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n45 Heart-Poking

nSecond Uncle and Ms. Niu kept complaining, making Eldest Uncle flush over in embarrassment.

nHe could not possibly use his daughter-in-law’s dowry to support his brothers.

nMs. Fang sneered and said, “Are you done? Then give it back to me if you find it so little! You are forcing your brother to use his daughter-in-law’s dowry to support you? Do you have any conscience or not?”

nSecond Uncle was startled.

nMs. Niu pursed her lips. “I think the dowry is just an excuse…”

nMs. Fang got annoyed. “Ms. Niu, do you want me to make a list of what you have forced me to pay all this while? Do we have any savings? We have used all the savings to support you. As a result, we aren’t able to afford anything! You are a healthy family and you have fields too. Still, you want my daughter-in-law to support you? Shame on you!”

nWhenever they brought something home, the second and the third section would want to have a portion of that.

nThe second and third section of the family knew pretty well how the first section of the family was doing.

nMs. Fang pulled away Eldest Uncle. “What are you doing here? How dare you try to calculate my daughter-in-law’s dowry! I will keep my eyes on that!”

nEldest Uncle was pulled away by Ms. Fang.

nMs. Niu and Second Uncle exchanged a look between themselves and did not dare to run after them.

nEldest Uncle sighed and felt confused.

nObviously, he had been poked in the heart by his brother and sister-in-law.

n“That was four kgs of excellent flour!”

nAnd they were complaining about the amount and forcing him to lecture his daughter-in-law!

nMs. Fang felt quite happy about this, but she was annoyed too. So she tried to restrain herself…

nShe pretended not to have seen anything, but asked Eldest Uncle to come along to visit the third section of the family.

nEldest Uncle started to panic. He did not want to join her anymore.

nHe felt very messy in his heart and could not stand the stimulation. What if his third brother and wife were like this too? He would definitely collapse!

nBut Ms. Fang did not want him to retreat at this moment. She forced him to come along, after all.

nEldest Uncle had to follow up…

nSure enough, his third brother and wife did the same thing.

nThey were not as sharp-tongued as the second brother and his wife, yet they were basically expressing the same thing.

nThey thought that they had got too little flour…

nMoreover, Ms. Ma asked him to get Ms. Qiao to apologize to her…

nEldest Uncle felt so heart-broken.

nHe said nothing. He did not even know how he made out of the third section.

nEveryone found that their father was not in the right mood at breakfast.

nThey exchanged a look between themselves and did not dare to say a thing.

nMs. Fang threw a hint at everyone, so they felt assured.

nAfter breakfast, Eldest Uncle took his two sons to the field for farmwork, and Ms. Fang, and Taotao were taking care of the infants and making lunch at home. Ms. Xu, on the other hand, was plowing the field.

nShao Xiaoqi decided to have a tour around Wangqing Mountains. Otherwise he would have joined his father and brothers too.

nShao Yunduan was different. He was devoted to work and sometimes helped with the farmwork in the field, when the season was busy.

nQiao Xuan and Shao Taotao wanted to join Shao Xiaoqi for the tour, so did Shao Yunduan.

nMs. Fang was aware that her sons knew what they should and shouldn’t do, so she asked them to take good care of Qiao Xuan and said nothing more.

nWangqing Mountains was a bit far away from Shaoding Village, and it took them three hours to arrive there.

nIt was a beautiful place with ancient woods growing into the mountains. The temperature was two or three degrees lower than that in the village, and it was an enormous mountain.

nIt was a good place to set up traps for large beasts, not for small animals like roosters or rabbits, because there were many beasts living in the mountains, and the small ones were eaten up by those big ones.

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