"Old, third brother."
There was a slight tremor in Yin Hong's voice, her whole face was pale without a trace of blood, her teeth were chattering, and she was about to faint with her eyes squinted.
Xiang Qianjin ignored his mother's opinion at all, didn't even look at her, and walked straight towards Fan Xiaojuan.
"Go forward, what do you want to do? If you come over again I will call for help."
Fan Xiaojuan did not expect Xiang Qianjin to appear here. She cursed Yin Hong in her heart for being incompetent and not even noticing that her own son was following her.
During this period, Fan Xiaojuan had an extremely difficult life.
When she was caught having an affair, she and Wang Shanshui were locked up in a small wooden house in the Revolutionary Committee. They only had a torn quilt. She couldn't get it from Wang Shanshui, who had regained consciousness. She could only rely on her thick coat and shivered with cold. After a few days, her calves were covered with chilblains.
Not only that, criticism and denunciation had almost become their daily routine during those days.
They were paraded through the streets, had their hair shaved in the yin-yang style, and were dressed in tattered clothes, pointed at by everyone, cursed at, spat on, and beaten countless times. Almost every time they came back from the struggle session, their clothes and cheeks were covered with the saliva of the onlookers.
Rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs were rare these days, so no one was willing to throw them at them. Saliva was free, and if they felt dry, they could just drink a few sips of water. Every time Fan Xiaojuan was taken out, she was never clean.
This made Fan Xiaojuan, who had a slight obsession with mysophobia, feel like she was living in hell every day, but she couldn't understand why everything had turned out like this.
The parade lasted for a whole week until the enthusiasm of the group of people died down. She and Wang Shanshui were escorted back to Xiaoqiu Village. When those people left, they told the team leader of Xiaoqiu Village that she and Wang Shanshui were bad elements and must suffer the hardest and most tiring work. Now they are the ones who clean up the chicken, duck and pig manure in Xiaoqiu Village and ferment the fertilizer. They do the dirtiest and most tiring work and have almost no time to rest.
To make matters even worse was the disturbance caused by the Yu family. The Fan family's house was smashed, all their belongings were robbed, and even the food was only enough for the Fan family to survive until the middle of the year when the grain distribution was ready. As close as the Fan family used to be to this sister-in-law who brought benefits to the family, they now hate her.
Lu Hui finally understood that her sister-in-law had completely lost her usefulness and had brought so much trouble to the family. Now she was unwilling to do even a superficial job. Not only did she drive Fan Xiaojuan out, but whenever she saw her in the village, she would mock her and sometimes she would not only talk but also use her hands.
Fan Xiaojuan's elder brother listened to her elder sister-in-law. Although her parents loved their daughter, they cared more about their son and their reputation, and did not care about their daughter's life or death. Fan Xiaojuan had nowhere to go, she was cold and hungry, and now the only person who could take her in was Wang Shanshui.
This man was now just like her, a person that everyone wanted to avoid. Apart from her, no other woman was willing to live with him, so the two of them simply teamed up, confirming the fact that the villagers had been saying that they had been secretly having an affair for a long time.
Fan Xiaojuan also asked Wang Shanshui about what happened that day in a roundabout way, but Wang Shanshui insisted that she was the one who seduced him first and that she was the one who asked someone to call him over. Whenever she mentioned this matter, Wang Shanshui would beat her up. Over time, Fan Xiaojuan did not dare to mention it anymore, but she believed in her heart that everything was Wang Shanshui's fault and hated him deeply.
If it weren't for him, she would still be a glamorous city dweller in the eyes of the villagers. But no matter how much she hated him, she could only lie dormant in secret, planning to find the right time to make Wang Shanshui pay the price.
“What are you doing!”
Fan Xiaojuan screamed and sat down on the ground with a thud. The note in her hand was snatched away by Yin Hong who suddenly rushed out, crumpled it into a ball and stuffed it into her mouth.
Yin Hong kept rolling her eyes and swallowing the rough note with difficulty, but she felt relieved in her heart.
