"This Mrs. Zhou keeps calling us ungrateful. If this gets out, how will Hongzhi survive in the village? How can we still live?" Mrs. Xu was very angry. "I think it's better to deal with this as soon as possible." Many villagers gathered outside the house to watch the fun, pointing and talking at their family.
"Just keep your mouth shut," Zhou Xingcai began to reason. He still felt a bit guilty towards Chunxiao. After all, Chunxiao hadn't had to worry about the household chores for the past few years, as long as they were around. He'd actually hesitated about the Xu family's marriage proposal before, but thinking about his son's future, he felt he couldn't help but feel sorry for the Yan family and Chunxiao. It was all because their family was poor; raising a scholar was hard.
Mrs. Xu looked at the porridge in her hand and said, "I think we should not eat this porridge. All the good intentions have been wasted. All this food is wasted."
"Hurry up and send it in." Zhou Xing realized that his mother-in-law had always looked down on this daughter-in-law. Usually, he would turn a blind eye when the mother-in-law said something about his daughter-in-law. But today was different. The couple had come to visit, and it was really inappropriate for them not to send a bite of food. He didn't want to give people a chance to talk, so he said in an unhappy tone, "Watch your words."
Only then did Xu reluctantly push the door open and go in. "Come, make some thick rice porridge and let Chunxiao eat it while it's hot. Eating some porridge will help her get better faster when she's sick." She tried hard to force a concerned expression.
Zhou took her bowl of porridge and looked at it. There was not even a pickle on the surface. Fortunately, the porridge was still quite thick. She helped Chunxiao up and said, "Chunxiao, come here, let me feed you."
"Mom, I can do it myself." She was indeed a little hungry.
Yan Bingfa looked at Zhou Xingcai at the door and walked over with Dashan. "My dear, how about we go outside and talk?"
Zhou Xingcai took them out of the house.
Seeing Zhou sitting by the bed, and now that they were the only three people in the room, Xu couldn't help but say something, "Mother-in-law, I may have been a little unfair to Chunxiao this time, but I've said it before, they say the three unfilial acts are not having descendants, and the worst is not having descendants. I can't let down the ancestors of the Zhou family. Chunxiao has been with us for several years, and we've never treated her harshly. You can go ask around in the village and you'll know. There's nothing we can do about it now. Please try to persuade her."
Zhou didn't want to talk to her, and Chunxiao drank her porridge by herself.
Seeing that both of them ignored her, Xu left the room angrily.
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