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Chapter 12 of The Farmer's Spring Field

Sun was heartbroken to see the money she had worked so hard to save disappear like that. Moreover, she was found to have saved so much private money, so she was sure to be punished again. From the dark faces of her parents-in-law, she could guess that they were really angry this time and the punishment would not be light. She was angry, anxious and scared. Before she could figure out how to deal with it, she felt dizzy and fell directly to the ground. She was in so much pain that she woke up, but when she thought this was a good idea, she kept her eyes closed without opening them.

"Don't worry about her. She's just worried about the money. She'll wake up in a while."

Shen Zhang said with a sullen face. Looking at the money handed over by Wang, she felt angry again. She had always known that her daughters-in-law saved their own money. As long as it was not too excessive, she could turn a blind eye. But this third daughter-in-law was too much. She actually saved so much. If she was not taught a lesson this time, she would no longer take her mother-in-law seriously in the future.

"Master, what do you think we should do about this?"

Shen Zhang asked Shen Youfu. For so many years, whenever Shen Youfu was around, Shen Zhang would ask him, even if it was just a small matter. This was Shen Zhang's cleverness. She did this to make Shen Youfu very happy. Often Shen Youfu did not make the decision, but let Shen Zhang make the decision, and Shen Zhang's decision always made him feel good. So in the end, Shen Zhang was still in control of everything in this family.

"You decide on the matter of my daughter-in-law."

Shen Youfu said, glaring at Shen Ziping. Shen Ziping immediately said that he knew nothing. No one believed his lie. Shen Zhang was making money by selling embroidery. She was certainly embroidering in her own room. How could Shen Ziping not see it? But he was the son of the Shen family. Shen Youfu just snorted and turned away.

"Third brother, lock your wife up in the woodshed for three days!"

Shen Zhang gave the order and was about to turn around and leave, but she heard Chunhua calling out loudly.

"Dad! Grandma! Mom is bleeding!"

Chunhua had been standing aside and watching Li pinching Sun's philtrum. Then she saw red stains seeping out of her mother's lower body and clothes, and she immediately screamed out.

Sun was pretending to be unconscious. She felt pain in her body and thought she had fallen. She was panicked and didn't take it seriously. Then Li pinched her philtrum hard. The pain made her focus all her attention on fighting with Li's hand. She didn't think of waking up until she heard Shen Zhang said she would not let her go even though she was unconscious. At this time, she also felt that the pain in her lower body was a little abnormal. She felt something flowing out, and then she heard Chunhua's cry. She panicked and shook off Li who was still pinching her. This force brought another wave of pain. When she saw the blood on her clothes, her eyes rolled back and she fainted again.

"This...this can't be a miscarriage?!"

Li was thrown to the ground. She looked at the bloodshot eyes and screamed that she had seen women having miscarriages before, and it looked just like this.

Without Li's explanation, almost everyone understood what had happened when they saw the blood, and they all immediately became busy. The yard was in chaos for a while, and there were also the sounds of children crying.

"What are you panicking about?! Stop!" Shen Zhang shouted. Seeing that everyone stopped, she frowned and looked at Sun, then said to Shen Ziping, "Take your wife back to the room. Ask your eldest brother to call Dr. Huang. The eldest wife, the second wife, you go and take care of the third wife. Zigui, go and call Aunt Fang. The rest of you, stay still and don't run around."

After hearing Shen Zhang's arrangements, everyone became more organized.

Chunhua, Sanlang, Silang and Wulang all crowded in front of the door. Chunhua started crying. Although the boys were usually naughty, they were scared at this time and cried loudly.

"Sister, sister, is mom going to die? She is bleeding so much..."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Shut up!"

Chunhua scolded that although her mother was not as good to her as to her three younger brothers, she did not want her mother to die and could not bear to hear anyone say that word.

The three younger brothers looked at Chunhua who had suddenly become ferocious and dared not say a word, but they continued to cry.

After a while, Aunt Fang came. She was the midwife of the village, and women should go to her for help. She came and checked and said that although there was bleeding, it was just a miscarriage, and the baby was not lost. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Doctor Huang came a little later. He checked and said that there was nothing serious, and that she just needed to take some medicine to preserve the pregnancy. He prescribed the medicine.

