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Chapter 016 The Widow's Heartache

Chen and Li are completely birds of a feather, and they have a good relationship. But since Wang Dashan's death, Li has not looked down on her much, and the two have gradually cut off contact. When the Wang family was in good condition, Chen was proud and conceited, with eyes on his head, and offended many people. After her man died, she lived a hard life, and her parents didn't care about her. Some people saw her pitiful and wanted to help her. She was arrogant and would rather let her eldest son go to the town to clean the toilet and her daughter was a maid than accepting charity from others.

When Ding came, she was drying clothes.

"Mom is not at home to take care of her son for her elder brother, why do you have time to come to me?"

Chen, who knew his mother's temperament, did not have a good attitude towards Ding. He couldn't even put sugar in the water he gave to his mother, but it was still cold water.

Chen's tone is sarcastic.

The Ding family was poor, but there were many children. Because Chen was born beautifully, many people came to propose marriages since he was twelve years old. His parents wanted to earn more betrothal gifts to marry his four sons, but refused many families. Later, Wang Dashan fell in love with her and gave her a sky-high betrothal gift of ten taels. His parents were ecstatic and married her.

At that time, the neighbors praised her for her good life, and girls as big as her were all envious and jealous of her. But Wang Dashan was not good at it and died early, so he threw her seven children. She lived a hard life. She was used to clothes and food, so she lost her support. She worked so hard that she was so tired that she was sweating profusely, and her temper became more and more irritable day by day. When she went back to ask for help from her parents, her parents cried poorly in various ways, and wanted her to sell the land to supplement her children of her elder brother and second brother.

Chen was so angry that he cried for a few times, and then broke off contact with his parents' home.

Ding seemed to have not understood his daughter's impatientness, and he looked at the house first when he entered the door. At the time when the Wang family divided the family, the big room was divided into the most rooms, with eight bedrooms alone, plus a kitchen, a mixed room, and a separate bath room.

The Wang family was so beautiful at that time. There were dry goods and meat hanging on the walls at any time, but now there are only a few old baskets. The wooden chairs against the wall were made several years ago. There was a bowl on the old wooden table, and the bowl was filled with pickles that had not been eaten in the morning.

One word, poor.

Ding looked at the Wang family like this and sighed.

"I married you and thought you could live a good life, unlike your brothers and younger brothers, but I didn't expect..."

Seeing that his mother pretended to be innocent and charitable, Chen felt disgusted.

"If you have something to say, just say it. I will have to cook later."

Actually, how could she cook? When she first got married, Wang Dashan spoiled her and didn't let her do anything. In addition, the Wang family was not separated at that time, and there were two sisters-in-law doing housework. She carried melon seeds, peanuts and candies every day, so she wanted to go around the house. After the separation, the couple were both lazy and quarreled almost every day for whom they did housework. A few children were sensible, and the older ones helped cook and pick up firewood, and the younger ones picked vegetables and washed vegetables. However, the two adults wanted to serve their own children.

Ding didn't know the temperament of her children? But she didn't expose it, and was silent for a while, and said softly: "Zhou is going to build a house on the north slope, do you know?"

Chen was stunned. She really didn't know about this.

A strange feeling floated in her eyes, and then she said lightly: "What does it have to do with me?"

Ding noticed her small movement of pinching her fingers slightly, "I know what you think, but the Ji family was so poor back then, and it was not much better than ours. If you marry, you can't live a good life, and you have to have such an evil mother-in-law..."

"Enough, just say it if you have something to do. Don't mention those old things about old sesame seeds and millet to me."

Chen suddenly got angry and his tone was particularly bad.

Ding was a little timid, especially when he thought that after Wang Dashan died, his daughter came to ask for help, but he ignored him, so he felt even more guilty.

"Your fifth brother is almost twenty years old, but he hasn't married yet. The family really can't afford to pay..." She bit her lip with resentment, "I went to borrow money from Zhou before, but she stammered but refused to let go. Now she is willing to spend a lot of money to build a house, which means she must have extra money. You live close to her family..."

It turned out that he was asking her to borrow money from Zhou.

Chen clasped his fingers tightly and tried to restrain his anger in his chest, "When Dashan died, I went to beg you, what did you say? The water from the married daughter who was thrown out. Now, your son has no money to get married, so you come to me again to splash out. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Ding looked embarrassed, but when he thought of the situation at home, he had to continue saying: "My daughter, it's not that she is cruel, but our family has been living a hard life in the past few years. Your eldest sister-in-law is pregnant again, and your second sister-in-law is about to give birth to the sixth one. The family is getting more and more people, and it's almost impossible to get out of the way."

She said this, and squeezed out two tears, her face full of sadness, "I see that your second sister-in-law's child is not enough to eat when she is born, and she doesn't know where to live when she grows up. You guard the old house of the Wang family, and you don't have to worry about living, and there are ten acres of land, and you don't have to worry about food. Chunhua and Dazhuzi have money to take home every month, but in our family, the fourth leg is broken and you can't go to the ground..."

"That's his worthy!" Chen's tone was cold, "Who asked him to steal other people's things? If someone didn't sue him, you should burn the incense."

"That's your dear brother, how could you say that to him!"

Ding's tears stopped, his eyes showed displeasure and he was blaming.

"If he dares to do it, I dare to say it. If you want to hear something nice, go back. Some of your baby sons are coaxing you with sweet words. Also, let your family not come to me in the future, so as not to let me speak out."

"You..." Ding looked angry, "You unfilial daughter, you are so heartless..."

"I'm unfilial?"

Chen suddenly stood up, "You didn't give me a penny of the betrothal gifts given to me by the Li family back then, they were all used to marry and buy furniture for the eldest and second brothers. Later, for the fourth brother, you sold the sixth sister to be a concubine for others. The sixth sister was unable to give birth to a bloody feces. You carried her body to the door of the house and cried and made a fuss. I got five taels of silver but even stingy for the funeral. I paid the money to bury the sixth sister. You came to receive gifts and gave all the money to the fourth brother to marry. When my sister-in-law gave birth to her first child, I gave one tael of silver.

Five pounds of meat and thirty eggs. When I gave birth to spring flowers and big Zhuzi, she didn't even show her noodles. My father fell down the ground and threw his legs. My elder brother, second brother, fourth brother, and fifth brother all came to me for money. I bought chicken, duck, fish and meat. My father didn't even drink soup. Last year, Xiao Zhuzi had a fever and had no money to go to the town to hire a doctor. I'll beg you, do you remember what you said at that time? 'Boys should be raised in a cheap manner, so you can't be too delicate. Just survive the night. Besides, Xiao Zhuzi is gone, I have three sons. A pair of chopsticks is missing, and there is less burden...'"

Speaking of this, Chen's eyes were rosy and he said angrily: "How did you treat me over the years? Do you have the face to say that I am unfilial?"

She had a loud voice, and the two sisters Ji Wan and Ji Lan and Ji Xiang who had returned from digging wild vegetables happened to hear it.

"Second sister, it's Aunt Ding."

Ji Lan whispered.

"Don't meddle in other people's business." Ji Wan reminded: "Brother and second brother are coming back soon. You should carry the wild vegetables back and help the eldest uncle cook. When the eldest brother and second brother come back, they must be hungry."

"Yeah, OK."

Ji Xiang and Ji Lan nodded obediently.
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