Chapter 676: The First Wife Sold by Her Husband 22

Chapter 676: Chapter 676: The First Wife Sold by Her Husband 22

Wang San put down the cart rope, looking at his sister with surprise, "Yuan Chun, you’re back. You look fairer, and thinner too. Haven’t you been eating well in the Imperial City?"

"Brother, you’re mistaken. I haven’t lost weight; I’ve gained two pounds."

His wife laughed, "Your brother just missed you, so he thinks you look thinner."

The second sister-in-law stretched her neck to look inside the house, "Yuan Chun, where’s your second brother?"

"Older brother and second brother went with mom to gather pigweed."

As a few people chatted while unloading the firewood, Wang San didn’t want his sister to work, "Yuan Chun, go play aside, we can unload this ourselves."

"Brother, with an extra pair of hands, we can finish faster, and you need to go back to fetch more wood, don’t stay out too late."

The cartload of wood was unloaded in no time.

Coincidentally, the eldest brother, second brother, and Wang Mu returned.

The eldest brother told the women to stay and rest at home while they pulled two carts back to the mountain to fetch more firewood.

Yuan Chun went to the community center, brought the family’s children back home, and then helped Wang Mu prepare dinner.

Two hours later, as the sky darkened, Wang Changgui returned with his four sons, pulling two carts loaded with firewood.

Wang Changgui came in and glanced around the house, not seeing his precious daughter, then went to the kitchen. Upon seeing his precious daughter, Wang Changgui felt both distressed and angry, "Yuan Chun, it’s good that you’re back. From now on, just stay home, Dad and Mom will take care of you, don’t go anywhere else."

Feeling heartache for his daughter encountering a scoundrel.

Angry that He Lisheng, after getting into college, abandoned his daughter.

If it wasn’t too far away, even if he had to resign as the village head, he would take his four sons to confront him.

In the evening, Wang Mu made two dishes: stir-fried black ear mushrooms with eggs and braised pork belly with napa cabbage and tofu. When she saw Wang Mu using a big ceramic basin for the dishes, Yuan Chun almost lost her composure.

Yuan Chun had traveled through many small worlds. This was not her first time arriving in a rural area of the Northeast, but it was her first time having so many family members.

The Wang family, young and old, totaled twenty-three people.

The adults sat at one table, the kids at another.

In Wang Mu’s room, two kang tables were set on the heated bed, with two basins of dishes on top, a small bowl of pickles on the side, and when they ate, the bed was crowded and noisy with people.

Lively and blissful.

After dinner, Yuan Chun, along with a few sisters-in-law, started clearing the dishes. She carried a basin of dirty bowls, ready to wash them in the kitchen, but Wang Mu stopped her, "Second daughter-in-law, third daughter-in-law, you two go wash the dishes; fourth daughter-in-law, you go boil some water so everyone can soak their feet after a long day."

"Eldest daughter-in-law, go to the cellar and bring up the food for tomorrow’s breakfast."

Wang Mu distributed the household chores among the four daughters-in-law.

She also sent the older grandsons to take the younger grandsons and Niu Niu out to play.

In the room, only Mr. Wang, Wang Mu, and the five Wang siblings remained.

Wang Changgui took out his smoke pipe, tapped it a few times on the table, and looked at Wang Hongjun and Wang Hongmin, "Eldest, second, tell me, how did Yuan Chun and that scoundrel get divorced?"

Wang Hongjun glanced furtively at his sister, about to speak, but Yuan Chun said, "Dad, Mom, I made a mistake in choosing the wrong man. Since He Lisheng doesn’t want me, I divorced him, and I don’t want him either."

"As your daughter, I won’t humiliate myself by begging him to stay with me." As Yuan Chun said this, she got teary-eyed, "Dad, Mom, I want to live on my own with Niu Niu... I want to raise Niu Niu by myself."