Zhou Ergui pulled Ms. Li outside with a sullen face. Ms. Li struggled but couldn’t break free. She turned her head forcefully and looked at Yun Jiao, "Then give the retirent silver, and you owe for the past years too!"
Yun Jiao sat upright and let out a cold laugh, "You want silver? Impossible! I’d rather throw my silver into the river than give it to you!"
"You’re married, naturally you have your husband to support you."
"Even in the future, you have your son to take care of you in old age."
"I’m just a daughter; even if I spoke all the way to the edge of the sky, there’s no reason for a married daughter to support her mother in old age!"
Zhou Ergui listened to Yun Jiao’s words and felt embarrassed for Ms. Li. He pulled Ms. Li out the door, cursing as he walked, "Shaful creature, can’t I feed you?"
"You have a son, why should a daughter be responsible for your old age support?"
The won outside looked at Ms. Li disdainfully, pointing and gossiping behind her back.
Zhou Ergui cursed all the way while dragging Ms. Li back ho.
Once ho, he shoved Ms. Li through the door and slapped her face hard, "You wretched woman, am I not treating you well enough?"
"At ho, the food, the clothes, everything is prioritized for you."
"You don’t have to work in the fields, don’t have to handle house chores; you don’t even care about your son. My daughter Chun Zhi has to cook, gather pig grass, feed pigs and chickens, all while taking care of her younger brother. What use do I have for a wife like you?"
Ms. Li held her face, crying, "You... you dare hit ?"
Zhou Ergui snarled viciously, "Hit you, I dare!"
"From now on, feeding pigs, chickens, and taking care of the kids is your responsibility."
"If you dare not do it, you’ll see if I don’t beat you to death!"
Just then, Zhou Ergui’s daughter Chun Zhi ca in holding her two-year-old brother, "Dad, I just went to the river to wash clothes and didn’t have ti to watch him. Ca back to find he was picking up rubbish off the ground to eat."
Zhou Ergui looked at his son with his face sared in snot, and suddenly thought of Gu Chuan and Yun Jiao, sister and brother.
He wouldn’t even ntion Yun Jiao, born like a celestial being.
Even Gu Chuan, though young, had an extraordinary deanor.
All from the sa mother’s womb, how can one be in heaven and the other on earth?
Zhou Ergui refused to admit he was lesser than Gu Yuheng. He could only think of one reason: Ms. Li’s heart still missed her forr husband, and she hadn’t invested her efforts into their son.
In a fit of anger, he slapped Ms. Li again, "Next ti I see him eating stuff off the ground, next ti I see him dirty, I’ll hit you every ti I see it."
"Cheap woman, I treat you so well and yet your thoughts are running away with you."
He spat angrily, "Cheap woman, too bad that forr husband of yours doesn’t want you now!"
Having vented his anger, Zhou Ergui left Ms. Li and went to work in the fields again.
The mouths to feed at ho were growing, and if he didn’t work, the whole family would starve.
At Second Uncle Gu’s ho, the family was finally reunited.
Second and Third Uncles asked about Gu Yuheng’s disappearance. Gu Yuheng didn’t dare tell the truth, only saying he was abducted by bandits and ended up in the Capital City, where he t Jiao Jiao by chance.
Second and Third Uncles sighed a lot over this.
Second Uncle, hearing of Gu i’s passing, said with so sha, "Back then, when Big Brother disappeared, our sister-in-law was still here, and we couldn’t interfere too much with certain things."
"As for selling the land, I was inford too late, and by the ti I learned of it, it was already sold."
"I bla myself; if only I had interfered more, maybe the family wouldn’t have fallen apart."
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