Sun Chunlian didn't want her father-in-law to become an ordinary villager, so she hurried to persuade him, "Dad, the commune leader's temporary position is only temporary. It's actually giving you a chance to consider. Looking at the entire Xiangyang Village, besides you, who else is truly working for the good of the village? I'm afraid that Secretary Ding will use evil means to get the team leader. Then the Ding family will definitely retaliate against us. In the future, we will even be restricted from leaving the house. What will we do if they don't give us a letter of introduction?"
"Secretary Ding and his wife have been holding a grudge against my parents for a long time. If Dad is no longer the team leader, our children will definitely be bullied in the future. Given Secretary Ding's character, he might find a reason to drive us out of Xiangyang Village. Even worse, he might frame us and send us to work on a farm. He's settling personal grudges, and they won't be able to resist."
"The captain gets a salary. Wouldn't it be nice to save some money so that we can help our children and grandchildren? Without this income, my parents will have a hard time."
She also had her own little thoughts. If her father-in-law quit, she would no longer be the team leader's daughter-in-law, and she would lose her status in front of her natal village. She might even be ridiculed and her in-laws' family would be ruined.
"You're the one who doesn't want that, right? You don't want to lose your status as the captain's daughter-in-law and be unable to show off back home, right?" Deng Xiunv had been with her sister-in-law for many years, so how could she not see through her little thoughts? "Dad's job as a captain is so low-paying, it's backbreaking work, there's endless things to do every day, and it's easy to offend others and get stabbed in the back."
"My second sister-in-law is reluctant to spend Dad's salary, so she wants Dad to subsidize your second wife. What a loser!"
"I'll leave it at that. From now on, my parents will be taken care of by my eldest wife in their old age. My eldest wife is not short of money. You can keep your salary. It will be used for the third child's education and marriage. I'll give you some subsidies when the time comes."
Having money means having confidence, and Deng Xiuniu generously expressed her willingness to sponsor her brother-in-law.
Brother Zhao was so moved that he couldn't express it in words. With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for? In the past, everyone looked down on him for marrying a wife who supported her brother, but now his wife has made a comeback and become the most promising person in the Zhao family. Let's see who dares to make fun of him in the future.
Most families in the village are unwilling to live with their parents-in-law, or sincerely support and be filial to them. In contrast, his wife took the initiative to provide for her parents in their old age, and generously gave money to subsidize the third child.
"Wife, you are so kind. Being able to marry you is the blessing I have accumulated over several lifetimes."
Deng Xiunv smiled knowingly, her words filled with infinite gratitude towards Gu Wanwan. "Thanks to the many great lessons I learned from Sister Wan, I have been completely transformed. We are a family, and it is only natural for us to help each other. Okay, grown man, stop crying. People have seen what you said. Supporting your parents-in-law is the responsibility of children."
Upon hearing this, the nearby villagers all gave Deng Xiuniu a thumbs up and praised the Zhao family for finding a good daughter-in-law.
The changes in the Deng family, young and old, are obvious to all, perfectly illustrating what it means to follow Sister Wan and Brother Chen to eat meat and make money.
Sun Chunlian looked a little embarrassed. What made her most uncomfortable was that the villagers compared her with Deng Xiunv and thought that she was not as rich and filial as Deng Xiunv.
In fact, before the Deng family became rich, her Sun family's wealth was many times better than that of the Deng family, which made her feel superior to her sister-in-law. Now, this superiority was wiped out in an instant.
Zhao Simei apologized and begged, but her parents didn't change their minds. "I've already admitted my mistake. What else do you want? Do you want to force me, your own daughter, to death? I just want my husband to have a better future. When he becomes successful, he won't forget the help of his parents-in-law. It will make you look good, right? I admit that I shouldn't have made a big fuss and gave the Ding family an opportunity to seriously hurt the Zhao family, but now the Zhao family is fine, right? Dad, don't make fun of me anymore."
"Don't make it so that we can no longer be father and daughter. I am the only daughter of the Zhao family. Do you want your daughter to disown you?"
She was confident that she could control her parents, but she didn't know...
Zhao Guoming sighed in disappointment, "You are not the daughter of our Zhao family."
Zhao Simei didn't hear the certainty in his words and just thought her parents were angry. "Here we go again. Even my brothers used to say this before. I'm not your daughter. Did I come out of a stone?"
Aunt Lu's expression suddenly became extremely solemn and serious. "You are indeed not our biological daughter. You are an orphan adopted by my husband and me. Don't you realize that you don't look like our Zhao family?"
Zhao Simei was stunned for a moment, still thinking her parents were joking. "You guys even made up my life story to punish me. I won't be fooled!"
Unexpectedly, the Zhao family clarified the matter again.
Brother Zhao: "You are really not our biological sister. My parents took pity on you and took you home to adopt you."
Second Brother Zhao: "I never thought my parents would pick up such an ungrateful person. Since the Zhao family has no daughters, my parents felt sorry for you and couldn't bear it. They also wanted a daughter, so they loved you as their adopted daughter. At that time, we brothers were very conflicted. On the one hand, we were jealous of your love, even though we were their biological sons. On the other hand, we felt that you were the youngest and couldn't bear to hurt you."
Third Brother Zhao: "We're afraid you'll have wild thoughts and think your parents and brother don't love you, so we've been hiding the truth. We've decided not to mention it again. Regardless of whether you're a biological child or not, we've been family for twenty years, so blood ties don't matter. If you weren't so wrong, your parents wouldn't have decided to reveal your background."
Deng Xiunv: "Fourth sister Zhao, did you hear that? You have nothing to do with the Zhao family. I've known this since I got married. We've always tolerated you and treated you like a stranger, but you've always disobeyed your parents and hurt their hearts for a gigolo. Since you started working, you haven't given a penny to your parents. You haven't even bought them a gift for their birthdays, not even a worthless gift. But you don't have the heart to do that. You take your parents and brother's love for you for granted."
Sun Chunlian: "Your parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law have treated you well. They've given you a house as a dowry, which is the utmost kindness. But you're greedy and still want your parents' money. As an adopted daughter, do you think it's appropriate to drain your adoptive parents dry? The Zhao family doesn't owe you anything, and neither do your parents. You owe the Zhao family for raising you for over twenty years!"
The villagers who were watching the melon-eating were shocked, but some older villagers understood what was going on.
"This is the biggest news in Xiangyang Village. It turns out that Zhao Simei is not the Zhao family's biological daughter. No wonder she is not a biological daughter."
"I've said before that Zhao Simei doesn't look like anyone from the Zhao family. At the time, I even speculated that Zhao Simei was picked up. After all, at that time, many people from other places fled famine, and in order to save food, they lost a lot of money. They could pick up a child anywhere. Zhao Simei might have been picked up at that time."
"Aunt Lu wasn't pregnant at the time, but she suddenly brought home a daughter from her parents' home. It was obvious that she wasn't her biological child. Yu Cuihua even mocked Aunt Lu for having a baby in secret. These things are only known to the elders in the village."
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