"Ah!" The woman who was supporting Zhou screamed in pain and unconsciously let go of Zhou's hand. Zhou immediately ran out of the crowd like a nimble mouse without stopping.
The person who had just shouted "The official is here" also came in from the small path made by the crowd, looking everywhere for nothing, and asked in confusion: "Where is the mother-in-law?"
"She ran away." Someone responded, "I just said she was a scoundrel, but you didn't listen."
"Who knew she was a scoundrel? We can't just say she is a scoundrel when we see a poor and weak mother-in-law."
The two groups of people with different opinions quarreled, and the person who went to report to the official tried to smooth things over: "It's the scoundrel's fault anyway, there's no need for us to fight over it."
"Next time I see her, I'll show her how powerful she is!" Someone spat and hurriedly apologized to the driver.
The driver calmed down and restored the reputation of Qi's car dealership: "We will treat every customer seriously. There is absolutely no phenomenon of bullying customers."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone found that no one from the government office came. The man explained: "I went, but I heard that a den was raided last night. Everyone is resting and it will take a while for them to come."
As he said that, he slapped his thigh suddenly: "No, I have to go to the government office to tell them, so that they don't have to make a wasted trip."
The crowd all praised it. The driver stopped the man and paid him for the errand.
The carriage started again. Without Zhou's obstruction, it rushed all the way to Yuan Village.
After getting off the carriage, Wei Jingshu went straight to the village chief's house and explained her purpose: "Village chief, my grandmother is back, and I would like you to preside over the division of the family."
The village chief still felt guilty about Wei Jingshu for the last bear hunting in the mountains. After hearing this, he shook out his pipe, got up and followed Wei Jingshu.
Along the way, he called several respected elders in the village to go with him. On the way, he explained the cause and effect clearly, and the group of people had no objections.
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Zhou had no money, and couldn't even afford a bull cart. She was also very aggressive and never let anyone off the hook. She was a complete villain in the village. When she met someone from the same village from a distance, she would pretend not to see them. She couldn't run faster than the cart, so she could only walk back. When she
got home panting, she saw a group of old people sitting at the door, including the village chief, a total of five people.
Zhou, who was very aggressive, couldn't help but suppress the resentment that had accumulated along the way, and put on a smile: "The elders are here, look at the blind wife of Changlin, who doesn't know how to pour water for everyone."
"Da Ya, come out and pour water for the elders."
"Grandma, there's so much water, can't you see?" Wei Jingshu was carrying the snacks made by Li Rou out, and when she heard Zhou's call, she couldn't help but be curious.
In front of the elders was a table with boiled water on it, which the elders could touch with just a stretch of their hands.
Hearing Wei Jingshu's voice, Zhou frowned, feeling very familiar, but couldn't remember it for a while, so she simply gave up and said to the elders: "Look, this is Shujie from the old family. You guys are all here, and she treats me like this. If you weren't here, she would have eaten me."
This person is really inexplicable!
Wei Jingshu glanced at Zhou and ignored her, putting the snacks on the table. She couldn't help looking in the direction of the hut. Li Rou, who had packed up, came out while wiping her hands, followed by Wei Yu and Wei Shuang.
The village chief coughed twice to attract everyone's attention, and then he spoke: "Sister Zhou, since you are here, let's start talking about your separation."
"Divide the family? Divide the family? What do you mean by divide the family?" Zhou exploded. "Did the Changlin family say something to you again? I knew it. I knew that people from the capital are unreliable. They just spread rumors all day long--"
"Do you need to spread rumors about what you did?" Wei Jingshu interrupted Zhou. "Every family knows your character?"
"Well, you sisters-in-law are teaming up to bully me, an old man, right!" She sat down on the ground suddenly, just like she did before when she tried to stop the car. "Is there any justice in the world? My children and grandchildren are unfilial and are trying to force me to death."
Zhou rolled around in a tantrum and refused to get to the point. The elders looked at each other, and no one spoke first.
The village chief looked at Wei Jingshu for help, as if to say, "You asked for the division, so you take care of it."
Wei Jingshu saw it clearly, squatted beside Zhou, and said slowly, "You are just afraid that we will divide the family things, so we don't want any money--"
"Village chief, the children are grown up and we can't keep them. Since they are determined to go out, I won't stop them." Zhou's face changed in a second, "It's just that since Changlin passed away, their family of four has been taken care of by me, an old woman. Now that they want to divide up, shouldn't they also be filial to me as an elder?"
Before the village chief spoke, Li Rou was angry first: "Grandma, how can you say that? Why don't you say that you let Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang take turns to serve your two lazy girls and sons?"
"Why don't you say that you took Changlin's five hundred taels of pension, but didn't even let Xiaoyu go to school? Why don't you say how you treated us orphans and widows?"
"Sister-in-law--" Wei Jingshu patted Li Rou on the back gently to calm her down, frowned, and looked at Zhou unhappily.
The murderous aura was overwhelming, and Zhou was so scared that she took a step back. Then she straightened her back and said confidently: "What did I do to you? Did I force you to eat or drink?"
"Both!" Wei Jingshu said, shaking her patched clothes. Compared with Zhou's clothes that were covered with mud but still valuable, they were very different.
She waved to Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang again, and the two walked in front of her. In just half a year, the two little balls who used to be white and plump were now shriveled. It was because after Wei Jingshu came, they ate a lot better every day and grew some meat, otherwise they would be even uglier.
Although I always knew that the family lived a miserable life, I never looked closely. At first glance, no one in this family lived a good life.
Thinking about my previous behavior towards Wei Jingshu, I felt even more guilty, and the idea of helping Wei Jingshu's family to separate from here became even stronger.
"Aunt Zhou, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but Changlin is the grandpa's grandson after all. If you treat his wife and sister like this, won't you feel guilty when you see the grandpa a hundred years later?" "
Sister Shu originally said that we should divide the family, but I didn't take it seriously. Now I've figured it out. If we don't divide the family, you're going to eat us all up."
"Okay, it's you, you bitch--"
Wei Jingshu rubbed her wrists, making a "crunching" sound, twisted her neck and stretched it, looking at Zhou with a smile.
Zhou's scalp tingled, and she swallowed the rest of the words and turned her head away: "You can divide the family, but unless they leave the house with nothing, otherwise, I won't divide the family even if you kill me."
She no longer cared whether there were elders sitting in the yard, and walked back to the house with "thump thump thump".