She became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and she picked up the stick and started beating him again.
Zhong Chengfa cried bitterly, holding his head and rolling around on the ground, wailing incoherently: "Mom! Stop hitting me! It really wasn't me! I didn't know it was the soup for my second brother's wife! It was Hongjuan! It was Li Hongjuan who told me that you were in a good mood today and specially stewed fish for us to try! I just... I just filled a small bowl..."
When Li Hongjuan heard this, her heart skipped a beat. She thought to herself, oh no! This damn Zhong Chengfa actually sold her out!
She hugged Zhong Hongqing and curled up into a ball with fear.
Zhang Chunxue swung the stick in his hand more quickly, making a sound of wind as it hit Zhong Chengfa again and again, making him scream.
"Try it? Even if I stewed this fish for everyone, huh? You three ate up such a big pot of fish, including the soup and meat, and only the scraps at the bottom of the pot were left! You guys seem to be full and satisfied, but what about others? What about Mingli? What did she eat? The water you left when you washed the pot?!"
Zhong Cheng rolled over on the ground in pain, wailing even louder. "I'm innocent, Mom! I only ate a small bowl! Just that small bowl! I didn't eat the rest!"
He suddenly seemed to have remembered a life-saving straw. He raised his head and pointed at Li Hongjuan in the corner: "It's her! It's Li Hongjuan! She sneaked out three or four times just now! It must be her! She stole all the fish!"
At this moment, Li Hongjuan's face turned completely pale, and her hands holding Zhong Hongqing were shaking like sieves.
Her head was buzzing. She only remembered that the last time Zhang Chunxue got so angry was because Zhong Xiaoxiao insisted on going to junior high school. That time, she also used a wooden stick to beat Xiaoxiao so hard that she couldn't get out of bed for several days.
This old hag is really going to kill someone!
Zhang Chunxue paused the stick of firewood in his hand, and his fiery eyes immediately turned to Li Hongjuan.
After she thought about it for a while, her mind became clear as a mirror.
Although Zhong Chengfa is a bad guy, he is not very courageous. She was a little skeptical that he would dare to drink up a whole pot of fish soup behind her back.
It was probably Li Hongjuan, the greedy woman, who wanted to eat but was afraid of taking responsibility, so she instigated Zhong Chengfa to join in.
As a result, Zhong Chengfa may have had some sense and ate a little, but Li Hongjuan was greedy. She took advantage of the fact that no one was around and emptied the whole pot of fish soup into her stomach!
Li Hongjuan watched Zhang Chunxue walking towards her step by step. The stick of firewood swayed in her eyes, and she was so scared that her legs went weak and she almost collapsed to the ground.
She hurriedly pushed Zhong Hongqing forward and screamed in a shrill voice: "It's not me! Mom! It's really not me! It's Hongqing! Hongqing was hungry and he was clamoring for fish. I... I had no choice but to give him a few more spoonfuls..."
"Him?" Zhang Chunxue sneered, the tip of the stick nearly poking Li Hongjuan's nose. "How much can a baby less than three years old eat? Can he chew up and swallow a whole crucian carp the size of a palm, bones included? Can he finish a pot of thick soup?"
"Li Hongjuan! Do you think I, Zhang Chunxue, am a three-year-old child so easy to fool?"
"You're just an ungrateful idiot! Your eyes light up at the sight of any meat, and you can't wait to stuff it all into your insatiable dog stomach! The rice jar at home is about to be eaten up by gluttons like you!"
Seeing Zhang Chunxue tightly gripping the fatal stick in her hand, and then looking at Zhong Chengfa's miserable condition, Li Hongjuan could no longer care about anything else and let out a piercing scream: "You dare to hit me! Zhang Chunxue, I'm telling you! If you dare to lay a finger on me today, I will go to the commune and sue you! Sue you, the mother-in-law who abuses her daughter-in-law! Let's see how you can live in the village from now on!"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Chunxue did not drop the stick in his hand immediately.
She just stood in front of Li Hongjuan and looked down at her.
"Abuse your daughter-in-law? A daughter-in-law like you, who is cunning, lazy, and even instigates men and abuses the sick sisters-in-law, is something our Zhong family can't afford! Go away!"
Her voice was exceptionally cold: "Tomorrow, I'll have the eldest brother go to town with you to get a divorce!"
The fear and pride on Li Hongjuan's face froze in an instant. She opened her mouth wide, as if she was meeting Zhang Chunxue for the first time, and couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Divorce?
How can this be!
Li Hongjuan suddenly felt panicked.
She...she didn't expect Zhang Chunxue to do this!
Zhong Chengfa, who had been hiding in the corner pretending to be dead with his head in his hands, suddenly jumped up from the ground. He no longer cared about the pain in his body and shouted anxiously, "Mom! What are you talking about! That's my wife! You can't let her go!"
Zhang Chunxue turned around suddenly, her eyes fixed on Zhong Chengfa.
"You want your wife? Fine! Then you can go with her!"
"Get lost! Go back to your father-in-law's house and become his son-in-law!"
"From now on, don't ever call yourself my son, Zhang Chunxue! I, Zhang Chunxue, don't have a son like you who's so treacherous, heartless, and selfish!"
Zhong Chengfa looked at Zhang Chunxue's ashen face and the undisguised rage and determination in her eyes, and he knew that his mother was really furious this time.
He shuddered all over, and the words he was about to say in defense of Li Hongjuan were instantly stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a word.
He was like a chicken with its neck strangled, his mouth open but unable to make a sound, only fear in his eyes.
Li Hongjuan's head was also buzzing, as if countless bees were rushing around in it, but she was quicker-witted than Zhong Chengfa, and quickly recovered from the shock of the word "divorce".
She hugged the still dazed Zhong Hongqing tightly in her arms, as if she had grabbed the last straw.
"Okay! Zhang Chunxue! You want me to get a divorce, right? Divorce me if you want! Who's afraid of who? But my son, Zhong Hongqing, must come with me!"
Zhang Chunxue just said "Oh" lightly, without any emotion on her face.
"Then what are you still standing there for? Pack your things! Now, immediately, immediately, get the hell back to your parents' house!"
Li Hongjuan was completely stunned.
She thought that since she brought up her son, Zhang Chunxue would at least be a little cautious.
This... this old hag doesn't even want her own grandson?!
Her face was filled with disbelief, and her voice trembled a little: "You...you...this is the only grandson of your Zhong family! He's your own grandson!"
Zhang Chunxue had a blank expression on her face. "Are you done? If you're done, then get out of here!"
Li Hongjuan's heart sank. She looked at Zhong Chengfa next to her. He looked like a gourd with its mouth sawed off, with his neck shrunk and not daring to say a word. There was no intention of him standing up for her at all.
Li Hongjuan's tears suddenly fell, and she hugged Zhong Hongqing and cried to the sky.
"My son! You have a miserable life! Your grandma doesn't want you anymore! Your grandma doesn't want us anymore!"
"Listen! Listen to what your grandma is saying!"
"Before, he kept saying how much he loved you and how much he loved you, his eldest grandson, but in the blink of an eye, he turned his back on me!"
(End of this chapter)
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