Chapter 258 Do you wish our whole family could die?
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Forget about what's missing for now. Li Shiyue watched as the people who stayed behind to clean the ancestral hall tidied up all the tables, chairs, benches, and other items. They also blew out the candles and closed the doors and windows. Only then did she and Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian, who were waiting for her outside, head back to the Li family home.
After lunch, Li's mother took Li Shiyue around the house and made her put on and take off the baggy green official robe. They did it over and over again, more than a dozen times, until it finally looked a little better on Li Shiyue.
"This color is really ugly. October, you'll need a promotion so you can at least wear a red robe. This green turtle color is just..."
Li Xiatian ate fried beans while watching his mother alter Li Shiyue's official robe. He thought to himself, "It's true that the green color really does look too much like a green turtle."
"Ah! Mother! It hurts!"
Zheng Meiniang slapped Li Xiatian hard across the back. The sound was loud and clear, and you could tell from the sound that Zheng Meiniang had hit him hard.
"What are you yelling about? Even eating beans can't shut your mouth!"
"Haha, Aunt, please don't hit my sister. She's telling the truth. This color really isn't good."
With a flick of her sleeve, Li Shiyue turned to Li Xiatian, who was wincing in pain, and blinked, saying, "Sister, this robe can't be changed to red for now. Only someone of the fifth rank or higher can wear scarlet."
While the Li family members were chatting at home about whether the color of the official robe looked good or not, each household in Liujiatun also had its own things to say.
At his eighth great-uncle's house, Li Wangjin, a burly and rugged man, knelt on the ground. The person standing in front of him was none other than his eighth great-uncle.
"Well, you've gotten older, and your guts have grown too. You don't even respect your own father anymore?"
Li Wangjin lowered his head, staring at the ground without saying a word, his lips pressed tightly together.
The more he acted like this, the more his eighth great-uncle, who was used to being in charge, could not stand it.
With two loud "slaps," Eighth Uncle gave Li Wangjin two hard slaps across the face!
"I'm asking you a question! Are you mute? Huh?"
Wang Xiangxing, who was standing to the side holding her child, saw that her husband's mouth had turned red. She put the child down and rushed over to grab Li Wangjin's arm to pull him up.
"I can't live like this anymore!"
What did my husband do wrong? I made him kneel down as soon as he got back!
In front of the children, you trampled on my dignity as the head of the household!
Without saying a word, she slapped my man twice!
The angry woman's shrill screams attracted the attention of the two households next to Uncle Ba's house, who all peered over the wall into the courtyard.
But Li Wangjin didn't follow Wang Xiangxing's pull to get up; instead, he pressed down on her. This didn't make Wang Xiangxing uncomfortable; instead, it made her even angrier and more heartbroken.
If Li Wangjin were to stand up now, according to the usual style of the Eighth Uncle Clan, they would definitely scold her as well.
Only by verbally abusing and beating Li Wangjin enough can we avoid implicating her, the daughter-in-law!
When the shrill female voice rang out again, it was choked with sobs, "Father-in-law, what are you doing?"
Is my man really your biological son?
Waaah, even before we fled the famine, they treated my husband like a donkey in the village!
During the autumn harvest, sob sob, my man's body was covered in sore flesh, sob sob!
The second child doesn't have to do any chores at home!
He's just lying at home enjoying the cool air!
Let my man work in the fields day and night!
Father-in-law!
Are you trying to work my man to death?
"Do you wish our whole family could die?!"
Wang Xiangxing's words revealed the blatant favoritism in this family, brought about by her eighth great-uncle!
What Wang Xiangxing said was simply unbearable for Eighth Uncle.
Eighth Uncle looked up at the walls on both sides and saw the two neighboring families leaning over the walls, their faces full of gossip, pointing and whispering about them.
Enraged, Uncle Ba raised his hand to hit Wang Xiangxing!
Wang Xiangxing instinctively hid next to Li Wangjin, frightened into lowering her head and closing her eyes. But after waiting for two breaths, the expected pain did not come. When Wang Xiangxing opened her eyes, she saw Li Wangjin raising his arm and reaching out to grasp her eighth great-uncle's wrist.
"The head of the household?"
When Li Wangjin stopped his waving hand, Eighth Uncle's eyes widened immediately, his brows furrowed deeply, and he opened his mouth to shout, "This is outrageous!"
You dare block your father's way?
I think you should just die! You...
Before the eighth uncle could finish his curse, the child who had just been put down by Wang Xiangxing ran over and stood next to the eighth uncle, kicking and hitting him.
"You're not allowed to hit your father, you can't hit your mother! I'll hit you! I'll hit you!"
But how much pain could those few blows from a little kid really cause?
It doesn't hurt much, but it's embarrassing!
The little brat dared to hit him; this was something his eighth great-uncle absolutely could not tolerate!
He was already furious, so he raised his foot and kicked the child.
"Tiger!"
Li Wangjin and Wang Xiangxing were both surprised that their Eighth Uncle would actually make a move against Hu Zi!
No matter what, Tiger is still Eighth Uncle's grandson!
Tiger's small body was kicked directly to the base of the wall by the huge impact, and crashed into the wall!
Li Wangjin and Wang Xiangxing have only this one child after many years of marriage!
"Tiger! Tiger!"
Wang Xiangxing ran over shouting, and knelt down to carefully hug Huzi.
Li Wangjin became ruthless. He stood up and pushed his eighth uncle to the ground!
"Tiger!"
Holding Huzi, Wang Xiangxing stretched out her palm for Li Wangjin to see. When Li Wangjin saw the shocking red color, his heart clenched.
"Father, does it hurt? Tiger will blow on it and it will stop hurting..."
Tiger raised his little hand, wanting to touch Li Wangjin's face, but Li Wangjin quickly lowered his head to let Tiger's hand touch the half of his face that had been slapped twice by the Eighth Uncle Clan.
But before Tiger could even touch him, he fainted!
"Tiger! Tiger!"
"Tiger, open your eyes! Don't sleep! Tiger! Waaah..."
Li Wangjin was stunned for a moment, then he snatched Hu Zi from Wang Xiangxing's arms. "Go find Shi Yue! Shi Yue can definitely save Hu Zi! Go find Shi Yue!"
After shouting that to Wang Xiangxing, Li Wangjin picked up the unconscious Hu Zi, stood up, and ran towards the door. Once outside, he headed towards Li Shiyue's house at the back of the village.
Wang Xiangxing only realized what was happening after Li Wangjin left. She raised her foot to rush out and chase after him, but she turned around stiffly and rushed towards the west wing, the room where the three of them lived.
Once inside, Wang Xiangxing put on her shoes and climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed). Standing on the kang table, she tiptoed and took down the cloth bundle hidden on the roof beam. She stuffed it into her chest, got off the kang, and rushed out the door, running towards Li Shiyue's house.
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