In Lujia Village, dotted with morning dew, colorful wild flowers in the fields sway in the warm breeze of early summer. In Lu Dashan's village at the easternmost end, the newly built straw-tiled house is hidden among the thick crabapple flowers.
At noon, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Dashan family rested on the kang for a while and then got up to wash clothes for the whole family. In the next courtyard, which was only separated by a wall, on the new kang that still exuded the fragrance of straw, Jiang Chunzao, the famous and exquisite third daughter-in-law of the Lao Lu family, was still lying on the kang and taking a nap.
However, unlike in the past when he slept peacefully on the kang, Jiang Chunzao, who never had nightmares, actually had one.
In the dream, Jiang Chunzao was lying with dishevelled hair in a dilapidated, dimly lit house. Because she had not had a drop of water for many days, the once beautiful woman had a pale face and blood blisters at the corners of her mouth. Jiang Chunzao lay on the kang, dying. She looked at her two children standing in front of her with red eyes and stretched out her hand with regret:
"Momo, Shitou...it's mommy who's sorry for you..."
Before Jiang Chunzao could finish her words, her children on the opposite side interrupted her with a cold look on their faces:
"You cut off all ties with us a long time ago. It was you who abandoned me and my brother. Have you forgotten?"
When Jiang Chunzao heard this, she immediately coughed up a mouthful of blood and a miserable smile appeared on her haggard face. Yes, as early as fifteen years ago, she had been blinded by greed and let go of her children and husband for the so-called freedom. This was all retribution, her retribution!
When she thought of this, Jiang Chunzao, who had been suffering for many days, felt a fishy sweetness in her mouth. Amid the heart-wrenching guilt and pain and the screams of her children, her eyes went dark...
The spacious house, the quaint furniture, the paulownia-colored beams, everything in front of her was so familiar yet strange. Jiang Chunzao had been awake for quite a while. She was lying on the kang, staring blankly at the beams above her head...
What is going on?
Didn't she die in front of her children in the old house without taking a single drop of water for two days and three nights because of the guilt in her heart?
How come she woke up again in the blink of an eye?
The originally dilapidated old house became spacious and bright, and there was her own face... Jiang Chunzao looked at her fair and beautiful self in the mirror in disbelief, and her heart was filled with shock. Could it be that what Lu Lin had said to her in his last life was true?
In fact, it was only in her previous life that Jiang Chunzao learned from her ex-husband Lu Lin that the world she had lived in all her life was actually a book.
In the book, Jiang Chunzao's parents are incorrigible and always protect their son. As for Jiang Chunzao, she has been spoiled by her parents into a spoiled brat. When she thinks of her past life, in which she was so self-centered and arrogant that her children hated her and her husband was indifferent to her, Jiang Chunzao feels so remorseful that she rolls off the kang and wants to bang her head against the wall. At this moment, a familiar curse suddenly comes from the yard next door.
"What time is it now? Everyone is lying dead on the kang!
Get out of here quickly! Haven't you noticed that the pigs at home are crying out for food? What's the matter? You two guys want me, an old woman, to support you!
A bunch of lazy things that are good for eating! We don’t support idle people in our homeland! "
In the Lu family's courtyard, the vigorous old lady Lu was standing with her hands on her hips and shouting curses.
Old lady Lu's shout woke up all the Lu family members who were taking a nap at home. The eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Dashan, was an honest man who usually listened to his parents. When he heard his mother's words, he was the first to get up from the kang, went to the yard to wash his face, and then obediently carried the hoe to the field.
Seeing that her eldest son was obedient, Old Lady Lu felt proud. She glanced at the east room where the second son and his wife were quiet with her triangular eyes, and immediately became angry and started to curse again.
The second son of the Lu family, Lu Ershan and Liu Hongyan, originally wanted to pretend that they didn't hear Wo peeking from the kang, but now they heard the old lady Lu cursing in the yard. Liu Hongyan reluctantly got up from the kang and complained to Lu Ershan in a low voice:
"It's noon now, everyone in the village is taking a nap, but your mother can't bear to see anyone at home resting!"
Lu Ershan yawned, and upon hearing this he glared and said:
"What are you talking about, you stinky bitch? Just listen to what I say. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll beat you up!"
Liu Hongyan didn't dare to challenge her own man, so she could only open the door and smile at Old Lady Lu in the yard:
"Mother, I was sewing shoe soles for Mutou in the room. I slept very deeply and didn't hear you. Please don't be angry."
Old Mrs. Lu glanced at Liu Hongyan who was trying to please her with a smile, and sneered, thinking to herself, I don't know what you, a lazy woman, are doing in the house, sewing shoe soles for wood. I'm afraid you want to be lazy in the house and pretend that you didn't hear what the old woman said!
Thinking of this, Old Lady Lu looked even more unfavorable to Liu Hongyan:
"The land in the south has not been hoeed yet. The eldest son is doing laundry at home. You, the second son, should hoe the land in the south by yourself today."
Liu Hongyan's face turned pale when she heard this. The old lady was deliberately trying to make things difficult for her and didn't want her to have an easy life!
