Wangjia Village Production Brigade, Old Wang’s home, after breakfast, Wang Shouren insisted on sending his two children to school.
Qian Shulan originally wanted him to rest at home, but he said that there were only two pairs of cotton shoes for the two children. In such a cold day, once they got wet, they would not dry for several days and there would be no time to replace them.
Qian Shulan had no choice but to go with him.
This year, Qian Shulan made two pairs of cotton shoes for each child. Logically, the two children should have enough shoes to wear. But the snow was so thick that after it melted, the road was full of mud. I guess after walking for a while, the shoes would be dirty beyond recognition.
Qian Shulan glanced at Zhengkang. Yesterday, when Wang Shouren sent Sun Daqin to Sunjia Village, she took the opportunity to catch Zhengkang and ask him where his money was.
Zhengkang refused to say anything. Even when he was asked to take out the money and show it to her, he did not move, as if he would never say anything.
This eldest grandson was not close to either the original body or her. Qian Shulan had no choice but to ask Wang Shouren to ask before they left.
Wang Shouren nodded and agreed.
After seeing the three people off, Qian Shulan returned to her room to sew shoe soles. Just as she sat on the kang, she heard someone knocking on the door.
"Come in." Qian Shulan took the round dustpan used for making shoes to the table on the kang.
Li Chunhua pushed the door open and came in, for the first time ever without a pillar.
Qian Shulan was a little curious and looked up, "Why are you here?"
Li Chunhua twisted her fingers and grunted for a long time before she said hesitantly, "Mom, I..."
After entering the house, she stood there in fear and hesitation for a long time, which made Qian Shulan feel annoyed. She threaded the needle, put on the thimble, and said unhappily, "If you have something to say, just say it. I'm not a tiger and I won't eat you. Why are you so afraid of me?"
I don't know what's going on. After teaching her so many times, Li Chunhua always acts so stingy and unpresentable.
That is to say, she can be more normal in places she doesn't notice.
After being scolded, Li Chunhua blushed. She carefully looked at her mother-in-law's face. Seeing that she was not really angry, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she closed her eyes and said, "Mom, I don't want to borrow money."
Hearing this, Qian Shulan looked up at her and said, "If you don't want to lend it to me, why don't you tell me? I'm not borrowing money from you."
Li Chunhua was a little surprised to see that her mother-in-law didn't call her "heartless" or something like that.
Qian Shulan raised her chin and said, "Just sit over there. Tell me why you don't want to borrow it."
Seeing that her mother-in-law was in a good mood and not angry at all, Li Chunhua's nervousness and fear of her mother-in-law disappeared immediately. She said softly, "My sister-in-law is not good to me either. I don't want to lend her money. Besides, she can't pay it back."
Qian Shulan said "Oh" without even raising her head.
Li Chunhua was a little confused. This shouldn't be her reaction. Yesterday, her mother-in-law taught them to unite and work together to overcome difficulties. If she didn't lend the money, wouldn't that be a blatant opposition to her mother-in-law's words? But her mother-in-law didn't react at all.
It's so abnormal!
She couldn't help but look at her mother-in-law's face with suspicion, trying to see if she was planning to explode.
Just at this moment, Qian Shulan looked up as if she had noticed something, and Li Chunhua was so scared that she quickly lowered her head.
Qian Shulan didn't pay any attention to her scrutiny, but asked, "Does the Third Brother mean the same thing?"
Li Chunhua nodded.
Qian Shulan said nothing. "Although I am the head of our family, I am not that overbearing. I told you that the three hundred yuan belongs to you, so it is yours. If you want to borrow it, you can. If you don't want to, I won't say anything." As she spoke, she stared at Li Chunhua, "Look up at me. When you talk to someone, you must look them in the eye. It is polite and respectful."
The voice was so stern that Li Chunhua was so scared that she quickly raised her head and chest.
Qian Shulan nodded with satisfaction, "This money is yours, you have the right to ask, why do you look so guilty?"
Li Chunhua immediately nodded and said yes.
When she walked out of the room, Li Chunhua couldn't help but get excited. Her mother-in-law didn't make things difficult for them, and the three hundred yuan was theirs.
She quickly ran back to the house and told her husband.
When Wang Shouyi heard the news, he frowned and thought for a long time before slapping his thigh and saying, "Our mother is warning us."
Li Chunhua exclaimed in surprise, and then asked, "What do you mean?"
"Think about it, our mother just told us yesterday that brothers should work together, and today she let us make the decision ourselves. If we don't lend money to big brother, he will definitely hate us, and we won't be able to continue to be brothers. Our mother doesn't want to be the bad guy."
Li Chunhua swallowed her saliva. Is her mother-in-law so cunning? "But she said she wanted to save my sister-in-law?"
