There are examples of divorce and remarriage in the nearby villages, just like the eldest sister in their Yangjia Village, who remarried after her husband died. As a result, her husband would not let her take care of her first-born son, so he left him to her uncle. Her uncle treated her son as a coolie, did not allow him to go to school, and fed him with leftovers.

After she got married into her husband's family, she had to obey her mother-in-law's mood and take care of the two children born to her previous wife. If the children felt wronged, the man would beat them immediately, because he knew that she was a remarried woman and her parents didn't want her, so it would not be illegal if he didn't beat them to death.

Did she have to end up like this?

She burst into tears: "You are my biological mother, can't you see that I can live a stable life?"

She usually looks down on the fourth child, thinking he is skinny, dumb and can't earn much money. Her father-in-law doesn't help her and her mother-in-law doesn't take care of the children. In short, she is wronged in every way.

When we were about to get divorced, after careful comparison, I really discovered the good points of the fourth brother, Li Honggang.

"Are you blaming me? Wasn't it because I stood up for you that your elder brother was locked up in the police station?" Yang Xiaohui's mother stared at her daughter in disbelief.

Yang Xiaohui knew that she couldn't make it through to her mother, so she wiped away her tears and said, "Mom, I really have no money."

When her mother heard this, she burst into tears: "Xiaohui, there is really nothing I can do. Your sister-in-law went back to her parents' home that day. I heard that she went to the county town with her eyebrows and eyes painted to pick up men today. She is determined not to live with your brother."

"You said your eldest brother was in the police station, and mom was at home, watching his wife run away. Tell me, if he gets out, will I be blamed?"

"Mom only has your eldest brother as her son. If your eldest brother dislikes me, who will take care of me when I am old?"

She cried very sadly, she was really scared.

I beat my daughter yesterday because she was angry and wanted to vent her anger. She cried today because she was really scared.

Her son is the apple of her eye. If his wife runs away, her son will become an old bachelor with two boys. Her family cannot afford a high price for the bride price, so which decent woman would be willing to marry him?

She kept nagging: "...Even if you can marry her, will she be good to your two nephews after she gets married? She's a stepmother."

The more Yang Xiaohui listened, the more heartbroken she felt. Her own mother had thought of everything for her eldest brother, even thinking of marrying a younger girl in the future and being afraid that the young girl would become a stepmother and bully her eldest grandson. Yet, she just didn't care about her life or death.

Being able to ask her to divorce and then marry her off, to put it bluntly, isn't that just exchanging her for a dowry?

When she got married, the Li family gave her a total of 8,000 yuan, and her dowry totaled less than 200 yuan.

"Mom, Chen Xiaoqiao is not someone who can live a normal life. If she is determined not to live with my eldest brother, we can't control her because she has a leg badge on her," she said.

"Stop talking nonsense, and get me the money first, and then I'll talk to you while I get your brother out." Yang Xiaohui's mother didn't listen to her at all: "By the way, you have to ask Li Honggang to say that he forgives your brother and won't pursue the matter any more, otherwise the police station won't release your brother."

This was what she had just found out. If the victim did not forgive, the police station would not accept the fine even if he wanted to pay it.

Yang Xiaohui lowered her head and said nothing.

"I'm talking to you, are you deaf?" Her mother pushed her anxiously.

Yang Xiaohui shed tears but didn't say anything.

"Okay, I get it. You just don't want to give me money, and you don't want to help me rescue your brother, right?" Her mother rolled up her sleeves and said, "Okay, I'll fight with Li Honggang then."

If anyone bullies her son, she will never forgive him.

Yang Xiaohui hurriedly pulled her: "Mom, what are you doing?"

"Get out of my way." Her mother pushed her and rushed into Li Honggang's ward.

Li Hong was frightened by her mother-in-law who looked like a madman: "You, what are you doing?"

"You heartless bastard, I married my daughter to you, and you sent my son to the police station, Li Honggang, I will never let you go." Yang Xiaohui's mother cried and sat down on the ground, slapping her thighs: "Everyone passing by, come and take a look at this heartless bastard, he has harmed my son and put him in the police station. I only have this one son, if anything happens to him, I will not live anymore, I will jump out of the window."

As she said this, she got up and climbed towards the window.

The person on the bed inside was so frightened that he dodged to the side. His family member subconsciously wanted to help him, but then he remembered something and retracted his hand.

"Mom, mom." It was her own mother who was embarrassed, and Yang Xiaohui couldn't pretend not to see it.

Yang Xiaohui's mother didn't really intend to jump. When she ran to the window, she found that the window was welded shut with steel bars. Not only a person, but even a cat couldn't jump down.

"Oh my God, this is killing me." She quickly adjusted her mentality and started crying again.

"Mom, woo woo."

Yang Xiaohui could only cry, she really had no other choice.

She wanted to pull her mother out, but her mother was fat and sat on the ground, so she couldn't pull her out.

There was a lot of noise here. Li Honggang was so angry that she wanted to get up, but she couldn't because of the pain all over her body. Besides, there was an IV drip hanging on her arm. She could only yell angrily: "Stop making noise, stop making noise!"

The doctor came, the nurses came, and the family members nearby also ran over to watch the fun.

This was the situation when Chen Xiaoying came. There were three layers of people surrounding the ward where her son was staying, and no one knew what they were doing.

Before I even entered the ward, I heard familiar cries.

"...My son...has a miserable life, and my daughter...has no conscience..."

From what he heard intermittently, it turned out to be the mother of Yang Xiaohui, the fourth son's wife.

Chen Xiaoying pushed through the crowd and walked in. She saw Yang Xiaohui's mother with snot and tears all over her face. She was crying and cursing, and she was standing with her hands up, as if she was having a hysterical attack.

Chen Xiaoying walked over and said, "Why are you here? Your son beat my son like this. He hasn't been seen for three days. Are you here today to apologize to my son? He was beaten like this, and the medical expenses cost two thousand yuan. Are you here to compensate him?"

Yang Xiaohui's mother wanted money, but after what her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying said, she had to pay two thousand yuan?

"Your son has been locked up in the police station because of your son's misconduct?" She shouted loudly, as if she was right.

Chen Xiaoying said calmly, "Your son was detained at the police station because he was beaten to the point of having a concussion, two fractured ribs, soft tissue bruises all over his body, and a swollen nose and face. He looked like a man no longer human. The onlookers couldn't stand it and called the police."

"Gao Huaihua, your son was detained in the police station. He deserved it."

Gao Huaihua, Yang Xiaohui's mother, was stunned. She was so angry that she gasped: "My son beat your son because your son treated my daughter as a thief and took out his anger on his sister."

"You still have the nerve to argue?" Chen Xiaoying remained calm. "Your daughter is the thief in my son's family. She is the one who gave all the wages my son earned from working for the past six or seven years, as well as the harvest at home, to your daughter to move back to her parents' home. You ate all the food and refused to admit it. How come you didn't die of bloating?"