Chapter 40 (1/2)

“Fourth son!”

Elder Xue subconsciously stretched out his hand, and the ashes from the smoking pot rolled out and fell down his leg.

He stretched out his hand to pat, but his expression was stunned.

Yeah, why did he sit and watch? The fourth child has a straightforward personality. He has repeated to his family members over and over again every time that the Fourth child works hard for the family yet is not greedy for the family’s money.

Maybe he had some suspicion in his heart, or maybe he was afraid that other sons would have conflicts because of suspicion, so he repeated that phrase over and over again. So when the eldest son went to the field to look for him and said that the fourth child had bought a mule cart with the money from the family, he actually believed it.

No, no, he actually still wanted to hear the fourth child’s explanation, so he kept silent. Isn’t it best to figure out the matter so that there is no barrier between family members?

Father Xue felt pain in his heart, and his mind was stiff and stupid.

He heard the eldest son say: “The Sun family is not without sons, yet they are willing to send money to their daughter? Who are you trying to fool?!”

He stood up suddenly, and by the time he knew what he was doing, he had already struck the eldest son across the face.

“Shut your mouth!”

Zhao Shi screamed: “Old man!”

“Shut up, all of you!”

The world was quiet all at once.

It may have been a moment, or it may have been two moments, when Sun Shi’s joyous voice suddenly sounded in the yard: “Hey, this cart is really bought. Oh, hey, take a look at this steady mule. The cart is really good. Hey, where’s the head of the house? Huai Ge! Where are the other members of the family?”

There was also Maodan’s voice: “Mule, what a big mule!”

Until she came to the main house did Sun Shi see the crowd of people standing in the house.

“What are you all doing?”

Zhao’er moved a bit, went to the square table and picked up the two deeds, and came to the door.

“Fourth Aunt, this one belongs to your house, take it quickly.”

“Zhao’er, what’s the matter? Why did you guys look for it? The place where I put it was secret. Your uncle must have been looking for it for a long time.”

Zhao’er didn’t speak, and sighed as passed her on the way back to the house.

Sun also realized the abnormality, looked at the people in the room, and went to see Zhao’er’s back. Finally she realized something and rushed back to her house.

“Oh my God, this is a thief!”

The people in the main room dispersed silently. Xue Qingshan was beaten for the first time since he grew up, but he did not dare to say a word. Including Zhao Shi, they all knew that Elder Xue was really annoyed this time.

Yang Shi lowered her head and slumped to help Xue Qingshan walk away. The Third family couple didn’t stay much longer. They went back to their own house. The door of the Fourth family’s house was knocked open, and Sun Shi rammed out like she had gone crazy.

Maodan who was still playing with the mule was startled and immediately started to cry.

Zhao’er couldn’t sit still in the room, so she came out and shouted Fourth aunt. Sun Shi’s eyes were straight and she ignored her as she rushed towards the East Chamber.

She didn’t go in. She sat down in front of the main room and started to cry.

“It’s so shameless, it’s so shameless! Bullying people, bullying has no way to survive, and the family is so shameless that they have grown rice worms. They feel great riding on people’s heads, pooping and urinating, and framing people. These utterly abominable people have lived so many years with just their mouths. They don’t know how to work, so they expect their brothers to raise them. After raising a big one, raise a small one, raising a family, and struggling to death. For half of my life, we have gotten nothing good from them, yet they became a thief!

“I said at the beginning that the head was stupid. Who do you work persistently for? For your brother? Brothers treat you as a fart. At least when you raise a dog, it knows how to wag its tail when it sees the owner. Raise a brother and he eats your flesh, blood, and bones leaving nothing and still thinks your meat smells!”

The words of Sun Shi’s scolding were too painful, Xue Qingshan’s face became the same color as pig liver, and Yang Shi’s whole body was trembling with anger. But the couple shrank in the room and didn’t dare to move. Seeing that the old couple was almost going crazy, wouldn’t it be stupid to use jade to knock against the rubble? !

Don’t move, bear with it.

The Dafang couple could bear it, but Zhao shi couldn’t bear it anymore. She stood up and walked outside the door.

“Where are you going?! Sit down!”

“Old man!”

“If you want this home to disperse, then go, you go!”

Zhao Shi tore the corners of her clothes a few times, then turned around and sat on the kang, her tears falling down.

Sun Shi outside the door was still scolding, but now the object of her scolding had become Xue Qinghuai.

“…Why was I blind in the first place and married here. I saw that you were hardworking, but I forgot the rationale that you should look at the pigsty before buying pigs… After all these years of marriage, Mao Dan has become so big and yet you can count the clothes made for me. I searched all the places in my house, and if I can sweep out ten coppers, I would consider myself wealthy. To make clothes for my children, I need to use my dowry. Every time I go back to my parents’ house, my mother asks me, girl, how many years have you been wearing this dress?

“How many years has it been? I don’t even know it myself! My mother secretly gave me some money, yet I didn’t dare to spend it, for fear that those bad-hearted people would do something. Well, finally our families separated. Yet, when we planned to do some small business for Maodan, we were framed. Xue Qinghuai, you say, how blind I was to get married to you! What kind of people are in this family!”

Zhao’er had led the Maodan into the house long ago, and seeing him crying sadly, she took out the pastries she had bought for her little man and gave them to Maodan to coax him.

While Maodan was eating it, tears fell pattering down. Zhao’er stroked his little head again and again, but her heart was full of sorrow.

Sun cried with tears and snot running down her face, sitting on the ground like a crazy woman. Fortunately, the Xue family’s yard is large, and the house next to it is far away, otherwise the villagers would have come to see it. But if the trouble goes on like this, who knows when someone will pass by the door.

Xue Qinghuai appeared in front of the Fourth Family’s house and walked over to pull her.

“Get up, go back to the house!”

“I won’t go back, I’m not comfortable in my heart. Am I not allowed to cry a few times?”

“Don’t you know shame?”

“You still know shame. You know shame, but some people don’t know it!”

Sun shi cried as she was pulled up from the ground, and she slapped him angrily twice. The couple pulled and pushed each other on their way back to their house.

The yard finally calmed down, but there was a dead silence.

No one cooked at noon, and it seems that everyone had forgotten about eating.

Zhou Shi cooked dinner at night, but no one from the Fourth family came out to eat. Zhao’er didn’t go to the main room to eat because there were a lot of leftovers from yesterday. She warmed up the leftovers and brought some to the Fourth room. The rest was eaten in her room.

After eating, Xue Qinghuai went to the Third house. No one knows what he said to Xue Qingbai, but after he left, Xue Qingbai went to the main house.

“Father, Fourth brother said that from the extra food from a few stores, he only wants 20%.”