Mother Zhou’s voice was robust and full of energy when she scolded people; she didn't look like someone suffering from geriatric illnesses at all. Father Zhou was washing his bicycle, carrying basin after basin of water, and even hauling several buckets from the village well; his waist and legs were stronger than those of many young men.
Therefore, the claims from the previous life about the father-in-law falling and the mother-in-law being ill—where the two elders would suffer from back pain, leg pain, headaches, and dizziness the moment they had to do any work—were all just a means to manipulate the original Host. They knew the original Host was kind, honest, and easy to bully, so they took advantage of her, forcing her to work like a beast of burden for the whole family, serving their every need like a common servant.
Even when eight or nine months pregnant, she still had to go to work, cook, clean, scrub the family's laundry while squatting, and prepare foot-washing water for the four of them: her father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and husband. If anything fell short of her parents-in-law’s expectations, the mother-in-law would run to the factory gate and wail about how unfilial she was. The original Host was poor with words and could never win an argument against her mother-in-law. Even when bullied, she would just suffer in silence.
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