Wang Caifeng waited until Sun Hongmei's mother was tired of shouting, so she stepped forward and wanted to continue to her mother-in-law, but Xia Juhua shook her head at her and told her to take Liu Baoguo into the house and not to come out. The child had never seen anything like this before, and was so scared that he didn't even dare to cry. His little mouth was pouting, and his tears were in his eyes, not daring to fall. Even if Xia Juhua had a big opinion of him in her previous life, she felt pity for him now.
Wang Caifeng was reluctant to go back to her room, fearing that the two grandsons would confront her mother-in-law alone, and that her mother-in-law, who didn't like to talk much, would suffer. Xia Juhua looked at Wang Caifeng sternly and said, "You don't care about Baoguo, and you don't care about the baby in your belly?" regret.
Wang Caifeng reluctantly carried Liu Baoguo back to the east chamber and whispered to him, "Baoguo, someone wants to bully grandma. You stay on the kang and don't get off the floor. I'll go help grandma."
When Liu Baoguo obeyed, tears finally fell from his eyes, but he didn't cry out loud. Wang Caifeng felt as if her heart was cut by a knife. She hated the Sun family so much that she wanted to kick them out of her home immediately.
But her mother-in-law didn't let her come out just now because she was worried about the baby in her belly. Wang Caifeng had no choice but to stand at the door of the east room, holding on to the door frame to watch what was happening in the yard.
There was no movement in the yard.
Sun Hongmei's mother's shouting did not get any response from Xia Juhua, and she could not think of any new words to accuse her, so she just stood there breathing heavily. Sun Hongmei's father wanted to make peace, but his wife was too firm in her words, so he didn't know where to start.
As for Xia Juhua, she just stood in the yard opposite the two people from the Sun family, not saying a word or moving, as if Sun Hongmei's parents were not in the yard. Wang Caifeng was so confused watching this scene that she couldn't laugh out loud. She knew too well how aggrieved people must feel when facing such a state of their mother-in-law, and she couldn't express it in words.
You have said and shouted, but others just don't respond. If you continue to shout, it will be suspected of bullying. Even if the Sun family is thick-skinned and really wants to bully others, don't forget that this is Ping'an Manor. Even if Xia Juhua didn't interact with others in the past, it's different now.
Ever since she taught the women new ways to weave, the women and their families have been grateful to Xia Juhua in their hearts. They don't know how to thank Xia Juhua. They feel proud to be able to talk to Xia Juhua, and their relationship with her is getting closer day by day.
If the Sun family wanted to bully Xia Juhua at this time, they had to see if the women would agree. Look, the gate of the Liu family had been pushed open, and in addition to Sun Zhaodi, a neighbor, there were also several women from Li Changwang's family and Li Changman's family who were weaving mats with Xia Juhua.
"Mrs. Liu, who are these two people? I heard that they came to your house to bully people, why didn't you say anything? You are too honest, you didn't suffer any loss, did you?" Li Changwang spoke loudly as he walked into the house, without even looking at the tanned faces of the Sun couple, he only cared about whether Xia Juhua suffered any loss.
The Sun couple were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood. Every word Xia Juhua and Wang Caifeng said hit them hard, leaving them speechless. They were the ones who suffered the consequences.
Sun Hongmei's father knew that his wife's voice was too loud and attracted people, so he looked at Xia Juhua and wanted to ask her to explain to the visitors that they were her relatives and that they just spoke a little loudly and were not bullying anyone.
Who would have thought that Xia Juhua had lost all the composure she had when talking to the couple. She looked shaky, her face was pale and her eyes were red. It was obvious that she had been bullied and couldn't speak. She was looking at the woman who was talking to her and shaking her head slightly without even opening her mouth.
Not to mention Li Changwang's family, no one in Ping'an Village had ever seen Xia Juhua look so weak. Who was Xia Juhua? She was the famous "Xia Xiaohuo". No matter how hard it was, she never shed a tear or complained to anyone!
So, the two people standing in the yard bullied "Xia Xiaohuo" to the point that he couldn't even speak, and the words they said must have been very ugly.
