Li Wenxiu answered loudly in a huff, "I told you to go find your older sister, but you refused, so I went by myself."
"Who told you to go see my older sister? You were the one who went back on your word, trying to monopolize the profits of the wonton shop, tricking my older sister out of the wonton filling recipe, and even falling out with Cai Xing. How dare you go there now?"
"Isn't it all for our family? So you don't have to work so hard..."
Snap!
Song Baogen angrily slammed down his chopsticks and roared at Li Wenxiu, "I only make a few hundred yuan a month, can't I support you? Even with the two thousand five hundred yuan rent my older sister gives us a year, it's still not enough to support you, is it? Who do you think you are, that so much money can't support you!"
"Why are you yelling at me? You can throw chopsticks, but I can't?" Li Wenxiu also threw down the chopsticks in her hand, grabbed the bowl in front of her and smashed it hard, scaring her two sons into crying loudly.
Song Baogen slapped Li Wenxiu across the face.
Li Wenxiu rushed up and grabbed Song Baogen's face.
The two started fighting, which terrified their two sons.
Qiao Guilan and Song Erzhuang quickly took their two grandsons away.
Seeing their son and daughter-in-law fighting reminded the elderly couple of their younger days.
Li Wenxiu returned to her parents' home in tears.
When Li Wenxiu's family saw that her face was swollen from being slapped, her younger brother was so angry that he called a group of uncles and brothers to go to Song Baogen's house to teach him a lesson.
Song Baogen then told his brother-in-law about the reason and process of the fight. After listening, Li Wenxiu's younger brother and uncles realized that Li Wenxiu was being unreasonable, so they all slunk away.
The next day, Li Wenxiu was sent back to her husband's family by her own younger brother.
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The watermelons in the field have yielded a bumper harvest.
Song Yinhua contacted people from a restaurant in the county town to come and collect the watermelons.
After harvesting all the watermelons, Song Yinhua packed her things to return to Huojiabao Village. She no longer planned to rent the land at the foot of the mountain.
Song Baogen felt a little guilty.
Li Wenxiu's wonton shop couldn't stay open, so she sold the shop and planned to learn from Song Yinhua and grow watermelons and other fruits to sell.
As Song Yinhua packed her luggage and put it on the cart, preparing to take it back to Huojiabao Village, she saw Tang Suxiang's second daughter, Song Erniu, rushing over and trying to rush into the courtyard, but Tang Suxiang held her back tightly.
"Woof woof woof..." Several black wolfhounds barked at the gate of the courtyard.
As Song Yinhua was putting the package on the bus, she subconsciously looked up and saw Song Erniu staring at her menacingly.
She hadn't seen Song Erniu for many years.
Tang Suxiang whispered to Song Erniu, "Speak properly, don't make a mistake."
"There's no mistake, it's Yinhua!" Song Erniu said with certainty. "A few years ago, fortune tellers came to the village and said that Yinhua was destined to be a concubine and would steal other women's husbands. When I was little, my grandfather also said that Yinhua would affect my marriage prospects. That woman must be her! Bitch! Shameless!"
Song Yinhua was in the courtyard and couldn't hear the conversation between Song Erniu and Tang Suxiang outside, but she realized something was wrong when she saw the hateful look in Song Erniu's eyes.
"Aunt, Erniu, are you looking for me?" Song Yinhua asked as she walked to the courtyard gate.
“We weren’t looking for you, we were just passing by,” Tang Suxiang said.
Song Erniu broke free from Tang Suxiang's hand and was about to speak when Tang Suxiang grabbed her again and interrupted, "Yinhua, Erniu's husband is a businessman, but he's only successful on the surface. In reality, he doesn't have much money and owes a lot of money to others."
Song Yinhua was completely confused.
"Aunt, I don't know Erniu's husband. Why are you suddenly telling me this?"
Tang Suxiang was taken aback. "Don't you two know each other?"
"You didn't introduce me to Erniu's boyfriend when she was dating him, so how could I possibly know him?" Song Yinhua retorted. "Back when Erniu got married, your family told my dad that I shouldn't go to your house for the wedding, saying that I was a jinx and would bring bad luck to Erniu and affect her marriage."
Tang Suxiang thought about it and realized that was indeed the case.
She turned to Song Erniu and said, "It's not Yinhua, she doesn't know Danian."
"What are you talking about?" Song Yinhua asked. "What do you mean, 'not me'?"
"It's nothing." Tang Suxiang pulled Song Erniu away.
Song Erniu was somewhat reluctant, and only after walking a distance did she complain to her own mother, "Who else could it be besides her?"
"Danian told you himself that the woman he was having an affair with was Yinhua?"
"I saw a woman's hair on Da Nian's clothes, and it was about the same length as Song Yinhua's hair. I followed Da Nian for more than half a month and saw him and Song Yinhua hugging and cuddling as they went into a hotel together. I can't be mistaken," Song Erniu said with certainty. "It was Yinhua who seduced my man, no doubt about it!"
"Then why didn't you rush in and catch them in the act?" Tang Suxiang asked. "Even if you go to Song Yinhua now, she won't admit it."
"That shameless slut Song Yinhua! She killed her own husband, and now she's trying to seduce other women's husbands! She's so immoral!" Song Erniu cursed angrily.
Song Hanwen bought a 120-square-meter apartment in the county town and lived in the same community as Song Erniu.
Tang Su'e and her son Wang Yunyun often brought toys and food to visit Song Hanwen's second daughter. One day, when the mother and daughter went to Song Hanwen's house to see the child, they happened to run into Song Erniu crying and complaining about her husband's infidelity and fighting with him.
"Men are all the same, they all like to mess around outside as soon as they have a little money!" Song Erniu cried. "Of all people to go to, he had to go to Song Yinhua. Isn't he afraid of being cursed to death by Song Yinhua!"
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