The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 910 - 202: Together to the New Post

Chapter 910: Chapter 202: Together to the New Post

Widow Yang looked around with hatred in her eyes, then took the medicine bowl that Hong Xia passed to her, lifted it, and tearfully looked at Fang Li, "Brother Fang..."

Fang Li couldn’t bear to watch her suffer, but they couldn’t withstand the harsh punishment of eighty strokes. He was even more reluctant to let this incident affect his eldest son’s career prospects. He was counting on his eldest son’s promotion and wealth to show filial piety!

Widow Yang tilted her head back and drank all the medicine in the bowl as if it were poison.

Hong Xia watched coldly and then took the bowl away.

Xue Dong threw over two large packages of medicine, "After the monstrosity is expelled, drink these two packets of tonic and you’ll be as lively as a dragon in a few days!"

Widow Yang sneered in her heart. Pei Qin was truly a cunning person—so malicious and ruthless! She pretended to welcome her into the household but immediately aimed to destroy the child in her belly, cutting off her advantage! Did they really think that without the child, Fang Li would not be bound to her? Now that they had forced an abortion on her, Fang Li would hate them even more, loathe Lady Yu even more—the old, despicable woman—and pity her even more!

Fang Li, looking on, insisted on her immediately marrying into the family, "It’s impossible to let Yu Lan take the medicine and be left alone at home to await death! Once married, we could celebrate the New Year together as a family!"

Grandma Fang felt such intense anger that it caused her chest pain.

"My son has just taken a wife, and you as a father can’t wait to take a concubine?" Pei Qian said with a mocking tone.

Fang Li’s face turned green with anger, and he was about to scold her.

"After the New Year!" Fang Liuming said angrily.

Fang Li, seeing his anger, still didn’t want to ruin their relationship completely; he still had hopes for his eldest son’s bright future.

Widow Yang knew that Fang Li cared most about his eldest son’s future. With the proposal from Fang Liuming, even if he disagreed, his rebuttal was not forceful. She took the initiative and pulled Fang Li along, "After the New Year it is, then. Brother Fang! I don’t want to make things difficult for you! For you, I can endure any suffering!"

Filled with guilt, Fang Li wrapped his arms around her shoulders, "Yu Lan! I’ll take you home."

Widow Yang glanced once more at Lady Yu and the others. Her gaze fell on Pei Qin’s face, "Thank you, Madam Yuanyang, for the medicine." With that said, she humbly followed Fang Li home.

As soon as they left, Pei Qian gnashed her teeth, "That whore, without a child, better not dream of entering our door again!" Her plan was to deny Widow Yang once the bastard child was gone. Such a treacherous, wanton woman only brought disgrace to their family by stepping inside!

Lady Yu had gradually lost hope ever since she discovered his clothes smelled of rouge and powder, and that he associated with Widow Yang. Watching Fang Li doting on Widow Yang as they left, she suddenly felt relieved and unconcerned. In the future, she would simply be a good daughter-in-law of the Fang family, looking after the children and hoping for a peaceful second half of her life with her grandchildren.

Seeing what Pei Qian said, she shook her head at her, "If she wants to come in, let her! Otherwise, it’s like a cornered dog in desperate straits."

Grandma Fang cried a river of tears, clinging to Lady Yu, "Mother has wronged you! I failed to raise that beast properly!"

Rongniang was sent to her parents’ home to care for her sick grandmother. With the head of the household often away studying for exams, it was only she and her mother-in-law left to look after the twenty-some mu of land; they worked from dawn to dusk with hardly any day of rest. Because Fang Li and Hui Niang neglected their duties in raising the child, he turned out this way. It was her fault!

Lady Yu shook her head with tears in her eyes, "Most daughters-in-law suffer at the hands of their mothers-in-law. I’ve been married into the Fang family for more than twenty years, and mother has treated me like her own daughter. This is the blessing of three lifetimes!"

Grandma Fang sobbed in distress. She really, really didn’t want Widow Yang to enter their home!

Pei Qin consoled her with a few words, knowing that just a few words wouldn’t be enough to make her feel better at the moment. Happy, Xixi, and the three Little Radishes—Jiujiu—were still at home, so she and Pei Yuan returned to Liu’er Alley first.

Pei Yuan sighed several times, feeling a suffocation, "I’m afraid our grandfather’s home will no longer have peace in the future!"

"One is born amidst adversity and dies in tranquility," Pei Qin said, cracking pumpkin seeds.

Pei Yuan looked at her with a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth, "What does this have to do with life and death! Besides, those two packets of tonic you gave, Widow Yang won’t even eat them. Why bother giving them to her? It’s just a waste!"

Pei Qin smiled without saying a word.

After Widow Yang took the medicine, she didn’t last long before it took effect. She suffered intense pain in her lower abdomen, so severe that sweat poured down her face despite the cold winter.

Fang Li watched with heartache but dared not call a doctor to tend to her.

Widow Yang cried out in pain, clutching him, "It hurts so much! I don’t want to live anymore!"

Fang Li looked at the two packets of medicine that had been brought back and reached out for them.

When Widow Yang saw him actually insist on her taking the medicine Pei Qin gave, she slapped them away, "Her medicine can’t be taken at all! If I continue taking these medicines, even if I don’t die, I’ll end up with a body full of ailments and will never be able to conceive again!"