What she didn't see was that the moment she snatched the note and swallowed it, Fan Xiaojuan, who was lying on the ground, also showed a relieved expression, but that expression was fleeting and no one saw it.
Fan Xiaojuan discovered early in the morning that the note she had placed in the lining of her cotton-padded jacket was missing. She thought that it was too messy that day and the note fell out and was taken away as garbage or picked up by someone.
During the days when she was criticized, she had been paying attention to what was happening outside. The note seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. No one brought the note to the Revolutionary Committee to complain, and no one threatened her with the note. Fan Xiaojuan thought that the note might have been in a corner and not been discovered yet. It was more likely that something unexpected had happened and it disappeared completely.
The Xiang family is rich because they have a filial and earning son. Since Xiang Qianjin became a worker, he has sent most of his monthly salary back home. Everyone in the village knows this. Fan Xiaojuan estimates that the Xiang family has saved at least 1,000 yuan over the years. After deducting some miscellaneous expenses and the cost of building a house, they can still take out 500 yuan.
Fan Xiaojuan thought that since Yin Hong didn't know about the missing note, she could use this as a threat to get some benefits. As long as Yin Hong didn't know about the missing note, she could use this as a threat to ask her for money and food. She didn't believe that Yin Hong had the guts to let this matter spread. A hypocritical woman like her cherished her pure white feathers the most.
"What exactly was written on that note?"
Xiang Qianjin asked calmly, this must be related to him, otherwise his mother wouldn't be so nervous, and Fan Xiaojuan wouldn't have said those words just now.
However, he had no contact with Fan Xiaojuan at all, so why would his mother have any agreement with Fan Xiaojuan, or would it be related to him? Xiang Qianjin couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
"Nothing, Third Brother. You'd rather believe that bitch than mom? She's making it all up. Don't believe her."
Yin Hong swallowed the note and her tense heart suddenly relaxed. Now that the evidence was gone, even if Fan Xiaojuan told the truth, as long as she denied it, no one could do anything to her.
One is a woman who betrayed her ex-husband and was caught committing adultery after marrying her current husband; the other is an old lady who has always been kind and amiable. I believe it is obvious who is who.
"Third brother, let's go. If someone sees us staying with this woman, we won't be able to get rid of the fishy smell on our bodies." Yin Hong pulled Xiang Qianjin's hand and was about to leave, but Xiang Qianjin pushed her away.
"what is going on."
Xiang Qianjin's tone became heavier, and his eyes were full of suspicion and oppression when he looked at Yin Hong. Yin Hong just kept repeating her innocence, but she avoided his gaze and dared not look directly into her son's eyes.
"Yin Hong, you don't think that the note you just swallowed is the agreement you wrote, do you? You think I would be stupid enough to keep the real agreement with me and wait for you to snatch it? You are too stupid."
Fan Xiaojuan, who was lying on the ground, laughed. Her words made Yin Hong turn pale.
What Fan Xiaojuan was holding in her hand just now was a fake, and the real one was still in her hand. So the words she just said must have offended people.
Yin Hong's legs trembled and she shook her head. It was impossible. That woman must be trying to scare her. But seeing Fan Xiaojuan's determined eyes, Yin Hong still panicked. She held her throat and wanted to take out the note she had just swallowed to see if Fan Xiaojuan was trying to scare her.
But how could she spit out the note that she had already swallowed? Yin Hong vomited out a bunch of porridge and stomach acid that she had drunk at noon, but there was no sign of the note that she was thinking about.
"Five hundred yuan, I only want five hundred yuan. If you can't give it to me, I will give the note to your son." Fan Xiaojuan stood up, patted her butt, and said to Yin Hong with a cold expression, then she walked straight out of the shabby house.
"What exactly is the agreement?"
Xiang Qianjin looked at Fan Xiaojuan fiercely and went forward to stop her, but Yin Hong hugged his waist tightly and he could not move for a while.
