136, Threat
136, Threat
"Bah! Who is so heartless? Check your conscience and ask yourself?" When Xu Yue Niang squeezed into the crowd, she saw an old lady sitting on the ground crying, and a man standing next to her with a helpless look on his face.
After listening to the old lady's curses and considering what she said before and after, Xu Yue Niang knew that the old lady sitting on the ground crying was Liu Sanniang's mother-in-law.
In recent years, their family has been close to Liu Sanniang's family, and she herself gets along with Liu Sanniang as well as sisters, so she had long learned from Liu Sanniang about their life in the countryside, and naturally she also knew how this mother-in-law treated Liu Sanniang and her family of three.
Now that she has finally found the old lady who bullied her good sister and her adopted son, how could Xu Yue Niang miss the opportunity to scold this damn old woman!
"Back then, Sanniang dragged Lu Youtian to the city for medical treatment. Lu Youtian was seriously ill at that time. In order not to pay for the medical treatment of Lu Youtian, your own son, you drove the three of them out of the house. Why didn't you think that the one was your own son and the other was your daughter-in-law?" Xu Yueniang was not the daughter-in-law of the Lu family, and she was not afraid of this old lady at all.
"Now that they're having a good time, you come here to cause trouble. I think you're just jealous of their good life, so you come here to cause trouble!"
Old Mrs. Lu, who was sitting on the ground crying, was frightened when she saw this unfamiliar woman suddenly appear, pointing at her nose and cursing at her.
Who is this woman? How come she knows so much about their family affairs?
When Mrs. Lu saw her daughter-in-law standing beside her, she knew that she must have told others about the family affairs. However, she didn't care about it and immediately started to cry: "I am so pitiful. I am old, my son doesn't care about me, and my daughter-in-law doesn't care about me..."
"My son, whom I raised with all my heart and soul, now refuses to acknowledge me as his mother..."
"Yeah, it's not easy at my age."
"We are all family, there is no such thing as overnight hatred."
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When the onlookers saw the old man sitting on the ground crying, they felt sympathy for him, and some even persuaded the daughter-in-law Liu Sanniang to help the old man up.
Xu Yueniang, with a cold face, pushed aside the person who was trying to persuade Liu Sanniang to reconcile with the old lady who was sitting on the ground crying. She lowered her voice and asked Liu Sanniang softly, "Sanniang, tell me, what exactly is going on?"
"I don't know what happened. As soon as she came, she started sitting on the ground crying without saying a word." Liu Sanniang also looked helpless. They had just said a few words, and this mother-in-law sat on the ground and threw a tantrum.
Xu Yueniang whispered a few words to Liu Sanniang.
Liu Sanniang understood and walked out of the crowd. She knelt down in front of her mother-in-law and kowtowed to her. She cried and said, "Mother, please let us go."
"Arita and I have finally managed to make a living. Please let us go."
"Uncle, please let us go because Arita saved our lives."
"Arita nearly lost his life trying to save you. You refused to spend money on Arita's treatment and even locked us up in the house, waiting for him to die. It's because of his lucky streak that he's still alive today..."
"...Mother, uncle, it was you who kicked me and my family of three out of the house so you wouldn't have to spend money on Arita's medical treatment. We clearly wrote it down in black and white: you don't care about Arita's life or death, and you don't need us to care about you in the future. Why are you now making it our fault?"
"Mother, uncle, we must act according to our conscience..."
Liu Sanniang's every word was laced with tears as she told those around her how her husband had been injured by a wild beast while trying to save her uncle, and how her family, to avoid spending money on her husband's treatment, had locked him up in the house, starving him to death. She also recounted how she, a woman, had come to the city with her seriously injured husband for treatment, and how difficult life had been for her family.
People in the world sympathize with the weak. Just now, everyone was sympathizing with the old lady. But now, seeing Liu Sanniang crying and tears streaming down her face, with every word stained with tears, many people turned to sympathize with her.
Noticing that the eyes of the people around her had changed, Old Lady Lu said to herself, "Oh no!" She twisted her thigh hard and started crying again, "My life is so miserable..."
"My poor sister, your life is so miserable..." Xu Yueniang rushed over and hugged Liu Sanniang, covering up Old Lady Lu's crying with her louder crying.
While pretending to cry, Xu Yue Niang glanced at Old Lady Lu standing beside her. When she met Old Lady Lu's gaze, she deliberately gave her a provocative look and said, "Come and hit me if you have the guts!"
Sure enough, after receiving this provocative look, Old Lady Lu jumped up and wanted to rush over to beat up this unfamiliar stinky woman and the bitch Liu.
