Gu Zhenjiang picked up the basket and said, "No need. Even if you take them, it's not certain that Tenggui's daughter-in-law won't eat them. I think you bought too many eggs."
Li Cuiying was speechless, but when she thought about it, the old woman forced her daughter-in-law to jump into the river. Now that she is in poor health and cannot give birth, she probably won't give her daughter-in-law any confinement.
The two of them arrived at the right time. There were already quite a few people in the room, all carrying some things. They must have come to visit the patient.
Teng Gui and his wife Li Honghua forced smiles and came out to greet them.
"Cuiying Zhenjiang, you two are here too." Seeing the eggs that Gu Zhenjiang was carrying, her attitude became a little better.
"Look at you guys, why are you being so polite?" He shouted towards the backyard, "Gao Yuzhen, why don't you come out to greet the guests? Are you dead?"
Before Li Cuiying could react, she saw a woman coming out of the backyard carrying a wooden barrel. There was pig grass stuck to the edge of the barrel, and it was obvious that she had just been feeding the pigs in the backyard.
"Yuzhen just got hurt, why don't you take a few days to recover? You'll be sick in the future."
Li Honghua didn't care. She curled her lips and said, "Why keep her? She's useless and a loser. Don't worry about her. She has several good daughters. If she doesn't want to do something, she can just order her daughters around. Can she still expect me to serve her? Isn't she afraid of shortening her life?"
Gao Yuzhen listened to the unpleasant words from her mother-in-law, and her hands clenched unconsciously. She returned the bucket to the well and forced herself to come over to greet Li Cuiying and the others.
Pulling the hem of his clothes nervously with both hands, he said with a smile: "Uncle and Aunt, please come in and sit down. I'll ask Erni to boil some water and make tea."
"Yuzhen, no need. We don't want to drink. Let's go sit in your room." After saying this, Li Cuiying gave Gu Zhenjiang a wink, telling him not to follow.
Hey, I didn’t remember her before, but now I remember her as soon as I see Li Cuiying. I still remember that she came back to attend Gao Yuzhen and Gu Anqing’s wedding, but it has been more than ten years.
The room was relatively clean, but there was nothing in the whole room except a large box on the bed and an old quilt full of patches. There was a little baby lying in the quilt, sleeping soundly.
Li Cuiying's heart softened as she looked around and didn't see any bench, so she could only sit on the kang.
"Second Aunt, I'm sorry for the poor hospitality. I'll go boil some water. How can I come here without even drinking tea?" Gao Yuzhen felt sad as she looked at the empty room. If it weren't for the kang, there wouldn't even be a place to sit.
Li Honghua had already gone to the main room to greet other people. Li Cuiying noticed that there was no one outside, so she pulled Gao Yuzhen over to sit on the kang.
"How are you feeling? Why are you so downhearted? The Chairman has said that men and women are equal, that women hold up half the sky, and that daughters are more caring than sons. What's wrong with that?"
Maybe it's because she has been in the Women's Federation for too long, Li Cuiying just can't stand seeing women being oppressed. What's the point of favoring boys over girls? How many people have given birth to several sons, but still no one takes care of them when they get old.
Gao Yuzhen couldn't help but shed tears. She didn't want to have a baby either, but she had already given birth to five daughters. Her husband's three brothers also had daughters. The whole family hoped that she would have another daughter.
Before, her mother-in-law had always hoped that she could give birth to a boy, so she asked her two sisters-in-law to share the housework and asked her to take good care of the baby. But her belly still didn't cooperate.
"Second Aunt, I have no choice. I have already given birth to five girls, and now my body is completely broken. What will I do in the future? Who can I rely on when my daughters grow up and get married? My mother-in-law is forcing my husband to divorce me, and wants him to marry another woman to give birth to a son.
My brother came over a few days ago and said he wanted to take me back, but they have their own families now, so if I go back I'll just be a burden, so how can I do that? "
Li Cuiying didn't know why she was so anxious. She was not the only one without a son. Her two older uncles also had sons, and they were not anxious either.
Seeing Gao Yuzhen crying so sadly, Li Cuiying felt embarrassed to criticize her.
"So what does your man think? Does he also want to divorce and remarry?"
Ultimately, it all depends on what the man thinks. Otherwise, no matter what her mother-in-law plans, it will be useless.
Thinking of her own man, Gao Yuzhen felt better and wiped her tears with her sleeve: "Anqing is fine. He told me not to listen to my mother-in-law's nonsense. He didn't want to divorce. Anyway, my eldest brother and second brother's families don't have sons, so it doesn't matter if our family doesn't have one."
Li Cuiying didn't know what to say. The man didn't want to divorce and didn't care about the gender. Isn't that good?
"Isn't that great? When those girls grow up, if you have the conditions, you can find sons-in-law for them and keep them at home. What's the difference between them and sons? The children they have will still be your grandchildren."
"Don't overthink it, and don't listen to your mother-in-law's nonsense. Just take good care of your daughters. They're such good kids. You took your own life, leaving them without a mother. How are you going to let your children live under their grandmother's care? If you really marry a stepmother, they'll really become weeds."
The child woke up at this time, and Gao Yuzhen picked him up and fed him.
Li Cuiying sat on the side and watched carefully. She hadn't taken care of a child for many years and had no experience.
"How's your milk supply now? Is it enough?"
"That's enough. I ate enough when I was pregnant, and I could feed her porridge later if I ran out of milk.
Although my mother-in-law doesn't care about me now, my husband and two sisters-in-law will take care of me when they are free, and my daughter-in-law is already in her teens and can help with many chores."
Li Cuiying nodded. It seemed that the relationship between her sisters-in-law was good, but she had a bad relationship with her mother-in-law.
No one knew what Li Honghua was thinking. She offended several of her daughters-in-law at once, and she was not afraid that no one would take care of her when she was old.
After sitting for a symbolic moment and saying goodbye to Gao Yuzhen, he prepared to leave. Li Cuiying came out to ask Gu Zhen and Jiang Zhun to go back, and some grown men were squatting at the door.
Zhang Qiuju, the daughter-in-law of his neighbor, Grandma Gu San, ran over and said, "Zhenjiang, Gu Meilian was spotted in the woods with a man. They've both been taken to the brigade headquarters. I heard someone's going to report it to the police. Isn't this just hooliganism in broad daylight?"
Li Cuiying's eyes went dark. It was over. The Gu family's reputation was really going to be ruined.
Everyone rushed to the brigade headquarters after hearing the noise. Gu Meilian and a middle-aged man were tied up and kneeling on the ground. No one knew whether their clothes and hair were in disarray themselves or if they were torn apart on the way here. In the middle of winter, the two men looked disheveled and it was clear what had happened.
The young wife and her children were driven away by the adults, and the whole scene was disgraceful to watch.
The branch secretary Ma Zhanguo and Gu Zhenxing were squatting at the door, sighing and smoking, and the accountant Gu Tengfeng was arranging people to guard various intersections of the brigade to prevent people from other villages from entering the village.
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