He vented his frustration by pounding the quilt.
"It's already so late and the meal isn't ready yet. I'm starving!"
Zhang's mother has been complaining all the time.
Several children were also hungry.
"Grandma, when is the meal ready? I'm so hungry."
"Don't worry, my dear grandson. I'll go take a look..."
"Hey, Aunt Zhang, why is there smoke coming out of your house?"
Someone passing by suddenly shouted.
When Zhang's mother looked up, she saw black smoke billowing out from behind her house.
"It's on fire! It's on fire!"
"Someone, put out the fire, put out the fire!"
"Song Mingshan, this damn spendthrift woman, is going to burn down my house!"
Soon, nearby residents came to help put out the fire.
More than half of the Zhang family’s house was burned down, but fortunately no one was hurt. Song Mingshan was not injured except for some burnt hair.
After the fire was completely extinguished, Zhang's mother sat down on the road and burst into tears.
"What a miserable life I've been leading! I finally got a daughter-in-law, but she's just a pretty face who can't even cook and she burned down the house!"
At this time, Zhang Shaoxing also heard the news and rushed back from outside.
Song Mingshan escaped from the fire and was rescued. When she saw Zhang Shaoxing coming back, she felt like she had found her backbone and immediately threw herself into Zhang Shaoxing's arms.
Her eyes turned red with grievance, and she choked up and said, "Brother Shaoxing, you're finally back, wuwuwuwu..."
"I nearly got burned to death. I thought I'd never see you again."
She knew that men would habitually protect the weak, and as long as she acted pitiful and weak enough in front of Zhang Shaoxing, she would definitely arouse his sympathy.
However, Zhang Shaoxing pushed her away, ran to the side and helped his mother up from the ground without even looking at her.
"Mom, are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"Where are the children? Are they hurt?"
Song Mingshan, who was pushed away by Zhang Shaoxing, stood there in a daze, and no one knew who around her couldn't help but burst out laughing.
That laughter was more like a slap in the face, causing her to feel a burning pain instantly.
She had to stand there and neither walk nor stay.
Zhang's mother kept crying and pointed at Song Mingshan and said, "It's all the fault of your good wife. She burned our Zhang family's house to this point!"
"I just asked her to get up in the morning to make some food for the three children. Who knew she would be so angry that she wanted to burn down our house and burn your three sons and me, your mother, to death!"
Zhang's mother described the accidental fire as an act of malicious revenge by Song Mingshan because she refused to obey her discipline.
"No, that's not the case. I was really careless. I've never cooked before and I don't know how to light a fire. That's why I accidentally caught fire..."
"Brother Shaoxing, you have to believe me..."
Song Mingshan felt like crying but had no tears.
But her words were obviously not convincing.
She is so old now, even if she can't cook, how could she not know how to make a fire?
Song Mingshan really didn't know.
"Son, your son and I were almost burned to death by that evil woman. Why is my life so miserable?"
Zhang's mother was able to confuse right and wrong with ease without blushing or getting nervous.
"You, you are talking nonsense!"
Song Mingshan was so anxious that she almost cried.
It would have been fine if her husband had been drinking with someone else outside on their wedding night, but now the mother-in-law is turning the tables and calling her a vicious daughter-in-law!
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