Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Despite his complaints, Liu Jie continued searching for a wife, because if he didn't find one to help take care of the children, their family's life would become difficult again.

Before the mistress was at home, they hadn't realized her importance—or perhaps they had, but they felt justified in thinking she was just freeloading and bossed her around. Now that she's gone, the Liu family has realized that the mistress's existence is indispensable, otherwise the family would face difficulties, so they have no choice but to hurry up and find another one.

Finding himself unable to find girls with similar qualities to his mistress and Linlang, Liu Jie had to turn his attention to girls who were less fortunate than them.

In the past, Liu Jie would never have lowered his standards, because he felt that if he did, others would be taking advantage of him. But now that he can't find girls with the same qualities as Xiao San and Lin Lang, he has no choice but to lower his standards.

Now that it's the apocalypse, the term "girls with less desirable conditions" is different from before the apocalypse. Now, "girls with less desirable conditions" refers to those who are less attractive and too afraid to fight monsters.

Liu Jie couldn't win over any girl who wasn't particularly attractive but dared to fight monsters, because once she heard that Liu Jie wanted to find a woman to stay home and help him take care of his children, who would want to go?

Even if the other woman can fight monsters and isn't staying home to take care of the children, and Liu's mother takes care of the children while the woman goes out to fight monsters with Liu Jie, she can already support herself by fighting monsters. Why should she earn money to hand over to the Liu family to support Liu's mother and Liu Jie's child with another woman? Are they stupid? Even if they want to start a family, wouldn't it be better to find someone like them who doesn't have children? Besides, in these precarious times, who wants to start a family? Shouldn't they wait until conditions are better?
In other words, the Liu family needed someone to take care of the child, so they urgently needed Liu Jie to find someone to marry. However, most people were not in the mood to talk about marriage at the time. So Liu Jie searched around, even looking for girls with very poor conditions, but he couldn't find anyone. Meanwhile, the family's situation was getting worse and worse, so he couldn't help but get anxious.

What annoyed him even more was that Liu's mother suddenly jumped out and criticized him for not finding a new wife, looking very dissatisfied with his progress. She said she was exhausted from taking care of the child alone, which completely enraged Liu Jie. He coldly replied, "You have the nerve to complain about me not finding a new wife? I haven't even blamed you for driving my wife away. Now I don't have a wife, and no one to take care of the child. If you hadn't been constantly complaining about Wang Min and driving her away, would I need to find a new wife now? Instead of reflecting on your own problems, you blame me."

Previously, Liu Jie only harbored some resentment towards his mother. Now, even though he was willing to lower himself to choose a woman inferior to Wang Min, he still couldn't find one, and naturally, he felt desperate. So, his grievances burst forth, and he cursed her particularly viciously, pushing all the blame onto his mother. He forgot that when his mother accused the mistress, he and his father not only didn't try to dissuade her, but sometimes even sided with her, also feeling that the mistress was freeloading in their home, that they were supporting her, and that she should be subservient to them, especially to him, and be even more docile than before the end of the world, groveling before him and enjoying the life of a local tyrant.

Little did he know that she had plenty of suitors. He thought she was freeloading, that he was supporting her, and that she should fawn over him. But she didn't think she was freeloading at the Liu family's house at all—in fact, she wasn't. After all, if it weren't for the mistress taking care of the child, saving them a laborer, they would have lost one of their workers, leaving only two to fight the monster. They were just pretending not to see her contributions, thinking she was being supported and was freeloading, so she had to fawn over them. On the contrary, they thought the Liu family was poor, getting scolded even for eating a bun and drinking water, and had wanted to get rid of her for a long time. It was a case of magic defeating magic, and trash having to be cleaned up by trash.

Upon hearing Liu Jie's accusations, Liu's mother's face immediately darkened. She dared not continue to grumble about her son's incompetence, lamenting that so much time had passed and he still hadn't found a wife, lest he scold her again.

But if Liu Jie can't find a wife, what will happen to the child? If no one helps take care of the child, the two of them will only be fighting monsters every day, and their income won't be enough, which will be a big problem.

In the past, if the Liu family realized things weren't going well, they might have abandoned the child so all three of them could focus on their own lives and things could improve. But right now, Liu Jie couldn't find a woman willing to marry him or help him raise the child. His parents were worried that he wouldn't be able to find a woman to have children with in the future, so they hesitated about whether to abandon the child.

After all, if they throw it away, and Liu Jie can't find a wife and have children again, wouldn't the Liu family line end? That's definitely not acceptable.

So the Liu family originally planned to abandon the child and move on with a lighter burden. Now that they see Liu Jie can't find a new wife, they don't plan to abandon the child for the time being, unless they themselves can't survive, then they might have to abandon the child.

Leaving aside the fact that the original owner's ex-boyfriend's life was getting worse and worse, let's talk about Linlang's side. Just like when the original owner's father discovered Linlang before, the original owner's mother also discovered Linlang on this day.

The main reason is that after Linlang was discovered by the original owner's father, she abandoned the matter of hiding it and let them find out. So it's normal that the original owner's mother would find out about her sooner or later.

After discovering Linlang, the original owner's mother naturally wanted to ask Linlang for money, just like the original owner's father.

However, unlike the original owner's father, the original owner's mother could only come alone to ask for money, unlike the original owner's father, who had his parents around and could come to harass Linlang together. The original owner's maternal grandparents naturally did not live with the original owner's mother, so after the apocalypse, they naturally did not live together either. The original owner's mother lived with her husband's family.

So when the original owner's mother discovered Linlang, she would only come alone if she wanted to take advantage of Linlang. Her husband, his parents, and other members of his family would be too embarrassed to come with her and take advantage of Linlang together.

Since the original owner's mother came alone, Linlang was even easier to deal with.

When the original owner's mother tried to get close to her, saying that her family hadn't been doing well lately and that Linlang seemed to be doing quite well now, asking if she could help her, Linlang immediately refused, coldly saying, "It seems that since the divorce, you haven't even paid me child support. I was too kind before the apocalypse, otherwise, I should have sued you in court to ask you for child support."

The courts generally support cases where children sue their parents for child support. There have been cases where adults sued their parents for abandonment, demanding compensation for unpaid child support. The courts often ruled in their favor, ordering the parents to pay the outstanding child support. Therefore, what Linlang is saying is true. (End of Chapter)