"Who are you? You come to our Ping'an Village to bully people. Let me tell you, the Red Team of the commune came to our Ping'an Village to arrest bad elements this morning. If you keep bullying people, don't tell them that I went to the commune to invite the Red Team to arrest you all." Seeing that Li Changwang's family took the lead in caring about Xia Juhua, Li Changman's family was afraid that she would always take the lead, so they immediately attacked the Sun couple.
Xia Juhua clenched her hands tightly together, and she didn't loosen them even when her knuckles turned white - she couldn't loosen them. If she lost her attention to the pain in her hands, she was afraid that she would laugh out loud on the spot.
Did Li Changman really not know the identities of the Sun couple? How did he find the key points so accurately? He immediately told the Sun couple the information about the Red Team that they wanted to hear the most and did not want to hear the most.
In order to hold back her laughter, Xia Juhua's body shook even more violently, and her face turned red. Li Changwang's family was so scared that they hugged her and shouted, "Sister Liu, don't worry, don't worry. We are here and we won't let you bully us. Let go, let go quickly, or you will break your hand."
Wang Caifeng heard that her mother-in-law was in trouble. She ignored Xia Juhua's instructions and stepped forward to help Li Changwang's family support Xia Juhua: "Mom, don't be angry. Now that someone is here, let's ask one of the ladies to call Zhishuang and his wife back, and let Sun Hongmei talk to her parents herself."
Now there was no need for introduction, everyone knew the identities of the two outsiders standing in the yard. Li Changman's family just spat: "Bah, I said, Sun Hongmei screamed and howled every night, disturbing the neighbors, and then pretended nothing happened. With such parents, they can raise such a daughter."
"It's not Sun Hongmei," the women were unwilling to be left behind in discussing these things: "All the bad things are on that Sun Guizhi. If she hadn't been the one who mixed up, Zhishuang, such a good child, wouldn't have had to marry Sun Hongmei. Ever since she married Zhishuang, there has been no peace in Liu Saozi's family."
"I have never seen such a troublesome daughter-in-law. People say that nieces are like their aunts, and Sun Hongmei is exactly like that Sun Guizhi. If you ask me, what happened in the Liu family yesterday must have been instigated by Sun Guizhi."
"She must have instigated it. She has been away from work these years, always gossiping about her wife. How can she stay at home peacefully? Old Mrs. Liu was instigated by her to be biased."
"Sister Liu, don't be so soft-hearted. Let Sun Hongmei go back to the Sun family with her parents. Otherwise, Zhishuang's life will be ruined in her hands."
The sound of something heavy falling was heard at the gate, drowning out the sound of everyone's discussions. Looking back, they saw Sun Hongmei sitting paralyzed at the gate. Liu Zhishuang beside her did not help her. Instead, he looked at the Sun couple and Xia Juhua standing in the middle of the yard with a complicated expression.
The Sun family couple was upset by the women's gossip and looked unhappy. Xia Juhua's desire to laugh passed, her body stopped shaking, and the red clouds on her face from holding back laughter also faded, and she looked pale again, with the red circles under her eyes becoming more obvious.
Combined with the women's discussion, it seemed clear who was at fault between the Sun couple and Xia Juhua. Liu Zhishuang moved, and he did not support Sun Hongmei, who was sitting at the gate, but walked closer to the three people who were confronting each other.
"Second son..." Xia Juhua had discovered that her youngest son was quite clever, and was afraid that he would see that she was pretending, so she called out to him. As she was not sure whether Liu Zhishuang had noticed that she was pretending to be weak, Xia Juhua's voice trembled a little, and her body shook again.
In Liu Zhishuang's opinion, his mother's condition was clearly caused by the two grandsons saying something unpleasant to her, and in order to avoid putting him in an awkward position, she endured the pain and became so angry.
Whenever his mother and his grandson's family quarreled, she didn't have to hold it in until she couldn't stand still. As soon as he came back, his mother's eyes were red. She must have been afraid of embarrassing herself and felt wronged.
In the past, my mother endured all the hardships, but now that my two brothers have married, why is it that my mother, who deserves to enjoy some happiness, still has to endure it, and even cannot say anything back when people find her at the doorstep and bully her? !
It's all because I married Sun Hongmei!
