The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 561 - 559 A Clean Break after a Single Blow

Chapter 561: Chapter 559 A Clean Break after a Single Blow

After hearing Sun Mutou’s sob story, not to mention Wang Yongzhu, Wang Yongping was the first whose anger exploded, "The Sun Family, those bastards! They’re too bullying! Sister, we can’t just sit back and ignore this!"

Liu Xiaoqiao saw that Wang Yongzhu remained silent and unresponsive, so she quickly pinched Wang Yongping, "What are you getting worked up for? Let’s hear what little sister has to say first."

Wang Yongzhu pondered for a moment before looking calmly at Sun Mutou and asked, "So, you’ve come to us, what do you want us to do?"

Sun Mutou was startled; all he had thought about was that if he found the Wang Family, they would definitely save his mother’s life.

But when Wang Yongzhu posed the question, he was dumbfounded for a moment, "Auntie, what do you mean ’do’?"

Wang Yongzhu responded with a cold laugh, "Sun Mutou, you’re older than me and have been an apprentice outside for a year. You must have understood some principles, right? Now that our Wang Family has severed ties with your Sun Family, then should we rush out after hearing your story, rescue your mother, treat her until she’s healthy, and then send her back to your Sun Family?"

Sun Mutou was still failing to comprehend and looked at Wang Yongzhu and Wang Yongping with a bit of confusion.

Wang Yongping was equally perplexed as he looked at Wang Yongzhu, aren’t we supposed to do something?

Liu Xiaoqiao just couldn’t stand by any longer, stepping forward, "Mutou, what your aunt is saying is, why should our Wang Family take the lead? Just like that, without any fuss, should we rescue your big sister, treat her illness and then send her back to the Sun Family to be maltreated again? And then should the Wang Family take her back again for treatment? What do you think the Wang Family is? A face that we just send over for your Sun Family to step on?"

Only then did Sun Mutou come to his senses, his face flushing red as he quickly shook his head, "I, I didn’t mean that!"

"Then what do you mean? What’s your plan?" Wang Yongzhu inquired.

Sun Mutou was stunned into silence.

"Come back to me when you’ve thought it through!" Wang Yongzhu stood up and walked toward the back yard.

Sun Mutou wanted to reach out to stop her, but halfway through, he retracted his hand. Indeed, he didn’t know what to do or how to make a demand of the Wang Family.

Wang Yongping stomped his feet in frustration, staring at Wang Yongzhu’s retreating figure, wanting to say something but not daring to speak.

Liu Xiaoqiao shot him a glance, signaling Wang Yongping to stay with Sun Mutou and followed after Wang Yongzhu.

In the back yard, Wang Yongzhu came across Jinhua and instructed her to summon Wang Yongfu, Wang Yonggui, Jindou, and Jinhoo to the back yard, then took a deep breath before pushing open the door of the main room.

The weather had grown cold, so everyone preferred to nest on the warm kang at home, especially the elderly who were even less inclined to move about.

Wang Laozhu simply worked on his carpentry inside the house, keeping himself busy.

Upon entering, Wang Yongzhu saw Wang Laozhu planing wood, while Old Granny Zhang sat on the kang, with several garments beside her, mending clothes by the outside light.

Seeing her daughter and the wife from Laosi’s family come in, Old Granny Zhang put down her needlework and beckoned Wang Yongzhu to the kang, "Come up here and sit, it’s freezing outside. Here, have some hot tea."

Wang Yongzhu accepted the hot tea, placing it aside, and said with a serious expression, "Someone from the Sun Family came today!"

With that single sentence, the atmosphere inside the room instantly dropped. Wang Laozhu didn’t even raise his head, "The Sun Family has nothing to do with our Wang Family anymore; send the person away!"

"It’s Mutou who came, and he said that Sun Daming is dead."

"What?" Wang Laozhu and Old Granny Zhang were both shocked and stopped what they were doing.

Wang Yongzhu relayed what Sun Mutou had said, and Wang Laozhu suddenly couldn’t sit still anymore, abruptly standing up, his body swaying unsteadily.

Supported by Wang Yongzhu, he was seated on the kang bed and after being fed a sip of hot water and having a few acupoints massaged, he finally regained some semblance of normalcy.

"Hurry... go to the Sun Family, bring your elder sister back..." Wang Laozhu trembled as he spoke.

Wang Yongzhu massaged Wang Laozhu calmly, saying, "This matter can’t be rushed, I’ve sent Jinhua to call for your elder brother and Third Brother so that everyone can sit down together and come up with a plan, then it would be best to go fetch her."

Wang Laozhu became so anxious that he even smashed the teacup: "This is a matter of life and death! Your elder sister might be suffering untold hardships right now! And you still have the leisure to discuss plans? If we go too late and your sister loses her life, what then?"

Wang Yongzhu’s expression turned cold, and she suddenly stood up, looking at Wang Laozhu: "Since Dad is so anxious, then you go yourself!"

With that, she turned to leave.

"You... you ungrateful daughter..." Wang Laozhu trembled with anger all over.

Old Granny Zhang couldn’t stand it anymore, flipped over the kang table, and a barrage of clothes and sewing materials crashed down on Wang Laozhu: "Stop talking crap! How is my daughter not filial? Wang Laozhu, do you have no shame saying that? What you’re wearing on your body, stepping with your feet, and eating every day, aren’t they all given by my daughter? Without my daughter, you’d probably still be lying in bed, unable to move right? Could you even have the energy to point at her and curse her?"

"I’ve been holding back these words for over a decade, and today I must get a clear explanation! Is your elder daughter the only daughter to you? Is Zhuzhu not your daughter? What has your elder daughter ever contributed to your care over these years? You treat her like a treasure? How much suffering and injustice has Zhuzhu endured for our family? Just a single word of disagreement, and you call her ungrateful?"

"I’ve always wondered why every one of the sons I bore turn out to be so ungrateful, and it turns out the root of it is you! Alright then, you’re so fond of your elder daughter, aren’t you? Why don’t you go and live with your elder daughter? Have her provide for your old age? Let me tell you, Wang Laozhu, I can’t spend another day with you anymore! Divorce! Go to the Sun Family and dote on your elder daughter, I’ll follow Zhuzhu! Let’s part ways!"

Old Granny Zhang’s eyes were red with anger, looking firmly and fiercely at Wang Laozhu.

Wang Laozhu slammed the edge of the kang: "What nonsense are you talking about? Divorce! At this age, to speak such words, do you want to become a laughingstock?"

"A laughingstock? Haven’t I been made into a laughingstock for decades? Is it any different today? Let me tell you, Wang Laozhu, I’ve tolerated you for decades, and I’ve had enough! You can say whatever you want, but you can’t say anything bad about my daughter! You ungrateful bastard, I’ve had enough of living with you. Divorce! Whoever doesn’t agree to divorce is a bastard!"

Old Granny Zhang had been holding this resentment for over a decade, and now it finally exploded.

As soon as Wang Yongfu and Wang Yonggui, called by Jinhua, walked into the backyard, they heard their parents shouting about divorce?

Instantly, their scalps went numb, what was happening now? Everything was fine, Laosi had just married, how did it come to this?

Jindou and Jinhoo, who followed behind, looked at each other. Hearing their grandparents shouting about divorce, should they pretend not to hear it, or was it better not to hear it?

Wang Yongfu and Wang Yonggui were anxious and hastily entered the room.

Once inside, oh dear, Laosi’s wife was still standing there in the room; what on earth was going on!

And little sister was there too, with a stern face, not trying to mediate between the two?