"What?" Wang Caifeng and Sun Hongmei were both shocked, and even Sun Hongmei's shock was genuine - Sun Guizhi passed by Liu's house on her way to visit relatives in the morning, and saw that Sun Hongmei was the only one at home taking care of the children, so she came in to talk to Sun Hongmei. What good words could Sun Guizhi say? The first thing she said was that Xia Juhua and Wang Caifeng were bullying Sun Hongmei, a new daughter-in-law, by asking her to take care of the children and cook alone.
Sun Hongmei finally got to see her relatives, and of course she had to complain to Sun Guizhi about her quarrel with Liu Zhishuang last night, and how she went back to her parents' home and instead of scaring people, she ended up being outwitted.
Sun Guizhi showed an expression of sympathy and wanted to argue with Xia Juhua. When Sun Hongmei said that Xia Juhua was not at home, she insisted on asking Xia Juhua why she was not at home and where she had gone. Sun Hongmei was already dissatisfied with Xia Juhua for making money on her own and not letting her help, so she told Sun Guizhi everything without hiding anything.
After hearing this, Sun Guizhi's eyes turned green. How could Xia Juhua be so lucky that she got such an easy money-making opportunity? So she said she wanted to vent her anger for Sun Hongmei and ran away.
Sun Hongmei thought that her aunt would at most wait at the entrance of the village and pull her mother-in-law to argue for her, but she didn't expect that she would run to the commune to block her mother-in-law and scold her in front of everyone in the commune. No wonder her mother-in-law asked her if anyone had come to visit her family after she came back. At that time, her mother-in-law knew that she had told her aunt that she had gone to the commune.
"Mom, what right does she have to scold you? You have been raising the two brothers Zhiquan alone all these years. You have never eaten a single grain of food from them, and you have never worn a single piece of cloth from them. What qualifications does she have to scold you?" Wang Caifeng felt that the aftertaste of the steamed buns in her mouth was no longer fragrant.
Sun Hongmei doubted her aunt for the first time. Why was her aunt so unreliable? The next time she met her, she would definitely ask her aunt whether she was doing this for her own good or just because she couldn't stand her doing well.
The opportunity came. After being comforted by Xia Juhua, Wang Caifeng just picked up the bowl again when Sun's voice came from outside the yard: "Ah, did she say something wrong about you, Xia Juhua? You went to a restaurant and had a good meal, and she asked you a question, and you scolded her in front of everyone in the commune?"
Sun obviously did not come alone. Someone was whispering something, and Sun's voice became even more excited: "What am I afraid of? I'm so old now. She is not afraid of losing face, but I am..."
The buzz of discussion followed Sun's words into the yard. It was obvious that Sun had been yelling and cursing all the way. Xia Juhua asked Wang Caifeng to hold the child by herself and said to Sun Hongmei, "Come on, follow me out to take a look."
"Mom, I..." Sun Hongmei had lived in Old Liu's house for some time and knew that Mrs. Sun was a troublesome and nagging person, so she didn't dare to follow her out. She sat at the table shivering and refused to get up.
"That's right." Xia Juhua looked at her frightened expression and said, "On one side is your mother-in-law and on the other is your aunt. You really don't know who to help."
Wang Caifeng put Liu Baoguo on the kang and said firmly, "Mom, I'll go with you. This is too much of an insult."
Xia Juhua had never thought that Wang Caifeng could be so tough. She looked at her suspiciously and was dragged out by Wang Caifeng. No one looked at Sun Hongmei again. She couldn't sit still at the table anymore. After thinking for a while, she said to Liu Baoguo, "Baoguo, stay on the kang by yourself. You are not allowed to get off the bed, understand?" She didn't care whether the little kid could understand her or not, and she got up and went out.
Liu Baoguo, who was suddenly abandoned by everyone, burst into tears. Wang Caifeng, who heard the sound, felt a pang in her heart and glared at Sun Hongmei fiercely. Sun Hongmei was speechless and subconsciously looked at Xia Juhua, and found that her mother-in-law had walked to the gate of the courtyard and suddenly opened it.
Sun was about to hit the door with her crutch, but the door suddenly opened and she stumbled. Fortunately, Sun Guizhi was standing beside her and helped her up so that she didn't fall. Facing Xia Juhua who suddenly appeared, everyone who came to watch the excitement was stunned for a moment.
Xia Juhua ignored the people watching the excitement and just forced a weak smile to Sun: "Mom, why are you here?" Isn't it just pretending to be weak? She has seen it a lot in her previous life. Now it's a good opportunity to learn it.
"Why am I here?" Sun spit on the ground with a righteous look on her face, "If I hadn't come, Guizhi would have been bullied to death by you."
"Mom, Sun Guizhi is talking nonsense to those people in the commune who don't understand the situation. Can't I explain it to them? Now we are all from Ping'an Village. Everyone knows who is bullying whom between our two families." At this point, Xia Juhua couldn't hold back her smile. "I haven't been arguing with it all these years, but Ke Xin is like soaking in coptis water every day."
After saying this, Xia Juhua lowered her head. She usually lowered her head when working or walking in the village. When someone talked about her, she would also lower her head and not make excuses. Just when everyone thought that what she had just said was the limit of what Xia Juhua could say, Xia Juhua raised her head.
