flstandardbreds Chapter 220 The Shrewish Mother Throws a Tantrum and Tries to Extort Money
Chapter 220 The Shrewish Mother Throws a Tantrum and Tries to Extort Money
Lin Chang'er and a group of teenagers turned their heads and then noticed the tree shed where Li Da had been bathing, which had also been crushed.
As Li's mother and Li Er struggled to pry it open, they could faintly hear a man's groans coming from inside.
In fact, Li's mother had been shouting for a while, but everyone was busy chasing and hunting wild boars, and the crowd was so excited that they didn't notice what was happening over there.
Now that the wild boar had been dealt with and everyone had quieted down, they could finally hear Mother Li's cries for help.
Lin Chang'er selected two guards and asked several older members of the Huo family to help. Of course, Gu Dalang and Gu Erlang, as representatives of the Gu family, also went to lend a hand.
Then he called out to Zhou Li, "Li-ge'er, take the calf down the mountain first, and have your father find Butcher Zhang. We'll send the wild boar down to be cleaned up in a little while. Your sister-in-law has a lot to do here, so she won't go down. Have your father look after it for her."
Originally, Zhang the butcher could have come up the mountain to help, but after the flood, these wild animals started to become active again, and Lin Chang'er was afraid that the smell of blood would cause some unnecessary trouble.
"Alright! Sister-in-law, don't worry, I guarantee I'll get it done!" Zhou Li was overjoyed; he absolutely loved this kind of honorable errand-running job.
Excitedly, he took Zhou Xiaoniu's hand and ran down the mountain.
At that moment, a commotion broke out again at the collapsed tree shed.
"Hey, his isn't as good as my dad's." It was the voice of a kid who had followed along to watch the commotion.
Then came a burst of laughter, "Little Twenty-Seven, stop talking nonsense outside, or your dad will beat you up."
Little Twenty-Seven gestured with his hands, "My dad is like this, he's like this, the difference between an eagle and a caterpillar!"
Lin Chang'er was curious and turned around to see him gesturing with his hands. Then she heard Gu Xiaoman exclaim, "Auntie, why isn't he wearing any clothes? How embarrassing!"
Lin Chang'er quickly covered Gu Xiaoman's mouth, but Li's mother had already erupted, "I asked you to help move the wood, what are you looking at? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart."
After saying that, he looked at Gu Xiaoman and said, "And you brat, how dare you talk like that? Did your father die or your mother die? You're a brat who was born but not taught."
Since the Huo family had left behind quite a few children, and the Gu family was generous and methodical in their work, never mistreating the children, the adults went down the mountain to tidy up today, so the children stayed here to play by themselves.
Because they often visited the Gu family, the younger ones called Lin Chang'er "Auntie" like Gu Xiaoman, while the older ones called her "Sister-in-law" like Gu Silang.
When the Li family and the Gu family met before, Gu Xiaoman and Gu Xiaolu and the other children were already playing with their friends, and Li's mother had never seen Gu Xiaoman.
Hearing Gu Xiaoman call her "auntie," they naturally assumed she was someone else's child.
Her curse was extremely vulgar, and Gu Erlang's face immediately darkened, while Gu Dalang also looked displeased.
The other young men who were helping out, along with the two guards, all looked at the old woman in front of them with the same question in their minds: Is this person a fool?
Xiaoman's dad just helped move the logs to save the person!
How can this person be so ungrateful, even cursing others!
Suddenly, no one wanted to help anymore, and one by one they withdrew their hands.
Especially the two guards, seeing that Lin Chang'er's expression had turned bad, stopped moving their hands that had already been raised.
Lin Chang'er has always been reluctant to let her children suffer. When the Gu family was going through the most difficult time, Guo Dabao bullied Xiaoman, and she dared to go to their door to demand justice.
What's more, right now, they're all her own people. If she just shouts, these kids will probably be happy to help her kick Li's mother out.
Lin Chang'er said in a deep, displeased voice, "My dear in-law, what you said is too harsh. It is said that children speak without restraint. What Xiaoman said is the truth. How did it come to the point of cursing other people's parents?"
"Besides, don't you find Xiaoman familiar at all?"
Gu Erlang and Gu Ersao, Gu Xiaoman actually resembles Gu Ersao more, according to everyone who has seen them.
It's laughable that Li's mother, as the maternal grandmother, didn't even notice.
Li's mother was furious and had no interest in paying attention to such a veiled hint.
Moreover, she was already very dissatisfied with Lin Chang'er, a mere wife, taking charge of the household. Seeing how rude Lin Chang'er was to her now only made her angrier.
She immediately sat down on the ground and started throwing a tantrum, "Oh dear, the Gu family is bullying us! My dear family members are coming to visit their daughter and they're going to be tortured to death!"
"They wanted to see their newborn grandson, but they had to come and bathe him first. They even let the wild boars run over their brother-in-law, didn't give him any clothes, and called a bunch of people to laugh at them."
"This is driving people to their deaths, God!"
Li Dayuan, who had been terrified, had now regained his senses and, upon hearing his mother's cries, cooperated perfectly.
"Ouch, ouch, it hurts so much! The Gu family is bullying us so much, so much! Mother, how am I supposed to live like this? I might as well be dead..."
“My son, my poor son! Third Mother’s father, open your eyes and see this is your good son-in-law, look at how he watches us, an orphan and a widow, being bullied by his family…”
Gu Erlang felt like a million wild horses were galloping through his mind. He thought about how his mother had repeatedly told him not to leave any evidence for the Li family to use against him, which was why he had been holding back. But what were his mother-in-law and brother-in-law doing?
Gu Erlang took a breath and was about to speak when Gu Dalang quickly tugged at his sleeve and shook his head.
That's his mother-in-law. If he speaks up, the Li family will have even more reason to cause trouble.
Lin Chang'er was dumbfounded. Could this person be a lunatic? With so many people watching, how could they twist the truth like this? Do they think everyone is blind?
Lin Chang'er patted non-existent dust off her hands. "If that's what my mother-in-law says, then I'll have to get everyone to judge this!"
"Yudian was born prematurely and is not even a month old yet, and my second sister-in-law is still in her postpartum period. Not to mention you, even we ourselves have to wash our hands before going in to visit them."
"It rained heavily earlier, and we were afraid that the dampness would bring illness to the mother and child. Everyone who went to visit them would wash their hands and dry off their clothes before daring to enter the door."
"Yes, that's right. My grandma wanted to come see Yudian a couple of days ago, but she had nowhere to take a bath! She said that Yudian is still too young, so she decided to wait until the weather cleared up, and after coming down the mountain, she would clean up before visiting her!"
The speaker was a young man from the Huo family.
Lin Chang'er nodded to him, then looked at Li's mother, "You are covered in mud. We will boil water for you to bathe so that you can go to see your second sister-in-law and Yudianer clean. Is that wrong?"
"As for that wild boar, the children were afraid it would bump into Second Sister-in-law and Raindrop, so they stopped it from running that way. But no one chased it this way, right? When we saw it, didn't we call you out immediately?"
"It doesn't make sense that someone as old as you could escape, while your great-uncle, who is strong and healthy, couldn't?"