The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 84 Different Stepmothers, Different Fates

"Ha, a stepmother is a stepmother. How can she be so sincere to someone who isn't her own child?"

The discussion about stepmothers had already subsided when a young woman sitting next to Gu Baishuang suddenly sneered, her words sounding like she was about to stir up trouble.

Tong Huaqiong looked at the young woman. The young woman was dressed very richly, and her slightly protruding belly clearly indicated that she was pregnant.

"Even the stepmother is preventing the first wife from being buried with her husband, and you're still speaking up for her?" the young wife said to Gu Baishuang.

Her words seemed to clearly reveal the grudges between Gu Baishuang and Tong Huaqiong.

Tong Huaqiong remembered that this young woman was Sun, the second daughter-in-law of the Nie family, who was also Gu Baishuang's stepson's wife.

Despite both being stepsisters, Gu Baishuang's two daughters-in-law treated her with far less respect than Chen Sufeng.

The eldest daughter-in-law is a smiling tiger. She already has a son and outwardly respects her mother-in-law, Gu Baishuang, but secretly plots against her. She is very good at speaking sarcastically and often makes veiled accusations. This time, she did not attend the birthday banquet, so Tong Huaqiong did not see her in person.

The second daughter-in-law is the actual young wife who serves Gu Baishuang.

She was also someone not to be trifled with, acting outwardly and speaking with a sharp tongue. Because Gu Baishuang was not her biological mother-in-law, she had no respect for Gu Baishuang.

Gu Baishuang's life in the Nie family was not as good as she had imagined.

After she gave birth to a son, it was even more so. If she hadn't given birth to a son, it would have been fine, but after she gave birth to a son, he would come to divide up the Nie family's property. How could her two stepsons be willing to accept that?
With two fierce stepsons watching from the front, plus two unruly stepsisters, Tong Huaqiong felt that Gu Baishuang was only better off in terms of food and clothing; in terms of a comfortable life, she was far inferior to Gu Baishuang.

If she's unhappy, she can even take a beating on Gu Dahan and Chen Sufen.

No matter how unhappy Gu Baishuang was, she could only endure it for Nie Xiaofeng's sake.

Gu Baishuang had lived under the care of a stepmother herself and knew how unpleasant it was. After becoming a stepmother, she vowed to treat her two stepsons as her own, but this only made them more demanding and eventually led to them showing her little respect in daily life.

Gu Baishuang's expression changed upon hearing Sun's words.

She knew perfectly well that her stepson's daughter-in-law brought up this topic not to stand up for her or seek justice from Tong Huaqiong, but simply to disgust her.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have deliberately provoked her by calling her a stepmother.

Everyone sitting here knows she's the Nie family's stepmother!

Sun stabbed her stepmother-in-law, looking smug.

There was a reason why she publicly humiliated her stepmother-in-law this time: her husband wanted to take control of the shops in Pingchuan County, but her father-in-law disagreed, and the father and son had a fight.

She felt that her stepmother-in-law must have been whispering in her father-in-law's ear, because these past few days she had been giving Gu Baishuang the cold shoulder, even in front of outsiders.

When the ladies at the banquet heard this, they thought that Gu Baishuang was preventing the first wife from being buried with Master Nie. Some sided with Gu Baishuang, while others sided with her stepson and his wife. But no matter who they sided with, it didn't affect their desire to watch the drama unfold.

"Granddaughter-in-law, are you targeting me? You've chosen the wrong person. I decided a few days ago to have your maternal grandparents buried together. You haven't heard the news yet, have you? At the joint funeral, you'll have to pay your respects to the memorial tablets as your granddaughter-in-law."

Tong Huaqiong smiled at Madam Sun, but the phrase "granddaughter-in-law" disgusted Madam Sun.

"Does a stepmother have such good intentions?" Sun muttered.

"This matter has been settled," Gu Baishuang said calmly.

Sun pursed her lips, feeling resentful that she hadn't managed to hurt her stepmother-in-law. Tong Huaqiong, having witnessed everything, said to Sun, "You want to ask why I stopped them from being buried together before, right? Well, when the old man died, I felt like a helpless crab, so I tried to make a scene."

