Chapter 48 The Three Fleeing
Jin Fenglian knew that she couldn't anger the captain, so she winked at her daughter and they both let go of the captain.
Ye Xiushan also stood up. The three members of the Cui family on the ground cried out in pain. The team leader had no choice but to call a few villagers who were watching the fun to carry the Zhang family into the house and let the Ye family come in to negotiate together.
Old Mrs. Cui lying on the kang was still not calm. "Hey, Captain, you're here! Look at what the Ye family did to me. Oh, my son, you married a vixen who is ruining our family! She wants to kill our whole family!"
"That's enough! Mrs. Cui, please stop talking."
The team leader knew what kind of person this old lady Cui was, and he had also heard about the Cui family's affairs. Apart from not having given birth to a child, her daughter-in-law Ye Xiuhong worked honestly and managed the household very well. She was not as bad as she said.
"No matter what the reason, you bullied someone's daughter. You deserve it when they beat you up. What are you yelling about? Tell me how you want to deal with this matter." The captain went straight to the point.
Old Mrs. Cui fell silent. She was still thinking of extorting some money from the Ye family. From what the team leader said, did the three of them get beaten in vain?
Jin Fenglian was thinking about how to bring up the matter of divorce. After all, it was her daughter who couldn't have children, so she was not in a position to bring it up.
Mrs. Cui wanted to marry Xinghua off as soon as possible and said to the team leader, "Team Leader, I don't dare to accept this daughter-in-law. Take her back to the Ye family and let my family live in peace for a few days."
Jin Fenglian almost laughed out loud. She dozed off and was given a pillow. For the first time, she found Old Lady Cui more pleasing to the eye, but she couldn't lose in terms of momentum. "Take her back, then take her back. I don't think your idiot Erzhu can find another one!"
As he was speaking, the matchmaker who had just gone to reply came back with a happy face. When the matchmaker saw so many people at home, she thought that the Zhang family had started to make arrangements as soon as the marriage was announced.
"Oh, why is it so lively? Aunt Cui is going to pick up the bride the day after tomorrow." The matchmaker walked into the house happily only to realize something was wrong. She shut up and looked around the room.
"Well, Cui Erzhu, you want to remarry before you even divorce my sister!" Ye Xiushan understood what was going on, raised his hand and hit Cui Erzhu with the stick, wishing he could give him a good beating.
Jin Fenglian also came to her senses and jumped up from the stool in anger, pointing her finger at Cui Erzhu in disbelief. "This is how you, the Cui family, mistreat my daughter! She was just kicked out two days ago, and you're going to replace her with a new one? Fine, fine! I didn't expect you, Cui Erzhu, to be so heartless."
"No, sir," Cui Erzhu struggled to get up and was about to explain.
"Don't call me mom, your wife and mother-in-law have been replaced!" Jin Fenglian was disgusted by the Cui family. Why did her daughter have such a miserable life?
But it's also a good thing, letting everyone see how the Cui family bullies her daughter, so that everyone won't blame her daughter.
After figuring this out, Jin Fenglian raised her voice so that the neighbors outside could hear clearly, "Captain, this old Cui family is a den of evil in the old society. They even follow others in taking concubines. Our old Ye family has been poor peasants for eight generations. Our Xiuhong refuses to live with the landlord. She must divorce immediately. The Cui family must compensate our Xiuhong for her losses. Otherwise, everyone will follow their example and take concubines. What will happen if this leads our peasant class astray?"
Old Mrs. Cui was so angry at Jin Fenglian that she almost fell off the kang. How did their Cui Zhang family become landlords? "Bah, Jin Fenglian, you are the landlord's wife. The daughters you raised are all like spoiled young ladies, and you still have the nerve to talk about our family!"
Seeing that the talk was getting more and more outrageous, the team leader threw the teacup in his hand on the table and said, "Stop talking! Old Cui, what are you doing? Are you really going to imitate the old society and marry two wives?"
Old man Cui whispered from behind the door, "Captain, this matter is not my responsibility. I have the final say in our family affairs."
"You!" The captain was choked by Old Man Cui's cowardly look.
Old Mrs. Cui didn't dare to accuse her family of being old-fashioned. She defended her family, "Captain, you know, my Erzhu is an honest man. He was unlucky enough to marry a hen from the Ye family that couldn't lay eggs. Miss Jiao has a bad temper. If you say anything to her, she'll run off to her parents' home. She hasn't come back in days. We can't marry her off."
Hearing her confident words, the captain was furious. "Divorced you? Then marry someone else!"
Old Mrs. Cui said in a low voice, feeling wronged, "You still want a divorce? Just write a letter of divorce and that'll be enough."
When Jin Fenglian heard that Old Lady Cui still wanted to divorce her daughter, she threw a shoe sole at Old Lady Zhang and said, "Who do you want to divorce, you old fool?"
