Chapter 14 Contest
After hearing Qian's harsh words before she left, Bai knew that with Qian's vindictive nature, she would not let Zheng's mother and the others off easily. Seeing that Zhou Jin and his sister were still acting as if nothing had happened, she could not help but walk up to them worriedly and said:
"Your second aunt is not someone you can get along with. She's made a fool of herself this time, and she'll definitely find ways to cause trouble for you when she gets back. And your mother is an honest person, so you two siblings have to be careful!"
Zhou Jin and Zhou Yu both had a good impression of Bai. Knowing that she was the mother of their cousin Zhou Li, they should have called her aunt. Seeing her coming, they hurriedly stood up and greeted her respectfully. They heard that she cared about them in her words, and they were even more grateful.
"Don't worry, auntie. I will be more careful and won't let anyone bully my mother again." Zhou Jin responded quickly.
"Well, good boy," Bai nodded, still a little worried, and instructed:
"If she wants to bring up what just happened, just come find me. I'll testify for you! I saw it all. She was the one who started cursing for no reason, and she was the one who fell into the basin when she was about to hit someone."
After hearing this, Zhou Jin and his sister hurriedly expressed their gratitude.
Bai went back after seeing that everything was fine here. When everyone saw that there was no excitement left, they all dispersed. Zhou Jin and his sister packed up the pheasants and rabbits. Zhou Yu took the pheasant meat he had left at home to cook, while Zhou Jin took the remaining pheasant and rabbit meat to Li Mao. Knowing that he had no salt at home, he asked Li Mao for a small piece of coarse salt when he came back.
The pure natural pheasant meat is firm and has a strong aroma. Even if there is no other seasoning and only salt is added, it is still fragrant and makes people's appetites grow.
The whole family hadn't tasted meat for months, and they were all eager to eat. Just as they were about to start eating, they saw Qian holding a large coarse porcelain bowl, followed by several of Zhou Jin's cousins, Zhou Zhu, Zhou Yao, Zhou Huan, Zhou Hu...
Zhou Jin couldn't help but sneer when he saw this scene. Haha, it looked like they were going to snatch the chicken away if they couldn't get it. Without even looking at them, he took the spoon from his mother's hand, who was as if facing a great enemy, and continued to serve chicken soup to the whole family.
Zhou Huan saw Zhou Jin put a chicken leg into little Zhou Ying's bowl. He hadn't eaten meat for several months. He was so greedy that he couldn't help but cursed:
"You're such a good person, Zhou Jin! You didn't save the good meat for grandparents, but gave it to that money-loser! She doesn't deserve it!"
"That's right, Zhou Jin, give us the chicken soup quickly, or you'll be in trouble!" Zhou Yao also shouted, and to show his strength, he kicked over Zhou Jin's backpack.
This frightened little Zhou Ying so much that she burst into tears. Zheng Shi saw this and quickly held her in her arms, comforting her: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, mother is here!"
Zhou Yu calmly pulled the angry little Zhou Li behind him to prevent her brother from accidentally hurting him when he started beating someone.
"What if I don't give it to you?!" Zhou Jin saw the little loli girl crying, and he was too lazy to deal with these flies. He patted the dirt on his pants and stood up. He took out a burning firewood from under the pottery jar, pointed the burning end at Zhou Yao's nose and said slowly: "What can you do to me?!"
Zhou Yao and the others followed Zhou Jin and planned to beat him up together and then snatch the chicken away if he didn't hand over the chicken. Zhou Huan and Zhou Yao even took sticks for this purpose, but no one expected Zhou Jin to take action first, and be so cruel, pointing the burning stick at people directly.
Looking at the burning stick right in front of him, feeling the scorching heat of the fire making his face burn, Zhou Yao immediately became timid...
If he were hit in the face with a stick, he would either die of pain or be burned to death. He didn't even dare to shout that Zhou Jin didn't dare, because he could tell the answer from his eyes! ...He dared!
If he dares to move, he will burn him to death!
"You, you~what are you doing! I am, but your brother, you...just talk it over nicely!" Zhou Yao couldn't help but shiver.
Zhou Huan, who was standing aside, was a reckless person. Besides, Zhou Jin wasn't pointing the burning stick at him, so he wasn't afraid. Seeing Zhou Yao back down, he immediately jumped up and cursed:
"What can I do to you?! Of course I'll beat you up!"
While cursing, he raised the stick in his hand and hit Zhou Jin, not forgetting to call out to Zhou Zhu and Zhou Hu who followed him.
"Big brother, second brother, come together!"
Zhou Jin's generation, according to the overall ranking of the Zhou family, are Zhou Zhu, Zhou Hu, Zhou Yao, Zhou Huan, Zhou Jin, and Zhou Li, so Zhou Huan calls Zhou Zhu and Zhou Hu the eldest brother and the second brother.