Liu Zhishuang held Xia Juhua's hand and trembled: He and his mother had argued to marry Sun Hongmei, but after marrying her, he found that she was not as sensible as she had shown before the marriage, and was always looking for trouble like Sun Guizhi. Just like the aunts said just now, there has been no peace in the family since he married Sun Hongmei, and there have been more incidents than in the past ten years.
But his mother still gave him the right to decide whether Sun Hongmei would return to her parents' home. Liu Zhishuang slapped himself when he thought of this. Xia Juhua quickly grabbed his hand and said, "Son, this is not your fault. Why are you hitting yourself?"
"Mom, why don't you blame me? It's all my fault that I was young and ignorant. I made a mistake before getting married and thought that Sun Hongmei and Sun Guizhi were different people. I insisted on asking you to marry her, and that's why their family came to bully you." Liu Zhishuang was so annoyed that he wanted to slap himself twice.
Sun Hongmei, who had just stood up, sat down on the ground again and couldn't get up after hearing what Liu Zhishuang said. She looked at her parents with some resentment, and couldn't understand why they came to Ping'anzhuang at this time. Even if they came to Ping'anzhuang, couldn't they wait for her to come back and ask about the matter? Why did they start quarreling with her mother-in-law.
Sun Hongmei had been keeping a low profile in the Liu family for a while. She didn't dare to say much or move around much, and she did everything she could to make Xia Juhua and Liu Zhishuang see her changes and stop them from thinking about sending her back to her parents' home. But her parents came and wiped out all her efforts.
Listening to what Liu Zhishuang said, it was clear that he regretted marrying me. His opinion of me had not diminished at all because of my efforts in recent days. Instead, he blamed me for the quarrel between my parents and mother-in-law.
Then how can I live my life from now on?
Sun Hongmei just sat there paralyzed at the gate of the courtyard, listening to her father's incoherent explanation to Liu Zhishuang that they only came to inquire about the news of her aunt's family, not to quarrel with her mother-in-law.
The reason why the two sides were arguing was because her mother felt sorry for her daughter-in-law and thought that the mother-in-law should not leave the eldest daughter-in-law at home to enjoy the good life while letting her, the new daughter-in-law, work in the fields. Sun Hongmei laughed in her heart and looked at her parents with even colder eyes.
Because of the reasons given by Sun Hongmei's father, the women standing in the yard launched a new round of attacks on the Sun family. Everyone thought that she should go to the fields to work and earn work points. The mother-in-law was not partial to Wang Caifeng - they were all farmers, and anyone who didn't earn work points would go hungry. Why couldn't Sun Hongmei go to the fields?
As for Wang Caifeng, are the Sun family members blind? Don’t they see that Wang Caifeng was pregnant and carrying a one-year-old baby? Xia Juhua, the mother-in-law, loves her daughter-in-law so much that she lets her stay at home to rest for two days. What has this done to the Sun family? Did she eat your cornmeal?
If Sun Hongmei had a belly as big as Wang Caifeng's, Xia Juhua would still force her to go to the fields. That would be Xia Juhua being partial. But now Sun Hongmei is not even pregnant, so compared with Wang Caifeng, why is she so arrogant?
Since Xia Juhua and Wang Caifeng are both eldest sisters-in-law, some of the women recalled that when Xia Juhua was pregnant with Liu Zhishuang, she had to work in the fields even after seven or eight months of pregnancy. Liu Zhiquan and his grandson refused to help take care of the baby even after leaving him at home. Sun Guizhi, who had just married into the old Liu family at that time, also did not lend a hand to the eldest sister-in-law Xia Juhua.
Why didn't anyone from the Sun family come to Ping'an Village at that time? They said that the Sun family was too partial. It seems that if your family takes advantage, it's fine, but if you don't take advantage, you will suffer a loss, right?
The constant discussions made Sun Hongmei's ears buzz. Her mind was sometimes clear and sometimes confused. The sounds of the discussions were sometimes far away and sometimes near. Sun Hongmei couldn't tell whether she really heard the discussions or not.
Suddenly, a familiar voice came into Sun Hongmei's ears. This was the voice she wanted to hear the most but was also afraid to hear the most. It was Liu Zhishuang saying to her father, "Don't say anything. No matter what you wanted to do in Ping'an Village today, it is a fact that you bullied my mother. I dare not acknowledge you for coming here to bully someone's relatives. Go away."
