Zhou Qiaoyun usually stays at home, watching Da Bao like a thief, so she never has a chance to discover how many delicious foods are here.
At this moment, Li Wenxiu realized just how much Song Qiuxue looked down on her, her old classmate and second sister-in-law from the countryside.
She called Song Baogen over to see her and complained angrily, "How could your sister do this? She's so heartless. We came all the way to the provincial capital to see her and even gave her child a big red envelope, but she didn't give our two sons a single penny as a gift. She didn't even cook for us and hid all the food and drinks in the house."
“Qiuxue is Uncle Liang’s biological daughter and Dafei’s older sister. Dafei beat Dad into a vegetative state back then, and Uncle doesn’t like our family either. How close do you think Qiuxue can be to our family?” Song Baogen advised his wife, “Let’s go back and not stay here.”
“We were so good to Qiu Xue, and this is how she treated us!” Li Wenxiu felt that she had misplaced her sincerity. “She invited me over to play in the first place, and now she’s playing these tricks on me! I even gave her the Chaos recipe, she’s such an ingrate! If your parents hadn’t burned your college acceptance letter back then, she wouldn’t be where she is now.”
"What did you say?" Song Baogen asked.
Li Wenxiu realized that she had let something slip in her anger.
Song Baogen pressed further, "What did you burn? What admission notice?"
“Your parents burned your college admission letter.” Li Wenxiu’s words startled Song Baogen. “Your family can’t afford to support two college students. You are the son, and your uncle advised your father to keep you by his side and let Qiuxue go to college in the city so that she can marry someone with a city household registration in the future.”
How do you know all this?
“I overheard your parents arguing once.”
Song Baogen silently returned to his small room.
After Li Wenxiu finished feeding her eldest son noodles and cleared away the dishes, she went into the small room and saw Song Baogen holding her second son. The luggage was already packed.
"let's go."
"Leaving now? Without waiting for Qiuxue and the others to come back and tell us?"
“Let’s leave a note; they’ll see it when they get back.” Song Baogen found a pen, wrote a note, and then took his luggage, his wife, and children to the train station.
After Song Baogen left, he never set foot in Song Qiuxue's house again.
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In late autumn, the orchard is full of large, sweet fruits.
Several black wolfhounds in the yard barked incessantly late at night.
Song Yinhua was awakened by the noise and quickly got up. Through the back window of the room, she saw a burst of flames in the orchard.
She rushed out of the yard and saw the orchard engulfed in flames.
A wolf howled from deep within the orchard.
The black wolfhounds beside Song Yinhua also raised their heads and howled in response to the wolf howls from deep within the orchard.
A short while later, in the firelight of the orchard, an injured black wolfhound bit its companion by the scruff of the neck and dragged it out.
These two black wolfhounds are responsible for guarding the orchard at night.
Song Yinhua rushed over and found that one of the two black wolfhounds was dead and the other was injured. She hugged the dead wolfhound with heartache and anger.
When the villagers saw the flames shooting into the sky, many people came with basins to put out the fire, and some even called the fire department.
The fire continued to spread towards the back of the mountain.
By the time the fire was extinguished, it was already dawn.
The entire orchard was burned to a crisp, and much of the vegetation on the hill behind it was also destroyed.
The fruit in the orchard will be ready for harvest in a few days; this fire has caused devastating losses.
Song Yinhua reported the incident to the police, but the orchard was located at the foot of the mountain, and there were no other houses nearby, so the arsonist could not be found for a while.
First, the wonton shop was maliciously reported and shut down, and it hasn't been unsealed yet. Now, the orchard has been burned down, and a black wolfhound has died.
Song Yinhua looked at the three bullets in her hand. Two of them were taken from the vital organs of the dead black wolfhound, and the other was taken from the hind leg of the wounded black wolfhound by the village veterinarian.
The three bullets also had codes on them.
It's likely that someone shot and wounded the black wolfhound with a hunting rifle before setting the fire.
But the villagers of Songzhuang Village were all ordinary people, and she had never heard of any family owning a hunting rifle or anyone who liked to hunt.
The orchard was burned down, and the wonton shop was shut down.
Everyone thought that Song Yinhua's life would only get worse from now on.
Some people sympathized with him, while others gloated.
Li Wenxiu made a sarcastic remark, "If your eldest sister had given you the orchard back then, let's see who would dare to burn it down..."
Snap!
Song Baogen slapped Li Wenxiu in front of the child.
Li Wenxiu rushed up and started fighting with Song Baogen, which frightened her two sons so much that they cried loudly.
Qiao Guilan and Song Erzhuang rushed into the house and quickly pulled the two apart.
When Song Caixing heard that her eldest sister's orchard had been burned down, she happened to be at her parents' home. Upon learning that her second sister-in-law had been slapped by her second brother, she was very gloating.
Li Wenxiu was so angry that she moved out alone to a wonton shop in the county town.
Song Erzhuang asked his son to go to the wonton shop in the county town to pick up his daughter-in-law, but Song Baogen refused, and the young couple started a cold war.
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The weather is getting colder.
Song Yinhua made new cotton-padded clothes and shoes for her mentally ill mother-in-law and daughter, and she also made cotton vests for the family's black wolfhounds.
At the end of the year, someone approached Qiao Guilan, wanting to arrange a marriage for Song Yinhua.
The other party has two sons and two daughters. His wife ran away because she thought the family was too poor.
A man who has to go out to earn money and take care of four children is too busy to manage everything, so he wants to marry a wife who can stay at home to take care of the children and manage the household chores.
The other party repeatedly promised that they would not mind that Song Yinhua was a jinx and that they would take care of her in her old age after the four children were raised.
The matchmakers had gone to Song Yinhua several times, but she had chased them away each time. In the end, the matchmakers had no choice but to go to Qiao Guilan.
I wanted her to persuade her to talk to her, my young lady.
Qiao Guilan told Song Baogen about this, and when the matchmaker came to see Qiao Guilan again, she was scolded and driven away by Song Baogen.
He found out that the man was poor and lazy, and his wife couldn't stand him, so she ran away to work and earn money to support their four children. She didn't abandon her husband and children and run away.
He wanted to find someone to help him take care of his four children so he could go out and find his wife.
Ever since Song Yinhua's wonton shop was shut down and her orchard was burned down, the villagers began to look down on her for being poor and started to avoid her.
The man died, and his only daughter wasn't even her biological child.
She has no income now, so you can imagine how miserable she will be when she gets old.
Song Yinhua lived at the foot of the mountain with her crazy mother-in-law, her daughter, and several black wolfhounds. Occasionally, she would return to her home in Huojia Village to tidy up and tend to the vegetable garden.
Now, Song Yinhua is considered a jinx by those around her.
She was born with the curse of causing the death of her grandparents. Her biological mother was unable to have children for five years after giving birth to her. After she got married, she also caused the death of her husband.
Even the fruit trees she planted and the wonton shops she ran were either burned down or shut down by her.
The wolfhound she keeps at home is so fierce that no one else could kill it, but she managed to kill one of them.
I've never seen anyone so lucky.
They had originally harbored some wicked thoughts about Song Yinhua's orchard and wonton shop, wanting her to be their concubine. But ever since her wonton shop was shut down, her orchard burned down, and her black wolfhound died, they were all terrified. They would run as far away from her as mice do when they saw her, for fear of being cursed to death by her.
It's unclear when exactly, but rumors started circulating that Song Yinhua was a jinx, and that anyone who got close to her would be plagued by bad luck and even lose their life.
When Old Man Tang from Tangzhuang Village learned of these events, he gloated.
"Serves you right! Hahaha!"
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