Ugly girl only wants to farm

She shouted, "Grandma, what are you feeding him?"

Meng Jiuxia ran over and tried to snatch the bowl, but her grandmother dodged it and held the bowl high above her head.

Meng Jiuxia looked at her in disbelief, her voice rising a few decibels: "Grandmother, what exactly did you feed my eldest brother?"

Grandmother carefully held the bowl to her chest, glanced at it and thankfully it hadn't spilled, then sternly scolded her: "You're always so careless. You'll bring shame to the Meng family when you get married."

Xu Chaoyan seized the opportunity to snatch the bowl, brought it to her nose and smelled it. It smelled of incense and paper money. She thought to herself, "Could this ignorant woman have given someone a bowl of incense ash water?"

"Ugly woman, you heartless viper, are you trying to kill your husband? This old woman went through mountains and rivers to get him this morning, and you've ruined him like this! Why is my life so miserable? My grandson! This ugly woman wants to kill you?"

After wailing, he plopped down on the ground and started rolling around in a rage.

Li San Niang ran over at this moment: "Mother, what exactly do you want to do?"

When the grandmother saw that the whole family was condemning her, she cried even louder: "You heartless bastards, you ingrates! What can I do? It's all for my grandson's good. Look, you went to the county and he still hasn't woken up. I'm so worried I can't sleep. The old master said that if you drink this talisman water with incense ash, it will cure the disease."

Li San Niang picked up a handkerchief to wipe her son's mouth, her tone distant and indifferent with a hint of helplessness: "Mother, can you please not cause trouble? We'll just take the medicine as the doctor says."

Xu Chaoyan handed over another handkerchief. Meng Jiuhe was lying there lifeless. Just a few days ago, he had been talking to her. Such a vibrant person was now lying there, making one sigh at the impermanence of life.

This further solidified her belief in cherishing her life. Now that her father was missing, her only safe haven was the Meng family. Only if Meng Jiu reconciled with her could she have a better future.

"Xia'er, why don't you help your grandmother out to eat first? Your sister-in-law and I can manage here."

Meng Jiuxia looked reluctant and pouted as she called out, "Grandmother, let's go?"

Grandmother slapped her hand away and got up on her own: "Li San Niang, let me tell you, I'm not dead yet. This family is not your place to make decisions. Hurry up and feed me this divine water that has been blessed by heaven. It's not only troublesome but also expensive. Do you think it's easy for me? I went to beg people first thing in the morning."

“Mother, where did you get the money? Our family has used up all the money we had to treat Jiuhe’s illness. How do you have money? Why didn’t you give us the money when his father broke his leg? You made us borrow from the He family.”

The grandmother said guiltily, "I didn't do that back then either. Besides, what right do you have to question me? I was only doing it for your son's own good. Are you the only one who can dote on your son? He's my grandson too."

Li Sanniang rubbed her temples, looking exhausted: "Forget it, Mother isn't going to worry about whose money it is right now. We can't just feed Jiuhe random things anymore, his body can't take it."

Grandmother walked out cursing and swearing. Her words were very harsh. Xu Chaoyan was an innocent victim. She didn't want to be a widow and find another husband either.

"Hey, Yan'er, why isn't the lock on your box properly? With so many people coming and going at home lately, be careful."

Xu Chaoyan only then noticed that the lock on her clothes chest seemed to have been pried open. Startled, she quickly lifted the chest and found the clothes inside in disarray, crumpled up and placed inside. There was a cloth wrapping containing several silver hairpins in a small corner, which was part of her dowry prepared by her father, but it was now nowhere to be found.

Seeing her panicked expression, Li Sanniang's heart also tightened, and she asked worriedly, "Did you lose something?"

"The clothes inside are still there, but several silver hairpins are missing."

Li Sanniang paced back and forth anxiously: "No one else has come to our house these past two days. Could it be that you're mistaken? Should we look again?"

She still clung to a last glimmer of hope, just in case she had misremembered.

Xu Chaoyan examined the pried-open lock closely: "There are signs of it being pried open here. I locked it when I left."

"Mother, Grandmother said she has a terrible headache and doesn't want to eat. She asked us to get her some medicine. By the way, when did Grandmother get any new jewelry? Even though it was covered by her hair, I still saw it."

"Xia'er, what did you say?"

Seeing her mother excitedly pulling her along, Meng Jiuxia looked at her blankly and said, "I told her that Grandmother has a headache and isn't eating, so she asked us to get her some medicine."

No, the sentence after that.

Meng Jiuxia: "Get her the medicine?"

Xu Chaoyan: "You just said that Grandmother got new jewelry. Did you see something?"

"Hmph, Grandmother keeps saying she loves my eldest brother, but when we went to the county to see a doctor, she was wearing a silver hairpin that was shining. Last time when that shrew tried to force me to be her wife, she didn't even lend a hand."

Xu Chaoyan and Li Sanniang exchanged a glance and nodded in tacit agreement.

"Xia'er, keep an eye on your older brother and me when we go out for a meal."

Grandmother was wiping the hairpin with her sleeve, and the smile on her lips was impossible to hide. Peach Blossom sat to the side, looking on with envy.

"Grandmother, this hairpin is so pretty, can I play with it for a few days?"

Grandmother quickly put the hairpin back on, looking at it with a smug expression, and said with considerable pride, "Then you'd better try to please me, my old arms and legs are really sore."

With a smile on her face, Peach Blossom massaged her legs and shoulders, speaking softly to make the old lady laugh heartily.

"Peach Blossom is more pleasing, isn't she? That Xia girl is annoying and probably won't find a good family. It would have been better to have married into He's family as she wished last time."

Peach Blossom nodded in agreement, trying to curry favor: "Grandmother, you love Peach Blossom the most. How about you leave this hairpin to me as part of my dowry? My poor mother didn't prepare anything for me, and I'll definitely be ridiculed in the future."

After she finished speaking, her eyes were red. Her grandmother hugged her tightly and comforted her, saying, "Don't belittle yourself. If we don't leave it to you, who else can we leave it to? Can we leave it to that disobedient Xia girl? Grandma will put it on you now."

Xu Chaoyan pushed open the heavy door: "Since Grandmother is a granddaughter, why don't my sister-in-law and I get one, but Peach Blossom Sister gets one all to herself?"

Grandmother was so frightened that she frantically tried to hide, her face showing panic.

"What is there? Nothing at all."

Li San Niang snatched the hairpin away, her face filled with anger and embarrassment.

Xu Chaoyan hadn't expected her to act this way, after all, she had always been a mild-mannered person.

"Mother, how could you even think about your granddaughter-in-law's things? Aren't you afraid people will laugh at you if word gets out?"

Grandmother's expression changed rapidly as she retorted, "What do you mean by 'wanting'? She's married into the Meng family, so these things naturally belong to the Meng family. What's wrong with me taking a little? I'm doing this for Jiuhe's sake. Who told you to waste the Celestial Master's divine water by making trouble? That was exchanged for a hairpin."

After saying that, he looked pained.