Sun San faced trouble at the farm machinery team and often complained about Sun Er and Sun Xiaohong when he got home.

This created tension and discord between the siblings.

The situation worsened because Old Sun and his wife were not fair in their judgments, leading to even more family conflicts and estrangement among the brothers and father.

Sun San wanted his parents to quickly find a distant family for Sun Xiaohong to marry off.

However, Sun Xiaohong was still infatuated with Lin Yue.

It wasn’t that she loved him so much, but she was stubborn and felt wronged.

She didn’t want Lin Yue to be happy, especially since he looked even younger and more handsome after his divorce.

Many women admired Lin Yue, and he could easily find a new partner.

Sun Xiaohong couldn’t accept that.

She couldn’t stand it and was causing trouble at her parents’ home.

Her parents and older brother could tolerate her, but her sister-in-law couldn’t.

During the Winter Solstice, Sun Xiaohong had a fight with her sister-in-law, scratching her, and her sister-in-law pulled out a lock of Sun Xiaohong’s hair.

Sun San tried to mediate, but his wife accused him of favoring his sister and bullying her.

Sun Xiaohong scolded him for caring more about his wife than his sister.

Sun San was really frustrated.

He felt wronged because it was Sun Er who caused the problems, yet he was the one suffering the consequences.

Sun San was upset and thought he deserved an award for his hard work during the autumn harvest.

Instead, Lin Yue’s actions led others to isolate him, and he had to bribe a minor leader to get anyone to team up with him.

Feeling frustrated, Sun San secretly bribed a minor leader to complain about Lin Yue’s divorce affecting his reputation.

This led to Lin Yue and his father being demoted.

Sun San felt better after this.

He kept this a secret and blamed the minor leader, who was already known for causing trouble and clashing with others.

People thought he was just a troublemaker and didn’t realize Sun San’s role in the situation.

Despite feeling wronged outside, no one supported him, and at home, his brother and sister blamed him for being ungrateful and neglecting the family since becoming a tractor driver.

Was he really neglecting them?

Did they let him manage things?

If they had listened to him, things wouldn’t have ended up like this.

He had never agreed with his younger brother and sister scaring Lin Mother, but they didn’t listen and kept doing it, eventually causing her to become ill.

If it weren’t for this, Lin Yue, who is so honest, wouldn’t have had to publicly challenge and isolate them.

He resented Lin Yue as well as his own siblings.

He couldn’t stand it and wanted to separate from the family.

When he shouted, it only made Old Sun furious, trembling with anger, cursing him for abandoning his parents, brothers, and sisters after achieving success.

“Can you be a tractor operator without the whole family’s support?”

“Now that you’ve succeeded and are making money, you want to abandon your family?”

In the end, the family had a big argument.

Sun’s wife, in a fit of rage, slapped him, which made the family calm down a bit.

But the Sun family didn’t stay calm for long.

They continued to argue and cause trouble, leading to another outburst from the elderly couple, followed by a few more days of peace.

In late December, the atmosphere was gloomy and far from festive.

The arguments flared up again over the year-end bonus and meat distribution.

Sun Xiaohong did nothing but Old Sun bought her fabric for two new outfits, saying it was what the brothers owed her.

Meanwhile, none of the grandchildren or the daughters-in-law received new clothes.

The brothers could endure this, but the children and daughters-in-law couldn’t.

So, naturally, disputes erupted.

Sun Xiaohong went mad, saying, “This is all your debt to me! If it weren’t for selling me off, would you have money to marry a wife?”

She also cursed at her sisters-in-law, “What are you pretending for? Acting like you’re so concerned about my brother now.”

“Why was the bride price so high back then? Couldn’t you have asked for a little less? You married into the Sun family and lived with my brother thanks to the money I earned from the bride price! You owe me! If you want to drive me away, at least return the 400 yuan I earned!”

Including Sun Er’s wife, several daughters-in-law couldn’t tolerate her and teamed up to ostracize her.

They all packed up their things, saying, “We’re going back to our parents’ homes. We’re done here!”

Old Sun, with a stern face, asked, “What’s all this fuss about?”

The three daughters-in-law then sulkily said they weren’t causing trouble; it was Sun Xiaohong who went too far.

Old Sun was even more enraged because, due to the commotion between his daughter and Lin Yue, his fourth son was unable to marry!

