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

The old village chief nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to Xiuying's house and return everything registered here."

Aunt Sun walked behind the crowd and said to Sun Huahua, "Run home and take the milk apples and bracken we picked today to your Aunt Xiuying's house."

Sun Huahua agreed and went to the mountains with her three brothers early this morning to pick milk apples and wild vegetables, probably more than 20 kilograms in total. Sun Huahua ran home quickly.

The old village chief was holding the registration form in his hand, followed by a group of people as they rushed to Xiuying's home in the mountains.

Yang Xiuying lives at the back of the village, which is sparsely populated with only a few scattered households.

There were only a few families who wanted to return their belongings, but more than twenty families followed the village chief. Almost all those who wanted to exchange rice with Yang Xiuying came, more than ten families, and a few families came to watch the fun.

People along the way were talking and laughing. Except for a few families with unhappy expressions, the others looked like they were just visiting.

"Xiuying and her daughter live upstairs?"

"This is a good location, with a great view from a high vantage point."

"Oh, that's Xiuying's new house in front, right? I see it's made of wood."

"It's nice here. I remember there seems to be a spring behind this mountain. It's better than the well water we drink."

Mother Zhao snorted coldly

"What's there to be proud of? Her family just built her a shabby house with a thatched roof. If they can build a brick house, they can. If she can build a brick house, I will... I will eat that thatched roof."

The villagers who were originally talking and laughing consciously kept a distance from Zhao's mother and walked behind her.

In the village, only the Zhao family and the village chief's family had brick houses. Everyone else lived in adobe houses or thatched houses. Zhao's mother offended a group of people with just one sentence.

The women thought that she was Xiuying's mother-in-law, so they didn't say much.

Only Zhao's eldest daughter-in-law, Tian Guilan, followed Zhao's mother and said some flattering words.

"My sister-in-law is an unlucky person. Not only did she give birth to seven money-losing children, but she also doesn't know how to be grateful to her mother-in-law. If she were in another family, she would have been divorced long ago.

Even though you were so kind-hearted that you kept her in the Zhao family and provided her with food and drink, she didn't know how to be grateful and even extorted your food. It is all her retribution that she is in this situation.

Don't worry, mother. I will definitely be filial to you. I am different from her. I have given you four grandchildren. They will also be filial to you as I am to you."

Mother Zhao took a deep breath. Today's incident was not in vain. Tian Guilan regained her previous respect for her.

Zhou Dazhu and Ma Ergun ran in front, watching the gate locked from the outside, and shouted to the people behind them

"Oh no, Widow Yang ran away."

"MD, they're running away with our food."

Ma Ergun started cursing at the honest Ma Laifu: "Look, now we can't retreat even if we want to. Widow Yang is just trying to cheat us out of our food. From now on, the three of us brothers have to listen to me. With your brain, it's strange that you don't get fooled. You even believe such an outrageous thing."

Deng Defa heard that Yang Xiuying had run away, so he ran over, glanced at the lock on the door, and laughed at the villagers who were watching the commotion: "See, I was right, everyone has been fooled. Now it's good, Widow Yang and those girls are probably hiding, and they won't come out until the food is eaten. By then, they won't be able to get a single grain of rice, and we won't be able to do anything."

When Deng Defa got excited, he stomped his feet heavily.

The villagers stood by and watched the three grown men cursing and shouting in front of the gate, and they really looked down on them from the bottom of their hearts.

Mrs. Sun couldn't bear it anymore and yelled.

"Aren't they just some wild fruits and vegetables? They're not precious. My family isn't worried, so why are you?"

Aunt Li also agreed: "Yes, maybe Xiuying went out and will be back soon. Why are you so anxious?"

Aunt Li's daughter Li Chunmei stood in the spacious dam and looked around. She really envied Shi Liu's family for having such a wide dam. Although it was a little far away from the crowd, it was quiet.

Li Chunmei, with her sharp eyes, saw the Zhao sisters working in the vegetable fields in the distance and shouted

"They didn't run away. They were planting vegetables in the fields."

Everyone looked in the direction Li Chunmei pointed, and sure enough, it was Xiuying's daughters in the vegetable garden.

Zhou Dazhu stood at the edge of the dam and shouted to the vegetable field across the way, "Where is Yang Xiuying? Call her back and give me back my things."

Ma Ergun also shouted to the sisters in the vegetable garden across the street, "Hurry up and ask Widow Yang to come back. The bracken mixed with wheat bran is enough to make porridge for me to eat for several days. Tell her to come back quickly and give me back my bracken. Don't even think about eating my food for free."

Taohua, who was digging a hole in the vegetable garden, stood up and said loudly to the people on the opposite dam: "Dear uncles and aunts, my mother has gone out. Please wait for a moment. If you have anything, please wait until she comes back."

Ma Ergun on the opposite side was shocked when he heard that he had to wait. He was already exhausted from climbing the hill, and now he had to wait for him. Normally at home, he would never sit as long as he could fall asleep, and would never stand as long as he could sit. When had he ever been so tired?

"What are you waiting for? Call your mother back. What else can a woman do?"

Deng Defu also shouted in dissatisfaction: "Grandpa's time is precious. Tell your mother to come back soon. You can't avoid it. Otherwise, come here and open the door for us."

Taohua and her sisters were planting vegetables in the vegetable garden opposite, and no longer paid attention to the people shouting from the opposite side.

The people on the opposite side were cursing until their voices were hoarse, but the sisters were still planting vegetables in the vegetable garden.

Zhou Dazhu sat on a large rock in the dam and looked through the fence at the chickens in the coop and the rabbits in the fence. He said to Ma Ergun and the others, "If that widow Yang Xiuying can't provide food, we can ask her to provide the chickens, ducks, and rabbits in the yard."

When Ma Ergun heard about using chickens, ducks, and rabbits to replace wild vegetables, he happily agreed: "Okay, that's a good idea. There are more than ten chickens in the chicken coop. They probably can't eat all of them. It's perfect to use them to pay for the vegetables."

Ma Ergun looked at the chickens raised in the yard through the fence. The chickens were growing really well and had a lot of meat. He had no objection to exchanging his milk apples and ferns for his own.

"Then we'll trade one pound of milk apple for one pound of chicken. We'll just have to take a loss."

Just as they were looking at the chickens, ducks and rabbits in the yard, a childish voice rang out.

"No, you can't touch my things."

"If you have anything to say, wait until my mother comes back."

The third and fourth brothers came back with baskets full of wild mushrooms and black truffles.