Qi's scolding came from the main room, "What are you eating? You're lazy and come back only after all the work at home is done. There's no food to eat."

The main room was brightly lit, and Qi was sitting by the window picking beans.

"Mom, leave this little work for us to do when we come back. You take a rest." Zhou smiled and took the basket and put it aside.

"Mom, have you eaten yet or not? How about I go and cook?"

Seeing that the couple came back empty-handed from her parents' home, Qi's face darkened, and she grabbed the basket and replied to her in dissatisfaction, "Whatever you do, you are not allowed to eat today. You came back so early in the morning and started to quarrel. Do you want to piss me off to death?"

Zhou was not angry. She smiled and said, "Of course it doesn't matter if we eat or not. Your little great-grandson has been hungry for a day. How about making some food for him?" She then asked Qi, "Mother, why did Hongping become so sharp-tongued? I asked Hongtao to help me with some work, but she refused. She is really disrespectful."

Qi glared at her, "Don't order them around whenever you have something to do. They are not your daughters."

Zhou Huaihua replied nonchalantly: "We are all family, so what's wrong with doing some work?"

Qi slammed the table and said, "One family? The third family is right. We are all one family, why don't you let your son help the third family with work? Don't forget how the Qian Gang couple left home?"

Zhou Huaihua thought of her second son and felt angry. "I don't plan to keep this son anymore. He's an ungrateful person."

"You two are narrow-minded, not even as narrow-minded as a needle. Among your three sons, only the second one is reliable. If you lose him, you two will have to beg on the street when you are old." Qi glared at her. The eldest daughter-in-law just opened her mouth without any brains.

Instead of letting the pearls go, they treat the fish eyes as treasures.

"Aren't the children hungry? You go and cook for them. You don't come here to ask an old woman to do it." Qi ignored her and picked up the basket to pick up the beans.

Zhou Huaihua smiled awkwardly, "How could that be? I'll do it."

She was angry. She thought Qi would help her, but she was scolded instead. She went to the kitchen angrily.

As soon as Zhou Huaihua left, Jiang Yuchang came into the main room.

Ever since he entered the house, he noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Usually, Lu Chaoyun and Fang Lanxiang would sit in the courtyard and do some needlework together when they had nothing to do. Today, no one was in the courtyard. The second house was quiet, and the second brother stayed at home and did not go to the fields.

Jiang Yuchang asked tentatively, "Mom, did anything happen at home today?"

Qi glanced at him and said, "Everything is fine at home, what could possibly happen? Big brother, the family is so busy, and you've been gone for three days. Do you still have this family in your heart? You let your two younger brothers do all the housework. Do you still act like a big brother? The autumn harvest is over, and the wheat and rapeseed will be planted in two days. You can go out to work. There are more and more people in the family, and the income is so limited. You are also a grandfather, you should think about the children, don't just drink all day, drinking doesn't make any money."

Jiang Yu often heard the nagging words and was very impatient. "Mom, you know I'm a grandfather, so stop nagging me. There is no shortage of food and drink for them at home. If they want to eat and drink well, they can earn it themselves. I raised them and found wives for them. It's already a great favor from heaven. What else do you want?"

When Qi heard his irrelevant words, she was so angry that she picked up a bench to hit him.

"We helped raise the child, and the wife was also paid for by the public funds. Without your two brothers, you wouldn't be able to live so comfortably. You are such a good-for-nothing. You only know how to drink every day. Sooner or later, you will drink yourself to death."

Jiang Yu often saw Qi getting angry and wanting to hit him, so he would run away early.

All that was left was a sigh from Qi, "Now that we are gone, how will this useless person live?"

She sat back at the window, ready to continue picking beans.

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream came from the west wing in the north.

Then there was the sound of another child crying, accompanied by Jiang Yuqing's shouting and cursing.

Jiang Hongxing ran and called, "Grandma, grandma, come quickly, my mother's stomach hurts again."

When Qi heard the shout, he stood up suddenly.

