Wan Qiuju and her daughter knelt for a whole day, but received nothing. Penniless, they dragged their exhausted bodies back to the Huang family home.
Household chores were done, mainly just cooking the food. Fortunately, food was scarce, and no one was willing to waste it. As long as it wasn't poisonous, the Huang family ate it.
The other two families also did a haphazard job, and their hygiene was even worse. When Li Cuiniang returned, her house was dirtier than a cowshed.
Having just returned from the police station, many people were pointing and gossiping about Li Cuiniang. She dared not go out and made do for a few days. However, the house reeked of stench. She didn't want to do anything herself, and her cursing at her family was of no use.
After Huang Jingbei's seemingly heartfelt words, she went to the Lü family and asked the mother and daughters to go home and do housework, saying that if they did it, she would not hold Lü Lihua accountable for sending her to the police station.
With Lü Chahua and Lü Lihua present, she naturally failed and returned home dejectedly without managing to call anyone.
Zhang Zhaodi shared similar experiences with the Lü sisters and empathized with their plight. Furthermore, since the Lü family's house was built next to the educated youth compound, she maintained close ties with them. Naturally, she sided with the Lü family in their conflict with the Huang family.
Yu Rujia: "Neither Lü Chahua nor Lü Lihua are weak people. After more than a month of peaceful life, they would not be so foolish as to run to the Huang family to suffer."
Zhang Zhaodi was somewhat downcast: "Once a person stands up for themselves, no one can do anything to them. If I had been like them before, my sister wouldn't still be suffering."
Zhang Zhaodi felt extremely guilty for not being able to let her older sister, who had taken care of her since childhood, break away from that so-called brother-in-law's house.
Yu Rujia patted her hand to comfort her, saying, "Not everyone can be like you or Camellia and Pear Blossom, having the courage to break free from the shackles of worldly conventions and run away to find a new world."
"Everyone has different priorities in life. You may think you're doing well, but they haven't experienced your life and can't truly empathize with you. As long as you've tried your best, that's enough. As for the outcome, let's leave it to fate."
In this day and age, it's common for people to refuse to get a divorce no matter what. Yu Rujia wasn't surprised that Zhang Zhaodi's sister chose to stay at home.
The Huang family, the subject of their gossip, was in complete chaos. Li Cuiniang was chasing Huang Sanniu with a stick, trying to use him to force Huang Jingxi's wife to clean the house.
Jingxi, who had given birth to two of the Huang family's three grandsons, stood tall and considered herself the Huang family's number one contributor. How could she stand by and watch her son be bullied by Li Cuiniang? She immediately came over to stop her from hitting him with her stick.
Jingxi's wife said, "If you want to do the work, do it yourself. If you hit Sanniu again, we'll separate and live separately."
Jingdong's wife also threatened, "Mother, I advise you to do it yourself or let the fourth son's family do it. We are both mothers of sons. If you treat us badly, we may not support you in the future."
"The fourth son's wife knelt at her parents' house for a whole day and came back dejected without getting a single word. If you keep making trouble, we'll do as the third son's family said and separate from the family. We're not going to serve you anymore."
Li Cuiniang has always favored Huang Jingbei, giving him all the good food she could.
Even though he went to the city, he kept his monthly salary for himself, but Li Cuiniang also sent him five yuan and a lot of food every month, which meant that the other three wives were supporting his family of three.
They worked from home every day, but they couldn't earn more than five yuan a year; the rest was all pocketed by Li Cuiniang.
Li Cuiniang refused to contribute any money, and Huang Daniu, the eighteen-year-old son of Huang Jingdong, was still unmarried.
Huang Jingdong's wife had tried to cause trouble several times, but to no avail. This time, after Lü Lihua's incident, they realized that this was another way to deal with their mother-in-law. In addition, considering Wan Qiuju's experience in the Wan family, they were not afraid of Li Cuiniang. At worst, they would just separate and live separately.
The fourth branch of the family only had five or six work points from Huang Jingbei, and they even had to subsidize their food. The eldest and third branches had long been fed up with this. If they could separate the family, they could take care of their own small family without having to subsidize outsiders, and they would definitely be better off than they are now.
Thinking about the days when the Lü family mother and daughter moved out, Jingxi's wife said decisively, "I've never seen a married brother's family still being supported by his elder brother and sister-in-law. We can't live like this for another day. Let's separate the family."
When the eldest and third wives started arguing about dividing the family property, Li Cuiniang panicked. No matter how much she liked Huang Jingbei, she knew that without his job in the city, it would be difficult for him to support his family of three in the countryside on his own. If the family really split up, they would starve to death.
Not wanting her youngest son to suffer, and not daring to cause trouble for the first and third wives, Li Cuiniang directed her anger at Huang Jingnan.
If he weren't so incompetent and unable to control the Lü family mother and daughters, how could they have seized the opportunity to run away? Not only did they lose work points, but no one was left to do the housework.
It should be noted that when the Lü family mother and daughters were at home, apart from the eldest daughter Lü Guihua who stayed at home to do housework, everyone else, even six-year-old Xinghua, would go out to gather pig feed to earn work points.
After this person moved out, the family lost more than twenty work points every day, and the family started fighting over housework. Now they want to divide the family property, which seriously threatens Li Cuiniang's position as the retired emperor of the Huang family.
Li Cuiniang said maliciously, "Second brother, go and bring your wife and those good-for-nothings back, or don't come back at all."
When Huang Jingnan was born, she was kind to him for a while, but after her son was born, she didn't care for him as much.
Huang Jingnan had no son after getting married, so she made it a habit to suppress Lü Fangfang's family. Now that they were out of Li Cuiniang's control, her anger naturally fell on Huang Jingnan.
The weather turned cold in November, and people put on coats; it got dark earlier than usual.
In summer, when it was still bright at seven o'clock, by the beginning of winter, it was already dark by six o'clock.
Even with two kerosene lamps lit, the room was still dimly lit.
Gao Shujing was still cooking in the kitchen. He was enjoying the aroma of the chicken porridge on the table and kept drooling. Duofu was afraid that he would drool on the food, so he took a bowl, scooped up some porridge and fed it to him with a spoon.
Upon tasting the delicious food she had been longing for, Duo Xi swallowed quickly, repeatedly urging, "Brother, porridge, porridge..."
With the help of the Strengthening Pill and the Enlightenment Pill, ten-month-old Duoxi was able to walk on his own. Although he fell down every few steps, he was able to walk.
He can still utter words one by one.
Duofu blew on the porridge in the spoon a few times to cool it down before feeding it to Duoxi: "We haven't eaten yet, you little glutton, you're urging us to eat even though you have food."
The term "little foodie" was something Yu Rujia said to Duolu, which was remembered by the precocious Duofu and is now being used on Duoxi.
Duoxi, whether she understood him or not, swallowed the porridge and chuckled foolishly, "Eat, eat, good."
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