My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Wang Guihua: "Yang must have known that ordinary people shouldn't touch lacquer leaves, but she lied to me and said that it was a toon tree. I brought it back so that we could all eat it together. Luckily, you were all fine after eating it. Mother, she must have deliberately harmed our family."

Yang Fenglan has ruined her life, and she won't be happy until she gets her revenge!

But before she could finish speaking, Old Zhou came out of the house, staring at the two of them with a serious look in his eyes. "Yesterday you said you picked the ailanthus by the village, so why are you saying today that Yang gave it to you?"

"Yes...it was her who gave it to me."

"I think you didn't get it from her, you stole it!" Old Zhou's eyes were sharp. When he saw Wang Guihua's swollen face, he was furious. "You still dare to steal vegetables? Didn't you embarrass yourself enough at their house that day?"

Yesterday, Old Zhou went to the fields and overheard people talking about how the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to steal from the Yang family and were almost mistaken for thieves.

Old Zhou felt his face burning and felt extremely uncomfortable all day. He scolded the two of them when he got back before he felt a little better.

The Wang family, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, finally calmed down.

Old Zhou never expected that just one day later, before dawn, they would be plotting something again.

Anxiety every day.

"I didn't steal it..." Wang Guihua said hesitantly.

"What do you mean by stealing? It's so rude. You ate every single thing that came from over there!" Wang retorted.

Old Zhou was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. "If you have nothing to do, go water the fields! With this much drought this year, the wheat harvest will definitely not be as good as in previous years. It's hard to say whether we can even fill our stomachs. Wouldn't it be better to focus on the fields?"

Wang Guihua shrank back, not daring to refute her father-in-law's scolding.

She had argued back, but Old Zhou turned around and went to the city to complain to her husband, Zhou Qinghe. Zhou Qinghe was so angry that he came back from the county and gave her a good scolding.

When Old Zhou spoke, Wang Guihua had no choice but to wake her son and daughter-in-law up to do chores.

The eldest son of the Zhou family had three sons and two daughters. Both daughters died in infancy, leaving only three sons.

Including Zhou Jingyi's two wives, the youngest, Jingzhi, is eleven years old, while the eldest, Jingren, married three months before Zhou Jingyi.

The whole family is able to work, so the sons naturally have to help with tasks like watering the fields.

As dawn broke, the whole family set out, leaving the pregnant eldest daughter-in-law at home to cook.

Wang Guihua and Wang Shi walked behind. Wang Guihua whispered, "Mother, what do you think about Yang Shi trying to harm our family?"

"What else can we do? Didn't you hear what your dad said? If he complains to Qinghe again, I'll get scolded too."

Wang Guihua was extremely itchy all over and kept scratching herself the whole way. She was unwilling to just give up like that.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Okay, forget it then, but Mother, Yang tricked us into watering her fields for two days. When we went to ask for an explanation, we were almost framed. Are we just going to let this go like this?"

It would have been better if she hadn't brought it up, because Wang felt aggrieved. "This matter can't be left unresolved! Come with me, let's go and call her to water the fields."

"Just like that?"

"if not?"

"Will she listen to us?"

“Why not? I’ve had her under my thumb for over a decade. If I tell her to go east, she’ll never dare to go west. Just you wait and see,” Wang said smugly.

Wang Guihua smiled, "Mom, it's up to you."

……

Yang Fenglan didn't sleep well in the first half of the night because of the itching, but it eased up a bit in the second half of the night, so she slept in late in the morning.

She didn't get out of bed until she heard Wang's shouts.

Inner monologue: What a grueling early morning!

On the surface: "Mother, sister-in-law, what brings you here?"

The two of them simply opened the gate to the yard, past the fence, and took a stool from under the eaves to sit down.

Yang Fenglan thought to herself: Sooner or later I'll have to spend money to build a wall around it to keep out any cats and dogs.

"Yang, you're getting lazier and lazier. At this hour, so many people in the village are busy in the fields, and you're still sleeping in." Wang crossed her legs, clearly disapproving of her daughter-in-law.

Yang Fenglan pulled at her collar, revealing lumps of bumps. "Look, I caught an infectious disease. I can't get up if I don't sleep well."

Upon hearing about the infectious disease, Wang almost fell off the stool and hurriedly pulled Wang Guihua away from her.