"San Ya, pick the long beans in our vegetable garden. Some of them will get old if we don't pick them now."

"Okay grandma, I'll go right away."

After washing her hair, Old Mrs. Zhou sat in front of the main room door to dry her hair.

Zhou Mingshu took the vegetable basket from the kitchen and went to the vegetable garden in the backyard.

I have to say, the beans are growing really well, giving the visual effect of "a jasper tree standing tall, with thousands of green ribbons hanging down", just like a willow tree.

Put the tender ones aside, the old ones aside, and the ones with worms aside.

There were some fruits that were out of reach, so Zhou Mingshu stood on a stool to pick them.

I had just picked a corner of beans and the basket was already a little full.

"Grandma, there are too many beans. Have we picked them all?"

"Yes, pick them all. Don't pick the ones that haven't grown yet. Put the ones you've picked here first, and I'll pick them out. We'll blanch them in water later and dry them in the sun."

"Okay, I'll continue picking them."

Old Mrs. Zhou brought over two basins, filled them with clean water, and soaked the ones with obvious wormholes together, and then soaked the other good ones together.

They dare not eat the beans unless they are soaked for two hours, for fear that a fat, white worm might crawl out of them.

But after soaking for a while, these insects will float up and become a corpse.

Wang Dahai drove the ox cart into the village and parked it steadily in front of his house.

"Narcissus, come here, I'll carry you down." Wang Dahai opened his arms and was about to support Huang Narcissus' waist.

"Dahai, it's okay, I can walk by myself." She felt a little embarrassed with so many people watching her.

"What's the big deal? We are husband and wife, and you haven't recovered yet." Wang Dahai was stubborn and picked up his wife from the car.

Old Mrs. Wang and her daughter-in-law Yue got off the ox cart, holding medicine bags in their hands.

"Laizi's wife, we are home now, don't sleep anymore."

She gently pushed the lecherous lady to wake her up.

The lecherous mother wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth and then helped herself down the ox cart.

When they walked into the yard, seeing that her brother and sister-in-law were confused, Old Lady Wang had to give them a few more reminders.

"Laizi's mother, Doctor Chen said that Narcissus needs to be taken good care of. Don't worry too much. Laizi and Dahai are still so young. You will definitely be able to hold your grandchildren. Don't let Narcissus wash clothes with cold water in the next few days. Even if you have a miscarriage, you still need to take care of yourself. Buy an old hen and stew it..."

"Sister-in-law, I know, I know. Why are you so long-winded?"

The lecherous mother hunched her little body and walked into the house with clattering footsteps.

Before Mrs. Wang could finish her words, she was interrupted by her brother's wife in an impatient tone. She was very thoughtful and hardworking, but she didn't expect that she would get nothing out of her work after working for half a day and was even despised. She felt very uncomfortable.

The daughter-in-law, Yue, pulled her mother-in-law's sleeve, signaling her to stop talking, because no matter how hard she tried, she could never wake up someone who was pretending to be asleep.

Wang Dahai put his wife on the bed and poured her a glass of water. "Narcissus, just take a good rest. Don't worry about anything else. Let me do the rest. Call me if you need anything."

It would be a lie to say that Huang Shuixian was not touched to see how considerate her husband was. Although she had not liked Wang Dahai before she married him, he had always been very considerate after the marriage. He not only earned money for her to spend, but also bought her beautiful clothes and hair ornaments. She just never expected that she would meet such an uncle and such confusing in-laws.

"Dahai, why don't we separate? I want to live alone with you. I am willing to endure any hardship or fatigue." Huang Shuixian shed tears. She just wanted to find someone she loved and live a plain life with.

From her first love as a young girl to her current wife, the man she has always liked, Zhou Laosan, has never expressed anything to her. Now she doesn't want to insist on anything anymore and just wants to live a good life with Dahai.

"Narcissus, what nonsense are you talking about? We shouldn't divide the family as long as our parents are still alive. What's more, we two brothers are still so young, and our eldest brother hasn't married or had children yet. How can we divide the family? If we tell others about it, people will say we are unfilial." Wang Dahai wiped his wife's tears and rejected her.

"Narcissus, I haven't had the chance to ask you how your child died. Did you fall? Or was it bumped into?"

Wang Dahai was afraid of touching upon his daughter-in-law's sad past, so he asked cautiously.

Huang Shuixian cried and sobbed, feeling very aggrieved. "No, no, I didn't fall or get bumped."

"What's going on?" Wang Dahai was a little confused.

"I was beaten by my eldest brother." Huang Shuixian cried and told the truth. She didn't want to live the life she had before, living in fear all day long. It would be better to die.

"What?" Wang Dahai jumped up angrily, "Is there any reason why he hit you?"

"I talked to the eldest brother of the Zhou family by the river. I wanted to borrow his donkey to help us pull wheat. As soon as I got home, he kicked me and the child died." Huang Shuixian closed his eyes and recalled what happened yesterday.

She admitted that she loved dressing up and looking pretty, and had some shameful thoughts about the third son of the Zhou family, but she never dared to cross the line, and was instead dragged into the abyss by her eldest uncle.

After hearing this, Wang Dahai clenched his fists and strode out to settle the score.

But when he arrived at his eldest brother's house, he found that he was not at home. When he went to the field, he saw only his old man harvesting wheat.

"Dahai, you're back. How is your wife? Is she feeling better?" Laizi's father stopped what he was doing and walked towards his son.

"Dad, where is my eldest brother?" Wang Dahai's eyes were red and he looked like he wanted to kill someone, which made Laizi's father feel a chill in his heart.

"You...what's wrong? Your brother went into the mountains early in the morning. How's Narcissus? Is the child safe?"

Seeing his son like this, he knew that something was not right. Laizi's father took a deep breath and wondered how come all these things happened at once.

Seeing that the neighbor’s wheat was almost harvested, and only his own wheat was still there, how long would it take him to finish harvesting it by himself?

"The child is gone." Wang Dahai looked at his father's cloudy eyes and there was dust in the wrinkles on his forehead.

Although he is younger than his uncle, his facial expression and lifestyle are much older than his uncle.

"Alas, it's gone, you're still young, there will be more in the future." The lecherous father paused and said, "Hurry up and get your sickles to cut the wheat together. I've been cutting all morning and haven't cut much. I'm really old and useless."

"My eldest brother beat him." Wang Dahai's next words made Lai Zi's father's eyes widen.

"What?" A hoarse voice came out of his throat.

"Lie? Did Narcissus tell you that? This slut must be lying!"

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