"Shen Dongsheng, let me tell you, if your wife doesn't hand over Yu Zhenzhu today, you two are getting a divorce! Get a divorce!"
A sharp, sarcastic voice rang out from outside the door. Fu Wan felt pain all over her body; even bending her fingers slightly hurt.
What's wrong with her?
Why is it so noisy outside?
She should have run off to a remote mountain village to look for her daughter, so why does this person sound like he's from her hometown?
She had clearly left her hometown more than 30 years ago and hadn't been back.
Time flies! She has been searching for her daughter, Shen Lingling, for over thirty years.
wrong.
The person I just spoke to not only had a local accent, but their voice also sounded somewhat familiar.
Fu Wan suddenly opened her eyes, sat up, and looked around.
Sure enough, the cabinet doors were peeling, the brick walls were unpainted, and even the floor was covered in hard mud instead of modern, attractive tiles.
Has she traveled back in time?
Looking at the hand, although there were a few scratches on the back of the hand from doing farm work, it was definitely not the hand of a person in their fifties.
She really did travel back in time!
That makes sense; that familiar cursing voice just now belonged to her former mother-in-law, Old Lady Shen.
He never imagined that after a lifetime of hardship, he would find his daughter's grave. He fainted and woke up to find himself back in the past.
It's like going back to the time before I got divorced.
Fu Wan tried to smile, but the movement pulled at the wound on her lip, causing her excruciating pain.
Just then, the door was pushed open with a whoosh, and a tanned man walked in.
It was her ex-husband from her previous life, Shen Dongsheng.
Seeing that Fu Wan had sat up straight, Shen Dongsheng's eyes lit up. "Wife, you're awake."
He seemed oblivious to Fu Wan's injuries, and after a moment's hesitation, he said, "Give that fish pearl to Mother. I'll go to the dock later to buy a couple of fish from your place."
"Does my mother need those fish?"
It turns out that time has gone back to when she was cleaning the fish and discovered the fish pearl.
In the summer of 1985, she found a fish in a crevice of a reef while beachcombing.
She originally intended to secretly cook it for her daughter, Chen Lingling, to nourish her, but unexpectedly found a pearl the size of a pigeon egg inside the fish's belly.
That pearl was pure white; it looked like it could fetch a good price.
Just as she was happily thinking about finding a good buyer, her mother-in-law, Old Lady Shen, suddenly walked in and gloated that Fu Wan's father and brother had encountered a storm at sea.
Her father, Boss Fu, is missing and his fate is unknown. Her brother, Fu Ming, has his leg pierced by the spine of some kind of fish, leaving it a bloody mess.
If it weren't for Brother Fu Liang from the clan who pulled Fu Ming onto the boat and waited for the rest of the village, the two men of the Fu family would probably have been swallowed by the sea.
Upon hearing this, Fu Wan immediately panicked, and the pearl she had hidden in her hand fell into the basin of water.
Grandma Shen has very sharp eyes; as soon as she sees something good, she reaches out to grab it.
With her father gone and her brother seriously injured, the family was in dire need of money. Even if Fu Wan was usually weak, she would never give the pearls to her mother-in-law.
In desperation, with nowhere to hide, she grabbed the pearl and stuffed it into her mouth.
To her surprise, the pearl was swallowed directly down her throat.
When Grandma Shen saw her actions, she immediately became so angry that she hit her. She often beat and scolded Fu Wan at home, and this time she beat her even more severely.
Fu Wan was beaten unconscious, but Old Lady Shen assumed she was faking it.
Thinking of this, Fu Wan's gaze towards Shen Dongsheng deepened.
Just like in her past life, she swallowed the pearl. Shen Dongsheng listened to his mother and fed her croton oil and soapy water.
My only thought was to get her to vomit or poop it out, and in the end she actually did vomit.
The Shen family didn't mind the mess; they happily washed it clean and then sold it for money.
As for Fu Wan, who was nearly killed, she was sent back to the Fu family. By the time she recovered, her daughter, Shen Lingling, had already been secretly sold into the mountains by Old Lady Shen.
As for Shen Dongsheng, who was both a father and a husband, he listened to his mother and waited for her to find him a wife who could give birth to a son.
As for Fu Wan, well, who told her to be disobedient and unable to have children?
After a serious illness, Fu Wan aged more than ten years. Her father passed away, her paralyzed brother committed suicide, and her mother, unable to bear the blow, also committed suicide.
Fu Wan originally wanted to go with her family, but then she thought of her daughter, whose whereabouts were unknown, so she gritted her teeth and went out to work as a nanny and collect scraps, earning money while searching for her daughter.
When she was in her fifties, she finally found her daughter's burial place. Her daughter had been sold into the mountains as a child bride, but fell off a cliff while working and did not live to the age of twenty.
Ah, the Shen family, perhaps Heaven took pity on her and gave her a second chance.
"Wife, why don't you give the pearl to Mother? Otherwise, she'll make us divorce." Shen Dongsheng picked at his fingers, feeling somewhat uneasy.
"You never gave me a son to begin with. If you don't give him to your mother this time, she won't take care of us anymore."
"There are no pearls. Your mother is making things up."
Fu Wan spoke coldly, "Even in this second life, this man is still so spineless."
"Mom clearly said you swallowed it. I'll go get some soapy water and see if you can vomit it up!"
After saying that, Shen Dongsheng was about to walk out. "Soapy water can be spat out. You really are something, you don't listen to your mother at all."
Fu Wan ignored her and said, "Let's get a divorce."
Shen Dongsheng was shocked and stopped in his tracks. Fu Wan was beautiful and hardworking, and he had never thought of divorcing her.
Even though she didn't have a son.
"Let's get a divorce. There's no pearl, and I don't want anything in the house. I just want Lingling."
“After the divorce, your mother can help you remarry,” she said with a mocking smile, “and give you a son.”
Shen Dongsheng stammered, unable to speak, "Wife, you can still have children."
"I can't!" Fu Wan interrupted without hesitation. "The doctor said I couldn't have any more children when I gave birth to Lingling."
“My dad is gone, and my brother is injured. I will definitely have to support my family from now on. If we don’t get a divorce, you can give me fifty yuan every month.”
Shen Dongsheng was so shocked that his eyes widened. Fifty yuan! How many fish would that cost?
As soon as Old Mrs. Shen entered the hall from outside, she heard Fu Wan say "fifty yuan," and she immediately flew into a rage.
"Fifty dollars, you little bitch, you've got some nerve! Look at yourself, do you even deserve fifty dollars?!"
"Why don't I deserve it? I do all the housework, I lease the land outside, so what's wrong with me giving fifty yuan to my family!"
"If you don't give it to me, I'll get a divorce!"
Old Mrs. Shen's eyes lit up. That widow Yang at the village entrance had money. Even though she had given her son to her ex-husband's family, that only proved she could have a son.
"Fine, let's get a divorce! You won't get a single penny out of my house."
"Ring ring, I want to take it with me!"
"No, that's my daughter!" Shen Dongsheng disagreed. He felt that if Shen Lingling left too, he and Fu Wan would have nothing to do with each other anymore.
"If you don't take my daughter with you, you won't be able to have any more children due to the family planning quota!"
Old Mrs. Shen glared at Shen Dongsheng with some disdain, "You're a good-for-nothing. Take him if you want. He's just a waste of food in my house!"
Fu Wan, who was always meek and obedient, seemed like a completely different person today, which only made Old Madam Shen angrier and angrier.
"Hurry up and pack your things, before it gets dark, and get the hell out of here with your worthless trash!"
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