Ma Guizhi paused in her sobbing, but remained puzzled.
"Didn't you say before that we couldn't send the old woman to Qin Baojun's place, otherwise all her money would end up in the hands of Qin Baojun and his wife? Why are you telling me to kick her out now? Why are you changing your mind like this?"
"You brat, did I want to change like that? I had no idea that old hag would be so possessive of her food."
Wu Xiurong rolled her eyes, looking at her with exasperation. "If you had even half the brains of your mother, you wouldn't be causing me so much worry after all these years of marriage."
Ma Guizhi was too scared to utter a word after being scolded, but she had to admit that she understood her mother. Combining what Wu Xiurong had said earlier, her eyes immediately lit up: "Mother, please stop scolding me! Tell me quickly, do you have another good idea? Please tell me! I beg you!"
After being grabbed by the arm and shaken a couple of times by Ma Guizhi, Wu Xiurong felt like her brain was about to turn to mush, and quickly shook off her hand.
He snorted and said, "Your village group leader is surnamed Qiao, right? There's an old lady in his family named Lu Xiufen. She's my maternal uncle's daughter-in-law's third aunt. She's a notoriously unreasonable old woman."
“I’ve heard about this crooked old woman for over ten years. Everyone says she favors her eldest son and kicked her second and third sons out of the house. A few years ago, her eldest son’s wife died of illness. The man she married afterward was a formidable one, and he kicked her out of the house as soon as he entered the family.”
"She had no choice but to ask her third son, who is also the village head Qiao, to take her in."
Ma Guizhi has been married into the team for over twenty years, so she naturally knew about this matter, but she looked puzzled and asked, "Mother, why are you telling me this?"
Seeing that she still didn't understand after all that she had said, Wu Xiurong, exasperated, raised her hand and nudged her head.
"After Lu Xiufen moved into your team leader Qiao's house, what was she doing running to her eldest son's house every few days? Wasn't she just sending the good stuff from team leader Qiao's house to her eldest son's house!"
"Why am I telling you all this? Of course, it's so you can persuade your mother-in-law to do the same as Lu Xiufen and send Qin Baojun's things to your house!"
After Wu Xiurong's explanation, Ma Guizhi finally understood, "That's right! Why didn't I think of that earlier!"
"If you had thought of this earlier, you wouldn't be my daughter." Wu Xiurong rolled her eyes, then added, "This matter sounds simple, but your old woman needs to cooperate. Go back and discuss it with Jiefang first. If necessary, your father and I can come and help you."
Ma Liansheng had just entered the house when he overheard his wife's words. He immediately frowned and said, "What kind of trouble are you causing our daughter now, you old woman?"
Wu Xiurong watched her husband enter the house, and upon hearing what he said, she immediately became unhappy.
"What do you mean I'm causing trouble? If I don't come up with some ideas for your daughter, she'll be bullied to death by her in-laws."
As she spoke, Wu Xiurong recounted how the old woman from the Qin family had devoured a whole plate of meat without giving her daughter a single bite. The daughter was unhappy about this and was not only scolded by her husband for being greedy but also beaten up.
Although Ma Liansheng felt that Cui Fengzhen and Qin Jiefang had gone too far, he was honest by nature and said, "Her mother-in-law is so old, so it's fine if she eats a little less. Your daughter is so fat, it's no big deal if she eats a little less."
"What does this have to do with being fat or not? My daughter has given birth to children for the Qin family, taking care of the elderly and the young. She works so hard, why should Cui Fengzhen not give my daughter any meat?"
Wu Xiurong grew angrier as she spoke. Seeing that she couldn't rely on her husband, she said directly, "In short, I'm in charge of this matter. Daughter, go back and discuss it with Jiefang. If Qin Jiefang doesn't agree, come to me and I'll speak on his behalf."
“Okay!” Ma Guizhi obediently stood up and was about to go back.
Ma Liansheng sensed something was wrong and immediately stopped her. His suspicious gaze swept over the mother and daughter before he finally looked at Ma Guizhi and asked, "Why did your mother ask you to go back?"
Ma Guizhi then told Wu Xiurong about the idea that had just been given to her.
Upon hearing that the mother and daughter wanted to kick their mother-in-law out of the house, Ma Liansheng instantly flew into a rage. "Nonsense! Aren't you just asking for trouble?"
Old Ma's family lived in the third team, which was only six or seven miles away from the first team. Because of the close distance and the fact that there were many intermarriages between the two villages, news could be spread between them.
The story of the Qiao family back then was known throughout the entire brigade, and everyone cursed Lu Xiufen behind her back, saying that even a tiger wouldn't eat its own cub.
So when Lu Xiufen was kicked out of her home by her second son's eldest daughter-in-law two years ago, many people applauded!
Seeing that Wu Xiurong was using such a shameful thing to teach her daughter, Ma Liansheng was so angry that his face turned red: "If you dare to listen to your mother, I'll break your legs!"
Don't let Ma Liansheng's honest and unassuming appearance fool you; people like that are the ones who can be the most formidable when they lose their temper.
Overwhelmed by memories of being beaten as a child, Ma Guizhi immediately shrank behind Wu Xiurong, crying out, "Mom, look at Dad!"
"Try hitting her! She's gone too far!" Wu Xiurong also had a fiery temper.
The two immediately started arguing.
Seeing her parents arguing over her, Ma Guizhi tried to break them up, but Wu Xiurong pushed her out the door.
“Go back and do as I say. I’d like to see if your dad dares to break your legs; I’ll beat him to death!”
"Mom, you and Dad, please stop arguing. I'm going back now!"
Seeing that she couldn't persuade the two of them, and with it getting darker and she needing to go back and discuss it with her husband, Ma Guizhi immediately grabbed her bag and left.
Qiao Qiqi was naturally unaware of everything that was happening here.
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