Chapter 7 Punishing the Outrageous Cousin
Ignoring the villagers' gazes, Cheng Ying stood in the middle of the courtyard and coldly looked at Huang Cuizhi, saying, "Grandma, you know in your heart what kind of people you, Grandpa, and your eldest and third uncles are. Over the years, everyone has witnessed how your whole family has bullied me, my mother, and my sister. I remember every single one of those debts."
If I don't come back to seek justice for my father, given your biased nature, you will definitely side with Cheng Chunfu, that murderer! My father has been running the postal route for twenty years without any accidents, but Cheng Chunfu suddenly volunteered to run it with my father, and he ended up paralyzed on one side of my body. He is a murderer!
He's still going strong despite his age. My mom, my sister, and I aren't even dead yet, and you're all in such a hurry to kill my dad and eat up the family line. Aren't you being a bit too impatient? Do you really think we're just decorations?
Grandma, you're so malicious! I haven't even done anything wrong, and you've already accused me of being unfilial in front of everyone. Since that's the case, don't blame me for being ruthless!
After she finished speaking, she stepped straight towards Huang Cuizhi.
Huang Cuizhi's eyelids twitched, thinking that she was going to hit her. She was so frightened that she cried out and hurriedly backed away.
Cheng Ying rushed up to her, a cold smile on her face, then turned around and kicked Cheng Chunfu hard in the chest, who was also trying to dodge.
During her four years in the military, she trained very hard and was always one of the best. Because of her outstanding performance in all aspects of training and physical fitness, and with the special care of Commander Wei, she was admitted to a special training unit with mixed genders, where she was specifically responsible for carrying out various dangerous missions.
After four years of training, Cheng Ying developed superb fighting skills. Despite her slender frame, her kick was explosive, sending Cheng Chunfu, who weighed nearly 250 pounds and was as heavy as a fat pig, flying several meters away. He crashed heavily into the wall with a loud bang, shaking the wall and the ground. Then came Cheng Chunfu's pig-like screams of pain.
This scene stunned everyone present. The eldest and third branches of the Cheng family, Huang Cuizhi and her group were completely dumbfounded, never expecting Cheng Ying to suddenly take action.
Cheng Chunfu was kicked by Cheng Ying and coughed up a mouthful of blood. His chest bones felt like they were broken. He clutched his chest in pain and kept howling.
When had Cheng Chunfu ever suffered such grievances? From childhood to adulthood, because he was the eldest grandson in the family, he was always pampered by his family. He was always given priority in terms of the best food, drink, and things to use. If he said to go east, his family would not dare to go west, because he was the root of the Cheng family.
The Cheng family all doted on him and spoiled him, but Cheng Ying was the only one who had always been against him since childhood. She always disliked him and was always looking for ways to pick fights with him.
When Cheng Ying and her mother were young, they were constantly bullied by her grandparents. They didn't eat or sleep well, and Cheng Ying grew up thin and frail, no match for Cheng Chunfu, who was fat from a young age.
He would often punch the skinny Cheng Ying to the ground, then straddle her and specifically punch her face until it looked like a pig's head. Afterward, he would lead a group of friends to throw her into a stinking ditch, hit her head with sticks, and let her soak in the stinking ditch while laughing and calling her a pig's head, and forbidding her to get up.
After Wan Shuhui learned the whole story, she brought Cheng Ying to confront him. His parents and grandparents all sided with him, and his second uncle only scolded him lightly a couple of times. The matter was over just like that.
Without any real punishment, he bullied the Cheng sisters, Cheng Ying and Cheng Xue, and it was common for him to beat them black and blue.
At first, Cheng Ying only knew how to cry and didn't know how to fight back. Until one day, she went to her maternal grandmother's house. Her uncle heard her mother talk about being beaten and got so angry that he took a group of children and beat Cheng Chunfu up. Afterwards, he instilled in her the idea that if someone beats you, you must fight back, otherwise they will think you are easy to bully. Only then did he leave.
Cheng Ying kept her uncle's words in mind: "No matter who hits you, if they hit you once, you hit them ten times back. Don't be afraid that you can't beat them. Be fierce and beat them until they are afraid of you and never dare to hit you again."
Cheng Ying changed her personality after that. Whenever Cheng Chunfu hit her, she didn't care about the size difference or whether she could beat him. She would bite him fiercely, pull his hair, kick his vital parts, and so on, and each time she hit him more and more violently.
Gradually, Cheng Chunfu became afraid of her and dared not bully her anymore. The two lived peacefully for several years until Cheng Ying was fifteen years old. Then, Cheng Chunfu and several good-for-nothing young men in the village ganged up on one of Cheng Ying's female classmates.
Although it didn't come to a final conclusion, the female classmate jumped into the river to commit suicide and nearly drowned. After learning the whole story, Cheng Ying set a trap, lured them into it, grabbed a big stick, and beat each of them mercilessly until they were bleeding from their heads. She then attracted a pack of wolves, intending for them to be eaten. Later, the villagers discovered them and rescued them...
Cheng Chunfu still gets chills thinking about the way Cheng Ying looked down at them, almost like they were dead, with a murderous intent on her face as she stood beside the trap.
