Chapter 34: Getting Hit
“Ah! The Third Master’s wife is pregnant!”
“The Third Madam!”
“Ah! Get out of the way!”
…
When the crowd saw that Matriarch Wang was swinging the broomstick towards Madam Zhao’s direction, the crowd suddenly broke out into an uproar, yelling up a racket.
After all, there were many mothers-in-law’s in the village who pestered and worked their daughter-in-law’s, but rarely did they go so far as to beat them, especially if they were heavily pregnant.
Bailian’s eyes flashed with an icy glint, and she immediately charged over, using her hands to wrench the broomstick out of Matriarch Wang’s hands. Performing a quick, indistinct motion, Matriarch Wang suddenly crashed into the ground.
“Ai ya! The heavens are unfair ah! A granddaughter is beating up her grandmother! Let lightning from the just heavens cut down this ungrateful bitch!”
“A cheap girl who steals money! She actually dares to beat her elders! Why hasn’t she been struck by lightning yet ah?!”
Matriarch Wang stayed on the ground, slapping her thighs, all the while bawling crocodile tears as if she had suffered some grievance.
“Old Madam, what’s this about the silver? Why are you hitting my Mother? She’s just about to give birth to my younger brother.” Bailian crumpled to the ground, looking weak and pale, her voice shaking.
“Bah! You little wench! Give me back my silver quickly, or just wait for me to kill you!” Matriarch Wang viciously spat and directly reached out to swing a claw towards Bailian’s face.
Seeing Bailian in danger, Grandmother hurried over to stop her, but she slipped and accidentally stumbled to her knees.
Madam Zhao was in a tough spot due to her big belly, so she could only stand in place and sob, weakly bending down to pull Bailian up.
“Mother, go over to that side!” Bailian urged, afraid that Madam Zhao would be battered
“Lian’ er..” Madam Zhao saw that Bailian’s small face had a long, bloody scratch on it, most likely inflicted by Matriarch Wang a few seconds before. Hot tears fell down Madam Zhao’s face as she examined Bailian’s face.
Gently pushing Madam Zhao away and helping up the fallen Grandmother Ciying, whenever she passed by Matriarch Wang, she secretly pinched her several times.
Besides, as a former secret service agent, she knew exactly what places of the human body to pinch so that no matter how much pain is inflicted, it wouldn’t leave so much as a trace.
“Ah! You stinky wench and vixen, actually dare to hit me?!”
The villagers standing outside could only hear the screaming and wailing of Matriarch Wang, but couldn’t see Bailian and Grandmother Ciying beating anyone. As such, they felt that Matriarch Wang was the only one screeching.
“Mother~ What’s happening? What silver?” LI Jinyu tottered into the courtyard, still drowsy and unaware of the current situation.
“Is this Jinyu girl only just getting up?”
‘Look at what time it is! How lazy!”
“Yeah, the Third Branch’s children have all come back from cutting down ragweed and washing the laundry.”
…
Everyone gossiped, tittle-tattling about the Li Family at the door, but did not dare to speak too loudly.
That was because Matriarch Wang had never been a cooperative or generous person. Even if the callous Matriarch Wang hit people, no one dared to go against her due to her troublesome, exasperate personality.
Because Matriarch Wang was notoriously unreasonable, if anyone accused her of a crime, one’s life would be considered over.
She was one to hold grudges whenever things didn’t go her way, scolding and cursing madly at everyone until one’s ears would start to bleed. No matter what ugly things you could think of and throw her away, nothing could offend this annoying, uncivilized miser.
As such, no one dared to mess with her.
“Jinyu ah! They beat your Mother and even stole our silver! Come and help me up!’ Seeing that Jinyu had finally woken up, Matriarch Wang clapped her hands gleefully and barbarically looked at Grandmother Ciying, “A vixen is always a vixen, daring to steal silver! Just wait until I beat you all up! Damn you!:
“Old Madam…what…what silver? We really don’t know what you’re talking about!” Grandmother Ciying was shaking violently, fearful that Bailian and Madam Zhao would get hit once again.
It had been only a few days since Bailian had been severely injured and her constitution was naturally weak. If she were to be injured again, she might really die!
Not to mention, Madam Zhao was already far along in her pregnancy term, just about to give birth. If there was an accident, then the only result would be a dead body, and two lives.
Seeing Jinyu fiercely rumbling towards Baiilian, Grandmother Ciying felt deeply helpless and thought that the future was bleak.
