The Ling family has a small charcoal kiln, and now that the weather is getting colder, they've sent over two hundred catties of fruitwood charcoal.
"They've brought all the good charcoal from home," said Grandma Qiao. "If our in-laws have any good charcoal, they can keep it for themselves and sell it. If we need charcoal for our own use, we can buy it from the village."
Lingyin said, "If we don't send enough, my parents will feel bad. They're not concerned about whether we can make money from it or not. They're just happy that everyone is warm up."
Grandma Qiao beamed with joy at how pleasant her voice was.
Two days later, a group of soldiers from the camp entered Datian Village, carrying several people, and headed directly to the Song family.
Some villagers went over to take a look and exclaimed in surprise.
"It was Old Lady Song and her two daughters-in-law."
"It's half-dead and not very useful anymore."
When the soldiers arrived at the Song family's gate, a large crowd had already gathered to watch the spectacle.
"They were wondering why Old Lady Song and her two daughters-in-law had been missing for the past few days. Turns out they were taken to the camp."
"What happened? How did they end up like this?" a villager asked, mustering his courage.
Although Song Laosan was punished, his family was not implicated. No matter how disliked the Song family members were, it was not a reason for the camp to punish them, especially since they were all women.
“They dared to offend Miss Guan and were disobedient to her superiors. Miss Guan spared their lives, which is already a great act of leniency.”
Some villagers remembered that earlier, Old Lady Song had been boasting that her son was General Guan's son-in-law and her daughter-in-law was Miss Guan. She said that she wanted to set rules for Miss Guan, saying that no matter how noble her status was, she still had to be filial to her, her mother-in-law.
They initially thought it was a joke, but to their surprise, Old Lady Song actually took action.
That's just asking for death.
This building must be sheltered from the wind.
The villagers shook their heads. They had initially thought the camp might be deliberately causing trouble because of Song Laosan's matter, but now they understood and felt that the Song family deserved it.
The Song family members also came out. Seeing that the three people were on the verge of death but were not dead, mainly due to external injuries, and that they could be saved, the eldest and second eldest Song brothers both showed disappointment.
Why didn't they just kill it and send it back?
With so many people present, we had no choice but to bite the bullet and send the younger one to find a doctor.
Otherwise, the villagers would spread rumors that the two Song brothers didn't save their mother or their wives, and they would become rats wherever they went.
Some villagers laughed: "Old Song went to Liu Village to ask about relatives yesterday. We thought he was asking for his son, but it turns out he was asking for himself."
"This family is a complicated story."
Upon hearing these words, Shen stared wide-eyed, reached out, and grabbed Song Laoda's hand tightly.
Her hands were cold and withered, like ghostly claws, which startled Old Song so much that he cried out.
"Let go, let go of me, you scared me to death."
Someone else laughed: "When your wife hears that you're going to remarry, she'll drag you down to hell with her even if she dies."
Song Lao Er and Song Lao Da thought they would wear the person down to death, but little did they know that the three women, including Song Lao Po, were very resilient. Although they took medicine intermittently and sometimes went hungry, they were able to get out of bed after a few days.
The first thing the old woman did after getting out of bed was to grab a kitchen knife and chase after Song Lao Da and Song Lao Er, with Shen Shi and Chen Shi joining in.
The Song family resumed its noisy and chaotic ways.
Ten days after receiving the letter from the capital, a stranger came to the Qiao family and told Qiao Lian'er to go to the Haolaiju teahouse in town, saying that someone was waiting there.
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