Chapter 14: Counterattack
"I'm coming, please make way, everyone, please make way, auntie let me in."
Lin Xiaotong and Niu Caidie pushed their bicycles to clear the way and squeezed into the front yard slowly.
It was the familiar encirclement again, and Lin Xiaotong felt that there was another big news.
Sure enough, a familiar female voice came from the crowd, so loud that it was a little piercing.
…
Half an hour ago at Tianshuijing compound.
"Mr. Zhao, tell your Zhao Yunyun to come out. Look at the way she beat me. What daughter-in-law would dare to hit her mother-in-law before she even walks into the house? This is the upbringing of your Zhao family."
Early in the morning, Xia Caiyun took advantage of the fact that the father and son of the Fu family went to work, and came to the compound alone to settle the score with Zhao Yunyun.
When the people in the front and back yards who were preparing to go out to buy groceries saw this situation, men, women, young and old, cats, dogs and children all rushed forward and consciously formed a circle.
Of course, the three giants of the compound rushed to the scene to eat melons as soon as possible. Gao Xiulan even took out a handful of sunflower seeds from her pocket and ate them while talking.
"What's up with Xia Caiyun so early in the morning?"
She was originally planning to go to the alley entrance to wait for her Xiaotong to come back.
"Who knows? Oh! Ah Fen, look, she really has a bald spot on her scalp."
He opened his mouth wide and spat out a piece of melon seed shell. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed the obvious bald spot on Xia Caiyun's head.
She had a loud voice to begin with, and the people around her couldn't help but look at Xia Caiyun's hair. For a moment, everyone was whispering and pointing fingers.
Xia Caiyun was almost angry to death. How could there be no normal people in this compound? She shouted at the door of Zhao's house until her voice was hoarse, but there was no movement from the Zhao family.
"What are you looking at? Do you have any manners?"
The people around fell silent, and only the sound of three people cracking melon seeds could be heard. There was silence for three seconds, and then the noise of the crowd talking became louder, making Xia Caiyun's head buzz.
"You're not allowed to say anything. Where on earth did that damn bitch Zhao Yunyun go?"
"Bah! Don't try to fool me. Where is Zhao Yunyun? Ask her to come out and apologize to me."
Xia Caiyun's face turned red with anger.
Someone in the crowd said, "Zhao Dahei and Zhao Jingxiang must have gone to work early this morning. Did Zhao Erya come home yesterday? Did anyone see her?"
Jin Qiaofeng, Er Nengzi's widowed mother in the front yard, responded, "She's back. Yesterday evening I saw Er Ya fetching water in the yard."
Diao Yulian added smoothly, "Then Zhao Erya must have gone out again this morning for something."
Wu Jiabao, who was standing next to him, was holding his mother's legs and watching with great interest, muttering to himself.
"Hiss~ I remember now. This morning around five o'clock, when I went to the bathroom to empty the chamber pot, I passed by the front yard and I thought I saw someone coming out of the Zhao family's house. Could it be Zhao Erya?"
Diao Yulian became more excited as she thought about this.
Everyone started discussing it.
Lin Xiaotong and Niu Caidie finally squeezed in and ran to Gao Xiulan and the other two. They parked their bicycles in front of Ernengzi's house, while Hutou and his brothers stood guard on the side.
Lin Xiaotong asked Gao Xiulan: "Mom, why is Xia Caiyun here again?"
"I came to look for Zhao Yunyun. This girl ran out this morning. She's not here. Xia Caiyun has been shouting in vain until now."
Xia Caiyun lost all her rationality and yelled at the top of her lungs, "Great! She sneaked out so early in the morning. Who knows, she might be looking for some random guy to hang out with? I knew she wasn't a decent person."
This was the first time that Lin Xiaotong met a mother who took the initiative to cheat on her own son.
This is a cool move, really, like using a knife to hit the butt - it really opened my eyes.
"Xiaotong, is your compound usually this lively?"
Niu Caidie didn't expect to encounter a shrew scolding her on the street the first time she came here, and she was a little excited.
