My happy life in a courtyard house with triplets.

Chapter 114: Qin Huairu's Difficult Situation

At this moment, Qin Huairu felt even more aggrieved.

Jia Dongxu is an adult, not an ignorant child. He takes care of his family diligently every day, yet he still has to suffer like this, while Jia Zhangshi deliberately makes trouble for him.

Qin Huairu's aggrieved cries quickly attracted the attention of everyone in the courtyard.

Seeing that someone had arrived, Qin Huairu felt a little more confident and cried even more bitterly.

Someone frowned and asked, "Jia Zhangshi, look at you! You made Qin Huairu cry. You're so vicious!"

Another person chimed in, "Yes, Madam Jia, Qin Huairu serves your whole family with utmost care and diligence every day, and all you do is beat and scold her. You're practically a wicked mother-in-law from the old society!"

Hearing the crowd's barrage of criticism, Madam Jia Zhang unleashed her ultimate weapon, hands on her hips, and yelled, "Get out! What business is it of yours? I'm disciplining my own daughter-in-law, when did it become your place to interfere?"

At this moment, the second aunt, who was standing nearby, couldn't stand it anymore and spoke up: "Mrs. Jia, Qin Huairu married into your Jia family, she wasn't sold into it. How can you be such a mother-in-law?"

Seeing someone take the lead, the crowd chimed in, saying, "That's right, that's right, Jia Zhangshi, you've gone too far!"

"Qin Huairu is a very virtuous wife; anyone else would have turned against you long ago!"

Jia Zhangshi couldn't out-argue so many people, and she was so angry that she jumped up and down on the spot.

Just then, an older woman walked over, looked at Qin Huairu with concern, and said, "Qin Huairu, what's wrong today? Don't cry, tell me about it."

Qin Huairu raised her tear-streaked face, looked at the middle-aged woman, and said in a choked voice, "Auntie, how am I supposed to live like this..."

An older woman quickly comforted her, saying, "Good child, don't cry. Tell me what's wrong, and I'll help you."

The neighbors chimed in, "Yes, Qin Huairu, tell us! We're all here to judge for you!"

Hearing everyone say that, Qin Huairu seemed to have found an outlet and recounted everything that had just happened in the room.

Everyone was shocked and angry after hearing this.

Someone couldn't help but curse, "That Jia Dongxu is such a scoundrel! His leg is broken, not his arm. He pulled it out himself and didn't even shout?"

Another person chimed in, "Exactly! This is outrageous! If I were in that situation, I would have snapped!"

Some even said directly, "The Jia family is truly rotten! The mother-in-law is mean-spirited, and the husband is both cowardly and vicious. It's such a waste of such a good daughter-in-law as Qin Huairu!"

At this point, Jia Zhangshi, who was standing nearby, became anxious and began to argue: "What do you all know? My son can't move his legs, how are you going to let him defecate? Besides, isn't it a daughter-in-law's duty to take care of her husband? When your husbands get old and paralyzed in the future, won't you have to take care of them like this too?"

Upon hearing her words, the crowd immediately became displeased. Someone pointed directly at Jia Zhangshi's nose and cursed, "Jia Zhangshi, who are you cursing? Whose man is paralyzed?"

Others chimed in, "Exactly! Your mouth is so nasty!"

Someone else deliberately said, "No, no, Jia Zhangshi's husband died long ago. She couldn't serve him even if she wanted to. Isn't this just deliberately trying to annoy people?"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.

Madam Jia, her face flushed with anger, shouted, "You're all just envious that I don't have a man to burden me!"

At this moment, a neighbor stepped forward, spat, and said, "Pah! You tell your daughter-in-law to serve your son, why don't you go and serve him yourself? What are you doing out here? Why don't you stay inside and give your son a proper bath?"

Inside the house, Jia Dongxu watched Qin Huairu disappear without a trace, growing increasingly anxious as he waited, especially since he still had excrement on his bottom.

He couldn't help but yell outside, "Qin Huairu, you bitch, where the hell have you been? Come back right now! If you don't come back, I'll beat you to death!"

Everyone in the courtyard heard Jia Dongxu's vicious words and was furious.

An older woman grabbed Qin Huairu's hand and said, "Huairu, come on, come home with me. Don't let yourself be bullied here."

Others chimed in, "Yes, yes, go home with the old lady and wait for the old man to get off work so he can make the decision for you."

"This Jia family is unbearable to stay in! What kind of family is this?!"

Qin Huairu was somewhat at a loss, after all, she didn't really want to leave the Jia family, but Jia Dongxu had gone too far today.

But she couldn't resist the older woman's advances and could only be pulled away.

Soon, Qin Huairu followed the older woman to her house, and many neighbors also went over to see what was going on.

When Jia Zhangshi saw Qin Huairu being dragged away, she panicked and shouted from behind, "Hey, hey, what are you doing? Qin Huairu is my daughter-in-law! What do you mean by taking her to your house?"

The older woman turned around and gave her a cold look, saying, "What's so special about it? We're the ones who rescued her from the hellhole of your Jia family! This is a new society now, who acts like a wicked mother-in-law like you?"

Seeing this, Jia Zhangshi was unwilling to give in and quickly rushed forward to try to pull Qin Huairu back.

Upon seeing this, the crowd immediately blocked her way, saying, "Jia Zhangshi, what are you doing?"

Madam Jia said urgently, "I'm pulling my own daughter-in-law, what's it to you?"

At this moment, a somewhat educated middle-aged woman stepped forward and said, "Ms. Jia, if you continue like this, we'll tell the Women's Federation about this, and then we'll have them stand up for Qin Huairu!"

Upon hearing the words "Women's Federation," Jia Zhangshi trembled with fear and dared not rush forward any further.

But she was still unwilling to give up, and shouted at Qin Huairu, "Qin Huairu, you'd better go home right now! If you dare not come home, I'll make Dongxu divorce you! You just wait and see!"

An older woman quickly comforted Qin Huairu: "Huairu, don't listen to her, she's just trying to scare you. With Jia Dongxu in this state, do you think he'd want to divorce you?"

However, Qin Huairu was unaware that the reason Jia Dongxu had suddenly become so irritable and treated her this way was entirely due to a vicious trap set by Zhang Lei.

Zhang Lei had already arranged for people to deliberately stroll past the Jia family's gate in the yard every day.

The first group of people specifically praised Qin Huairu, which made Jia Dongxu feel unbalanced and like he was a useless person.

The second group deliberately spread rumors and exaggerated stories, such as, "Hey, did you guys see that? Qin Huairu was talking and laughing happily with so-and-so."

"Yes, yes, I also saw her standing shoulder to shoulder with someone, and they were acting quite intimately."

"I heard she was chatting with someone outside, laughing so hard she was practically shaking with joy."

After all, a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.

These words drifted into Jia Dongxu's ears. Already mentally twisted by his broken leg, he naturally grew angrier and angrier, feeling that Qin Huairu had done something to wrong him.

So he vented all his dissatisfaction and anger on Qin Huairu.