Transmigrated into a child bride, she punishes scumbags, raises children, and marries a soldier.

Zhou Chuan returned to the Sun family home, and was stopped by Sun Mancang as soon as she entered. She roughly knew what he was referring to, but she pretended not to know: "What's wrong? You can't stand it after only one day at your house? Let me tell you, you have to put up with it whether you like it or not. I've been working as a laborer at your house for over twenty years. I'm the one who's suffering!"

Sun Mancang was so angry that his heart ached: "You, you, we lost money yesterday, two hundred yuan, that's a lot."

Previously, the old woman handled all the trivial matters at home, but now that he was being asked to argue with his former father-in-law and former daughter-in-law, he was actually a little embarrassed.

Sun Erzhu, Sun Gousheng's second brother, didn't want the house to be in such a mess, so he wanted to reason with Zhou Chuan. However, he was stopped by Da Ni's mother, who was a step ahead. Their good sister-in-law was still holding a grudge, and they mustn't mess with her. If they did, she would really kill the livestock in the house.

Zhou Chuan glanced at the Sun family: "I said yesterday that I didn't want to go too far. I didn't ask for a single penny more than the two hundred yuan you gave me yesterday. Now I want to eat something good to replenish my body because your Sun family has ruined my health. I'm being polite by not settling accounts with you. If you keep nagging me, and really push me too far, I'll use a packet of rat poison..." Whether it kills a person or an animal, he could think about it himself.

"Sister-in-law, calm down, calm down," Da Ni's mother quickly interrupted. "Wrong, it should be Comrade Zhou, Comrade Zhou. The chicken soup is ready, it smells delicious. Let me serve you some, I'll serve you some right now."

As Da Ni's mother was about to go to the kitchen to help serve the soup, she gave her father-in-law a wink as she passed by Sun Mancang.

Sun Mancang was furious, but there was nothing she could do. Zhou Chuan was acting like a dead pig that wasn't afraid of boiling water. Anyway, she had no ties to anyone, and if she was really pushed too far, it wasn't impossible for her to kill her whole family.

Sun Mancang didn't want to get involved anymore. One chicken is fine, at least they didn't try to take two pigs.

Inside the main room, Madam Wang listened intently, only to hear her old man say a couple of sentences before falling silent. She was furious, but apart from pounding the bed in anger, she had no other recourse. She just thought that once he recovered, she would teach that scoundrel a lesson.

Seeing that the head of the family was silent, the other members of the Sun family secretly hoped that Zhou Chuan could give them some chicken to eat; if there was no meat, soup would also do.

Zhou Chuan ignored the expectant gazes of the roommates. Apart from the few children who were given some food in the nooks and crannies, such as chicken feet, chicken butts, and chicken necks—things she didn't eat—the other adults didn't get anything and could only watch.

She treated the old lady in the main room who kept cursing in the main room the same way, not giving her even a spoonful of soup and eating it all herself. She was the one who caused the original owner's body to become like this, so she wouldn't be soft-hearted. Even though Sun Mancang hesitated to speak several times, she just pretended not to see it.

Zhou Chuan finished half of the meal, carried the remaining half into her room, and then lay down on the bed to rest. She needed to rest well; after more than twenty years of hard work, it was time for her body to get some rest.

The children were all very happy to have a chicken meal. Even Da Ni, who was originally a little afraid of Zhou Chuan, was very happy now. The other children only got chicken butts or chicken feet with little meat, but she got a chicken wing. She couldn't be happier.

The children finished their meals in a few bites and went out to play, leaving only the adults in the main room who had no appetite. The chicken smelled so good, making their food look like pig swill.

The third daughter-in-law, Liu, was very dissatisfied: "Father, how long is she going to stay at our house? She's eating noodles and chicken all the time. No matter how much we have, it's not enough for her to eat."

"Sister-in-law, let's bear with it for now. She's full of resentment right now, and it's not worth it to confront her head-on. If we anger her, she might put rat poison in our water tank or the pig trough in the middle of the night... Bear with it, bear with it." Da Ni's mother felt that Zhou Chuan was acting a bit like a madwoman, and she certainly didn't dare to provoke her.

People are always afraid of the stubborn and the reckless. In her opinion, Zhou Chuan had a kind of indifference to life and death. If you were to fight with someone who wasn't afraid of death, wouldn't you be courting death?

However, someone has to bear all these losses for their family. Da Ni's mother rolled her eyes and said carefully, "Actually, this is mainly the eldest brother's fault for being so ungrateful. He just left, leaving my sister-in-law all alone, enduring so much gossip in the village, not to mention our mother..."

Her mother-in-law never gave her a single grain of food after that; she had to rely entirely on digging wild vegetables and eating wild fruits in the mountains to fill her stomach...tsk tsk, it's truly tragic to think about.

"To be honest, my sister-in-law is a pitiful person. I guess she was thinking that one day when my brother came back, the two of them could live together. But she never expected... the man she had been longing for for more than 20 years turned out to be a heartless man!"

They're both women, and putting everything else aside, just this one thing alone makes Da Ni Niang understand her suffering and why she changed so much, like she became a completely different person.

Sun Erzhu looked a little uncomfortable: "What nonsense are you talking about? What Chen Shimei? Who are you talking about? My elder brother and sister-in-law didn't end up together, so how did he become Chen Shimei?"

As a woman, Liu couldn't stand it anymore: "How can it not be Chen Shimei? Child bride, child bride, is this just a joke? Everyone in the village knows that sister-in-law and brother are a couple. What brother did was just dishonest."

