The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 525 - 523: Strange Tales

Chapter 525: Chapter 523: Strange Tales

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Not only was Sun Daming stunned, but even Wang Yongfu and the helpers were flabbergasted. What was going on?

Sun Daming, with intermittent steps, hurried forward: "What’s the matter? What exactly is the matter?"

Wang Yongfu also froze, ready to go home to check.

He was pulled back by Song Chongjin: "Eldest Brother, you stay here and watch; I’ll follow them and see what’s happening! There must be some misunderstanding. With so many people at home, and Yongzhu there, how could there be a murder?"

Hearing this, Wang Yongfu felt it made sense. With his sister at home, how could there be a murder?

Nobody thought to blame Wang Yongzhu.

The three men from the Sun Family, upon receiving the message, dashed towards the Wang Family’s home. Shitou’s Wife ran behind them for a few steps, then stopped as a faint pain gripped her stomach and slowly walked instead.

Song Chongjin caught up in just a few strides, closely following the three men from the Sun Family into the Wang Family courtyard.

As soon as Old Lady Sun saw her son and grandson had returned, she felt emboldened and sprang to their side, grabbing her son and grandson’s hands and began wailing: "Eldest Brother, Laoer, my poor grandson! The Wang Family has gone too far, getting rich and haughty, looking down on us, dismissing us with a turn of their face, and resorting to knives at the slightest disagreement, kicking without a word—"

The three men from the Sun Family were confused. Wasn’t it said that Wang Yongzhu was holding a knife and wanted to kill? But here was their mother, safe and sound, able to talk, cry, and wail? By all appearances, she didn’t even lose a single hair!

The men from the Sun Family turned to look at Sun Shitou’s Wife.

Sun Shitou’s Wife was dumbfounded as well. She had run out because she saw that the situation was dire. What happened, why was there nothing wrong?

Song Chongjin, who was following behind, first checked that Wang Yongzhu was unharmed, and that his future mother-in-law was fine, and then he felt relieved.

Only then did he approach Wang Yongzhu, seeing her eyes still holding a trace of anger, he quickly took her hand: "Yongzhu, what happened? Are you and Auntie and Uncle all right?"

Wang Yongzhu snorted coldly. Lady Lin, next to her, promptly clarified the situation in a few words, lightly glossing over the part about Wang Yongzhu brandishing a knife, and suggested that Wang Family’s Third Child had merely seen the Sun Family matriarch trying to scratch his sister and, acting in a moment of panic without a clear view, had kicked Old Lady Sun.

It wasn’t a strong kick; upon realizing his mistake, he immediately helped her up, apologized, and dusted her off, even pointing out specifically to Old Lady Sun that she was fine. Between the lines, it was implied that it was Old Lady Sun’s fault; the Wang Family was forced into their actions, everything was done out of desperation, or they had just been mistaken.

On the other side, the three men from the Sun Family heard this too, and it all became clear. Their old mother was used to throwing her weight around at home and took advantage of Wang Yongzhen, but she couldn’t control herself at the Wang Family’s home.

How could they know that the girl from the Wang Family wasn’t as agreeable as her aunt, offering no face at all, and that the Wang Family’s Third Child, after years of tough living, wouldn’t hesitate to straighten his own mother out the moment his temper flared?

Having sorted out the events, and seeing their own mother wailing with full vigor, they figured there couldn’t be anything seriously wrong.

After all, the Sun Family was in the wrong, having run to the Wang Family’s home to curse and berate, and yet the Wang Family didn’t throw them out, which was already quite polite.

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Over there, Old Lady Sun saw that Lady Lin had effortlessly shifted the blame onto her head in just a few words; the Wang Family was off the hook, and she got anxious, and she stopped crying.

She jumped up, three feet off the ground, "Cut the crap! I was nearly chopped by that little—by Wang Yongzhu’s knife, and my heart is still thumping wildly, even now. Also, Wang Family’s Third Child kicked me too. With these old arms and legs of mine, how could I withstand such a blow? Everyone here saw it, and you still want to deny it? No way! I’ve nearly lost a half of my life over this. There won’t be an end to today’s incident!" Saying this, and worried her son wouldn’t believe her, she even grabbed his hand to feel her chest.

"Mother-in-law, you must be joking, right? If the heart stopped beating, wouldn’t a person be dead? Whose heart doesn’t beat? You don’t believe me? Come and feel for yourself!" Wang Yonggui sarcastically said.

Old Lady Sun was taken aback and went to lift her skirt, "You little bastard, you also kicked me, there’s still a mark on my leg, if you don’t believe me, look—"

As soon as Old Lady Sun began to lift her skirt, the men present quickly turned their backs to avert their gaze.

Wang Yonggui, who had mingled with riffraff and hooligans, was not known for his kind words. He turned around, his eyes darting, and shouted, "Oh my, this is a spectacle! Come and see, folks, an eighty-year-old grandma lifting her skirt in public! Have you no shame? There’s an old saying, ’a daughter should avoid her father, and a son his mother,’ and yet here in the Sun Family, the mother is so shameless, lifting her skirt and showing her thigh in front of her grown son and grandsons!"

Meanwhile, he rebuked Jinguan, "Jinguan, you little brat, close your eyes! Are you supposed to look at an old lady’s thigh? Don’t want to get sty in your eyes, do you?"

"Pffft—" Not only the women who had come to help couldn’t help it, but even the Wang Family burst out laughing.

Wang Yonggui was truly a priceless gem.

The commotion in the Wang Family Courtyard had already attracted the attention of the nearby people who flocked to the door to watch the spectacle. Hearing this, they too burst into uproarious laughter, and a few children, taking Wang Yonggui’s words seriously, started to cry loudly while looking for their parents, "Mom, Mom, I saw the old lady’s thigh! Will I get a sty?"

Laughter erupted once again.

The Sun Family was instantly overwhelmed with shame and anger. Sun Daming and Sun Laoer hurried to grab Old Lady Sun’s hand, and Sun Shitou’s Wife stepped forward to pull down Old Lady Sun’s skirt.

Standing in the yard, the family found themselves in an awkward situation, unable to either advance or retreat, and unable to find peace.

Old Lady Sun, who had always used her shrewish prowess to roam the world for decades, always had others cower and give in without a place to hide.

Yet today, she had hit a wall, encountering these two odd Wang siblings. The girl was vicious, ready to take a life at a moment’s notice; the man had a venomous tongue, ruining people’s reputations with but a word.

For a moment, she was dumbfounded.

Only when she heard the laughter did she come back to her senses. Since throwing a tantrum was ineffective, she had no choice but to resort to her ultimate skill.

Falling to the ground, she started rolling and wailing, "Oh Lord above, open your eyes! I, an old woman, am about to be driven to my death! I’m not going to make it through today, bullied by a young girl and a wretched scoundrel—we came with good intentions to help the Wang Family, only to find that now that they’ve grown wealthy, they no longer acknowledge us poor relatives!"

"They treat us like beggars, giving each of us a bowl of cold, leftover porridge from the morning, and thinking that stinky pickles are enough to send us away..."

Sun Daming and Sun Laoer only pretended to pull her up, in fact, they didn’t even touch Old Lady Sun: "Mother, please get up! Mother, let it go. Both of our families are relatives; let’s not turn this into a feud! If not for the sake of your son, then for your grandson, please consider. How do you think Shitou will feel about this?"