Yang Aizhen's sky has collapsed twice.

The first time was when she was a teenager. Her hometown was decentralised and her family’s thousands of acres of fertile land were gone in an instant.

She also went from being a rich daughter of a landlord to a despised and hated child by everyone.

At that time, she was discussing marriage, and all the men who came to propose marriage were sons of gentry and officials.

But something unexpected happened overnight, and all the families who were originally interested in the marriage gave up the idea.

Before long, the gentry and officials became the same as her family.

The Yang family and the Qin family are old friends. The two families had planned a marriage in the previous generation, but due to the war, they missed the opportunity and the marriage never took place.

The Yang family was in trouble, and Yang Aizhen was unable to get married. Yang Aizhen's father then remembered the marriage with the Qin family and sent Yang Aizhen to Qin Hanshu's father.

Regardless of the huge age gap between them, he shamelessly brought up the topic of marriage again and even took out the tokens that the older generation had exchanged back then.

Although Qin Hanshu's father is old, he is focused on his career and has no plans to start a family.

However, since the Yang family mentioned their ancestors and took the token, the meaning behind their words was that if the Qin family didn't want Yang Aizhen, Yang Aizhen would have to die...

Qin Hanshu's father respected his ancestors and felt sorry for Yang Aizheng, so he agreed to the marriage.

Although Qin Hanshu's father is a capitalist, he has a wide range of contacts, is flexible, and has never suffered any hardship.

After Yang Aizhen married into the Qin family, she lived a life of plenty and without worries. She also had a good reputation among her neighbors.

The death of Qin Hanshu’s father was the second time the sky fell.

At that time, Yang Aizheng hugged Qin Hanshu and cried every night, and her eyes developed a problem of tears flowing in the wind.

Qin Feiyang was a teenager who could barely support the family, but he was too young to handle big events, not to mention that he had joined the army and left home.

In the few years before she married Hu Dayong, Yang Aizheng was always worried and never slept well.

She felt that as a widow, people would look at her strangely when she went out.

When those men looked at her, there was an indescribable color in their eyes.

Yang Aizheng's mother instilled in her the idea that women can only survive in this world by relying on men.

Without a man, a woman is like a rootless duckweed. Even if she has a fortune, she is just a piece of fat meat that people salivate over.

In the rural society of the past, women had no right to inherit property and were not eligible to set up their own household, otherwise there would be no such thing as a family being extinct.

What Yang Aizheng’s mother said was not wrong.

However, Yang Aizhen, who grew up immersed in this kind of thinking, forgot that she had entered a new society. She even exaggeratedly placed men in a god-like status, and put everything else aside.

But, in the final analysis, she was only doing this for herself.

Man is the sky, and she depends on the sky to survive.

When Hu Dayong's sky collapsed, she experienced a brief period of sadness, and her first reaction was to find another sky to rely on.

Yang Aizheng was lying on the kang with a towel covering her forehead. She looked hopeless, but in fact she had already moved on.

However, when Old Mrs. Hu saw this, she felt much more at ease.

Old Mrs. Hu started planning for herself earlier than Yang Aizheng. She started thinking about her future almost as soon as Hu Dayong was sentenced.

She only has one son, Hu Dayong, and her grandson, Hu Bingbing, is stupid and useless, and can't take care of her.

After much thought, I can only rely on my daughter-in-law Yang Aizheng.

She changed her attitude towards Yang Aizhen in an instant.

Ever since Yang Aizheng lay down on the kang, she had been serving her tea and water, and her voice was more gentle than before.

Old Mrs. Hu stewed two eggs and brought them to Yang Aizheng.

Yang Aizhen was flattered and propped herself up, "Mom, I can do it myself."

Old Mrs. Hu smiled and said, "You are not feeling well. I will take care of you."

Yang Aizheng couldn't refuse, so she let Old Lady Hu feed her two eggs.

Old Mrs. Hu held an empty bowl in her hand, greeted Yang Aizhen a few times, and then sighed, "Child, what are your plans for the future?"

Yang Aizheng was shocked. Could it be that Old Lady Hu saw that she wanted to remarry?