Then he said to the team leader, "Look, team leader, I said that the Cui family's ideology is not right. They even issued a divorce letter. Old Mrs. Cui is still living in a landlord society. In my opinion, she should be criticized and denounced."
Hearing about the struggle session, Mrs. Cui instantly became quiet. She had just written a letter of divorce, so why was it brought up in the struggle session?
Seeing that they couldn't come to an agreement and were in a mess, and that the Ye family also wanted a divorce, the team leader took the lead and said, "The Cui family is wrong in this matter. The team will calculate Ye Xiuhong's food rations this year. The Cui family will compensate Ye Xiuhong with 50 kilograms of food. I will issue you a divorce certificate. If you two families want to divorce, go ahead. If you don't want to divorce, tell this matchmaker clearly. You can discuss how to live yourselves from now on."
When Mrs. Cui heard that she would have to pay Ye Xiuhong 50 kilograms of grain as compensation for the divorce, she was so angry that she fainted.
Old man Cui was a spineless person, so he agreed to what the captain said and pressed his fingerprints timidly.
In fact, fifty kilograms of food is not too much. The team leader still has to side with the people in his own village and doesn't want to make things too ugly.
It’s just that Old Mrs. Cui usually feels bad when a grain of rice is wasted. This time, her ex-daughter-in-law, whom she hates, took away 50 kilograms of rice. She felt as if her own flesh and blood had been dug out of her heart.
Ye Xiuhong's work points this year plus the grain compensation from the Cui family totaled nearly 100 kilograms.
The Ye family happily returned to Xiahe Village carrying nearly 100 kilograms of food and the divorce certificate issued by the Cui family brigade.
"I didn't expect today to be so smooth. It feels so good!" Jin Fenglian walked briskly while carrying food.
"That's right, Mom, you are so amazing. It looks like that witch Cui won't be able to get out of bed for some time." Ye Xiulan looked at her mother in admiration.
"Haha, it's okay. Let's go home quickly and make you a good meal to replenish your body."
When they were about to enter Xiahe Village, Jin Fenglian stopped, turned around and told the group, "Put away your smiles. When we get into the village, tell everyone about the good things Xiuhong's in-laws have done. This will stop a bunch of gossipy women from constantly criticizing our Xiuhong. It's clearly our Xiuhong who has been wronged."
Ye Xiulan immediately understood what her mother meant, and burst into tears within three seconds. She couldn't stop her tears from flowing out in streams. She dragged the food home dejectedly, and after fighting with Cui Sanya, she was covered in mud, looking like a refugee.
Jin Fenglian looked at Ye Xiulan with satisfaction. Her daughter was smart, just like her.
Then she picked up a heavier bag of grain and followed her daughter crying, ruffling her hair and crying, "My poor child."
Ye Xiushan really couldn't cry, so he could only carry two bags of food and follow silently with a sullen face, forming a group of three people fleeing famine.
The three of them stared at the Ye brothers behind them, dumbfounded. Why did they suddenly change their expressions? Hadn't Jin Fenglian been like a victorious rooster all along the way?
The two men didn't know what posture to maintain, so they could only follow Ye Xiushan's example, with a sullen face and not saying a word, and watched the mother and daughter do evil things from behind.
Xiahe Village
Five or six aunts who were chatting at the village entrance saw that the people coming over there seemed to be members of the Ye family. The usually arrogant Jin Fenglian swayed back and forth, looking like she was about to fall down. There was also a little girl next to her, and they could hear the crying from thirty meters away.
It seemed like there was big news, so a few people stopped chatting and quickly gathered around.
"Fenglian, what's wrong?"
Jin Fenglian wiped away her tears, her face scratched from the fight with Old Lady Cui looked so pitiful.
"Today we went to apologize to the Cui family, but we didn't expect that. We didn't expect that." After just a few words, she started to sob and couldn't speak.
The aunts were extremely anxious, their hearts itching because of her, and they turned to look at Ye Xiulan on the side.
Oh, look at this kid. Did he get beaten up at the Cui family? His hair is messy, his body and face are covered in mud, and his face looks like a cat crying.
The aunts' curiosity was aroused, and they pulled Ye Xiulan's hand and said, "Xiulan, tell me what happened, and I will take care of it for you."
Ye Xiulan rubbed her eyes. She could hardly cry if she continued acting.
"Aunt, I went to the Cui family today and found out what kind of life my sister is living. The Cui family is going to marry Cui Erzhu off to a concubine, and they're going to pick her up the day after tomorrow. They're trying to force my sister to death to make room for the new bride! Our whole family was beaten like this when we went there. If my sister goes back on her own, then, then they'll definitely throw her into the well! Woo woo woo~"
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