Could it be that today was the day of the Third Branch’s demise?
Bailian pitifully stood there, her head ducked down. She then speedily reached out to pinch LI Jinyu, mercilessly using all her pain. Li Jinyu was as fat as a pig and as such Bailian easily pinched the girl’s round, abundant body.
“AH! Mother! This damn wench pinched me!” Jinyu trembled and then desperately swung her open palm to Bailian. For some reason, her hatred of Bailian was growing more and more every second.
Everyone standing outside only saw a fat round body viciously flying towards the thing Bailian, the girl looking very helpless and frail.
In addition, Matriarch Wang rushed towards Grandmother Ciying who had urgently pulled Bailian into a protective embrace, Madam Zhao also looking miserable, staggering over to protect Bailian.
Balian let the two protect her but kept an observant eye out for anything that could hurt them. She could make use of the opportunity right now to make it seem like the Third Branch was being abused, and she could also secretly make some killing moves on Matriarch Wang and Jinyu.
When the trio landed on the ground, Matriarch Wang and Li Jinyu had spared no effort. Even though Bailian had been secretly protecting them, there were still a lot of bloody red scratches and gashes on Grandmother Ciying’s and Bailian’s faces.
The villagers gaped!
Everyone had been pulling the other’s hair and scratching at other’s faces so while Grandmother Ciying and Bailian didn’t have any injuries on their bodies, their faces were a little scary.
It was only some external wounds, not too bad.
But it was Bailian’s pinches that were truly painful!
Madam Zhao went to protect Bailian, but Li Jinyu, seeing Madam Zhao’s attempt, blocked her, and kicked a big foot over.
Bailian had been carefully paying attention to Madam Zhao, as she was heavily pregnant and the one in the most danger.
Seeing Madam Zhao about to crash into the ground, Bailian quickly caught her from the back and brought her down, making it look like Madam Zhao had been slammed into the ground rather hard just now.
“Ah! Stop!”
“Mother!”
“The Third Madam!”
…
When everyone saw Madam Zhao wilt to the floor, they gasped in fright.
Seeing Madam Zhao had been kicked, Grandmother Ciying crashed to her knees, crawling over to check up on her daughter-in-law, but was stopped by Matriarch Wang’s hands. Matriarch Wang continued to brutally claw at Grandmother Ciying’s face.
When Li Jinyu saw Madam Zhao lying motionlessly on the ground, she hastily retreated back into her room out of fright.
Bailian quickly embraced Madam Zhao, and set her hand onto the woman’s wrist, checking her pulse. She quickly diagnosed that nothing was wrong, after all, she had caught her just now.
It was just that Madam Zhao had been gravely frightened just now, and had been scared into silence.
Bailian leaned towards Madam Zhao’s ears, looking as if she was checking on her Mother, Covertly, she whispered in Madam Zhao’s ear, “Mother, don’t move, otherwise Grandma and I will be killed!”
Madam Zhao shuddered but didn’t open her eyes.
Although she didn’t know how Matriarch Wang had lost her silver, looking at the old lady’s current attitude, she was really planning on thrashing Bailian and Grandmother Ciying to death today!
Madam Zhao was inconvenienced due to her pregnant belly and she couldn’t even intervene in the fight. Even if she did step up, the Third Branch would be inevitably pummeled to death.
Seeing the bloody, gory gashes on the Bailian and Grandmother Ciying’s face, she felt as if she had fallen into a dark abyss, feeling that the entire situation was hopeless.
Therefore, when she heard Bailian’s whispers, she didn’t dare to move.
“Who let you steal the money! I’m going to kill you!” Matriarch Wang ignored Madam Zhao who was lying, unmoving on the ground and just turned to Grandmother Ciying, savagely spitting, “Kill you!”
“Stop!”
A strong chiding voice rang out, making the villagers unconsciously give way and Matriarch Wang’s hand also paused.
Grandmother Ciying took advantage of Matriarch Wang’s hesitation and crawled up to Madam Zhao’s side, trembling and struggling to help her daughter-in-law up,. However she had been hacked and thrashed at by Matriarch Wang’s ruthless hands, where could she summon up the strength!
Village Head Li rushed over and immediately a miserable scene came into view: Matriarch Wang venomously tugging at Grandmother Ciying’s hair, a motionless Madam Zhao with her big belly sprawled on the ground, and finally a pale-faced girl helplessly clutching Madam Zhao in her thin arms.
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