The downpour showed no signs of stopping, and the Jiang family's original plan to go to the town to buy food was dashed. Everyone's brows, which had relaxed because the rain had stopped, furrowed again. This time, looking at the dark clouds rolling like huge waves in the sky, everyone no longer held out hope that the rain would stop anytime soon.
When Boss Jiang came back, he was followed by his second grandfather and second grandmother, both of whom had sad faces.
"Oh my God, why is there no time for peace?"
Second Grandpa couldn't help but complain.
Second Grandma rubbed her hands and said to Qian Xiuzhu, "Xiuzhu, we don't know when this rain will stop. My family will eat our own food from now on. Just lend it to our kitchen and we won't eat with you."
Before Qian Xiuzhu could speak, Old Man Jiang spoke first, "How much food can you, the old and the young, eat? Brother and sister-in-law, I know your family's situation very well. The more you can save, the better. Don't say those nonsense."
Seeing that Second Aunt was still uneasy, Qian Xiuzhu said quickly, "Second Aunt, that's not true. I watched Tianya and Xiaofeng grow up under my watch. To be honest, it's not too much to treat them as my own children. No matter what, my family can still provide for your family. And I heard from the head of the family that he ate a lot of food from your family when he was a child. He has remembered this kindness for many years. You have to give us a chance to repay us, right?"
"Ah, ah..." Qian Xiuzhu's words moved the Second Grandma to tears, and she kept responding while wiping her tears.
Boss Jiang naturally had no objection to the decision made by his wife.
When it was time to cook, Jiang Huaixu followed Zheng Li'niang into the kitchen to help, and Tian Ya followed Jiang Huaixu into the kitchen.
Halfway through the meal, a quarrel suddenly broke out from the yard next door, so loud that it could not be covered by the sound of rain.
Jiang Huaixu walked to the kitchen door and listened carefully. It was the voices of Mrs. Liu and the Second Madam, mixed with Zhao's sad cries.
No wonder she met Mrs. Liu. It turned out that she was assigned to the Feng family.
After listening for a while, she found that Mrs. Liu's fighting ability was not as good as before, perhaps because of a loose front tooth. Mrs. Feng had the upper hand and became more and more proud. In the end, she simply told Mrs. Liu to get out of her house.
After a commotion, there was no movement in the yard next door.
"Why do you like listening to other people quarreling so much?" Zheng Li Niang poked Jiang Huaixu's head with a smile.
"Sister-in-law, Mrs. Liu actually moved to the house next door? This is really strange..."
Before she could finish her sentence, a sound was heard at the gate of her house again.
When Jiang Huaixu heard this, he felt something was wrong. He didn't even drop the firewood in his hand and hurried back to the kitchen door.
She leaned against the door frame with her arms folded, watching the scene in front of her with interest.
It's strange, really strange, Mrs. Liu started to use the trick of self-torture.
I saw Mrs. Liu, Zhao, Jiang Fu and Jiang Rong kneeling at the gate of the courtyard.
Old Lady Liu's mouth was bruised and purple, with traces of blood clotted at the corners. Her gray hair, wet by the rain, fell in a few strands across her forehead, making her look even more forlorn. She kept shouting, "Dad, come out and take a look at us! We're almost being forced to death!"
When her eyes fell on Jiang Huaixu, the fear in them was obvious. She shrank back, then straightened up and continued shouting.
Before he could shout a few words, Old Man Jiang came out of the main room in the rain.
His face looked very ugly, but when he saw the few people standing outside the courtyard gate, his expression was still moved.
Jiang Huaixu raised his eyebrows and was about to continue watching what Mrs. Liu was up to when someone grabbed his hand.
"No matter what your grandfather does, mother will protect you. Your grandfather will be confused when he is soft-hearted. Like before, no matter how overbearing Mrs. Liu was, he turned a blind eye. In his opinion, she was just being hard-mouthed but soft-hearted. The reason they were able to get divorced was entirely because he saw no hope in the Second House's family..."
Qian Xiuzhu whispered these words to Jiang Huaixu, as if she was not talking about her father-in-law.
Jiang Huaixu's gaze fell on their clasped hands, and he said with a smile, "Mom, if Grandpa wants to take in a few people from the second house, then he can. I won't go near them."
Qian Xiuzhu sighed softly, touched her little girl's hair, and looked towards the gate of the courtyard.
Old Lady Liu was tugging at the corner of Old Man Jiang's clothes and sobbing sadly, her words unclear.
Old man Jiang had his back to the crowd and no one could see the expression on his face.
In the end, Old Man Jiang let the four people into the yard.
Qian Xiuzhu suppressed the anger in her heart and pulled Jiang Huaixu into the main room.
Her father-in-law had read all those years of sage books in vain. Now that he was old, he was still bewitched by Liu Meixiang, who had plotted against him!
Her mother had told her about the little things that happened between her father-in-law and Liu when they were young. Liu followed her parents to visit the Jiang family as a relative. At night, after the family got her father-in-law drunk, Liu climbed directly into his bed.
The next day, Liu turned the tables and accused her father-in-law of defiling her innocence. She stood by the river and said she was going to jump into the river, which became known to everyone.
My father-in-law had no choice but to marry Liu.
At that time, she wondered if this family had a problem with their brains, as they could be plotted against in their own home. Later, she found out that it was her father-in-law and mother-in-law's idea.
Old man Jiang said awkwardly, "Boss, Boss's wife, it's okay for Liu, but don't you have Sister Fu and Sister Rong with you? Let them in to take shelter from the rain, and let them go when it stops."
"It's not appropriate." Qian Xiuzhu said coldly, "I have no objection to my sister-in-law and her two children. But if Liu, a widow who divorced her father-in-law, were to marry into our family again, it would be bad for our reputation."
Old Man Jiang's face darkened and he was about to speak when Old Lady Liu started crying first.
"What the eldest daughter-in-law said is true. I'm content as long as the second daughter-in-law and the two children have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. I'm an old woman with old bones. It doesn't matter where I go."
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