There is more than an acre of land south of the village. Why should she work on it alone?
Liu Hongyan was upset but didn't dare to show it. She could only smile at Old Lady Lu with tears in her eyes:
"Mom, there are more than an acre of land in the south. I can't finish it all by myself. Why don't I ask my third brother and his wife to go with me?"
It would have been better if Liu Hongyan hadn't said this. As soon as she said this, Mrs. Lu, who had been relatively normal just now, immediately jumped up with a gloomy face as if something had exploded.
"Liu Hongyan!
Don’t you just want to see me live a good life? Do you want me to die soon? Do you always bring that heartless bastard from the third brother’s family into everything to make me angry?
"Lu Ershan! Where have you been, you little brat? You're just watching your wife pissing off your mother to death!"
When Lu Ershan, who was originally in the house, heard that Old Lady Lu was furious, he immediately came out of the house and grabbed the stunned Liu Hongyan and beat her up, making her scream like a ghost. Old Man Lu, who was drinking tea in the main room, couldn't stand it anymore and came out of the house with his hands behind his back and a dark face:
"Come on, old woman, please be quiet in the middle of the day."
After hearing what her old man said, Old Lady Lu snorted and turned back to go into the house.
Seeing his mother leave, Lu Ershan pretended to curse her a few words, then pulled Liu Hongyan, who was covering her face and pretending to cry, out of the yard with a hoe.
Old Man Lu returned to the main hall and saw Old Lady Lu sitting on the Eight Immortals Chair. He walked over and advised:
"What are you doing? Even though the third brother's family has separated from us, the third brother is still our son, and Shitou and Jasmine are still our grandchildren. They have given us a lot of filial respect during festivals and New Year. Why are you still angry?"
When Old Lady Lu heard this, she glared at Old Man Lu with her triangular eyes and started to curse him:
"Why are you so angry? Tell me why I'm so angry!
If it weren't for this shrew in the third brother's family, my third brother would have been able to separate from me!
The third son was a company commander in the army! He had great potential. After the family was divided, he only gave so little as a gift every year. There was no money left in the family. How could we save money for our eldest grandson to get married?
They are all old men! They don’t love their biological son, but love the third child who is not their biological son!”
Old Man Lu was spitted in the face by Old Lady Lu, and he also became angry and slammed the table:
"Although the third child is not our biological son, he is still my eldest brother's biological son and my biological nephew, just like my biological son! Besides, when the third child's family was arguing about dividing the family property, why didn't you make a fuss about the butcher father on the third child's mother's side?"
After saying that, Old Man Lu turned around and went into the inner room, leaving Old Lady Lu alone with a glare in anger.
Nonsense!
The butcher father of the third sister's family is a big and strong man. He can lift her old woman up with just one finger. How can she afford to offend him?
After all, this is all Jiang Chunzao's fault. If it weren't for this bear woman, how could the third brother separate from their Lu family!
This third child is also an ungrateful person. If it weren't for the fact that his biological father had a pension in the army and the reputation of being a martyr's family member, she would have ignored this freeloader, the third child!
When Old Lady Lu thought of this, she gritted her teeth in anger.
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In the courtyard next door, Jiang Chunzao, who was originally so frustrated that he wanted to bang his head against the wall, was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes after hearing the commotion in Lao Lu's house!
She really returned to her younger self. Jiang Chunzao thought excitedly about what Old Lady Lu had cursed in the yard. Just now, Old Lady Lu said that the third branch had separated from the Lu family. Did she return to the time when she just separated from the Lu family?
In his previous life, Jiang Chunzao had a bad relationship with Old Lady Lu and Liu Hongyan in the Lu family. The three of them quarreled every day. Over who should get the salary of Lu Lin, the third son of the Lu family, in the army, Jiang Chunzao and Old Lady Lu fought like chicken eyes.
That day, Mrs. Lu said something sarcastic to Jiang Chunzao at the dinner table about Lu Lin's salary. Jiang Chunzao, who was not easy to mess with, immediately rolled up her sleeves and started to argue with Mrs. Lu. One scolded her as "an unfilial wife", and the other retorted "You are not even a proper mother-in-law, why should I be filial to you!"
Jiang Chunzao's sharp words made Old Lady Lu so angry that she cried out in anger, and finally they started to make a fuss about dividing the family property. When Jiang Chunzao's family heard that their daughter wanted to separate from her husband's family, they were afraid that the daughter would be wronged, so they immediately came from their home to support the daughter of the old Lu family.
Jiang Chunzao is the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. Her parents are well-known for loving their daughter. The old man of the Jiang family has been killing pigs all his life, so he has big and strong children. When he stood in front of the Lu family, the arrogance of old lady Lu immediately subsided. With the support of her family members, Jiang Chunzao, on behalf of the third branch, calmly separated from the Lu family.
Jiang Chunzao was excited for a while, and suddenly thought of a question: where were her little Shitou and little Jasmine? She had been awake for such a long time, why didn’t she see the two little ones at home?
Where did the two kids go?
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