Chapter 4: Getting Serious
He slammed the back of his head against the table leg on the ground with a thud, his vision went black for a moment, and then he lost consciousness.
After a while, Shen Cuifen slowly woke up, her head throbbing and her vision blurry.
But her mind was perfectly clear.
She gritted her teeth and struggled to her feet, resisting Lu Weidong's earlier plan.
As time went by, things gradually calmed down.
Shen Cuifen's tense nerves relaxed a little.
However, she never expected that Lu Weidong would secretly arrange for her own daughter to be married off under the pretext of "having Lu Xiuwei deliver meals"!
Seeing her daughter back by her side again, Shen Cuifen was overwhelmed with emotion, and her hands trembled uncontrollably.
He grabbed Lu Xiuwei's arm tightly.
Her throat felt like it was choked by something, and her eyes instantly reddened.
"Xiuwei, it's okay, as long as you're safe and sound."
Before she could finish speaking, tears began to stream down her face uncontrollably.
Looking at her mother's sorrowful eyes, Lu Xiuwei felt a lump in her throat and immediately reached out to hug her tightly.
"Mom...it's okay, I'll protect you from now on."
"All you do is cry and whine here, you're all like jinxes, so unlucky!"
A sharp, piercing sound suddenly came from outside the door.
Old Mrs. Zhao was peeking in from outside the threshold.
Her tone was full of contempt.
“Go ahead and cry, go cry in your Shenjia Village! We, the Lu family, don’t have time to watch you make a fool of yourselves.”
Shen Cuifen's face turned ashen on the spot.
"Pah! You old hag! As long as you live, we'll have to send you off to your funeral every day!"
While supporting her daughter, she shouted angrily, hurling insults at the door without any mercy.
She used to live a life of submissiveness and humility.
What was the result?
It is a story of a broken home, scattered relatives, and a mother and daughter separated.
In the end, he was left all alone and desolate, dying on the street with no one to claim his body.
Now, given a second chance at life, Heaven has shown her mercy and allowed her to be reborn.
She was no longer the honest person who was bullied and submissive.
Since Old Mrs. Zhao dared to curse her and her son, she didn't need to be polite to her anymore.
The crowd looked at each other, staring at Shen Cuifen with wide eyes as if they had seen a ghost.
Whether it was Lu Weidong or his mother, Old Lady Zhao, Shen Cuifen almost never said a word of dissent.
This time, however, she actually openly defied her mother-in-law for the sake of her daughter.
"Shen Cuifen! Are you tired of living?!"
Lu Weidong finally realized what was happening.
He was so angry that his face turned red, his eyebrows stood on end, and his eyes almost spit fire.
He waved his calloused hands and angrily took a few steps closer to Chen Cuifen.
"This...this is your mother-in-law! How can you talk like that?! Are you really not afraid that the family will go bankrupt?!"
The current situation is far from optimistic.
It seems she's not going to escape a beating today.
"You're the one who's courting death!"
Not to be outdone, Shen Cuifen put her hands on her hips and pointed directly at Lu Weidong's face, cursing him.
"Lu Weidong, you don't even deserve to be called a human being! I think you've lost your mind!"
She became more and more agitated as she spoke.
"Bullshit! Last time you sold my older sister to that kind of family, causing our family to be torn apart and ruined. How dare you come home with your face showing?"
"I find you annoying just looking at you, let alone touching you again!"
Lu Weidong's face instantly turned ashen.
He was furious and approached Shen Cuifen step by step with a stern face and a menacing expression.
But his daughter, Lu Xiuwei, rushed out and suddenly hugged one of her father's legs.
"Mom, run!"
She clung desperately to Lu Weidong's trouser leg with her small, tender hands, tears streaming down her face as she whispered her urgent cries.
"Come back after Dad has calmed down!"
An unpleasant smell of alcohol filled the room.
That was the aura emanating from Lu Weidong.
He had clearly drunk quite a bit, as he was already starting to stagger as he walked.
Last time, it was because of this anger that he kicked Shen Cuifen in the stomach, knocking her to the ground and causing her to lose consciousness.
Now, he's preparing to take drastic measures against the woman in front of him.
Before she could even utter a word of dissuasion, Lu Xiuwei was kicked away, her body flying out of control and crashing into the octagonal table in the corner with a thud.
"Ouch!"
The little girl curled up in pain, cold sweat beading on her forehead from the violent impact.
Seeing her child being treated this way, Shen Cuifen, who had been standing there in a daze, immediately came to her senses and anxiously shouted at her daughter.
"Xiuwei, are you alright? Don't move around!"
"Mom, I'm okay. Don't just stand there, run! Go!"
Lu Xiuwei continued to cry and beg, choking back sobs.
Seeing her daughter covered in wounds, the mother's protective instincts were fully unleashed.
For a moment, Shen Cuifen wished she could rush forward and tear him to pieces.
At this moment, Lu Weidong still showed no sign of stopping.
A ferocious expression appeared on his face.
"Shen Cuifen, I'll beat you to death today! Stop right there, don't move!"
After saying that, he didn't stop walking and continued to approach her step by step.
Just when everyone was almost in despair, the daughter's trembling voice broke the chaos.
"Dad...can you please stop hitting me...I really want to get married...is that okay?"
She knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face.
Lu Weidong stood in the courtyard, his face contorted with rage, and spat on the ground.
"Pah! What do you know! After I deal with this shrew, I'll take your household registration book and get the paperwork done so you'll never be able to recover!"
At this moment, Old Mrs. Zhao, standing at the gate of the courtyard, was still holding a pot in her hand.
But at this moment, she didn't even want to put the pot lid on; she just sat there adding fuel to the fire.
"Jianguo, give her a good scolding! Let her see who she is, daring to talk back to me. Humph, a wife who doesn't respect her husband at all!"
Shen Cuifen's gaze was icy as she watched Lu Weidong approach her step by step.
She gritted her teeth, grabbed the bottle of wine he had left over from lunch, and slammed it hard on the table.
Then, without hesitation, she grabbed the remaining broken glass bottle and lunged at Lu Weidong.
Of course, she didn't really intend to kill him.
She's not stupid enough to waste her life on such a piece of trash.
That's absolutely not worth it!
Lu Weidong never expected that Shen Cuifen, who was always good-tempered, would actually be serious this time.
He froze for a second, unable to react in time.
The sharp shard of glass had already grazed his arm.
Suddenly, a long gash appeared on his arm.
Fresh blood flowed from the wound, dripping onto the ground.
"Shen Cuifen, are you crazy?!"
The pain made his face contort in pain.
Lu Xiuwei, who was standing to the side, and Old Lady Zhao, who was sitting by the door, were once again stunned by fright.
Just as Lu Weidong looked down to examine his injured arm.
Distracted, Shen Cuifen threw the shard of glass in her hand into the distance without hesitation.
A crisp "whoosh" sound rang out.
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