Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

"That is?"

"With Xu Huaishan."

This was an answer Zhong Meixian hadn't expected.

"Xu Huaishan?"

Zhong Meixian didn't believe it. "You two had a fight?"

"how can that be possible?"

"You two have never had a serious argument in all these decades."

Zhong Meixian's words only made things worse, and Gu Jin's face turned red with anger. "Yes, it's been decades since we've had a fight. That's because I never argue with him. I treat him like an emperor, so naturally he doesn't argue with me."

Gu Jin grew angrier the more she thought about it. Just yesterday, she hadn't poured Xu Huaishan's foot bath water, and today Xu Huaishan had started arguing with her. They'd never even had a proper argument before...

Gu Jin didn't dare to think any further. She looked up at the sky.

Wen Tang and Chi Yue appeared at just the right moment, one handing over water and the other handing over melon seeds.

They genuinely wanted to comfort Gu Jin, and they knew that Gu Jin had brought melons with her today.

In the countryside during the 1970s, there was nothing interesting to do all day except for sleeping with men; it was incredibly boring.

So they don't want to miss out on even the smallest bit of gossip.

Gu Jin glanced at the water and melon seeds in front of her, then at the two nosy heads, and decided not to hide it anymore.

In Gu Jin's opinion, Wen Tang and Chi Yue were not outsiders, and perhaps... perhaps their thoughts were correct.

And the key thing is, they're capable!

If you weren't capable, how could you have controlled your mother-in-law and husband the moment you stepped into the house?

Thinking this, Gu Jin, holding her teacup, began to speak with red eyes, "Last night, that bastard Xu Huaishan's foot bath water, I didn't pour it for him, and today he got up and started arguing with me like that."

"He blamed me for not pouring the foot bath water. I told him he didn't have hands, and he got angry and kicked the foot bath water over. Then the whole room was wet and sticky, and everyone's feet got wet..." Gu Jin got angrier and angrier as she spoke. She picked up her teacup and drank some water, and wiped her eyes at the same time.

Wen Tang and Chi Yue exchanged a glance, both shocked that their uncle-in-law was suffering from some kind of feudalistic cancer.

Can't you even pour out your own foot bath water?

"Aunt, why didn't you blame Uncle?" Wen Tang couldn't help but ask directly.

Chi Yue even said, "I'll pour it into my mouth so as not to smell it on others."

Wen Tang thought about it and agreed.

Zhong Meixian "..."

Goodness, they're all incredibly skilled!

Gu Jin felt relieved to hear this, "I also think it's too much of a bullying."

"Tell me, I've served him my whole life, why can't he pour out the water for washing his feet himself?"

“You hit too lightly,” Wen Tang said directly.

Zhong Meixian moved the stool back a little.

Wen Tang continued, "Auntie, when he kicked the water over, you should have just smashed the basin!"

“But…” Gu Jin stammered.

She wasn't afraid that Xu Huaishan would hit her or anything, she just felt bad that things were broken.

Wen Tang asked, "Auntie, are you worried about the basin?"

Gu Jin nodded, "They were all bought with money."

Wen Tang moved closer to her. "Auntie, they dared to kick the pot, but you didn't dare to smash it. If they don't bully you, who will they bully?"

Chi Yue nodded in agreement.

"You know, we always advise separation rather than reunion."

As soon as Chi Yue finished speaking, Zhong Meixian quickly moved the stool back to stop her from continuing to spout nonsense.

“Xiaoyue,” Zhong Meixian called out, “you mustn’t talk nonsense.”

“Your great-aunt and great-uncle have lived together their whole lives, and now they’re separated…”

Wen Tang interrupted her, "Mom, you're wrong. It's not that we spent our whole lives together, it's that we served each other our whole lives."

As soon as Wen Tang said this, Gu Jin's initial hesitation instantly turned firm: "Xiao Tang is right. What I mean by 'living a lifetime' is that I served him for a lifetime."

“When I was young, I took care of my mother-in-law and he too. Now that I’m old, I still have to take care of him. Doesn’t he have hands and feet of his own?”

“During those two difficult years, I not only took care of my family, but I also went to the fields to earn work points. I did just as much housework as I did!”

“I raised my child single-handedly, and no one helped me…” Gu Jin couldn’t hold back her tears any longer.

She no longer cared about being ashamed; a basin of foot-washing water became the last straw that broke her back.

Perhaps she will continue to suffer in silence, continue to pour out the foot bath water, and live her life as before. She will still be the envy of others, a model couple who have never argued in decades.

Actually, she could have continued to endure it, but Gu Jin suddenly didn't want to endure it anymore.

She has endured it all her life.

Throughout her life, she never experienced what it meant to be cared for and understood.

Even a nephew can cook for his nephew's wife. They're both wives, yet Xu Huaishan made things difficult for her just because she didn't pour him water to wash his feet...

Wen Tang wiped away her tears and told her, "Auntie, don't cry, you did nothing wrong."

“If you don’t want to go home, you can stay at our house for a few days, or even live at our house from now on. Yanli and I will take care of you in your old age.”

Gu Jin felt that she didn't need her nephew or niece-in-law to support her in her old age, but Wen Tang's words moved Gu Jin to tears. She held Wen Tang's hands tightly, speechless with emotion, and could only keep repeating, "You are a good child, you are a good child."

Because Gu Jin had a fight with Xu Huaishan, Wen Tang and the others asked Gu Jin to stay for lunch.

Wen Tang suggested that Gu Jin try Chi Yue's cooking, so Gu Jin didn't insist on leaving.

Gu Yanli also needed to buy two jin of meat and a piece of tofu.

Chi Yue braised the meat, cooked the tofu into Mapo Tofu, and made fish soup from the fish that Gu Yanli caught.

They also used the scallions they dug up yesterday to make a stir-fried scallion and egg dish.

Gu Jin wanted to help, but Wen Tang and Chi Yue both said it wasn't necessary.

Zhong Meixian also said, "I can't speak for other things, but don't worry about cooking, the two of them know how to do it!"

Then the two of them sat down at the kitchen doorway and started talking.

Help me pick some scallions, give me a hand.

When Wen Tang saw Zhong Meixian picking scallions, she remembered what Lin Jiaojiao had said, "Mom, Jiaojiao told me that the pancakes you make with these scallions are incredibly delicious, is that true?"

Zhong Meixian immediately raised her chin proudly, "I'm not bragging, but I really do have a knack for this."

As Zhong Meixian spoke, she glanced down at the wild scallions piled in the basket, then looked up at Gu Jin and said, "Auntie, don't leave tonight either. I'll make you some vegetable pancakes with eggs in them."

Gu Jin was actually a little embarrassed.

Although families have had more food than they did a couple of days ago, there's really no surplus. Everyone is still very frugal.

If someone suddenly becomes a member of the family...

As if knowing what she was thinking, Zhong Meixian said, "Even if we're short of food, we won't shortchange you!"

Wen Tang also said, "Aunt, if you go back like this, won't Uncle think, 'Look, you have nowhere to vent your anger,' wouldn't he become even more unscrupulous?"