The Zhou family was in chaos, with cries and curses mingling together, enough to drive anyone mad.
"Tsk, these people are forcing my second brother and his wife to go crazy and threaten suicide before they'll give in. It's really too much." Old Zhou didn't leave. He drove the oxcart to a place far away from Old Zhou's house, then circled back and hid not far away, eavesdropping.
Just as someone was about to die, Zhou the eldest was about to go in and try to persuade them when he heard Zhou the old lady begging in a shrill voice, "Second son's wife, please let us go. We'll never dare to curse you again. We're afraid to die. It's us who are afraid to die, it's the old woman who's afraid to die. We don't want to die. Let go of us. If you want to divide the family property, then divide it. Nobody will dare to stop us."
Old Zhou paused and hid again. Well, at least he didn't have to show up. That's good, so he won't get into trouble instead of trying to mediate.
"Invite the village chief and all the senior villagers to come and be witnesses," Chen Caocao said with a gloomy face.
"Alright, I'll ask the village chief to come over tomorrow." Old Zhou was also scared; sure enough, a dog that usually doesn't make a sound can bite deadly when it does.
"Now, not tomorrow. We don't want to wait." Chen Caocao's expression was tough, and her tone was even more rigid. In fact, she was also very flustered, but she was just holding her breath and pretending to be calm.
How could someone who has been weak for over twenty years suddenly become completely assertive in just a few months?
She had no choice but to become assertive, and her husband was also forced to become ruthless. He had no choice but to be even more unreasonable and inhumane than his parents-in-law and two younger brothers-in-law in order to get his share of the family property.
Now that we can't set up stalls and do business at the dock, we have no source of income. The money we saved up earlier has to be saved for our son's medical treatment. We're having trouble even getting enough to eat. We can only come back and share the grain from a few acres of land to make ends meet.
If they didn't get any grain, the four of them would starve to death. So Chen Caocao wasn't just bluffing at Old Lady Zhou. If Old Lady Zhou didn't give in, Chen Caocao would really drag her into the well.
This fully demonstrates that you can't deal with eccentric people using normal methods; you can only subdue them with even more eccentric behavior. That's why Zhou Lao Er finally won this battle.
After watching the Zhou family go to find the village chief, Old Zhou stopped watching the commotion and drove home.
Old Zhou unloaded the carriage, tied the cow to the cowshed, and asked, "Has Mo Tianzhu's family come over? I asked Zhang Facai to bring them over. We just watched some fun at Old Zhou's house."
“I’m here, and everything’s settled in. I’ll be staying in the two old houses that Xingxing and her sons used to live in,” Zhao Guihua replied. “I was wondering why you’re so nosy about things over there. You just love to make trouble for yourself.”
“Wife, you’ve misunderstood this time. We didn’t even show our faces; we were just eavesdropping at the door. My second brother and his wife handled today’s matter themselves. Wow, living in town for a few months really makes a difference. People who have seen the world and those who haven’t really have very different personalities.” Now, Zhou Lao Da looks at Zhou Lao Er and his wife with great respect.
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