CHAPTER 48: CHAPTER 48: MY WORDS ARE AS GENTLE AS THE SPRING BREEZE

"Ye Hua, I’m telling you this matter is not something you can mess around with. If you don’t believe me, I’ll go to the community committee right now and register his name.

Anyway, the community committee has already said so. The director said that even if we don’t register, they will directly write Fang Peizhong’s name. Consider whether to voluntarily send him off happily or let them write his name anyway?"

Fang Zhiyuan was getting impatient.

It’s not that he was heartless.

But the situation had reached this point, Jiang Xiaoxiao had already signed up, and Fang Xiaohui’s work matters were already set in stone.

If Fang Peizhong didn’t go to the countryside, then what would happen?

There was absolutely no way Fang Xiaohui would go to the countryside, since Fang Zhiyuan wanted to go further and borrow the Song family’s influence.

His own old man didn’t care, so if he didn’t figure out a way, he might spend his life in the workshop superintendent position.

Ye Hua was sobbing, crying and cursing.

Fang Peizhong was completely stunned.

Was he really going to the countryside?

But what did it have to do with him?

The Fang family affairs had nothing to do with Jiang Xiaoxiao.

Jiang Xiaoxiao at this time went to find her uncle, Fan Jianguo.

Her date to go to the countryside was already set, and they would leave in a week. If she didn’t get seeds in advance, when she reached the countryside, she would only have to plant whatever was available there.

She wanted to experiment.

As soon as she arrived at the cooperative store, Jiang Xiaoxiao greeted everyone warmly.

The experience from her previous life taught her that sweet talk made things easier.

Plus, no one strikes a smiling face; everyone loves to be greeted with a smile.

Sure enough, everyone was cheerful upon seeing her.

"Xiaoxiao, you came to see your uncle. But unfortunately, I heard your uncle received a telegram and went home; it seems your grandmother is sick."

The head of the supplies division informed Jiang Xiaoxiao directly.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was shocked!

Grandmother was ill?

She turned around and ran, regretting as she ran.

She had forgotten about this, mainly because, in her past life, at this time, she was in a fierce conflict with her parents and didn’t clearly remember the Jiang family’s affairs.

Upon thinking carefully, indeed, before her third brother went to the countryside, grandmother was seriously ill.

In a rush, she returned home.

The house was in chaos.

It was like pandemonium.

Her brother-in-law Qin Dazhuang was scolded by his own mother and grandmother, who were pointing at his forehead.

"Have you ever seen a man like you? Do you even resemble a man? Listening to your wife for everything. She’s barely through her confinement period and already returned to her maternal home, what are you thinking? You’re putting shame on our Old Qin family, letting the in-laws see, making them think I mistreat her.

You, you’re no man at all. Just letting her act out."

Qin Dazhuang’s face was red with embarrassment, as red as Guan Yu’s.

Jiang Xin hadn’t seen this, but Jiang Xiaoxiao heard the sounds of a baby crying inside, surely her second sister had already taken the baby into the room.

Fan Xiuying came out with a grim face.

The way she flung the curtain was like a harsh slap to Qin Dazhuang’s face.

"In-law, if you want to discipline your son, then go back to your own home and do it. Making noise in our home, what does that say? Letting neighbors hear might make them think I did something to you."

Fan Xiuying’s face was incredibly angry!

Her daughter had given birth a week ago, but when she first saw her daughter, she didn’t resemble a woman recovering from confinement at all!

She initially seemed plump after pregnancy, looking fair and healthy, but in just a week, she became gaunt and dark.

One look showed she wasn’t being taken care of properly.

Worst of all, the little girl was thin.

Looking almost the same as when she was discharged from the hospital.

Not even as good as then.

At least when the baby was newly born, she had some meat on her bones.

Now, after a week, not only hadn’t she gained weight, but she’d lost it, looking like skin and bones.

Crying miserably, it was clear she wasn’t eating enough, and the daughter’s face showed difficulty.

Only then did she realize after returning that her mother-in-law was always indirectly scolding in the household, never granting a moment of peace.

Furthermore, the mother-in-law took all the good food to her eldest son’s house.

The couple hadn’t received their salary yet.

They had hardly any money left and needed to hang in there until payday.

There was more than half a month to go, and the couple saved every penny.

Jiang Xin didn’t have any food for the baby; the child was crying out of hunger.

Fan Xiuying wasn’t going to give the mother-in-law a good face.

Mother Qin smiled and came up, pulling at Fan Xiuying.

Fan Xiuying couldn’t shake her off, like she was stuck with super glue.

"In-law, what are you talking about? A son-in-law is like half a son. I’m only lecturing him because he’s too ignorant. Jiang Xin doesn’t know not to return home during confinement, but should he not know either? I’ve already told him, looking at Jiang Xin carrying the baby back, knowing it’s because she’s homesick, without understanding they’ll think I’m starving her."

The tone and expression were truly infuriating.

Jiang Xiaoxiao had already entered the room and saw her second sister there holding and crying with the baby.

The baby was crying aloud, and the second sister was crying too.

"Second sister, stop crying. If you really want to make a difference, don’t sit here wiping tears over the baby. If you have the strength, go cry to your mother-in-law. Hold the baby and show her, this is also their child, and yet he’s starved to skin and bones.

Do the Qin family have any face to show!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao was frustrated with her inaction.

The second sister was like this in her previous life too.

Dominated by her mother-in-law.

After giving birth to her daughter, she never conceived again due to hemorrhaging, just because she had no son, her mother-in-law called her a chicken that didn’t lay eggs.

She never had a good day at the Qin family’s house, even though Qin Dazhuang was a good man, he was always listening to his mother.

Always asked his sister to back down a step for peace.

His second sister’s backing down led her into a pit of despair.

Everyone’s tragic ending was somewhat linked to their choices.

Jiang Xin was startled by her younger sister’s words, staring wide-eyed at Xiaoxiao.

She was the one being bullied.

Wasn’t her younger sister supposed to stand up for her, comfort her?

Why was she now reprimanding her instead?

"Second sister, don’t look at me! Staring at me is useless. If you think my words are harsh, are your mother-in-law’s words any kinder? Compared to hers, my speech is as gentle as a spring breeze.

If you have the guts to glare like you are at me, use it to deal with your mother-in-law. Then your daughter wouldn’t be starved like this.

If you can’t stand tall, think what kind of future you and the child will have? You know your mother-in-law’s biases all too well. The child is starving now; could she grow up healthy?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao was truly pleading earnestly.

Her niece hadn’t grown up, fell ill at five, and without money for treatment, departed just like that.