Qiao Qiqi opened her eyes to find a handsome man lying in bed.
Why not indulge? she thought as she seduced him, only to discover the next day that she transmigrated into a 1970s novel.
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Cui Fengzhen was absolutely furious!
She was already annoyed enough by Qin Huai's little bastard child, but now that she has another sharp-tongued little prostitute, she is so angry that she wants to beat her to death!
But with so many people present, she knew that continuing to make a scene wouldn't bring her any advantage, and might even further anger her son, who might actually reduce the alimony to 2 yuan.
Thinking of this, she could only turn around unwillingly and walk away angrily.
"Mother, do you want some meat? This braised pork smells so good, let me get you a piece to try?" Ma Guizhi followed her around without a care in the world, still thinking that as long as Cui Fengzhen ate the meat, she could immediately eat a second piece.
Cui Fengzhen was furious and had nowhere to vent her anger!
Seeing that all Ma Guizhi did was eat, he angrily raised his cane and hit her thigh. "Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eating! Do you know how much meat you can buy with two yuan? At least two jin (1 kg), and this plate you're holding doesn't even weigh half a jin!"
The thought of losing 2 yuan every month meant eating more than 2 jin of meat less each month, more than 20 jin over 10 months, and 30 jin over a year! Cui Fengzhen's heart was bleeding.
Ouch!
Ma Guizhi staggered back two steps in pain, gripping the plate tightly, her face full of grievance.
She thought to herself: Whose fault is that? It's your own fault for being greedy. As soon as you heard someone in the village say that Qin Huai and the daughter of the group leader Qiao got their marriage certificate, Qiao Qiqi went to the city and bought a lot of things these past two days. She immediately wanted to ask them for money.
Originally, they were already very generous with the large plate of meat they gave her. She could have just taken the meat home and eaten it like everyone else. Why did she have to be so greedy and insist on paying an extra 5 yuan? In the end, not only did they not pay her, they even reduced the price by 2 yuan.
Ma Guizhi only dared to think these things in her heart and never dared to say them out loud.
Although she got a beating, she was still very happy at the thought of being able to eat braised pork when she got home.
As soon as she entered the house, Cui Fengzhen suddenly snatched the plate away.
He glared at her and said, "This was bought with my two dollars, you don't deserve to eat it!"
After saying that, he turned around, closed the door, and shut Ma Guizhi out.
Ma Guizhi was a beat slow to react. Seeing that she had been holding back all the way, only to find that the old lady had brought the meat into the house to eat it all by herself, she was so angry that she started banging on the door.
"You old hag, you haven't bought meat for half a month, and now that you have meat, you won't let me eat it? Let me tell you, no way! I brought the meat home, why can't I eat it? If you don't give me meat today, I'll tear the house down!"
Cui Fengzhen rushed out of the house, holding her crutch, and made a move to hit Ma Guizhi in the waist.
Ma Guizhi is no pushover either.
She just didn't bother with this old lady before; otherwise, with her 200-pound weight, she could have crushed the old woman to death just by pressing down on her!
Grabbing the old man's cane, Ma Guizhi lifted her foot and was about to rush into the house.
But Qin Jiefang grabbed her collar from behind and dragged her to the ground, yelling, "You crazy woman, how dare you hit my mother? You don't want to live anymore!"
Ma Guizhi fell flat on her backside. Watching Cui Fengzhen quickly escape into the house and close the door again, she vented all her anger on Qin Jiefang, standing up and slapping him twice.
"You coward! All you know is how to hit me! Just now with Qin Baojun, why didn't you dare to fart? If it weren't for me, we might not even have gotten that plate of meat back. Why won't you let me eat it?"
A barrage of slaps rained down on him, causing Qin Jiefang to wince in pain. He then shoved Ma Guizhi to the ground.
"You old hag, haven't you gone crazy enough?!"
"No!" When Ma Guizhi saw that he still dared to fight back, she got up and grabbed him.
Soon the couple were fighting in the yard.
When the villagers finally separated them, both of them were already bruised and swollen.
When Cui Fengzhen saw that some villagers had arrived, she could no longer hide inside the house. She pushed open the door and went out, pretending to be completely unaware, and said, "How come everything is fine now, and a fight has broken out all of a sudden?"
Ma Guizhi was in pain all over her body, and hearing Cui Fengzhen's words made the pain even worse.
But when her gaze fell on the braised pork broth on Cui Fengzhen's lips, she still rushed into the house without a second thought, and things went terribly wrong!
The entire plate of meat disappeared without a trace; that old hag Cui Fengzhen ate it all!
"Ah! Qin Jiefang, I want a divorce!!"
In a fit of anger, Ma Guizhi slammed the plate on the ground, packed her bags, and went back to her parents' home.
It was already dark when she arrived at her parents' home.
Mrs. Ma heard a scream and looked out the window to see what looked like something rushing into her yard. She was so frightened that she just grabbed the broom from the corner of the wall and clattered it away when a dark thing pounced on her.
"Ah..." Mrs. Ma screamed in agony.
The next second, her daughter's wailing cries could be heard, "Mom! The Qin family is going too far! I want a divorce from Qin Jiefang!"
Recognizing her eldest daughter's voice, Old Mrs. Ma instantly snapped back to reality. She threw down the broom and yelled, "You heartless bastard! What are you doing back here in the middle of the night? You scared the hell out of me!"
Ma Guizhi cried, her entire plump body trembling, "Mother..."
"Let go of me right now, or you'll strangle me!"
After Mrs. Ma finished speaking, she felt Ma Guizhi let go of her hand. When she looked up at Ma Guizhi's face, which was swollen like a pig's head, she immediately pulled Ma Guizhi into her arms again. "My dear daughter, let's say it this way."
Ma Guizhi, who clearly saw the disdain in her mother's eyes, was speechless.
"What exactly happened? Who dares to bully my daughter?" Old Mrs. Ma's name was Wu Xiurong. She was known for her fierceness when she was young, and she was famous throughout the village.
In the end, Ma Guizhi withdrew from Wu Xiurong's embrace and sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) to finish recounting the whole story.
When Wu Xiurong heard that Cui Fengzhen, that old hag, had eaten an entire plate of meat by herself, she was furious. "That old hag, she wouldn't even give my daughter a bite of meat. How come she didn't choke to death!"
Waaaaah...
Ma Guizhi started crying again, "Mother, as long as that old bastard is alive, I will never have a chance to rise in the Qin family."
“You told me to hold on until she died, and all the money she got from Qin Baojun would be mine, but my daughter just can’t take it anymore!”
"Especially since she's so strong, stronger than me, and eats more than me, I might not even be able to outlast her!"
Wu Xiurong gave birth to three daughters, all of whom suffered mistreatment at their husbands' homes and would come back to complain to her several times a month.
"Cry, cry, all you do is cry! How did I give birth to such useless wimps?"
Seeing that such a trivial matter was worth crying over, Wu Xiurong was immediately filled with disappointment and frustration.
"She's just an old woman who's about to die. You can't kill her, but you can't kick her out, right? It's not like she only has Qin Jiefang as her son."