She raised her head, her eyes flashed with a different kind of strength than usual, and she looked at Sun with a sad look. Her voice was not loud, and it was no different from when she had to speak in the past. The words she asked with a trembling voice were more heart-touching than ever before: "Mother, Dazhuang has already left a life for the Liu family. Do you want me, who is soaking in coptis water, to also give my life to the Liu family?"
This was a Xia Juhua that Sun had never seen before. Even Sun Guizhi was frightened by the question and took half a step back unconsciously. When Sun started to tremble, he did not support her in time, causing Sun to lose her balance and sit directly on the ground.
After landing on her butt, Sun woke up from the shock of Xia Juhua. She gritted her teeth and slapped the ground beside her and howled: "You said you didn't bully the fourth family, but you even bullied me, the mother-in-law. Oh my God, how could such an unfilial daughter-in-law appear in our Liu family? Dazhuang, just look at this..."
"Mom, what are you doing? Go home quickly." Liu Erzhuang suddenly squeezed into the crowd and tried to help Sun up. Unexpectedly, Sun slapped his hand away and howled even louder: "Get out of here. If you hadn't insisted on eating that dry food, I wouldn't have been able to let people talk about me all these years. Dazhuang, your mother has been blamed for all these years, why don't you speak up for her?"
Xia Juhua watched as Liu Erzhuang's veins popped out, and she couldn't help but feel lucky that she had used her courage in the right place. If she hadn't separated from the old Liu family, she didn't know what words the Sun family would use to squeeze her out.
I don’t see that she doesn’t even feel sorry for her own son!
Li Daya also squeezed in at this time. She didn't look at her husband or her mother-in-law on the ground, but just stared at Sun Guizhi. Sun Guizhi was usually not afraid of An Baoling who always argued with her, but was a little afraid of Li Daya who was not good at arguing. Now being stared at by Li Daya, she felt like there were ants crawling on her body, itching all over and she even forgot to help Sun who was sitting on the ground.
Sun scolded Liu Erzhuang, or used Liu Dazhuang's death squeeze to scare him. Li Daya couldn't say anything, but Xia Juhua could. She looked at Sun and said in a voice a little higher than before:
"Mom, there's no need to cry for Dazhuang. Dazhuang has been dead for many years. The days when the three of us were driven out by the Liu family and lived in huts are over. We have kept to ourselves all these years, so why are you suddenly causing trouble for me again?"
Yes, the two families had no contact in recent years. Why did Sun suddenly come to trouble Xia Juhua today? Did she forget what the brigade said when they divided the two families? Seeing the lively people looking at Sun's eyes changed as Xia Juhua asked.
Of course, Sun was instigated by Sun Guizhi. According to Sun Guizhi, Xia Juhua made a lot of money this time and had enough money to pay for a hotel. Sun Guizhi thought that the last time Xia Juhua came to Old Liu's house, didn't she admit that she was Sun's daughter-in-law?
Since she acknowledged that she was Sun's daughter-in-law, she should be filial to her mother-in-law. So Sun Guizhi stepped forward and asked on behalf of Sun that if Xia Juhua had anything to give to her mother-in-law, she would bring it back for Xia Juhua.
What a good thing! Isn't it for Xia Juhua's own good? Who knew that Xia Juhua didn't know what was good for her? When she heard that she was asked to be filial to her mother-in-law, she relied on her brothers from her natal family to scold Sun Guizhi in front of the whole commune.
After Xia Juhua left that day, Sun had been thinking about why Xia Juhua wanted to visit her for several days. Her thoughts were similar to Sun Guizhi's. She thought that Xia Juhua also had a daughter-in-law, and she would have to rely on her daughter-in-law to take care of her in the future. So she came to the nursing home to see her just to pretend to be filial to her daughter-in-law so that her daughter-in-law would not learn from her and ignore her mother-in-law.
In fact, since Liu Zhishuang was able to work in the fields, Sun knew that the first wife's days would be coming, and she thought about how to take advantage of the first wife again. So she acquiesced to Sun Guizhi's matchmaking of Liu Zhishuang and Sun Hongmei. Otherwise, with her greedy personality, it would be strange for her to let Sun Hongmei live in the old Liu family for so long.
Today, when I heard Sun Guizhi say that Xia Juhua actually had money to stay in a hotel, I couldn't help but think of how Liu Erzhuang refused to let Liu Sizhuang go to the grain-carrying team no matter what, and instead kept Liu Zhiquan and Liu Zhishuang in the grain-carrying team to make money.
Xia Juhua must have dared to go to the hotel because her two sons had made money.
Well, I haven't even enjoyed it yet, but you, Xia Juhua, are enjoying it, is that okay? So Sun didn't even eat, and brought Sun Guizhi with her, crying all the way, to find trouble with Xia Juhua.
Don’t you want your daughters-in-law to learn how to be filial? If you don’t give them some benefits today, your daughters-in-law will know that you, the mother-in-law, are not filial at all. Don’t expect your daughters-in-law to be filial to you in the future!
With this in mind, Sun answered Xia Juhua's question without hesitation: "What do you mean by I'm looking for trouble with you? You scolded Guizhi in front of everyone in the commune and you can't stand seeing the people in our old house doing well. That's looking for trouble."
"So it's because of Sun Guizhi." Xia Juhua looked at Sun Guizhi with disdain: "She scolded me first in the commune, why can't I scold her? She scolded me and asked for trouble, but why did I scold her and asked for trouble?"