After a long pause, the eldest brother, Zhao Jianguo, slowly uttered a sentence.
"Honey, your face is all swollen. Try applying some cold water to it."
...
Zhao Youcai returned to his room, closed his eyes, and his consciousness entered his own Happy Town to get busy.
The fourth brother and his wife thought he was asleep, and the two, who could hardly make a sound to begin with, became even more careful.
The second and third brothers gathered together to discuss routes and plans for selling the cloth, and the entire Zhao family compound was quiet.
Sudden.
The second son's wife's sudden wailing startled everyone in the courtyard.
Zhao Youcai's temples throbbed, and his face turned ashen. He quickly got up, put on his shoes, and rushed towards the source of the sound.
Every single day, nothing gives this old man any peace of mind.
Zhao Youcai just couldn't understand what was going on in his second daughter-in-law's mind.
On a perfectly good day, she brought her family to vandalize and even planned to rob them, while he was perfectly fine and was wailing at the door!
Screw your grandma's whistle!
The second son's wife never expected that after finally getting home from the police station, she would be greeted by her irritable father-in-law.
It was the first time I felt my father-in-law's stern face was terrifying, and I involuntarily trembled.
If it were in the past, she would have already started arguing with her father-in-law.
But the thought that all the powerful figures from her maternal family had been sent to the police station by her father-in-law without batting an eye and had not been released yet filled her with genuine fear.
If she hadn't deliberately avoided causing trouble for her in-laws from beginning to end, she probably wouldn't have been released by the police so easily.
She dared not return to her parents' home; she was afraid her sisters-in-law, who were still waiting for good news, would tear her apart with their bare hands.
But she had nowhere else to go, so she could only go back to her husband's family home first, at least there would be a place to eat and sleep.
She hadn't originally planned to cry; she just thought this method would be the most effective.
Although her man failed to please her in every way, it was true that he couldn't stand seeing her shed tears.
Maybe if she cried a little harder, her husband would soften and help her ask his father to help get her family out of the police station?
What she never expected was that instead of her own husband, her father-in-law started crying.
Zhao Youcai had a stern face, his expression full of disdain. But the neighbors nearby were all carrying hoes and heading out to continue working in the fields after their lunch break.
Zhao Youcai disliked the feeling of being laughed at so closely, so he reluctantly moved aside and let his second daughter-in-law, who was blocking the doorway, in.
The second daughter-in-law, upon entering the room, disregarded everything else and rushed straight to her room.
She no longer has the courage or boldness to face her father-in-law alone; the right thing to do is to go back to her room and appease her own husband.
But when she returned to her room, she not only didn't see Zhao Jianhua, but she also didn't see her child, which made her a little panicked.
Thinking back to what happened this morning, my heart skipped a beat.
Could everything I heard in the yard today be true? Are there really people in the village so shameless as to willingly become stepmothers?
No one knows what strange things the second son's wife was thinking, but she actually started to silently calculate which of the widowed young wives and unmarried young women in the village would be her rivals.
Zhao Youcai was completely unaware of his second son's wife's inner thoughts.
But as a father-in-law, he couldn't just stand by and watch his second son's wife, so he followed her in and started yelling at her.
The commotion outside was naturally overheard by the second brother, who was discussing serious matters in the third brother's room. At that moment, he had only one thought in his mind—
My wife is home!
She grabbed her child and was about to rush out when she opened the door to find her own father staring at her with a stern face.
"Didn't we discuss going to another village to sell cloth tomorrow with your third brother? Is it all settled so quickly?"
The second son wasn't good at lying, and Zhao Youcai could easily tell from his stammering manner.
She took the child with one hand, and with the other hand, she pulled the second child toward the third child's room.
The third brother was a very perceptive person. He quickly got up and closed the door, and didn't forget to take the little nephew from Zhao Youcai's arms and gently rock him, afraid that the child would wake up.
Zhao Youcai was also a little nervous, afraid that the child would be woken up and then get sprayed all over him.
Now, the child in her arms, whose power was no less than that of a small cannonball, was taken away by the third brother, who was overjoyed to be free of any worries.
Looking at the third brother in front of him, Zhao Youcai snorted coldly.
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Isn't it because you saw your wife come back that you're trying to fawn over her and get cold feet?"
"Second brother, I'm not trying to be mean, but do you know what people in the city say about your behavior? You're just love-struck! What kind of family do we have? Can we afford to let your wife go crazy like this? You're the only one who treats this spendthrift old woman like a treasure!"
"What? Making money is more important than appeasing your troublesome wife?"
"You heard what those women in the village were saying today. If you had money, what kind of wife couldn't you find? There are even young, unmarried girls vying to be your child's stepmother!"
"I hope you think this through. If you want to stay in our family in the future, you'd better keep your wife in check. I, the old man, will absolutely not allow a troublemaker to wreak havoc in the Zhao family."
The second son was so scolded that he didn't dare to move. In fact, he really wanted to tell his father that his wife was different from others.
But his father's words left him speechless for a moment.
After all, the whole family lost a day's work points today because of this, and not only do we have to spend time and energy to repair many things in the yard, but we also have to spend money to buy some new ones.
These things should have been paid for by the second brother, but none of his brothers mentioned it, and their father turned a blind eye, which made him very grateful.
If he doesn't know what's good for him and insists on going back to appease his wife now, he'll never be able to hold his head up in this family again.
Seeing that he was standing in the room with his head down and did not move, Zhao Youcai's anger subsided a little.
It's not that he's completely love-struck, but he wouldn't be so stupid as to cause his old man's reputation to be ruined.
"Think about it, you still have ten dollars in debt to pay off, and a baby you weaned at birth to raise. You're not just my son, you're your wife's husband, you're also a father!"
Zhao Youcai's words made Zhao Jianjun's face turn even redder, and he lowered his head even further.
He was so eager to see his wife that he lost all desire to even say a few words to her.
Looking at the thin, quiet baby in her third brother's arms, she felt a pang of sadness.
yes.
His wife yelled at the baby the day it was born, telling him to throw the disgusting thing away. Not only did she refuse to breastfeed, but she also nearly dropped the baby to its death when he wasn't looking.
If his sister-in-law hadn't come in to bring her daughter-in-law some millet porridge and boiled eggs and happened to see that scene, and hadn't already lay down on the ground to cushion the child, he probably wouldn't have had a son anymore.
Zhao Jianjun's heart gradually cooled, and he slowly calmed down.
"Dad, you're right. I can't be that kind of... oh right, love-struck! I'll definitely keep a good eye on my wife from now on and make sure she doesn't cause any trouble for our family!"
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