The young couple from the farm fights back

Lin was so shocked by the sound that her feet swayed. "That's not true. We, the Lin family, are people who are worthy of heaven and earth. We won't let Jiang's empty words come out of our mouths."

"Really?" Jiang Li interrupted Lin coldly again.

"Jiang, don't go too far. After all, my mother is your elder." Zhou Laosan gritted his teeth and shouted angrily, his hands clenched into fists at his sides. If Jiang Li was a man, Zhou Laosan would have started fighting.

"My head and I really can't acknowledge an elder who schemes against our eldest wife." Jiang Li retorted harshly, "You seem to understand the hierarchy of seniority, but do you take me, your eldest sister-in-law, seriously? You keep calling me Jiang, but when have you ever shown respect to me, your eldest sister-in-law?"

Zhou Laosan: ...

"You are simply unreasonable!"

"What? You can't beat me in an argument and want to hit me?" Jiang Li's words immediately made the villagers notice that Zhou Laosan and Jiang Li were only half a step apart. Looking at Zhou Laosan's angry look and his hands clenched into fists, it was clear that he was ready to hit someone.

Seeing this, Zhou Laoer came forward with a red face and pulled Zhou Laosan away from behind: "Laosan, be careful, she is our sister-in-law."

Zhou Laosan: ...

God damn, what a sister-in-law! Zhou Laosan would never recognize such a woman as his eldest sister-in-law.

He is clearly a troublemaker. He will not be happy until the family is in turmoil.

Seeing that the situation was almost heated, Jiang Li looked at Lin's complicated expression with amusement and said, "Lin, you'd better stick to your testimony. When your uncle returns to Shili Village the day after tomorrow, everything will be revealed."

Lin's heart trembled, and she staggered back a small step. Her eyes were filled with resentment and fear. She raised her hands to cover her chest, trying to yell to show the villagers' sympathy for her as a stepmother.

There were many women in the village who had a good relationship with her, but when they saw Lin again, they all looked at her with an indescribable expression.

Before this, Lin was not afraid of the matter getting out of hand. She still firmly believed that what the third brother said was right. The eldest family had already separated for two years, and there was no reason to ask them for the separation fee.

But just now, when Jiang Li brought up the deceased Ruan, Lin felt short of breath. She never expected that the eldest wife actually knew the truth.

Seeing Lin's expression, Jiang Li felt a pang of joy in her heart. She turned around and said to the onlookers, "I've troubled all of you to bear witness today, fellow villagers, but you've made a fool of yourself. I'll go back to my room and take care of the head of the household who is recovering from his illness."

"Okay, okay, go back to the house quickly. It's important to serve your man."

"Oh, you have to be more careful and don't let the man of the family get sick."

Several kind aunts gave advice one after another.

Jiang Li smiled gently, "Thank you, Auntie. I'll go inside now."

As they watched Jiang's polite and respectful back, the villagers seemed to realize that the Jiang of today was different from the Jiang of the past. It seemed that the Zhou family had pushed the young couple too hard. Otherwise, how could the once mild-mannered woman dare to expose her family's scandal in front of so many people?

Thinking of this, the villagers all looked at Lin's mother and three children.

Lin's mother and son felt ashamed at the moment, and could hardly hide their anger. If the onlookers had not left, Zhou Laosan felt that he would have let out some of his anger.

In the end, he could only leave in disgrace with his tail between his legs under everyone's eyes.

hiss~

"Cuckoo~"

As soon as Jiang Li entered the room, he saw An Ge'er, who could hardly stand, leaning limply in Zhou Chunfeng's arms, pulling his beard with his little hands.

Zhou Chunfeng's mouth twitched in pain, and his face showed helplessness.

Seeing Jiang Li coming back, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Are you done arguing?"

"..."

This was the first time for Jiang Li, a person who had lived two lifetimes, to have a fight with a group of people, and she was fighting one against three.

"Yeah." He calmed down immediately and looked at the cramped little wooden shed, feeling very uncomfortable.

Jiang Li went to the small table, poured a bowl of boiled water, and drank it.

At this time, Yiheng turned over and sat up sleepily, "Mother~"

The little boy opened his mouth and started looking for his mother without even opening his eyes.

Jiang Li found it hard not to adapt, so he put down the bowl and stepped forward: "Here."

Little Yiheng rubbed his eyes again, as if he had just realized that his father was there. The little guy subconsciously shuddered. He blinked twice, reached out and hugged his mother who was sitting on the kang, and rubbed his little face into her neck.

