Qin Huairu has been back to her hometown, Qinjia Village, in recent years. Her childhood sisters who were married at the same time as her are now bent over in the yellow land day after day, with tanned skin and roughened skin on their hands.

Although none of the sisters of my age were prettier than me, there were some who could rival me. But now, none of them could compete with me. The years and the earth had washed away their youthful beauty, and I was the only one who was still as radiant as ever.

Only his younger sister Qin Jingru looked a bit like him when he was a child, but she was still young and posed no threat to him. Besides, they were all family members, so there was no competition between them. And he was already married, and married in the city.

This made her feel superior every time she went home, just like the white swan and the ugly duckling. With this comparison, the difference is obvious, isn't it? This made her even more glad that she married into the city.

Isn't it just a little bit of grievance at home? What's the big deal? Jia Zhangshi, you old witch, one day I will outlive you first, and I will also outlive my daughter-in-law to my mother-in-law. By then, I will have the final say in the Jia family. Let you, the old witch, live for a few years first - I, Qin Huairu, will remember this grudge.

We'll settle the accounts when you're old and can't move anymore, and you'll suffer the consequences then.

Jia Zhangshi, you old witch, aren't you also a rural hukou like me? When I married Jia Dongxu, I wanted to transfer my hukou to Jia Dongxu's name right away, but you, the old witch, wouldn't let me. You insisted that I keep my hukou in Qinjia Village, saying that I could rent the land to relatives to grow crops, and the harvested grain would be more than enough for my family to eat in a year.

Now that the work point system has been implemented in the countryside, you are not acknowledging it, and are looking down on me as a country girl from the countryside. Don't you think that you are also a widow from some unknown countryside without a city hukou?

Before you start scolding me, you don't even reflect on your current situation. You are the one who eats the most in this family, just like the pigs we fed in the backyard of my house when I was a child. At least half of the food on the table every day goes into your stomach.

At first, when Jia Zhang scolded him, Jia Dongxu was able to defend himself, but in the end he still succumbed to reality. When the last batch of food was eaten, Jia Dongxu was the only one in his family who ate the rationed food.

There are only three or four-year-old kids in my family, including my mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

This pressure was immediately placed on Jia Dongxu, who spent most of his salary on commercial grain in the first month. Jia Dongxu's grain was only enough to feed his family for a week.

Her mother-in-law was also a lazy and gluttonous person. Compared with the three aunts in the front yard, they were like heaven and earth and one was like a stinking ditch. Yes, this was how the three aunts looked in Qin Huairu's eyes compared to her mother-in-law, Jia Zhang.

I just wonder if Yan Bugui would be happy if he knew this.

The third uncle is the only one who earns money in his family. He now has three boys and a daughter, who are usually raised by the third aunt alone.

He also took on some flexible work from the street office from time to time, such as pasting matchboxes, sewing shoe soles, mending clothes, etc., to earn some living expenses for his family. He never stopped doing this and would go to the street office whenever he had the chance.

But what about my own home?

A lazy mother-in-law, a baby son, and a husband who has to deal with a tired husband every night. When will this life end?

When I used to be able to harvest food from my farmland, my mother-in-law would still put on a mask and smile at me on weekdays. But after this summer, she tore off her disguise and called me a little bitch, a foxy woman, and a shameless person.

Why is my life so miserable? When will this life end?

It seemed as if I was the only one who was redundant in the Jia family. Whenever I was in the Jia family's house, I would be looked down upon by Jia Zhang, who would never give me a good look.

How she wished her silent husband could say something against her mother, but every time facing her expectant eyes, Jia Dongxu responded with silence.

This was a direct and disguised acknowledgement of what her mother had said. Every time at this moment, Qin Huairu felt grief in her heart, which was even more painful than when Jia Zhang gave her a cold look.

She gradually realized that in this family, in front of this mother and son, she was actually an outsider.

In this family, only Banggeng, the piece of meat that fell from his belly, is his closest relative and the one who will always be in the same camp with him.

This kid is already 3-4 years old, which is the age where people dislike him and dogs avoid him.

The children who could play with him in the yard included Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi from the third uncle's family, and Liu Guangfu, the third child from the second uncle's family in the backyard. These children ran rampant in the yard every day, and there was no place they could not go.

They go out clean every morning, and when it is time for dinner, they go back to their homes like beggars.

The two children of the third uncle had to endure a lecture from Yan Bugui, but Liu Guangfu of the second uncle was not so lucky, and had to endure the love and care from the second uncle Liu Haizhong. I don't know how Liu Haizhong could do such a thing at such a young age?

The only one who could escape being lectured and beaten was Bang Geng from the middle court. He was the precious egg of the family of three. He was afraid that he would melt if he was held in his mouth, and he was afraid that he would fall if he was held in his hands. How could he be beaten and scolded?

When the clothes got dirty, they would be replaced with new ones the next day. The job of washing clothes naturally fell to Qin Huairu, who had the lowest status in the family.

Qin Huairu also enjoyed this. Gradually, she found that she was not redundant only when she was washing clothes by the pool in the middle courtyard.

Although her status in the Jia family was still the lowest, when she was washing clothes in the central courtyard, there was no nagging from her mother-in-law, nor was there any silent cries from her incompetent husband.

Moreover, she was always the most beautiful girl in the courtyard. The men who came in and out would always keep their eyes on her sensitive parts for a long time, especially in the summer. Gradually, she liked this feeling, and the wash basin in the courtyard gradually became her exclusive catwalk.

Even Yi Zhonghai, an old man who came back home with her husband Jia Dongxu every day, was no exception. Although he acted evasively, he could not hide the fact that she had been discovered.

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