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

Chapter 98 Returning to Her Mother's Home and Getting Slapped in the Face
"grandmother!"

Man'er nestled in Tong Huaqiong's arms and wouldn't get up, her voice filled with endless grievance.

Tong Huaqiong was heartbroken.

"Grandma, I'm never going to Grandma's house again," Man'er said.

She was at her maternal grandparents' house in Chenjiazhuang. Her grandparents said she was a money-loser, her aunt rolled her eyes at her, and even pinched her.

It was even more terrifying for her than when she was living under her grandmother's care.

Tong Huaqiong gently patted Man'er's head and comforted her softly, "Grandma loves Man'er. If you don't want to go in the future, I'll make sure you don't have to."

Man'er nodded vigorously.

Chen Sufeng felt a pang of sadness after listening to her daughter and mother-in-law's conversation.

She felt sorry for her daughter, who had been mistreated at her parents' home; she also felt sorry for her mother-in-law, who had bought her a whole truckload of things to make her look good, but her own family treated her so badly that they were unwilling to let her family sit at the table for lunch.

Not only that, her family also made many unreasonable demands on her.

She was too ashamed to tell her mother-in-law.

"You must be tired after traveling all night. Have you eaten? If not, there's still rice in the pot," Tong Huaqiong said.

Chen Su-fen felt even more upset!
They not only didn't have a proper lunch, but they also didn't eat dinner at all.

"I haven't eaten," Man'er said, rubbing her rumbling stomach.

Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but shake her head.

The Chen family has gone too far.

"Well, Mother, I'll deliver the flatbed cart to the Qin family first, and I'll also deliver Uncle Liu's donkey while I'm at it," Gu Dahan said.

Tong Huaqiong said, "It's so late, there's no rush. That donkey has traveled all day, are you just going to deliver it like this? You can feed it and deliver it tomorrow morning."

Tong Huaqiong felt that Gu Dahan was sometimes really a blockhead, too honest for his own good.

Gu Dahan nodded and went to feed the donkey.

"Mother," Chen Sufeng hesitated, her voice filled with timidity and grievance.

"Let's stop talking now and eat first."

Tong Huaqiong stopped Chen Sufen and called Liu Yue'e out of the house to help the eldest son's family heat up their meal.

Fortunately, the food was ready and was served quickly.

Looking at her sister-in-law's dejected face, Liu Yue'e knew that she had suffered a setback at her parents' home, and she felt a little happy.

"Sister-in-law, you haven't been back to your parents' home for years, and they don't even feed you?" Liu Yue'e said to Chen Sufen, adding fuel to the fire.

See? Bringing so much stuff to visit your parents' home only to get humiliated.

Forget about giving return gifts, they won't even let us have a full meal.

My mother-in-law is vengeful; she'll definitely turn her back on the Chen family in the future.

Before Gu Jingzhe got married, only her maternal family was the proper in-law of the Gu family.

Chen Sufeng didn't know how to respond to her sister-in-law, so she remained silent and ate with Man'er.

"What happened to Man'er's hand?" Tong Huaqiong asked.

By the light of the oil lamp, Tong Huaqiong saw that Man'er's right wrist was covered in bruises, clearly from being pinched.

Chen Sufen panicked for a moment, and her eyes reddened.

"What exactly happened?" Tong Huaqiong's face darkened.

“It was my aunt who pinched me,” Man’er said with a wronged expression.

"What happened?" Tong Huaqiong was furious.

"You and Da Han are dead, you can't even protect a child."

While cursing, Tong Huaqiong went inside to get some liniment and carefully applied it to Man'er's hands.

Chen Sufeng and her husband are simply terrible. They can't even protect their daughter when they go back to visit relatives. In this respect, they are not as good as the second son and his wife, not even as good as Tong Dajiao in the past.

No matter how bad the second son and his wife and Tong Dajiao were, they were extremely protective of their own children, and no one could bully them.

Man'er had been healthy and fair-skinned all these days, but when she went to her maternal grandparents' house, her aunt pinched her.

What kind of person is this aunt? She doesn't even spare a little kid.

“That’s right, sister-in-law. I’m not trying to criticize you, but you were so protective of Man’er that you banged your mother’s head against the doorframe. Da Han even beat up my third brother for Man’er’s sake. You two are so domineering in the Gu family, how come you get bullied like this in the Chen family?” Liu Yue’e said.

