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Chapter 54 Sneaked Away in the Middle of the Night

Lu Xiao was worried that his wife would be unhappy, so he gently coaxed her.

"We'll drink after the baby is born."

To keep his wife company, Lu Xiao also poured the Moutai in front of him for Qiao Guowen.

His wife wouldn't drink, and neither would he.

Such a self-aware man made Qiao Nian feel a little embarrassed.

She quietly pinched his arm. "I didn't stop you from drinking."

Why doesn't he drink it?

That would make you seem domineering.

She's not a domineering person.

Lu Xiao's bones went weak at the look in his wife's eyes. Let alone just not drinking, he could endure being starved for days.

The two families enjoyed a lively New Year's Eve dinner, chatting and eating as they went, living a very pleasant life.

In the village, most families have started eating New Year's Eve dinner.

Tian Shichang's home.

Although they have already separated their households, they agreed to have New Year's Eve dinner together because it's Chinese New Year today.

Lao Cuifen got up early to help her mother-in-law, Xu Chunmei, prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.

The steamed buns made from two kinds of flour, along with the dishes containing meat, are rare delicacies in their household.

The adults who cooked were happy, and the children wearing new clothes were also happy.

But this joy didn't last long.

Just as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had prepared the New Year's Eve dinner and were about to eat in the main room, they heard Niu Xianhua crying from the room next door where she lived.

Tian Shichang frowned.

Xu Chunmei's face also turned very ugly.

This second son's family is truly lawless.

"Go and see what's going on."

Although Tian Shichang was unhappy, he couldn't very well yell at his daughter-in-law with a dark expression, so he could only send his wife over to check on her.

what's going on?
What kind of behavior is it to be crying and sobbing at home during the Lunar New Year?
Xu Chunmei naturally knew why Niu Xianhua was crying.

It's all because of her good-for-nothing second son!

"You nemesis, you really are a nemesis."

Xu Chunmei put down what she was holding and turned to walk towards the house where Niu Xianhua and the others lived.

Despite her dislike for it, she had to try to persuade Niu Xianhua not to cry during the Lunar New Year.

It's so unlucky to be crying and sobbing at home during the Lunar New Year.

It wouldn't sound good if people told me!

It's a pity that Niu Xianhua never thought about these things.

She even deliberately chose this time to cry and make a scene.

There is only one reason.

Since her husband is no longer home and she's having a hard time, then no one else should expect to have an easy time either.

It's best if everyone suffers together.

Xu Chunmei arrived at Niu Xianhua's house.

Seeing the person sitting on the kang wiping away tears, she sighed and decided to have a good talk with her.

"Second brother's wife, I know you're upset because your second brother was arrested, but today is the Lunar New Year, so you should try to control your emotions."

"Control what?"

Niu Xianhua was filled with anger but didn't know how to vent it.

Her mother-in-law's arrival at that moment was undoubtedly a direct hit.

“My life has been hard. After I married into your Tian family, I worked hard to earn work points, never daring to take a break, just hoping to make a living.”

"But I never expected to encounter such biased old people like you, who just watched my man get arrested and imprisoned without doing anything about it."

"It seems that everything I've done for the Tian family over the years, and all the children I've had, have been in vain. You've never treated me like family."

Niu Xianhua cried and shouted loudly. Xu Chunmei's head was buzzing from the noise of her words.

But more than the noisy chatter, Xu Chunmei was more concerned about what Niu Xianhua was saying.

"Second brother's wife, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by a biased old man?"

Niu Xianhua has been married into the Tian family for four years.

When she married into the family, it was during the poorest and most difficult time for them.

However, the Niu family insisted on receiving 120 jin of grain and 10 yuan as a bride price before they would allow Niu Xianhua to marry into the family.

Xu Chunmei and Tian Shichang had no choice but to tighten their belts and endure hunger for several months before they had saved enough food to send to the Niu family...

Xu Chunmei remembers that she was so hungry at that time that she almost rolled down the hillside when she went to gather pig feed...

Also, after Niu Xianhua married into the family, when she was pregnant with Tiedan, she complained of back pain, loss of appetite, and inability to work every few days.

Xu Chunmei cooked her an egg every day and provided her with good food and drink until she gave birth.

You should know that even the eldest son's two children never enjoyed such treatment.

Even when her eldest daughter was giving birth to her second child, she was still working in the fields. Then, the pain became so bad that she gave birth right there in the field…

Now, Niu Xianhua is actually saying they're biased? That they only care about the eldest son's family and not theirs?
Xu Chunmei was furious.

A lump formed in my throat, impossible to release.

"you you you……"

She pointed at Niu Xianhua and thought this person was truly unreasonable.

Xu Chunmei had originally intended to comfort Niu Xianhua, but unexpectedly, she herself became quite angry, and she couldn't say anything to comfort her.

She turned around, picked up her grandson, and went back to eat.

As for fresh cow flowers?
Whether she eats or not is none of their business.

Didn't she say they were biased towards the elderly? Well, let's just show her how biased they are.

Niu Xianhua originally wanted to put her mother-in-law in a tough spot and let them know how powerful she was.

But unexpectedly, Xu Chunmei came over for a short while and then left again?

Hearing the cheerful laughter and smelling the aroma of food coming from next door, Niu Xianhua couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

She lowered her head and touched her flat stomach.

A fierce glint appeared in his eyes!

"The Tian family is so vicious, don't blame me for being merciless!"

That evening, a fire broke out in a side room of the Tian family's house.

Fortunately, Tian Guangxia had just gotten up to relieve himself and discovered the fire. He quickly woke up his family and called the neighbors for help.

This prevented the fire in the side room from spreading and affecting the main house.

But after the fire in the side room was extinguished, they also discovered something.

Niu Xianhua, who should have been sleeping in the side room, is nowhere to be found!
"Niu Xianhua? I saw her when I got up in the middle of the night."

The old woman next door shouted, "I saw her carrying a bundle and hurrying out of the village."

"I asked her where she was going, but she stammered and didn't say anything!"

"Now it seems, she might have started the fire. She ran away and wants to remarry, right?"

It's not uncommon for wives to run away in the village.

However, those families where the wives ran away were all extremely poor.

In families like the brigade leader's, where the family is well-off, girls who marry into their families only feel like they've fallen into a paradise, and no one would think of running away.

Therefore, when the old woman first saw the cow flowers, she didn't think of this aspect.

Now that the side room of the Tian family has caught fire and Niu Xianhua is missing, she only belatedly realized what had happened.

That cow, Xianhua, has probably really run away.

Hearing what her neighbor said, Lao Cuifen glanced at her mother-in-law with some concern.

I'm afraid she won't be able to accept this fact.

Xu Chunmei chuckled coldly, "Ran away? Where could Niu Xianhua run to? At most, she'll run back to her old Niu family's house!"

"Does she really think her family is easy to get along with?"

(End of this chapter)