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

Chapter 99 The Daughter's Situation

"You should break your sister-in-law's hand."

"Don't visit relatives like that again."

Tong Huaqiong was so angry that she started cursing. On the one hand, she was disappointed in Chen Sufeng, and on the other hand, she wished she could run to Chenjiazhuang and tear Chen Sufeng's sister-in-law apart.

How dare they pinch Man'er's hand?

"Mom, I bit Auntie's hand." Man'er raised her little face, meaning that she hadn't been wronged.

"Both of you adults tied up are no match for a child. Good bite," Tong Huaqiong praised.

"Then what was your aunt's reaction when you bit her?" Tong Huaqiong didn't believe the Chen family wouldn't react.

“My older brother and sister-in-law wanted to hit her, but my parents stopped them. Da Han and I also tried to persuade them.”

Chen Su-fen said timidly that she now regrets not flipping the table back then.

The reason her parents were trying to persuade her was simply because they wanted to squeeze some money out of her, pretending to be nice to her before they could extract any more from her.

Chen Su-fen was filled with remorse.

I didn't eat a good lunch.

My daughter was wronged.

They were forced to hand over their money.

Chen Su-fen still harbors illusions about her parents.

In an effort to mend their relationship with their parents, Chen Sufeng and Gu Dahan did all the work on the Chen family's land that afternoon. After finishing, Gu Dahan was asked to repair the Chen family's roof, a task he continued until evening.

The Chen brothers came up with another crazy idea. They heard from somewhere that Tong Huaqiong was going to open a pastry shop in town, and they actually wanted Gu Dahan and Chen Sufeng to bring their nephew to the Gu family so that he could work as a shop assistant.

When Chen Sufen's sister-in-law learned that Chen Sufen was learning to make pastries from her mother-in-law, she wanted Chen Sufen to bring her eldest daughter to the Gu family to learn pastry making, saying that Chen Sufen had to consider her niece's situation, since she also had the surname Chen.

She did not mention the other excessive request that her sister-in-law, Chen Sufen, made.

The eldest sister-in-law wanted to marry her eldest daughter to Gu Jingzhe, saying that so what if the aunt and niece became sisters-in-law, which was a different generation? Gu Jingzhe was so promising, so it would be better to let the good fortune go to the Chen family.

After Chen Su-fen refused, Chen's parents actually said that they should contact the Zheng family again and send Man'er to the Zheng family to change everyone's future.

Chen Sufen was completely heartbroken.

Gu Dahan finally lost his temper, smashed the Chen family's large water vat, and led Chen Sufeng and Man'er to Qinghe Bay overnight.

"How could my parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law treat me like this?" Chen Sufeng cried as she spoke; she was truly heartbroken.

Her mother-in-law used to treat her badly, but she felt that she was, after all, her daughter-in-law, so she was in pain but not heartbroken.

But her family treated her this way, which made her heartbroken and disheartened.

They knew what kind of life she had lived in the Gu family all these years, but they ignored her and never stood up for her.

Now that her mother-in-law is treating her well and the Gu family's life has improved, they want her to spend money and help raise her nephews and nieces. She really can't stand it.

“When I was a young woman, I worked from dawn till dusk every day, cooking and farming. I never wore new clothes or ate anything good. I didn’t complain. Most girls in the village went through the same thing. Who wouldn’t sacrifice for their brothers? My sisters who grew up with me were sold to wealthy families as maids. I was already very grateful that my parents let me stay at home and gave me food.” Chen Sufeng choked up as she recalled the past.

“Sister-in-law, you’re wrong. What do you mean most girls in the village go through this? You’re comparing yourself to the bad ones instead of the good ones. Take my parents for example. Even though they didn’t like me marrying Dashu, they still sent me chickens and brown sugar when I gave birth to Yaozu. And look at our Taohua, how much our mother dotes on her. She’s like our aunt, nobody can mess with her.” Liu Yue’e said, pursing her lips.

Tong Huaqiong felt that although Liu Yue'e was petty, she had a clear understanding of this issue.

Perhaps it was because she was spoiled by her parents from a young age that Liu Yue'e developed a petty and arrogant personality.

Gu Taohua was also pampered growing up.

