"Honey, your parents have gone too far! How could they treat you like this? You're their own son!"
Guo had never seen parents who schemed against their own child like this.
They had just gone over there to explain to their parents why they got the job, but they never expected to hear such shocking news at the door.
Guo was so angry that she sat on the kang and cried. Erzhuzi's face was also very ugly, and he felt suffocated and extremely uncomfortable.
"Honey, pack your things and come with me."
Guo looked up, "Want to go together?"
"Yeah, didn't you hear what your parents said? If you stay at home, you and the kids won't get away with it. They're planning to torment you. Not only will they torment you, they've even taken my wages into consideration."
"Let's go. Didn't Dad say that once Big Brother goes out, there's no going back?" Erzhuzi sneered, "I'll let him find another one he can't bring back."
What will happen to our land?
Erzhuzi thought for a moment, "I'll go out and ask the family who helps Grandma with her farming if they'd like to rent the land. If they do, we can just rent it to them. If they don't want it, there are other people. The land is easy to rent."
"But what if you can't make it in the county town?"
"How could that be? You should know that I'm not as stupid as my parents say, and my third uncle wouldn't find me any particularly difficult work."
Guo still felt that now was not a good time to leave her husband's family. "But what if the wages are not high? We need to buy everything in the county town, and you can't support my daughter and me by yourself."
Erzhuzi quickly reassured his wife, "No, you can go to the county town and I can go straight home after work, so we won't have to be apart. You can rent a small courtyard, grow some vegetables, raise chickens, and take care of the kids and do some housework."
Nobody will bother you or make things difficult for you. As for food, after paying our taxes, we still have some left over. If we're careful, it's enough for the two of us. Don't you think that's better than living in the village?
I'll work at my third uncle's shop; I can earn at least twenty coins a day, right? That'll be half a tael of silver a month. Add to that the few hundred coins I saved before, and the bracelet Xiaoyu gave me, and we'll be doing alright."
"Can it really work?"
"Listen to me, we'll go to the county town together tomorrow. Once we get there, we'll look for a house first, and then I'll go to work at the shop."
Guo looked at Erzhuzi, then thought about what her parents-in-law had just said and nodded, "Okay, you go out and rent land now, I'll pack my things."
Although she ate with her parents-in-law, they divided the food among themselves, and she had to give her mother-in-law her share of the family's food every day.
She was truly fed up with being controlled all the time. After she started working, if her in-laws deliberately made things difficult for her, she really had no way to resist.
The next day, when the mule cart came to pick up Erzhuzi, they loaded almost all their belongings, including food and grain, onto the cart.
Li and Zhao Dayong's eyelids twitched. It would be a fool to say they still didn't understand at this point; it was obvious that the whole family planned to leave together.
"Erzhuzi, what do you mean by this? Do you know what you're doing?"
Erzhuzi glanced at his parents. He wasn't as clever as his older and younger brothers, but he wasn't brainless either.
"Father, Mother, we don't want to be in your way. I'm taking my wife and children with me. Please take care of yourselves."
"Second brother, what do you mean? You're not going to take care of us anymore? You're going to turn the world upside down?"
"I wouldn't dare. How could a fool in your eyes dare to cause trouble? I wouldn't dare leave my wife and children at home, for fear that you would mistreat her."
"Second son, you have no conscience!" Li cried. "You just believe your wife's words? When have I ever mistreated them?"
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