The Gan family's house was located at the very end of the village, right next to a stream. The narrow road in front of the house was too narrow for the oxcart to stop. Gan Li simply told the driver to stop at one end of the road, and the driver helped unload the things from the cart before driving off.
Gan Li and Chen Pan'er struggled to carry the things they bought, while the doctor carried his medicine box in one hand and helped carry some things in the other. The three of them walked towards the gate of the Gan family's house.
Presumably because everyone was busy in the fields and there was hardly anyone at home, the village was very quiet along the way. As a result, the faint sounds of arguing coming from the Gan family's house sounded particularly jarring.
As you get closer, the content of the argument inevitably seeps into your ears.
"Gan Mingli! I think you've really wasted your name. You don't understand any logic at all! That's your sister, but my two children aren't yours?"
From the moment they were born, Gan Li had disliked them, and she even ruined their marriage! And Gan Lin, if it weren't for your good sister, he might already be a scholar by now!
“You treat her like a sister, but does she treat you like a brother? That day, we were beaten up by Baifulai’s boss and were so sore we could barely walk. Why didn’t your sister take you in for the night? It was only by sheer luck that I carried you back!”
"The old man dotes on her so much, but now he's so sick he can't get out of bed. Has she even come to take care of him? If it weren't for her eyeing my family's recipes, she wouldn't have even glanced at us!"
"Now that your family is facing such a huge famine, instead of thinking about how to solve it, you're thinking about comforting her? Let me tell you, if you dare to step out of this door today, I'll just hang myself right here at the gate of your Gan family's house with only my belt!"
Gan Mingli squatted on the ground dejectedly. Hearing his wife's words, he stammered, "I know all that you're saying, but... but that's my sister!"
His voice was too low for the people outside to hear clearly, but his wife, Zhao, heard it perfectly and immediately screamed, "Sister? What sister? That's a troublemaker!"
Even so, she didn't feel relieved. Instead, she felt desperate because she felt that even after saying all that, her husband was still protecting that awful sister-in-law.
Thinking of what had happened these past few days, and the huge debt her family owed, she was overcome with grief and said bitterly:
"She's your sister, and I'm just a maid in your household! Even my man doesn't respect me, what's the point of me living? I might as well hang myself!"
As she spoke, she rushed into the house without any apparent reason, and then rushed out again in a flurry, still holding a belt in her hand.
Gan Mingli remembered his wife's words about hanging herself at the gate, and seeing her rushing towards the gate with her head down, he was startled and rushed over to stop her.
But Zhao was faster. Before Gan Mingli could even get close, she had already pulled open the door, only to see three people standing there!
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