After finishing the autumn planting in the village, Fang Jie and her three children immediately tidied up their private plot.
All three children are very hardworking, especially Song Yaohui, who does as much work as an adult.
In one day, they cleared out their private plot and turned over the soil.
The next day, Fang Jie sowed radish and cabbage seeds in the soil.
Song Fanxing took a few radish and cabbage seeds and threw them into her spatial storage.
Soon it was their turn to serve Old Lady Song.
Fang Jie has been too busy for the past two weeks to visit her mother-in-law, and besides, her mother-in-law doesn't like her, so she didn't want to get close to her.
After breakfast was prepared and the family ate, Fang Jie instructed Fang Min to wash the dishes, and her two sons went to school. Fang Jie carried two bowls to the Song family home, followed by little Song Fanxing.
Upon entering Old Lady Song's house, Song Fanxing was driven out by the fumes.
"Mommy, it stinks!"
Fang Jie covered her nose, put the bowl at the door, and braced herself to go inside.
When Granny Song saw Fang Jie, she couldn't hold back and burst into tears.
Fang Jie was startled. "Mom, what's wrong?"
After asking, Fang Jie realized that her mother-in-law couldn't speak, so asking would be pointless. She then began to clean her up.
Fang Jie was completely stunned when she opened the blanket.
The bed was covered in feces and urine, which disgusted her so much that she ran to the door and vomited violently.
Song Fanxing went over and patted her back, "Mom, are you alright?"
Fang Jie felt better after vomiting for a while, and shook her head at her daughter, "Mom is fine."
Song Fanxing could already imagine what the situation inside was like.
Those damned Song Dalong and Song Dapeng! At least their mother is in there. When Old Lady Song was doing well, she always favored them, using the money she swindled from her father to subsidize both of their families.
Now that their own mother is sick, this is how they take care of her.
Fang Jie was also furious.
Thinking of the scene she had just witnessed, she vomited again.
Outraged, she called over Song Dalong and Song Dapeng. Huang Juan had disappeared, and Li Zhen was hiding inside the house.
Song Dalong felt a little guilty, while Song Dapeng still looked like he hadn't woken up yet.
Fang Jie asked directly, "Didn't you smell the odor from Mom's room while you lived in this courtyard?"
The two of them stiffened their necks and answered, "No."
"How exactly are you taking care of Mom? Her bed is covered in...covered in feces and urine, why don't you clean it up for her?"
Song Dalong: "Dapeng's family has been taking care of me these past few days. Ask him."
Song Dapeng: "When we took over, Mom's bed hadn't been cleaned."
Fang Jie gasped. In other words, no one had cleaned her mother-in-law for half a month, and her mother-in-law had been lying there with excrement and urine for half a month.
Song Fanxing shook her head; these two brothers were outrageous.
However, she didn't sympathize with her grandmother. Her grandmother deserved it for favoring her two younger sons and spoiling them.
She spoiled her two sons rotten; they were not only lazy and incompetent, but also unfilial.
The children born to these two sons aren't much better either.
The Song family is finished.
Of course, this doesn't include her family. Her father was adopted by the Song family and doesn't count as a member of the Song family.
Li Zhen hid inside the house, peeking out through the crack in the window.
For the past two weeks, she hasn't stepped into her mother-in-law's room. She doesn't want to serve that old woman; she's filthy.
But the smell wafting from that room made her increasingly devastated.
She just hoped it would be Fang Jie's turn to serve her mother-in-law soon. She knew Fang Jie would be upset and would definitely clean up after her mother-in-law.
Song Fanxing noticed a pair of eyes on the window and stared straight at them.
Li Zhen was so frightened that she quickly hid.
She patted her chest. The look in Song Fanxing's eyes just now was terrifying; it wasn't the look a three-year-old should have.
Fang Jie angrily said, "You've gone too far! How can you be so heartless?"
Song Dapeng was still the same deadbeat.
Song Dalong felt rather guilty. He initially wanted to clean up after his mother, but as a grown man, he felt embarrassed and couldn't bring himself to do it. Besides, he was also disgusted by it, and he couldn't get the women in his family to do it. He thought of asking his son and daughter to do it, but the two children absolutely refused, complaining that it was disgusting.
Finally, he could only hope that when it was the third son's turn, Huang Juan would clean his mother's room. But Huang Juan was never home, just like Li Zhen, and never entered his mother's room. Song Dapeng could forget about it. Song Dani and Song Erni went into their mother's room once, were so overwhelmed by the smell that they cried, and never went back.
Fang Jie knew that pursuing the matter now was useless; the most important thing was to clean up after her mother-in-law as soon as possible.
She suppressed her anger and said, "Go and fetch some water. I'll wipe Mom's body. Take Mom's quilt, mattress, clothes, and pants, wash them clean, and hang them up to dry. Also, wipe the kang (heated brick bed)."
Song Dalong: "No, no, I can't do that job."
Song Dapeng simply turned and walked towards his room.
Fang Jie was so angry she almost cried.
Just then, a small voice rang out, “You don’t have to do it. I’ll go and ask Uncle Brigade Leader to send you to the commune to accuse you of being unfilial and abusing the elderly.”
Fang Jie glanced at her daughter; her Xingxing was indeed smarter and quicker-witted.
She immediately chimed in, "Yes, call the brigade leader. He's unfilial and abusive to the elderly; he'll be in jail for several years."
Song Dapeng paused.
Song Dalong shouted, "Who are you trying to scare?"
Song Fanxing toddled towards the door, saying, "Mom, wait here. I'll go call Uncle Captain."
Li Zhen rushed out and stopped Song Fanxing.
"You brat, this is a family matter, we can resolve it at home. Why are you calling the brigade leader? You're just making trouble."
Song Fanxing: "Some people just won't shed tears until they see the coffin. Since we can't solve it internally, I'll go ask Uncle Captain for help."
Li Zhen didn't want to go to jail, nor did she want her husband to go to jail.
He immediately said with a grin, "We'll wash, okay? You brat, don't go and call the brigade leader."
Brigade leader Song Guoqiang is now very dissatisfied with their family. At the last village meeting, he singled them out and criticized them. They have become the laughing stock of the village, and many people are laughing at them behind their backs.
If they go to jail again, they'll never have to stay in the village again.
Song Dapeng naturally didn't want to go to jail either.
Having achieved her goal, Song Fanxing said nothing more, moved a small stool to the yard, and sat down to supervise them.
Fang Jie and Li Zhen went inside. Li Zhen was so overwhelmed by the smell that she ran out to vomit. After she finished vomiting, Song Fanxing urged her to go back inside and help.
The two of them went to great lengths to take off their mother-in-law's dirty clothes. The two Song brothers brought water, and Fang Jie wiped her mother-in-law's body.
While Li Zhen was at it, she threw the quilts, mattresses, and dirty clothes from the kang (a heated brick bed) into the yard for Song Dalong and Song Dapeng to wash.
Fang Jie cleaned her mother-in-law's body and turned around to see Li Zhen standing there, the kang (heated brick bed) was not wiped and the mattress was not made up.
He said coldly, "Wipe the kang (heated brick bed) clean and then put the mattress back on."
Li Zhen reluctantly wiped the kang (a heated brick bed) clean, then found a mattress in a box and placed it on the kang.
Fang Jie then helped her mother-in-law lie down on the mattress.
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