Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

"My parents passed away early, leaving only my brother as their only child. What's wrong with me helping him? As his older sister, how can I bear to see him starve?

Is it not okay for me to just give some food and money to my brother?

Do I have to watch my brother starve to death?

When we were fleeing the famine, you didn't let me take my younger brother with me, so I let my younger brother follow us from a distance. We finally escaped here and our family has settled down, but what about my younger brother?

He is penniless and has nowhere to live. It’s not too much for me to give him a tael of silver to help him find a place to stay, right?

You are too cruel. Why do you have to force my brother to death when you can help him with just a raise of your hand?"

"Look at me, how old is my brother? He can barely support himself at eighteen, so why can't I give him a meal?"

The third son's wife pulled Zhang Tiezhu over. His thin body and pale face formed a sharp contrast with the third son's wife's round and rosy face.

"Sister...I'm sorry that you've been wronged these days because of me." Zhang Tiezhu put on an expression of enduring humiliation at the right time, with tears in his eyes and clenched fists.

With this comparison, the living conditions of the Yuan family are indeed better. Look at the two sons standing next to Old Lady Liu, they are rosy-cheeked and strong, why don’t they even give a bite of food to their daughter-in-law’s younger brother?

The villagers looked back and forth between them, looking at Zhang Tiezhu with pity, while looking at the third brother's wife with the miserable look of a woman struggling to survive in her husband's family.

"My parents died early, and I only have this one brother in the family. It's only right that I help him."

"Yes, my brother is still young and has no parents around. Eating, drinking, defecating and urinating are all problems for him. As an older sister, it won't hurt for me to help him."

"Ah, this woman is really pitiful. Looking at her frail appearance, she probably doesn't have enough to eat at her husband's house. She even has to save some food for her younger brother from her natal family."

"What a cruel heart! You couldn't even take your brother with you when you fled the famine. Luckily, you didn't abandon him, or he would have died, and the family line would have been cut off."

The villagers who were watching the excitement suddenly felt that the scales in their hearts tilted towards the pitiful third daughter-in-law and the frail Zhang Tiezhu.

The Yuan family was disgusted by the drama performed by the third son's wife and Zhang Tiezhu.

Old Mrs. Liu did not expect that the third daughter-in-law would perform such a drama because of a misunderstanding, and she was very angry for a moment.

For a while, the Yuan family became the target of public criticism.

Suddenly, an innocent voice came.

"Grandma Liu, why are you here? Why haven't you gone home yet?"

Xiao Ci squeezed in from the crowd, dressed in silk brocade, with a face as pretty as jade, red lips and white teeth, and a pair of big round eyes. He first glanced at the villagers who were watching the excitement on the side, then moved his gaze to Zhang Tiezhu who was standing next to the third brother's wife, staring at him with a curious tone.

"Grandma Liu, didn't this brother lose ten taels of silver in the casino and almost have his hand chopped off by the casino's thugs? It was you who paid to save this brother's hand!

Now my brother comes to see you, is he asking you to give him money because he lost money gambling again?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the villagers who were watching the excitement gasped.

Xiao Ci blinked gently at Old Lady Liu, and Old Lady Liu let out a tear. Then, a series of tears fell, and she covered her eyes and said:

"Oh, what misfortune for our family! What misfortune for our family! We finally found a wife for our son, but she's a blood-sucking slut who only knows how to use her husband's family's things to support her own family.

There was a drought in our hometown for three years. We could barely have enough to eat in the first two years, but after we married this daughter-in-law, we could no longer have enough to eat!

This daughter-in-law took the family's food to her parents' home every day, and she also took the hard-earned money of her son to her brother to gamble in the casino. In less than a year after she got married, she secretly took away more than 20 taels of money from the family! My poor grandchildren almost starved to death!

I thought that once she married into our family, she would become our daughter-in-law, so we could tolerate her not doing any work, after all, she was a new daughter-in-law.

It's fine to use my son's money to support her parents, after all, her parents don't farm, and her younger brother is away from home all day, so I should help her if I can, after all, she's my daughter-in-law!"

"We finally managed to escape here, but my daughter-in-law's brother went to the casino because he was itching to play, and he lost ten taels of silver in one go. Who could afford that? We are just an ordinary, honest family, and we can't even earn ten taels of silver in a year. Even so, we still gave her family so many things and so much silver.

We really have no other choice!"

As Old Lady Liu was acting, she felt aggrieved and sat on the ground crying loudly.

The old lady acted very realistically, with tears in her eyes, and then some children came out to point fingers. As we all know, children don't lie.

The villagers' eyes changed completely when they looked at the third brother's wife and Zhang Tiezhu. Thinking that they had just been cheated, they became even more furious and threw eggs and vegetable leaves at them.

"Bah, what the hell, a blood-sucking demon that supports his brother."

"...You're still young and don't learn your lesson. You even let your in-laws help clean up the mess. Bah."

"Ten taels of silver is enough for our family to live on for three years. How can he be so shameless?"

"Old man, please don't cry. There's no need to be sad for such ruthless people like them."

"Yes, old man, you are too kind to tolerate this. If it were me, I would have chased her out with a broom! And if she wants to use the things at home to support her parents, forget it!"

The villagers comforted Old Lady Liu and looked at the third son's wife with disgust.

The third son's wife's face turned blue and red, and she pushed through the crowd, covering her face and running away.

Zhang Tiezhu was secretly annoyed that his third son's wife was useless. Thinking of the huge sum of 500 taels in the hands of the old Yuan family, he looked at Old Lady Liu thoughtfully, and then chased after his sister.

Old Mrs. Liu wiped away her tears, waved her hands while crying, and said that she would never do it again next time and would not harm her in-laws' son.

When the villagers saw that the old lady's mood had calmed down, the protagonist of the incident ran away again. Without the excitement, they dispersed in a short while.

"Bah, what the hell!"

Old Mrs. Liu spat fiercely in the direction where the third son's wife was walking. Her face flushed, and she was obviously very angry.

Shen Chulan said, "Mother, please return this silver bracelet."

"What are you trying to refund? I said I would compensate you and your sister-in-law, and I'm going to make that bitch die of rage!" Old Lady Liu glared.

Shen Chulan sighed, she was destined to have no peace today.

...

When she returned home, Old Lady Liu was feeling unhappy. Just then, Old Lady Yuan came back from work. She grabbed Old Lady Yuan's ear and started scolding him.

Only after she had scolded enough and let out the anger in her heart did Old Lady Liu carry Yaoyao back to the house.

Yuan Laosan covered his ears, grimaced in pain, and looked confused. In the end, Yuan Laoer couldn't stand it anymore and told him what happened in the town.

"She's so rebellious!"

"As for your daughter-in-law, well, you can handle it yourself." Yuan Laoer sighed.

The third daughter-in-law came back slowly just before lunch. Shen Chulan thought there would be a big quarrel at home, but this time the third daughter-in-law behaved as usual and knelt down in front of Old Lady Liu.

Old Lady Liu quickly moved away and said angrily, "You're trying to curse me! I'm not dead yet!"