"Your family's living conditions are much better now, sister-in-law. You even find the usual food too greasy?" Xu Honglian looked around and noticed that the eldest son's yard was similar to their second son's yard, with piles of firewood and miscellaneous items.
However, it's quite obvious that the courtyard on the main house side is much tidier.
Unlike their second wife's yard, no matter how she tidied it up, her two precious sons could always make a mess of it.
Xu Honglian wasn't a diligent person either, and for a long time she wouldn't lift a finger to tidy up.
Over time, the yard became increasingly messy, almost like a garbage dump.
Xu Honglian was used to it and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Gu Changqing didn't say anything. After coming back from the fields, he would eat, and after eating, he would lie down on the bed. He didn't care how messy the yard was.
If she had only been looking at her own yard, Xu Honglian could have accepted it, but when she saw Liu Chun's tidy yard, she felt a little unbalanced.
They're both from the same village, but their family has two sons while Liu Chun's family has three. Logically, Liu Chun's yard should be the messier one.
Why does their house seem messier?
Xu Honglian thought for a moment, then walked over and sat down on a stool: "Sister-in-law, you have to take care of the children and clean the house every day, and you also have to work in the fields during the busy farming season. It must be very hard for you."
"So what?"
Liu Chun opened his mouth, wanting to say that the yard was tidied up by Da Ya and Er Ya after school, but then he thought that wouldn't work. If outsiders knew that their yard was tidied up by two maids, they might spread all sorts of rumors.
She's the kind of person who makes sure her two daughters don't do anything at home.
Liu Chun thought of many things in the blink of an eye. She paused for a moment and continued, "I'm used to farm work, this is nothing."
As she spoke, she lowered her head and continued to carefully feed her youngest son egg custard.
Seeing Liu Chun's doting motherly demeanor only fueled Xu Honglian's anger.
She sneered inwardly and laughed, "Sister-in-law, you're so diligent. My brother is truly blessed to have married you. If all of us sisters-in-law were as hardworking as you, some of us wouldn't need our parents to serve us all day long."
Who these words were alluding to was obvious to Liu Chun without needing an explanation.
This is no longer a veiled reference, but a direct statement.
There are four sisters-in-law in total. Everyone knows without needing to say which of their parents are with them now.
Xu Honglian's words probably indicate that she has some issues with her parents again?
Liu Chun didn't think too much about it: "Not everyone can have the kind of good fortune that my fourth sister-in-law has."
"Exactly! I wonder what the fourth brother and his parents saw in her? Besides her pretty face, what else does she have that makes her likable?"
When Xu Honglian talked about Lu Huaijiao, she was extremely disgusted with her.
Not only did he complain, but his facial features also scrunched up, wrinkling together and overflowing with disgust.
Liu Chun and Xu Honglian were both people who had suffered at Lu Huaijiao's hands.
When the two talked about Lu Huaijiao, they naturally didn't have many nice things to say. However, unlike Xu Honglian who spoke without restraint, Liu Chun didn't dare to speak freely.
The main reason was that she was afraid of Gu Changzheng.
Given how protective the fourth brother is of his children, if he found out that they were talking badly about his wife behind his back, he would probably come all the way back from the city to deal with them.
Liu Chun was afraid.
After Xu Honglian and Liu Chun had a good rant about Lu Huaijiao, Xu Honglian felt a little better.
Seeing that it was getting late, she quickly told Liu Chun the purpose of her visit.
"Sister-in-law, look, Mom and Dad have been in the city for a year now. Shouldn't we have our eldest brother and Changqing go and bring them back?"
"Bring them back?"
Liu Chun was taken aback by Xu Honglian's suggestion.
"But when the family was divided, my father and mother had already agreed that we wouldn't have to take care of them anymore, and they could just live with the fourth son's family."
"Oh, sister-in-law, that's just what our parents said. How can we do that? Wouldn't that break their hearts?"
Xu Honglian had just realized that since He Meizhu and the others had already made things clear, it might not be appropriate to call them back rashly now.
But Xu Honglian had a way.
“We just said that we’ve figured it out now, and that it doesn’t make sense for the fourth brother and his family to support our parents. They belong to everyone.”
They must support the elderly. If He Meizhu and the others are still unwilling to come back, it will confirm that they look down on their son from the countryside.
It would be even better if they came back.
When they return, Xu Honglian and the others can leave their children with He Meizhu so they can focus on their work in the fields...
The more Xu Honglian thought about it, the better she felt her plan was.
She analyzed the situation with Liu Chun.
Liu Chun was somewhat swayed by her brainwashing.
Is this okay?
"Oh, why can't you do that, my sister-in-law..."
Xu Honglian could also see that Liu Chun was interested. She leaned closer and lowered her voice, whispering to Liu Chun how to persuade Gu Changshan to take the lead and go to the city to pick up He Meizhu and the others...
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provincial capital.
Lu Huaijiao had no idea that her sisters-in-law were up to something again.
She left home and waited for the tram for a while. Soon the tram arrived, and she got on, walked to the middle of the back, and found an empty seat.
As soon as I sat down, I heard the two women behind me talking. They said that Xu Xiuyun, who had caused such a stir in the whole town these past few days, was dead.
Lu Huaijiao: ? ? ? ?
Xu Xiuyun is dead?
She wondered, how could it be such a coincidence?
Hu Meiyu is dead, and Xu Xiuyun is dead too?
She frowned slightly, while the aunt behind her continued talking.
"Oh, I heard he hanged himself at home. He probably did something so shameful that he couldn't bear to live anymore, so he tied a rope and hanged himself."
"Of course! She's not young anymore, she's in her forties, almost fifty. Wouldn't it be better for her to live a good life with her husband? Why would she be so foolish as to break up someone else's family?"
"Who knows? It's never good for a person to be greedy and always want more than they have."
"yes……"
As they talked, the conversation drifted to other topics.
Lu Huaijiao, however, kept thinking about the cause of Xu Xiuyun's death.
Her intuition told her that Xu Xiuyun's death was too suspicious.
At the same time, she had another feeling: she had to find out the cause of Xu Xiuyun's death, otherwise something terrible might happen.
Lu Huaijiao didn't know where this clear sense of unease came from, but she trusted her intuition.
When the tram arrived at the stop outside the school, Lu Huaijiao adjusted her scarf and got off the tram.
She planned to visit Xu Xiuyun's home.
In the classroom.
"You're going to Xu Xiuyun's house?" Niu Fangfang looked at Lu Huaijiao with some confusion. "What are you going to her house for?"
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