My Beloved Super Fierce Wife-Chapter 222: The thought of divorce cannot exist.

"Xiaojing, have you gotten used to work yet? Your mom misses you so much she can’t even sleep well at night..."

The speaker was Xiaojing’s auntie-like neighbor.

Hearing this, Xiaojing smiled broadly, "Really? Auntie, where is my mom?"

She couldn’t wait to go home and share the amusing stories from the factory with her family.

The neighbor pointed not far away and said, "Over there."

Once Xiaojing got the precise location, she told Lin Tang and then ran off.

Just thinking about her mom missing her made the young girl incredibly excited.

Lin Lu saw his daughter returning from a distance and raised his voice.

"Tangtang!!"

Seeing her dad waving at her, Lin Tang nodded to the uncles and aunties in the village and started running towards her father.

The ground beneath her feet was covered with thick wheat, slightly slippery but very substantial.

"Dad, I’m home for the holiday," Lin Tang said with a smile.

"It’s good you’re back. Where’s your sister-in-law?" Lin Lu asked.

"She’s talking with my big brother."

While they spoke, they all pitched in with the work.

Lin Tang and the other two had returned home after their shift, and by now the sky was slowly darkening.

The wheat in the drying field was crucial for paying the grain tax and for food, its importance was self-evident.

The brigade members worked overtime every day.

They stayed busy even at night, under lit fires.

Even meals were delivered to the drying field by the women from home.

After another busy day and night, the brigade had finally cleaned up the wheat field.

All the wheat was divided into several piles.

Saturday, four o’clock in the afternoon.

The best wheat was bagged up, reserved for paying the grain tax.

The long-awaited grain distribution by the brigade members had arrived at last!

"Fellow members, line up orderly, one household at a time," Lin Fu announced with a megaphone while standing on a straw stack.

The villagers, experienced in this, promptly lined up neatly upon hearing the Captain’s words.

Qian Hua managed the accounts, Lin Fu steadied the scale, Li Jiancai and He Jun carried the scales, and two others filled the buckets.

One pile per household.

Qian Hua promptly wrote the name of the head of each household.

After the distribution, brigade members carried bags of grains, large and small.

Grain distribution was a big event, mobilizing the whole family—elders and children alike.

The village was bustling with excitement.

It was soon Sun Tieshu’s family’s turn.

Liu Damei helped fill her family’s grain, making sure not a single grain of wheat was missed.

After bagging up, she looked at the full bags of grain, her face beaming with smiles.

"It’s a good harvest. I hope our brigade enjoys such a bountiful harvest every year."

Next in line behind her were Wang Xuemei and her son, Shuanzi.

Wang Xuemei, who usually wore a stern face, also showed a rare smile.

"Yeah, I wish every year could be like this one."

As a widow, village gossip often surrounded her. Ever since Li Jiangang passed away, she became much more reticent, only really opening up to Li Xiuli.

She surprised Liu Damei by initiating a conversation out of the blue.

But Liu Damei soon regained her composure.

"I know, right? Everyone’s looking forward to it."

Li Xiuli, along with the people of Lin Family’s second branch, lined up behind the Sun family.

Listening to Wang Xuemei and Liu Damei’s conversation, Li Xiuli added with a smile, "It’ll get better and better! Think about it, wasn’t this year much better than the last?"

Last year’s grain yield was poor, and after paying the public grain, there wasn’t much left for each family.

During this time every year, the villagers usually lost weight.

Seeing that the second branch of the Lin Family not only hadn’t lost weight but also seemed more spirited than usual, Liu Damei felt as though she had been soaked in vinegar.

"Even if next year’s harvest isn’t good, Sister Xiuli’s family has two workers, there’s nothing to worry about. I’m so envious, it’s enough to die for."

Li Xiuli was taken aback, rolled her eyes dismissively, and retorted sharply.

"I’m blessed, my daughter has prospects, my son is filial. Some people are envious but can’t even manage that."

