When Sister-in-law He saw Ling Jiuyue swaggering away, she realized that Ling Jiuyue had just taken money from her house.

She grabbed He's mother: "Didn't you say you had no money?"

My father-in-law was hit on the head and fell into a coma. My wife said she had no money, so she went back to her parents' home to borrow money.

But now, the old woman has taken out several hundred yuan, which has been given away to that bitch Ling Jiuyue for nothing. How could Sister-in-law He possibly swallow this insult?

He Zhigao was also very angry: "Mom, if you have money, why don't you take it out? Now Ling Jiuyue has taken it away, are you satisfied?"

Mother He burst into tears, crying, "I told you not to marry her back then, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what's happened! Who can you blame?!"

Sister-in-law He slapped her mother-in-law twice, went inside, and saw that her kettle, towels, blankets, and other belongings had all been taken away. She immediately exploded.

"Ugh, you jinx you've messed with! What right do you have to take my things?!"

The He family, which had just calmed down, was in turmoil once again...

On the way back, Ling Qiu cheerfully asked her second sister, "Second sister, why did you wash your hands in their pot?"

Ling Jiuyue chuckled, "From now on, they'll think of me every time they cook!"

Ling Chun carried the bedding she had looted from the He family and felt that her second sister had really been angered today.

How do you know your wife is rich?

Ling Jiuyue casually replied, "I saw it by chance when I came over for the engagement last time!"

Ling Qiu was so happy that she had completely forgotten her fear from that morning: "Second sister, you really stood up for us today. Just thinking about that mother and son eating shit makes me..."

"Alright!" Ling Chun interrupted her younger sister, reminding her, "Don't mention this to our parents when we get back, so they don't worry!"

Her mother has a temper that's easily triggered; she might explode again and cause trouble at the He family's house.

A pedestrian walkway passed through Caijia Village. The relatives had already dispersed, leaving only the Cai family to clean up the mess.

Cai Lanfang has disappeared; she's probably gone to the city to discuss her pregnancy with her lover.

When Cai's mother saw the group of people returning with their belongings, she picked up a glass of water and splashed it outside.

"That unlucky fellow! He broke off the engagement and came back with his things and people right after. Could he have found another unfortunate soul?"

They were all people celebrating a happy occasion. Ling Jiuyue's attire and the items the group of people were carrying made it clear that it was a happy occasion.

Zhu Zi chuckled, "Hey, you were right, Auntie. After you dumped that shameless guy, my brother Xiao found a sister-in-law who's a hundred or a thousand times better than yours. What, are you furious?"

"Pillar!" Qin Shixiao snapped coldly, "Stop fooling around!"

Ling Jiuyue is a good girl. She has just escaped the hellish He family. We can't let her get a bad reputation at this time.

Ling Jiuyue didn't care; reputation was useless to her.

However, she quite liked this boy, Zhu Zi.

Cai's mother's face changed: "Impossible! You're about to be sentenced to death, how could any unlucky soul possibly be interested in you!"

Hearing her words, Qin Shixiao knew that the Cai family probably already knew about his time in the army.

It's strange, the military hasn't even reached a conclusion on this matter yet, how did the Cai family find out?

Pillar, with his youthful spirit, couldn't resist showing off and added:

"How could this be fake? Didn't you see they're carrying the dowry? They're heading to my house!"

"You...you adulterous couple, you did that on purpose..."

Enraged, Cai's mother felt dizzy and slowly slid down the wall while holding onto it.

Zhu Zi was startled and stammered, "She...she...she won't...she'll be so angry she'll die, will she?"

"Aren't you leaving yet? You still want to eat at the banquet, don't you!" Qin Shixiao grabbed his cousin by the collar and strode away.

After the group left.

The villagers who had come to watch the commotion also started talking about it.

"I heard there's a wedding in the He family's area today. Judging from the direction the bride came from, she should have come from He family village. Could it be that she came from the other side..."

"You guessed right, something really happened. My eldest son went to the market today and happened to run into people from Hejia Village being carried to the hospital. There were quite a few of them, about a dozen!"

Those listening to the gossip were shocked: "More than a dozen injured? Wasn't that a group fight?"

"It wasn't a fight!" A neighbor who knew the inside story explained, "A relative of mine went to a wedding banquet today and said the He family was acting very strangely. All the animals went crazy and started attacking people. I heard one of them even got bitten in the groin by a dog!"

"Hiss~"

"Tsk tsk!"

Everyone gasped in unison: "Chickens and ducks don't attack people for no reason. The He family must have done something that angered both heaven and earth, and even the heavens couldn't stand it anymore!"

"Their customs are bad; they have a long-standing tradition of teasing the bride. I heard that a few years ago, this very thing drove a girl to her death!"

"Oh my god, could it be that girl who came to cause trouble at the wedding?"

"Who knows? Anyway, when it comes to arranging marriages, it's best not to mention their village, lest the girl get harmed!"

The He family was unaware that this incident would cause the reputation of Hejia Village to plummet, to the point that young men would face constant setbacks in finding wives and had to resort to hiring human traffickers to buy them.

After leaving Caijia Village, Qin Shixiao apologized to Ling Jiuyue:

"Zhu Zi speaks without thinking, don't take it to heart!"

Ling Jiuyue generously replied, "It's no big deal. Brother Zhuzi put in a lot of effort today; I'm so grateful to him, why would I be angry!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Zi raised his chin at Qin Shixiao and said, "Look, even Sister Ling didn't say anything to me, but you talk too much."

Qin Shixiao glanced at him, signaling him to shut up.

Lingjiaping.

After tidying up the house, Sun Yulan sat on the doorstep and said, "Old man, I don't know why, but my eyelids are twitching really badly. Do you think there might be something wrong with our second son's marriage?"

Ling Guosheng, who was tidying up herbs in the yard, said, "You're overthinking it. Second Brother and He Zhigao are classmates, they know each other well. Little He is a good guy, what could possibly happen to him!"

Sun Yulan felt uneasy and glared at the old man:

"You just don't care about your daughter. Xiao He is a good kid, but his mother is no saint. I heard that even after her second son's boyfriend got married, she still managed to drive him away, and now her second son hasn't come home since!"

Ling Guocheng laid out the medicinal herbs to dry and sat down next to his wife:

"That old lady from the He family does have a bit of a temper, but Xiao He promised me he'll protect our Xia and won't let her suffer any injustice!"

Sun Yulan felt uneasy, as if something was going to happen today.

Before dawn, the wedding procession set off.

Logically, the banquet should have started around 11 o'clock, and the eldest and third brothers should have returned by then after finishing their meal.

It's already noon, why haven't they come back yet?

Ling Guocheng lit a cigarette and squinted, "Could it be... that your in-laws want Chun'er and the others to stay the night before they leave?"

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