What, something happened?

Hearing the news, with school about to start, An Ning, who had been lying on her small bed intending to conserve her energy, immediately perked up.

Without An Ning needing to say a word, the system screen automatically switched to the neighboring Chen family’s house.

Six o’clock in the afternoon was precisely when the machinery factory workers got off work. Due to the famine over the past year, at the mouth of the alley, not to mention the children who usually played there, even the people chatting and boasting were much fewer.

Except for this after-work period, every household was pretty quiet. So much so that any commotion from any house could be clearly heard throughout the entire lane.

Especially the farces from the Chen family, one after another, had provided no shortage of entertainment over the past year.

But this time, unlike the usual noisy quarrels, the matter was truly serious.

“What, did someone really get killed?”

Looking at the middle-aged woman being carried on someone’s back, bright red blood continuously gushing from her forehead down her face, the surrounding onlookers instinctively took a step back.

They were scared!

It took a good while before someone snapped out of it, took a glance at the blood-covered figure on the back, and immediately slapped their thigh:

“Aiyo, isn’t that the Chen family’s second sister-in-law!”

Did she get into a fight with the Meng family’s daughter over not getting food?

Wait, that’s not right. The Meng family’s daughter has been living a pampered life every day, how much strength could she have? Bullying kids is one thing. But this Chen family second sister-in-law is quite strong.

Haven’t you seen before, the Old Meng family’s daughter was always the one getting beaten up by this second sister-in-law?

Not just beaten up, but a lot of the grain they spent a fortune to buy was also “borrowed” by these two families! The onlookers instinctively glanced inside:

To tell the truth, these two families, acting like shameless scoundrels, have provided no shortage of entertainment. What’s more, they’re relatives. As soon as the police arrive, these adults, along with the kids, roll on the ground crying.

The Chen family’s two elder sisters especially cry their hearts out, wailing about how, after their parents passed away early, they, the two elder sisters, raised their ten-year-old brother practically single-handedly.

They even kept saying it was their brother himself who invited them to come over earlier.

What could the police officers do?

Even an honest official finds it hard to settle family disputes, let alone at a time like this when the prisons don’t have much food either. If they really arrested these people, wouldn’t they still need to be fed?

Plus, earlier, the head of the household, Chen Fu Sheng, just kept his head down and didn’t utter a word, so the matter was just left unsettled.

Instead, after this incident, these two elder sisters, along with their several half-grown children, completely lost any restraint and came even more frequently.

In short, over the past year, there were several sisters-in-law and nephews coming to the door to “borrow grain,” making unreasonable trouble. Then there was Miss Meng throwing a fit, insisting on taking her things and getting a divorce to go back home. Or else she’d be in the courtyard yelling at the top of her lungs, calling Chen the Honest useless, a good-for-nothing!

In short, the commotion from the Chen family was so frequent that every household at Huaihua Alley’s entrance was almost sick of hearing it.

But this time…

“What, the person wasn’t beaten by the Meng family’s daughter, but by Chen the Honest… no, by Chen Fu Sheng himself?”

Ah, this…

Needless to say, the surrounding crowd was stunned. Even An Ning was surprised for a moment.

But she quickly came to her senses. Nibbling on the still-warm fragrant melon seeds in her hand, it actually wasn’t that surprising. It was just that the knife had finally cut this “honest man” himself.

Unlike his previous life, this man had no parents above him and no younger generation below him for many years. Just his savings before marriage were not small, not to mention the several years he served as a team leader.

Anyway, with the canteen, plus having money and ration coupons in hand, no matter what, he wouldn’t starve himself. He only needed to toss out a tiny bit from his hand to watch a group of people fight over it.

Even the great beauty he had painstakingly pursued, whom almost all his coworkers secretly coveted, had to change her previous attitude, lowering herself and being submissive to him.

Without needing to lift a finger himself, he could vent the resentment from being constantly looked down upon by others.

Of course, the important thing was the impotence of being a man.

In these times, being unable to have children was something to be laughed at if spoken of.

For some people, suppressing and controlling a beautiful wife was, in a way, a method to make themselves feel more secure…

But now it was different. For some reason these past few years, the appetites of the Chen family’s two sisters, including their several children, had grown larger and larger. Calling them bottomless pits that could never be filled was not an exaggeration.

Because of this, the grain at the two elder sisters’ homes quickly ran out.

During famine years, when people are starving, naturally they’ll do anything.

Besides, earlier, it was Chen Fu Sheng himself who opened his mouth, telling his two elder sisters to come to his home more often to “check in.”

The Chen family’s two sisters weren’t stupid either. They naturally knew what their little brother’s little scheme was—wasn’t it just that he found this young lady too arrogant, so he was using their hands to teach her a lesson, to make this young lady more obedient in the future!

But since the words were already said, could he take them back now?

Holding this “imperial sword” of authority, the two families became even more self-righteous, taking turns coming to the door frequently, taking rice and flour grain as they pleased. Whenever the sister-in-law just bought something good to eat, it would ultimately end up in their stomachs.

Coupled with the money lost earlier, in just a year, the Chen family also quickly reached the point of exhausting their supplies.

Meng Yu did think about going home to cry, or simply getting a divorce and moving back home. But unlike her previous life, Director Meng was suppressed by the factory manager above him, long having lost his power and value.

Some news simply couldn’t be received. Doing things like the Wang family, buying grain and hoarding supplies in advance, was impossible. Not to mention there was the venomous snake Zhou Yan Cheng watching in the shadows, creating all sorts of obstacles.

Now, the family wasn’t well-off to begin with. Where would they have the grain to support an eldest daughter who was extravagant and had a hearty appetite?

Besides, back when they got married, the dowry he gave, aside from a pile of valuable items, just the cash and various ration coupons alone amounted to several hundred!

And how long has it been…

After several rounds of this, looking at his pale-faced, disappointed younger son, and his wife who was so angry she even talked about divorce, thinking about the root cause of all this, Director Meng, who was already thoroughly disappointed with Meng Yu, found the scales in his heart tipping even further.

From then on, Meng Yu, or rather, the couple’s last pillar of support, completely vanished.

Even at the moment she was driven out by her own father, Meng Yu, this pampered young lady, still couldn’t quite believe it.

Meanwhile, seeing his wife unable to hold them off, the expensively bought grain all being wasted, and his own interests completely infringed upon, well, this time the “honest man” finally stopped being honest!

Tsk, it really is spectacular! An Ning couldn’t help feeling a bit regretful.

What a pity. She missed the famous fight scene just now. But just seeing the Chen family’s two sisters, one injured, the other collapsed, and even the several nephews more or less seriously hurt. The Chen family’s second sister even had a big hole broken in her head.

You can imagine how intense the battle was just now!

Honest man? Let’s just say, when anger is bottled up too much, once it explodes, it really is…

But most importantly, An Ning’s gaze returned to the crowd, to Zhou Yan Cheng in his proper Zhongshan suit, his eyes clearly holding a strange excitement.

Hmm… let’s just say, for these two, may Buddha have mercy on them!

Being in the same alley, this farce dragged on for a whole night, yet it still didn’t affect the excitement of the Wang family the next day. It’s just that early in the morning, as the whole family set off early on the road to the university, An Ning still couldn’t hold back her regret:

What a pity. School starts too early, she hasn’t finished eating her melon!

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