As if she had heard the final verdict, Sun Hongmei's heart, which had been hanging in the air, suddenly settled down, and she felt stronger - Liu Zhishuang only let her parents go, and did not ask her to go back to Sunjiazhuang with them, which showed that Liu Zhishuang still couldn't bear to let her go.
He still has himself in his heart.
With this momentum, Sun Hongmei finally stood up and called softly, "Zhi Shuang."
If Sun Hongmei wanted to hear Liu Zhishuang's voice the most, then what Liu Zhishuang least wanted to hear now was Sun Hongmei's voice. Liu Zhishuang had conflicting feelings towards Sun Hongmei.
Liu Zhishuang knew that the family affairs were caused by Sun Hongmei. But even if they were not glorious at the beginning, it was still a free love, and they were newlyweds. Sun Hongmei had been smiling and trying to please him these days, and Liu Zhishuang saw it all. He could not completely erase Sun Hongmei from his heart.
It was this kind of entanglement that prevented Liu Zhishuang from being cruel enough to ask Sun Hongmei to go back to Sun's village with the Sun couple. Not saying it doesn't mean that Liu Zhishuang is not angry with Sun Hongmei - if Sun Hongmei hadn't married into the Liu family, the Sun couple wouldn't have appeared in their yard so confidently.
So when he heard Sun Hongmei calling him, Liu Zhishuang pretended not to hear her and didn't even look at her. He just stared at the Sun couple, wanting them to get out as soon as possible.
What can Sun Hongmei's mother do? When she heard Liu Zhishuang start to criticize her, she sat on the ground and started to rant: "It's so unfair. As an aunt, you don't even recognize your father-in-law and mother-in-law. Do you want to occupy my daughter for nothing?"
Sun Hongmei's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. What was her mother saying? She and Liu Zhishuang had already obtained a marriage certificate and she had even given a betrothal gift to her family. How could she be accused of usurping his power?
She was scared, and Liu Zhishuang was also scared. He looked at Sun Hongmei's father and said, "How could I occupy your daughter? Everyone in Ping'an Manor has seen it. When we didn't have a partner, Sun Hongmei went to Ping'an Manor every few days and never left. She said she was helping Sun Guizhi, but why did my second uncle have to put her and me in the same group..."
"Zhishuang!" Xia Juhua couldn't listen any longer and called Liu Zhishuang to stop him from talking. No matter how Sun Hongmei made Liu Zhishuang marry her, Liu Zhishuang was already an adult at that time and should have his own judgment. A big man can't blame others for all the mistakes he made.
Too lack of shoulders.
Liu Zhishuang was yelled at by Xia Juhua to shut up, and Sun Hongmei's mother also kept silent. But what he said was enough to make the women in the yard talk again. The final conclusion was that Xia Juhua was really a good person, and she didn't let her son say anything bad about Sun Hongmei until now.
You are not satisfied with having such great mother-in-law and grandchildren. You really don't know how lucky you are.
"What's going on with your production team? Why aren't any of you going to work? What are you all doing crowded here?" A roar suddenly came from the gate of the courtyard. Those who heard it quickly closed their mouths and tightened their necks to make way for the intruder.
The person who came was none other than the militia captain of the brigade, Liu Liqun. Just like last time, he heard from the people in Ping'an Village that someone was causing trouble in the production team, so he rushed over with two militiamen. He found that the trouble was not in the production team, but in Xia Juhua's house, so he sent the militiamen back to the brigade first, and he shouted to calm everyone down.
When Liu Liqun stood in front of Xia Juhua with a serious face, he found that Xia Juhua's face was really not good, and he really didn't know the Sun couple, so his voice became more serious: "Which production team are you from? Why did you come to the Liu family to make trouble?"
Sun Hongmei followed Liu Liqun into the crowd. When she heard him directly characterize her parents as troublemakers, no matter how much she disagreed with them, she had to explain for them first: "Captain Liu, these are my parents from my mother's side. They came to ask me about something. I was not at home at work at the time, and they were chatting with my mother. They were not here to cause trouble." After saying that, she pulled her mother up.
You can't show off in front of the militia captain, even if he is not the militia captain of Sunjiazhuang.