Wang Shouyi curled his lips, "I think this is a long shot. It's a thousand yuan. Not to mention that it's just a daughter-in-law who is sick and needs so much money, even if it's a grandson who needs so much, my mother will weigh it in her heart. But this time, my mother agreed without saying a word. Don't you think there is something fishy about this?"
Although what her man said was a bit unpleasant to hear, Li Chunhua thought about it carefully and found that it was indeed true.
If this happened to her, even if Zhuzi was seriously ill and needed to sell everything in the house to pay for his treatment, she would still be unwilling to do so.
Not to mention that she is not Zhuzi's biological mother, even if she is, she will still be reserved. People are selfish and they all think for themselves.
How could such a shrewd person as the mother-in-law spend all her fortune for a daughter-in-law who is not related to her by blood
Li Chunhua was a little anxious and grabbed her man's arm, "What should we do?"
Wang Shouyi thought for a moment and said, "Let's just pretend we never asked mother about this. Look, my sister-in-law didn't come back last night. Maybe she didn't even borrow the money. If the money isn't collected, there's no need to go for surgery, and we don't need to borrow money."
Wang Shouren did not tell anyone else what happened in Sunjia Village, partly because he was not good at talking and did not like to explain.
On the other hand, I felt I had lost face in front of my father-in-law.
As for Qian Shulan, she is the eldest in the family and there is no need to explain to others.
In the afternoon, the family was sitting in the main room, eating the meal they brought back from the canteen.
Nowadays, although we still eat from a big pot, the food for so many people is cooked together, and by the time it is distributed to the members, the food is cold. Everyone is afraid of getting sick from the cold, so they take the food home and reheat it.
If a family wants to entertain their relatives well, they will give some money to the canteen in advance and ask them to help prepare something good.
Because Qian Shulan always gave extra meals to the family, the gate of Lao Wang's house was always locked.
The family was eating when they heard someone knocking on the door and calling for help.
Qian Shulan listened carefully and found that it was someone from the Sun family. She quickly called Xiaomei who was about to open the door.
He hurriedly urged them, "Hurry up and eat. Don't let those outsiders get away with it."
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly put their food into their mouths.
In less than five minutes, the food was gone.
There was not a single piece of boiled sweet potato left in the pot. Zhou Xuemei and Li Chunhua quickly cleaned up the dishes.
Xiaomei took the child to the east room and watched what was happening outside through the crack in the door.
Qian Shulan asked Wang Shouyi to open the door.
As soon as the door opened, Sun Jianshe and Sun Jiandang carried Sun Daqin in front and behind and rushed in.
Qian Shulan opened her arms to stop them, stared at them, and shouted, "What are you doing? Do you want to rob houses like bandits?"
Lu Sancui came over from behind, grabbed Qian Shulan's hand, and forced a smile, "My dear, Shouren was too anxious yesterday. He left the zither behind. So I asked my two sons to return it to you."
Hearing this, Qian Shulan almost laughed out loud. Is this Sun Daqin a worthless person? And she left him there
However, she still kept a straight face and glanced at Sun Daqin lying on the wooden board.
At this moment, Sun Daqin was in a very miserable state, with her eyes half-opened, staring blankly without moving, her eye sockets red and swollen, it was obvious that she had been crying.
Qian Shulan retracted her gaze and looked at Lu Sancui coldly, "My dear relatives, it's not that I don't want Daqin to come back. It's that our eldest brother came back last night and said he wanted to divorce Daqin. Ever since your daughter married into our Wang family, she has been asking her husband's family to subsidize her natal family. Our Wang family can't afford it." She glanced coldly at the brothers Sun Jianshe and Sun Jiandang, "You guys should just carry it from wherever you want. As for the divorce papers, I'll have the eldest brother send the kids to school and then send them to your family."
When she heard about the divorce, Lu Sancui was completely stunned. She had originally wanted to put in some nice words so that the Wang family could borrow money from the team to treat her daughter. But who would have thought that the Wang family would actually want a divorce.
In this era, in rural areas, even if a couple quarrels fiercely or even fights every day, they will grit their teeth and live together for the rest of their lives and will not divorce easily.
But who would have thought that the Wang family would actually get a divorce.
No! No! This is absolutely not possible!
How could the Sun family have a divorced daughter? If this got out, people would laugh their heads off.
Given her in-laws' personality, as soon as they get divorced, she will definitely spread the news widely.
Everyone must be on the side of the Wang family. Even if they told others that the Wang family divorced because they didn't want to pay for their daughter's medical treatment, no one would believe it.
Not to mention that few families are willing to pay the thousand yuan. Take divorce for example. No matter how wrong the man is, it is the woman who is blamed and bears the pressure.
