Chapter 72 You dare to hit me?!
The spatula, with the residual heat from the stove, hit her back. Xu Runli staggered out and almost fell on the bluestone slabs in the yard.
She touched her back with her backhand, and there was a shallow mark on her cloth jacket. It felt like a red-hot needle was drilling into the gaps between her bones, causing both pain and heat.
"Yun Tangyin, you dare to hit me?!" She turned around, her hair disheveled and stuck to her face, the hatred in her eyes almost freezing into ice, "I'm going to fight you!"
She rushed towards the kitchen with her teeth bared and claws bared like an enraged wild dog.
Jiang Jianhua was so scared that he dodged to the side and knocked over the泔水 bucket beside the stove with his elbow. The rotten water spilled all over the floor and mixed with coal ash to form black mud.
Yun Tangyin didn't move, just stood beside the泔水袋, and picked up a shovel in her hand at some point.
There was still some rice crust on the shovel, which flashed coldly in the morning light. It didn't look like he was going to fight, but rather like he was going to chop the person in half.
Xu Runli's footsteps suddenly stopped in front of the black mud.
She saw Yun Tangyin's eyes. There was no anger in them, only an almost indifferent determination that said, "If you take another step forward, you won't have an easy life."
She suddenly remembered that when she was a child in the Yun family, she had seen Yun Tangyin's condescending and arrogant eyes, but she had never seen Yun Tangyin look like this.
"Get out." Yun Tangyin's voice was low, but it was like a whip lashing out at the ground. "Take your things and get out of the Fu family. The next time I see you step in, it won't just be a smack on the back."
Yuxia outside heard the noise and ran in quickly.
Seeing Yun Tangyin like this, she hurried to persuade Yun Tangyin: "Yinyin, what's wrong? Oh, Xu Runli, look how angry you made Yinyin!"
That slightly disgusted look pierced Xu Runli's back like a needle.
She looked at the shovel in Yun Tangyin's hand, the black mud on the ground, and the contempt in Yu Xia's eyes, and suddenly felt that all the strength in her body had been drained.
She lost.
He lost so badly that he didn't even have the last bit of dignity left.
"Yun Tangyin, remember this." Xu Runli took two steps back, not even noticing her feet stepping into the black mud. "Even if I'm not doing well, I won't let you do it!"
She turned and rushed out of the Fu family's courtyard. The faint mark on her cloth jacket was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight, like an indelible mark of shame.
Some people who heard the commotion and wanted to join in the fun quickly dispersed. Someone spat at her back, "Whoa, you dare to act wild in the military family compound?"
In the kitchen, Jiang Jianhua was still shaking, pointing at the black mud on the ground, unable to speak.
Yun Tangyin threw the shovel back onto the stove and bent down to support the slop bucket: "What are you standing there for? Bring me a broom."
Jiang Jianhua finally came to his senses and hurriedly went to get a broom.
When she swept the black mud, she couldn't help but ask, "Were you really going to use a kitchen knife just now?"
"If I don't use a kitchen knife, am I going to get scratched by her?" Yun Tangyin took the broom and swept the black mud into the corner. "To deal with a mad dog, you have to use a stick. If you take a step back, she can bite off half your leg."
Jiang Jianhua looked at the red marks on her arm left by Xu Runli's nails and suddenly felt scared: "If I had really used a kitchen knife just now, I would have been in big trouble."
"She wouldn't dare to fight me." Yun Tangyin leaned the broom against the wall. "I have plenty of ways to ruin her reputation."
She walked to the water tank to scoop water to wash her hands. Her silver bracelet made a crisp sound when it hit the edge of the tank. "She only dares to talk about her ruthlessness. If she really gambles her future, she will cherish her life more than anyone else."
Jiang Jianhua squatted on the ground, staring at the black mud in the corner in a daze.
