"I finally chose a man who was handsome and the son of a brigade leader, He assured me that he wouldn’t let me work in the fields for work points and would wash clothes, cook for me, hunt, fish, and now he can even make money. He has always cherished me wholeheartedly, never changing."
Mother Yun’s heart immediately ached.
Thinking of her beautiful daughter, arriving in a strange place, a place with ruffians and hoodlums who, seeing her beauty, would definitely want to take advantage of her.
The daughter had no choice; she couldn’t support herself, and her family didn’t bring her back to the city. The things mailed to her each month were getting fewer, and the eldest son’s wife said that it was difficult for them to raise two children and asked them for help.
So Xiaoxiao’s only option was to get married, to seek protection from her husband and no longer be harassed by ruffians.
Mother Yun was full of remorse. How did she not see through the eldest son’s wife’s ulterior motives?
Oh, it was because when the eldest son’s wife married into their family, she was so understanding and even bore them a grandson, and they became a bit biased instantly.
How could Xiaoxiao not see the deep remorse in Mother Yun’s eyes?
Now the remorse came too late.
The female supporting character had gone, and even if she hadn’t, the end that befell the female supporting character couldn’t have happened without some push from her birth family.
"He has taken very good care of me; otherwise, I might have ended up like a sister to you, Mom."
Xiaoxiao spoke of these matters with such detachment, as though they concerned someone else, not herself.
This made Mother Yun feel even more heartache.
Initially, when she went to the countryside, it was so sudden that she hardly had time to prepare more.
"Do you really not want to come back to the city with me?" Mother Yun did not want to acknowledge her country-bumpkin son-in-law.
Even after knowing from her daughter that the son-in-law had been taking care of her all these years, she still didn’t like him.
"Yes, I won’t go back to the city with you."
As for moving to the city, that would be a matter for the future.
Even if she took the entrance exam, she would certainly avoid the city where her relatives lived.
If her family was scheming, then staying close would be foolish.
Mother Yun’s heart clenched.
"Your older and second brothers adore you, don’t you miss them?"
Xiaoxiao looked at her calmly, "They might have adored me once, but after they started their own families, they started to think of their own. Otherwise, I don’t believe that when I went to the countryside, some of them didn’t spot any clues in their beds, but they still didn’t speak up. At that moment, our sibling relationship was broken."
She had to face up to reality.
She didn’t believe that the eldest brother didn’t notice the eldest son’s wife’s subtle manipulations.
One side was his wife, who’d live with him for a lifetime and bore his children, and the other was a sister he’d doted on for over a decade. People often know very well which is more important.
Mother Yun’s heart tightened again at these words.
If indeed the eldest son’s wife was behind these tricks, could the eldest son have been unaware?
Even she, as their mother, did not believe it.
If the eldest knew and still watched Xiaoxiao go to the countryside, even keeping it from the rest of the family.
And if they, as a couple, even sought to squeeze Laoer out.
Thinking of this, Mother Yun found it even harder to accept.
Why had her children turned out to be such people?
Could it really be that they had changed after growing up?
Xiaoxiao couldn’t care less about Mother Yun’s distress.
They were the female supporting character’s birth family, not hers.
Why hadn’t they seen it coming? Perhaps they hadn’t expected, it was another family member’s scheme, right?