After the two men left, the Shen family fell into silence, and no one had eaten at that time.

When it was almost dark, Sun woke up. She knew she was pregnant and was delighted. She thought the baby came just in time, so she wouldn't be punished. But she was afraid and angry when she thought she almost lost the baby. She hated Shen Zhang for punishing her, for betraying her, and even more for Shen Zi'an for telling the secret. She thought she couldn't just let it go this time, so she cried loudly. She thought she had a child now, so she wasn't afraid at all.

Shen Zhang's face turned unhappy when she heard Sun's cursing.

Shen Zhu frowned and said, "She doesn't look like she's having a miscarriage at all. The noise she makes can scare a tiger to death. I think she's just pretending! Mother, you didn't see that her eyelids were moving when she was lying on the ground. When my second sister-in-law pinched her philtrum, the veins on her hand were throbbing with pain."

"Humph, I know this woman has never been quiet for a single day. She really thinks she has nothing to fear just because she is pregnant. If she continues to make trouble, I will divorce her!"

Shen Ziju heard his mother's harsh words and said disapprovingly, "Mother, although my third sister-in-law is not a good woman, she has given birth to four children for the Shen family, and now there is another one. If I divorce her, it will be bad for my reputation. Mother, please take care of her."

Shen Zhang looked at her son and said, "Well, you study hard. Are you still worried about your mother's work? I said this just to scare her. If I really divorce her, I will have to spend money to help your second brother get married. Your nephews and nieces will also be without their mother to take care of them. How could I be so stupid?"

Shen Ziju felt relieved after hearing this. Although he despised this sarcastic third sister-in-law, he could still tolerate her as long as she didn't make trouble too much. Anyway, he would leave this remote place when he became an official in the future, and no matter how much trouble that stupid woman made, it would have nothing to do with him.

Sun made a fuss for a while, but when she saw that no one in the main room paid any attention to her, she gasped in anger.

Chunhua brought her a bowl of fish soup and said, "Mother, have some fish soup. Sanlang caught this especially for you."

"My good son, so good!" Sun praised, drinking fish soup, but complaining, "I almost lost my life, and I'm pregnant for the Shen family, why don't you give me some chicken soup?"

Chunhua didn't say anything. How could she tell her mother that the chickens were to be kept for laying eggs, and her grandmother didn't agree to kill the chickens? Who dared to touch them?

Of course Sun knew this, and was even more indignant.

"You woman, just shut up if you have something to drink. You still want to eat chicken. This time I didn't send you to the woodshed to starve for three days. You should thank the baby in your belly!"

Shen Ziping came into the room, saw the fish soup, sipped his saliva, and asked Chunhua if there was any more. Chunhua said it was in the kitchen. Shen Ziping asked her to put down the bowl and get him another one. Then he took the bowl and drank it. Sun Shi was so angry that she rolled her eyes and called him a reincarnated ghost.

"I really regret not carrying out our plan earlier. Otherwise, your good fourth brother wouldn't have told everyone that I sent my embroidery work to the Li family embroidery workshop! And my silver! Only three taels, and Gongzhong got it so cheaply! Fortunately, I didn't put the silver in it, otherwise I would have wanted to die now!"

Shen Ziping drank the fish soup in big gulps and agreed in his heart. He also felt sorry for the money, which was enough for him to drink as much wine as he wanted and eat as much meat as he wanted.

"Fortunately, the money for hiring the people has already been paid. Don't think about it anymore. If you want revenge, just kick them out."

Sun nodded and said, "Then tell those people to hurry up. I can use my miscarriage as an excuse. Then you can pretend to have a backache. I don't believe that this won't work!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you. Ahem! The thorns haven't been cleaned off yet, so you'd better not drink it."

"If I don't drink, you should drink. That's just wishful thinking!"

Sun snatched the bowl from Sun Ziping's hand and drank the rest of the fish soup in one gulp. However, her food got choked. She coughed and cursed Shen Zian and Su Zhi in her heart. She thought that she couldn't live well with these two unlucky people around and she had to get out of here quickly!