Why aren't you guys complaining now that I'm here?

"My chicken!" Old Mrs. Lin's eyebrows jumped, and she rushed over to pull her.

"Stop it right there! Stop it! This is the old hen that your uncle left for laying eggs to nourish his body! You scared me and I won't let you go!"

When Lin Hao heard this, he threw the remaining chickens onto the roof.

For a moment, the whole yard was filled with chicken droppings and feathers flying everywhere, occasionally mixed with the terrified screams of the old hen and Li.

Old Lady Lin couldn't catch the chicken, nor could she wipe the chicken shit off her face. She just collapsed to the ground and started howling.

Lin Qingya came back from outside carrying a half bucket of milk. Seeing the situation, she put down the bucket without thinking and went to help Old Lady Lin.

"The ground is cold, Grandma, hurry up and get up. What happened to Sister Qiuya? Why did you get so angry?"

Old Lady Lin finally saw someone she liked, and tearfully scolded, "My Qingya is sensible, unlike that bitch Lin Qiuya, who just messes around at home all day long!"

Lin Qingya's eyes flashed, and she said in embarrassment: "Grandma, I think Qiuya should be more sensible now that she is this old. She can't be spoiled blindly. Why don't you talk to Auntie and ask her to take care of Qiuya more..."

He almost said that Wang didn't know how to take care of the child and allowed the child to misbehave at home.

Old Lady Lin understood what she meant, got up, and ran out the door. "You're right! I'll have Wang come back and deal with her!"

Lin Qingya would not miss this good opportunity to watch the fun, and followed with her skirt lifted up.

"Grandma, please go slower. Let me support you."

Lin Hao folded his arms and sneered.

Okay, you have a lot of bad ideas, right? Let me show you how I’m going to deal with you!

Taking advantage of the night, she moved towards the door and waved her hand to put the half bucket of milk into the space.

Li was covered in chicken droppings and had just returned to the house to clean it up. Seeing that there was no one in the yard, she crouched down and went into Old Lady Lin's house.

A casual glance revealed something amiss in the corner of the beam.

He tiptoed up and searched around, and sure enough, he found a few strings of copper coins in a tattered bag. It was a heavy bag, about five or six taels of silver.

Lin Hao put the copper coins into the space, stuffed the torn bundle back, and swaggered back to his room.

Anyway, the money was earned by their eldest wife, so she didn't feel guilty at all about taking it.

"What's wrong with my daughter? She just ate some of your food. Why is it so long-lasting?!"

Lin Hao had just sat down when he heard the door being pushed open with a bang, and Wang's impatient voice came in.

"What do you mean just a little? That damn girl ate two bowls of double-skin milk, which cost twenty cents!" Old Mrs. Lin screamed in a shrill voice.

"What's wrong with twenty cents?" Wang couldn't stand Old Lady Lin's sarcastic look the most.

"Our family works hard from the beginning of the year to the end, not daring to rest for a single day. We earn at least eight taels of silver, and all of it goes to the government. How can my daughter not even have a twenty-cent piece of double-skin milk? How can this be justified in the world?"

"You just can't eat it! Why should a worthless girl eat such a precious thing?"

"We're selling these double-skin milk products to earn money for Chengcai's education! Women are always short on knowledge and wisdom!"

As she continued to curse, Old Lady Li began to talk over and over again in a earnest manner.

"How many times have I told you that we are living frugally now just to support Chengcai. Only when Chengcai passes the imperial examination and becomes an official can our family enjoy the good life together!"

"What's the point of you fussing over it all the time? If you're really not convinced, we'll divide the family property when your father comes back. Even if Chengcai becomes successful in the future, it won't have anything to do with you!"

Wang had heard such words so many times since she married into the Lin family that her ears were almost callused.

If she goes back ten years, she really wanted to yell, "Let's split up, it's okay, it doesn't matter."

But now they have invested too much in Lin Chengcai, how can she be willing to split up like this?

——Why is it that they are the first wife who do the hard work, but Lin Chengcai abandons them when he becomes successful?

No, absolutely impossible!

Even if she has to pester Lin Chengcai, she will not stop until he leads their family to a good life!

Thinking of this, Wang went back to her room with a gloomy face, took out twenty cents of dowry money, and threw it on the table.

"That's enough! I'll just give you the money, okay? It's only twenty cents. Is it really necessary to chase after my daughter, beat her, and scold her?"

Old Lady Lin quickly put away the copper coins, her expression softening slightly, but she continued to nag, "Why not? It's easy for you to say. If you have the guts, give me all your dowry money for safekeeping."

"Mother!" Before Wang could speak, Lin Chengzhi, who had been silent for a while, finally couldn't stand it anymore and roared in a low voice:

"Mrs. Qiong only has this little dowry money, and you've been trying every way to take it from her over the years. Do you really want us to live a good life?"

Old Mrs. Lin was startled, and as soon as she came to her senses, she sat down on the ground and started crying.

"Okay, okay, you're really my good son. You've married a wife and forgotten your mother. You even dare to talk back to me!"

"I'm doing this for myself, not just for our family. I'm saving all the money for your brother to study and get an education, so that we can all have a prosperous life!"

Lin Chengzhi's face looked very ugly, and he wanted to say something else, but Wang quickly pulled him into the house.

"Wife, why are you pulling me? I really can't stand it anymore. Why don't we separate?"

"Stupid!" Wang poked him on the forehead.

"It's easy to split up the family, but what about all the hard work we've put in over the years?"

"I'm sorry to say something unpleasant. Mom and Dad are so partial. They definitely won't give us good things when the family business is divided. Maybe we won't even have a place to live by then."

"Chunsheng is getting married, and Chunya is also looking for a husband. If we don't even have a place to live, how can our children find a good marriage?"

Lin Chengzhi lowered his head in frustration, "I'm sorry, wife. It's all my fault for being incompetent. I made you and the child suffer with me."

Wang sighed, "Why say all this? As long as we're together as a family, what hardship can there be?"

The couple was talking in the house when Lin Qingya suddenly started shouting outside.

"Where's my milk? Why is the milk I left at the door gone?"

Old Mrs. Lin jumped up.

"How could it disappear when it was stored safely at home? Did that damned girl Lin Qiuya drink it secretly?"

As he said this, he took two steps at a time, ran to Lin Hao's door, and kicked it open with a bang.

Seeing Lin Hao lying on the bed, she cursed and was about to pull off her quilt.

"Did you drink Qingya's milk? Come here and let me touch your belly!"

Lin Hao lifted up his clothes and sucked in his stomach quietly, "I didn't drink."

Seeing that her stomach was shriveled and didn't look like she had eaten or drunk enough, Old Lady Lin scolded her unwillingly, "If you didn't drink, then you didn't drink. Hurry up and get some milk!"

Lin Hao tilted his head and said, "No, if you order me around again I'll secretly kill the chicken and eat the meat."

Old Lady Lin was so angry that her heart ached. "If you dare touch my chicken, I'll beat you to death!"

Lin Hao jumped out of bed, ran to the chicken coop, pulled out a frightened old hen and put it in front of Old Lady Lin.

Use a little force with both hands.

With a puff, the warm and fishy chicken blood immediately splashed all over Old Lady Lin's face.