A Good Country Wife-Chapter 90 - The Cruel Stepmother_1

Chapter 90: Chapter 90: The Cruel Stepmother_1

Chapter 90: Chapter 90: The Cruel Stepmother_1

The Zhao Family Village was so small that in just a short while, the news of Zhao Erhu getting severely injured during a hunting excursion and being carried back by Wu Qiang had spread throughout the village. The people of the old Zhao Family house had naturally heard as well. Apart from Zhao Dahuo and his wife, who wore worried and anxious expressions, even Zhao Jingen merely furrowed his brows upon hearing the news. The rest looked entirely unconcerned, as if it were none of their business. However, since the children in the house had seen Lin Yue coming this way to inform them, they quickly shut the courtyard gate tightly. Erhu’s wife not being home to take care of her man and instead running over here could not be good news.

Erhu followed Lin Yue from a distance, confused as to why she would come to the old Zhao house. What could San-niang possibly want here? Even though Erhu was still young, he knew that the people of the old Zhao house didn’t like his father and his brothers. Apart from paying New Year’s visits, they wouldn’t normally come over here—who would want to be called a little bastard by several aunties?

Lin Yue, however, hadn’t expected the people of the old Zhao house to be so ruthless. She had been calling out at the gate for so long, and there was no response from inside. While Zhao Dahuo and his wife intended to do something, the Wei mother and son were guarding against them and had explicitly sent them to the back of the house to work.

Fine, they won’t open the door, huh? They think that’ll settle things, Lin Yue thought to herself with a wicked smile curling at the corner of her mouth. Since she couldn’t knock open the door of the old Zhao house, she went around knocking on the neighbors’ doors one by one. “Uncle, Auntie, are my father-in-law and mother-in-law at home? I’ve been knocking at the door for such a long time and no one’s responding?”

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“Yes, they are, they are. I just saw their door open earlier,” Dongjia uncle said.

“Yes, when I went over earlier to visit, I saw your father-in-law and his family having breakfast. How come they have closed the door now? Try calling out again.” Xijia aunty added as she glanced at the tightly shut front door of the old Zhao house.

They had also heard about Zhao Erhu’s mishap—many could sense something fishy and looked at Lin Yue with sympathy. They thought how extreme the Zhao Jingen family had been. Even a tiger would not eat its own cubs; how could Zhao Jingen be so heartless as to ignore his own son? And the Wei family, who usually seemed quite amiable, did not spare the slightest harshness when dealing with her stepsons. They had first kicked Zhao Erhu out penniless, and although Zhao Dahuo wasn’t driven out, he also suffered a lot from Wei Family’s relentless grinding, working hard from dawn till dusk like an ox while Wei’s sons did nothing. A stepmother’s harshness was indeed relentless.

The neighbors, whose doors Lin Yue had knocked on, didn’t go back into their homes; there wasn’t much entertainment usually, and now that something intriguing had come up, naturally, they couldn’t miss it. They all left their doors wide open to watch the excitement unfold—which was precisely what Lin Yue was pleased to see. What’s a performance without an audience?

“If my father-in-law and mother-in-law are indeed at home, why won’t they open the door for me? My Erhu has been badly injured hunting in the mountains, and I, a helpless woman, had no other choice but to beg them for assistance. No matter what, Erhu is my father-in-law’s own son. Even if he isn’t my mother-in-law’s biological child, he still shares the same Zhao Family blood. If any of the brothers ever had the slightest trouble, Erhu would help without any hesitation, even offering up silver immediately. Just the other day, when our third brother needed to gather silver to apply for a position, the family had no money, and Erhu even took the promissory note my eldest aunt had given us to give to my father-in-law. Now that Erhu is in trouble, how can they just sit back and do nothing? It’s utterly disheartening,” Lin Yue lamented to the crowd, crying out her grievances with dramatic flair. Her impassioned accusatory voice reached the people in the courtyard of the old Zhao house, all of whom looked quite displeased. What was Erhu’s wife implying? Wasn’t she deliberately tarnishing their reputation? Zhao Quan, the third son, was on top of the world at the moment and couldn’t stand this provocation. He charged forward to open the gate, glaring at Lin Yue, ready to scold her, but before he could say anything, Lin Yue knelt down before them.