The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 129 Not the Blood Packer from My Mother's Family

In the past, when the family harvested wheat, it was all done by Gu Dahan and Chen Sufen.

Other family members also worked, but not for their own family; instead, they were sent by Tong Huaqiong to her parents' home to harvest wheat.

This year, Tong Huaqiong brought several bamboo poles with her to the fields, which not only reduced the burden on Gu Dahan and Chen Sufen, but also sped up the wheat harvest.

Two days after Tong Huaqiong arrived home, her family had almost finished harvesting their wheat. The harvested wheat was spread out in the threshing ground, waiting to be threshed, dried, and stored.

After two days, Tong Huaqiong was exhausted, with a sore back and legs.

Farm work is really tiring, especially in an era lacking modern tools, it was even more tiring.

Tong Huaqiong reclined in her chair, while Yaozu and Man'er massaged her back and legs from either side. Each little punch felt both sore and pleasurable. Tong Huaqiong sighed, lamenting that if she could go back to her time, she would advise anyone advocating for a few days of farm work before they started expressing their sentimentality about the idyllic countryside before the new rural construction.

She was already exhausted from harvesting wheat, and hadn't even gone to the threshing floor to push and pull the stone roller to thresh the wheat yet.

She is the matriarch of the family, and she has the right to rest.

Others have to work non-stop.

For example, Gu Dahan spent his time on the wheat field, and his face and neck were sunburned and peeled.

In any era, and in our group, farm work is never easy, and farmers always work very hard.

Tong Huaqiong was thinking to herself that if she had more land in the future, she would either rent it out or hire people to work on it.

"Mother, Uncle Tong has sent a message through someone."

Gu Dashu returned home from the wheat field for a meal and brought news from the Tong family to Tong Huaqiong.

In fact, Tong Huaqiong didn't want to know anything about the Tong family. She wasn't Tong Dajiao, and the Tong family wasn't her maternal family.

She didn't want to end up like Tong Dajiao, becoming the Tong family's blood donation bag.

Seeing that his mother remained silent, Gu Dashu continued, "My uncle asked someone to send us to Heilong Village tomorrow, saying that they need help harvesting wheat at home."

Heilong Village is the village where the Tong family lives.

This village is not part of Yanguan Town. It requires crossing two mountains to get to Qinghewan, so it's not an easy trip.

Tong Huaqiong sneered. In the past, during the wheat harvest season, without the Tong family urging anyone, Tong Dajiao would send Gu Dashu and Gu Dahan to do the work for the Tong family. They would only get their turn after finishing the Tong family's work.

Tong Dajiao would also help with cooking.

Not only that, they would even bring their own food to their parents' home.

This year, no one from the Gu family went, and the Tong family couldn't stay calm, so they started sending messages through intermediaries to ask people to come and do the work.

What Gu Dashu didn't say was that what his uncle had asked someone to say was unpleasant to hear; he had refined and summarized it into kind words so that his mother wouldn't be heartbroken if she heard it.

“So what if he asks someone to help us? Are all the Tong family members dead? Do they need us to help harvest wheat? No way,” Tong Huaqiong said.

"If we don't go, how will we visit the Tong family in the future?" Gu Dashu asked.

“Then we won’t visit relatives,” Tong Huaqiong said decisively.

When Tong Huaqiong asked Chen Sufen to sever ties with the Chen family last time, she herself also said that she would sever ties with the Tong family.

When Gu Dashu found out, he thought Tong Huaqiong was just saying it out of anger, but now it seems she was serious.

Gu Dashu used to wonder why his mother, who was always domineering and had the upper hand regardless of whether she was right or wrong, became so submissive at the Tong family's home. The Tong family would send their best things to the Tong family, and the Tong family would always interfere in their affairs, even sending them to work at the Tong family's home during the busy farming season.

He treated his maternal uncle, Tong, with the same filial piety as if he were his own father.

Uncle Tong is quite old. He has studied all his life but only achieved the lowest level of scholarhood. He insists on considering himself a scholar and does nothing. Even now, he spends his days squatting inside and outside the house, either pointing out the flaws in the world or lamenting his bad luck.

Even though my mother has given so much to the Tong family, she never receives a kind word from them.

According to Gu Dashu's idea, the relationship with the Tong family should have been severed eight hundred years ago.

He had mentioned it to Tong Dajiao before, but before he could finish speaking, Tong Dajiao threw a tantrum and cursed him for being unfilial.

He is helpless too!
Now that his mother has finally come to her senses, how could Gu Dashu not be happy?

