Ning Yunyun glanced at Xu Ming, who was still sitting on the kang (heated brick bed) drinking, and whispered:
“Xu Ming, your son is being dragged around outside, and you’re not doing anything about it.”
Xu Ming glared at Ning Yunyun and said angrily:
"I told you that poisoning was wrong, but you still let the two kids do it. Now look what happened, they caught us!"
As Xu Ming was about to hit Ning Yunyun, Old Man Ning coughed a few times and glared at Xu Ming.
Xu Ming then remembered that this was, after all, Ning Yunyun's parents' home, so he could only awkwardly withdraw his hand, glaring fiercely at Ning Yunyun while muttering:
"I'm so unlucky to have married such a jinx as you. Can't you learn from your sister-in-law and see how she makes money? She even takes good care of your brother, who's a cripple!"
Although Xu Ming was reluctant, he still put on his shoes and got off the kang (a heated brick bed). After all, his sons were in someone else's hands, and he couldn't let his two sons suffer any injustice.
Seeing Xu Ming leave, Ning Yunyun followed him out the door with a droopy face. Chen Guixiang, afraid that her daughter would be wronged, hurriedly followed.
As soon as Xu Ming stepped outside, he saw his two sons being grabbed by the neck and struggling wildly by Jiang Yuwei. Enraged, he grabbed a broom from the yard and started hitting Jiang Yuwei with it.
"You bitch! I'll teach you to hit my son! I'll teach you..."
Before Xu Ming could finish speaking, Ning Huaizhi shot him in the wrist with a slingshot. The pain was so intense that he dropped his broom and clutched his wrist, crying out in pain.
"Ouch, it hurts so much!"
Seeing this, Ning Yunyun rushed forward to check Xu Ming's injuries with concern, then shouted at Ning Huaizhi:
"Ning Huaizhi, what are you doing? Why are you hitting my husband?! What if you hurt him?"
Xu Ming was already in a lot of pain, and Ning Yunyun's incessant yelling in his ear only made him more irritable. He slapped Ning Yunyun across the face and angrily said:
"You jinx, it's all your fault!"
After being slapped by Xu Ming, Ning Yunyun completely lost the momentum she had when she was cursing Ning Huaizhi. She just covered her face, lowered her head, and sobbed. Chen Guixiang, who was behind her, saw that her daughter had been hit and quickly stepped forward to support her and pull her back.
Chen Guixiang naturally knew that Xu Ming was a man of no sense when it came to beating people. Now that he was drunk, there was no reasoning with a drunkard. She could only protect Ning Yunyun and try to minimize the beating she received.
Seeing Xu Ming hit Ning Yunyun, Ning Huaizhi knew that what Ning Yunyun had told him that morning was true, and his anger intensified. He directly said to the fool beside him:
"It's the father's fault if the son is not taught properly. Go, give that man a good beating, just leave him alive!"
The idiot, having received the order, ignored everything else and immediately kicked Xu Ming to the ground. Seeing that Xu Ming had no fighting ability, the idiot simply sat on Xu Ming and slapped him repeatedly across the face.
Ning Yunyun was worried that the mentally challenged man would hurt Xu Ming and wanted to stop him, but Chen Guixiang had witnessed the man's ability to beat people at Aunt Zhang's house. She knew that if her daughter went up at this time, she would be throwing her life away, so she held her back tightly.
Jiang Yuwei gave Ning Huaizhi a meaningful look. She knew that Ning Huaizhi wanted to protect his sister, teach Xu Ming a lesson, and let him know that Ning Yunyun's family had connections.
Jiang Yuwei didn't want to get involved in Ning Yunyun's family's mess. Still holding her two children, she looked at Ning Yunyun and Chen Guixiang in the yard and said coldly:
"Who exactly ordered the two children to poison our yard?"
Upon hearing Jiang Yuwei's words, Chen Guixiang immediately said anxiously:
"Jiang Yuwei, I've really given you too much credit. Who taught you to be so disrespectful, making such a scene at the entrance of your in-laws' courtyard?"
Seeing that Chen Guixiang was trying to change the subject, Jiang Yuwei stared at her and shouted:
"If you hadn't instructed your two children to poison our yard, why would I have come looking for you here!"
Upon hearing Jiang Yuwei's words, Chen Guixiang jumped up, pointed at her, and shouted:
"Stop spouting nonsense! I think you're deliberately trying to ruin the reputation of the Ning family!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Yunyun hurriedly cried out:
"You, Jiang Yuwei, you really are vicious! What do you want to do to my two children? Let them go now! Let's not involve the children in our adult grudges!"
Jiang Yuwei was so angry at the mother and daughter's attempts to smear her that she laughed:
"Haha, if you hadn't been so heartless as to instigate two ignorant children to poison our yard, I wouldn't have implicated them. And now you're blaming me!"
After saying that, Jiang Yuwei threw the two children to the ground, then squatted down and stared fiercely at them, saying:
"Who told you to throw cakes at my house? If you don't explain yourselves today, I'll take you to the authorities and have the magistrate throw you both in jail so you'll never see your parents and grandparents again. By the way, poisoning is a serious crime, so you can wait to be beheaded in jail!"
The two children were so frightened by Jiang Yuwei's words that they burst into tears.
Seeing the two children crying so hard, Ning Yunyun felt very sorry for them and pointed at Jiang Yuwei, scolding her:
"How could you scare those two children like that? They were just playing around, they don't know any better. Why are you saying these things to them?!"
Jiang Yuwei sneered:
"Ha, they were ignorant when they were young and already knew how to poison other people's yards. What will they be like when they grow up? Today they poison my yard, but what if they poison my well tomorrow? What if someone in the village makes them unhappy and they poison the village's well in a few days?"
Jiang Yuwei coldly looked at the two children who were still wailing and said:
"If someone really dies from poisoning, will you still protect the children and say they're too young to understand?"
Upon hearing this, the villagers who were watching felt that this matter could not be left unresolved. If poisoning became a common practice in Ningjia Village, every household would live in constant fear, and even children should not be spared. So they all spoke up:
"No, we need to get the village headman involved!"
"I think we shouldn't bother with the village head. Eldest daughter-in-law, you should just report this to the authorities. This is no small matter!"
"Yes, thank goodness you discovered it in time. If someone had really died..."
"Tsk tsk, these two kids' reputations are ruined. Their elders are immoral, actually instigating the two kids to poison people. What heartless bastards!"
"How can you talk about them like that? Are you out of your mind? What if they poison your well again? I'd like to see you crying then!"
The man who had just spoken quickly waved his hand and said:
"Oh dear, Chen Guixiang, I misspoke! Please don't poison my well!"
"From now on, we'd better keep the doors and windows locked, so that no one gets inside without us even knowing!"
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