Wang Fuyuan was covered in injuries and still half-scared out of his mind. While dazed, hearing Wang Fujiang’s concern instantly filled him with emotion and grievance.
“I’m fine.”
Blood brothers really were different.
Women truly weren’t worth anything!
Qin Suian had Xiaojun light the fire while she washed rice and cooked.
The mother and daughter worked together to prepare the meal, ate everything in the kitchen without leaving leftovers, and didn’t even wash the dishes afterward.
Using the hot water from the stove, they washed themselves before returning to Xiaojun’s room and lying down.
“Mom…”
As soon as Xiaojun lay beside Qin Suian, she couldn’t help hugging her mother and bursting into tears.
Too many things had happened today, too suddenly. She still couldn’t process it all.
“Xiaojun, Mom hasn’t gone crazy.”
Afraid the girl had been too traumatized, Qin Suian quickly tried comforting her.
Meanwhile, Wang Fujiang entered Jiang Xiumei’s room. Seeing the wound on her neck, a trace of viciousness flashed through his heart.
This Qin Suian had really dared to attack.
He would remember today’s events.
“Fujiang, you have to stand up for your mother! Qin Suian has gone too far. I truly never intended to marry Xiaojun to a fool. Not only does she want to split the household and divorce, she even demanded three hundred seventy yuan and wants to take Xiaojun with her.”
Seeing her son return, Jiang Xiumei immediately started crying and complaining.
Wang Fujiang listened patiently, both angry and resentful.
An entire Wang family, and they still couldn’t handle a single Qin Suian. Truly pathetic.
While soothing his mother, Wang Fujiang told Jiang Yun to cook. He was still hungry himself.
Jiang Yun dawdled for quite a while, only daring to enter the kitchen after confirming the mother and daughter had left.
After all, she had seen that Qin Suian was still carrying the cleaver.
As for Wang Fuyuan, after being helped back into his room, nobody bothered with him anymore.
In the end, it was Wang Fujiang who instructed Wang Yaowen to bring him a bowl of leftover rice.
That touched Wang Fuyuan deeply.
Having sons really was the best.
Wives and daughters couldn’t be relied on. In the end, only Yaowen and Yaowu mattered.
Suppressing his impatience, Wang Yaowen comforted Wang Fuyuan with a few words, immediately making him feel better beyond measure.
If the family fields didn’t still depend on his uncle to farm them, Wang Yaowen truly wouldn’t want to bother flattering such a useless uncle—unable even to control his own wife, actually allowing something as disgraceful as divorce to happen.
Recently, Wang Yaowen had even been planning to pursue a factory leader’s daughter. If people found out he had an uncle whose wife divorced him, how humiliating would that be?
The more he thought about it, the more irritated he became.
Before dawn, Qin Suian woke up.
Although her body was tired after yesterday’s huge confrontation, she felt an indescribable sense of physical and emotional relief.
She woke Xiaojun, and together they cooked a huge pot of rice and fried several eggs—using up every remaining egg in the house.
The chickens had been raised by Qin Suian and Xiaojun, yet the eggs had never belonged to them.
If she weren’t worried about delaying matters, Qin Suian would’ve wanted to either take all dozen-plus chickens with her or sell them to villagers for money.
After breakfast, the two split up to pack their belongings.
In truth, neither of them had any decent clothes or shoes. Everything was either second-hand castoffs or garments worn for more than ten years and patched repeatedly.
Watching Qin Suian rummage through boxes and cabinets in the room, Wang Fuyuan repeatedly swallowed the insults he wanted to shout.
“If you’re awake, then get up. We’re going to the county to finish the paperwork.”
After packing for half the morning, Qin Suian realized she barely owned anything that truly belonged to her.
Back then, she had entered the marriage with no dowry at all. After marrying in, she rarely even handled a few cents herself.
What kind of miserable life had she been living?
Qin Suian almost wished she had been reborn even earlier, just so she could slap some sense into her younger self.