“It breaks my heart to see my niece’s hand being pinched like this.”

Tong Huaqiong felt that Liu Yue'e's words were unpleasant to hear, but they made a lot of sense.

"During lunchtime."

Chen Sufen put down her chopsticks, feeling sorry for her daughter and for Dahan.

She had been holding in her bitterness all day and couldn't help but want to vent.

Chen Sufeng dressed up and happily took Gu Dahan and Man'er to her parents' home today, thinking that her parents would be very welcoming since they hadn't seen each other for several years.

When her family first saw that she was wearing new clothes and looked well, and that she had brought a car full of gifts, they were indeed overly enthusiastic towards the three of them.

Chen Sufen was moved to tears, and while chatting with her parents, she told them all about her mother-in-law's transformation.

Regardless of whether Tong Huaqiong had changed her mind or not, when the Chen family heard that Chen Sufeng was stopping Man'er from going to the Zheng family, they suddenly changed their tune and accused her of being unreasonable and not stopping Man'er from going to the Zheng family for a wedding to bring good luck.

Her father's exact words were, "A little girl is always a money-loser; she's useless at home. If we send her to the Zheng family to bring good luck, she can help you two brothers and your nephew. Now that Man'er isn't going to the Zheng family, you've ruined the future of our Chen family."

Her brother was so angry that he slammed his fist on the table, complaining that Chen Su-fen was hindering his son's future.

Chen Sufen was stunned; she hadn't expected her family to react this way.

This is even worse than what happened with my mother-in-law and brother-in-law back then.

The mother-in-law raised Man'er for several years, but the Chen family hasn't even made a pair of shoes for Man'er, yet they want to use Man'er to change their future.

That's incredibly shameless.

Then her father and two brothers started planning the family's expenses, saying that they needed money to renovate the house, that they needed to buy new piglets because the two pigs they raised had died, and that their eldest nephew would be getting married in a few years and they would need a bride price. All in all, they would need one hundred taels of silver.

He immediately asked Chen Sufeng for one hundred taels of silver.

Chen Sufen hadn't expected her family to ask for money upon meeting her, especially since she didn't have that much money to spare.

Her brother and sister-in-law then accused her again of not letting Man'er go to the Zheng family, saying that the Nie family had money and that she should go to her sister-in-law's house to borrow money.

Chen Su-fen was so angry that she cried.

Her parents didn't take her side either. They kept saying that no girl should think about her brothers, and they scolded Chen Sufeng for being selfish. They said that Chen Sufeng had never given back to the family after being married into the Gu family for so many years, and that she should give her brother and sister-in-law a hundred taels of silver.

Amidst the insults, Chen Sufen realized that her initial enthusiasm was all fake; they were just trying to take advantage of her good life, and when they failed, their true colors were revealed.

Her sister-in-law even wanted her new clothes. She said that her mother-in-law had bought them for her and she was afraid of being scolded when she got home. Her sister-in-law's face was as long as a donkey's, implying that she was a hen that couldn't lay eggs because she couldn't give birth to a son.

Just as Tong Huaqiong had guessed, the Chen family learned from the villagers that Tong Huaqiong's pastry business at the market was thriving, so they wanted Chen Sufeng to get money from her husband's family.

They forced Chen Sufeng to agree to give him one hundred taels of silver.

The words were as harsh as could be.

Chen Su-fen endured it all.

At lunchtime, the Chen family processed the chicken, fish, and mutton that Chen Sufeng had brought and cooked a large table of dishes.

Chen Sufeng and her family of three did sit down at the table, but leftovers from the morning were placed in front of them. They were told that they were living a good life at the Gu family's house, and that the meat and vegetables were for Chen Sufeng's brother, sister-in-law, and nephew.

Man'er developed a tough temper by following Tong Huaqiong, and she thought to herself, "Why should I?"

Even Yaozu in the Gu family had to defer to her, so why should she put up with her cousins' bad temper at the dinner table?

Besides, all the meat on the table was brought by her parents, so it's her turn to eat it.

So she reached out with her chopsticks to pick up a chicken leg, but her cousin held the meat down to prevent her from doing so. In the struggle, her aunt insisted that Man'er was bullying her son and grabbed Man'er's hand.

(End of this chapter)