Zhang Juan stared at the hand she hadn't even touched a single hair, her eyes nearly popping out of her head in shock.
"Eldest son's wife!"
"Grandpa, don't be angry. Your health is important. Uncle and Aunt are elders, so it's only right that they discipline a junior like me."
Su Wantang lowered her head, her eyes slightly red, clearly looking pitiful as if she had been scolded but had swallowed her grievances sensibly.
While she was speaking, her hands were also busy.
The ten fingers landed steadily on the three acupoints Laogong, Hegu, and Neiguan on Lu Zhentian's hand, pressing with the pads of the thumbs.
Lu Zhentian felt a slight soreness in his palm. The ball, which was swollen and about to burst, quickly shrank and shrunk after being patted and pressed.
The needle-like throbbing pain in my head also disappeared.
“Wantang, you’re just too kind-hearted! Even when you’re being bullied, you still speak up for those two ingrates.” Lu Zhentian looked at Su Wantang with a tender expression. “You are just too kind-hearted! Even when you’re being bullied, you still speak up for those two ingrates.”
"dad!"
"I never met a woman from Huai'an!" Zhang Juan cried out, vehemently accusing herself of wrongdoing.
Lu Zhentian sneered: "I'm not blind or deaf!"
With Lu Huai'an's help, he stood up, grabbed the cane Lu Huai'an was using, and threw it at Lu Yuanzhou.
"You dare to try and hide?"
Lu Yuanzhou turned half of his body to the side, then slowly straightened himself.
"Are the roots rotten?"
Can you hear me?
Lu Yuanzhou's eyelashes fluttered twice.
Huai'an, this daughter-in-law is no ordinary woman.
"Without Old Su's backing, you wouldn't even have a shadow of your own, yet you still dare to act tough?"
"Even if Wan Tang's parents aren't alive, your father is still here. What right do you bastards have to discipline her?"
With each question Lu Zhentian posed, he would raise his cane and strike Lu Yuanzhou's shoulder hard.
Zhang Juan watched with heartache: "Dad, you've been fooled by her. I clearly didn't touch her face just now."
Su Wantang said in a teasy tone, "So, Auntie thinks I deliberately framed you? But this is only the second time I've met you, why would I frame you for no reason?"
This stumped Zhang Juan.
"But my aunt, from the very first time we met, looked at me with a critical eye, looking down on me for being a capitalist's daughter. When she spoke to me, it was like I was swarming with flies, and she wanted to stay as far away as possible."
"This time... who knows how happy he is inside, he's finally found a chance to get back at me."
"You...you...you're spewing filth! Talking nonsense!"
"Eldest daughter-in-law!" Lu Zhentian roared.
As a father-in-law, he couldn't very well lay a hand on his daughter-in-law, Zhang Juan! But his son was his own flesh and blood!
Without saying a word, he slammed the stick into Lu Yuanzhou's shoulder a few more times.
“Yuanzhou.” Zhang Juan’s pupils contracted sharply.
His eyes, filled with hatred, glared at Su Wantang: "You capitalist villain, sowing discord within a family, your intentions are truly malicious—"
*Smack*
Wen Wanqing slapped him, and the air around them froze for three seconds.
Zhang Juan looked on incredulously: "You dare hit me?"
*Smack*
Another slap.
"That's exactly what I'm going to do!"
"Wen Wanqing!!!"
"Shut up!" Wen Wanqing frowned. "It's true that Wan Tang comes from a capitalist family, but her marriage to Huai'an has been investigated and approved by the higher authorities. Now you're going around shouting that 'Wan Tang is a bad element.' What? Do you have a problem with the leadership's decision?"
Lu Yuanzhou's eyelids twitched, and he quickly glared at Zhang Juan, warning her to shut up.
"Sister-in-law, your sister-in-law is not well-educated, but she doesn't have any bad intentions. Don't take it to heart."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Juan looked at her husband with affection in her eyes, feeling a sweet and delightful feeling in her heart.
In the past, it was always the third brother who protected Wen Wanqing, but this time, Yuanzhou has also started to protect her.
"Brother, this isn't about whether my sister-in-law and I are arguing or not. We can just talk about it at home; we're all family, so it's fine. But what if it gets back to outsiders and gets reported to the higher-ups? Can you handle the consequences?"
Lu Yuanzhou's expression darkened as Wen Wanqing persisted in her insistence.
"Isn't this at home?" he said, avoiding the main point. "Besides, no matter what, she's still your sister-in-law. Isn't it a bit unreasonable for you to hit her?"
"It's okay for her to bully my daughter-in-law by abusing her seniority? But it's not okay for me, as her sister-in-law, to discipline my wayward sister-in-law? What kind of logic is that?"
"Sister-in-law—"
Wen Wanqing coldly interrupted him: "Brother, I can't stand being lectured or being lectured. Once I feel uncomfortable, I tend to speak out of turn. Since you think it's nothing, I'll mention it to the boss another day."
Su Wantang's eyes sparkled: Mother-in-law is awesome!
A threat! A blatant threat!
Lu Yuanzhou clenched his fists and swallowed his anger.
“Sister-in-law, you are right to reprimand her. My sister-in-law did indeed misbehave, and I will definitely have a good talk with her when I get back.”
Looking at Su Wantang with admiration, Wen Wanqing changed her usual style of not arguing with Zhang Juan.
"Don't go back. Apologize to our Wantang right now."
No, it won't.
Yuanzhou will protect you...
"Zhang Juan, apologize to the woman from Huai'an!"
The resolute words struck Zhang Juan, who had just been enjoying the sweet moment, so hard that she stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"She's a junior, and I'm an elder—"
"Brother, it seems your words aren't very effective!"
"Apologize! Don't make me say it twice!"
Zhang Juan's eyes reddened, and she murmured, "I'm sorry."
Su Wantang said with a smile, "Auntie, haven't you eaten yet? Your voice isn't even as loud as a newborn baby's cry. Remember to eat more later."
Lu Yuanzhou: "Louder!"
"I'm sorry," Zhang Juan almost shouted.
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