Chapter 178: Let Them Live in Fear Day and Night

Liu Chuxue did not directly expose the matter, but said with a faint, mocking smile: "If we were your biological children, how could you bear to force him to work at the reservoir construction site? How could you bear, when he was injured, to use the family's money to buy a job for Hearing Liu Jiandong instead of using it to treat my father's leg?"

"If we were your biological children, then why could the girls of the First and Third Branches go to school without begging you, while the three of us sisters could only go to school because my father begged for it? For this, you made threats, demanding that my parents earn a full quota of work points every single day?"

"But have you considered that the First and Third Branches do not have fewer children than our Second Branch? Why don't they have to earn a full quota of work points every day? Is it simply because my parents didn't have a son? Yet you go around every day claiming you never favor sons over daughters, saying that even if the Second Branch has no son, you will have nephews to rely on in the future?"

"You are still alive, and my parents are not old yet. The First Branch dares to trade my chastity for profit, and Hearing Liu Jiandong dares to gamble my fate for his future. Can my parents really expect such nephews to support them in their old age? Don't you find that ridiculous?"

Liu Chuxue's words caused the onlookers to immediately begin whispering among themselves: "Liu Chuxue is right. The Liu couple brag all day that their family never favors sons over daughters, but it turns out it was all a lie?"

"They aren't exactly lying. They really do treat the girls of the First and Third Branches equally; they don't need their parents to beg, and they can still go to school."

"Have you noticed that the girls of the First and Third Branches get new clothes every year, but the three sisters of Liu Chuxue's branch only wear clothes that Xia Qiu wore until they were empty, which then went to Liu Chuxue, and finally to Chunxiao? They are layers of patches upon patches."

"Now that you mention it, I remember. Once I heard Ruxiang scolding Chunxiao, saying she could only wear clothes that she and Qiufen had discarded, calling her a rag-picker."

"At the time, I didn't think much of it; every family has the eldest wear it first, then the second. But now it seems, among the Liu sisters, Chunxiao of the Second Branch is probably the most pitiful. After all, the two daughters of the First Branch and the two daughters of the Third Branch have all worn new clothes, while Xia Qiu of the Second Branch mostly wore what Ruxiang of the First Branch discarded. Even if new clothes were made, it probably happened very few times."

"Actually, don't say that. Before, I thought the Liu couple was quite decent, but thinking it over carefully, they really treat the three sons and their wives differently. Liu Shangan and Liu Shanling only earned a full quota of work points during the autumn harvest, yet Ge Pozi never scolded them."

"I remember one time the second son earned only eight work points. Ge Pozi scolded the second son in front of so many people at the field that he couldn't lift his head. Not long after, Liu Shanliang collapsed on the way home."

"Later everyone found out that even though Liu Shanliang had a fever, Ge Pozi didn't let him rest. He was burning up like that; surely she couldn't have failed to notice?"

See? The eyes of the masses are sharp. She only started the thread, and they were able to piece together the truth and expose the hypocrisy of the Liu couple."

She would not be foolish enough to expose the truth right now, but she would make them live in fear day and night, making them tremble with apprehension from now on."

Seeing that things were mostly settled, she lifted her leg and headed toward their Second Branch. Just as she was nearing their territory, she said: "Come bother our Second Branch less in the future. Seeing you makes me sick."

After speaking, she pulled the stunned Liu Mother back into the house."

It took Liu Mother a long while to recover: "Xue, since when did you become so sharp-tongued?"

Liu Chuxue poured herself a bowl of water: "If I weren't a bit sharper, wouldn't they bully the Second Branch again?"

She did not want to discuss this topic with Liu Mother, so she ended the conversation with a single sentence."

(End of this chapter)"