Chapter 70: Guaguaguaguaguagua Lu Ping and the Lu family are all against her...
Xiang family.
The Xiang family members were working on their computers and cracking melon seeds in the yard when they were caught off guard by a group of people who came in noisily, and among them was their son-in-law Lu Ping. They were all stunned.
Zhang Juhua glared and shouted, "Yuan Papi, what are you doing with all these people?"
The middle-aged woman walking in front was from the Yuan family in Xiangjiawan. Her name was Zhang Jindi, and her husband's nickname was Yuan Bapi, so everyone in the team liked to call him that.
Zhang Jindi was a lively person to begin with. When she saw Zhang Juhua start a conversation, she immediately turned around and pushed Lu Ping out.
"Aunt Juhua, this is your grandson-in-law, right? He's quite a jerk. He beat his wife and his aunt's sister in Xiangjiawan. Did you know about this?"
Everyone in the yard looked at Lu Ping. He was no longer the arrogant man he had been by the river. Instead, he looked extremely embarrassed and miserable.
He said awkwardly, "This auntie misunderstood. Xiaochun and I were talking when Yaoyao came over. We exchanged a few words and a bit of a disagreement arose, but it's nothing serious."
The more he spoke, the more he seemed to believe his words were true. Finally, he turned to look at Xiang Chun behind the crowd and asked her for confirmation: "Xiaochun, is that right?"
"This is a family matter, we can discuss and resolve it among ourselves. Why embarrass ourselves in front of outsiders? That's so bad."
Zhang Jindi's eyes widened as she pointed at Lu Ping and said, "Are you saying we're meddling in your business? We only went over when we heard Yao yelling, and then we saw you beating someone up. Now you're trying to turn the tables on me! You're such a jerk!"
But Lu Ping didn't look at her, but only stared at Xiang Chun.
Xiang Chun had already made up his mind, but being stared at by Lu Ping like that, he couldn't help but feel panicked and timid. For a moment, he didn't know what to do.
"Aunt Zhang is right. The facts are just as you said," Xiang Yao said in a trembling voice. He took a step forward, blocking Lu Ping's sight. "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law just attacked my sister by the river. He not only slapped her, but also kicked her in the stomach..."
Before he could finish his words, his voice became more choked.
Xiang Yao lowered his head and eyes, and even he himself couldn't help but sigh that his acting skills were really great.
Sure enough, Zhang Juhua had no reaction yet. As Xiang Chun's mother, Zhou Aihua couldn't bear to hear this.
She looked at Lu Ping: "Xiao Ping, is this true? Why did you hit Xiao Chun?"
Lu Ping looked aggrieved and defended himself, "Mom, we just had a little conflict as husband and wife. I couldn't help myself and hit Xiaochun twice. I didn't use any force."
He glanced at Xiang Yao and said, "I don't know why Yaoyao saw us and exaggerated what happened between us. In fact, it was just a small matter. We often play like this in private."
Zhou Aihua didn't know whether to believe it or not. She said, "No matter what, hitting people is definitely not allowed. Even if you have a conflict, you can't use violence."
Lu Ping smiled and said, "I know, I was just careless."
Xiang Yao snorted coldly, raised his head, and his face no longer showed the panic he had before:
"Brother-in-law, you're really good at whitewashing your actions. Was that an accident? Didn't you want to beat someone to death? I've already walked quite far away and heard the sound of your slap, and now you say it was an accident?"
She slowly walked forward and stood in front of Lu Ping, her eyes filled with confusion. "Could it be that the wind by the river was so strong that your slap was so heavy? Or were you possessed by an evil spirit at the time, so you think you were being gentle?"
Before Lü Ping could say anything, Zhang Juhua angrily chided him, "What do you mean by possessed or not? How can you talk like that? What are you doing getting in the way of a couple's affairs?"
Xiang Yao ignored Zhang Juhua and just looked at Lu Ping: "Brother-in-law, go ahead."
Lu Ping glanced at Xiang Chun, then looked around and said with a smile, "Yaoyao, after all, this is my family affair. Grandma told you not to interfere, so why are you so enthusiastic? Are you just hoping that everyone knows about our family affairs and comes to watch?"
Xiang Yao: "Don't try to change the subject. If I hadn't called someone over, my elder sister and I might still be getting beaten by you by the river."
She wanted to turn the topic back to the beating, but the people from the Xiang family, as if reminded by Lu Ping, jumped out to speak.
Xiang Yinliu ate some melon seeds and said, "Oh, this is just a family matter, why are you letting others laugh at you?"
Liu Xiaolan said nonchalantly, "Isn't it normal for these two to quarrel? Is there any need to make such a big fuss? It would be a disgrace to our family if it got out."
Xiang Cuiliu tried to smooth things over: "Let's not talk about this for now. It's a big holiday now. If there's anything that can't be resolved as a family, just sit down and talk it over."
She added, "Sister-in-law Yuan, look, it's Mid-Autumn Festival now. Don't get involved. Go back and celebrate the festival."
Zhang Jindi curled her lips and said, "Do you think we like to watch this kind of nonsense? If it weren't for the fact that Yao is well-behaved and sensible, and Xiaochun was also a good child in the past, we wouldn't be willing to meddle in other people's business during such a big festival!"
Xiang Yao quickly said, "Aunt Zhang, we are really grateful to you this time. If you hadn't arrived in time, this person would have beaten us. Thank you so much."