Jiang Li held the child on her lap and smoothed the hair that had fallen on the child's forehead. Seeing that her second son was still sleeping soundly, she turned around and looked at Zhou Chunfeng, who had a smile on his face.

"dare you laugh."

"..."

Does he have it?

"Let me tell you something serious." Jiang Li glanced at the simple wooden shed and cleared his throat.

"You said."

Zhou Chunfeng's sudden change in style made Jiang Li even more uncomfortable for a moment.

This man was not so easy to talk to before. He would try every possible way to argue with her.

Forget it, let’s get down to business.

"This time, the Lin family owes the eldest wife money, and they have to pay it back even if they don't want to. I'm thinking that when my uncle returns to Shili Village the day after tomorrow, I'll ask him to help ask the village head for a piece of land so that we can build a house before winter. What do you think?"

Before his cousin went to the city, he was quite nice to Zhou Chunfeng, mainly because of Zhou Chunfeng's deceased mother, Ruan.

It was said that the uncle had taken a fancy to Ruan's frail mother and wanted to take her and her daughter home to take care of them, but he was afraid of what people would say and had to give up. Instead, with the help of the uncle, Ruan married the young old man Zhou.

When Old Man Zhou was young, he was a pragmatic young man. His uncle was optimistic that Old Man Zhou could take good care of Ruan, which would be considered as fulfilling the entrustment of Ruan's mother who died of illness.

After Ruan left, his cousin often visited Zhou's house, mostly to see Zhou Chunfeng.

Until Old Man Zhou passed away, his cousin's only son made a good living in the city by running a small business, so he brought his uncle to the city to enjoy a good life. He had not returned to Shilitun in the past two years.

So the old man didn't know that after Old Man Zhou left, the eldest wife was driven out of the Zhou family by Lin, and of course he didn't know that Lin was so unkind.

It is not easy for villagers to get land to build houses. In addition to paying the money to buy the residential land, they also have to see whether the head of the village is willing to sign the land deed for you.

The village head and the uncle were on good terms, and Jiang Li was attracted by this relationship. "I thought, if I choose a house in a more remote location, I can save a couple of taels of silver."

"Okay, if you have money, of course you have to live well." Zhou Chunfeng, who was used to being a rich young man, was eager to escape from this shabby wooden shed.

The house leaks badly every time it rains or blows, and last year's snow even broke the beams. If I don't replace it, I'm not sure if it will survive the winter this year.

"However, even if Lin returns the money to our family, fifteen taels can build a house?" Zhou Chunfeng asked doubtfully.

"Of course, and we don't need that much." Jiang Li recalled the prices in the book and said, "Let's budget ten taels for the homestead. It's in a more secluded area and has a larger plot of land."

Zhou Chunfeng was surprised, what a poor and backward village.

"Go up the mountain and cut the mud bricks, beams, and wooden stakes for the foundation yourself."

Zhou Chunfeng understood and nodded.

He can cut down trees!

Jiang Li certainly knew that he could do it, and it just so happened that his body needed more exercise.

"It costs some money to buy tiles. I remember the book mentioned that there was a family in the next village who collected sand and gravel and sold it to wealthy people in the city. It should be more economical for us to buy sand and gravel from that family." If we budget carefully, we can buy a house.

"Okay, I'll follow your arrangements." Zhou Chunfeng had made up his mind that it would be right to follow Jiang Li's arrangements for everything here.

Jiang Li lowered her head and stroked her eldest son's little head: "After the New Year, Heng Ge'er will be five years old. It's time for enlightenment."

"Let's not talk about me. You don't want to farm in the countryside your whole life, do you? We don't have that opportunity. It's better to raise your children to be talented and rely on them to get out of this mountain in the future."

Zhou Chunfeng: "Is there a private school in the village?"

"Well, there's the Zhou clan school at the east end of the village. I can ask my uncle to help greet the clan members so that Heng can enroll next year."

Zhou Chunfeng nodded: "Okay, my uncle is back, I will have a good chat with him."

"That's right." Jiang Li paused, looked at Zhou Chunfeng, and said, "After Lin paid back the money, we spent almost all of it on building a house and sending the children to school. We have to make a living. You should farm for me honestly from now on. I will take some time to go up the mountain every day. I found that the people here don't seem to know much about certain special herbs. Perhaps that's a way to make a fortune."

Zhou Chunfeng couldn't help but smile when he thought of Jiang Li's real professional background.

"Okay." It feels like I'm going to wash my hands and become a gigolo.