After Lu Xiufen was helped up, instead of being grateful to Lin Chunying for helping her up, she even raised her hand and hit her on the shoulder.
"They're all money-losing brats you gave birth to, daring to hit their elders. You two are cut from the same cloth, neither of you is any good."
Not satisfied with just cursing, he even raised his hand to strike again.
But in mid-air, someone grabbed his wrist.
Qiao Qiqi didn't expect the old man to make a sudden move, and before she knew it, Lu Xiufen had succeeded in her first attack.
But there was no way she could hit him the second time.
She flung Lu Xiufen's hand away and said angrily, "Try hitting my mother again! She may be afraid of you, but I'm not. If you dare touch my mother again, I'll fight you to the death!"
"Ouch..."
Lu Xiufen stumbled from the push, then slapped her thigh and wailed, "This is outrageous! Is this the kind of daughter you raised? She's going to kill her own grandmother!"
Lin Chunying frowned.
Over the years, she had long since grown accustomed to Lu Xiufen's unreasonable and disruptive behavior.
Other families would hide their scandals, afraid that outsiders would find out. But Lu Xiufen was different. She was afraid that no one would know about her affairs. Every time, she had to make a big fuss and make the whole family lose face before she would stop.
That's why Lin Chunying always tries to minimize or eliminate problems.
"Qiqi, you should go now, leave this to me." Lin Chunying didn't want her daughter to lose face, so she immediately urged Qiao Qiqi to leave first.
But how could Qiao Qiqi possibly abandon her alone?
She originally thought that today was her and Qin Huai's big day, and she shouldn't get angry and bring bad luck, so her first thought when she saw Lu Xiufen was to run away first and come back to deal with her later.
But the old man not only caught up with her, but also didn't appreciate her kindness, so Qiao Qiqi naturally didn't need to give him any face.
Thinking it over, she immediately pulled Lin Chunying behind her and started cursing at Lu Xiufen:
"You think you're worthy of being an elder? You eat my food, use my things, yet you're always siding with outsiders. Dare to tell me what you were doing just now? Did you go to deliver things to your freeloading eldest son again? Don't think I don't know. Ever since you came to my house, you've been hiding things to deliver to them every day. How can you be so shameless? They don't want you anymore, yet you still insist on trying to please them. Are you addicted to being shameless?"
"..." Lu Xiufen was completely stunned.
Although Qiao Qiqi used to argue with her all the time, she never dared to curse her like this. Has she really gone too far today?
Realizing what was happening, Lu Xiufen opened her mouth to wail...
But Qiao Qiqi didn't give her a chance to speak at all.
"You've always called me a money-loser since I was little, so what? Aren't you a woman? Does that mean you're a money-loser too? Besides, didn't you also have a daughter? She's a huge money-loser!"
"My mother has worked so hard for this family for so many years. Even if she hadn't given birth to a son, you should still be grateful to her!"
"After all, back then, your family was so poor that there wasn't even a single grain of rice in the jar. It was my mother who saved your family by bringing her own three catties of coarse rice as dowry!"
"Your Qiao family is so lucky to have such a wonderful daughter-in-law; your ancestors must have burned incense to make you so blessed!"
Qiao Qiqi rambled on and on, finally letting out a long sigh of relief, feeling utterly liberated.
Suddenly, Lin Chunying pulled her arm. Seeing her daughter protecting her like this, she was touched, but having always been bullied, she said indifferently, "Let it go, she is your grandmother after all."
"Since some people are disrespectful to their elders, we don't need to respect them either."
Qiao Qiqi grabbed Lin Chunying's hand and patted it reassuringly, "As the saying goes, a mother-in-law comes before a daughter-in-law. If the mother-in-law is not good, then the mother-in-law does not need to be filial to her. Even if this matter is brought up outside, we are in the right."
As she spoke, Qiao Qiqi turned her head directly to look at Lu Xiufen, who was already standing there in a daze, her gaze sharp.
"If you think I said anything wrong or went too far today, we can go to the brigade leader and talk to him. It would be best to bring two more police officers with us. My family has been losing a lot of things recently. My mother just said that she made two pairs of insoles for me and they can't be found. I don't know which mouse took them. I think we should go to my uncle's house and search for them. Maybe we can find them."
Lu Xiufen's face stiffened, and a clear look of fear flashed in her eyes.
Meeting Qiao Qiqi's sharp gaze, she suddenly stopped shouting, turned around and walked into the yard, "I...I'm tired, I want to go back and rest."
That figure looked like it was fleeing in panic.
"Don't go! I haven't finished yet. A lot of things are missing from my house. There's money, ration coupons, rice, flour, and even a lot of vegetables from the yard are gone..."
Lu Xiufen vanished in a flash.
Lin Chunying looked on, shook her head helplessly, and when she turned to meet Qiao Qiqi's sarcastic gaze, she suddenly couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"You!" He raised his hand and tapped her forehead.
Qiao Qiqi looked away and met Lin Chunying's barely suppressed smile. She immediately asked with a sly grin, "Did you enjoy it just now?"
Lin Chunying's heart skipped a beat.
Although she still says the same thing, "She's still your grandmother," actually...
I actually felt pretty good about it!
Qiao Qiqi snorted, "This kind of person is a typical bully who preys on the weak. You only dared to bully you for so many years because she got you under her thumb the moment you walked in. If you were like my step-aunt and scolded her into submission the moment you walked in, let's see if she would still dare to do it?"
Lin Chunying frowned immediately upon thinking of that person. "You can't do that. Your father is a village official, after all. If word gets out, people will laugh at you!"
Qiao Qiqi knew that it was impossible to change Lin Chunying's deeply ingrained ideas that had been held for decades in a short time, so she simply gave up trying.
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