She sneered and said, "You're a married daughter, yet you dare to meddle in your parents' family affairs? Don't forget, a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup. You should just shut up about things that aren't your business."
Su Xueli's eyes were as cold as ice, and her words were as sharp as blades: "Sister-in-law, since a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup, why are you still taking your brother's funeral expenses?"
These words were incredibly damaging, instantly turning Zhang Huanping's face ashen. She stammered, "You...you're talking nonsense, don't...talk nonsense..."
Su Xueli's eyes were like knives. "As it says in Dream of the Red Chamber, 'I saw you eating noodles cooked in clear water.' Everyone has a scale in their belly. Don't be too ruthless."
Zhang Huanping, her face flushed and neck bulging, shouted at the man lying on the hospital bed, "You saw it! You saw it! Your sister dared to bully me like this!"
Su Xueli added insult to injury, "How have you bullied your sister-in-law? You even dared to steal money from the dead. I'm not that bad, sister-in-law, am I?"
Zhang Huanping's face turned from white to red, then red to black, then black to blue, and finally she covered her face, cried out "Wah!" and ran out.
"Sherry, what nonsense are you spouting?" Liu Fengying tugged at her and scolded her softly.
Su Xueli said to her mother seriously, "Mother, from now on, don't interfere in my affairs with my sister-in-law. If she bullies you, I will teach her a lesson. If you stop me, I will never call you mother again!"
Liu Fengying panicked, "Oh, you little rascal, you're getting angry with your mother. Fine, from now on, I won't take care of you anymore, and neither will heaven."
Su Xueli thought to herself: At least you know what's good for you.
"Xueli, you shouldn't talk to your sister-in-law like that. She's your sister-in-law," Su Yunlei said from the hospital bed.
Looking at her brother, whose face was bruised and purple, whose lips were swollen and whose arm was wrapped in gauze, Su Xueli felt no heartache at all, only disappointment and frustration.
She snorted coldly: "She's my sister-in-law. You lectured me for speaking rudely to her? Isn't our mother her mother-in-law? Didn't you hear her talking to our mother like that? Are you selectively deaf?"
Su Yunlei shrank back, trying to argue, "Your sister-in-law was just angry. She felt sorry for me after I was beaten so badly, so what's wrong with saying a few angry words?"
Su Xueli almost laughed in anger, "Just because your wife cares about you, does that mean she can scold our mother at will? What kind of family rule is that? When have our mothers and aunts ever spoken to our grandfathers or grandmothers like that!"
Su Yunlei, if you think this rule was set by her family, then let her stay at her parents' house. Our Su family doesn't listen to her nonsense. Otherwise, you can go back to her parents' house with her and become a live-in son-in-law. Anyway, her brother is dead!
This statement is extremely insulting and hurtful. People in this era were very feudal; for a man, being a "son-in-law" was a great disgrace.
Enraged that his own sister would humiliate him like this, Su Yunlei yelled at Su Xueli, "Su Xueli, get back to your husband's family and never set foot in the Su family again! I don't have a sister like you!"
Su Xueli sneered: "The Su family is yours? You don't even deserve to be a member of the Su family. Are you even a man?"
"Oh, you silly girl, you've really angered your brother! I'll beat you up!" Liu Fengying came over and pushed her daughter out.
"Snow Pear!" Su Guojun shouted.
Su Xueli immediately shut up, then gave Su Yunlei a defiant look before leaving the ward.
“Snow Pear, my little darling, how can you talk to your brother like that? After your father and I pass away, will you still want your maternal family?” Liu Fengying said with a heavy heart.
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