The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 255: Chop it off!

Chapter 255: Chapter 255: Chop it off!

Old Granny Zhang brandished her broom like a raging wind, lashing out without mercy.

Wang Yongping, in so much pain he couldn’t take it anymore, covered his head and ran outside, "Mom, I really was just confused for a moment! I won’t dare to do it again! I really won’t dare——"

"You’re still giving her hot water to drink? You’re still giving her steamed buns to eat? Why don’t you give the Despicable Person of the Li Family your own flesh to eat, your blood to drink, huh? Seeing a woman and forgetting your own parents and family, you bastard! You even dared to let that despicable woman from the Li Family into our house?"

"Mom, I didn’t let her into the house, only let her sit in the yard——" Wang Yongping tried to explain.

"Stand still for your mother, pah! My Wang Family’s grain isn’t even for dogs, let alone that despicable woman from the Li Family! Come here to your mother, which paw boiled water for that despicable woman? Which paw grabbed the steamed bun for her? Get the knife, whichever paw it was, chop it off! What’s the use of keeping such betraying paws around?"

Jinguan couldn’t help but give a wicked smile as she went to get a knife from the kitchen.

She was brought back to her senses by a fierce knock on the head from Jindou.

Just as Wang Yongping was about to be beaten to the point of climbing up the wall, Wang Yongzhu stepped forward, "Enough, Mom, after a beating like this, I guess Fourth Brother will remember it this time. I think he indeed didn’t let anyone inside the house, he just gave her some water and sent her on her way! Don’t tear his clothes with the beating; otherwise, it will be a waste of thread and needle!"

Only then did Old Granny Zhang, gasping for breath, stop and asked leaning on her broom, "Did you all see it? That despicable woman from the Li Family didn’t enter the house?"

Everyone nodded hastily.

"She didn’t wander around aimlessly in the yard?" Old Granny Zhang pressed on.

Wang Yongping wanted to make clear that he did occasionally look out from the kitchen, and indeed Li Jinzhi had been sitting honestly on the stone bench without budging.

"I think I saw her take a couple of steps toward the corner," Jinhua hesitated a moment before speaking.

At that moment, she had wanted to look outside and just as she had licked a hole through the window paper, Lady Jiang pulled her back, but she seemed to have seen Li Jinzhi take a couple of steps toward the corner.

Wang Yongzhu was taken aback and immediately walked over to the dye vat.

Old Granny Zhang’s face also changed, and she dropped her broom and rushed over.

Wang Yongzhu looked at the vat full of blue dye, dark blue, but under the dimming sky, nothing could be conclusively seen.

Turning around, she bumped into the white cloth she had laid down which swayed slightly, almost falling into the vat but was quickly snatched up by Wang Yongzhu.

She hesitated, the position she had put it down didn’t seem quite right?

She felt the cloth carefully, the outside looked fine, but when she turned it over, Wang Yongzhu’s face changed as she saw a few inconspicuous spots of blue dye on the cloth.

Old Granny Zhang saw the spots as well, standing out starkly against the white background cloth.

Her voice changed instantly, "Zhuzhu, is this going to be a problem? Could it be that..." she didn’t dare to continue.

Wang Yongzhu slowly put down the cloth, "Someone tampered with the dye in the vat, and we can’t tell now with the sky getting dark. We’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning!"

With those words, Old Granny Zhang finally understood.

Fuming with rage! She stormed into the kitchen to fetch a knife, "I’m going to chop that little wretch from the Li Family to death! That witch, she’s trying to cut off the Wang Family’s lifeline!"

"Mother? What’s happened?" Wang Yongping, rubbing his wounds in a corner, hadn’t been paying attention. Why was his birth mother suddenly ready to chop up Li Jinzhi?

"You good-for-nothing! What’s happened? That despicable person Li Jinzhi sabotaged the dye your sister worked so hard to create! Damn her to hell! Zhuzhu was counting on selling that dye formula to buy back the Old Wang Family’s land! It’s all ruined now! All because of you, this good-for-nothing, worthless trash, because of a despicable person, you’ve doomed our whole family—" Old Granny Zhang railed, slapping her thigh.

"No way! How could this—Impossible—" Wang Yongping was dumbfounded.

Seeing that every member of the Wang Family looked at him with blame, he simply couldn’t believe it. How could Li Jinzhi do this?

Hadn’t she said she regretted it? Said she was sorry to him? Even promised to repay him?

Was this her way of repaying?

"Little sister, really, it was her? But when I was boiling water, I was looking out into the yard from time to time—" Wang Yongping asked with difficulty.

"Before I went inside, this fabric had just been taken out, which you saw. I placed it on this vat, then went into the house. If no one had tampered with the dye, how could it have splattered onto the fabric? Probably she saw that the fabric was stained and then flipped it over deliberately," Wang Yongzhu deduced.

"It really was her! She’s deceiving me again! That despicable person!" Wang Yongping finally came to a complete realization.

That despicable person, Li Jinzhi!

All that talk of repentance, sorrow, and promises to make amends in the next life by being an ox or horse for him? All lies to deceive him.

How could he be so foolish, so naive? Didn’t he know what kind of person Li Jinzhi was? All for a bit of vain boasting, he had thought Li Jinzhi saw that his family’s days were getting better, that he wasn’t a worthless man anymore, that given her current circumstances, she would regret cuckolding him back then!

He was so stupid! Fooled by her crocodile tears into thinking she really regretted it, out of his so-called pity, he brought her to his home, harming his own family, harming his sister!

Wang Yongping, seething with hatred, pounded the wall with his fists, not even noticing the blood from his torn skin.

It was Jinhoo who reminded, "That vixen from the Li Family is pregnant and can’t have gotten far; let’s find her and drag her back—"

Old Granny Zhang’s eyes lit up, "Right, let’s split up and look for her! She’s got two legs; I don’t believe she sprouted wings and flew away!"

As soon as she said this, aside from Wang Laozhu and Wang Yongfu, who couldn’t move, and Wang Yongzhu, who was still dazedly holding the fabric, even Wang Yongping stood up and raced outside.

Old Granny Zhang thought her daughter was still heartbroken, so she sped off to search for Li Jinzhi in hopes of catching her quickly to vent her daughter’s anger.

Wang Yongzhu wasn’t really heartbroken. She was communicating with Xiao Tiantian, "Xiao Tiantian, has the dye been tampered with?"

After a quick scan, Xiao Tiantian replied, "Yes, a good amount of unknown substances have been added to the dye, along with some inferior colors."

After a pause, Xiao Tiantian cautiously asked, "Host, if you knew Li Jinzhi was up to no good the moment she entered the courtyard, why did you still give her the chance? This batch of dye is wasted now!"

Wang Yongzhu rubbed her chin, "The dye is a small matter; I had already set aside half beforehand. Even if it’s all wasted, I can make more! But my Fourth Brother’s complex feelings for Li Jinzhi, if they’re not addressed properly, they could lead to major trouble in the future! So, I simply let Li Jinzhi come in and gave her plenty of opportunity to commit the deed. Without letting Li Jinzhi succeed, how could my Fourth Brother truly cut ties with her once and for all?"

What could the Xiao Tiantian System say?

"Host, you are brilliant and mighty!"