Although she understood the reasoning, Chen Sufen was still heartbroken.

Tong Huaqiong understood Chen Sufeng's thoughts very well. Not to mention this era, even in her previous life, her roommates had all gone on to graduate school at top-tier universities, yet they still couldn't break free from their patriarchal families.

Wanting to escape, yet yearning for the elusive love from their family of origin.

"Sister-in-law, to put it bluntly, your parents have never treated you well. If they had, would they have let you marry your brother?" Liu Yue'e said.

Back then, Tong Dajiao had a bad reputation for her stepson, Gu Dahan, who was struggling to find a wife. Old Man Gu gave the Chen family twenty taels of silver, and they quickly married Chen Sufeng into the family.

"To put it bluntly, your parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law sold you to the Gu family for twenty taels of silver," Liu Yue'e said. "They took your money, but you didn't bring any dowry. Look at me, even though my parents opposed my marriage to Da Shu, I still received a dowry of quilts, a wardrobe, a chamber pot, and ten taels of silver when I got married."

"Anyway, if it were me, I would cut off all ties with your family."

In the countryside, a dowry of ten taels of silver is already quite substantial.

This was the Liu family's approach even though Liu Yue'e disregarded her parents' objections and did not offer a bride price.

Tong Huaqiong developed a certain respect for the Liu family, her in-laws.

They truly love their daughter.

“Su Fen, your sister-in-law is right. Your parents just don’t love you. Tell me, what are you going to do about this?” Tong Huaqiong asked.

Tong Huaqiong hopes that Chen Sufen will sever all ties with the Chen family.

Not only because, in Tong Dajiao's past life memories, the Chen family conspired with the Zheng family to frame Man'er.

Furthermore, the Chen family has now set their sights on Peach Blossom Desserts, wanting Chen Sufeng's nephew to work as a shop assistant and her niece to secretly learn the craft.

She couldn't tolerate such in-laws and had to break off the relationship.

She was afraid that if she kept doing this, it would cause trouble for her shop.

Never underestimate how disgusting flies can be.

“My heart is cold, and I want to break it off, but I’m afraid of gossip,” Chen Sufen said.

If she's heartbroken and willing to break things off, that shows Chen Su-fen isn't so muddled and saintly as to be without principles.

“What are you afraid of? What’s it to you if someone says a few words about you?” Tong Huaqiong said.

“Look at me, how good is my reputation in the village? Has it affected my food and drink? Has it affected my pastry selling? When I was a stepmother, I didn’t care what others said about me, I only cared about whether I was happy or not. Now that I’m a widow and I’m doing business in public, many people still talk about me behind my back, but I still go to town to set up a stall and make money. Let the world talk.”

Tong Huaqiong used herself as an example.

Chen Su-fen remained silent, her eyes reddening.

On the way here, she made up her mind that she would be filial to Chen's parents in the future, but she would not go back to her parents' home, and she would not allow Man'er to have any contact with Chen's family.

The Chen family is even more ruthless than the previous husband's family; a group of people who have never raised Man'er are willing to trade Man'er for their future.

"From now on, I'll only ask others to bring me things, and I'll be filial to my parents as usual, but I won't have any further contact with them," Chen Sufeng said, as if she had made up her mind.

Tong Huaqiong was dissatisfied, and her face instantly darkened. She said in the spirit of Tong Dajiao, "Eldest daughter-in-law, everything in our family is earned by my own hard work. Don't even think about transferring it to the Chen family. If I find out, you can go back to the Chen family too."

Chen Su-fen was speechless. How could her kind mother-in-law have turned fierce again?

"Don't talk about filial piety or not. As long as you're my daughter-in-law, you must cut off all ties with the Chen family." Tong Huaqiong gave Chen Sufeng the order. "You have older brothers, sisters-in-law, and younger brothers. They don't need your filial piety. Don't go out of your way to please them."

Given Chen Sufeng's clingy nature, it is necessary to use strong measures to sever her ties with her family.

Given the Chen family's nature, if Chen Su-fen brought anything over, it would be like an egg cracking open; they would immediately swarm around her like flies.

To avoid the chance of being swarmed and sucked blood by flies, it's better to just cut ties cleanly and decisively.

(End of this chapter)