Chapter 137: Big Brother, Second Brother, we won’t stay at home anymore, let’s go find mom.
In those days, having promiscuous relationships between men and women was a serious crime. Wu Dawei and Widow Yang were caught by the brigade cadres and taken to the commune. They were paraded through the streets and criticized that day. After the parade, they were directly sent to the farm, where they had to be reformed for three years.
When the Wu family got the exact news, they were in a state of panic.
Old lady Wu was lying on the kang, cursing.
"Damn Shen family, I curse them to die a miserable death.
Shen Chunling is a jinx, but I, an old woman, provide her with good food and drink and treat her like my own daughter.
Not only is he not grateful at all, but he also harmed my son and my Wu family.
She has no ability to tie a man down, and she won't let go when my son makes any mistake. She even sends him to the farm. How can she be so cruel?
Yongjun, Yongjie, your father went to the farm because of that vicious woman Shen Chunling. It was she who caused you to be fatherless. My grandson, you have a pity. If anything happens in the future, you won’t even have anyone to back you up…”
It's no different for my eldest son to be on the farm than to be dead. Life on the farm is so hard. I'm afraid he will be exhausted after three years and will not be able to work.
What’s the point of her coming if her son can’t work?
The two brothers lowered their heads, feeling even more resentful towards Shen Chunling. Yes, it was their mother who caused their father to go to the farm. If their mother hadn't brought the Shen family back and invited those people to come to the house to laugh at them,
The affair between Dad and Widow Yang would never be discovered. If it wasn’t discovered, Dad would never enter the farm.
They also won't have a father who is in a labor camp.
Their mother really ruined their family. How could the two brothers ever get married with a father like that in a labor camp?
How can they hold their heads up in the village?
Zhu Hong and Zhang Yuehua ignored the curses from the mother-in-law in the next room and were lying on the kang, urging their husbands to split up the family.
"My eldest brother has joined the farm, Shen Chunling is not coming back, and we won't need the big house anymore, so let's just split up.
After the family was divided, we became our own family, we could eat whatever we wanted, and no one could control us."
"I can see it."
Wu Lao Er and Wu Lao San thought about it and felt that what their wives said was right.
They usually work very hard, and when they come home they want to eat an egg or a bite of fine grains, but their mother won't let them.
The old couple ate all the delicious food, leaving no one for themselves.
Now that the eldest wife is gone, if they don’t divide the family property, they will be the ones who suffer.
The village doctor came to bandage the wounds of the Wu family. The second and third brothers were covered in bandages.
The two brothers slowly moved to Old Lady Wu's house with their crutches.
The two brothers said in unison, "Mom, I want to divide the family."
Mrs. Wu's cursing stopped abruptly, "What? You want to split up the family?
What family do you want to divide? As soon as your eldest brother came in, you wanted to divide the family. Tell me, was it your wife who instigated you?
I knew those two were not good people either, they were full of bad intentions, and when I get better, I will not forgive them."
Her voice was so loud that Zhu Hong and Zhang Yuehua could hear it. They sneered at them and didn't let them off, as if they were the idiot Shen Chunling who had to obey her torture obediently.
Shen Chunling is so nice. She dares not go west when told to go east, and she treats her mother-in-law as her own mother, but in the end, she still doesn't get a single good word from her.
If they don't separate, are they just waiting to be bullied by their mother-in-law?
"Mother, it wasn't Zhu Hong's (Yue Hua) idea. We wanted to separate the family property.
We are old enough to be grandfathers, it is time to separate the family.”
Old Lady Wu twisted on the kang like a maggot, "I don't agree, I don't agree."
Seeing his two sons' resolute attitude, Old Man Wu asked, "If the family is divided, who will take care of us old couple?"
"Dad, don't we have Yongjun and Yongjie? When they grow up, they can take care of people and support you."
Old Man Wu realized that his second and third sons didn't want to take care of them.
"If you don't care about us, then this family can't be divided."
The two grandsons are grown up, but they are of no use at all. How can I take good care of them?
The two brothers looked at each other and said, "We will give you two five kilograms of food every month."
"Ten pounds!"
"Dad, this is too much."
"Then don't even think about splitting up."
"We won't split up the family anymore." Asking for ten kilograms of food every month would be like asking for their lives. Zhu Hong and Zhang Yuehua hurriedly called their husbands back to the house.
If they don't agree to split the family property today, it will not be so easy for the old couple to split the family property later.
After the two sons left, Mrs. Wu's howling stopped, "Old man, you must not agree to split the family."
After the family was divided, no matter whether they lived with the second son or the third son, their lives would not be comfortable. She gave birth to her son and she understood him well. The two sons and their daughters-in-law were difficult to deal with, and she and the old man had to live according to their moods. Just thinking about that kind of life made her feel depressed.
"If I don't agree, this family can't be divided."
The three siblings Wu Yongjun, Yongjie and Xiaofen were very frightened. Now they were fatherless and motherless, and their uncle and aunt were clamoring to divide the family property. What would they do if they really divided the family property?
Except for Wu Yongjun and his two siblings, everyone in the Wu family was injured and had to lie on the kang, unable to work.
All the housework fell on the three siblings, who also had to serve their grandparents, uncles and aunts lying on the kang.
They could hold on for the first three days, but they couldn't on the fourth day.
There was endless work to do during these three days, and the three siblings were distracted and listless.
As soon as I got up, Mrs. Wu called out from inside the house, "Yongjun, come in and pour me some water."
Wu Yongjun went in to pour water. Old Mrs. Wu took a sip and spat it out. "You poured the freshly boiled water for me to drink. Do you want to scald me to death?"
"Grandma, didn't you say you wanted to drink hot water?"
"When did I say I wanted hot water? Pour it again. Really, you can't even do a small thing. You're just like your mother."
Wu Yongjun: “…”
Old Man Wu called out, "Xiao Fen, I'm hungry, get me something to eat."
"Got it." Wu Xiaofen went into the kitchen and busied herself with cooking a small bowl of corn paste and brought it in.
"Master, you can eat now."
Old Man Wu's face darkened. "Who will eat this little food? Why didn't you fry the eggs? Did you steal the eggs?"
Wu Xiaofen felt wronged, "Grandpa, you said yesterday that only one bowl would be enough, and we have eaten all the eggs at home."
"Can't you think of a way out if you don't have eggs? Go away, go away. It's bad luck to cry so early in the morning."
Zhu Hong shouted, "Xiao Fen, take the clothes out to wash."
"Yongjie...
Brave Army..."
The three siblings collapsed with the screams that sounded like they were taking their lives. When Shen Chunling was at home, they didn't do much housework. They just had to go to work on time every day.
All the housework is on them. Grandparents, uncles and aunts find fault with them in various ways. They are not satisfied even when they do a good job. They always scold them before they feel relieved.
Wu Xiaofen wiped her tears and said, "Big brother, second brother, we won't stay at home anymore. Let's go find mom."