Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

Yu Guixiang and Gu Xiaocao were still knocking on the door, which annoyed Liu Siyue to no end. She was not familiar with the two of them at all, let alone had any feelings for them. She thought back to when the original owner was carried home, the two of them not only helped plead for her but also humiliated her. Had they forgotten so quickly how they had tried to distance themselves from the original owner?

Liu Siyue was furious. She stood up abruptly and said, "You guys continue eating. I'm going out to check on things."

The two were still pounding on the courtyard gate when it suddenly opened. "What are you knocking for? If I don't open the door, it means I don't want to see you. Don't you understand that?"

"Alright, let's go."

The children peeked through the crack. "April, we're your eldest and second eldest sisters-in-law. We've come to bring you some vegetables for the holiday."

"No need, we have so much food that we can't finish it all. You should take it back and eat it yourselves."

"Little sister, we haven't offended you, have we? The children haven't offended you either. How can you blame us for the grudges between you and our parents?"

"You're all a den of snakes and rats, not a single one of you is good. I remember clearly what you said when I came back begging you to take me in. Have you forgotten so quickly? Do you want me to help you remember?"

The two were a little guilty, but they still forced themselves to say, "April, we didn't know the truth at the time and just followed our parents' nonsense. We apologize to you here, please forgive us."

"There's no question of forgiveness or not, because I don't know you guys well, so just leave."

The two women even started crying, feeling wronged. "Second sister, how could you treat us like this? Oh, we're your sisters-in-law!"

"What kind of person is 'sister-in-law'? Why didn't you say you were my sister-in-law when you kicked me out?"

Some villagers chimed in, "April, it's not easy for you to live alone in the village with your child. Your sister-in-law has admitted all her mistakes. She didn't do anything too serious. She just said a few wrong things. Just laugh it off."

Besides, this way you'll have one more person to help you when you live in the village.

"Oh, you make it sound so easy for you. You don't know the pain until it happens to you. If you were divorced and sent back to your parents' home, and you encountered the same thing, let's see if you could be so magnanimous and just laugh it off."

"Stop talking nonsense. I won't get divorced. I thought nobody cared about your mess." He spat and left.

"Let's go, let's go, there's nothing to see, don't keep us from eating." The villagers slowly dispersed, leaving only the sisters-in-law and a few children behind.

"April, we know you're upset. Keep these vegetables. Things aren't easy at home, we don't have much to give you." The two men carried two baskets; one contained two small white radishes, and the other contained two cabbages with slightly yellowed leaves.

They took out the food and tried to stuff it into Liu Siyue's arms. Liu Siyue quickly dodged, and the food fell to the ground. "I told you I have more food than I can finish. Your food is so bad that even a pig would find it disgusting."

Liu Siyue ignored the two of them, went back and slammed the door shut. The children burst into tears, crying, "Mom, Auntie and the others are eating dumplings, we want to eat dumplings too!"

"All you do is eat, eat, eat. You'll never please your second aunt."

"Hurry home, it's time for us to eat," Yu Guixiang said angrily.

"Sister-in-law, it's all Dad's fault. I said I wanted to take those good dishes, but he insisted that we take these dishes that we don't want. Now look what happened, we didn't get the job done and we've offended someone."

You know, if we had brought some good food, and April had seen our sincerity, the outcome might have been very different. Maybe she'd even invite us in for a bowl of dumplings.

"You're just saying all that's useless."

Yu Guixiang was annoyed by the children's crying. "Cry, cry, all you do is cry. What's the use of crying in front of your mother? If you can't get good food, you should go find your father and grandparents." After saying that, she slapped each of them on the bottom.

Gu Xiaocao's two children, fearing a beating, ran away.

When the two sisters-in-law returned home, they told each other what had happened. "Dad, it was all your fault for making me take those rotten vegetables. Not only did I fail to do it, but I also offended April."

Old Liu pointed his cane at Liu Dahu and said, "You can't tell the difference between important and trivial things, you can't do anything right."

"Alright, stop arguing. It's a holiday today, let's eat."

The food was served: a large bowl of stewed white radish with fatty pork, with slices of pork covering the radish skin, looking very oily; and a bowl of wild vegetable and brown rice porridge and a dark-colored steamed bun for each person.

Huang Lanhua began to divide the food. The two elders each received two thin slices of meat, and the others each received one slice. This was all pre-arranged.

The children quickly finished the meat in their bowls. "Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Great-Grandma, we don't want to eat wild vegetable porridge, we want to eat dumplings."

"What are you saying, child? It's good enough that we have this to eat. Where did you get dumplings to eat?"

"My second aunt's family is eating dumplings right now, and they smell so good."

"What are you two standing there for? Why don't you comfort your own child? What kind of mothers are you?"

The two sisters-in-law cursed Huang Lanhua in their hearts, but said aloud, "Mother, the children are greedy, there's nothing I can do. Our family's life is just too hard. It's one thing for us to suffer, but it's really hard for us mothers to let the children suffer with us."

"What if you're not feeling well? Let me cut off some flesh for you to eat. Now your grandparents are in charge. If you have any grievances, go talk to your grandparents." Huang Lanhua's outburst silenced everyone present.

Liu Daniu's wife, Ma Qiao'er, gestured to her child to eat quickly and not to talk nonsense. The family ate lunch amidst their bickering.

After seeing the two sisters-in-law off, Liu Siyue smiled and walked back, saying, "Let's continue eating, don't let that family spoil the fun." Once everyone had finished eating, Liu Siyue jokingly asked, "Guess what dishes they brought?"

"It definitely won't be an expensive dish, and it certainly won't be meat."

"You still want them to send you expensive dishes and meat? Dream on!"

Let me tell you, all they brought were two small, wilted, rotten radishes and two rotten cabbages with yellowing leaves. This isn't a gift, it's disgusting!

"Cousin, are there any dumplings left?"

"Yes, go get it from the kitchen."

Liu Siyue went into the kitchen, filled a bowl with dumplings, and put it in a basket. "Second Uncle, Second Aunt, I'm going out for a bit, I'll be right back." She carried the basket to the locust tree, hid it, and left.

When she got home, she saw her family still sitting in the yard. "I just brought August a bowl of dumplings."

"Yes, you're her older sister. Now that you're doing well, it's only right that you look after your younger sister. August isn't a bad child, she's just had a tough life."

"My second uncle, second aunt, the village chief, and Uncle Youtian have helped me a lot. I want to take them with me to collect herbs before it gets too cold, so they can earn some money and have a better life."

"Okay, we'll listen to you. We should repay kindness. Let's go to the village chief's house now. It's too late. I'll also go to Uncle Tian's house. We'll go up the mountain to collect herbs after the festival. Let them prepare the tools."

Liu Siyue went to the kitchen and bought two or three pounds of pork, along with two bags of pastries and a lot of candy. Then she went to the village chief's house with Liu Dawang.

"Dawang, April is here, quickly go and pour two bowls of sweet soup." Wang was very happy to see them come and hurriedly went to pour the sweet soup.

"Uncle Village Chief, Happy Holidays! This is a small token of our appreciation, we're adding a dish for you tonight." Liu Siyue took out a piece of meat, a bag of pastries, and a handful of candy from the basket and put them on the table. "These candies are for Hongyu and Hongsheng's kids to sweeten their mouths."