Chapter 261: The Nosy Cheng Family
Then came Jiang's fierce voice.
"Who asked you to meddle in other people's business here? What's your business? Don't you know how many troubles you have caused in the village with your so-called 'warm heart' over the years? How dare you come to me and talk nonsense? I will tear your mouth off today!"
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When Song Yuntang squeezed in from behind the crowd.
Jiang was riding on Cheng, pulling her hair and hitting her face.
The people nearby wanted to step forward to stop the fight, but Xu Yongwang stopped them while shouting, "Stop hitting your wife."
Song Yuntang looked complicated.
However, Cheng was not an easy person to deal with. Jiang's hair was messy and the back of her hand was scratched by her, leaving several bloody marks.
Just as Song Yuntang was hesitating whether to step forward and pull the people apart, a path was made in the crowd, and Xu Yuande and Hu, who was supported by Zhang, walked over.
"Stop it!"
As the head of Qianlushan Village, Xu Yuande has a high seniority in the village and is quite prestigious.
With his roar, Jiang and Cheng both stopped. She stood up from Cheng, tidied her messy hair, and asked embarrassedly.
"Dad, Mom, why are you here?"
"If I hadn't come, there would have been chaos here."
Zhang brought out a long bench and placed it at the door of the main room. After Xu Yuande finished speaking, he sat down on it, and Hu stood next to him.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
"Uncle, you know me. I have no bad intentions. I came to warn Jiang for the sake of Yongwang's family. Who knew your daughter-in-law is so ungrateful? Look how she beat me..." Cheng sat on the ground and cried, "How can I face people in the village? I won't live any longer."
Xu Yuande knocked the cane in his hand heavily on the ground.
"Just speak properly, don't drop the beans."
After hearing this, Cheng quickly stopped crying.
Jiang stood up straight. "Just take care of your own family affairs. Why should an outsider like you interfere in our family affairs? You are even saying that you are doing this for our own good. Can't we tell what is good and what is bad? Do we need a troublemaker like you to remind us? Who knows what you are up to? I think you deserve to be beaten!"
Xu Yuande raised his hand to stop the two people from quarreling, looked at them and asked, "Who started it first?"
Cheng pointed at Jiang, "It's her!"
As she spoke, she started crying again, and lifted her hair to show Xu Yuande the places on her face where Jiang had hit her.
"Uncle, look how she beat me."
Looking at her bruised face and mouth with injuries, Xu Yuande pulled the corner of his mouth.
Although Jiang was his daughter-in-law, it was not easy for him, the former head of Lushan Village, to smooth things over after she had beaten him up like this.
"Although Jiang was the first to take action, it was you, Cheng, who started the trouble first..."
Before she finished speaking, Cheng retorted, "Uncle, what you said is wrong. My original intention was to do good for Yongwang's family..."
Xu Yuande raised his hand to stop her.
"Whether it is good for their family or not, Yongwang and Jiang are both the masters of their own families. Since your aunt and I separated the eldest and second sons, we have rarely asked about their family affairs. What position do you stand on to manage their family affairs?"
"I……"
Cheng had nothing to say.
Even her biological parents don't interfere in this matter, so she, an outsider sister-in-law three or four generations away from her, has no right to interfere.
Xu Yuande continued, "Neither of you is innocent. Since Jiang was the first to attack, the Yongwang family will be responsible for your injuries. As for you, you first slandered and spread rumors about the Song family, and then caused trouble in front of Jiang. You must apologize to my granddaughter-in-law and daughter-in-law in front of the whole village."
Cheng snorted, her face full of dissatisfaction.
"I'm not sorry!"
Jiang didn't indulge her, "If she doesn't apologize, then I won't be responsible for treating her injuries!"
Xu Yuande knocked his crutch on the ground again.
"You think my words are no longer effective after I step down as village head, right?"
Cheng's attitude softened.
"Uncle, I was right!"
After a short silence, Xu Yuande looked at her and said, "Since you think you are not wrong, then go back. I will go to your house and talk to Xingsheng later."
Cheng's heart tightened.
"What does my uncle want me to do as the head of the family?"
Mrs. Hu, who was standing behind Xu Yuande, said, "Since you can't control your mouth, and Xingsheng is the head of your family, then he has the responsibility to control his wife. Haven't you been involved in the affairs of every household in the village over the years? Which family hasn't been in chaos because of your good intentions? Fortunately, Mrs. Jiang is not a fence-sitter, otherwise my Yongwang family would have been disturbed by you again!"
Cheng felt wronged, "How can you say that to me, aunt?"
"Ask yourself, do you have any basis for what you said in front of my daughter-in-law? How talented is my granddaughter-in-law? She grew up in a wealthy family. How many rules of wealthy families have you not heard of? Doesn't she know more about propriety, righteousness, and integrity than you? How come she is a well-behaved person in our family and cares about Qingye, but she becomes a different person in your mouth? You have dirty eyes, so you see everything as dirty!"
Seeing how excited Hu was, Zhang reached out and stroked her back.
"Ms. Cheng, as the daughter-in-law who came to Lushan Village at the same time as you, I have to say something. Tang'er is only sixteen years old. She was clean and innocent when she married into my sister-in-law's family. What you said in front of my sister-in-law before was indeed too much. If you said this in front of me, I would slap you in the face."
Seeing how everyone was doing, Cheng sat on the ground crying for her parents.
"Your family is bullying a woman like me. Who can give me justice?"
Xu Yuande stood up and said angrily, "Cheng! If you continue to act so unreasonably, I will have someone carry you to find Xingsheng."
After hearing this, Zhang was the first to step forward and shouted to the other two women in the crowd, "Sister Cui Lian, Sister Lin, come and help me."
The two men responded, walked up to Cheng and carried her out of the yard.
No matter how much Cheng struggled, she was ultimately no match for the three middle-aged women who had done the heavy work.
After Xu Yuande led his people away, the villagers also followed to watch the fun.
The only people left in the yard were Xu Yongwang's family, Mrs. Hu, and Xu Erniu and Xu Changgen, who were standing not far from the gate holding a backpack and leading a mule.
Seeing that everyone had left, Xu Wencheng hurried forward, leading the mule, and called his two companions in.
Song Yuntang ran into the house to get the medicine box and carefully applied medicine to Jiang.
After all, she fought with Cheng in order to stand up for herself, so she also had some responsibility in this matter.
"Mom, I'm the one who caused you trouble."
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