When Xu Runli rushed over just now, her first reaction was to hide. She suddenly realized that she always thought that she had a backer when Jiang Zhicheng came. In fact, she didn't realize that he had already used the word "relative" as a bargaining chip.
"Yinyin," Jiang Jianhua raised his head, a hint of shame in his eyes, "I was confused before."
This time, she really felt a little regretful.
She wasn't trying to show weakness to Yun Tangyin on purpose, she really regretted trusting someone like Xu Runli.
Yun Tangyin paused while wiping her hands and handed her the hand towel: "It's not too late to understand now. If she comes next time, just throw the slop bucket on her head. I'm here, the sky won't fall."
Jiang Jianhua took the cloth and suddenly smiled, tears streaming down his face. "How could we really steal the swill bucket? If it gets out, it will look like our Fu family is bullying others."
"There's no need to be polite when dealing with bullies." Yun Tangyin added more firewood to the stove, and the flames started up again, warming their faces. "But if you can't bring yourself to do it, just call me."
Looking at Yun Tangyin like this, Jiang Jianhua suddenly felt like crying.
In fact...compared to that mad dog-like Xu Runli, Yun Tangyin does look much kinder.
As long as she doesn't act like a troublemaker, we can live a happy life together.
As he was speaking, Song Yushuang walked in, holding onto the door frame. Looking at the mess on the ground, he didn't ask why, but simply said, "The porridge in the pot should be thickened. If Runli hasn't eaten, let her..."
"Mom, she's gone." Yun Tangyin interrupted her, her voice softening. "I was just playing with my second sister-in-law and accidentally knocked over the swill bucket. We'll clean it up right away."
Song Yushuang looked at the red marks on her arm, then looked at Jiang Jianhua's red eyes. Without asking any more questions, she turned back to the house and got a bottle of badger oil: "Apply this to prevent scars."
Yun Tangyin took the badger oil and felt the warmth of the bottle with her fingertips. Suddenly, she felt her anger dissipate. She squeezed some for Jiang Jianhua as well and said, "Apply it to the place where you hit the door frame just now."
Jiang Jianhua applied badger oil to her wrists. The cold cream touched the red area, causing her to shiver.
She looked at the red mark on Yun Tangyin's arm, which looked like a blood line pinched by fingernails, and suddenly remembered Xu Runli's ferocious look just now, and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up.
"Do you think she'll really come for revenge?" Jiang Jianhua's voice was trembling. "She just said, 'Even if I'm not doing well, I won't let you do well either.' That's scary."
Yun Tangyin, who was wiping the black mud off the stove with a cloth, scoffed at the words, "How can she retaliate? Go to the regiment headquarters and make up a lie? Or poison the Fu family's water tank? The political commissar won't believe the former, and she doesn't have the guts to do the latter. If she dares to break the law, she'll be the first one to be tied up and sent to a labor camp."
She threw the dirty cloth into the slop bucket, her silver bracelet dangling in the morning light. "But you, don't have any private contact with her anymore. Yesterday she slipped a letter of denunciation and you helped tear it up. Today she came to make trouble and you hid nearby. If you keep this up, she'll sell you out and you'll still be helping count the money."
Jiang Jianhua's face flushed red, clutching the corner of his clothes and muttering, "I just feel... after all, she is Zhicheng's wife, it wouldn't look good if we fell out."
"Can good looks be eaten?" Yun Tangyin picked up the spatula and scraped the bottom of the pot. "This time when Xu Runli acted wildly at the Fu family, I didn't take the IOU to Jiang Zhicheng to save your face. But face is something you have to earn yourself, not rely on others to give it to you."
Yu Xia heard this and said, "Yinyin, that makes sense! I just saw Jiang Zhicheng smoking in the courtyard. He had just arrived and hadn't even entered the house yet. His face was so gloomy. I guess he must have known that his wife was making a fuss. This is what you call reaping what you sow."
Yun Tangyin raised an eyebrow: "Jiang Zhicheng is here?"
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