Chapter 67: Second Brother’s Regret

Lin Shulan looked at Shen Fengjiao, her eyes widening, “You didn’t help your parents’ house? The bag of grain you gave to Ma Dongqing the day before yesterday, go get it back!”

Sun Fengjiao’s face flushed.

The day before yesterday, her mother had come to her crying, saying that their family couldn’t even make ends meet, and her two nephews, who had just turned two, were so hungry that they didn’t even have the strength to cry.

She had been ruthless and taken some rice and corn flour and given a whole bag to her mother.

She had been careful to check that no one was in the second room or the main room, but her mother-in-law still found out.

She quickly explained, “Mother, that’s not the same! My parents’ house borrowed grain from me, and they will return it after the work points are calculated and the grain is distributed at the end of the year. Third sister-in-law bought it and gave it to her parents’ house for free…”

“It’s not the same…”

Before Sun Fengjiao finished speaking, Lin Shulan snorted coldly, “No matter what good things the third son’s wife eats, she always remembers us two old people.

In your room, we two old people don’t even see a single hair.

Your parents’ house is full of lazy people, they can’t even earn full work points as a family in a day, and they still want to return the grain? Are they blind?

If they return the grain, don’t forget to let them return the grain they borrowed from me years ago, I still have the IOUs they wrote when they borrowed grain.

When the family was divided, I should have given those IOUs to you, so you could ask your parents’ house for the money.”

Years ago, when Sun Fengjiao had just married in, the Sun family had often borrowed grain.

At first, she had given them some out of consideration for her in-laws.

Sun Fengjiao’s face became even more embarrassed. She had come to complain to her mother-in-law, but now she hadn’t succeeded.

She was scolded by her mother-in-law, and her mother-in-law kept stabbing her in the heart.

She could only go back dejectedly.

As soon as she returned to her house, Zhou Xiaolian, who hadn’t gone to school yet, and Zhou Yongjun, who was about the same age as the children in the second room, returned from playing outside.

The two children had sensitive noses, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, they sniffed, “It smells so good!”

“There’s tofu, and meat…”

Zhou Xiaolian swallowed her saliva and ran to her mother, “Mother, I want to eat tofu, I want to eat meat…”

Sun Fengjiao had just been scolded by her mother-in-law and was already in a bad mood.

Now her daughter was making a fuss, and she was even angrier.

She directly took a bamboo strip from the broom and whipped Zhou Xiaolian’s bottom, “You want to eat tofu, you want to eat meat, Mother wants to eat too! Do I look like tofu? Do I look like meat”

Zhou Xiaolian was immediately whipped and cried, “Mother, I won’t eat, I won’t eat, don’t hit me, woo woo woo…”

Lin Shulan and Father Zhou were eating in the main room.

They saw Sun Fengjiao beating her child in the courtyard clearly.

The tofu buns in their mouths didn’t taste as good.

Father Zhou said, “Old woman, you know the eldest daughter-in-law’s nature, don’t provoke her, it’s pitiful to see the child being beaten.”

Lin Shulan directly put down her chopsticks on the table and glared at Father Zhou, “Old man, don’t talk nonsense! If she doesn’t provoke me, would I provoke her! As a mother-in-law, can I let a daughter-in-law ride on my head?

She can beat her own children, anyway, they’re not flesh and blood from me!”

Lin Shulan’s voice was particularly loud, specifically for Sun Fengjiao, who was beating her child outside.

Sun Fengjiao’s raised hand also fell.

Inside the house, Father Zhou was scolded by his wife and quickly lowered his head to eat, whispering, “I just felt sorry for the child, I just said it casually, why are you so angry?”

Lin Shulan glared at Father Zhou again.

Father Zhou immediately shrunk like a quail, not saying a word.

After eating, seeing his granddaughter still sobbing on the doorstep, he couldn’t help but sigh, “Before the family was divided, the eldest daughter-in-law seemed okay, but after the family was divided, she became like this.

She’s either beating or scolding someone every day…”

Shen Chuning came out of Zhou’s courtyard and was about to ride her bicycle back to Shen’s house when she suddenly saw someone squatting at her courtyard gate.

She looked closely and saw that it was her second brother, who had just been discharged from the hospital.

She rode her bicycle over, “Second Brother, what, you were chased away by your good revolutionary comrade and came here to be my gatekeeper?”

Shen Zhengliang had seen Shen Chuning ride her bicycle into Zhou’s courtyard.

He was thinking about how to apologize to his sister and felt a little nervous.

Now that Shen Chuning teased him, he relaxed, looking at Shen Chuning with a doting and helpless look, “Ningning…”

“Second Brother is here to apologize and thank you.” Shen Zhengliang seriously apologized for his previous attitude and thanked her for paying his medical expenses and arranging the donkey cart to pick him up.

Shen Chuning raised her chin proudly and said triumphantly, “Now you know who’s good to you?”

Shen Zhengliang scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly.

Shen Chuning put one foot on the ground, “Second Brother, get on, let’s go home for dinner.”

Shen Zhengliang’s expression paused slightly. Thinking of facing his father’s rebuke again, he took a deep breath before daring to sit on the back of the bicycle.

Sitting on the back seat, looking at the educated youth point not far away, his eyes dimmed.