After Lu Sancui realized what was happening, she was extremely nervous. She swallowed her saliva and held Qian Shulan's hands tightly with both hands, fearing that she would run away. She said in an urgent voice, "My dear relatives, my dear relatives, listen to me. Our Daqin gave birth to three grandchildren for your Wang family. You can't just cross the river and burn the bridge."
Qian Shulan gets angry when this is mentioned.
She slapped her thigh and started to curse Lu Sancui in a sarcastic tone, "I said, enough is enough! Don't mention this to me! Your Daqin is a lazy woman who only cares about giving birth but not raising children. She is so cruel. The cotton that I exchanged with others with great difficulty, she took it all to your house. The cotton coat and overalls that I rewarded to Zhengjun were also taken to your house by her. Zhengjun was shivering with cold. If I hadn't seen it, the child might have had a high fever. I have never seen such a cruel mother, even worse than the stepmother. And your Sun family raised one. Our Wang family can't afford such a treacherous daughter-in-law. Take her home quickly. I'm furious just looking at her!"
She raised her voice very loudly and soon attracted a group of people to come and see.
In the winter, there is not much entertainment, and the snow has melted, so many people like to go from one house to another and chat. On the road, I saw someone from Sunjia Village coming.
Originally thought they were here to get something for free, they all followed along to join in the fun.
Who would have thought that something like this would happen? This is much more exciting than begging for money.
Soon, the yard, which was less than 50 square meters, was filled with people.
Then, when everyone heard Qian Shulan reveal such explosive news, they all sighed and pointed at the Sun family.
Lu Santacui is old and thick-skinned, so she doesn't think it's a big deal.
But Sun Jiandang and Sun Jianshe were still young and thin-skinned after all. They blushed when so many people pointed fingers at them and scolded them.
The two brothers looked at each other, put the wooden board on the ground, and rushed out.
Seeing this, Qian Shulan yelled, "Stop right there! We don't want a daughter-in-law like this in our Wang family! Why are you still insisting on marrying her?"
Sun Jiandang and Sun Jianshe walked quickly and walked several meters away in a short while.
Qian Shulan shook off Lu Sancui's hand, pinched her waist and started yelling at the two people's backs, "You two want to run away, right? When the boss comes back, I will ask him to send you back to Sunjia Village with the divorce papers. Then we'll see who will be more embarrassed."
This successfully stopped the two of them.
They looked at each other again, turned around and walked back.
Lu Sancui was really scared now. They didn't even wait for a day. Although she didn't know the specific procedures for divorce, as long as the Wang family spread the word that they didn't want this daughter-in-law and didn't want Daqin to enter the Wang family, the marriage would be considered divorced. After all, they didn't get any marriage certificate. In the countryside, what matters is not the certificate, but whether the husband's family recognizes it. Now the Wang family doesn't want Daqin anymore and wants a divorce!
They absolutely cannot get divorced! If Daqin really gets divorced, what good reputation will their Sun family have
Nowadays, whether it is getting married or having any other good things, it all depends on a good reputation.
Just like Wang Danna was clearly a junior high school student, but because of her original bad reputation, she couldn't be selected as a private teacher.
Therefore, everyone is afraid of having a bad reputation and tries their best to protect it.
"My dear relatives, let's talk it out. You can't do this." She stamped her feet and said, "I know Daqin was wrong. I will make her change and never bring anything home again. Please be kind and don't let the two children get divorced."
Qian Shulan had a gloomy face and curled her lips at her with disdain, "Forget it! If you have any love for children, you would not accept the things Daqin sent back with a clear conscience." She glanced at Sun Daqin on the ground, "But not only did you accept it, but when she was almost beyond help, you didn't even lend a hand. How can I believe the promises made by ungrateful people like you?"
Her eyebrows were tightly knitted, her eyes were as cold as ice, and she raised her chin and shouted at Li Chunhua and Zhou Xuemei, "Hurry up and drive them away. But don't dirty our Wang family's land."
Li Chunhua and Zhou Xuemei had been standing nearby. When they heard her mother-in-law's instructions, they immediately stepped forward to help.
Sun Daqin fainted after hearing what her father said. When she woke up, she saw herself in a carriage.
She had no strength in her body. Except for her eyeballs, she could move them. Any other parts of her body would feel sore and weak if she tried to lift them even a little.
When her stomach growled with hunger, she suddenly thought that if her parents' home would not save her, she might as well go back to her husband's home. Her mother-in-law was kind-hearted, and her two sisters-in-law were also good-tempered and none of them held grudges.
Maybe they would feel sympathy for her when they saw how pitiful she looked.
By then, I can find a way to help her raise money for her treatment.
But who would have thought that her mother-in-law would find out about her stealing things back to her parents' home.
