"What?"

Li Xiuying didn't understand at first, but her smug expression gradually froze on her face as she looked at Qin Zheng, who was speaking, with an unreadable expression.

Qin Zheng: "I said, why are you making things difficult for my wife out of the blue?"

who?

Who is being put in a difficult position?

Ye Yun?

Only then did Li Xiuying belatedly realize what Qin Zheng meant. Her face turned red, her neck thickened, and her voice suddenly rose: "Zhengzi! You better watch carefully! It was your wife who hit your own mother!"

"Do you think I can believe you?"

Qin Zheng countered with a question.

Ye Yun: "..."

Whether I should say it or not, it is true that she hurt Li Xiuying, if we round it up.

Qin Zheng still had his arm around her shoulder, his face grim as he confronted Li Xiuying: "Ye Yun isn't the type to cause trouble. If you hadn't pushed her to the limit, would she have resorted to violence?"

Ye Yun nodded frantically in her heart.

That's a nice thing to say.

She hadn't misjudged Qin Zheng; he stood by her side unconditionally.

In any era, a husband's attitude will determine a wife's status in her husband's family. If a woman does not receive her husband's protection, she is destined to be bullied by her husband's family.

She was very grateful that Qin Zheng stood by her side unconditionally and without hesitation, believing in her and protecting her.

Li Xiuying was speechless.

Qin Zheng had never talked back to her since childhood, but now he was criticizing her because of a new woman who had just entered the family?

The eldest daughter-in-law retorted, "Qin Zheng, what do you mean by that? Does that mean it's our fault that our whole family goes hungry because of her?"

The second daughter-in-law chimed in, "That's right! Mother only asked her to cook, but look at her! She slept until almost noon like a princess, and she even dared to lay a hand on Mother! Which new bride doesn't get up early to cook? Who didn't go through that back then? She's just being pampered! She can't be ordered around!"

"Don't you two have hands?"

Qin Zheng asked another question.

He glanced at his two sisters-in-law's hands with an ambiguous look, and asked casually, "All you've got is a mouth? Those two things under your arms are so useless, you cut them off?"

The two sisters-in-law turned pale with fright. What... what are they saying?!

But the person opposite them was Qin Zheng. They had already argued back, and if they wanted to argue back, they would have to consider their own worth first.

The men, however, were unhappy.

"Qin Zheng, it's not appropriate for you, as a man, to interfere in women's affairs, is it?"

"Didn't your wife start the trouble first?"

Qin Zheng still didn't give him any face.

"You..." Old Guo was angry. He didn't like Qin Zheng, who had taken away his title as the eldest son, so he said, "It's the rule for a new bride to cook when she enters the family. Qin Zheng, don't break the rules."

"To hell with the rules! My wife married into this family to serve you?"

Qin Zheng immediately swore.

Guo Da's face turned green.

The second brother of the Guo family pursed his lips but didn't dare to speak up for his brother. Men's disputes are not like those of old women who tear each other apart and make a scene. Sometimes a single glance can solve the problem, not to mention that the two brothers were no match for Qin Zheng.

Seeing the fierce look on Qin Zheng's face, the two brothers shrank back and didn't dare to say another word.

Old Guo, squatting to the side, puffed on his pipe, avoiding Qin Zheng's gaze. "Why did you provoke that Qin guy with your two good-for-nothing sons?"

Old Guo was afraid of his stepson, Qin Zheng.

When Li Xiuying first married into the family, he thought he could take advantage of her because she was a widow. However, he was almost killed by his stepson with a shovel, and the fear still lingers in his mind.

Qin Zheng was only eight or nine years old at that time.

He dared to do that when he was eight or nine years old, he was a real wolf cub, let alone now.

"You're so heartless, Zhengzi! You've forgotten your mother after you got married! How could I have given birth to such a heartless wolf cub! Your wife has beaten your own mother so badly!"

Li Xiuying refused and insisted on making a scene until Qin Zheng gave her an explanation.

Faced with his mother's outburst, even though Qin Zheng was usually very assertive in front of others, he was now so provoked by his mother that the veins on his forehead bulged, and he glared at Li Xiuying with a look of suppressed resentment.

That's enough!

A sharp shout.

It wasn't Qin Zheng.

On the contrary, it was Ye Yun who had just entered the door.

Ye Yun couldn't stand the old woman causing trouble any longer, so she kicked over the washbasin next to her. The loud crash hit Li Xiuying's heart, startling her so much that she suddenly stopped moving.