“Mother, you’ve finally come to your senses. Not to be rude, but judging from how you used to treat the Tong family, you would have given them our shop if you could.” Gu Dashu said to Tong Huaqiong.

"Bullshit! I'm not that stupid!" Tong Huaqiong cursed. It was Tong Dajiao, not her, who would do something so foolish.

After being scolded by Tong Huaqiong, Gu Dashu chuckled and went to eat in the kitchen.

Go ahead and scold him, as long as he doesn't have to go to Heilong Village to work for the Tong family and have to put up with his uncle's attitude.

Tong Fusheng, the eldest brother of the Tong family, who was about to sever ties with Tong Huaqiong, was so anxious that he cursed Tong Dajiao. All the wheat in the village had been harvested, except for the Tong family's wheat, which had not yet been harvested. What if a rain came and the whole family starved?

"Your sister is really something. She knows the wheat won't wait for anyone, and she still hasn't come to harvest it for us at this hour," Wang, Tong Dajiao's sister-in-law, chimed in with her curses.

"Don't worry, I've already sent a message to Qinghe Bay. They'll definitely come tomorrow, the day of the Great Heat," Tong Fusheng said confidently.

He knew his sister well; something must have been holding her back, otherwise she would have come to Black Dragon Village long ago.

Even if he was held up by something, he would still give him a scolding when tomorrow came.

What important event could possibly delay their wheat harvest?

"Father, Mother, I heard that Aunt is doing business in Yanguan Town, selling some kind of pastries," said Tong Zhijie, Tong Dajiao's nephew. "Is it because she's made money that she's become disrespectful to our family?"

Wang pursed her lips and said, "What kind of business can she do? She doesn't have that ability."

Tong Fusheng said, "Even if your aunt runs a pastry business, the money she earns should go to our family."

After thinking for a moment, Wang asked Tong Fusheng, "Did you send a message to your sister, asking her to bring some chicken, duck, fish, or meat to nourish Zhijie when she comes?"

Tong Fusheng nodded and said, "I've relayed the message. Don't worry, my sister will definitely bring meat and vegetables tomorrow."

Wang and Tong Zhijie laughed.

The Tong family is destined to be disappointed; Tong Dajiao has completely changed, from her heart to her mind.

Even if they wait until the wheat sprouts in the field, Tong Huaqiong will not appear at the Tong family home.

In the evening, Tong Huaqiong went to the threshing ground.

She wasn't there to work; she was there to show off.

As fate would have it, Tong Huaqiong's family had a plot of land right next to Granny Yan's land, and now their threshing ground is also next to Granny Yan's.

Without a doubt, Granny Yan had suffered two losses at Tong Huaqiong's hands, and Tong Huaqiong had harvested all the wheat she planted in the spring, which she had taken two extra feet of land from. Granny Yan and her family would definitely find a way to get revenge.

Gu Dahan was the main force in the family's wheat field.

Gu Dahan was known for his honesty, and Tong Huaqiong was worried that in a few days, when the other villains followed her to town, Granny Yan and her gang of villains would scheme against Gu Dahan.

When Tong Huaqiong arrived at the threshing ground, she saw Gu Dahan, Gu Dashu, and Gu Jingzhe using a stone roller to thresh the wheat.

This was heavy lifting, and the three brothers were drenched in sweat.

Especially for Gu Jingzhe, this was the first time he had ever done this kind of work in his more than ten years of life.

"Third brother, go and rest. You've been working for ages," Gu Dahan said to Gu Jingzhe.

In recent days, Gu Jingzhe has not only worked diligently, but also shown great respect to his elder brother Gu Dahan. Although Gu Dahan's resentment towards Gu Jingzhe for wanting to exchange Man'er for his future has not disappeared, it has lessened.

His attitude towards Gu Jingzhe gradually returned to that of an elder brother.

"No need, I can still do it," Gu Jingzhe said, wiping his sweat.

Seeing the brotherly and respectful scene between Gu Dahan and Gu Jingzhe, Tong Huaqiong felt a bit complicated.

Honestly, if she were Gu Dahan, and her own daughter was almost sold, she definitely wouldn't forgive Gu Jingzhe.

However, in modern society, unlike in later generations where a break between brothers can be severed without affecting life, people here fight against the outside world as a clan or family unit. If the Gu brothers were to break off their relationship, it would inevitably affect the development of the entire family.

She could only do her best to compensate the eldest son's family, just as Gu Jingzhe had done.

I just don't like the rift between brothers to continue to widen.

Tong Huaqiong composed herself, remembering the purpose of coming to the wheat field, and after scanning the area, she indeed saw Granny Yan and her family.

(End of this chapter)