Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

Su Wanqing went out first. Zhou Yanshen quickly washed himself clean, dried himself, put on his clothes, and made sure he was tidied up before walking out with a sullen face.

He didn't understand why his cousin had come all this way, but he was sure it wasn't for anything good.

Moreover, it would interrupt his and his wife's intimate moments... Thinking about this made him even more unhappy.

Outside, Su Wanqing sat at the table, sipping her warm sweet potato porridge and eating a golden-brown fried chive pancake with relish.

Lin Tingting looked at the extremely simple meal on the table and snorted:

"Auntie! Is this woman just trying to fool you with congee and fried pork crackling and chive dumplings? Doesn't she know you don't like chives, and you especially dislike greasy food? This daughter-in-law of hers really doesn't care about you at all!"

She raised her chin. "If I were your daughter-in-law, I would cook you a variety of delicious meals every day, making sure they suit your taste and making you feel completely comfortable!"

As she spoke, she noticed that Zhou's mother was already sitting on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and slurping down her food. She ate a bite of chive pancake with pickles, followed by a large mouthful of porridge, and waved her hand, saying, "Hurry up and eat! Don't just stand there! I'm going to pick you up from the train station. You've been traveling back and forth all day and haven't had a proper meal. You're starving!"

Her former elegant demeanor, which was always so refined and graceful, was nowhere to be seen.

Lin Tingting was dumbfounded.

What shocked her even more was that Zhou Yanshen said with a stern face, "I cooked this meal, not your sister-in-law. Your sister-in-law has been working hard all day."

Lin Tingting exclaimed incredulously, "What? Cousin, you actually cooked for her? As her wife, she doesn't even cook, and you're expected to cook and serve her? What kind of woman acts like that as a wife? This is outrageous!"

Su Wanqing slowly sipped her porridge, thinking about the original plot—shortly after the original owner went to the countryside, her cousin Lin Tingting came looking for her. Every day, besides circling around the male lead, she would take advantage of the male lead's absence to bully and torment the original owner in various ways with Zhou's mother.

"Ha... So all that scheming from that wicked mother-in-law these past few days was to call for this little helper? Did she think that with just one more person, she could control me?"

Su Wanqing scoffed, and then Zhou Yanshen said coldly, "Cousin, what brings you all the way from Bincheng? There's nowhere to stay here, and we don't have much food. You should take the train back tomorrow."

Lin Tingting's eyes instantly welled up with tears of grievance. "Cousin! I came all this way because I was worried about you and Aunt! You left in such a hurry the other day, without taking anything with you. Aunt has been suffering so much with you in the countryside!"

As she spoke, she looked at Zhou's mother with concern, "Look at Auntie, she's gotten so thin from hunger in such a short time..."

She looked up and saw that her aunt's once slender figure had become somewhat bloated.

Lin Tingting: "?"

Lin Tingting's words caught in her throat: "..."

She quickly changed the subject, "Anyway, I came here to take care of my aunt for a while! Also, my uncle has been reported! He has taken on all the blame by himself and is also going to the countryside, but he has a bad leg and is partially paralyzed. His son is abroad and his daughter is married and lives in the capital, so he can't leave. After thinking it over, the only place that can accommodate him is your place, cousin."

As soon as Zhou's mother finished eating, she put down her chopsticks. "Yan Shen! What are we going to do? Your uncle used to be so good to you. Now he's fallen to this state. He's been reported and is all alone. They said they could send him here to make a family! They can put a bed for him outside. Your uncle isn't in good health, so if they send him here, Wan Qing can take care of him."

"Wanqing, you've saved so many people in the village, even a ewe in labor, you wouldn't... possibly refuse to save your own uncle's life, would you?"

Lin Tingting immediately looked at Su Wanqing with expectant eyes, her mind screaming: Refuse! Jump up and down! Curse! Say why should a paralyzed old man live in your outer room? Why should you serve him? If you dare to say "no," you'll be labeled selfish, mean, unfilial, and heartless! Let's see if your cousin will still protect you!

Putting herself in his shoes, if she and her cousin Yanshen had to live with some old geezer who needed to clean up their excrement, she would go crazy and feel disgusted to death!

She refused to believe that Su Wanqing could tolerate it!

"Hmph, Auntie must have been bullied terribly by Su Wanqing lately, and she's been holding in a lot of anger. Now that I'm here, working with her from the inside, we can easily subdue this woman!" Lin Tingting thought to herself with smug satisfaction.

Actually, although her uncle was also going to the countryside, he had better options. The reason she said this was to let her cousin see Su Wanqing's true colors and distance himself from her.

Su Wanqing narrowed her eyes; there did seem to be such a passage in the original text. When Lin Tingting arrived, she used the tactic of serving her paralyzed uncle to make things difficult for the original owner. The original owner immediately exploded, having a huge argument with Zhou's mother and Lin Tingting, almost coming to blows. Before Zhou Yanshen could even express his opinion, the original owner had already cursed everyone. In any case, Zhou Yanshen never spoke to her again after that.

She sneered inwardly; human nature can be so strange sometimes.

There's a world of difference between doing something willingly and being forced to do it. It's fine to wash the dishes voluntarily, but if your parents call out, "Hey, go wash the dishes," you immediately don't want to do it anymore.

Could Su Wanqing directly refuse? Obviously not, otherwise her image would be ruined.

Not only did she not refuse, but she wholeheartedly agreed!

Still trying to annoy and control her with this trick? Fine, fine, you think you can get away with not knowing who's in charge after just two days of peace? Don't you know who's the boss anymore?

Zhou Yanshen frowned. "It's one thing for my uncle to be good to me, but taking care of him in his old age is something his children should be concerned with..."

Before he could finish speaking, Su Wanqing suddenly grabbed his hand.

"Yan Shen, Mom, don't worry. I think what you're saying makes sense!"

"My uncle is in dire straits now, all alone, and his legs are weak. He really needs family to take care of him in the countryside. Since my cousin is here, she can help take care of him too. Let me make my stance clear: I have no objection to having my uncle come and live with us. If he comes, I happen to know a little about medicine and can do my best to treat his leg. It's just that..."

"I have tasks at the oyster mushroom experimental site. I also have to go to work during the day. So, I really can't spare much time to take care of my uncle's daily life. I can only say that I will do my best."

Zhou's mother: "!!!" She almost dropped her chopsticks on the table.

Lin Tingting: "!!!" Her eyes widened and her mouth slightly open.

Isn't that right?

How could Su Wanqing agree so readily?! Did she really want a paralyzed old man living outside their house? Didn't she find it disgusting? Wasn't she worried about the inconvenience?

Zhou Yanshen initially frowned, intending to refuse, but after seeing Su Wanqing blink, he said in a deep voice: