Chapter 32: Punching Bag
"Mom, your grandchildren are all listening, what are you talking about?"
Zhao Li heard his father's roar in the house, so he ran out to try to stop the fight.
He and his father, two big men, couldn't directly pull their aunt apart, so they could only stand by and worry.
Wang Caihong and Huang Juhua were not going to listen to any of these words. Instead, they fought more and more fiercely to vent their anger that had been pent up for years.
Wang Caihong had long hated her sister-in-law, who had introduced her niece from her natal family to be her daughter-in-law with bad intentions, causing her family to lose all their money and even being defrauded of three sums of money.
She also bears the stigma of being the one who tortured her daughter-in-law to death.
I won’t beat her too hard today. I’ll treat her as a vegetarian.
Huang Juhua and Wang Caihong have disliked each other since they were young. The old bitch often said that she was ugly when she was young, and she relied on her own looks to attack and ridicule her everywhere.
Her bad looks have been a pain in her life. She endured it when she was young, but now she is in her forties and still being criticized. How can she continue to endure it?
Even if the king of heaven came today, she would not accept defeat.
Both were battle-hardened peasant women, with great strength, and were evenly matched in the fight. They rolled on the ground, pulling each other's hair, and the dust was flying all over the yard.
Ma Dongmei locked all the children into the house and did not let them out to watch. She and Lin Yiyi just stared at the side. At first they thought they were just watching a show, but they still didn't stop. After all, they were still relatives, and it would be bad if someone got killed.
Zhao Tiezhu winked at his son, and the two men didn't care whether it looked good or not, and started to pull each other. After each of them was hit several times, they finally pulled the two old women apart. They tied their hands behind their backs, and their feet were still kicking each other.
Her body was covered in bruises, her hair was pulled out like a mad woman, and Lin Yiyi was still not satisfied. She walked out of the yard and shouted, "Oh, it looks like something serious is going to happen. My father-in-law and my third brother can't handle it. I'm going out to find more people to help."
"return!"
"return!"
When Wang Caihong and Huang Juhua heard that Lin Yiyi wanted to invite more people to watch the show, they hurriedly stopped her. If they fought at home, only their family members would know about it. If outsiders saw it, they would lose face. The whole village would laugh at them and wonder if they wanted to live.
Don't air your dirty laundry in public.
Boy, this trick still works. The two of them stopped fighting, and Lin Yiyi also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Have you had enough?"
Zhao Tiezhu let go of his wife Wang Caihong's hands, sat on the bench, and began to lecture her, "How old are you all? You are more than 100 years old in total, and you are fighting?
How can the younger generation at home look at you? Second and third daughter-in-law, you two go make dinner. Sister-in-law, it's getting dark, you should go home quickly."
Lin Yiyi and Ma Dongmei looked at each other, without hiding the gloating in their eyes, and secretly laughed, then went into the kitchen one after another to cook dinner.
Zhao Tiezhu was almost angry to death. It was such a disgrace. How could he ever face the younger generation in the future? All of his shame was ruined by his unlucky wife.
Like in the 1960s, people had to go up the mountains and down the valleys to find food after work. It is nothing like it is now. Life has become better, but people are getting into trouble because of idleness.
Wang Caihong felt that she had lost face in front of her daughter-in-law. She felt uncomfortable and painful all over. After all, she was old. Seeing Zhao Tiezhu's sullen face, she knew that if she continued to pester him, she would definitely suffer no good consequences. She did not dare to say anything more, spat at the yellow chrysanthemum and went back to the house.
This old man is immortal.
Huang Juhua went to Zhao Tiezhu's house to pass on the message and give a warning, but she didn't expect to get into a fight with Wang Caihong. She showed no mercy and vented her anger that she had accumulated for many years.
Even if she would be scolded by her man if she went back like this, she endured it. She grimaced in pain, tidied up her messy hair, and walked back cursing.
When he got home and faced Zhao Tieniu's questioning, he didn't dare to say that he had a quarrel with his sister-in-law. He stammered and said that he was unlucky and fell down. He lay in the room and cursed Wang Caihong secretly for most of the night.
Over here at Zhao Tiezhu's house, the mother-in-law made a scene that made her lose face. She felt that she had embarrassed herself in front of the younger generation at home. During dinner, her face was gloomy and she kept cursing.
What Wang Caihong was chewing was not corn bread, but what she seemed to be chewing was her sister-in-law Huang Juhua.
Thinking that the culprit, daughter-in-law Lin Yiyi, acted as if nothing had happened, she became furious and started scolding Lin Yiyi, no longer pretending to be a kind and gentle mother-in-law.
"Why don't you just stay at home and go to that idiot's door? Do you have nothing to do after eating? Are you just standing there watching your mother-in-law fight instead of helping?"
Wang Caihong picked up the bowl and drank a big mouthful of porridge, then continued to spit out millet grains, "You two useless things, marrying you two daughters-in-law into the family is useless at all, you just feed your husbands all day long and don't do any real work. Outsiders are outsiders after all, and they won't help when the time comes."
After scolding, he felt it was not enough and slammed the dishes and chopsticks.
Knowing that Wang Caihong was angry, no one in the family said anything back to prevent her from nagging them endlessly.
Even the youngest child, Tiedan, did not ask Zhao's mother to feed him today. He just took a scallion with his little hands and dipped it in the sauce and ate it, then held a bowl that was bigger than his face and slurped it up.
Lin Yiyi rolled her eyes in her heart. What's wrong with watching the show? Could she help beat her aunt? If she got sick, she would definitely be the one to take the blame.
She had a deep impression of her aunt-in-law Huang Juhua, who was sharp-tongued and had green eyes. Judging from her appearance, if she had been born 20 or 30 years earlier, she would have been either a traitor or Zhou Baopi.
The first time she spoke on the wedding day, she had bad intentions, and this time too. It was obvious that she had a long-standing grudge with her mother-in-law, and she came to her house just to cause trouble. But she was the village chief's wife, and she had to get the village chief's approval if she wanted to leave Zhaojiatun in the future.
She must not offend anyone at random. She has no background and the village chief is a high-ranking official here. If he uses some tricks, it will be very troublesome.
To be honest, if the village chief and her father-in-law were not brothers, would Wang Caihong dare to fight with Huang Juhua like this?
Can you bear to wait until now to take action?
Lin Yiyi knows her own limitations clearly. She can be a bit bossy among her family, but who will give in to her outside?
Can you beat him? Or do you have a backer? If you have nothing, and you are not a Mary Sue heroine, then don't do such a stupid thing.
"I saw my parents working hard every day, so I wanted to try my luck in the mountains and add some to the dishes for everyone. I found some chestnuts, and they are so delicious. I also put some in the cellar."
Lin Yiyi changed the subject and brought out the fried chestnuts and put them on the table. She reached out and peeled two and fed them to Tiedan.
“Is it delicious?”
When Tiedan ate chestnuts for the first time, his eyes widened. He felt that they were especially sweet and soft. He reached out to take the chestnuts and started to eat them. Although he didn't say anything, his actions spoke for themselves.
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