Divorce the bad husband, store grain fields, and marry the emperor's uncle for the second time

Song Liu didn't want to wait even a moment, so she arranged for Song Cuixi to stay at home and take care of the children. She rode her donkey alone and headed towards the Xia family at the east end of the village.

After the Song and Xia families got married, they had no contact for more than two years.

Although, the two families only lived at the east end and the west end respectively, they were not far apart.

When Song Liu walked into the Xia family's gate, all the Xia family members were huddled at home because of the cold weather.

"It's my mother-in-law. It took you so much trouble to come here in this snowing day?" Xia Chen stood up and nodded and smiled at Song Liu.

The other members of the Xia family also looked at Song Liu in confusion.

Xia Dequan frowned, and walked towards Song Liu with his sleeves gathered up, "Mother-in-law, has Xiaorou gotten into trouble?"

Although the two families lived at the east and west ends of the village, the villagers went hunting in the back mountain and went to the market together. If anything big happened in the village, the people in the east would also know what happened in the west.

Besides, the Song family is a big family in Shuangliu Village. Xia Xiaorou and Song Liu have been having a big fight these past two days, and everyone in the Xia family knows about it.

In fact, Xia Xiaorou had quarreled with Song Liu before, but Song Liu had never come to her house. But she came today, so it seemed that the matter was particularly serious.

The Xia family all became nervous.

Mrs. Song Liu glanced at them indifferently, snorted coldly, walked to the chair next to the brazier and sat down, raised her triangular eyes, and sneered at the Song family.

"Yes, why am I here? Isn't it because your family has raised a good daughter who has caused unrest in our Song family? On the first day she got married, she killed my son. I have raised her for two years, and now she has grown up and wants to leave my family and fly away on her own!"

Xia Chen looked embarrassed and said with a smile, "Xiao Rou is timid and would never dare to live alone. Is there any misunderstanding?"

"No misunderstanding! She even picked up a knife to kill my daughter! What does she want to do?" Song Liu looked at Xia Chen with a sneer, and then glanced at Xia Dequan who was standing aside with a frown, "Don't forget, your daughter was sold to my family. Now she is disobedient. I want to return her! We don't want to buy her anymore!"

return the goods?

That means returning one hundred and eighty taels of silver!

Xia Chen was panicking. She suppressed her anger towards Xia Xiaorou and tried to coax Song Liu with a smile, "Mother-in-law, it is not reasonable to return goods when you want to buy them, let alone people. As the old saying goes, a married woman is like spilled water, let alone a sold daughter.

"Since she has come to her mother-in-law's house, it is your Song family's responsibility to discipline her. We in the Xia family won't say anything. Whether you beat her or scold her, we in the Xia family won't say a word."

Xia Dequan frowned, "The baby's mother? This..."

He was halfway through his words when Xia Chen interrupted him with a wave of her hand and warned him in a low voice, "She will kill us if she comes back! Don't forget the evil things she did in the past!"

Thinking of some past events, Xia Dequan had no choice but to stop talking.

Song Liu was furious. Discipline? If she could be controlled, why would she come to the Xia family to complain?

"But she killed my son. I don't want her anymore. I want to divorce her! Your family should pay me back the money they owed me. One hundred and eighty taels plus interest, and two hundred taels. You can take her away and the matter will be settled. Otherwise, I will sue your family at the government office!"

After Song Liu finished speaking, she strode away with a gloomy face, shaking her sleeves.

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, please wait a minute, let's talk it over!" Xia Chen hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Song Liu back.

Pay back two hundred taels? How can my family afford to pay back?

Bring Xia Xiaorou back? If you marry a slut, you won't get more than 200 taels!

Xia Chen quickly thought about it in her mind and decided that she could not give up this good marriage with the Song family.

"Talk nicely? What? Give me an explanation, and say it now." Song Liu looked at Xia Chen coldly.

"How about we take care of her? Let her be more virtuous and serve our mother-in-law." Xia Chen said with a smile.

Mrs. Song Liu raised her eyebrows, "Tell her to break off relations with Song Yanbai and his wife, and not to raise Song Yanbai's kid. Tell her to stay at home and take my Dalang's kid to raise. Humph, you don't raise your own child, but raise someone else's. What a good daughter your Xia family has taught you!"

