The couple expected Qin Jinlian to refuse to lend money, but they still had some expectations in their hearts.

"Mom, we're not lending you this money for nothing. We'll write you an IOU and calculate the interest. We guarantee that you'll pay it back with interest within a year."

No matter how hard the couple tried to persuade her, Qin Jinlian refused to lend them the money because she had no money. Before leaving, she even encouraged the couple to go to the city to find Shen Mingzhu.

Qin Jinlian refused to lend money to the boss. Shen Jianguo didn't say anything at the time, but he started to complain about her in dissatisfaction when he returned to the east room.

"When the family was divided, you didn't give Chaobei and his wife a penny. Now they want to borrow some money from you to make a living, but you refuse. You are such a biased mother!"

Qin Jinlian was full of grievances, "You think I want this? Go outside and take a look. Those who have more children than allowed either hide outside and dare not even go home, or are fined to the point of bankruptcy. Who else can I rely on except the second son's wife's belly? Should I rely on that damn girl Mingzhu? Go and ask her to take out money to pay the fine for the old family. Ask her if she is willing to do it?"

Qin Jinlian began to wipe away tears, "I held the money in my hand so that you could have a grandson sooner. So my plan for your Shen family was wrong?"

Shen Jianguo was no longer fooled by her. "Grandson, grandson, you only care about grandsons. So what if granddaughters are important? At most, I can find a live-in son-in-law for Daya!"

"That's easy for you to say..."

The east room and the west room were close to each other, and Yang Lizhen could hear the quarrel between the old couple clearly.

The next day, at the breakfast table, Yang Lizhen took a sip of noodle soup and ran outside, covering her mouth.

"What's going on?"

Shen Jianguo and Shen Xiangnan, father and son, were still confused, but Qin Jinlian put down her chopsticks and chased after her in surprise and joy.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law whispered in the yard for a long time. When they came back, Qin Jinlian was smiling, while Yang Lizhen looked shy.

"…Li Zhen is probably pregnant!"

Qin Jinlian relied on her experience as a person who had been through this and gave a very clear analysis. Shen Jianguo and Shen Xiangnan were naturally very happy after hearing it.

Yang Lizhen touched her belly and asked about the gold necklace.

Qin Jinlian readily agreed, "Don't worry, I have prepared the money, and I will take you to buy it tomorrow."

"Thank you, Mom."

Yang Lizhen smiled especially sweetly.

Outside the door, Shen Chaobei and Du Juan, who were about to come over to Qin Jinlian to borrow money, looked at each other, and finally went back in silence.

Back in the north room, the couple sat cross-legged on the kang, neither of them spoke.

My daughter Daya was playing with a bamboo dragonfly outside the house alone and having a lot of fun.

"We are all mothers, why is our mother so hard-hearted? Daya is also her granddaughter. Doesn't a granddaughter belong to your Shen family?" Du Juan couldn't help wiping away her tears.

Shen Chaobei was speechless.

In addition to the heartbreak, he also felt more guilty and self-blame for being unable to do anything when seeing his daughter-in-law crying.

"Mom, don't cry..."

Daya ran in at some point and tried to climb onto the kang by stepping on the wooden stool at the edge of the kang.

Du Juan bent down and carried her daughter to the kang.

Daya sat smoothly in her mother's arms and stretched out her delicate little hands to wipe the tears from her mother's face. Crystal tears gradually gathered in her black grape-like eyes, and her little mouth was pouty, as if she was going to cry too in the next second.

"Mom, don't cry..."

Du Juan, who was afraid of making her daughter cry, wiped away her tears and tried to smile: "I'm not crying, it's just sand that got into my eyes..."

"Blow it."

After saying that, she pouted her little mouth and wanted to blow Du Juan's eyes.

Du Juan let her daughter blow her hair, and she took out a small plastic comb with several broken teeth, and used it to shave her daughter's soft yellow hair until it was smooth.

Du Juan said in a bland tone, "Mingzhu has helped enough, I don't have the face to go to her again."

Shen Chaobei sighed.

In the afternoon, after dinner, Du Juan picked up the only few eggs in her home and prepared to go back to her parents' home to find a solution.

As soon as Du Juan left, Qin Jinlian stood at the gate and looked out, muttering, "Isn't there a way? She only wants the money in my hand..."

It was almost dark when Du Juan came back in a hurry.

"How's it going? Did you borrow the money?"

Shen Chaobei asked as he handed her some water.

Du Juan shook her head bitterly. "After my father died, my mother relied on my eldest brother to live. My eldest brother was very tight-fisted with money, and my second and third brothers were not well off either."

In this day and age, in such a poor village, everyone's money is saved by tightening their belts penny by penny, and they are reluctant to spend it easily. Who would be willing to lend money to a married sister-in-law?

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The next day, when Du Juan was getting ready to go out, Qin Jinlian and Yang Lizhen were also about to go out.

The young Yang Lizhen was supported by her mother-in-law Qin Jinlian like she was the empress dowager.

"Old man, are you going into the city?" Qin Jinlian asked knowingly.

Du Juan already had a grudge against her mother-in-law Qin Jinlian and was no longer respectful and flattering to her as before. She just responded indifferently and walked away first.

Du Juan's attitude made Qin Jinlian feel a little uncomfortable, but she changed her mind and realized that she was living with the second son's family now, and the second son and his wife would take care of her in her old age. Besides, the second son's wife would soon give her a big fat grandson.

Thinking of this, she immediately put her discomfort behind her and happily took Yang Lizhen to the town to buy a gold necklace.

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"Pearl."

Looking at Du Juan standing outside the door with an embarrassed look on her face, Shen Mingzhu was not too surprised.

Perhaps she had long given up hope in Qin Jinlian, so when she heard that Qin Jinlian would rather buy a gold necklace for Yang Lizhen than lend money to Shen Chaobei and his wife to run their business, Shen Mingzhu was surprisingly calm.

Qin Jinlian refused to lend her money, firstly because she was partial to her, and secondly because she wanted to control her in this way.

This time she lent the money to Shen Chaobei and his wife. Next time, Qin Jinlian will definitely come to her to borrow money with various reasons.

If she doesn't lend it, there will be trouble.

I have already borrowed money from my elder brother and sister-in-law, but my own mother won't lend me money? "Sister-in-law, I can't lend you this money, but don't worry, I will give you a way to ensure that you can borrow the money..."

After hearing her suggestion, Du Juan stood up and said goodbye with gratitude.

Shen Mingzhu collected several sets of Pei Ziheng's old clothes that he no longer wore, and also packed some candies and cakes, and asked Du Juan to take them back to Daya.

After returning home, Du Juan gave half of the candies and cakes given by Shen Mingzhu to Qin Jinlian.

Although she was dissatisfied and complained about Qin Jinlian in her heart, she would still show filial piety as a daughter-in-law and would not give others any chance to talk about her.

The weather was nice in the afternoon, and Qin Jinlian was sitting in the yard embroidering a small bellyband.

Yang Lizhen was sitting next to her eating melon seeds. The thin gold necklace around her neck was shining brightly and was very eye-catching. It was hard for Du Juan not to see it.

"Mom, this is what Mingzhu gave me. I left some for Daya to eat, and I'll bring the rest to you and Dad."

Qin Jinlian glanced at the things on the small table, raised a needle and scratched her head, then casually asked Du Juan if she had borrowed the money.

Second update~ When writing this chapter, I thought of a word: creating a child out of nothing