Years passed, and her sons all grew into adults and married. Old Madam Qiu had finally endured long enough to become a mother-in-law.
With several daughters-in-law to wait on her, Old Madam Qiu should have had good days ahead, but instead, the old woman began stirring up trouble.
She tormented her daughters-in-law in every way imaginable. Most commonly, she denied them food and forbade them from using hot water to wash clothes in the depths of winter, making them wash in the river instead...
When her daughters-in-law finally became pregnant, she did rein herself in a little and torment them less.
Song Yaoyao: *[They say every pitiful person has something hateful about them. Old Madam Qiu is a woman herself, so why did she have to torment her daughters-in-law like this?*
Her methods really make you grit your teeth!
*Wait, when Old Madam Qiu treated those daughters-in-law like that, didn't their husbands try to stop their mother?]*
Guagua: [Old Madam Qiu raised these sons from childhood, and they obeyed their mother unquestioningly. They believed everything she did was right.]
Song Yaoyao said sarcastically:
[Ha, what wonderfully filial sons they are.]
Guagua: *[Of Old Madam Qiu's five daughters-in-law, only the eldest and third sons' wives became pregnant. There was no sign of anything happening in the other three women's bellies.*
As long as she could get a grandson, she was willing to accept that the other three daughters-in-law weren't getting pregnant.
But in the end, Old Madam Qiu was disappointed. Both the eldest and third sons' wives gave birth to girls.
Old Madam Qiu simply couldn't understand it. She had given birth to five sons in a row, so why was it that, with her sons, their wives either couldn't get pregnant or gave birth to little girl brats?
*Why couldn't