Zhou Zhu was a bookworm, not a fighter. He'd come along because, at the instigation of Qian and Zhou Huan's mother, he also wanted to eat meat. He also harbored resentment for the Zhou Jin family's previous confrontations with their grandparents, refusing to give them space. He wanted to teach them a lesson! But the lesson he envisioned was simply verbal abuse, or watching Zhou Huan and the others beat them up. He wouldn't do it himself, believing that would be too uncivilized.
Zhou Hu had no choice but to follow him because he didn't dare to disobey his stepmother Qian. Before coming, he felt that Zhou Jin would not obey him obediently. The boy seemed to have become a different person since he rescued his third aunt from the bandits. He was very bold and even dared to contradict their grandparents. How could he possibly take his stepmother seriously?
He was reluctant to follow, so naturally he wouldn't go forward.
Neither of them wanted to fight, so they didn't move after hearing Zhou Huan's words. Zhou Hu even wanted to stop Zhou Huan, but unfortunately he failed.
Fortunately, the two of them didn't fight, because before Zhou Huan could finish his words, he was kicked back by Zhou Jin...
Zhou Zhu and Zhou Hu...
He thought to himself, thank goodness they didn't do anything, otherwise they would be the ones getting kicked. He also secretly wondered, when did Zhou Jin become so powerful?! Could those rumors be true? Did this kid really kill someone?
The exile team has been saying these days that Zhou Jin was able to rescue Zheng because he most likely caught up with the bandits and then killed the one who robbed Zheng. It was not like what he said when he came back that there was an internal conflict between the two bandits and he was able to save someone by chance.
Everyone is smart, and those bandits are even smarter. If there is any internal conflict, why can't they go back to their lair and fight it out? Why do they have to fight to the death halfway?
At first, Zhou Zhu and Zhou Hu didn't believe it. They had watched Zhou Jin grow up and thought, how could he dare to kill someone? But now, they were a little convinced. If he had never killed anyone, how could this kid suddenly become so cruel?
"Ah! He's been beaten to death!" Seeing her precious son being kicked away by Zhou Jin, Qian hurried forward, hugged her son and burst into tears, pointing at Zhou Jin and cursing, "You disobedient and unfilial thing, you damned little beast! You dare to hit your brother? Beat me to death if you have the guts!"
"Your son is the beast! Now you know that your son is older than my son, why didn't you say anything when your son hit my son with a stick?! Why didn't you say anything when a group of cousins used sticks to bully our Ajin!"
Zheng, who was standing by, tried to step forward several times but was stopped by Zhou Yu. Seeing Qian scolding her son, she could no longer hold back and jumped out to scold Qian.
"Let me tell you! I am Ajin's mother. It is not your turn to say whether my son is filial or disobedient!
What's the point of you bringing a few nephews here with sticks? Aren't you just here to snatch away the food that our Ajin finally found?
Okay, you want to steal something, right? First, step over me, your mother! "
Zheng pushed Zhou Ying into Zhou Yu's arms like a hen protecting her chicks, and stretched out her arms to protect the children behind her. If anyone wanted to bully her children, she would kill them!
Zhou Yu silently gave her mother a thumbs up from behind. Amidst the scolding, he brought the two little ones chicken soup and took shelter behind a big tree nearby, where he fed them meat.
Anyway, she has her brother to support her! Even her mother was provoked into a rage, but she had nothing to do with it.
"Aying, stop crying and eat the chicken leg quickly, or it will be snatched away and we won't be able to eat it!"
"Ari, don't clench your fists. You need to eat more meat so you can grow taller and help big brother fight, right? Otherwise, with your skinny arms and legs, you'll just cause trouble if you go up, and big brother will have to be distracted to protect you!!"
As she spoke, she stuffed a chicken leg into each of the two little ones' hands. She also tore off a chicken wing for herself and started eating!
The two little ones thought what their elder sister said made sense, and when they saw their elder sister eating, they started eating too!
One of them said while eating, "A Ying ate all the chicken legs and didn't give any to those bad guys!"
One of them angrily tore into the chicken thigh meat, thinking as he ate, "Ari must grow taller and stronger quickly so that he can help big brother fight!"
So, when Zhou Zhu and Zhou Hu were afraid that things would get out of hand (mainly because they were afraid that Zhou Jin would really hurt someone), and invited Old Man Zhou over, Zhou Yu and the other two had already eaten and drunk their fill.
When Mr. Zhou came over, he glared at Qian fiercely and scolded her:
"It's just a fight between boys. Huan Ge couldn't beat his brother because he's not as skilled as him. Why are you, a woman, getting involved?"
In one sentence, the incident of Qian bringing Zhou Huan and others to snatch the chicken from Zhou Jin and others was characterized as just a few brothers playing a joke!
After scolding Qian, she turned around and smiled at the crowd of onlookers who were gloating over her misfortune.
"A few naughty boys, rolling together after a disagreement, and then they are fine after a while. Sorry for the joke, everyone, please go away, haha..."
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