Zhang Jindi nodded, feeling that there were few innocent people in the entire Xiang family. She thought Xiang Yao, the younger generation, was truly sensible, so she said nothing more: "Alright, we'll intervene in this matter anyway, and you can handle the rest on yourselves."
She glanced at the Xiang family and felt that this matter might be difficult to resolve. She knew what these people in the Xiang family were thinking from what they said.
Before leaving, Zhang Jindi turned around and said, "If my daughter was beaten by someone, no matter if it was my son-in-law or someone else, I would definitely beat him until he cried for his grandpa and mother."
After saying this, without even looking at her family's faces, she called her family members out of the yard together.
Although Zhang Jindi was gone, her words lingered in everyone's ears like an echo.
After a while, Yang Qi, as the son-in-law and the elder guest, awkwardly tried to smooth things over: "We are all family, so let's talk it out. Come, don't stand around anymore, go sit down in the main hall and talk about everything in detail. It's easier to discuss things as a family."
He dragged everyone into the main room, saying, "It would be embarrassing if the neighbors saw what was happening at home." He successfully persuaded everyone to move their position into the main room.
Xiang Yinliu put down the chair in his hand, crossed his legs, cracked a handful of melon seeds, and mumbled, "What's there to discuss? It's just a quarrel, what's the big deal?"
Xiang Yao looked at Xiang Yinliu with a smile: "Aunt, if our uncle kicked you to the ground and slapped you in the face when he got upset, would you think it was not a big deal?"
Xiang Yinliu paused in her melon seed-crackling move and said angrily, "What are you talking about, girl? You hit me and I hit you in private, it's not a big deal. Isn't that what the older generation went through? Who has never quarreled with He Meimei their entire life? That's impossible!"
Xiang Yao: "So you think this is normal?"
Xiang Yinliu raised her eyebrows. "It's normal, so what? But you, girl, I think you're just a troublemaker. Why do you have no reason to meddle in other people's affairs?"
Xiang Yao sat down on the chair, looked up at the still blue sky above the eaves outside the door, and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared:
"Aunt, just because the older generation got by doesn't mean we have to get by this way now. In the past, the landlord class was in power, but now, don't even the landlords and rich peasants have a good life? Women hold up half the sky, so why should women be unilaterally beaten by men? And people like you think it's normal?"
Lu Ping felt the burning sensation on his face and thought to himself, what do you mean by unilaterally hitting someone? Didn't you also slap me twice...
He subconsciously touched his face and was about to speak when Xiang Yao glanced at him for a moment, but there was only endless coldness and ridicule in his eyes.
Xiang Yao retracted his scornful gaze and continued, "You think it's normal for a couple to fight and quarrel. That's because you haven't experienced this kind of real, day-to-day violence. Today, my eldest sister was beaten, and you and everyone else just brushed it off. If you were beaten like that tomorrow, would you say the same thing?"
Xiang Yinliu's face turned pale and blue after hearing Xiang Yao's series of words. She was very dissatisfied that she, an elder, was being spoken like that by a little girl in front of so many people.
She was furious and wanted to retort, but she was speechless and didn't know what to say.
He opened and closed his mouth again and again, and finally angrily threw the melon seed shells in his hand to the ground and said to the others:
"Look at this girl, she's really sharp-tongued. Say one thing to her and she'll have a hundred things waiting to come back at you. If she were to marry into her husband's family, no one would like her!"
Xiang Yao gave a fake smile: "Don't worry about this matter, Aunt. I think you are guilty. You can't do it yourself, but you still want to persuade others. Why do you do that? Are you particularly noble?"
"Hey! How can you talk like that?" Xiang Yinliu said with a stern face, already very unhappy. "Xiang Yao, you weren't like this before. When did you become like this? What am I saying? It's all for your own good. I want you to have a good life in the future."
God is doing this for your own good. This is really a universal sentence that can be said at any time.
Xiang Yao curled her lips, a thousand complaints running through her mind. She no longer cared about respecting the elderly and loving the young. She just wanted to stand in the middle of this group of Xiang family members and control the water in their heads.
However, the debate she had anticipated did not begin.
Xiang Chun, who had remained silent since he came back, suddenly raised his head, and his eyes were filled with determination and resoluteness, which had completely replaced his previous cowardice and helplessness.
She didn't sit down, but looked at her family and slowly rolled up her sleeves.
She pointed to the heavy bruises on her arms and abdomen, her voice still trembling, like the flapping of a startled magpie's wings in a calm and windless moment:
"Mother, Auntie, and everyone else, these, and these, whether new or old, were all made by Lu Ping."
She looked at Lu Ping indifferently. "I think I've done nothing wrong in the Lu family except work every day, but he still beats me. He beats me when he's in a bad mood, or when my mother-in-law scolds me. Even if there's nothing wrong, as long as he's dissatisfied, unhappy, or angry outside, he'll still beat me when he comes home."
"He said he was doing it for my own good and always protected me, but in reality, that was all a show for others and himself. He never stopped beating me..."
It was not a pleasant feeling to reveal her scars and show the blurred flesh and blood inside to everyone, but when Xiang Chun thought about the past few years, she finally realized that Lu Ping and the Lu family had treated her badly, very badly.
Xiang's family was completely shocked. They had never imagined that Xiang Chun had so many injuries on his body.
There was silence in the main room for a long time. After a while, an uncontrollable cry suddenly broke out.
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