"But your sister-in-law hasn't had any flour or rice in the past few days. We all share in the porridge she cooked. She doesn't ask you to wash her own clothes anymore."
"That's because the family is running out of food!" Cui Qiaoqiao rolled her eyes. "If she doesn't eat sparingly, the rice jar will be empty. As for the fact that she didn't ask me to do laundry again, it's because I left home early and didn't have the chance to do the laundry. She errands.”
Another point is that Cui Qiaoqiao suspected that Mrs. Xu was planning some bad ideas, and maybe he was trying to sell her out at this time.
Maybe he had ulterior motives for making porridge for everyone to drink and not scolding her anymore for sending her to work.
I'm afraid it was to relax her vigilance and then find an opportunity to sell her.
In this life, she will never let her succeed!
"Mom, think about it, if eldest brother comes back and knows what Mrs. Xu has done, he might divorce her. When the time comes, mother, you can find him a virtuous wife. Not only will eldest brother not complain about mother, but he will also be grateful to her. .”
As for whether any woman would be willing to marry a bad eldest brother, it is unknown.
But there was no need for her to talk about it now, lest her mother hesitate and delay the separation.
No matter what, she would never let Xu have another chance to get involved in her lifelong affairs.
This home must be divided!
Ms. Cui looked at the pair of children, and her eyes gradually became firm: "Okay! Let's separate the families! But your second brother hasn't gotten married yet, so he'd better live with us first. It's not good to separate before he has a wife."
Cui Qiaoqiao thought about it. Anyway, the second brother worked in the town and didn't go home often, so he wouldn't be very sensitive to changes at home. At worst, she would keep all the money from selling wild game and wild products in her own hands.
After making the decision, Cui Qiaoqiao went to find the clan leader and Li Zheng.
She deliberately pinched a few bruises on her arms, and picked out the most ragged clothes. Not only were they full of patches, they were also cut short, making her look even thinner and frailer.
Wiping away her tears, she first came to the patriarch's house and begged the patriarch to help separate her family.
The patriarch's face looked a little ugly: "Your eldest brother is away from home while serving, your second brother is working in the town, and both brothers are not here. What do you mean by dividing the family? Did your mother ask you to come?"
"Grandpa, the patriarch, we really can't survive!" Cui Qiaoqiao cried while inadvertently revealing her bruised arms in her sleeves. "My sister-in-law has to eat a lot of food every day since she came in. The three of us eat rice bran and wild vegetables every day. Wo Wotou gave her the rations evenly, but she found the coarse grains irritating her throat, so she insisted on eating fine grains. If the fine grains were not enough, she would replace them with coarse grains. After finishing the spring plowing, the grain tank at home was bottomed out. What will happen next? Let’s do it! She bullied my little brother and me, not to mention making us get up early and work in the dark, but even my mother... My mother has fainted from hunger several times. She is thin-skinned and doesn’t want to bother the patriarch with housework. Grandpa, I can’t stand it anymore. If this continues, before my eldest brother comes back, the three of us will either starve to death or be tortured to death by my eldest sister-in-law!"
When the patriarch heard this, he looked suspicious: "Is the Meng Jin family actually like this? Didn't she say that she was very good at her parents' family? She often got good things from the mountains? Could it be that she was strong and had a big appetite? How much did you eat?"
The patriarch's wife came out of the back room: "She can't eat it alone, look at how thin Ji Kang and Qiaoqiao have become. In my opinion, if Qiuhua really wants to separate the family, I will support her. Meng Jinren is an honest person. When he comes back, he may decide whether to listen to his mother or his wife, so it would be better to divide the family while he is away."
"But……"
The clan leader wanted to say that there was no way the eldest son would be separated. Looking at the entire Dawa Village, there was no such example.
"Grandpa Patriarch, please! Help my family! I will repay you in the future."
Cui Qiaoqiao plopped down and knelt down in front of the clan leader, crying sadly: "If we don't separate the eldest sister-in-law, we really won't be able to survive!"
"Good boy, get up!" The patriarch's wife helped her up sympathetically, "Don't be afraid! We will help you."
When Xu Yin learned the news of the separation, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
In the past few days since she came here, she has tried her best to maintain her original persona and not go out much, so as not to arouse her sister-in-law's suspicion.
But she was not idle either. She caught up on her sleep during the day and took medicinal baths for herself in the middle of the night to lose weight.
It's not all about beauty, it's mainly because being so fat has caused problems with all the body's functions.
On the day she arrived, she took her own pulse.
Good guy!
Arthritis, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, varicose veins, eczematous dermatitis...
A bunch of chronic diseases caused by obesity.
I quickly prescribed myself a weight loss pill.
However, the decoction tasted too strong, so the recipe was finally changed to a medicinal bath.
Fortunately, she developed the habit of replenishing the system warehouse every time she went to a small world. The medicinal materials she now has on hand are better than those of famous traditional Chinese medicine pharmacies in later generations.
Of course, there is no shortage of Western medicine, but this body is currently better treated with Chinese medicine.
The water used for the medicinal bath was Linghu water stored in the small world during vacation. The water temperature was adjusted with hot spring stones. After soaking in the dirty water of the medicinal bath, the bath bucket and the dirty water were returned to the system warehouse and disposed of when going to the latrine the next day.
I have been worrying about this body for several days.
However, she also paid attention to her sister-in-law's movements.
Seeing that my sister-in-law has changed her usual schedule these past few days——
I go out before dawn every day and don't go home until sunset. When I came back, there was only a shallow layer of wild vegetables in the basket on my back, but my clothes were full of stuff. As soon as I came back, I pulled Ms. Cui and the third child into her room. The three girls closed the door and didn't come out for a long time.
Xu Yin: "..."
Okay, the heroine has most likely been reborn.
Therefore, when she heard that her mother-in-law was going to separate the family, she was not surprised at all. She had already guessed it, right?
Of course, you still have to put it on, and the hob meat character cannot collapse.
"Separate families? No! I don't agree!"
Cui Qiaoqiao sneered: "Li Zheng and the clan elders have agreed. Whether you agree or not will not affect this decision."
Xu Yin put her hands on her hips and said vigorously: "Since we are dividing the family, we have to ask our eldest brother's opinion after all, right? My husband-in-law is doing corvee work for this family, so it would be better for you to hurriedly divide our eldest house among us while he is away. Get out, this is not a family separation, it’s clear that I can’t be tolerated!”
Having said this, she turned to look at Mrs. Cui: "Mother-in-law, aren't you going to live with us in the future?"
Ms. Cui pursed her lips, but before she could speak, Cui Qiaoqiao interrupted her: "That's right! My mother will live with my younger brother. She will live with your older brother. Doesn't she think she has a long life? You have been married to my older brother for less than three years. Months later, my mother has worked so hard that she is like this. You take a pee and take a look at yourself, you are so white and fat after eating, and then look at my mother, me and my little brother, are you not guilty? Xu Erya, you should I’m grateful that you were just sent out and not divorced by my family!”
"..."
Xu Yin lowered her head and looked at her body, and she really had nothing to say in reply.
In the end, under the witness of a group of clan elders, the big room she was in was separated and passed alone.
(End of chapter)