He originally wanted to extract some money from the Lin family to help his fourth son get a wife.

Now that the money from the Lin family was out of reach, the money at home was being pinched and saved.

The biggest problem was that the neighboring villages knew about their divorce troubles and didn’t want to have anything to do with the Sun family!

The bad influence of his scheme against Lin Yue was already…

The problem was worsening—Old Sun’s family’s reputation was at stake, and his children might have trouble finding partners.

Which was more important: one daughter or three daughters-in-law?

It was clear.

Even though it was the three daughters-in-law (and their combined pressure with their husbands) causing the problems, Old Sun had no choice but to deal with it.

The family couldn’t continue like this, and it wasn’t possible to actually divorce the three sons.

Old Sun had gone through a lot to marry off his three daughters-in-law in the first place.

He told his daughters-in-law to leave and went to his room.

He said to Sun Xiaohong, “New clothes are ready for you, and your mother has made you a new bedding. We’ve found a good family for you. After the New Year, you can leave.”

Sun Xiaohong was heartbroken and stared at her father. “What kind of good family? Is anyone better than Lin Yue? A lonely old man? A stepmother with three or four children? Or someone disabled?”

Sun’s wife said, “Daughter, what are you talking about? Your father would never find such a partner for you. We’ve always cared for you the most.”

Old Sun said, “Lin Yue is absolutely out of the question. Don’t even think about him anymore. If you keep making trouble, they might report you to the police, and you could end up in jail.”

Sun Xiaohong crazily insisted she wasn’t afraid of jail.

Old Sun slapped her. “What’s happened to you? Are you trying to ruin your parents, brother, and sister-in-law? Are you satisfied now?”

Sun Xiaohong covered her face, crying. “Dad, what kind of father teaches his daughter to seduce men, sneak into their beds, and scam them for money to marry off her brother? Now you’re rejecting me!”

She slapped herself. “It’s my fault, I’m crazy. If I weren’t crazy, I wouldn’t have done such shameless things. People look down on me because I’m already mad. It didn’t just happen suddenly!”

Old Sun decided he could no longer indulge her.

He felt he had already done enough for his daughter over the past few months.

He had arranged a marriage for her in a distant place—Qing County, which was several dozen miles away, over 200 miles from Sun’s village.

It was a remote mountainous area with poor transportation, no buses, and hard to reach.

The people there didn’t know about the grudges between the Sun and Lin families and wouldn’t laugh at her.

The family there had three people: a widowed mother who struggled to raise her two sons.

The elder son, at 25, was mentally disabled with the intelligence of a 5 or 6-year-old. The younger son, at 18, couldn’t find a wife because of his brother’s condition.

The widowed mother wanted to offer a high dowry to find a good wife for her sons, regardless of looks or past marriage history, as long as she was capable of having children.

So, they were willing to accept her.

Eighteen pieces of dowry.

The man is still an eighteen-year-old young fellow.

Looking at it this way, the daughter is not at a loss at all; she even benefits.

He can use this dowry to get a wife for his fourth son from a distant village.

The woman will be poor but obedient, well-behaved, and capable.

This marriage is really good; both children benefit.

Old Sun is very satisfied.

Sun Xiaohong has slept through the night, and after thinking it through, she knows that her parents, older brother, and sister-in-law can no longer tolerate her.

She must remarry.

In these days, her second brother has not shown his face, probably because he doesn’t know how to face her.

Fine, she will marry.

She told Old Sun her conditions: “I want to marry back to Linjia Village, or to Lujia Village or Houtun! I will not marry anywhere else!”

Sun San, hearing this, was truly angered and laughed. “So you still want to make trouble with the Lin family? You want to marry into Lujia Village?

Are you Lin Shu’s opponent? If you don’t know how to die, they’ll figure out a way for you.”

Sun Xiaohong: “I don’t care. Unless it’s these few villages, I won’t marry anywhere else.”

But what’s the use of being stubborn?

Her father and brothers have already treated her like a commodity.

No matter how affectionate they were before, how indulgent and loving they were, when faced with a matter of interests, they still sold her out first.

Now her existence threatens the third son’s job, the fourth son’s marriage, and the brothers’ harmony, so she can only continue to be schemed against and sacrificed.