Chapter 002: Playing badly and splitting up
After Rong Mei came, she never thought of leaving and just chose to continue living there.
She didn't want to find out what the original owner was thinking, whether she was angry or really liked Zhou Nanxu and chose to come to Zhou's house despite her family's dissuasion.
Nor do I judge whether the original owner's actions were right or wrong.
Because she is a Buddha.
Since God gave her the opportunity to travel through time, it was equivalent to giving her a second life.
God had his reasons for arranging for her to wear this outfit at this time, so she didn't try to guess what he was thinking.
Now that it has come, let it go.
Where you start, there you lie down.
"Mei girl, it's time for dinner." Liu Rong's voice calling for dinner came from inside the house.
"Coming soon."
Rong Mei responded, swiftly got up from the recliner and went into the house.
No matter how bad the situation is, you still have to eat.
Liu Rong had already brought the dishes to the table on the kang and was serving the rice.
One was a dish of three fresh vegetables, one was stewed pork bones with sauerkraut, and there were also buns stuffed with red pepper, vermicelli and meat, which was Rong Mei’s favorite.
The life of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is modest and comfortable. In this age when people can barely fill their stomachs, their family can eat meat for every meal. Isn't life wonderful?
However, Liu Rong only lived like this for less than a month.
The Zhou family’s situation is not complicated.
The Zhou family has four children, two sons and two daughters.
Among them, the eldest son Zhou Zhengfu and the eldest daughter Zhou Zhengmei were born to Zhou's father and his previous wife.
The ex-daughter-in-law died due to complications during childbirth of Zhou Zhengmei.
Liu Rong was Zhou's father's second wife. She married him when Zhou Zhengfu was less than three years old and Zhou Zhengmei was only one year old and became his stepmother.
The struggle and reckoning were fierce at that time, and Liu Rong was the daughter of a capitalist, whose family background was extremely bad at the time.
In order to prevent her from suffering the hardships of being sent down to the countryside to struggle, her father and brothers sent her from Hebei Province to Harbin, and asked their distant relatives in Harbin to find a husband for her.
No man from a well-off family would dare to marry her after finding out the identity of her family.
Finally, Zhou's father stepped forward, but the Zhou family was poor and had two hungry children.
Liu Rong was reluctant at first, but after meeting Zhou's father, she changed her mind.
Father Zhou completely conquered her with his handsome face and hard-looking body.
After entering the house, Zhou's father did not let Liu Rong suffer any grievances. As for the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it was still good, with Zhou's father mediating between them, and Zhou's father also protected her everywhere.
The two children were still young and had no hatred towards her, so she treated them kindly.
In the second year after her marriage, she gave birth to her youngest daughter Zhou Yueyi, and a year later she gave birth to her youngest son Zhou Nanxu.
Although the family lives a hard life, they are in harmony.
All the misfortunes started after Zhou Zhengfu married Luo Xiuxiu.
As the saying goes, "the mother's uncle is the most important." Luo Xiuxiu was introduced to Zhou Zhengfu by his uncle's family. She is the daughter of the village chief of the same village.
Liu Rong was strongly opposed to this matter at that time. The reason was very simple. Luo Xiuxiu was not good-looking and was said to be rude and unreasonable at home.
But her uncle's family said that she, as a stepmother, couldn't bear to see her stepson marrying a girl from a good family, so she wanted to keep the girl for her own son against her conscience.
He said all kinds of nasty things and told Liu Rong and Zhou's father arrogantly that they had to get married whether they wanted to or not!
In the end, she and Zhou's father had no choice but to swallow their anger and agree to the marriage.
After Luo Xiuxiu entered the house, she started to target her stepmother who had not allowed her to enter the house. At the beginning, Zhou's father protected her, so Luo Xiuxiu did not dare to go too far.
But just half a year later, Zhou's father jumped into the river to save a child who fell into the water, but eventually drowned due to exhaustion.
Since then, Luo Xiuxiu has had no scruples at all.
Relying on her pregnancy, Liu Rong took care of all the housework.
Who made it so that besides her and Zhou Zhengfu, there was only Liu Rong in the family?
My eldest sister-in-law got married early, my younger sister-in-law also works in the county town and only comes back once a month. My youngest son is even farther away in Ji City, and he only has a few days of home leave in the army throughout the year.
It has been four years since Zhou's father passed away, and Liu Rong has been living like this for four years.
It’s not that she didn’t fight back. After all, Zhou Zhengfu was raised by her, and at first he would fight with Luo Xiuxiu for her.
But at this time, Luo Xiuxiu started crying, making a fuss, and even threatened to commit suicide. She went back to her parents' home and asked her relatives to come to her house to make the decision for her. She even shamelessly said some unpleasant things about Liu Rong, an old woman who was half-Xu, who was shameless and wanted to seduce her stepson.
Looking at her half-grown child, Liu Rong chose to give in again. She also didn't want to make her stepson feel awkward, so she had to take on all the work herself, including washing clothes, cooking, taking care of the child, and helping in the fields.
But no matter how well she did, Luo Xiuxiu would still find her and quarrel with her every now and then, saying that she was eating and drinking for free at this house. It was obvious that her brother-in-law sent money back every month to supplement the family, but Liu Rong refused to give a single cent.
After learning that Liu Rong actually spent 500 yuan in betrothal money to bring Rong Mei back to Zhou Nanxu as his wife, Luo Xiuxiu felt jealous and hateful.
She was jealous of Rongmei's beauty and hated her mother-in-law for spending five hundred yuan.
So she decided to set some rules for the new bride on the second day after Rong Mei entered the house, to let her know that everything in the family is under the control of her, the eldest sister-in-law.
But Liu Rong stood up and refused to let Rong Mei work no matter what.
Luo Xiuxiu immediately got angry and started cursing at Liu Rong.
Who would have thought that she had just cursed a few words when, although she looked delicate and charming, she turned out to be very strong. He pulled her over and started beating her up without saying a word.
She was beaten so badly that her face was bruised and her nose was bleeding.
In the end, he had to crawl on the ground and beg for mercy before Rong Mei let go.
How could Luo Xiuxiu, who was beaten, just let it go? She went back to her mother's home to ask for help. She took her two cousins with her and rushed back to Zhou's home regardless of the injuries on her face.
Several people came here in a menacing manner.
However, the two cousins were completely captivated when they saw Rong Mei's face.
No one can bring themselves to kill a face like this...
Not to mention fighting, when faced with Rong Mei's faint smile, he even forgot his last name.
Looking at the idiotic expressions of her two cousins, Luo Xiuxiu felt as uncomfortable as if she had swallowed a fly.
Who knew there would be something even more devastating.
When Luo Xiuxiu returned to her parents' home, Rong Mei heard Liu Rong talk about these past events.
The sense of immersion comes immediately!
Even more anxious than Liu Rong, the person involved.
Split up the family, this one must be divided!
The first thing Luo Xiuxiu did when she came back was to call back Zhou Zhengfu who was working in the fields, and also called other clan elders.
The house was divided in front of the elders.
Such a big fuss.
All they could get were four rooms, two for each family, and then they weighed out five hundred kilograms of food and distributed some pots, pans, and utensils for cooking.
Liu Rong moved out with Rong Mei in a daze, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law started a new life.
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