Her words were sharp and spared no consideration for Liu Damei’s feelings.

During this period, Tangtang had bought a radio for her dad, which had soured some people in the brigade.

Gossip like that had not gone unheard.

Liu Damei and Wu Chunhua were among the top culprits.

Li Xiuli could tolerate their idle chatter on normal days.

But she couldn’t stand them being sarcastic in front of Tangtang.

Lin Tang looked surprised and furrowed her brows, whispering to Zhou Mei beside her.

"Sister-in-law, what’s Auntie Liu dissatisfied with now?"

Zhou Mei curled her lip, her tone sarcastic.

"The Lin Family has two more workers now, and there’s a new radio at home. It bothers some people in the village who are prone to jealousy."

"You don’t need to worry about it. Your mother and I are here. Whoever dares to speak out, I will not let her get away with it."

Zhou Mei didn’t tell her young sister-in-law about the quarrels with the gossipy women in the village.

Lin Tang understood, it was still just jealousy because her family had developed too quickly.

Humph, narrow-minded people.

Why are they always focusing on others?

"Sister-in-law, don’t bother with them. Let them say what they want, it won’t affect us," Lin Tang said indifferently.

Some people can only grumble bitterly, searching for a sense of presence.

Zhou Mei verbally agreed, "I’ll listen to you."

Internally she grumbled, if someone dared to push their luck, she wouldn’t be stingy either.

Liu Damei, after being rebuked, looked very unhappy.

In fact, seeing Lin Tang there, she regretted her words immediately.

After all, this young girl was one of the most capable people in the brigade, and offending her would do no good.

Sun Tieshu moved a sack full of grain onto the cart.

Turning around, he saw Liu Damei picking on the people from the second branch of the Lin Family again.

He almost spat out a mouthful of old blood on the spot.

With a helpless wipe of his face, Sun Tieshu forced a smile.

"...Sorry about that, I’ll take Damei away right now."

Then he hurriedly grabbed Liu Damei and moved away from everyone’s sight.

Seeing this familiar scenario, Li Xiuli shook her head and muttered, "...What a pity."

She didn’t specify what was a pity.

But everyone present knew she was referring to the pity of Sun Tieshu marrying Liu Damei.

Lin Tang didn’t know everything about the village, so when she heard her mother say this, she asked in confusion, "Mom, what’s a pity?"

Zhou Mei, being the little gossipmonger of the village, knew more secrets than even Li Xiuli.

Seeing her sister-in-law’s curiosity, she eagerly pulled Lin Tang aside to share what she knew.

"Mom is saying it’s a pity Sun Tieshu married a husband-supporting demon like Liu Damei!"

"You’re not often in the village so you wouldn’t know, but Damei has taken so many things from the Sun Family to her parents’ house."

"In the famine a few years ago, despite having young children at home, Damei gave all the grain to her parents’ family, nearly starving her own kids to death."

"It’s thanks to the kind-hearted people in our village who lent them some grain for emergency, saving the Sun Family. Otherwise, they would have fallen apart long ago."

What Zhou Mei didn’t mention was that Liu Damei almost got sent back to her parents’ house that year.

It was only after Liu Damei knelt on the ground, crying and regretting, her forehead bleeding, that she was reluctantly allowed to stay with the Suns.

After hearing this, Lin Tang felt like her values were shattered.

"Hasn’t Uncle Sun ever thought about getting a divorce?"

She hadn’t been in the village long, and had really never heard about Liu Damei’s behavior.

Hearing about it suddenly made it seem utterly absurd!

Li Xiuli hadn’t expected her daughter to speak such bold words and her expression shifted slightly.

"How can you just get a divorce? If divorced, a man of advanced age would have a hard time remarrying. As for the woman, she’d be criticized to the bone—who would dare get a divorce?"

Having said that, she looked at Lin Tang earnestly, advising, "You should never entertain thoughts of divorce!"