Rather than letting Sun make a fuss about it, she should expose the truth herself.

Everyone looked at Tong Huaqiong and realized that it was because Tong Huaqiong did not allow the first wife to be buried with her husband.

This daughter-in-law of the Nie family is standing up for Madam Nie, but she doesn't seem like it at all; it looks more like she's using this as an excuse to make trouble.

Tong Huaqiong nodded to the ladies and said, "I've made money in business these days, and I figured I can live on my own without relying on a man. Ladies, please don't laugh at me. To be honest, I don't think I'm old. Maybe I can remarry in the future, so I won't be buried with my old man. It's perfectly fine to let the two who have already passed away be buried together."

Tong Huaqiong's words made Gu Taohua and Gu Baishuang's eyes widen, and left all the ladies present speechless with astonishment.

Although this widow Tong doesn't look old, and with some grooming, she has thick eyebrows, big eyes, and an oval face, she's not bad-looking. But she already has a grandson, so who is she going to remarry?

Gu Baishuang's thoughts were in turmoil. So the stepmother wanted her mother and father to be buried together because Tong Huaqiong had the idea of ​​remarrying? She really dared to think that way.

However, no matter what, she couldn't interfere with her stepmother's decision. Just now, her stepmother had defended her and taken away the speculation that "the stepmother wouldn't allow the original to be buried together," so she felt a little grateful to Tong Huaqiong.

Sun felt that Tong Huaqiong's words were shameless; at her age, a widow shouldn't be so restless and should remarry.

Who would want her?
He then sarcastically remarked, "What old widower would want to take a widow? She really thinks she's something special."

Tong Huaqiong said, "I don't know which old widower would be willing to accept a widow, but granddaughter-in-law, when you come to someone else's house as a guest, you keep calling her a widow. Aren't you slapping the host's face? You are attending a widow's birthday celebration now, and the county magistrate's wife sitting next to the birthday celebrant is also a widow."

"Why don't we let those two widows from upstairs settle this matter?"

Sun's face flushed red and then turned pale, and she said angrily, "It seems you've gotten used to being a stepmother and always want to be a stepmother in someone else's family. Otherwise, why would you be thinking of remarrying?"

These words were a direct attack on both Tong Huaqiong and Gu Baishuang.

Gu Baishuang couldn't hold back any longer and scolded Sun Shi: "Second son's wife, what are you saying? What do you mean by stepmother?"

Sun retorted, "She was a stepmother to begin with, and I didn't say anything wrong."

Gu Baishuang's face turned ashen with anger.

Tong Huaqiong was not angry. She shared Gu Baishuang's indignation and said to Sun Shi, "Which woman can guarantee that she won't become someone's stepmother? Who can decide such a major event as marriage? Just like you, you asked to marry into the Nie family as their first wife. If your parents had married you off to an old widower like your father-in-law, you wouldn't have been able to do anything about it."

Sun wanted to refute that she was chosen by the second son of the Nie family when she was a young girl, who personally came to her door with betrothal gifts to ask for her hand in marriage.

Before she could speak, Tong Huaqiong continued, "You keep calling her 'stepmother' all the time. Did your stepmother eat your rice? You should be grateful that you have a stepmother as a mother-in-law now. If it were your own mother-in-law, she would have slapped you long ago for talking like that. You haven't met a stepmother like me. I should have taught your mother-in-law to be the kind of stepmother you're talking about. You wouldn't even be worthy of being invited to this banquet, let alone spouting nonsense here."

Gu Taohua took a sip of tea and said, "That's right. I think eldest sister is too kind-hearted. Eldest sister, you've wasted your time learning from my mother. Since you've been unfairly branded as a heartless stepmother, you should slap her across the face."

Gu Baishuang: "."

Sun was furious at being attacked from both sides by Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua, mother and daughter.

"besides."

Tong Huaqiong patted Sun's belly and said, "Watch your mouth when you speak in the future, and do it for your child's sake. You like talking about stepmothers so much, people who don't know better might think you want your son to have a stepmother."

Sun was so angry that her face turned pale. This was a curse upon her!
(End of this chapter)