Fan Xiaojuan was frightened by Xiang Qianjin's cannibalistic expression. Seeing that he was stopped by Yin Hong, she hurriedly ran outside.
"No, nothing happened."
Yin Hong hugged her son tightly and kept denying it. She absolutely could not let her son know this, otherwise she would be finished.
Xiang Qianjin looked at the woman who was running away and his mother who was going crazy. He clenched his hands into fists, veins popped out on his forehead, and he kept breathing heavily, suppressing the urge to hit someone.
******
"What's going on?"
Xiang Laoshi was sitting in the main room, watching his daughter-in-law and son who had just gone out come back one after another. His son's face was ashen and he looked extremely angry, while his daughter-in-law followed him timidly with red and swollen eyes, as if she had just cried.
As soon as the son entered the room, he greeted him and went back to his room. The daughter-in-law stood in front of his son's door for a long time, wiped her tears and left, sitting down on the chair next to him.
"What's the matter?" Xiang Laoshi asked again. He had never seen the third son look down on his mother like that. It seemed that he was really angry, and the fault must be his wife's. Otherwise, with her personality, she would have complained to him about her son's unfilial behavior.
"Bang——"
“Snap——”
Two loud bangs came from Xiang Qianjin's room. Xiang Guangming, who was resting in his room after dinner, rubbed his eyes and walked out of his room with a dissatisfied look on his face: "What is Third Brother doing? Are you demolishing the house?"
"What is this? What do you think this is?"
Xiang Qianjin came out of the room with red eyes and heavy breathing, holding a piece of white paper in his hand with some words densely written on it. Two bright red fingerprints were particularly eye-catching.
He clenched his fist tightly. If Yin Hong wasn't her mother, he would have swung his fist long ago. Xiang Qianjin looked at the strange woman in front of him. Was he her son or her enemy?
"How did this end up in your hands? Give it to me, please give it to me."
When Yin Hong saw the familiar note, she went crazy and tried to grab the note from Xiang Qianjin's hand like crazy. Her sharp nails scratched Xiang Qianjin's raised sleeves with such force that the cotton wool in his cotton-padded jacket was pulled out.
Xiang Laoshi and Xiang Guangming were both stunned by the scene before them. They were stunned for a long time before they remembered to pull the people away.
"Okay, what are you doing on New Year's Day?"
After yelling at Laoshi, Yin Hong, who was originally crying like a tantrum, suddenly became quiet, covered her face, and collapsed on the ground.
Seeing her expression, Xiang Laoshi took the troublesome note from his grieving son with confusion, and read it from beginning to end. His face became worse and worse, and when he got to the last signature, his eyes widened and he fell backwards.
Familiar signatures, the "gong" next to the red character would be written as "wang", and the "gou" of the character "yin" would be written as "ti". Xiang Laoshi had only seen Yin Hong, so he could be sure that this was his wife's signature without checking her fingerprints. When the third son taught the old couple to write their names, the old woman learned countless times, but she would make mistakes every time, which had almost become her characteristic.
"dad--"
"Old man—"
Xiang Qianjin and Xiang Guangming supported Xiang Laoshi who fell backwards. Yin Hong, who was squatting on the ground, stood up nervously after seeing her husband's current appearance and walked towards Laoshi.
"Don't come over here."
Xiang Laoshi yelled and stopped Yin Hong from approaching. He never thought that after being kind to others all his life, his wife would end up with such a vicious temper.
"Old Five, go and guard the entrance of the village. Once your brothers and sisters-in-law come back, ask them to come home. This family division is not thorough enough. Tonight, we will have a thorough division."
Xiang Laoshi said these words with difficulty. It was his fault. He indulged the greed of his other sons and let their desires become shackles that harmed the third son. He had paid enough in the past few years. He would rather not let the third son recognize him as his father than to completely pull the third son out of this quagmire.
Xiang Qianjin vaguely guessed his father's thoughts and felt a little reluctant, but when he saw Yin Hong standing beside him, his heart turned cold again and he watched his brother run out without saying a word.
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