"No need, let them sleep. I'll just go up the back mountain and check on them. Once the eldest brother and the others wake up, there's no need to call them up the mountain to look for me. I'll be back before dark."
After saying that, Yue Jiuyue left without looking back, carrying her basket.
Liu was conflicted. She had discovered that her mother-in-law might be about to do something shady. Should she tell her husband?
After hesitating for a while, she finally woke up Xiaoman's father and told him about all the unusual things she had noticed about Yue Jiuyue recently.
“My mother has been going out at night lately and doesn’t come back until almost dawn. I don’t know when she goes out. Every night before I go to sleep, I think I must keep an eye out, but every time I’m sleepy, I don’t see her. A few times I’ve happened to hear or see her come back, and each time it was just before dawn.”
Today was the first time I'd ever seen Mom go out during the day, especially in the middle of the day. I tried to call you, but Mom wouldn't. She told me not to let you and your two brothers go out to look for her. I was really worried about her going up the mountain by herself, so I woke you up.
Although I suspect that Mom might have gone to... well, that's just a guess. I don't know who the other person is, or which village they're from, so it's not reliable. I can only tell you about it and see if you have any ideas.
Lin Chaodong felt a heavy weight in his heart as he listened.
He knew that his mother had worked so hard all these years, raising the four of them brothers all by herself, building a new house (although it was made of mud bricks), and finding him a wife. His mother had gone through so much.
But he never imagined that one day his mother would have the idea of remarrying or finding a son-in-law.
Whether his mother remarried or took in a son-in-law, he rejected it from the bottom of his heart.
The four brothers have all grown up, so their mother won't have to work so hard anymore. The four brothers will take good care of their mother. After they get married and have children, there will be more people to take care of her. Isn't that good?
Why insist on finding a man you don't even know? Even if it's a marriage of convenience, becoming someone else's wife, wouldn't it be more comfortable for her to be in charge of her own life and have a bunch of children and grandchildren who are filial to her?
Besides, what's so good about an old man? Is it because he's old? Because he doesn't wash his feet? Or because he's half-buried? In a few years, you'll have to take care of him while he's bedridden, feeding him, changing his diapers, and putting him to sleep, and you won't even get an inheritance!
No one can compare to the blissful life of the four brothers, their four daughters-in-law, and their many filial grandchildren.
"Alright, don't spread this around, and don't even tell the third and fourth brothers. I'll handle it."
After saying this, Lin Chaodong silently changed into the clothes with the most pudding, tied up the cuffs and trouser legs, and went up the back mountain with his wood-chopping knife.
Liu Shi naturally wouldn't refute Lin Chaodong's words. She helped Lin Chaodong change his clothes, and then watched him leave the house with worry. He turned right and went up the back mountain, but in her heart she hated Yue Jiuyue to death.
That shameless old man! He's so old, what's he still doing? If he has a child at this age, his family will be disgraced for miles around. What family would be willing to marry their daughter into the corrupt Lin family? He's really ruining their lives as his son and daughter-in-law!
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