Yao Xiujuan was shocked. "Impossible? He Zhigang isn't the type to hit a woman! Otherwise, how could he have been bullied since he was a child?"
Liu Jiali frowned, "But, big sister, don't forget, my second sister's family split up three years ago, and now my second brother-in-law is the one who's in charge..."
"You, do you feel wrong?"
Yao Xiujuan still couldn't believe it. After all, Xiuhe's husband was the type who was even more cowardly and honest than her eldest brother, and her second sister was not like Ma Cuihua, who was not very knowledgeable. Her second sister had a very good reputation in their team, so no matter how she thought about it, she felt that it was unlikely...
Liu Jiali sighed, "Sister, it's not my feelings, it's something I saw once. For example, a few days ago, when we went back, I thought it had been a while since I went back, so after work, Youjun and I went to see my second sister and the others with our things. When we passed by their team, Youjun suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom, so I rode my bike to my second sister's house first. Outside their yard, I heard my second brother-in-law cursing..."
Under Yao Xiujuan's shocked gaze, Liu Jiali continued, "I thought I had misheard, so I went closer to the gate to take a look. I didn't know until I saw it, but I was really scared."
"My second brother-in-law was actually pinching my second sister, and he was specifically looking for places that couldn't be exposed... I was shocked at the time. I thought the habit of pinching people was only something that evil mothers-in-law would do in the past..."
Yao Xiujuan came back to her senses and anxiously grabbed Liu Jiali's hand, "What's next?"
Liu Jiali sighed, "Before I could react, the friendly forces rushed over. He shouted, and my second sister's husband, who was originally strangling her in the yard, quickly pulled her back into the house. He then walked out of the yard with a smile on his face to greet us..."
"Later, when I asked my second sister why her eyes were red, she just said she caught the wind and didn't intend to tell me that my second brother-in-law and I, the friendly army, had beaten her."
Yao Xiujuan was so shocked that she didn't know what to say. After a while, she reacted and said in a tone of regret, "How can I not say anything? If a man hits a woman once, there will be a second time, a third time..."
"It's obvious that Xiuhe has always been the one with the most ideas since she was young, why is she..."
After Mrs. Chu finished her work, she stood up and walked towards Yao Xiujuan and the others. Seeing her ferocious face, she asked curiously, "Xiujuan, what happened?"
Yao Xiujuan replied subconsciously, "Grandma, no, it's okay, it's okay."
She didn't want Old Madam Chu to know about these things. She always felt that her sister was being abused, and it would be too embarrassing to tell others about it, especially to Old Madam Chu, the eldest elder of the Chu family.
Old Mrs. Chu had lived for decades and was very good at reading people's faces. Looking at Yao Xiujuan's nervous expression and then at Liu Jiali who was smiling awkwardly beside her, she knew that what she had just said must be about Yao Xiujuan's family.
"Well, after you finish these, take a break. I'll go to the field to see Lele and Yonghui."
After saying that, Old Mrs. Chu turned and walked towards the edge of the field. It was the busy farming season, and the children in the family either went to school or followed the adults in the fields. Those who were able to work would work together. The younger ones like Lele and Yonghui were gathered together at the edge of the field and looked after by the older children.
"Grandma, Brother Yonghui is having diarrhea..."
"Grandma..."
"too··"
Before Mrs. Chu reached the end of the field, she heard a few older children calling her. She hurried over and saw little Yonghui lying on his poop, grinning at her foolishly.
“·····”
Old Mrs. Chu stepped forward and quickly picked up the still-smiling Yao Yonghui. While taking off his dirty clothes, she asked the oldest child, "Xinde, what do you think of your younger brother?"
Chu Xinde scratched his head anxiously, "Grandma, I, I..."
Chu Xinliang, who was about the same age as Chu Xinde, pointed at Chu Xinde and then at a half-eaten corn stalk not far away and said, "Grandma, Xinde just went to the field over there to eat some green corn stalks. He didn't see his brother Yonghui..."
Mrs. Chu frowned, "What about you? Why don't you think it's a good idea?"
Chu Xinliang glanced at Chu Jie's youngest daughter, who was also the youngest girl in the Chu family's main house, and said, "I was just changing my sister's diaper and didn't see..."
Old Madam Chu glanced at Chu Aidan and frowned, "Where is your aunt? Why doesn't she take Aidan with her?"
Chu Xinde quickly spoke up when he heard this, "Grandma, my mother said she couldn't go to work with Aidan and Xinhao, so she asked..."
Old Mrs. Chu sighed silently when she heard this, "Xinde, go to where Grandma was working just now and bring the basket over."
"Grandma, I'll go now..."
Seeing that Old Lady Chu didn't scold him, Chu Xinde quickly dropped the corn stalks in his hand and ran into the cornfield.
Old Mrs. Chu had just wiped Yao Yonghui's face and hands with warm water and changed into clean clothes. She turned around and saw Chu Xinhao and Chu Xinde. They looked at the biscuits in her basket that she had prepared for Lele and Yao Yonghui to eat at any time, drooling wildly, and frowned.
"What's wrong with you two? Don't you eat this before? Look at the other brothers and sisters. Is there anyone as greedy as you two?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Xinde quickly pulled Chu Xinhao back two steps, "Grandma, we were wrong..."
Chu Xinhao ignored his brother and took two steps forward, rubbing his stomach and looking pitifully at Old Lady Chu, "Grandma, Haohao is hungry..."
Old Madam Chu frowned. "How long has it been since breakfast? You're already hungry? Who are you kidding?"
Xinhao ignored his brother's attempt to cover his mouth and said hurriedly, "Mom won't give me food..."
Chu Xinde was shocked when he heard this and shouted, "Xinhao, stop talking nonsense..."
Chu Xinhao turned back to look at his brother unconvinced, "Haohao didn't say anything nonsense, mother didn't give me food to eat, and the cakes that grandma gave me this morning were all taken away by mother..."
Old Mrs. Chu was shocked and quickly grabbed Chu Xinhao's arm and asked, "What do you mean? Your mother doesn't feed you? How is that possible? Don't you eat with your grandparents?"
Chu Xinhao was only three years old. He gave unclear answers to Mrs. Chu's questions. Mrs. Chu then asked Chu Xinde, who was only five or six years old. He also didn't give a clear answer. He just said that he could only eat enough at night and didn't have enough at other times.
At this time, Chu Xinliang said again, "Grandma, my aunt takes away all the biscuits and cakes that my uncle brings back and doesn't give them any to eat..."
"I saw it too. Grandma just gave each of us a cookie, and then my aunt took it away..."
“I saw last time…”
"I····"
“That’s outrageous!”
The more Mrs. Chu listened, the angrier she became. She thought that Chu Jie's wife was becoming more and more unbecoming. She was quite well behaved when Chu Jie was at home, but she was unbecoming when Chu Jie was not at home. This was even when she lived with the eldest son and his wife.
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