Apparently, her man said that last night.
When she thought of her mother-in-law's cold attitude, she felt anxious and scared. What if even her mother-in-law was unwilling to save her
What hope did she have? Wasn't she doomed
She struggled to get up, but she had no strength at all. She was so anxious that sweat broke out on her forehead and tears came out of her eyes.
Zhou Xuemei felt a little soft-hearted when she saw her like this, but Li Chunhua had no sympathy for her at all.
If Sun Daqin were allowed to stay, her mother-in-law might treat her illness. Why should she lend her her own money
She has never been very good to me and she even used to bully me.
I don’t know if Li Chunhua was very strong because she worked all year round, or if she didn’t want the family’s money to go to waste, but she helped Sun Daqin up by herself.
Zhou Xuemei looked at the two people's crooked appearance and hurried forward to help.
Lu Sancui was extremely anxious and winked at her two sons, "Hurry up and stop them."
Sun Jianshe and Sun Jiandang wanted to stop them, but Li Chunhua was desperate. Before the two men even put their hands out, she started yelling, "Don't touch me, or I'll report you to the commune for being a hooligan."
The two were so scared that they quickly retracted their hands.
Mom, what a joke! Why did she ask them to come? She should have asked her wife to come.
This whole family is made up of women, who can't be bumped into or touched. It's too tricky.
The two brothers of the Sun family were very upset.
Qian Shulan was pulled aside by Lu Santacui.
Lu Sancui watched helplessly as her two sons were unable to do anything to the man, knowing that this matter would not end peacefully. She also knew that the final decision would still be made by the old lady.
"My dear relatives, please tell me the truth. What can we do to avoid divorce?" She could ignore her daughter's life or death, but divorce was absolutely not an option.
Qian Shulan looked at the other person's anxious face and snorted coldly, "I don't want much from you. Give me two hundred yuan."
Hearing that she wanted two hundred right away, Lu Sancui jumped up and down, her eyes widened bigger than copper bells, and she waved her hands repeatedly, "How is this possible! No, no, absolutely not!"
Seeing that the other party was about to leave, Lu Sancui quickly stepped forward and held her back, "My dear, let's discuss this again. This is too much, and I can't make the decision."
Qian Shulan snorted coldly, "These two hundred dollars are not for me to spend. Your daughter needs medical treatment. As her biological parents, isn't it your responsibility to pay for her treatment?"
Hearing this, Lu Sancui opened her mouth in surprise, "My dear, are you really willing to treat Daqin?"
One thousand dollars? That's not a small amount.
Qian Shulan avoided answering, "I'm not cruel. But if the money can't be gathered, then I can't do anything. Whether your daughter can be saved depends on you."
As she spoke, she walked up to Sun Daqin.
Although there were many people watching the fun, they would still spontaneously make way for the person involved when they saw her coming.
Qian Shulan walked up to Sun Daqin and took out a steaming sweet potato from her coat pocket. "You probably haven't eaten yet. Eat it while it's hot."
Qian Shulan felt that she had the potential to be a scheming bitch. She hated Sun Daqin so much in her heart, but she could pretend to be the most loving and kind mother-in-law for her mission. Just to have a strong contrast with the other party. It was obviously the mother-in-law you least favored, but she was the one who remembered to give you a bite to eat when everyone else abandoned you.
Qian Shulan was not sure whether Sun Daqin could repent this time, but she considered herself a very patient person and would let Sun Daqin experience the extremes of ice and fire.
Seeing the fragrant sweet potatoes, Sun Daqin's eyes lit up surprisingly, and the two of them held her body firmly so that she didn't slip. Although she didn't have much strength in her hands, it was her instinct for survival that made her reach out.
She grabbed the sweet potato and stuffed it into her mouth.
Qian Shulan sighed, "I told your mother that as long as they are willing to pay 200 yuan, I will borrow the remaining 100 yuan from the team. As long as the money is collected, I will treat your illness. So, whether you can survive depends on your importance in your parents' minds."
When Sun Daqin heard her mother-in-law say that she would borrow money from the team, tears streamed down her face.
How could Lu Sancui make the decision with so much money? She left with her two sons, feeling heavy-hearted.
Before leaving, Qian Shulan insisted that Sun Daqin go with her, and kept telling her, "Get the money back as soon as possible so that we can get treatment!"
Sun Daqin nodded hurriedly. Now she finally understood that her mother-in-law was not angry with her. She did this on purpose to help her raise enough money for treatment. Sun Daqin thought to herself that her mother-in-law was kind. Otherwise, she would really be hopeless this time.
The author has something to say: It is said that when elderly people are sick, unfilial sons will pass the buck.
The heroine also kicked once to let Sun Daqin know how unpopular she was.