"Aunt Qin, how come you have time to come over?" A burly middle-aged woman came out of the house and asked in surprise.
Zhang Guihua said with a smile, "Chunyan, have you eaten yet? Our third son's wife just came in and is introducing the people living around here."
Zhao Chunyan looked Yunling up and down, then pursed her lips. Yunling looked so frail and sickly. Qin Chuan couldn't even stand my Hanxiu. He must be blind. He deserves to have no son.
He cursed inwardly but smiled and praised, "You're quite handsome; you look like a scholar."
Zhang Guihua pulled Yunling to her side and said proudly, "My third son's wife is beautiful, educated, and a high school graduate. My third son is really lucky."
They even said that my third son wouldn't be able to find a good wife and that I should become a live-in son-in-law.
You've been proven wrong!
Yunling felt a little uncomfortable being praised.
Zhao Chunyan said with a forced smile, "Oh, that's good. My daughter Hanxiu also graduated from high school, and I can't bear to see her suffer in the countryside."
It's your family's good fortune that my daughter Hanxiu has taken a liking to your son, and you don't even appreciate it.
Now he's married to a sickly man.
She's waiting to see what happens.
Zhang Guihua nodded: "That's good. I hope Hanxiu finds a good partner this time, and doesn't end up like last time, when they were about to get married but things fell through."
She looked down on Chunyan for finding a partner for her daughter, arguing that he only considered family background and not character.
No matter how rich a man is, if he has bad character and doesn't treat Hanxiu well, let alone his in-laws, what good is he?
[Ding! Mission: Find out why Hu Hanxiu broke off the engagement.]
Yunling's eyes lit up, and she asked expectantly, "What about the reward?"
[The host will know once the task is completed.]
"Chunyan, we're leaving now. You go ahead with your work," Zhang Guihua said cheerfully.
As soon as she left the Hu family, Yunling couldn't wait to ask, "Mother, what you just said about Hu Hanxiu's wedding falling through? What happened?"
Zhang Guihua glanced at Yunling in surprise, then smiled when she saw her bright eyes and asked, "You like listening to gossip?"
Yunling nodded hurriedly.
She's bound to a gossip-eating system.
Zhang Guihua looked at Yunling with great curiosity and said, "I heard that when the two were about to get married, the Hu family proposed that if Hanxiu gave birth to a son, one of them must take the surname Hu. The man's family was unwilling, since he was not a son-in-law who would live with the family, so they immediately found another girl and got married a while ago."
Yunling: "So that's how it is."
In modern families, it's rare for children to take their mother's surname, let alone in this era.
However, what she cared about most right now was the mission. Her heart was pounding, and she asked impatiently:
"System, is the task complete?"
【No.】
Yunling sighed in disappointment, but quickly rallied, grabbed her mother-in-law's arm, and continued to ask, "Why do you make this request?"
Zhang Guihua said with disgust, "They never treated the adopted child as their own. The Hu family initially wanted the third son to become their son-in-law. My family has three sons, so losing one won't matter. Anyway, the two families live close by. What kind of nonsense were they talking about? It's not like I can't afford to raise my sons."
Looking at his son's upright figure in front of him, he thought that if he were to become a live-in son-in-law, he probably wouldn't be able to straighten his back.
How could she let her son suffer such injustice?
He immediately retorted with insults.
"And then?" Yunling pressed.
Zhang Guihua smiled and leaned closer to Yunling, whispering, "The third brother didn't like her."
Qin Chuan pinched the bridge of his nose and said helplessly, "Mother, why bring this up now?"
Seeing her son's angry expression, Zhang Guihua smiled and said, "You need to make things clear with your wife, otherwise what if she misunderstands and thinks you and Hanxiu are having an affair?"
"Right? Third son's wife." Zhang Guihua raised an eyebrow.
"Mother is right." Yunling agreed wholeheartedly. It's important to understand one's own family matters; otherwise, one won't have the confidence to speak confidently when going out.
Qin Chuan said helplessly, "You guys go ahead and look around. I remember I haven't chopped the firewood at home yet, so I'll go back first."
Just before leaving, he looked at Yunling again and explained, "I have nothing to do with her."
Yunling nodded, thinking to herself that she didn't need to explain this to me.
[Ding! Rewards issued: One egg, already placed in system space; one point.]
Yunling raised an eyebrow. It's quite simple.
She glanced at the system space, a ten-square-meter space with a small egg in the corner.
Her eyes lit up, and she grabbed a handful of wild grass to stuff it inside.
I tried stuffing it in from the left, the right, the top, and the bottom, but it just wouldn't go in.
A little disappointed.
After a while.
Yunling asked curiously, "Was the egg raw or cooked?"
[Does the host prefer raw or cooked?]
Yunling thought for a moment. With the whole family living together, if she suddenly took out an egg to boil, the other family members would think she had stolen it from the chicken coop and wouldn't listen to her explanations. So she decided to cook it.
On the way back, Yunling chatted with her mother-in-law about the gossip in the team. Her mother-in-law knew a lot, and the two chatted happily. When they got home, they were already holding hands.
As soon as they got home, Qin Tiantian ran over to talk to Yunling. Zhang Guihua returned to her room, looked at the old man sitting on the kang smoking, and said with a smile, "After getting to know him, I realized that the third son's wife is a really good person. She is gentle and kind, good-looking, and a high school graduate. She doesn't judge people by their appearance. The third son really married the right person."
Qin Baoguo looked at her suspiciously and said, "A few days ago you were looking down on her, saying that you would teach her a lesson and toughen her up after she married into the family."
Zhang Guihua glared at him: "I wasn't mistaken before, why do you have to dwell on the past?"
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