In all his life, Cheng Chunfu had only suffered a few humiliating defeats at the hands of Cheng Ying. Now, seeing Cheng Ying squinting as she walked towards him step by step, he remembered her almost insane behavior and, ignoring his own pain, rolled like a ball towards Huang Cuizhi, shouting, "Grandma, save me, save me! She's gone mad! She's going to kill me!"
Huang Cuizhi's heart pounded at Cheng Ying's sudden action. She had never liked this eldest granddaughter, not only because she favored boys over girls, but also because this eldest granddaughter was particularly rebellious and ruthless. She acted recklessly, was not bound by worldly views, and only did what she thought was right. Sometimes, when she was ruthless, she even dared to lay a hand on the elders in the family.
Huang Cuizhi tried to scheme against her, but she completely ignored her. She tried to morally blackmail her, but she turned a blind eye and a deaf ear. She even tried to fight her. When she was young, she could beat her, but now that she's older, she's no match for her at all. Over the years, Huang Cuizhi has gained nothing from her and has only become a laughingstock. Huang Cuizhi's dislike for Cheng Ying is even greater than that for her mother.
Before Cheng Ying joined the army, she already gave Huang Cuizhi a headache. After joining the army, when Huang Cuizhi heard that Cheng Ying, who was serving in the special forces, had returned, she immediately kicked the fat Cheng Chunfu several meters away. This extraordinary strength made Huang Cuizhi realize that this granddaughter was no longer the same as before. No one in the family could match her. If she wanted to kill Cheng Chunfu, no one could stop her.
But Cheng Chunfu was Huang Cuizhi's most beloved grandson, how could she just stand by and watch Cheng Chunfu be beaten to death by Cheng Ying?
Ignoring her fear, Huang Cuizhi put her hands behind her back, like a mother hen protecting her chicks, shielding Cheng Chunfu behind her. Swallowing hard, she looked at Cheng Ying and said, "Yingzi, what's wrong with you? Your dad fell down the mountain, what does that have to do with Chunfu! Chunfu was just trying to be helpful by running the mail with your dad. Even if he accidentally bumped into your dad, he's perfectly fine. Why are you hitting Chunfu so hard? He's your cousin!"
Cheng Ying looked at Cheng Jiantong with sarcasm, "Dad, did you hear that? In Grandma's heart, you, her son, are far less important than her eldest grandson. For so many years, you've always listened to Grandma, turning down a good job in the county, marrying my good-tempered mother, handing over half of your salary to Grandma, and even lending my mother's life savings to my third uncle for his wedding. When my mother tried to get her money back, not only did they refuse, but they also found excuses to berate her, kick her out of the house, and justifiably refused to pay back the money. The whole family bullies my mother and me. You use your hard-earned money to support Grandma, my eldest uncle, my third uncle, and their whole family, but what are you in their eyes? Just a fool who only knows how to make money."
Cheng Jiantong's face was ashen. He had known for a long time that his parents didn't like him. He wasn't their first child, nor their youngest. He was caught in the middle, neither here nor there. He had always been obedient and sensible since childhood, and was destined to be ignored by his parents for the rest of his life.
In order to gain his parents' favor and attention, he always listened to them. He did whatever they asked him to do, and never rebelled or complained.
He thought that as long as he did what his parents said, even if he only had daughters and no sons, his parents would accept him and treat his wife and daughters well. He never imagined that all his years of selfless devotion to them would be less valuable than the son born to their beloved eldest son!
Cheng Jiantong closed his eyes and spoke with difficulty, "Mom, I believe that over the years I have never mistreated any of my nephews or nieces, nor have I ever treated you or Dad unfairly. Chunfu did such a thing to me, why are you protecting him? Aren't I your son?"
Huang Cuizhi hesitated, unsure whether to like or dislike her son. She knew perfectly well which was more important, her son or her grandson.
However, Cheng Ying brought so many police officers from the Public Security Bureau, and there were also leaders from the county and commune in the courtyard. If the police took Cheng Chunfu away and confirmed his murder, Cheng Chunfu's life would be ruined!
Seeing her hesitation, Cheng Chunfu's parents grew anxious and spoke up, "Second brother, you can't just say whatever you want. Chunfu is your nephew, you watched him grow up. He was indeed a bit mischievous when he was young, but he's not a bad person at heart. Didn't you always want Chunfu to take over your postman job? He was too young and didn't understand a few years ago, so he didn't want to go. Now he's changed his mind and wants to go with you to deliver mail. Your job will fall into his hands sooner or later. Why would he want to harm you? What good would it do him to harm you?"
The one who said this was Cheng Jiantong's older brother, Cheng Jianli, a fifty-year-old middle-aged man who had worked in the fields for many years. He was rather short and thin, with a tanned face and a very shrewd look in his eyes.
"Yes, second brother, don't listen to your eldest daughter's nonsense. She suddenly retired from the army and returned home without our prior knowledge. She must have committed some serious mistake in the army and was discharged. Knowing that Chunfu wanted to take over your job, she wanted to compete with Chunfu for the job, so she deliberately spread rumors to make you resent Chunfu! Second brother, you should think carefully about what's going on." The one who said this was Liu Guifen, Cheng Jianli's wife, a short and plump woman in her fifties with a round face, small eyes, and a somewhat mean look in her eyes.
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