Why did the second son’s wife get into trouble again?

The basket on her lap suddenly fell to the ground, and the beans scattered all over the ground, making a crackling sound. She didn't care about the beans and rushed out of the room.

This is the first child of her second son. If something unexpected happens, it will be a lifelong regret for her.

The second son was in his thirties when he got married and finally had a child, so nothing could go wrong.

She felt guilty towards her second son. If it weren't for her negligence, his life wouldn't have been so difficult.

When Jiang Yuqing was young, he fell ill. His family was poor and had no money to hire a doctor. So she dug some herbs from the wild, boiled them in water and fed them to him. He recovered, but his mouth became crooked. Over the years, she has been blaming herself for ruining her son's life and delaying his lifelong event.

Fang Lanxiang's parents' home and Jiang Yufeng, the youngest daughter of the Jiang family, were neighbors. She returned to her parents' home at the beginning of this year and was told that her husband had died. She, a woman with a child, was bullied by her in-laws, and there were often bachelors in the village knocking on her door at night. She could not make a living in her in-laws' home, so she had to return to her parents' home for support.

But she only had an elderly father in her family who could not even survive, let alone protect her.

She was with her daughter and was being gossiped about in the village, so she had no choice but to ask Jiang Yufeng for help.

Jiang Yufeng thought of her second brother.

The two of them, one was anxious to find a place to make a living, and the other was anxious to get married due to his disability. With Jiang Yufeng's introduction, the two naturally came together.

Fang Lanxiang was pretty and had a beautiful face. She did not mind Jiang Yuqing's crooked mouth. Their marriage was quite satisfactory. The only thing that bothered Qi was that Fang Lanxiang had a twelve-year-old daughter.

Jiang Yuqing's meaning was very clear. People didn't mind him because he had a crooked mouth, so why should he mind that they had a daughter? Qi, who had married Fang Lanxiang without spending a penny and got a daughter-in-law for free, was really happy for a while.

As long as her son was willing, she gradually accepted the mother and daughter.

In the yard, Jiang Yuqing was holding Goudan, lying headfirst on his lap, and slapping him hard on the buttocks with his big hands.

The child cried breathlessly while being beaten and scolded.

Qi didn't care about them and hurried to the west wing. Fang Lanxiang was lying on the bed, her face pale from the pain. Qi saw blood stains on her white undergarment and her face changed immediately.

This was a sign of miscarriage. Qi was panicking. Wasn't everything better last night? What happened? It got worse again.

Fang Lanxiang lay on the bed with a painful look on her face and despair in her eyes.

This child is her life-saving talisman. If she loses the child, no one in this family will tolerate her and her daughter.

She hated the first wife.

Qi urged her son to call a doctor quickly, "Stop fighting, go call a doctor quickly."

The eldest wife heard the child crying and ran into the yard. Two groups of people were struggling with each other and the scene was in chaos.

Qi was so angry that she felt dizzy. This family was in chaos.

Jiang Yuqing was concerned about Fang Lanxiang, so he broke away from the people in the main house and ran to find Yang Zhong.

"Mom, look how the second son beat the child." Zhou Huaihua pulled down Goudan's pants. His butt was already swollen and blue.

An Juan hugged Goudan and cried, while Jiang Qianshan looked eager to settle the score with Jiang Yu.

Qi had already heard from Jiang Yuqing's beating and scolding that the boy saw that no one was in their room, so he ran in and sat on Fang Lanxiang's belly.

Fang Lanxiang had just started to feel better after having a miscarriage, so she couldn't withstand the force of him sitting down on her.

"How are you going to take care of the child? You'd better pray that the baby in Fang's belly is okay, otherwise the second brother will not forgive you." Qi scolded them and went back to Fang Lanxiang.

She stayed with Fang Lanxiang alone, comforting her softly and telling her to relax and that everything would be fine.

Just in case, she asked Jiang Hongxing to ask Lu to boil some hot water.

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