Xiao Xiaohua followed Song Caixing by car to a small village in the next town.
There was a half-brother he didn't know, and a stepfather and his family he didn't know.
Little Flower ran away from home after staying in this house for less than two months.
Song Caixing also left her daughter in the care of her in-laws, as she had to work at a shoe factory on weekdays and didn't have time to take care of her child.
Since her in-laws aren't Xiaoxiaohua's biological grandparents, they naturally aren't too heartbroken.
After being released from prison, Guo Rui remained unemployed, spending his time eating and drinking with others and keeping a mistress.
In order to avoid divorce, Song Caixing chose to endure everything.
One time, Guo Rui got drunk and had a conflict with Xiao Xiaohua, who was doing her homework in the room after dinner.
As soon as Song Caixing got home from get off work, Guo Rui told her that the child had been spoiled by Song Yinhua and was disobedient.
Little Flower pointed at Guo Rui and said to Song Caixing, "He touched me!"
"I just wanted to check how her writing was going last night, so I patted her on the shoulder. Who knew she would react so strongly?" Guo Rui quickly explained.
Song Caixing glanced at Guo Rui and comforted Xiao Xiaohua, "Your dad is just concerned about you, don't overthink it."
"He's not my dad, and he doesn't care about me!" Little Flower cried as she reached up and put her hand into Song Caixing's crotch, startling Song Caixing so much that she instinctively raised her hand and slapped her.
"What are you doing? Where are you touching?" Song Caixing scolded.
"You say this is out of concern, so why did you hit me?"
Song Caixing looked at Guo Rui, who then explained with an unnatural expression, "I drank too much and mistook her for you."
Guo Rui pulled Song Caixing back to their room.
As soon as the door closed, the sound of arguing came from inside.
The argument lasted only two minutes before sounds of the couple being intimate could be heard coming from inside.
When Song Caixing came out again, she lectured Xiaoxiaohua, "Children are not allowed to lie in the future. You seduced your stepfather while I was not at home. Did Song Yinhua teach you that?"
"I didn't lie! He's a bad person..."
Snap!
Song Caixing slapped Xiaoxiaohua, then regretted it.
Little Flower got angry and ran away from home in the middle of the night.
The next morning, Song Caixing realized that Xiao Xiaohua was not home when she noticed that she hadn't come out for breakfast.
No one in the family cared about Xiaoxiaohua's whereabouts.
Her in-laws complained that raising another child would be too expensive and troublesome, so they asked her to send her daughter back home.
Song Caixing retorted to her in-laws, "If you want me to send my daughter away, then you should return the thousand yuan my second sister-in-law gave me, and you can forget about the half of the rent my second sister-in-law promised to give me every year!"
The parents-in-law fell silent at this point.
Guo Rui coaxed Song Caixing, "Talk to my parents nicely. They're just worried that your daughter won't be used to living here."
Song Caixing looked at her husband with dissatisfaction. They both knew very well why their daughter had run away from home.
"You're the ones who made me want my daughter back, and you're the ones who made me send her away!" Song Caixing didn't even eat breakfast and angrily ran out to look for her daughter.
Li Wenxiu wanted Song Yinhua to continue farming the land at the foot of the mountain, offering her 2,500 yuan in rent each year. After Song Yinhua refused, Li Wenxiu incited Song Caixing to take Xiao Xiaohua away.
Thinking that once Xiao Xiaohua was gone, Song Yinhua would only be able to rely on her two sons for support in her old age, and thus she would have to give more to her two sons.
She could also use this opportunity to manipulate Song Yinhua.
In an effort to persuade Song Caixing, Li Wenxiu contacted Guo Rui and promised to give them nearly half of the annual rent.
With a few words of encouragement from Guo Rui, Song Caixing got her daughter back.
But once the daughter was brought back, her husband and in-laws couldn't accept the child.
Song Caixing wanted the 1,000 yuan to help her already struggling family, but she didn't want her daughter to negatively impact her family's finances.
In this dilemma, she found her daughter through the arch of the bridge at the entrance of the village.
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Songzhuang Village.
Li Wenxiu secretly approached Song Yinhua twice, and even had her eldest son deliver chicken soup and some food to her, hoping that she would rent the land at the foot of the mountain, but Song Yinhua politely declined.
When she went to town, she passed by Song Yinhua's wonton shop several times, and it was always packed with customers.
She also wanted to partner with Song Yinhua to open a wonton shop in the county town.
She couldn't handle the matter herself, so she asked Song Baogen to speak on her behalf.
Song Baogen was unhappy, and the two argued about it several times in private, even getting into a physical fight.
Finally, feeling sorry for her son, Qiao Guilan went to Song Yinhua to bring up the matter, and unsurprisingly, she was rejected.
"Yinhua, don't be so stubborn. Xiaohua has been taken away by Caixing. You're all alone without any children. What's the point of holding onto your money so tightly? Pay more attention to Baogen's two sons and help them out more often. When you get old, will Baogen's two sons still take care of you?" Qiao Guilan earnestly advised.
"Mom, I'm only in my early thirties, I'm far from old. You should take care of yourself first."
"Mom is doing this for your own good. What use is so much money to a woman like you? When you get old, you'll need a younger generation to take care of you. If you're good to Baogen's family now, you'll be better off later..."
"We'll talk about the future later, Mom. It's late, so I won't keep you for dinner." Song Yinhua sent her mother away.
"Yinhua, I've been through this before. If you don't listen to me, you'll regret it later!"
Qiao Guilan couldn't persuade Song Yinhua and stormed off in a huff.
Song Erzhuang came to persuade him again.
“You siblings have always had a good relationship. Baogen has to support the whole family and take care of our parents. He has a lot of financial pressure. You should help Baogen share some of the burden. Wenxiu said she knows she was wrong. If you partner with her to open a wonton shop again, she will never do anything foolish again.”
"Dad, Mom has already come by. I'll say it again: no land rentals, no partnerships."
"You can partner with Wenxiu to open another wonton shop in the county town. You don't need to worry about anything. All you have to do is provide wonton filling to Wenxiu's shop every day. Wenxiu will take care of everything else. You don't have to do anything and you'll get paid. You're not willing to do that?"
Despite Song Erzhuang's repeated attempts to persuade her, Song Yinhua did not loosen her grip.
"Yinhua, have you ever thought about what you'll do when you get old?" Song Erzhuang shouted anxiously. "People are so pitiful when they get old!"
"Dad, don't worry about my affairs. By the time I get old, you'll be long gone, so there's no need to fret about it!"
"Fine, I don't care anymore. Do whatever you want, see if you regret it when you're old!" Song Erzhuang was also angered and left.
If he were younger, he would have already taught the girl a lesson.
But when people get old, they still have to live at the mercy of their children.
Song Erzhuang left with a sigh.
Night fell.
The entire village fell into a deathly silence.
Several black wolfhounds guarded the yard.
A jeep stopped at the gate of the courtyard.
A black wolfhound barked warily at the gate.
The other black wolfhounds also became alert, some baring their teeth and adopting an aggressive stance.
The lights were on inside the room.
Song Yinhua was sewing new clothes for the crazy old woman and Xiao Xiaohua in the space when she heard a dog barking from the end of the space, so she immediately came out of the space.
There was a knock on the door.
None of the black guard dogs barked.
Is Little Flower back?
Only when Little Flower returns does the Black Wolfhound stop barking.
Song Yinhua opened the door and saw her dead husband standing in the doorway...
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