Sun Hongmei's crying was exactly the same as in her previous life when she complained to outsiders about how great Xia Juhua was. In her previous life, Xia Juhua let Sun Hongmei go in order to avoid being criticized, hoping that outsiders would understand the principle that those who are innocent will be cleared.

Unfortunately, people prefer to believe what they hear, and few are willing to take the trouble to see for themselves.

So Xia Juhua couldn't hold it back this time, and shouted to the west room: "Sun Hongmei, don't cry. You said my son is not a human being, and it seems that marrying my son is unfair to you. You were raised in the palm of your parents' hands, and you can't stand the hard life of the Liu family. You don't want the whole family to stir the pot together, and I can understand."

"Don't worry, I won't stop you if you want to go back to your parents' home. Tomorrow I'll have Liu Zhishuang take you back to Sunjiazhuang. But it's so dark in the middle of the night. You can't go back to your parents' home alone. If something happens to you on the road, we in the Liu family won't be able to explain it."

Xia Juhua did not agree with Liu Zhishuang marrying Sun Hongmei at first, and Sun Hongmei knew it, so she had been acting nice and clever in front of Xia Juhua before and after the marriage. Now Xia Juhua said that marrying Liu Zhishuang was unfair to her, and that Sun Hongmei was raised by her parents, which was simply the most straightforward irony.

Sun Hongmei's crying was choked all of a sudden. She didn't know whether she should have the nerve to say that she wanted to go back to her parents' home right now, or just let the idea of ​​going back to her parents' home go as she had done with Wang Caifeng at noon.

If the matter really ended in nothing, Sun Hongmei would not be willing to accept it - before she left home, her mother and her aunt had told her that in the first battle with a man, she must not lose momentum, she must win and make the man submit, otherwise she would not be able to subdue him in the future and would have to listen to him bossing her around for the rest of her life.

But being sent back to her parents' home by Liu Zhishuang was totally different from her carrying her own luggage back to her parents' home - being sent back to her parents' home by her husband's family just five or six days after getting married, no matter how clever she was, she couldn't be completely right. Besides, Xia Juhua's words just now were quite loud, and the neighbors were not sure what they would say. This was completely different from what Sun Guizhi said, that Xia Juhua was most afraid of being pointed at by others.

The most terrible thing was that the words were spoken out loud. Even though Sun Hongmei was eloquent, she couldn't take back the words she had cried out, "Liu Zhishuang is not a human being" - it was because she was too angry just now, and she wanted her family to hear the sound and persuade them to stop fighting, so she didn't control her voice at all.

Liu Zhishuang also heard what Xia Juhua said. He paused for a moment before walking to the window of the main room and whispered, "Mom, I'm bothering you. I'll talk to her when we get back to the house and make her apologize to you tomorrow."

Seeing that Liu Zhishuang looked like he could still be Sun Hongmei's master, Xia Juhua couldn't help but sneer: "Does she listen to you when you talk to her?"

Liu Zhishuang couldn't answer such a soul-searching question, and he was speechless with his head trembling.

Xia Juhua had just questioned her youngest son, and realized that what she had said was no different from the first time she had an open dispute with Sun Hongmei in her previous life. She quickly calmed down her emotions, and softened her tone a little, but did not lower her voice:

"You insisted on marrying her, and you promised me that I wouldn't have to worry about you after we got married. But you guys are quarreling and making everyone feel uncomfortable after just a few days of marriage. People think you are not a human being anymore, and I feel bad when I hear that."

"mother……"

"You're married now, so don't mention your mother all the time, or your wife will be unhappy." Xia Juhua was a little disappointed, and said, "If your wife feels uncomfortable if we don't separate the family, then let's separate the family."

Xia Juhua kept her voice high, and Liu Zhiquan and his brother in the yard heard it, as did Wang Caifeng and Sun Hongmei in the east and west rooms. The difference was that Wang Caifeng was unwilling to split up the family, while Sun Hongmei thought it was worth considering.

Wang Caifeng didn't want to split up because she felt her mother-in-law was capable. The work points she earned were not only enough for her own food, but also a lot of supplements for her family. She could also take care of her children when she was away. She was not like other mothers-in-law who would find fault with their daughters-in-law every day or even beat them. Compared with so many advantages, she didn't have to worry about not being able to be the head of the family for the time being.

Because Sun Hongmei didn't have a child, she didn't realize how much trouble it would save her to have someone who was willing to take care of her child. She thought that if the family really split up, Liu Zhishuang wouldn't have to give half of the money he earned from carrying food bags to his mother-in-law. He could also keep all the work points he and she earned from working in the fields. This way, it would be much easier for Sun Hongmei to support her parents.

Unfortunately, the two brothers Liu Zhiquan didn't think so. Liu Zhiquan, who was not good at speaking, only asked Xia Juhua why she said that, while Liu Zhishuang almost shook his head and said, "Mom, haven't you heard of any son who just got married and immediately separated from the elderly? Don't say that you have raised me and my elder brother with great difficulty over the years, and we haven't even been filial to you. If I just got married and separated from the family, wouldn't the people in the village spit at me to death?"

Sun Hongmei, who was eavesdropping on the conversation outside, was so frightened by Liu Zhishuang's words that her thoughts disappeared without a trace. She sat down on the kang with a pale face. She understood that if she dared to say the words of splitting up the family, the consequences would be more serious than asking Liu Zhishuang to send her back to her parents' home tomorrow.

