"Don't drink it!" Zhou Chunhua exclaimed dramatically.
Xu Xiuzhen had no time to pay attention to her; she cried and drank at the same time.
After taking more than a dozen spoonfuls, Xu Xiuzhen suddenly stopped.
He threw down the spoon and started touching his mouth with his hands.
"My son! My thief... what's wrong with the word 'my thief'?"
Xu Xiuzhen looked up and asked Liao Nanxing, but the things in Liao Nanxing's hands scattered all over the ground with a bang.
"Mom! Your mouth..."
Looking at the two large sausages, Zhou Chunhua almost burst out laughing.
"You, you, you... are you a wooden stick?"
That's right, Xu Xiuzhen was allergic to wood ear mushrooms.
For this reason, she specially bought white fungus, ground it into powder, and added only a tiny bit to the bird's nest.
Liao Nanxing ran off in a panic to find medicine.
"That's why I told you not to drink!" In a great mood, she finished the remaining half bowl, got up, walked to the door, and put her hand on the doorknob.
She heard footsteps behind her and rushed out without hesitation.
The next second, she moved aside, and with a splash, the spot where she had just stood was now soaked and steaming.
Xu Xiuzhen, who was originally sitting on the ground, was now standing inside the door with a pot in her hand, shouting incoherent curses at her.
The noise prompted several neighboring houses to open their doors.
She immediately lowered her head, hugging herself and trembling.
"Mom, I know I was wrong, please don't be angry, okay? I... I really didn't know, please forgive me."
Xu Xiuzhen, standing inside the door, seemed not to have reacted, standing there blankly.
"Oh dear, how could you just throw away such a perfectly good pot of food like that?"
"What happened, Lao Xu? Why are you pouring hot soup on Chunhua? It's lucky she didn't get burned. If she had, you wouldn't have had time to regret it."
The neighbors all came out and surrounded Zhou Chunhua.
Xu Xiuzhen panicked and pointed at her, saying, "Ugh, ahh." Then she pointed at her own mouth and said "Ugh, ahh" again.
"Hey Lao Xu, what happened to your mouth? Is there a hornet's nest in your house? Did it sting you like this?"
Xu Xiuzhen, unable to express herself clearly, gestured rapidly with both hands.
Unfortunately, no one could understand what she was gesturing.
Zhou Chunhua spoke at the opportune moment to attract attention.
"It's not my mother-in-law's fault, it's all my fault."
"Mmm-hmm." Xu Xiuzhen pointed at her and nodded repeatedly.
Zhou Chunhua squeezed out two tears and continued, "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have stolen the bird's nest from home when my mother-in-law wasn't there."
As soon as he said that, the neighbors were in an uproar.
"What's going on? Didn't Old Xu say he treated Chunhua like his own daughter? Why won't he let her eat this little bit of bird's nest?"
“Aunt Xu, you’re wrong about that. Chunhua is so good to you two! Not to mention anything else, just the way she took care of you at your bedside all those years, even your son didn’t do as well as she did.”
"Such a wonderful daughter-in-law is a blessing from your Xu family ancestors, how can you be so stingy?"
"Exactly! He used to tell everyone how good he was to his daughter-in-law, but behind closed doors, he's such a lecherous person."
"That's right. She used to always tell me that she had been mistreated by her mother-in-law, so she would never mistreat her daughter-in-law. Turns out, it was all an act!"
"..."
As various disdainful and contemptuous voices arose, Xu Xiuzhen felt she couldn't save face.
When Liao Nanxing came out with the medicine, he pulled Xu Xiuzhen out from the crowd.
After taking the medicine, Xu Xiuzhen cried with such a wronged expression.
Liao Nanxing, who was not fond of talking much, helped Xu Xiuzhen home, and Zhou Chunhua quickly followed.
Even with the door closed, one could still hear the voices outside scorning Xu Xiuzhen.
Xu Xiuzhen was so angry that she beat her chest and stomped her feet, wailing loudly.
Liao Nanxing, who was on the verge of a breakdown with anger, angrily questioned, "Zhou Chunhua, I'm the one who's wronged you, so why are you doing this to my mother? She's so old, what good does it do you to deliberately ruin her reputation like this?"
Zhou Chunhua leaned against the door and smiled.
"You haven't forgotten how your mom secretly put pineapple in my soup, causing me to have an allergic reaction and almost die, and how she went around telling everyone how difficult I am to please, have you? Today I'll let her taste what it's like to be pointed at and talked about as soon as she walks out the door."
"You... that happened so many years ago. She's quite old now, and she's been good to you all these years. You only remember the grudges and not the kindness. You don't know how lucky you are, do you?"
"What is happiness? It's having to endure when you bully me, pretending to be stupid when you scheme against me, and cooperating when you put on an act. As long as I resist, in your eyes I'm ungrateful for what I have?"
I only tolerated them because I love you, not because I'm blind or stupid!
Liao Nanxing's expression froze.
Once she had recovered, Xu Xiuzhen suddenly sprang up and slapped Liao Nanxing across the face.
"So this is why you can't bear to hit your good wife! Fine, if you won't lay a hand on her, I'll just beat her out of here myself today!"
Xu Xiuzhen raised her hand and rushed forward.
Zhou Chunhua grabbed Xu Xiuzhen's wrist with one hand, and with the other hand she grabbed Xu Xiuzhen's neck and pinned her to the door.
"You... let go, cough cough cough, let go!" Xu Xiuzhen looked at Zhou Chunhua in front of her with eyes full of terror.
She couldn't believe that the woman in front of her was the daughter-in-law she had oppressed and tormented for over twenty years.
Over the years, she felt that Zhou Chunhua had a sheep-like personality; if she was hit hard, she would just bleat a couple of times and that would be the end of it.
Unexpectedly, she was a sheep in wolf's clothing! It felt as if Zhou Chunhua would rush up and bite her neck off in the next second.
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