Xia Chen nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, let's talk to her. If she doesn't listen, we'll beat her up."

After some persuasion, Song Liushi stopped getting angry and rode away on her donkey.

When she walked away, Xia Chen came into the room and yelled at Xia Dequan, "You still want to speak well of your ex-girlfriend's daughter? That girl almost killed Mincai, don't forget that!"

Xia Dequan didn't want to talk about the past. He sighed and said, "Do you really want to take care of Xiaorou's affairs?"

"What else? The Song family wants you to pay back one hundred and eighty taels plus interest. Can you afford it?" Xia Chen laughed sarcastically.

Xia Dequan was stunned by the question, he really couldn't afford it.

"Okay, let Chunfang go and bring Xiaorou back." Xia Dequan turned around and said to his third daughter who was warming herself by the fire, "Chunfang, go and bring your second sister back."

Xia Chunfang shrank her neck and said, "I'm not going."

Xia Jicai smiled and rubbed his hands, "Dad, can I go?"

Xia Dequan looked at his eldest son and waved his hand, "Stay at home, don't go."

Xia Jicai raised his eyebrows, "Dad, why can't I go? What's wrong with my eldest brother picking up my sister who's getting married?"

But Xia Dequan refused to let him go no matter what.

"Don't go, I'll go," said Xia Dequan.

Now it was Xia Chen's turn to object, "How dare that damn girl? She wants you, as a father, to pick her up in person? You are not allowed to go!"

When the family was arguing, someone walked in, "Uncle, aunt."

He placed the two bamboo shoots in his hand in the corner of the room and greeted everyone.

Xia Dequan nodded, "It's Maoxun? Why are you sending bamboo shoots again? We haven't finished the ones you sent last time."

"We dug a bit too much, so I sent some here. The bamboo shoots won't go bad if they are left. If uncle can't finish them, we can make them into dried bamboo shoots. By the way, uncle, aunt, what are you talking about? Who are you going to pick up?" Zhou Maoxun looked at this and that, confused.

"Pick up your cousin Xiaorou." Xia Dequan sighed, "She hasn't been back to her parents' home for some time, I want to bring her back."

Zhou Maoxun smiled and said cheerfully, "I have nothing to do right now. I'll go pick it up."

He waved to Xia Dequan and Xia Chen, then turned and left.

Xia Dequan wanted to call him back, but Xia Chen was eager for an outsider to pick up Xia Xiaorou, so she smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Maoxun."

Zhou Maoxun moved the bow and arrow to his shoulder and strode away.

"I'm free too, why doesn't mother let me go?" Xia Jicai muttered and complained.

Xia Chen turned around and glared at her eldest son, "Shut up, do you think I don't know what you are up to? Do you want to take this opportunity to find that vixen Xia Xiaorou?"

Xia Jicai did have some thoughts about his stepsister, but he would not admit it. "Mom, you are talking nonsense. That's not true."

He was afraid of being scolded, so he rolled up his sleeves and ran to his room.

"Xiao Rou is a well-behaved child. Her mother, please stop calling her a witch. It's not good if others hear her. She is a widow now." Xia Dequan said in a serious tone.

"How have I wronged her? Doesn't she look like a witch? She looks just like her damn mother! She only seduces men. Look, her mother has been dead for more than ten years, and you're still thinking about her. Bah, a pair of witches, mother and daughter!" Xia Chen curled her lips at Xia Dequan and rolled her eyes.

"Mother, you can't say that about Xiaorou's mother!" The honest Xia Dequan also got angry this time, looking indignant.

"Oh, are you still thinking about your dead ex-girlfriend? Look how excited you are." Xia Chen rolled her eyes.

"Xiao Rou's mother..." Xia Dequan frowned, "The house we live in is all Xiao Rou's mother's property, baby's mother! It's not mine, it was bought by Xiao Rou's mother."

When Xia Chen heard this news for the first time, she opened her eyes wide in shock, "This is impossible, stop scaring me!"

Chapter 20