Liu Yuying was walking on the road carrying a basket. She saw her new neighbor He Sufen holding her daughter and crying as she walked. She couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

As a result, He Sufen suddenly put her daughter on the ground, her body went limp, and she fell against the wall.

He Sufen's daughter Minmin cried and called for her mother, and Liu Yuying hurried to see what was going on.

"What's wrong with you?"

He Sufen held her head, her face pale, "Sister, I feel a little dizzy."

"I'll just rest here for a while."

Jiang Tingxia and Chu Dan were sitting and talking in the room. When they heard Liu Yuying's shout, they rushed out to see what was going on.

Seeing He Sufen sitting by the wall of her house, Chu Dan asked everyone who was watching the situation nearby to help and help her to her house to rest for a while.

Liu Yuying saw the little girl following He Sufen with gauze wrapped around her feet, so she quickly picked up the child and asked, "Hey, what happened to you two?"

After entering the house, Chu Dan poured He Sufen a cup of sugar water. Everyone felt relieved when He Sufen looked better.

He Sufen hugged her daughter and choked up as she spoke, as if she was about to cry. "Thank you all."

Liu Yuying wiped the tears from He Sufen and her daughter. "Look at you two, why are you crying like this? What happened?"

"Why is Minmin's foot still wrapped in gauze?"

When talking about this, He Sufen felt even more aggrieved. She hugged her daughter tightly, feeling sorry for her and herself. "I'm not afraid of you laughing at me when I tell you this."

"I was sick today and didn't feel well, so Minmin's dad scolded me, saying that I was whining and pretending to be dead, which made him upset."

Jiang Tingxia and Chu Dan felt upset. They had seen Chen Dagang before. When there were other people around, he was very rude to his wife He Sufen, and he was even more excessive in private.

He Sufen continued to talk about what happened.

She was not feeling well and felt dizzy when she stood up. She forced herself to steam a few steamed buns and cook some vegetable porridge. When Chen Dagang came home and saw the food on the table, he was unhappy.

"I'm busy working outside all day, and when I get home I eat this."

He Sufen was not feeling well, and she spoke in a low voice, "I am not feeling well and cannot cook. You just make do with this meal first. I will cook some good dishes in the evening when I feel better."

Chen Dagang was in a bad mood. He was slamming and knocking around while eating, making a lot of noise with the bowl and chopsticks.

"He Sufen, are you really feeling uncomfortable or are you pretending to feel uncomfortable?"

Chen Dagang pointed at He Sufen's nose and said, "I think you are just pretending. You are just a lazy donkey. Look at your dead look. I am really angry at the sight of you."

Chen Dagang looked at the food on the table and said unhappily, "Let me eat this! What's the point of marrying you? You can't do any work, can't give birth to a son, and you waste my food every day."

He Sufen was feeling unwell, but there was nothing she could do. She was sweating and felt dizzy. Faced with Chen Dagang's nitpicking, she really had no way of cooking again. She didn't say anything as she listened to Chen Dagang's scolding.

In fact, even under normal circumstances, she would never talk back to Chen Dagang.

Her tone was weak, and she couldn't apologize like she usually did when Chen Dagang cursed. Now, she could only hide, "Dagang, I really can't stand anymore, go back to the room and lie down for a while."

Chen Dagang, who was sitting at the dining table eating, with a mouthful of steamed bread and a bite of green onion, watched He Sufen coldly as she walked back into the house.

The woman's steps were weak, but Chen Dagang said with a tut-tut sound, "You are half dead, who are you pretending for?"

"He Sufen, you said you've only been in the city for a few days, and you've already learned the ways of the city women. Let me tell you, this won't work. I won't buy it."

"Don't be jealous of your neighbors. I know you old ladies get together and complain every day. You think your husbands are not good. Captain Qu and Captain Li are good. Their wives don't have to do any work every day, but their husbands still feel sorry for them and listen to them. I tell you, don't compare yourself with them. You think you came to the city to enjoy a good life."

"Captain Qu's wife is pregnant with a son. Did you give me a son? You gave me a girl."

"Captain Li, let alone her. Her daughter-in-law is from the city. She is well-educated and good-looking. She comes from a wealthy family and works. She can earn money for the family. Whoever marries her will treat her like a ancestor."

"I can do it with my own man."

"You are different. You are a country girl from the countryside. If I marry you and bring you to the city, you will wake up laughing in your dreams. Don't learn to act like the wives in the city and act like that with their husbands."

Chen Dagang threw two peanuts into his mouth. "I told you clearly that the man has the final say in our family. You have to listen to me. You just stay at home and take care of the children and cook for me. You are still useful. Don't think about that every day."

He Sufen listened to Chen Dagang cursing on the other side of the wall and covered her ears with a quilt.

She felt jealous. After she followed Chen Dagang into the city and lived in the military compound, she saw how other men treated their wives and how much they loved them.

When she went out during the day, she saw Captain Li from next door and his wife Jiang Tingxia going out together. Whenever he met a puddle on the road, he would hold his wife's hand and let her jump over it. On rainy days, he would hold an umbrella for his wife, and the umbrella would lean towards his wife. When Jiang Tingxia went to and from work, her husband would pick her up and drop her off personally as long as he was at home. When Jiang Tingxia was hanging clothes in the yard, her husband would come over, and the two of them would finish the work together while talking and laughing. And how did Chen Dagang treat her? He yelled at her, scolded her, and treated her like a dog instead of a wife.

He Sufen listened to Chen Dagang's scolding and thought to herself, it turns out that Chen Dagang himself knows that he cannot be compared with other men. Once compared, it is obvious that he is nothing.

He Sufen didn't know whether she fainted from discomfort or anger. Anyway, when she woke up from a nap and felt better, she walked out of the room and saw that Chen Dagang had finished his meal. He was leaning back in his chair, humming a little tune with his eyes closed. The dining table was a mess and nothing had been cleaned up.

Her five-year-old daughter Minmin couldn't reach the dining table, so she stood on tiptoe to clear the dishes. However, she was too small and dropped a bowl with a crisp sound.

Chen Dagang opened his eyes when he heard the sound of the bowl breaking. He still didn't get up. He looked at the broken glass on the ground and cursed at his daughter, "You're just as stupid as your mother."

The daughter, with tears in her eyes, stood among a pile of broken porcelain bowls.

Chen Dagang waved his hand and said, "Leave it there, don't move, let your lazy mother clean it up."

He just said this but did not move, not even to pull his daughter out from the broken glass.

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