Chapter 31: Being Right and Resisting Others
"Oh, it's a disaster! My own niece won't help her family. This is really a lack of virtue. How could our Chen family give birth to such a blind and money-losing child?"
Chen Qinghe sat on the ground and cried miserably, but the only flaw was that she couldn't squeeze out any tears.
Wu Yuetang stood there with her arms folded, looking at Chen Qinghe, and couldn't help but sneer in her heart. This Chen family really has no self-awareness. How did the second sister-in-law get tortured at home? They really don't remember at all.
Yes, the Chen family only remembers things that are beneficial to them.
Chen Qinghe's howling continued, the sound was sharp and piercing, and many villagers watching around had begun to cover their ears.
Just then, an old woman in tattered linen clothes rushed over and tried to pull Chen Qinghe up.
"Hey, Madam Chen, why are you sitting on the ground? What are you doing?"
Hey my, all the bad apples are gathered together. Aunt Sun really seems to be everywhere there is trouble.
"Aunt Sun, look, we can't even afford to eat. Seeing that our niece has cakes to eat, I wanted to ask for some to take back to my family. But I didn't expect that after our niece gets married, she will no longer be a member of the Chen family."
When Chen Qinghe saw someone asking her a question, she immediately became excited and started crying again.
"Ah? Your niece? The wife of the second son of the Wu family?"
Aunt Sun immediately became furious when the Wu family was mentioned. "Let me tell you, you can't get involved with the Wu family. They're so mean and selfish."
Good fellows, not only are you two acting here, but you're also scolding our entire family.
Wu Yuetang became unhappy when he heard this. He picked up the fire poker on the ground, walked over, and started scolding the two of them.
"You two are constipated every day. So the shit comes out of your mouths, right? What's wrong? You're already half buried in the earth, and you suddenly can't speak like a human?"
The two men were frightened and looked at Wu Yuetang's vicious look, with the fire poker in her hand pointing at them, fearing that she would beat them up without even saying hello.
"What's wrong? Why don't you tell the truth? Even if our niece marries into your Wu family, she's still a member of our Chen family. I'm her aunt, so what's wrong with giving us a cake?"
Chen Qinghe was still sitting on the ground, watching the stick in front of her not fall for the time being. She thought Wu Yuetang was just pretending, so she stiffened her neck and retorted.
"We are Zhaodi's elders, and it's her duty to respect her elders. How dare she abandon her own aunt and leave her alone? This is extremely unfilial and she deserves to be thrown into a pig cage and drowned in a pond!"
Wu Yuetang didn't say anything and started swinging at her. Don't be fooled by her thin arms and legs, she was really strong when she hit someone.
"I'll let you talk nonsense! I'll let you distort the facts! I'll let you get something for nothing!"
He beat her and scolded her at the same time, and stopped after about a dozen hits, gasping for breath from exhaustion.
My body is really not in good condition. I feel tired after just a short time of fighting. If it were the old woman in my previous life, she would probably be beaten half to death by me.
Chen Qinghe rolled on the ground in pain, her entire body aching except for her face. Her husband sat motionless on a haystack not far away, his wine jug in hand, staring coldly at them.
"How dare you say you are my second sister-in-law's aunt? Why don't you tell me what kind of life she lived when she was in the Chen family?"
Wu Yuetang stood up with the help of a fire poker, speaking while panting.
"Everyone, listen up! The Chen family, relying on their large number of sons, is notorious in Xiaoyao Village. My second sister-in-law has been working and taking care of the family's daily needs since she was five years old. Even the men's clothes were washed by a little girl. When she was ten years old, they sold her to an old widower in the same village for a few taels of silver. Do you think this is human? And they say she's fulfilling her filial duty. She's worked for the Chen family for ten years, so that's considered filial piety!"
After saying this, he threw the fire stick to the ground, looked at Chen Qinghe who was in so much pain that she couldn't speak, and glanced at Aunt Sun who was standing beside him with a pale face, and sneered.
"I, Wu Yuetang, am putting my words here today. Now, I have the final say in all matters concerning the Wu family. If you have any ulterior motives, don't go looking for my family. If I find out, it won't just be a few beatings!"
After saying that, he dusted off his hands and walked back, only to see Wu Zhiyun giving him a thumbs up from afar.
Chen Zhaodi watched all this, tears welling up in her eyes. She walked forward and held Wu Yuetang's hand tightly.
"Tang'er, thank you."
"Don't be polite, sister-in-law. You are the wife of our second brother, married through matchmaking. You are a member of the Wu family. I will protect our Wu family from now on."
After saying that, he climbed onto the carriage again, took out two bags of flour from the space, walked to the front of the tent and spoke loudly to all the villagers.
"I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself today. Those of you who don't have a fire, don't bother making one. I'll make seventy or eighty more pancakes, and I'll treat everyone to dinner tonight! Every family will get a share, except for the Chen and Sun families!"
As soon as the words fell, the entire campsite cheered, and almost everyone praised Wu Yuetang for being a good person. Some people looked at the hard steamed buns in their hands and put them away.
Wu Yuetang secretly added spiritual spring water to the dough when she was kneading it. When she was making pancakes, Li came over with some concern.
"Tang'er, isn't it too much to use two bags of flour at once? We still have a long way to go before we get to the capital, so we have to save our food."
Wu Yuetang thought about the thousands of kilograms of flour ground in the space and shook her head indifferently.
"Mom, it's okay. There's enough food. Don't worry, I know what's going on."
Seeing Wu Yuetang's confident look, he didn't plan to ask any more questions. He nodded and squatted down to help.
After two cups of tea, fifty or sixty pancakes were out of the pot. The eldest and second brothers were given priority to deliver the pancakes door to door, one carrying the fried sauce and braised large intestines, and the other carrying the hot pancakes. Almost every family could get three pancakes, and those with more people could get five or six pancakes.
When the eldest and second brothers came back, the pancakes were gone, but there was still half a jar of fried sauce and braised large intestines left.
Wu Yuetang kept half of the last twenty or so pancakes for herself and quickly wrapped the rest in oil paper. She asked her third brother to bring the fried sauce and braised food and walked towards the village chief's seat.
The village chief had already seen the farce here, but his legs were sore after walking all day, so he simply didn't bother to care.
Seeing Wu Yuetang coming over, he immediately straightened his posture. In fact, the maid at home only made some black-faced steamed buns for him to take with him, and he didn't plan to light a fire to cook in the evening.
"Grandpa Village Chief, I made some pancakes tonight, as well as some sauce and braised food that I made myself. You can try them."
As soon as he came over, Wu Yuetang handed over the ten pancakes in his hand and signaled his third brother to pass over the fried sauces and braised dishes as well.
"The Wu family girl is really thoughtful. It's not that I didn't want to help you get justice, but my legs and feet really can't walk anymore."
The village chief sighed, asked his wife to take the food, and patted his legs.
Wu Yuetang looked down at the village chief's feet. It was a pair of cloth shoes that looked like they had been worn for who knows how many years, and you could vaguely see his toes almost popping out.
"Grandpa Village Chief, please give me your water bags. I was collecting herbs earlier, and the owner of the clinic gave me some fatigue-relieving medicine. I'll add it to your water."
Upon hearing this, the village chief's eyes lit up and he asked the maid to bring over all the family's water bags, seven or eight in total. Wu Yuetang added spiritual spring water to each water bag.
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