"I..." Yang Aizheng blushed a little. After all, remarriage was not glorious.

When Old Mrs. Hu saw it, she frowned. Could it be that this woman wanted to remarry?

She's thinking about remarrying right after Dayong died! She's so fickle!

Although she cursed in her heart, Mrs. Hu did not show it on her face.

"Alas..." Old Mrs. Hu looked distressed. "Someone from the police station came just now and said that Bingbing and I don't have a household registration and are migrant workers. They asked us to return to our hometown as soon as possible."

They had lived here for so long and no one said they were blind migrants, but as soon as Hu Dayong died, they said they were blind migrants and asked them to go back to the countryside. It must be some damn wicked person who reported them!

However, Mrs. Hu is not opposed to returning to the countryside.

Anyway, my son is dead, and there is nothing to enjoy in the city. It is better to go back to the countryside and live on work points. Maybe I can live a better life.

However, Yang Aizheng must be brought back to the countryside to serve her!

When Yang Aizheng heard that Old Lady Hu was going back to the countryside, she was delighted, but her next words made her feel heavy again.

"Once we left, you lived here alone. I saw a lot of men in the front and back yards. Although you are not young, you still look good. I am worried that you will be harassed."

Old Lady Hu glanced at Yang Aizhen's expression and continued, "More importantly, with your background... without Bingbing and I to protect you, what will you do if someone causes trouble for you?"

Yang Aizheng's pupils shrank.

It has to be said that Old Lady Hu had a firm grasp of Yang Aizheng's weakness - this was naturally learned from Hu Dayong.

Yang Aizhen's heart was in a mess.

She didn't want to go back to the countryside with Old Lady Hu, but what Old Lady Hu said made sense.

What she fears most is her background.

It's not that fast to remarry.

She had been married twice and was not young anymore. The time she had spent digging out manure had made her look much more haggard and she had no money.

It’s not easy to find a suitable one.

Old Mrs. Hu saw that Yang Aizheng was wavering and continued to persuade her.

"Aizhen, you are a good daughter-in-law. Dayong always sided with you before. As a mother, I was jealous and was a little harsh on you."

"It's different now. Dayong is gone, so we have to depend on each other. Fortunately, we have Bingbing. Although he's not very smart, but with his strength, no one dares to mess with us."

"I am not the kind of stubborn person who would not allow my daughter-in-law to remarry."

"Well, you can go back to our hometown and live with us for a year or two. This will be considered as keeping your chastity and fulfilling the bond between you and Dayong. When Bingbing gets married, you can remarry and I will prepare a dowry for you!"

Yang Aizheng looked at Old Lady Hu and felt relieved when she saw that she looked very sincere.

Yang Aizheng is not stupid, of course she knows that Old Mrs. Hu is not a good mother-in-law.

But what Old Lady Hu said makes sense. Since ancient times, conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have always arisen from men.

Now that the man is gone, what is there for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to fight about?

It's okay for her to live in the countryside for two years. With the way Old Lady Hu and Hu Bingbing are doing, they will be able to get along well in the countryside, and no one will dare to bully her.

Old Mrs. Hu wouldn't tie her hands and feet, so if she wanted to leave, she could leave naturally.

At this time, Hu Bingbing walked in and shouted, "Mom, just come back with us. I will be filial to you in the future and will not let anyone bully you."

These are what Old Mrs. Hu taught Hu Bingbing to say.

Yang Aizhen didn't know it, and she was so moved that tears filled her eyes.

Yang Aizheng once truly poured her motherly love into Hu Bingbing.

She had always dreamed of having a son, but things did not go as she wished, and she only had a daughter, Qin Hanshu.

Now that I am getting older, rebirth is unlikely.

She has always felt insecure, afraid that no one would take care of her when she gets old.

Since Hu Bingbing could say such words, it proved that her previous efforts were not in vain.

After weighing the pros and cons and thinking of a way out, Yang Aizheng finally agreed and went back to the countryside with Old Lady Hu.

But she didn't know that Old Lady Hu was even more powerful than Hu Dayong, and had endless ways to control her.

Her hard days have just begun.