Speaking of Wu Xia, who’s been coming over to cry these past couple of days, Su Hongying looked quite annoyed as well.
Clearly doing all sorts of bad things yet still acting like a victim, just seeing her is disgusting.
The thing is, the shady dealings she has with that Bai Jing can’t be publicly revealed; it would ruin Bai Jing’s reputation and provoke the Bai family’s backlash. Truly shameless, trying to deal with the Liu family to save her own face or whatever.
Their own family is just a line of rural gentry, maybe locally powerful in the past. Now they have to keep their heads down, acting cautiously, fearing being labeled as wrongdoers. The other side, rooted and esteemed, bullying with the power of their high-ranking fathers, the disparity is as immense as comparing a mayfly to a tree, as her husband would say.
Even sacrificing the lives of all ages in one household couldn’t shake them in the slightest. We had to let go of principles and persistence. It’s like, well, the sister-in-law just had bad luck, encountering a mad dog on the road, losing a bun in her hand. Frustration is inevitable, anger unavoidable too.
But no matter how angry and frustrated, it’s not worth risking the whole family’s lives over a bun swallowed by a dog, right?
Just didn’t want to have anything to do with Dai Weiguo and Bai Jing anymore, so they concealed Wu Xia’s unethical actions to avoid further drama.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t even need anyone else’s help. Su Hongying could just go up and tear Wu Xia apart herself, instead of letting her come and disgust them three times a day!
Knowing that Wu Xia had been visiting frequently while she wasn’t around, causing his younger brother and sister-in-law to lose face, facing much criticism, and even making their nephews unable to return home, Liu Shouren’s face reddened, naturally filled with remorse: "It’s all my fault, bringing home such a malicious, family-wrecking person.
Letting her cause such chaos, and bring so many troubles to the family..."
"Big brother, what are you saying? Getting stuck with a ruinous wife isn’t anyone’s intention; the blame lies with the unscrupulous Wu family. Not educating their daughter and then sending her out to harm others, what does that have to do with you? As our little sister put it, you’re a proper victim here, unjustly suffering! But fortunately, at least this is the last ordeal, our little sister’s clever move strikes at the root!
After this incident, even if the Wu family’s reputation were made of tough old cowhide, they couldn’t shamelessly foist their malicious daughter on our family anymore." Unable to bear the self-blame in his big brother’s tone, Liu Shouyi interrupted before he could finish.
Strongly criticizing his obvious hint at in-house discord, he then gave a big thumbs up to his little sister.
That diagnosis letter trick was simply too brilliant, wasn’t it?
Seeing Wu Xia flee like a stray dog, Liu Shouyi felt like he could be in high spirits for a whole year!
Shuzhen proudly smiled, showing a haughty expression like ’look who you’re talking to’, and grabbed a handful each of candies she bought for her nephews, along with a pound of mung bean cake for herself. She pulled out her bike keys, urged her still-chattering second brother: "Hurry up, bring the mung bean cake to the in-laws for a change of taste, the candies for the little ones as a treat.
It’s not much, but it’s my heartfelt gesture as their niece. I’ll visit the elders when I get the chance.
And you, right now, immediately ride over and bring my nephews back. It’s been ages since they saw their aunt; they must miss me!"
Missing her nephews is one thing, but more importantly, Shuzhen felt her big brother needed some time alone rather than listening to the second brother nagging about Wu Xia’s faults, indirectly reminding him of the blind marriage to that viper of a woman for the past eight years.
The sister-in-law caring about their parents and nieces/nephews, Su Hongying felt deeply pleased. After all, it’s not about the amount but the respect and closeness shown towards her as a sister-in-law. She didn’t refuse, vowing to cherish and protect her doubly with her husband, standing as a strong support behind her sister-in-law.
Ever since the old car from Dad broke down completely, how long had it been since he touched such a treasure?
Seeing his little sister casually toss the bike keys over, Liu Shouyi cheerfully caught them. Picking up the items, he pushed the bike out the door to really go fetch the kids, just like Shuzhen described.
In these ten miles, there’re no secrets, news of their big brother and little sister already back and the Wu family mother-daughter duo causing trouble at their doorstep must have flown straight to his in-laws’ house. If he doesn’t hurry, Liu Shouyi fears his formidable brothers-in-law might rush over armed to the Wu family, backing up their sister and brother-in-law.
Of course, given Wu Xia’s wicked deeds, Liu Shouyi secretly wished misfortune upon that family.
But the causes of their misfortune mustn’t appear to stem from their side or anything evidently related to them. Otherwise, that shameless lot would use it as an excuse to latch onto his big brother again, what then?
Finally, the forever wife-fearing big brother plucked up some courage, promptly got divorced. Liu Shouyi definitely doesn’t want Wu Xia, the heartless wretch, to make a comeback and become his sister-in-law again!
After sending off his second brother, having a heated exchange with the second sister-in-law, and finally under his big brother’s mediation, the second sister-in-law reluctantly took back the money and food stamps forcibly given before heading to the provincial city. Following that, the second sister-in-law prepared to go home to feed the chickens and pigs, and the big brother returned to his room. Obliged to rest after a long trip, Shuzhen lay down but couldn’t sleep, her mind entirely on her new psychic development.
She grew a few stalks of water grass by remote will, secretly tripping Lin Yuanzhi, causing him to fall flat and mistakenly think he’d been bitten by a snake, so much so that he wet himself publicly, known for his snake phobia...
The power of it was astonishing, Shuzhen couldn’t be more satisfied.
Realizing she not only gained a golden finger for ample harvests and affluence in a planned economy era but also gained a killer ability to invisibly harm others, Shuzhen eagerly anticipated marrying and moving out for more time and space to practice her abilities.
Of course, itching for marriage , she was definitely not alone.
To make that day come faster, even Lianshan, on his way to visit nephews, thought about hoeing earth bricks, chopping beams, cutting thatch, and getting the house built early.