Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade
Chapter 170 - 139 Returning Home_2

"Alive, alive."

"So the child isn’t dead after all? Then why such a big fuss."

"Aiyo, tormenting people like this, it’s already the middle of the night, will we even be able to work tomorrow?"

...

Some people cursed and went straight back to the village, while a few who were better acquainted followed Qian Manchuan to the third wife of the Qian family’s place.

Before the crowd even reached the courtyard entrance, Qian Yeejin, Lady Wu, and Qian Manxia, who had heard the news, were already rushing out, crying. Their eyes were red like peaches as they staggered out with disheveled hair, hugging Qian Yixiu and bursting into tears. It almost knocked Qian Manchuan, who was already holding Qian Yixiu, off his feet.

"Wuwu... You dead child, where did you run off to? If something happened to you, how could your granny live..."

"Wuwu... Little sister, where did you go? If you go somewhere, you have to take your brother with you..."

"Wuwu... Yixiu, you’ve finally returned, your aunt missed you to death..."

Qian Yixiu couldn’t help but start crying along with them.

Back in the courtyard, Old man Qian, Qian Dagui, Qian Ergui, and a bunch of others all came to greet them.

Hearing that Qian Yixiu had followed Monkey Brother into the deep mountains to look for flowers, and that when they failed to find the flowers they couldn’t find their way back, and it was White Wolf who carried her home, the crowd started gossiping. They said that Qian Sangui and his wife spoiled their child too much, treating her like a dragon’s cub, and that it wouldn’t do! They should properly discipline this ignorant child, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble she would stir up in the future...

Qian Yixiu bowed her head and listened as these people egged her grandparents on to hit her. She also knew that she wouldn’t be able to escape this beating.

Afterward, everyone went home to rest, as it was already late into the night and there was still work to do tomorrow. On behalf of Qian Sangui, Old man Qian expressed his gratitude, saying that once his son was better, he would throw a feast to thank everyone.

Once the courtyard was quiet again, Qian Yixiu realized that Qian Sangui and Cheng Yue hadn’t come to see her, which must mean they were unwell. Just as she was about to go check on her mother in the side room, she saw Lady Wu’s expression change and instinctively started to run. However, she was caught by Lady Wu after just a few steps.

Lady Wu squatted down, tore off the bundle on Qian Yixiu’s back, and laid her face down across her legs, then began pinching and hitting her on her little behind.

Qian Yixiu, who was not afraid of being hit but scared of pinching, screamed and cried out in pain. Her cries alerted some people who hadn’t gone far after leaving the Qian’s third wife’s place, and they said with satisfaction, "That’s good, she deserves a beating."

Those with crueler hearts even said, "If it were my child, I’d hit her so hard she wouldn’t be able to leave the bed for half a month."

Old man Qian nodded in agreement.

Lady Wu, both frightened and furious, ignored Qian Manxia and Qian Yeejin who tried to pull her away, and pinched Qian Yixiu with full force.

Monkey Brother couldn’t stand it anymore and charged forward, intending to hit Lady Wu, but Qian Yeejin quickly stopped him, saying, "She is your little mistress’s grandmother; if you hit her, my little sister will never pay you any mind again, and our family will no longer want you."

This was something Qian Yixiu had indeed said to Monkey Brother many times, so Monkey Brother dared not approach and instead wiped away tears as he watched his little mistress being beaten.

Qian Yeejin, worried that Monkey Brother would hurt Lady Wu in a rage, tightly hugged Monkey Brother and stood there, crying and shouting, "Granny, stop hitting little sister, she knows she was wrong..."

Qian Yixiu’s cries worked like a medicine, waking up both Cheng Yue, who had fainted from crying, and Qian Sangui, who had passed out from anger.

Supported by Qian Xiaoyu, Cheng Yue ran out, crying and calling, "Yixiu, my Yixiu." Seeing her daughter being beaten severely by her mother-in-law, she cried even harder and threw herself at Qian Yixiu, pleading, "Please don’t beat Yixiu, please don’t. If you must hit someone, hit Yueyue..."

Qian Manxia and Qian Yeejin, who were trying to break up the fight, mainly begged Lady Wu to stop, not daring to confront or oppose her. But Cheng Yue was different; with her protective mother instinct, she disregarded the severity, and while embracing her daughter, she knocked Lady Wu to the ground.

Already furious, Lady Wu pushed Cheng Yue, who was kneeling on Qian Yixiu, searching for the exposed half of the little behind to pinch fiercely again.

While several people were tearing and crying out, Qian Sangui, supported by Zhang Yang, ordered, "Stop, all of you stop!"

Blind with rage, Lady Wu didn’t hear him. Qian Manxia cried out, "Mother, father’s awake, he’s telling you not to hit Yixiu."

Hearing this, Lady Wu finally stopped, raised her tear-stained face to look at Qian Sangui, and said, "This child has been spoiled by us, she has been spoiled too much by us. If we don’t discipline her, what are we to do!"

As she spoke, she loosened her grasp, and Cheng Yue pulled up the sobbing Qian Yixiu and embraced her, crying, "Yixiu, my poor Yixiu..."