"If they are not causing trouble, then why did so many people gather around us, delaying the production of the production team? Who is responsible?" When Liu Liqun heard that it was Sun Hongmei's parents, he looked even less happy.
He was the militia commander of the brigade, and the security of the entire brigade was also within his scope of responsibility. Last night, someone in Old Liu's family had his head hacked open, and the assailant ran away with his wife and children. He had already suffered a lot, and was ridiculed by a few brats from the Red Squad, and he was very upset.
Now that he heard that the visitors were Sun Hongmei's parents, he immediately thought that these two people were also Sun Guizhi's brother and sister-in-law from her mother's side, so don't blame him for being displeased.
There is no good person in my grandson's family!
Liu Liqun heard that when the Red Team went to Sunjiazhuang to arrest people, Sun Guizhi's brother and sister-in-law initially said a few words to help, but when they saw the Red Team's tough attitude, they immediately pushed Liu Sizhuang's two children to the Red Team, saying that they would not shelter bad elements.
Liu Erzhuang begged the Sun family to take care of the children and send them back to Ping'an Village, so that the children would not be fed by the Sun family for free. However, the Sun family not only disagreed, but also said that their family had already drawn a clear line with the bad elements' family. If Liu Erzhuang did not agree to the Red Team kidnapping the two children, it meant that he wanted to protect the bad elements' family and should be arrested by the Red Team.
What's the matter? We've already clearly drawn the line, why are you running to Ping'an Village again? Are you trying to take this opportunity to make a contribution so that you can get away with it more cleanly?
Don't blame Liu Liqun for thinking this way. There were precedents of this in the early days of the movement, where someone was knocked down and then stepped on. Liu Liqun had reason to suspect that the Sun family was here to step on the Liu family.
But if you want to step on someone, you can step on them. Go to Old Liu's house and step on Sun's family. Why would you step on Xia Juhua?
Sun Hongmei's father got a little anxious when he heard Liu Liqun mention the delay in production. He called her a young lady and said with a smile, "Captain, it's a misunderstanding. We didn't mean to disrupt production. We just wanted to ask about my sister's family. It's not that my sister and her family are not here. We wanted to sit with the in-laws for a while, but we didn't expect to have a conversation."
Liu Liqun was amused by him: "Ask about your sister's family? You handed your sister's two children over to the Red Team. You still have the nerve to ask about their family affairs?"
Sun Hongmei's father didn't expect Liu Liqun to be so well-informed, and his face flushed: "Misunderstanding, it's all misunderstanding, I, we were not, we were just afraid..."
No matter how incoherent he was, everyone in the yard understood him. He was just afraid of getting involved, so he even handed his nephew over to the Red Team. Is he still a human being?!
Only then did Xia Juhua understand why she saw Liu Sizhuang's family of four being tied up by the Red Team in the commune, and why Liu Erzhuang was so helpless - the uncle said that his nephew was a bad element, so what was the use of Liu Erzhuang, the second eldest uncle, pleading for mercy.
The people in Ping'an Manor were also shocked by the shamelessness of Sun Hongmei's parents. Even Sun Hongmei herself couldn't understand why her parents came to Ping'an Manor after they had done such a thing.
"Dad, Mom, how could you even..." Sun Hongmei couldn't ask any more. She thought of a possibility and stared at her parents. Her father's eyes dodged for a moment, and Sun Hongmei's heart was lifted again.
Her father must have taken something from her aunt, so he was anxious to find out what her aunt's family was doing now. She dared to guarantee that if her aunt was really put in a study class by the Red Team, her father would dare to embezzle her aunt's things.
"Come on, don't ask around at Xia Juhua's house. She hasn't been in touch with the Liu family for a long time, so she doesn't know what's going on there." Liu Liqun didn't know the Sun couple as well as Sun Hongmei did. He waved his hand and said to them, "Hurry back to your own production team and join the labor. If you dare to cause trouble in Ping'an Village again, I'll have to ask your brigade cadres whether they can manage their own members well."
Before the Sun family could argue, Liu Zhishuang suddenly spoke up: "Sun Hongmei, you should pack up your things and go back with your parents. I don't dare marry such an inhuman father-in-law and mother-in-law."
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