"Chunxiao, my poor Chunxiao, why are you so miserable? You married in and worked like a slave, only to end up like this!" A woman hugged the young woman on the bed and wailed. "If I had known the Zhou family was such a worthless bunch, I would never have pushed you into the kang."
"Mom, don't be too sad. My sister is like this now. If you fall again, who will seek justice for her?"
"You are all dead!" The woman's voice was filled with obvious anger when she heard it, "If anything happens to Chunxiao, you will break the legs of that bastard Zhou Hongzhi!" After saying that, she couldn't help crying.
The old man squatting on the side took a look at the furious woman and sighed continuously, wondering what was going on.
Outside the house, the Zhou family's wife's eyes were almost rolled up to the sky. "I said the Yan family wouldn't treat me well. Look, this guy isn't dead yet, and he's howling so hard that I wish the whole village would come to watch."
"It's already this late, so you better keep your mouth shut." Zhou Xingcai looked at the villagers who were peeking out of the yard to watch the excitement, and felt that he had never been so embarrassed in his life. "Where is Hongzhi?" He suppressed his displeasure. His wife was unconscious, and as a husband, he should have stayed by her side even if it was just for show. But he left the old couple and went out to hide away.
"He went to the town. I asked him to go. If he was here at this time, I think the people in the house would make a fuss." Xu listened to the noises in the house with a bad mood. "Chunxiao looks honest, but she made trouble at the critical moment. She jumped into the river to save herself some trouble, but others will point at us and scold us, saying that we treated her harshly. If Mr. Xu knew about this, Hongzhi's marriage would be ruined. She is really cruel and scheming." Xu began to curse.
Zhou Xingcai shook his head helplessly, coaxed everyone at the gate away, turned around and walked into the house with a deep breath.
Zhou Mainiang, Chunxiao's mother, immediately put the person she was holding down down and rushed over to him. "Father-in-law, you have to give me an explanation today. How could my daughter become like this? If the villagers hadn't informed me, I would have had to collect her body!"
Xu, who followed her into the house, had no sense of guilt at all. "Mother-in-law, what you said is wrong. Chunxiao jumped into the river because she was upset. Do we really have to tie her up all day long?"
Zhou was even more furious when she heard this. "Then why did she jump into the river? Why did she jump into the river for no reason? It was because your Zhou Hongzhi wanted to divorce his wife and marry someone else. Your Zhou family is really going too far."
In September this year, Zhou Hongzhi passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, which made him very famous in Zhoujia Village. Mrs. Zhou was still feeling lucky that her daughter had finally made it and became the wife of a scholar. She thought that her family could entrust their land to her son-in-law and get the tax exemption. But who would have thought that Zhou Hongzhi wanted to divorce his wife in less than a month. How would Chunxiao live alone in the future after this divorce? Thinking of this, she wanted to tear the Zhou family apart.
"My daughter has been married to your Zhou family for four years. She has worked diligently and willingly, but you have no conscience." Zhou was really sad when she thought of Chunxiao.
Mrs. Xu saw that she was crying more and more excitedly, and curled her lips. "Chunxiao is diligent, but she has been married to our family for four years and there is no sign of pregnancy. Our Zhou family has only Hongzhi as a child, and now he is a scholar, with a bright future. What if Chunxiao can't have children? Are you trying to make our Zhou family extinct?"
"Then you shouldn't have pushed her to such a desperate situation." Yan Bingfa, who was standing by, finally spoke up. "They're still young, and maybe they'll have a child in two years. Now you're planning to marry someone else without even saying anything. Aren't you going to force Chunxiao to death?"
"Father-in-law, please don't put the blame on us. We can't afford such a serious crime!"
"You forced my sister to jump into the river, and you still say you are putting the blame on me. I think your Zhou family saw that Zhou Hongzhi had achieved fame and success and wanted to climb up the social ladder, so they looked down on my sister and wanted to force her to death to make room for the newcomer." The speaker was Chunxiao's eldest brother Yan Dashan. He was shocked when he learned about his sister jumping into the river this morning, and hurriedly accompanied his parents for more than an hour to reach Zhoujia Village.
Xu was exposed and felt ashamed and angry. "We are only treating you politely, please don't go too far. This is our Zhoujia Village. If you continue to be unreasonable, don't blame me for disregarding my in-laws' reputation."
"Bah! What about Zhou Hongzhi? Isn't he a scholar? He's a scholar too. I've read so much that I've become a dog's stomach. He didn't even show his face when my parents and his parents-in-law came to visit. What a big shot!"
"My son is now famous and he doesn't even need to kneel when he sees the county magistrate. My uncle-in-law should be more careful with his words." Zhou Xingcai, who originally didn't want to argue, couldn't help but speak when he saw his son being scolded.
"Even if he becomes the prime minister, I am still his uncle-in-law."
Chunxiao woke up in the midst of such a quarrel. She opened her eyes and looked blankly at the thatched roof, then turned to look at the people in the room who were concentrating on quarreling. No one noticed that she was awake.
"Mom, why are you here?" She rubbed her aching head and wanted to sit up, but she felt weak all over.
Yan Dashan, who was the first to hear her voice, saw that she had woken up, and hurriedly pulled the arm of Zhou Mainiang, who was still crying and making noise, "Mom, mom, Chunxiao is awake, stop making noise."
When Zhou heard this, she looked towards the bed and saw that Chunxiao had indeed woken up. She hurried to the bedside, hugged her and cried, "Chunxiao, mother is here to see you! How could you be so useless and do such a stupid thing? Are you trying to scare me to death?"
Mrs. Xu and Zhou Xingcai finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Although the doctor said that the man had just caught a cold after falling into the water, they were still worried because he had not woken up for a whole day and night. The in-laws came to make trouble again, and now that he had woken up, they walked up to him and said, "Chunxiao, why are you so depressed? Why don't you just say it nicely instead of jumping into the river? If you don't wake up, your parents will force us to death." Mrs. Xu pretended to shed two tears.
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