“You’d better not regret this! After the divorce, you’ll suffer plenty. Don’t tell me you think you can go back to your parents’ house? With no land and no home, what will you eat? Where will you live? Take Xiaojun and drink the northwest wind?”
Wang Fuyuan finally couldn’t hold back anymore.
Deep down, he regretted agreeing to the divorce yesterday.
Mostly because it was humiliating. Too humiliating.
How would he ever hold his head up in the village again?
But asking Qin Suian humbly to stay was something he absolutely couldn’t do.
“Someone listening to you might think I lived like a goddess in the Wang family.”
Qin Suian glanced at him. She had many insults she wanted to throw at him, but in the end, she chose silence.
Then she picked up the cleaver and swung it at Wang Fuyuan again.
The action scared Wang Fuyuan so badly that he instantly jumped to his feet.
Yesterday’s terror still hadn’t fully left his soul, and now this again!
“Qin Suian! You really want to die!”
Filled with fury, Wang Fuyuan looked ready to fight her desperately.
“Xu Huiying.”
The moment Qin Suian said that name, Wang Fuyuan froze.
He stared at Qin Suian in complete shock.
How did she know?
“Behave yourself and properly complete the divorce procedures. Otherwise, I don’t know what else I might do. Didn’t all of you say I was crazy? Crazy people don’t reason. We hack whoever we want.”
Wang Fuyuan breathed heavily, rage filling his mind with nowhere to go. His eyes toward Qin Suian overflowed with poisonous hatred. He wanted nothing more than to strangle her to death immediately—
So she could never say that name again.
“How dare you!” Wang Fuyuan growled through clenched teeth.
“Why would daring matter? Crazy people fear nothing. I’m not interested in your filthy affairs.
I just want the divorce. From now on, you—and everyone in the Wang family—stay out of my sight. Otherwise, every time I see you, I’ll beat you. Remember that.”
In her previous life, what Qin Suian truly feared wasn’t Wang Fuyuan himself.
What she feared was the authority society granted men, the obsession with reputation and “face,” and the terror of having nowhere to go.
This lifetime, she intended to throw all of those things away.
Gradually, Wang Fuyuan calmed down.
That’s right. They were getting divorced now.
Didn’t that mean he no longer had to secretly help Huiying with chores?
The thought instantly made Wang Fuyuan excited again. His whole body trembled slightly with anticipation and excitement.
Divorce was wonderful!
Watching his reaction, Qin Suian sneered inwardly.
Let this fool keep dreaming for now.
Xu Huiying was not the kind of workhorse Qin Suian had been.
To Xu Huiying, Wang Fuyuan probably couldn’t even count as a fish. At best, he was just an obedient, useful dog who worked hard.
After packing their things, Qin Suian and Xiaojun had Wang Fuyuan retrieve the household registration booklet from Jiang Xiumei. Then the group headed to the brigade leader’s house.
The brigade leader had just finished breakfast and still clearly didn’t want to go when he saw Qin Suian.
“Have you really thought it through? Once you go to the county, there’s no turning back.”
“Hurry up already,” Qin Suian urged.
The brigade leader sighed, went back inside for his bag, and walked with them to town before taking a vehicle to the county.
After half a day of traveling and hassle, they finally arrived at the Civil Affairs Bureau to process the divorce.
Qin Suian submitted the divorce agreement.
The clerk accepted it, read through it, asked a few questions, and then examined Wang Fuyuan’s bruised and battered face.
It certainly looked like a marriage beyond repair.
Throughout the entire year, very few people came to divorce.
But anyone who actually stood here had already reached an agreement beforehand. Otherwise, the woman usually wouldn’t even make it this far, because the husband simply wouldn’t consent.
The clerk was so used to offering a few words of persuasion that she suddenly didn’t even know what to say.
Especially with the brigade leader standing nearby, it was obvious the matter had been thoroughly discussed already.
What surprised her most was that the husband had agreed to all these terms—money and child included. That was rare.
So the clerk straightforwardly processed the divorce paperwork.