Da Ni's mother nodded in agreement: "My eldest brother grew up with her, but he didn't mention her once in his letter to us. Isn't he a heartless man?"

Sun Mancang, displeased, slammed his hand on the table when his two daughters-in-law kept mentioning Chen Shimei (a notorious figure in Chinese folklore known for abandoning his son).

"Alright, it's all in the past. Why bring him up again? They weren't meant to be, and they've broken things off now. Don't talk about Chen Shimei anymore. You all have sons, and their future depends entirely on their uncle. Be careful what you say."

The two daughters-in-law pouted and didn't continue the topic of Chen Shimei. Da Ni's mother looked at both sides and then brought up the previous incident:

"Dad, don't think I'm being blunt, but if you say that my brother wasn't responsible for my sister-in-law's current state, I doubt anyone in the village would believe it. That day, she was crying and laughing at the same time, and then she just collapsed on the ground. So many people in the village saw it. When she woke up yesterday, she burned our woodshed to the ground. And then she treated our mother like that... Do you think she's even a normal person now?"

The more Da Ni's mother talked, the more she felt that her analysis was correct. That's right, her sister-in-law only became like this after she fainted and woke up that day. The main culprit was her brother-in-law. If he hadn't married a new woman and forgotten his old one, how could her sister-in-law have become like this?

No one else in the room had anything to say. Even as Sun Gousheng's biological father, Sun Mancang couldn't lie and say how good his son was to his ex-daughter-in-law. His running away back then had really ruined her life.

Seeing how attentively they were listening, Da Ni's mother continued her "analysis": "If this happened to me, I'd probably go crazy too. Not only would I go crazy, I'd also be thinking about revenge. So, now you understand why your sister-in-law did what she did yesterday—she was getting revenge. Dad, we absolutely mustn't go against your sister-in-law right now. It's best to go along with her in everything. Think about what kind of life she's lived at home for the past twenty-odd years..."

The more grievances one feels, the greater one's resentment becomes.

Sun Mancang felt a chill run down his spine when he recalled how his wife had tormented his daughter-in-law in the past: "Is she planning to kill our whole family?" Given what his wife had done, it wouldn't be unreasonable for her to kill them.

Sun Mancang dared not think any further. He swallowed hard and took another deep breath before he felt a little better.

The two sons knew more than their fathers, which made them even more fearful and uneasy. The eldest sister-in-law had entered the Sun family when she was very young. At that time, her father was often away from home because he had to work. How could he have imagined how mean her mother could be?

They suddenly understood why their sister-in-law had beaten their mother so fiercely yesterday; just as Da Ni's mother had said, she was taking revenge.

Da Ni's mother frowned: "The resentment that has accumulated over twenty years is not so easy to dispel. But I think as long as we don't provoke her and go along with her in everything, she should leave after a while when her anger subsides and she's at peace."

If she doesn't leave soon, the villagers will start gossiping, and then they can ask the village chief to help them get rid of her. But now that she's just arrived, if they go too far, the village chief will be the first to object.

The Sun family members nodded in agreement. It was just as Da Ni's mother had said. Now that she wanted to vent her anger, let her. There were only a few chickens in the house. If she wanted to eat them, let her eat them. Once they were gone, they would be gone.

As if remembering something, Da Ni's mother added, "Father, I have to tell you a couple more things. Don't talk to her like that again. She can't take any more stress right now. If she does, she'll definitely kill our whole family. It's okay for an orphan like her to die, but we don't need to!"

Seeing that her brother-in-law has become successful, it would be such a terrible injustice if they were killed by his first wife now.

Sun Mancang was still shaken; he had almost lost his life just now. He repeatedly promised, "I understand, I'll avoid her from now on!" If he couldn't afford to offend her, he could at least run away!

Da Ni's mother nodded: "Yes, we can just bear with it and it will pass. But Father, our whole family has been harmed so badly by my brother-in-law, we can't just leave without any explanation, can we?"

"Think about the two hundred yuan we gave, our mother's medical expenses, and our two acres of land. We don't even know how long our former sister-in-law will stay at home. She eats as much as she wants every day, including eggs and old hens... It all costs money."

“Father, Erzhu and I don’t care, the key is Mother. She’s so old and has suffered all this for nothing. In the end, isn’t she paying off her eldest brother’s debts? If her eldest brother hadn’t run away, would Mother have been so harsh on her sister-in-law? Now, all the sins her eldest brother committed have come back to haunt Mother.”

As Liu listened to her second sister-in-law's enthusiastic chatter, her eyes gleamed with admiration. She thought to herself, "If my second sister-in-law can pull this off, won't I benefit too?" Liu grew happier with each thought.

Seeing her father-in-law still hesitant, she quickly chimed in, "That's right, Father, Second Sister-in-law is right. My husband and I don't really care, but we feel a bit sorry for you two. My eldest brother has been gone for fifteen years, and you two have worried so much about him... You must have saved up a lot of money in fifteen years, and if it all goes to those unknown people outside..."

Sun Mancang was persuaded by the last sentence, but the thought of hearing from Gou Sheng's family that they had torn up the letter his son had written made him somewhat irritated.

"It's a pity that she tore up the envelope your eldest brother wrote. Sigh, so it seems that Gou Sheng's family really hates him, otherwise they wouldn't be so intolerant of even a letter!" This must be hatred to the core!

Da Ni's mother thought of that small pile of scraps of paper and had a headache: "I've collected all those scraps of paper. My sister-in-law and I will put them back together later. If we really can't put them back together, I think my eldest brother should still be able to write a letter. We can bring it up then."