Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 344 - 332: Watching the Excitement

Chapter 344: Chapter 332: Watching the Excitement

"He’s already showing symptoms of dementia."

Lu Yun glared at Shitou with exasperation. Every day, when she returned home, what else could he remember except for trying to take advantage of her? She stepped down hard on his foot, and Shitou hugged his foot, whimpering and looking aggrieved, "I just, I forgot for a moment."

"What else can you remember?" Lu Yun couldn’t help but snort at him.

Shitou, ashamed, lowered his head, looking pitiful, which secretly made Lu Aiguo chuckle to himself. This act was so good at winning sympathy that his foolish daughter probably hadn’t even realized it yet.

Indeed--

"Everyone forgets things momentarily, why would you talk to Shitou like that? It looks like you’ve bullied people plenty in your time." Xia Yuan immediately came to Shitou’s defense when she saw his demeanor, chiding Lu Yun as she pulled her away, lecturing, "You’ve always loved to bully Shitou since you were little, and you still haven’t changed... "

"..."

Lu Yun felt aggrieved and all of a sudden clung to Xia Yuan’s arm, feigning tears, "Mom, wake up, I’m your real daughter, he’s the one we picked up."

"Shitou is more thoughtful than you are, I’d rather you were the one we picked up."

Xia Yuan retorted, which only made Lu Yun feel more aggrieved.

Lu Aiguo, holding his belly and rubbing it, tried to suppress his laughter, then patted Shitou’s shoulder, his face full of schadenfreude, "Times have changed, quit while you’re ahead. If you really piss her off, you’ll have it bad."

Laughing, Lu Aiguo walked ahead first, leaving Shitou stiff in the face.

As he watched the mother and daughter walking side by side ahead of him, Shitou’s expression froze, then he suddenly realized he really had made a huge mistake. Upon seeing Xia Yuan, he had forgotten that the present was different from the past, forgot to switch his roles, and inadvertently employed a little trick to compete for his wife’s affection...

It was over now. He would have to put in a lot of effort to coax her back. Shitou’s face instantly drooped, filled with regret.

The four of them entered the living room and exchanged a few words. Xia Yuan found an excuse to take Lu Yun to the kitchen, with a somewhat heavy and difficult-to-broach air, hesitating for a while before tentatively asking, "Are you two together?"

"Mom... why, why would you ask that..." Lu Yun’s face turned a shade of red, and although she and Shitou hadn’t done anything "bad", discussing this with her mother was also quite embarrassing.

"Ah, I just knew it."

Xia Yuan, having been there herself, assumed she understood everything upon seeing Lu Yun’s reaction. She sighed right away. How could she expect two children, who already had feelings for each other, to have self-control when left alone together, especially with Shitou being... at that age?

"What will you do if you get pregnant, whether to keep it or not, it’s a double worry." Xia Yuan suddenly felt a headache coming on.

Logically, Shitou was at an age where he should already have his own children, but Xiaoyun was still underaged. Actually, at eighteen, having children wouldn’t be a problem, the problem was that she wasn’t at the legal marriage age yet--

This was a real concern. If Xiaoyun happened to get pregnant, deciding to terminate it was something no one, including her, would want, but keeping it would bring its own troubles...

"Mom, what are you thinking? We, we’re still innocent." While Xia Yuan was worried, she heard Lu Yun say this, then saw two red booklets being handed to her, "Marriage certificates?"

Upon realizing what the red booklets were, Xia Yuan exclaimed, too focused on them to dwell on Lu Yun’s claim of being innocent, quickly flipping through one.

"Mhm, Shitou’s grandfather arranged them," said Lu Yun, seeing Xia Yuan’s focus shift and not wanting to turn back and explain further, speaking with a bit of discomfort.

"That’s good, being prepared is always better than not."

Xia Yuan first breathed a sigh of relief, then felt a bit unwilling, and finally resigned herself to a helpless sigh. She said her daughter was supposed to be engaged, but in the blink of an eye, she belonged to another family, "Once a girl grows up, she cannot be kept at home."

Lu Yun was stunned.

...

Yushu Village.

The Lu Jinsheng that Lu Yun had been thinking about was now climbing with his buddies on a big tree outside someone’s courtyard wall, watching the excitement.

It wasn’t just this group of older children who were enjoying the scene; even the adults watched with great interest. They surrounded the courtyard so tightly that those who didn’t secure a good spot simply sat on top of the courtyard wall.

The kind of events in the village that would gather everyone to watch usually fell into a few categories, either a wedding, an opera performance, or... a fight. And the scope of a fight was wide: it could be between neighbors, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, or husband and wife. Normally, if a family started fighting, people would step in to separate them and mediate, but it was rare for such a large commotion to occur.

But today was different. It wasn’t just a man hitting a woman; even her in-laws were hopping mad on the side, cursing and occasionally stepping forward to kick. It looked like the whole family was ganging up against one person.

The onlookers snickered and watched the show, with no one bothering to intervene, let alone break up the fight.

Lu Jinsheng frowned at the scene before him.

Beating a woman, and an entire family ganging up on one weak woman at that, was something he just couldn’t stand to watch. From a young age, he had always been taught to respect women.

In his family, his mother and sister held higher status than his father and himself. His parents also often told him that women were the weaker sex, needing protection and respect. Bullying and beating women was shameful.

Yet, the situation in front of him completely overturned his understanding.

He looked at the reactions of the people around him with confusion. It was too abnormal. He had been in Yushu Village for several days, and his impression of the villagers had been quite good up to now, but why were the people around him suddenly taking pleasure in another’s misfortune and even cheering it on?

His sister often said, "If it exists, it must be reasonable."

When encountering situations outside, one shouldn’t be too impulsive. If something seemed unreasonable, one should at least understand it clearly before deciding whether to get involved.

So Lu Jinsheng didn’t move. He just looked at the buddies beside him and voiced his doubts, "Why are they beating her, and why isn’t anyone stopping them but instead cheering on?"

"I know, I heard my parents talking about it last night. That woman is just a broken shoe. Normally like a vixen, seducing men. This time she really messed up, stole a lot of money from her family that was for building a house and was fooling around with another man outside for several months. She only came back after she had spent all the money."

As soon as Lu Jinsheng asked his question, a buddy immediately came up to clear his confusion.

What is a broken shoe? He would have to go back and find a chance to ask his grandparents.

In truth, Lu Jinsheng didn’t fully understand what his buddy had said. He had guessed and half-understood some parts, like the terms "broken shoe" and "vixen" which were new to him and entirely unclear in their meaning. However, it didn’t stop him from pretending to have an epiphany.

Seeing that his buddies looked as if they understood, how could he admit that he was clueless? After all, he was a man, and men need to maintain their pride, right?

But he was clear about the gist of "seducing men like a vixen" and "fooling around with a wild man"—could it be that the woman had lured someone else’s man?