Meng Shuyun stood there, too shocked to speak for a long time.

Something like cotton was stuck in her throat, making her feel extremely uncomfortable, and her eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

Su Xiumei hadn't expected the two children's injuries to be so serious, and immediately pulled Xiaoli to check her stomach.

"When did your aunt kick your stomach! Why didn't you tell your mother?" Tears streamed down her face, and she touched her bruised belly, at a loss for what to do.

"Mom, I told you a long time ago that you were sick but I didn't realize it."

Xiao Juan complained bitterly, her voice trembling with tears.

"Mom, don't cry, I'm really okay, it doesn't hurt as much anymore."

Xiaoli, on the contrary, comforted Su Xiumei, her young face filled with understanding and heartache.

Meng Shuyun stared at Zhong Shuzhen with eyes as sharp as knives, her tone icy cold as if it could freeze solid, and carrying an undisguised threat: "You better give me a plausible explanation. If my daughter doesn't have a good time in your house, none of you will have a good life!"

“She stole my mother’s eggs, so she deserved to be beaten by my mother. Those eggs were for my mother’s unborn brother to nourish him. How could it be her turn to eat such a worthless thing?”

Dazhuang spoke with conviction, his little head tilted back proudly, eagerly awaiting his grandma's praise.

"Grandma, you have no idea, if I hadn't discovered it, she would have really stolen those eggs!" Dazhuang continued to embellish the story.

"My mother is sick, so I wanted to get her an egg to help her recover," Xiaoli explained softly, her head down, her voice tinged with apprehension.

With tears streaming down her face, Su Xiumei angrily and anxiously scolded, "Those are your aunt's eggs for nourishing her body. How could you steal them without your grandmother's permission!"

Meng Shuyun glared at Su Xiumei with exasperation, then quickly shielded Xiaoli and Xiaojuan behind her, saying, "How can you scold your own children! Xiaoli just wanted to give you an egg because she felt sorry for you, what's wrong with that!"

Su Xiumei wiped away her tears and stubbornly said, "Stealing is wrong."

Meng Shuyun was furious. She blamed herself for giving birth to such a cowardly daughter who didn't know how to fight back when others were bullying her.

“Stealing is wrong. If you don’t give her a beating, how will she learn her lesson?” Zhong Shuzhen nodded in agreement. “If you beat her this time, she’ll know next time. She’s just a kid. A beating is nothing. She’ll recover in a few days.”

"Grandma, I want to eat sponge cake, I don't want steamed eggs anymore!" Da Zhuang saw the sponge cake in Meng Shuyun's hand and his mouth watered. He rushed over like a little calf to snatch it.

With his grandmother protecting him, he became increasingly reckless and fearless.

"Slap, slap, slap!" Meng Shuyun showed no mercy, slapping Dazhuang's round, fleshy face twice. "Is this yours? You just snatch it! Kids need to be disciplined, otherwise they'll never learn."

"Right, in-law? You can't spoil your grandson like this. I'll help you discipline him properly."

As she spoke, Meng Shuyun glared at Zhong Shuzhen, then said sharply, "And where is their aunt? Call her over here! You think the Su family has no one to back us up and can bully us like this?!"

Dazhuang's cries were deafening, waking Wu Fang, who was taking a nap in her room.

Before the person even appeared, a voice rang out: "Xiaoli and Xiaojuan, have you been bullying my Dazhuang again! You two good-for-nothing freeloaders, just wait and see..."

But as soon as she reached the door, Wu Fang met Meng Shuyun's icy gaze, and the rest of her words seemed to get stuck in her throat, unable to come out.

"You, you actually dared to hit my grandson! I'll fight you to the death! Su Xiumei, look at your mother! This isn't a visit, she's clearly here to cause trouble!"

Zhong Shuzhen, who was used to being arrogant and domineering, simply stopped pretending.

He was furious and raised his fist to hit Meng Shuyun.

This old woman hit her grandson first, so don't blame her for being impolite.

With lightning speed, Meng Shuyun grabbed Zhong Shuzhen's hair and slammed her against the door. She then turned to Xiaoli and Xiaojuan and asked, "Where does she usually hit you?"

Xiao Juan immediately pointed at Zhong Shuzhen's legs and shouted, "Pinch her thighs, hit her calves, and even pull her ears!"

Without saying a word, Meng Shuyun punched Zhong Shuzhen hard in the thigh, and Zhong Shuzhen immediately let out a scream, a sound even more miserable than the scream of a pig being slaughtered.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Shuyun picked up a bamboo stick from the side and swept it towards Zhong Shuzhen's calf.

“They even slapped our faces and punched our backs,” Xiaoli added.

Upon hearing this, Meng Shuyun slapped Zhong Shuzhen's old face repeatedly, and then mercilessly struck Zhong Shuzhen's back with the bamboo stick, hitting her wherever she pointed.

Zhong Shuzhen was chased and beaten until she was in a sorry state, her face as black as the bottom of a pot. She shouted loudly, "Stop! Stop! Su Xiumei, are you dead? Why don't you tell your mother to stop? Do you want to watch me be beaten to death?"

Holding her child and wiping away tears, Su Xiumei said with grief and indignation, "Mother-in-law, you've gone too far! You're always so kind to me, but how could you be so cruel to two children! They're your own granddaughters, so young, how could you be so heartless! Just because they're girls?"

“Sister-in-law, it’s all because your womb is useless and you can’t give birth to a son. If these two girls weren’t disrespectful to their mother-in-law, stealing things and being lazy, they wouldn’t have been beaten!” Zhou’s daughter-in-law, Wu Fang, said slowly while patting Da Zhuang’s head to comfort him.

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