"Mom, that's enough, stop it!" Boss Lu grabbed his mother who was about to hit someone and shouted with a cold face.
"Don't pull me, let me go beat those two bitches to death!" Old Mrs. Lu has been domineering in the Lu family's old house for so many years, and she has never been provoked like this. When Liu was in their house, she beat, scolded and rubbed her, but Liu didn't even dare to say a word.
Now, they even dare to join forces with outsiders to bully her as the mother-in-law!
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"What's going on ahead?" At this time, Lu Chunping took two nephews from the clan to deliver bean sprouts to various restaurants and on their way back, he saw a lot of people standing on the road ahead. He asked the people standing on the roadside watching the excitement with some curiosity.
"I'm not too sure either. It seems that the son came to the city and didn't care about his mother's life or death. The old lady came to the city to ask for an explanation." The person standing here to watch the excitement heard a few words and said unclearly.
Lu Chunping recognized the area immediately. Wasn't this where Youtian and his friends had set up their stall? The area in front seemed to be where Liu's stall was.
"You two stay here to watch the cows, I'll go to the front to take a look." Lu Chunping asked his two nephews to watch the cows here, and squeezed to the front to see what was going on.
When Lu Chunping got closer, he realized that the crying voices belonged to Old Lady Lu and Old Lady Wang. Sure enough, when he squeezed to the center of the crowd, he saw Old Lady Lu and Old Lady Wang sitting on the ground throwing a tantrum, Liu Sanniang kneeling on the ground crying, and the proprietress of the pancake shop, Old Lady Lu and Old Lady Lu Youfu, were also there.
Needless to say, Old Wang must have been brought to the city by Lu Youfu.
Lu Chunping walked over with a sullen face. He came up to Lu Youfu and asked him in a low voice, "Lu Youfu, have you ever thought about what would happen if the village chief and clan leader knew that you brought your mother here to cause trouble today?"
"If your family still wants to live in the village, I advise you to take your mother home quickly and stop making trouble here!"
"I..." Lu Youfu's heart suddenly panicked when he met Lu Chunping's eyes. "I, we didn't mean to make a scene. We just, we have something to say to our third brother."
"Huh! Who else would believe you if you said that, besides yourself?" Lu Chunping couldn't help but sneer. What didn't he know about Lu Youfu? They were all from the same village, having grown up together and played together as children. Therefore, those who had played together knew exactly what kind of person Lu Youfu was.
Lu Youfu, on the surface, seemed honest, but in reality, he was more cunning than anyone else. He would let his brothers take the lead in getting what he wanted, or else he would instigate his parents to ask for things on behalf of the eldest son. Otherwise, it would be impossible for all the benefits of the four sons of the Lu family to fall on the head of the eldest son of the first house.
Lu Chunping absolutely would not believe that there was no contribution from the "honest man" Lu Youfu.
"Lu Youfu, this is Kyoto Prefecture, not the small courtyard of your Lu family's old house. If you have anything to say, go home and talk it out behind closed doors. Don't start a fight here. Your Dalang wants to go to the city to take the exam. He doesn't want the signatures of the village head and the others anymore?" Lu Chunping brought Lu Dalang out. He knew that Lu Youfu had deliberately brought his mother to the city to cause trouble with the Lu family's third wife because he saw that his nephew had passed the prefectural exam and wanted to make it impossible for him to take the next exam.
"I..." Lu Youfu met Lu Chunping's gaze, feeling as if Lu Chunping had seen through everything he was thinking. His heart sank, and his face darkened as well. He warned Lu Chunping, "Lu Chunping, don't do anything stupid!"
"It's you who are causing trouble! Take your mother home quickly!" Lu Chunping lowered his voice, gave Lu Youfu a warning look, and raised his chin towards Old Wang.
Lu Youfu could only come over with a sullen face and pull his mother who was sitting on the ground crying, "Mom, stop making trouble, let's go home."
"I'm not going back. I want to see my third son!" Old Mrs. Lu was stood up from the ground by her eldest son. She looked at the meat on the table. She hadn't eaten the meat yet. She didn't want to go back!
But how could Lu Chunping, who was standing by, agree with the old lady? He came over and clamped her other hand, then whispered in her ear, "Think about your eldest grandson," and then said loudly, "Auntie, let's go back to the village. I have an ox cart, so I'll take you back."
Old Mrs. Lu was frightened by Lu Chunping's previous words and did not dare to lie on the ground anymore.
"Sister-in-law, you should get up quickly too. Our old lady is going back to the village. You are busy here, so you don't have to see her off." Lu Chunping couldn't reach out to pull Liu up, so he let her get up by herself. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support. Kisses! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.
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