"Who bullied him? Such a big kid threw snowballs at Duoduo," Lu Feng said.
"It's you!" Jiang Fuqiao's eldest son pointed at Lu Feng and shouted, "Dad, he hit my brother!"
"You son of a bitch, you hit my son!" Jiang Fuqiao was red-faced and swollen from drinking. He stood up unsteadily, cursing as he tried to rush out, but was pulled back by Jiang Ergou.
"Why hit her when there are so many other children? Isn't it because your child is bragging? A dress costs two hundred yuan, and this little brat, who's only a few years old, already knows how to lie through his teeth?" The sister-in-law's face was extremely mean, her words were sharp, and she shouted, "Like father, like son!"
Duoduo was so frightened by the argument among the adults that she burst into tears.
Lu Feng was furious and shouted, "Come out here! You come out here right now!"
"What? You want to hit me?" the woman shouted, turning around. "What about that guy? Aren't you going to do anything about it? Someone's trying to hit me."
Jiang Fuqiao struggled to get out, shouting, "Lu Feng, do you want to die? What are you to me? I could beat you before, and I can beat you now. Driving a beat-up car, what are you pretending for? Let me go..."
The neighbors' dogs have started biting, and heads can be seen peeking out from behind the low wall; they're all clearly waiting to see what's going on.
Jiang Xiaoyan's eyes were already red, and she was crying as she pulled Lu Feng along, pushing him repeatedly towards the house below.
"Let go, I can't take it anymore today," Lu Feng said in a deep voice.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Xiaoyan looked at him with teary eyes and said, "Are you going to hit him? Then hit me first, and go home!"
Song Xuemei put down the mahjong tiles, looked at Lu Feng through the window, and said, "What? You've come to cause trouble at our Jiang family's house? Don't you even look at your useless appearance!"
Seeing her pleading eyes, Lu Feng had no choice but to swallow his anger, turn around and go into the house. He sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) and sighed, "The whole family suffers because of you."
“It’s just this year. You don’t have to come after this year. Xiaohong is meeting her son-in-law this year. We’re all family. It’s just a matter of you taking a step back and me taking a step back.” Jiang Xiaoyan said with her head down. She knew that Lu Feng couldn’t stand this, but she couldn’t bear to see the family fighting.
Lu Feng hugged and comforted Duo Duo, thinking to himself that this wasn't about both sides taking a step back, it was just cowardice!
By evening, half the town knew about Lu Feng's argument with the Jiang family, and gossips in the town were chattering endlessly about it.
It looked like a useless son-in-law was going up against his mother-in-law.
At dinner time, the Jiang family stayed in the main house upstairs, while Lu Feng stayed in the small house. Jiang Fuqiao had drunk a bit too much and was making a fuss about getting into a fight with Lu Feng.
"Alright, stop your drunken antics," the sister-in-law said. "Your new brother-in-law is coming tomorrow, why are you still paying attention to that good-for-nothing?"
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