What to do? Sun Hongmei was rubbing her hands in anxiety in the room, wishing she could pull Liu Zhishuang back to tell him to tell his mother-in-law that he would not return to her parents' home and would not complain in the future, and to make her take back her words about dividing the family. Even if she wanted to bring it up, couldn't she do it after a few years?

When Xia Juhua said the words about dividing the family, she intended to let the neighbors hear them so that everyone would know that it was not that she could not tolerate her daughter-in-law, but that her daughter-in-law was clamoring for a division right after getting married, so as to avoid having the blame put on them again.

More importantly, Xia Juhua felt that there was nothing wrong with splitting up the family. She was no longer the age she was when she took medicine in her previous life. She was now in her early 40s and could work in the fields and earn money. If one person was well-fed, the whole family would not be hungry. It was not worse than having to take care of the children for one and the other.

Liu Zhiquan waited for Liu Zhishuang to finish speaking, then forced out a sentence: "Mom, I won't separate from you. Others have the eldest son supporting the elderly, and I am the eldest son."

Xia Juhua, who just thought she was still young at only in her early forties, glared at Liu Zhiquan again, turned around and went back to the house. Before entering, she said to Liu Zhishuang: "Go back and ask Sun Hongmei if she can't wait until tomorrow to go back to her parents' home. If she really can't wait, you have to see her off and not let her walk alone at night." To be a good person, you have to say it out loud so that others will know that you are a good person.

Liu Zhiquan and Liu Zhishuang waited until Xia Juhua turned off the lights in the main room before leaving the window. The two looked at each other, and Liu Zhiquan whispered, "Let's go back and talk properly. Don't make mother sad by arguing anymore."

After saying that, regardless of Liu Zhishuang's constipated expression, he returned to the east room. Wang Caifeng had been waiting for him, and when she saw him enter the room, she immediately asked: "Why did mother mention dividing the family? This family cannot be divided." Who would help her take care of the children? She would have no place to buy rice porridge for Liu Baoguo.

Liu Zhiquan glanced at her with dissatisfaction: "It's all your fault. Who told you to make your own decision? Look how angry your mother is. If I had no other choice, would I have proposed to divide the family? In the future, you should behave yourself and stop going out and fooling around with those women every day. You haven't learned anything good, but only learned how to play tricks on your own family members."

Wang Caifeng was blamed again. She grabbed the quilt and covered her head with it angrily: "I know." How could she be so unlucky to have met such a trouble-making sister-in-law like Sun Hongmei.

But how to get her mother-in-law to stop talking about the division of the family property? Wang Caifeng couldn't come up with a good idea, so she had to ask Liu Zhiquan for help: "If I go and compensate my mother now, will she calm down?"

Liu Zhiquan's brain was a little slow but he was not completely clueless. After lying down for such a long time, he already understood why his mother had glared at him like that just now. He snorted, "Now you know you have to apologize to your mother? This is not a matter of apology. In the future, you should work hard and be less cunning. That's better than anything else." Otherwise, why would his mother glare at him like that when he just wanted Wang Caifeng to apologize to Sun Hongmei?

Wang Caifeng felt that it was not that simple, but she could not think of a better solution. She was so anxious that she could not fall asleep for a long time.

Sun Hongmei also couldn't sleep.

Liu Zhiquan at least talked to Wang Caifeng a few words after entering the house, but Liu Zhishuang simply didn't say a word to Sun Hongmei, he just pulled up the quilt and lay down. Sun Hongmei made a fuss, and she used the method her aunt suggested to scare people by going back to her mother's house, but it didn't scare anyone, and she was quite scared.

Would he really let Liu Zhishuang send him back to her parents' home tomorrow? That would mean he would have to divorce Liu Zhishuang. Nowadays, divorces are rare even in the city, not to mention in the countryside. If a girl from a family gets divorced, the whole family would be broken.

No, I can't go back to my parents' home no matter what. Sun Hongmei made up her mind and quietly got up before dawn the next day. She took the cornmeal and corn grits that Xia Juhua had given her yesterday from the top of the cupboard and walked out quietly.

She didn't see that after she got up, Liu Zhishuang's eyes kept moving around, and he didn't look like he was sleeping soundly at all. When she left the house, Liu Zhishuang even sat up and listened to the noise.

Hearing the sound of firewood being carried in the yard, Liu Zhishuang smiled sarcastically and lay back in the quilt.

Wang Caifeng was awakened by Liu Baoguo's crying. After changing his diaper in the dark, she whispered to him to go back to sleep when she heard someone walking in the yard. She was afraid that Sun Hongmei would really go back to her parents' home without caring about him, so she quickly pushed Liu Zhiquan and said, "Zhiquan, listen."

"What are you listening to? Are you going to let me sleep?" Liu Zhiquan muttered, and turned over to continue sleeping. Wang Caifeng was not as careless as him. She coaxed Liu Baoguo to sleep, and after listening for a while, she could not lie down anymore, so she quietly put on her clothes and went to the yard.

Fortunately, the door was still locked from the inside, and Wang Caifeng breathed a sigh of relief. After hearing the sound, she walked to the kitchen and saw Sun Hongmei lighting the fire, and she finally put her heart at ease.

It’s good that Sun Hongmei doesn’t go back to her parents’ home. If she doesn’t go back, her mother-in-law won’t mention the division of the family anymore.

Sun Hongmei kept her head down, as if she didn't know someone was standing at the kitchen door. Wang Caifeng knew that she wanted to save her face and was unwilling to greet her first.