"Sister Caidie, let me tell you, this family..."
Lin Xiaotong looked at Niu Caidie's curious eyes and bit her ear quietly.
No one noticed that Zhao Yunyun brought people into the yard and just heard the last words Xia Caiyun shouted.
"Chairman Ren, I told you that my girlfriend's mother is not someone you can get along with. How could she say that about me in front of so many people?"
Xia Caiyun had been looking for Zhao Yunyun and several female cadres all morning and they entered the front yard.
Everyone turned around and consciously made way for Zhao Yunyun and others to come in.
"Oh my god! How did Zhao Yunyun become like this? Her face is as swollen as a pig's head."
He was making a lot of noise with his mouth wide open, and even stopped cracking melon seeds.
Diao Yulian exclaimed, "Erya has a cut on her right cheek."
Zhao Yunyun looked even worse than when Lin Xiaotong and Gao Xiulan saw her at the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday.
She was wearing a patched jacket with tattered sleeves, revealing her bruised arms. Her face was swollen and her eyes were black, and the low collar just revealed the horrific marks on her neck.
When Zhao Yunyun and Xia Caiyun were fighting, they picked private parts and bit and pinched them, so Xia Caiyun's hair looked messy and a little bald to outsiders.
It was far less tragic than Zhao Yunyun's, and her injuries looked horrifying.
Zhao Yunyun burst into tears before she said a word. She looked like a miserable young wife who had been abused by her mother-in-law. People around her looked at her with sympathy.
Ren Hongying, the tallest chairwoman of the Women's Federation, spoke to Xia Caiyun in a sonorous and powerful voice.
"You must be Xia Caiyun, right? Our Women's Federation received help from Comrade Zhao Yunyun and came to you to ask for advice."
Xia Caiyun looked at the Women's Federation leader that Zhao Yunyun had found and lowered her voice and stopped shouting.
"You, you must have made a mistake. I just...just came to discuss marriage with the Zhao family."
"Comrade Zhao Yunyun reported that you, Xia Caiyun, repeatedly beat and scolded Zhao Yunyun, causing multiple injuries. You also fabricated rumors and created trouble, maliciously preventing Zhao Yunyun and Fu Zhenggang from becoming a revolutionary couple."
Ren Hongying stared at Xia Caiyun, whose face was pale, with sharp eyes.
Xia Caiyun stammered and was speechless: "I, I, I..."
After all, it was she who hit the man, and the words came from her mouth. Her injuries were not good for others to see, so she could only swallow the pain herself.
She really didn't expect that the little girl Zhao Yunyun would dare to go to the Women's Federation to complain. She was stunned for a moment and her arrogance was suppressed.
…
After the meeting, Fu Wenlei was inquiring with the factory director in the union office about the benefits the factory was preparing to purchase for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and the office door was pushed open suddenly.
"Dad, Mom went to the Zhao family compound to cause trouble and was taken away by the Women's Federation—"
Fu Zhenggang bent over, gasped for breath, closed his eyes and howled like a ghost.
The whole building was so quiet that the only sound was Fu Wenlei's increasingly rapid breathing.
Fu Wenlei's face turned pale, and he thought to himself, "It's over. This is really embarrassing."
My mother is a fool and she gave birth to a bunch of fools.
Fu Wenlei’s eyes went dark and he fell to the ground with his head tilted back.
"Hey, Lao Fu, Lao Fu, what's wrong with you? Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and take your dad to the hospital!"
Director Li failed to catch the blow, and Fu Wenlei fell directly to the ground, with a visible bump on the back of his head.
Fu Zhenggang stood there motionless like a piece of wood.
Director Li thought to himself, "Old Fu's youngest son is really no good. He has small eyes."
After hearing what Director Li said, Fu Zheng suddenly woke up from his dream and hurried to rescue Fu Wenlei.
"Dad, Dad, what's wrong with you? Wake up! Don't scare me!"
Due to Fu Zhenggang's clumsy behavior, Fu Wenlei bumped into things on the way to the hospital and had several bumps on his head.
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