Chapter 14 Conflict, Zhang Wanwan gets angry
Wang Chunhua was stunned. When she came to her senses, she slammed the door of Zhang Wanwan's house and yelled, "What do you mean? You have no manners and no upbringing. I'll have a good talk with your mother when she comes back. What the hell is she teaching?"
Wang Chunhua's scolding directly attracted all the neighbors upstairs and downstairs. Seeing so many people coming, she became more and more excited. Zhang Wanwan was so angry that her face turned red in the house.
About half an hour later, Zhang's mother's voice was heard outside the door. Zhang Wanwan got up and walked to the door. She could clearly hear Wang Chunhua complaining to her mother. There was no voice from Zhang's mother during that time.
The old lady downstairs advised: "Forget it, the child is ignorant. Why are you arguing with a child? Look at the time. Don't you need to cook?"
Wang Chunhua immediately retorted: "Auntie, that's not what you mean. If you don't discipline a child, you don't know how he will grow up! Especially for a girl of this age, this is called adolescent rebellion, you don't understand!"
After saying that, Wang Chunhua looked at Zhang's mother again and continued to complain, "You don't know how bad-tempered your girl is. I just asked her a question, but she ignored me and didn't let me continue. This can't go on."
Zhang Wanwan couldn't stand it any longer, so she opened the door and walked towards Wang Chunhua before anyone could react. She spoke clearly and loudly, "Auntie Wang, I respect you as my elder, but you kept saying bad things about me in front of my house for most of the day. You really thought I wouldn't dare to quarrel with you, right? You said I was uneducated? What qualifications do you have to say that? Comparing upbringing? I'm much better than you, who don't even answer questions when asked! You want to compare upbringing with my mom? Take a look at yourself in the mirror first and see what kind of people you have raised your own children to be? What qualifications do you have to control me? You've got a lot of problems of your own and you're meddling in ours. Don't you think your hands are too long to be stomped on?"
I'm going to say this today. I, Zhang Wanwan, don't have a good temper. Don't mess with me in the future! I'm not afraid of a fight! Let's see who beats the other to death! Don't use your elder status to pressure me. We don't have such a relative in our family!"
After saying that, Zhang Wanwan pulled the stunned mother into the house. When she passed by the old lady downstairs, she politely said, "Grandma Huang, your legs and feet are not convenient. You don't have to come up when you hear Aunt Wang's voice in the future. She is just looking for trouble."
After these words were spoken, everyone became even more confused.
Wang Chunhua was so angry that her face turned red and her neck became thick. She put her hands on her hips and shouted, "Li Meilan, you are incompetent and can't even teach your child. What a joke! If you can't teach, I will teach you."
Zhang's mother paused, turned around and glared at Wang Chunhua fiercely, saying in a serious tone: "It's not your turn to lecture my daughter! Just take care of your own family affairs!"
Wang Chunhua was so angry at Zhang's mother's tough attitude that her liver hurt. Seeing that the two families would really fall out if the quarrel continued, Grandma Huang quickly pushed Zhang Wanwan and her daughter into the house and closed the door. Others pushed and shoved Wang Chunhua to go home quickly, and left one after another, some going upstairs and some going downstairs.
Wang Chunhua saw that no one was backing her up, and thinking of the attitude of the Zhang family mother and daughter, she stiffened her neck and shouted, "Your kindness is taken for granted, you deserve to be poor for the rest of your life!"
After saying that, she slammed the door of her house shut.
When Zhang's mother returned home, her face was ashen, but she carried the vegetables into the kitchen without saying a word. Ever since she knew it was cheaper to buy vegetables in the afternoon, Zhang's mother got into the habit of buying some in the morning and some in the afternoon.
Zhang Wanwan followed her to the kitchen door anxiously and asked cautiously, "Mom, are you angry?"
"No." Zhang's mother said without raising her head.
Zhang Wanwan pouted, "If you're not angry, how come you don't even have a smile? But what happened today really wasn't my fault! It was that woman Wang Chunhua who caused it. She had a quarrel with Xu Zhiqiang and they parted on bad terms. I didn't check the almanac when I got home, and I just happened to run into her. She couldn't do anything about Xu Zhiqiang, so she took it out on me. Tsk! She thought I would just let her scold me without saying a word like before!
Mom, I tell you, if she is tough to deal with such a shameless person, we have to be tougher than her. Only when she knows that our family is not easy to bully will she stop looking for trouble with us every now and then!"
"I'm not mad at you!" Zhang's mother washed the rice with an expressionless face. "I'm mad at your father and I for being incompetent. If our family wasn't so poor, how dare Wang Chunhua make such a fuss? Isn't she picking on the weak? In the past, I thought it was better to have less trouble than more, so I gave in to her. I didn't expect her to become more and more arrogant. In the future, don't say a word when you encounter such things. Mom will solve it! You are still young. Tomorrow, Wang Chunhua will say everywhere that you are a shrew and disrespectful to your elders. It's not good for your reputation!"
Zhang's mother tried to persuade her earnestly, but Zhang Wanwan didn't listen at all. "Forget it. You and my father have no relationship with Wang Chunhua. How can she be considered my elder? Besides, she thinks we are blind! Who am I? How can she make up a few words about me?"
Seeing Zhang Wanwan's stubborn attitude, Zhang's mother was helpless and urged, "Okay, go wash your hands and get ready for dinner. The high school entrance exam is in a week, so don't bother yourself with these messy things."
Zhang Wanwan grinned and went to wash her hands happily.
When Zhang's father came back in the evening, Zhang's mother pulled him into the room and muttered to him, "Your girl is amazing! She actually quarreled with Wang Chunhua in front of the neighbors today, and even made Wang Chunhua so angry that she couldn't speak. Just thinking about it makes me feel relieved!"
"Huh?" Father Zhang looked confused. He guessed the beginning but not the end. "No, no, you told me all this so that I can talk about Wanwan, right?"
Zhang's mother was unhappy when she heard this, "Why are you scolding her? She did a great job! I feel so relieved! I've been feeling aggrieved for so many years and today is the best day ever! I'm telling you this so that you don't have to be nice to the people on the other side when you meet them in the future. Also, we have to work hard to make money. High school is not like junior high school. The tuition is much more expensive! And your eldest son will go to college in a year. What will we do if we don't have money? Today, that woman Wang Chunhua directly called us poor! Old Zhang, I feel so upset!"
Father Zhang was speechless. It seemed that his wife had been sulking all night because of what he said.
But when it comes to money, Zhang's father becomes more depressed. He lights a cigarette, puffs away for a while before slowly saying, "Don't worry about money. We can always make enough money if we work harder this year. We had nothing left before because we had to pay back the money, but it's different now!"
Zhang's mother nodded. She had the same idea as Zhang's father. She felt that without the pressure of owing money, there was still hope.
Zhang Wanwan was reading quietly in the next room. Although she didn't know what her parents were talking about in the room, she could roughly guess that it was nothing more than a quarrel today and about making money. In this life, she would never let her parents struggle in the mud of poverty again.
(End of this chapter)
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