Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Seeing Xu Manyue coming back, she smiled.

"You're back just in time. Your second sister-in-law and Qingqing are cooking. Let's have roasted rabbit and stir-fried sweet potato leaves at home today."

Xu Manyue looked at the eggs on the table and the kitchen, "Mom, have the Liu family next door left?"

The old lady sighed, "Yes, we have to leave. If we don't leave now, we will just wait to die here. If we escape the famine, we may have a chance to survive and preserve the roots of the Liu family."

Now all the wild vegetables, tree barks, and grass roots around the brigade have been eaten up.

In order to avoid starvation, many people in the brigade would run out with their families to make a living almost every day.

Now, there are less than ten families left in the entire brigade, as well as some elderly, weak and sick people who have been abandoned.

The Liu family is his next-door neighbor. They have a large family and are lazy and gluttonous. They are not good people at all.

Recently, first several granddaughters of the Liu family starved to death, followed by old man Liu, and later, old woman Liu who came to cause trouble also starved to death.

I heard that she starved to death in the middle of the night in order to leave her last bit of food for her grandson Liu Jinbao.

The Liu family, which originally had more than a dozen people, now has only a few people left.

If you don't leave now, you will just have to wait for death.

Xu Manyue also had complicated feelings.

In the past few months, she could be said to have seen with her own eyes the people next door starving to death one after another. There were so many people who starved to death that she got used to hearing the noises next door.

Even the neighbors have gotten used to it. At first, when they faced the death of their family members, they would cry and grieve, but later they disposed of the bodies indifferently, with nothing but numbness in their eyes.

Because even they themselves don’t know whether they will be the next person to die.

Shen Jianping waved his hands and said, "Mom, Third Sister-in-law, don't think about this anymore. It's good that the Liu family is gone. We won't have to worry about them smelling the aroma when we roast rabbits at home."

The Shen family was originally at the end of the village, near the foot of the back mountain. There were not many people living here originally, and now some have starved to death, some have fled famine, and only the Shen family is left.

As long as they are careful, almost no one can find out what they eat.

Xu Manyue thought about it and felt that this was good news.

Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to run to the old house every time to eat rabbit.

Shen Jianping suddenly remembered what happened today. He pointed at the eggs on the table and the old hen outside, and couldn't help swallowing.

"Third sister-in-law, you don't know that after you left today, my mother, my second brother, his sister-in-law, and I went to the Wang family to take back the old hens they raised and the eggs they had saved."

"My second brother also beat Wang Yougen severely. If it weren't for the Wang family paying the bill and the chicken and eggs, he would have been beaten to death."

Xu Manyue looked at the eggs on the table and asked, "Were these eggs and the chicken given by the Wang family?"

"How could they bear to give it up? It was my mother who went to snatch it away. She held a kitchen knife to Wang Yougen's neck. The Wang family immediately bowed their heads, not daring to breathe, and begged for mercy."

"In order to protect the Wang family's only child, the Wang family almost emptied their family funds this time. Mother and second brother reluctantly let them go. This can be considered as a way to vent the anger of the eldest sister-in-law."

Xu Manyue subconsciously looked at the old lady.

The old lady raised her chin and smiled triumphantly, "At the critical moment, it is still me who has to take action. The Wang family is nothing. I can easily crush them."

Xu Manyue couldn't help but laugh and gave a thumbs up, "Mom, you are the backbone of our family. Without you, our family will definitely fall apart."

"Of course. I've experienced more than you have. If it weren't for me, they wouldn't have grown up this big."

The old lady is not modest at all.

Thinking about how she had been both a father and a mother for the sake of this family, based on her looks, even though she had several children and was pregnant with another, there were still many men who came to her house and wanted to marry her.

But she was afraid that those men would not treat her children well, and she was even more afraid that after she remarried and had other children, she would not treat these children well either.

After all, people's hearts are fickle, and she herself cannot guarantee that her feelings towards her child will not change.

So she simply rejected everyone and declared that she would never remarry.

"Mom, the food is ready, come sit down and eat together."

Lin Luoxia came out with a plate of roasted rabbit meat, and Shen Qingqing was holding a pot of cornmeal porridge.

In addition to these two things today, I also fried a plate of sweet potato leaves and made a few corn cakes.

It’s a celebration. I taught the Wang family a lesson today.

Except for Mr. Shen and Mrs. Shen who were still in the hospital, almost all the Shen family members sat at this dining table to eat.

The old lady was the first to pick up her chopsticks. She picked up a piece of rabbit meat and put it in Xu Manyue's bowl. "These past few days, because of your sister-in-law's affairs, you've been running back and forth from the county town almost every day."

"You must be very tired. Eat some meat to replenish your energy."

Xu Manyue smiled and said, "Thank you, mother."

After saying that, she put the rabbit meat into her mouth and started eating. Although the rabbits raised at home did not taste as good as wild ones, she did not add any extra seasonings.

But although it is a meat dish, it still tastes good.

Shen Jianping looked at the rabbit meat on the table and couldn't help but pick up a piece and eat it. Compared with the cornmeal porridge with little oil and sweet potato leaves, this was so delicious that it almost made his tongue fall off.

"It's delicious, really delicious, Mom. I'll just raise rabbits from now on. Just give me half a rabbit as a reward every month."

The old lady rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're such a loser! Most people want to work in the city and eat commercial grain, but you're content with just a few pieces of rabbit meat."

"I was counting on you guys to support me in my old age, but now it seems like there's nothing I can rely on for you."

Xu Manyue smiled and said, "Mom, that's not necessarily true. If I can raise rabbits well, maybe they will become a good skill in the future. At least I won't have to worry about food and drink."

After a few years, when the famine was over, life gradually improved.

If you can use the collective name of the brigade to set up a breeding farm in the brigade, you will be considered half a worker, which will definitely be popular in the countryside.

However, it is still early now, and we don’t know what the new captain will be like in the future.

The old lady didn't take this to heart and thought that Xu Manyue just said it casually in order not to hurt Shen Jianping.

She picked up a piece of rabbit meat and put it in her mouth. "If the fourth brother can have this ability, then our Shen family will be very rich."