Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top

Seeing her mother-in-law defeated, Tian Guilan thought it was her chance to show off. She stepped forward to support Zhao's mother and raised her voice to comfort her, "Mother, you are honest and kind. How did you win over so many people?"

"You let the maids do the laundry and cooking for their own good. They'll get married someday, and they can't wait until they're married to learn these things. And yet they're so ungrateful for your hard work. It's the maids who decide what to eat at home, but eggs are so precious that Mother usually doesn't eat them. She saves them and takes them to the city to trade for salt and kerosene. Who in the ordinary family would be willing to eat eggs?"

"We all eat from the same bowl, and we never ask for more than the girls' food. I guess the girls just like to eat vegetarian food, and there's nothing we can do about it."

Tian Guilan patted her chest and said, "I can guarantee that mother-in-law cares more about those girls than the boy at home. This girl is the same. If you want to eat something, just tell your grandmother. Why did you take it secretly? You have to make a thief out of your own house. Otherwise, things wouldn't have turned out like this. This matter is ultimately the fault of this girl. She shouldn't have secretly taken things from home."

Hearing what her eldest daughter-in-law said, Zhao's mother became stiff again: "Yes, I am not good at speaking. What the eldest daughter-in-law said is what I mean."

"Is this a matter of eggs? This concerns the girls' reputations, and I'm worried about them. As the saying goes, if they steal needles when they are young, they will steal gold when they grow up. If they develop the habit of stealing, what will happen when they marry into a wealthy family? I'm doing this for their own good."

Zhao's mother and Tian Guilan smiled at each other. Just because Yang Xiuying wanted to resist them, Zhao's mother and Tian Guilan didn't take the helpless Xiuying seriously at all.

Yang Xiuying continued, "Since my mother-in-law and sister-in-law have said so, we can eat whatever we want at home from now on. Don't regret it later."

The smiles on Zhao's mother and Tian Guilan's faces gradually froze. They felt that Yang Xiuying was setting a trap for them. Now it was not a matter of which egg to eat.

But with Xiuying's usual character, even if she was given good food, would she dare to eat it? In the end, it still depends on her mood.

Mother Zhao took a deep breath when she thought of this. That little bitch Xiuying only saw that there were so many people around now, and once these people dispersed, she would be at her mercy.

"I love them so much that I blame them harshly. These girls are the blood of the second son. As their grandmother, how can I not feel sorry for them?"

After some speeches, Zhao's mother finally regained some face.

The sixth child ran out of the house, stood behind the fourth and fifth children, and shouted, "Grandma, if you like us, why did you sell our eldest sister to Old Man Wang from the next village as a wife? After selling our eldest sister, are you going to sell our second sister, then our third and fourth sisters, and finally even our mother to an old man as a wife?"

The face that Zhao's mother had just regained fell to the ground, her face flushed red. She wished she could find a hole to crawl into. She cursed Lao Liu in her heart, turned around and said to the villagers with a smile: "Don't listen to the nonsense of children. How could I sell my granddaughter to an old man as a wife? How is that possible?"

Zhao's mother had originally planned to quietly sell these girls to other villages to marry the old man, so that no one would know. But she didn't expect the sixth granddaughter to tell everyone in front of so many people. The key point is that the eldest granddaughter has not yet reached the age of marriage. Wouldn't this make people scold her? How could she face people in the village in the future?

Mother Zhao bit her back teeth and cursed secretly, "What's wrong with a bunch of ungrateful girls marrying an old man?"

After a few years, when the old man passes away, the family will be in charge by themselves. Such a good thing is hard to find even with a lantern. They are a bunch of ungrateful people who have wasted all my efforts.

Her eyes fell on Xiuying and she whispered, "Hurry up and tell everyone that this is not true. I'll give you half of the money."

The fourth and fifth children standing behind Xiuying heard what grandma said, and disappointment spread in their eyes. Their mother had a falling out with grandma because grandma was unwilling to share the money with her, not because she couldn't bear to part with them.

Now that grandma is willing to share some money with her, she will naturally side with grandma.

Xiuying smiled at Zhao's mother and said to Lao Liu, "Children speak without restraint. Grandma is your biological grandma. How could she sell you to an old man as a wife? Isn't that worse than pigs and dogs? Besides, you are still young. Even if you want to complain about others in the future, it is Grandma who will find a good family for you. How can I just promise you to someone casually?"

The fourth, fifth and sixth brothers felt something was wrong when they heard Xiuying's words. Was their mother scolding their grandmother?

Zhao's mother and Tian Guilan's faces fell when they heard these indirect criticisms, but at least they covered up the matter. Otherwise, if everyone knew that the Zhao family sold their granddaughter who had not yet reached the age of marriage to the old man, no girl would dare to marry into the Zhao family.

Xiuying smiled at the children's innocent eyes and said, "Silly girls, how could your grandma bear to sell you to that old man? When your father was in the army, he returned his monthly salary to the family, and later he received a pension, which he kept with your grandma.

Your grandmother has plenty of money, over twenty acres of land, and a lot of livestock. She's one of the richest people in the village. How could she have fallen to the point of selling her granddaughter? Wouldn't that be ridiculous?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Tian Guilan looked towards Zhao's mother. She didn't expect that this old woman actually had so much silver in secret. She was so stingy on weekdays and was reluctant to even buy a piece of fat meat during the New Year. Did she want to take so much silver to the fields?

Tian Guilan's expression changed again and again as she looked at Zhao's mother.

The sixth child, standing behind the fourth and fifth children, now had his mother's support and became bolder. He asked loudly, "Grandma, are you saving the money that Dad left behind because you planned to leave it to us?"

Mother Zhao felt guilty when she was asked. How could she leave the money her son had earned with his life to a little girl? Girls would get married in the end, so wouldn't that be giving it away to others?

Zhao's mother used some of the silver that the second son of the Zhao family exchanged for, plus the pension, to subsidize her parents' home. Now she still has twenty taels of silver. She plans to use some of this twenty taels of silver for herself and leave the rest for her precious grandson. However, she cannot say it in front of so many people.

If people knew that I used the money I earned from my son's life to subsidize my mother's family, how would I live in the village in the future?

Tian Guilan looked at Zhao's mother with an increasingly ugly expression. Although Zhao's mother treated her, the eldest daughter-in-law, well, that was only in relation to Yang Xiuying. How could Yang Xiuying compare with her? She had given birth to four grandsons for the Zhao family and was a great contributor to the family.

Facing the gazes of the villagers and her eldest daughter-in-law, Zhao's mother felt like she was standing on a cliff. If she took a step forward, she would be in an abyss, and if she took a step back, she would be in a sea of fire and a mountain of swords.