The two girls walked hand in hand toward the old house, and after walking for a while, they found that there was a group of people blocking the entrance of the old house.
And there's the sound of arguing coming from inside?
The two quickened their pace and then heard a loud old woman's voice: "You, Su Yao! Sixth Sister just wanted to vent her anger, and you cruelly pushed her into a prison? And you want to parade her through the streets? This is even more cruel than letting her die, how can you be so heartless?"
Su and Yu, who had just gotten off the carriage, were both amused and annoyed upon hearing this.
Su retorted angrily, "Who do you think you are, you old woman?! Why are you uttering such hurtful words here?"
Madam Yu glanced at her bookish cousin and blocked the doorway. "No matter who you are, you allow your sixth sister to harm our whole family, but we are not allowed to seek justice? Lord Sun merely revealed the truth to the world and let her receive the punishment she deserved. What face do you have to come here and cause trouble?"
The old woman said in a strong voice, "We can't write two 'Yun' characters with one stroke. We're all family after all. Aren't you afraid that treating her like this will break the hearts of the Yun family?"
Yu sneered, "When Yun Xiaoliu hired people to frame our family, did he ever treat us as family? I respect you as an elder, so please go ahead."
At this moment, an even more forceful curse came from inside, "What kind of elder is she?! Bah! Second Sister Yun, you're already so old, and you still love to talk nonsense?"
When Yun Ermei was called by her childhood name, her old face wrinkled like a withered flower. "Su Yao, you've finally come out?! I thought you had starved to death!"
Madam Yun snorted coldly and said to Madam Yu and Madam Su, "You two go back to your rooms. Let this old dog bark here if it wants to!"
Madam Su couldn't help but laugh out loud. Her aunt, who was full of fighting spirit, had finally come back to life!
Zhou, who was helping Madam Yun out, was shocked by Madam Yun's words. This was the dignified and noble mother-in-law she had known for decades.
Enraged, Yun Ermei poked Yun Laoshi's face with her finger, yelling, "You old hag, who are you calling an old dog?"
"I'm talking about you! Can't you tell?" Old Madam Yun put her hands on her hips, adopting the same aggressive stance she had when she first arrived in Sanyang Village decades ago. "You're just like that Yun Sixth Sister, both coveting my Yun Marquis's Mansion, wanting to marry your daughters, nieces, and nephews into our family? Don't you even look at yourselves, you ugly freaks! Even though my Marquis's Mansion has declined, it's still an existence you can't reach! What, you say two 'Yun' characters can't be written with one stroke? Bah! I'll write two hundred and see what happens! Are we heartless? Is Yun Sixth Sister a good person? If she hadn't been bewitched and wanted to frame our family, trying to take away our newly settled business, would we be begging the magistrate to investigate thoroughly? What, just because she wants to harm us, we have to suffer? Her deserving public humiliation is considered heartless?"
She caught her breath and pointed at Xiao Youran running towards them in the distance, saying, "Look at her, she's only five years old! My Chen'er is only eight. How dare she let her husband beat such a young child so severely? Why don't you say she's heartless? My entire family of over ten people was ordered to return to our hometown. Last year, when we were almost starving, did you or she give us a single grain of rice? Now that we've just gotten a source of income, she dares to try and take it away? Didn't she think that without this cloth shop, my entire family of over ten people would starve to death? Don't you say she's heartless?!"
Yun Ermei was so angry that her face turned red, and she was choked and unable to speak.
Xiao Youran walked closer with a grin and clapped for Madam Yun, "Grandma! Mother always said that you had a fiery temper when you were young, and today I've finally witnessed it for myself!"
Madam Yun pulled Xiao Youran into her arms. "My dear great-aunt, let's go home. Zhao Mama made you lots of delicious food! Don't pay any attention to these heartless bastards. Do they all think my fourth branch owes them something? Bah! If it weren't for the kindness my third uncle had shown to my old man, and for the sake of my seventh brother's reputation, I, Su Yao, would have already left the clan!"
The third uncle is the father of the current clan leader, and the seventh brother is the clan leader. Lord Yun is the fourth son in the clan, so when he returned to the territory of the Yun family, the former Marquis's mansion became the fourth branch.
However, there were no ancestors in her generation, so the different branches of the family had long since separated and were no longer related.
Upon hearing this, the clan chief and his wife, who had rushed over, immediately exclaimed, "This is unacceptable! This is unacceptable!"
The clan chief's wife pulled Yun Ermei outside, "Second sister, you've come all this way, come inside for dinner!"
"Second Sister" is a form of address, and "Second Sister" is her given name; she's really exasperated.
The clan chief tried to soothe Madam Yun, saying, "Fourth Sister-in-law, don't get so worked up, it's not worth it! Sixth Sister deserved it! Don't stoop to their level! Go back and rest!"
Before she could be dragged far, Yun Ermei burst into a tirade, "Xiao Qi! You old scoundrel! Who's the madman?! Don't think that just because you're the clan leader, everyone in the Yun family has to listen to you... Don't pull me... Fifth Brother! Fifth Brother!"
Xiao Youran and Yueyue held hands, listening to their nonsensical way of addressing each other, feeling somewhat bewildered.
They're all clearly in their fifties or sixties, yet they're still calling each other "second sister," "sixth sister," and "seventh sister"—this just doesn't feel right!
If Second Sister and Sixth Sister are names, then our ancestor was truly terrible at naming things!
An elderly man with a beard, who was standing by, spoke up hesitantly, “Seventh Brother, Second Sister was just standing up for Sixth Sister. After all… Sixth Sister… her crime doesn’t warrant being paraded through the streets… Wouldn’t that make the Yun family lose all face?”
Indeed, the punishment of parading people through the streets was more effective in deterring the ancients; it was not very harmful but extremely humiliating.
Madam Yun spat again, "Fifth Brother, I only call you Fifth Brother because you lent us a bag of flour last year! If you think Sixth Sister Yun doesn't deserve this, then go and parade her through the streets in her place!"
Another old woman jumped out and grabbed Yun Laowu's ear. "You! You actually secretly took our flour to help them? Don't you think about how poor we are now? That jinx who can't have a son is about to die, and we don't even know where the money for his coffin is!"
Madam Yun and the others: ...
Without paying any attention to anything else, Madam Su pushed the two girls and her son towards the door, saying, "Come on, come on, let's go eat some snacks to calm our nerves."
That fifth brother Yun: ...
Shouldn't he be the one calming down now?
Just then, a little girl of about five or six years old, with disheveled hair and dirty face, rushed over. She had originally run towards Xiao Youran, but for some reason, she turned around and threw herself at Jiang Youchen's feet, hugging him tightly. "Little miracle doctor! Little miracle doctor! Please save my mother!"
Xiao Youran: ? ? ?
Who is the little miracle doctor calling?
When did you go blind?
Jiang Youchen suddenly felt like he was about to burst into tears. Finally, when someone sought medical help, he wasn't ignored!
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