[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-141":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543476,2006,"Chapter 141 - 141 140 Escaped","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-141",141,"\u003Cp>141: Chapter 140: Escaped 141: Chapter 140: Escaped “Ow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You silly woman!” Gu Laosan stomped his feet in anger, saying, “Her filial gesture?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Have you never wondered where she gets the fish from?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Caught from the river, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, how did she catch them?” Meng Qiuju finally remembered and exclaimed in shock, “Are you saying…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this was given to her by someone else?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Laosan, breathing heavily with anger, said, “How can you be so careless as a mother?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t you care about Erya’s affairs at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you know how often she mingles with those people in the village?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Meng Qiuju’s expression, it was clear she knew nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly shouted, “How did I end up marrying such a foolish woman?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can’t even please your mother-in-law!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can’t learn anything from your sister-in-law, and you can’t even keep an eye on your own daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’s losing her way because of you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You don’t know what she does all day long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tell me, what do you know at all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Qiuju was rendered speechless and couldn’t utter a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Laosan continued furiously, “All you do is eat and idle away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What are you boiling water for when you have nothing else to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t I tell you to keep a close eye on her these days?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an incorrigible woman.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the scolding, he stormed out in a rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Qiuju felt wronged after the scolding but quickly asked, “Where are you going?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m going out to find her!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been many years since she’d been scolded like this since their son was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second year after she married into the Gu Family, she had a daughter, but no matter what, she couldn’t get pregnant again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Xiangwen, who had married into the family not many years before her, had several children, while she only had one daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had not suffered lightly during those years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, it was during those years, without a son, that she couldn’t hold her head high and developed a character of endurance, always being suppressed by the Gu Family members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only after Gu Sanbao was born eight years later that her life got somewhat better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After enjoying better days for a while, she had almost forgotten how ruthless her husband could be; back then, he had often threatened to divorce her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As her thoughts deepened, tears welled up in Meng Qiuju’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Sanbao, who saw this, quickly asked, “Mom, what’s wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you crying?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Qiuju pulled at the corner of her mouth, smiling and saying, “No, I just got smoke in my eyes while boiling water.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Sanbao, seven years old and not understanding the situation, uttered an “Oh” and then said, “Grandma told me to come and ask if the water is ready.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Qiuju hurriedly wiped her tears and replied, “It’s ready, it’s ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tell Grandma I’ll bring the water over right away.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why do I have to boil water in the kitchen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You think I want to do it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou was picking herbs in the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t dare to venture deep and was picking in the areas where the villagers also frequented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, by accident, she walked a bit too far and could see the village below getting farther away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She quickly retraced her steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hearing was much more sensitive than the average person’s and she kept hearing strange noises every few steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou was shocked, and her heart sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had she run into a wild man again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she be so unlucky?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin searched the mountains every day without success and she, having entered the mountains only a few times, had encountered one again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it really was a wild man, with his speed, it was no use for Gu Youyou to run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best thing to do would be to hide quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She may have found him, but that didn’t necessarily mean he would notice her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou crouched down and stealthily hid behind a bush, listening to the noises coming from that direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening carefully, it was a man’s and a woman’s voices—weren’t they Wang Shun and Gu Xiaoqing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just the other day, Auntie Wang had doubted their affair, and now here she was, overhearing their secret rendezvous?\u003C\u002Fp>",717,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","b0c16fcd35f6af08773c3328ba886923a38c17cb58e3d47eb223c68a880a1f85","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-142","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-140",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]