Chapter 351 I told you she wouldn't dare!
"...Before, with your grandparents in charge, you didn't dare say anything. Now that no one's watching you, you've really let loose and caused a ruckus. Are you a monkey? Erniu is right. My children are growing up in this kind of environment. Who knows what kind of mess they'll turn out to be? I'll find someone to build a house tomorrow, and from now on, we'll each live our own lives!"
After saying that, he grabbed the kitchen knife and rushed towards Erniu's mother, yelling, "Get out!"
Erniu's mother wanted to scold her more, but seeing the kitchen knife in her hand, she felt inexplicably frightened and reluctantly retreated.
As I walked into the courtyard, I became increasingly unwilling to accept it.
With his hands on his hips, he stood there and shouted, "If you want to move, then move! My eldest grandson's surname is Fang, and they are the offspring of the Fang family. They cannot leave this place!"
As she spoke, she strode to the door of the kitchen, grabbed her grandson who was squatting on the ground playing with pebbles, and tried to drag him into her own room.
The child was dragged on the ground and cried loudly in fright.
The two older girls cried out and rushed out to try and take the baby from Erniu's mother, shouting, "Grandma, let go! You're hurting your little brother..."
"Wow, Mom, big brother, second brother, you're so naughty, you pulled Xiaozhou so hard, it hurts..."
"Grandma, you're so mean! Didn't you hear him cry out in pain?"
Hearing her grandsons speak ill of her, Erniu's mother angrily launched into a tirade, "You little brats, you're just like your mother, heartless and ungrateful. You'll never amount to anything when you grow up..."
Sister-in-law Fang was so angry that her eyes turned red, she was breathing heavily, and she even had the urge to grab a knife and kill someone.
And that's exactly what she did.
Clutching a kitchen knife, he charged at Erniu's mother, yelling, "You old hag, let go of my son! If you don't, I'll chop off your hands! Ah!"
Erniu's mother also exclaimed, but instinctively shielded her child in front of her.
Sister-in-law Fang's eyes widened instantly. She dropped the kitchen knife and staggered forward a few steps, almost falling to the ground.
Once she regained her balance, she looked at Erniu's mother with eyes that seemed to want to tear her apart!
"You old hag, you're so cruel! You actually used my son as a human shield!"
Erniu's mother, feeling guilty, hugged her child tightly and argued, "Wasn't it because you scared me? If you hadn't pointed a knife at me, would I have done this?"
The child cried and refused to be held, reaching out his hands for his mother.
Erniu's mother patted his bottom and said, "I'm your own mother, would I ever hurt you? Behave yourself."
"Let go of my son! If you want to bully someone, go find your own child. These are my children, and as their mother, I won't let you bully them like this..."
“This is my grandson!” Erniu’s mother said.
"Pah! Now you know it's your grandson? When I was working in the fields and no one was there to comfort the child, when he was crying and screaming from hunger in the fields, why didn't you say anything? When the child had a high fever, why didn't you say anything when you were eating and sleeping as if nothing was wrong?"
Sister-in-law Fang spat at him, picked up the kitchen knife from the ground, and said, "I'll give you three counts. If you don't let go, I'll kill someone. If you die, I'll pay with my life. You can't bully my son! Three, two..."
Seeing her fierce expression, Erniu's mother felt a chill run down her spine. When Sister-in-law Fang counted to one, she suddenly let go of the child.
The child fell to the ground, his hand scraped against a pebble, and he cried out in pain.
Sister-in-law Fang put down the kitchen knife, picked up the child, and went to examine his palm.
The skin on their palms was scraped and bled a little. Luckily, their sister-in-law was worried that they would hurt their hands, so she smoothed out the sharp edges of the pebbles. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been just a scrape and a little blood.
She sent the eldest son out to find some herbs to stop bleeding and reduce inflammation. She crushed them and applied them to the youngest son's palm, then bandaged it with a cloth. Only then did Sister-in-law Fang take the children back to the kitchen to continue cooking.
After dinner, we took the children to look at the homestead again and again.
The eldest child was in low spirits and asked Sister-in-law Fang, "Mom, why have Grandpa and Grandma become like this?"
Sister-in-law Fang sighed wearily.
He shook his head and said, "I don't know either."
A perfectly good family, whose life was clearly going well, suddenly went berserk...
“...Your aunt is right, you're not suited to growing up in this kind of environment. When school starts in September, you'll go to school in the city, and I'll take your brother with you. The three of us, mother and children, will rent a small courtyard, I'll grow some vegetables, and we'll find some odd jobs to earn some money for food…”
"Mom, my aunt said that good students in the city get bonuses, so I'll definitely study hard from now on," the older sister said.
The second child nodded, clenching his little fist, "Mom, I'll study hard too. My older brother and I will both get scholarships and earn enough to cover our food expenses..."
When Sister-in-law Fang heard these words, she felt that all her hardships and exhaustion were worth it.
From that day on, the two of them studied much more diligently than before.
The younger one was also sensible and stayed close to Sister-in-law Fang, not going near her grandparents.
At first, Erniu's father complained that Erniu's mother shouldn't have put her grandson through so much trouble. He was worried that she would find someone to build a house and move out with the child, and then he would have to argue with his wife just to get a hot meal.
Before long, they discovered that the eldest son's wife was indeed a loudmouth and had no intention of hiring anyone to build a house, so they gradually felt relieved.
Erniu's mother told him, "I told you she wouldn't dare leave. A woman without a man by her side, moving out with several children, the gossips in the village could drown her! If she dares to move out, I'll go to the jail the day after she moves and make our son divorce her. She's not a member of the Fang family, and the village will take back the homestead. Let's see where she goes with her children then."
"You woman, how can you be so vicious? You don't care about her, but those are her eldest children. Aren't you afraid that when they come back, they'll hate you to death?" Erniu's father said with a sneer.
Erniu's mother snorted, "No matter how much he hates me, I am still his mother. Besides, if a wife and son are gone, he can remarry and have more children, but a mother is only once."
Erniu's dad, "..."
This woman's madness is terrifying.
Wasn't he perfectly normal when his parents were living with him? How come he's acting like a madman now, completely unrecognizable to his family?!
However, Sister-in-law Fang didn't care what the couple thought or planned. Every weekend, she would take her three children to the city to ask around about schools, how to rent a house, and how to find a cheap and affordable place to live. She was very proactive in preparing for her children's enrollment in September.
When the two older children were in school, she would take the younger one to the mountains to dig traps and hunt prey, and to gather herbs that could be exchanged for money, saving as much as possible to pay for the children's schooling.
One day, we ran into Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang on the street. Fang's sister-in-law greeted them and told the children to greet them as well.
The child greeted people, but unlike before, he didn't run to his seemingly kind great-grandparents.
The elderly couple looked rather sad.
A few days later, the two older men brought a few yuan to Sister-in-law Fang, saying that it was from the old couple and that they insisted on giving it to them even though the old couple didn't want it.
Sister-in-law Fang did not allow it to be returned.
He also told his sons, "If they give you money, just accept it and remember to say thank you. Your surname is Fang, so if others can spend their money, so can you, understand?"
The two brothers looked at each other and nodded.
Several days had passed since Fang Erniu left home, and there had been no news from her. Fang's sister-in-law was worried, so she specially found out her cousin Hu's phone number and waited for a long time before her cousin answered the phone.
As it turned out, my cousin said that Erniu had never contacted her, let alone gone to see her.
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