The Zhao family was really scared now, fearing that the whole family would be thrown into jail, so they could only sit back in their previous seats in disappointment.

"Zhao Qiao'e, that bitch. Just wait and see how I'm going to complain about her to my parents when I get back!" Tian Cuiyun said gritting her teeth.

"Mom, my ears hurt." Zhao Xiaotao looked at her aggrievedly.

Tian Cuiyun poked her head in anger and said, "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, you only know how to feel pain. You can't even protect your own things, you deserve it!"

Song Yuntang was able to snatch the pair of earrings, so maybe the pendants could be worth some silver.

If I could have protected the pair of pendants, maybe I could have exchanged them for a few hundred coins or two taels of silver. But now, they're all gone.

Zhao Xiaotao shrank her neck and didn't dare to speak anymore even though she felt aggrieved.

Elaine Chao looked at Liu Qiuyan.

"Mom, did Song Yuntang just snatch that bracelet away?"

Liu Qiuyan patted the back of her hand, signaling her to be at ease.

"Mom, let me think of a solution."

Zhao Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief. Her mother said she would find a solution, so she thought there should be no problem.

……

Seeing that the Zhao family had stopped making a fuss, Zhao heaved a sigh of relief. She asked Song Jinsheng to pour a cup of tea for her uncle and aunt from the Zhao family, and she and Wang Hongying went to the kitchen to busy themselves.

After all, she came from my mother's family. Even though there were some conflicts, I couldn't completely offend her.

If I need help in the future, maybe I can still count on them.

Take the recent period for example. Her parents knew that there would be no vegetables to eat this year, so they asked her second brother to send her a small bundle of leeks.

Song Yuntang also followed him to the kitchen.

Zhao Qiao'e thought she was there to help, and hurriedly pushed her out, "Tang'er, you don't need to be busy with things here. Go out and sit down. Your aunt and I will be fine."

After a daughter gets married, she is treated as a guest when she returns to her parents' home.

There weren't many dishes for lunch, and with Song Jinyuan and Song Jinsheng helping out, there really wasn't a need for too much help.

"I'm not here to help you."

She came to the stove, scooped a small piece of lard with a spoon, smeared it on the back of Zhao's hand, and then put the silver bracelet in her sleeve pocket on it tightly.

The process took quite a bit of effort, and Zhao's hands were a little red from years of hard work.

"I bought one with a smaller ring so it won't fall off easily."

Zhao Qiao'e looked at her in disbelief.

"Is this a silver bracelet?"

Song Yuntang rubbed the excess lard on his hands, "Yes."

Zhao Qiao'e gently shook her hand and looked at the bracelet on her hand. Although she was happy, she still asked with a distressed look, "This must have cost a lot of money, right?"

There are not many people in the village who wear silver jewelry, especially such a heavy silver bracelet, which looks to weigh at least two taels.

This is her first piece of silver jewelry!

Song Yuntang looked at her, without showing much emotion in his expression.

"Just wear it if I bought it for you. Don't worry about whether it costs money or not. Don't tell anyone else about it, especially the Zhao family. If they knew, you probably wouldn't be able to wear it for a few days."

The family has been poor in recent years, partly because there are few ways to make money, and on the other hand, Zhao Qiao'e's two sisters-in-law are too powerful.

Every time someone from her parents' home was coming, Zhao Qiao'e would hide any valuable things over and over again, for fear that her two sisters-in-law would see them.

Otherwise, if they knew about it, they would find ways to get money from her.

Zhao pulled down her sleeves and stroked the bracelet on her wrist.

"Alas! This is how my mother lived as a girl in her natal family when she was young. I have never dared to provoke your two aunts, but there is no other way. Since we are blood relatives, I can only be more cautious."

Seeing that she knew what was going on, Song Yuntang just nodded, said hello to Wang Hongying next to him, and left the kitchen.

Wang Hongying glanced at Zhao Qiao'e's wrist with envy in her eyes.

"My sister-in-law is so lucky. This silver bracelet must weigh two taels. She must have given birth to a girl. She knows how to care for others. I am the only one who cares for those rough boys in my family."

"Sister-in-law, don't envy me. You hold all the money earned by your four sons in your hands. You have the final say on what to buy," Zhao Qiao'e said, sighing, "There are only twelve pillars. I still have to endure for a few more years."

Zhao Qiao'e was afraid that the silver bracelet on her hand would be knocked against the metal while working, so she went to the room to get a small piece of cloth and asked Wang Hongying to help her wrap the bracelet carefully.

I have to roll up my sleeves and work today. If my two sisters-in-law from my mother's family see me, I'm afraid I'll have to tell my parents when I get home.

Every time she returned to Zhaojia Village, her parents and two brothers would remind her from time to time to support her parents' home.

She is just weak, but not stupid, so every time she mentions this matter, she cries poor.

Her parents and brothers were tired of hearing this, so they let her go.

If her parents knew that she had a silver bracelet, they would probably come to Rongshu Village the next day and complain that she had no conscience and didn't care about her family even though she was living a good life.

……

The lunch was quite sumptuous for the Song family. Men and women sat at two separate tables. Each table was filled with a bowl of chicken, a bowl of shallots, a serving of scrambled eggs with leeks, a serving of bok choy, and a bowl of winter melon.

Not only that, they also eat white rice.

In the past, we didn’t always have such good food during the Chinese New Year.

But Song Yuntang didn't eat much.

She was petite to begin with, and with the Zhao family's two aunts and cousins ​​targeting her, they would follow suit wherever she pinched, and when she spoke, saliva and food foam would fly all over the table.

Seeing that scene, she immediately lost her appetite.

She just cleared the rice in the bowl, put down her chopsticks, left the table and returned to her previous room.

Although no one lives there, the house is quite clean, probably because it is cleaned regularly.

Xu Qingye looked at Song Yuntang's back, put down the dishes in his hands and followed her into the house.

"Didn't you eat well?"

Song Yuntang looked back at the man standing at the door, shook his head and said, "Their saliva is flying all over the table. I don't want to eat anymore."

Then he asked, "Have you finished eating?"

"I'm done eating." Xu Qingye walked over and touched her head. "I'll go to town and buy you some jujube paste cake later."

Song Yuntang narrowed his eyes, looking forward to it.

"It's been a while since I last had it. I'll buy some meat and have braised pork tonight. The broth from the braised pork tastes delicious when poured over rice."

Xu Qingye looked at her gently.

"Okay, it's all up to you."

As if realizing that he had inadvertently gotten close to Xu Qingye, Song Yuntang faked a cough in embarrassment.

Xu Qingye just smiled and took her hand.

"Are you leaving now?"

Song Yuntang nodded, "Okay."

The Zhao family was in the yard, and it was smoky and foul. She didn't want to stay here for long.

Xu Qingye touched her head again, with a doting look in his eyes.

"Then I'll go tell my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and by the way, harness the mule cart before you come out, so as to avoid another conflict with the Zhao family."

After saying that, he strode out of the room.

……

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