Chapter 29.2

Translated by Aviana

Seeing that the old couple was sitting there without saying anything, Wang-shi felt even more courageous. Ever since she had married Yang Tieshuan, she was never able to exhale freely and expand the eyebrows in front of He-shi…

扬眉吐气 ( yángméitǔqì ): idiom, exhale freely and expand the eyebrows/ feeling of exaltation upon fulfillment/ feel proud and elated

“…Eh? So, all the good things in the house are being taken by the mother to favor a person. But this is also not a way to give a special favor. Usually, we are not even allowed to eat eggs, but the other person not only can eat eggs but can also eat a fat chicken. Ah right, all us adults, should we just go and die? Then you can properly use all the good stuff at home to favor one person….

All this time, there hasn’t even been a sign of activity from the west room, the place where Yang Xuezhang resides.

Seeing that there was a lot of noise at this side, all the children at home also ran over and stood by the door, inquisitively peeking inside.

He-shi was beside humiliation and anger by Wang-shi’s exaggerated reprimand. As it became ever noisier, not only the second branch’s and third branch’s couple came over, even the all the children of the family came to watch the show. Initially, she felt as if she being pinched by her hands and neck, feeling somewhat shameful. But now, looking at Wang-shi making the fuss without any restraint,

He-shi’s anger hit the ceiling, and the last string in her head snapped.

Just then, she happened to see Yang Erniu and Yang Sanniu also standing by the door. With a swish, she shot up, and without even wearing her shoes, she dashed to the door before ruthlessly hauling Yang Erniu into the room.

He-shi’s actions were too fast and very abrupt. No one expected her that she would dash to Yang Erniu, rendering anyone unable to react.

By the time they were able to react, Yang Erniu was already hauled into the room by He-shi. The child was small with a skinny frame. He-shi was ballistic, and to one’s surprise, lifted the child in the air, looking very scary.

After hauling Yang Erniu in, taking advantage of everyone’s lack of response, He-shi raised her hand and slapped her twice.

“Didn’t this old lady ask you not to talk drivel anywhere, yet you went and spoke whatsoever nonsense…”

With a ‘woah’ Yao-shi dashed up quickly and pulled Yang Erniu from He-shi’s hands into her embrace. Probably Yang Erniu was dumbfounded by her grandma’s swift series of motions, not knowing how to react right away. Only when she was in her mother’s embrace was she able to come to her senses and started bawling.

The little girl cried so hard that she was gasping for air, with a clear big red handprint on her face. With the little kid’s face only this small, and He-shi’s hand being very big, the size of handprint was nearly the same size as that of her face, looking extremely scary.

At that moment, Yao-shi only knew how to hold the child in her embrace and weep, not knowing what to say.

Yang Sanniu, looking at her sister getting thrashed and her mother squatting there and holding her older sister whilst crying, also ran over to them before hugging them starting crying too. One adult and two little ones crouched there whilst crying bitterly.

“Mother, what are you doing? What did you hit Erniu?” Yang Tiegen quickly dashed over to see the child.

“This old lady precisely beat her. I asked her no to speak whatsoever nonsense anywhere. Such a young age, yet she didn’t learn to follow good examples and already learned to chew her tongue. Let’s see who would want such small rotten goods in the future..”

嚼起舌根 (jáo shé tou gēn): chew one’s tongue, gossip or talk nonsense

He-shi always yelled at people without filtering her mouth. To actually curse at your own granddaughter, a 5-year-old kid, this unpleasantly.

Lin Qingwan was trembling with anger from head to foot, not knowing how to block He-shi’s mouth. Finally, she dashed over to Yao-shi to help her stand up from the ground first. And then, took over the child to take a look.

“Paining bomu…” Erniu indistinctly mumbled with her face in a hideous mess from all the crying and a bit of blood oozing out from the corner of her mouth.

剥亩 (bōmǔ): one’s father’s elder brother’s wife.

Yang Tiegen was unaware of what He-shi meant. However, she and Yao-shi have clearly understood. He-shi probably thought it was the second girl who spoke about it everywhere, provoking Wang-shi to come and make a fuss.

Lin Qingwan carefully tried to touch the child’s face. However, she didn’t know where to put her hand. Yang Erniu’s face had already swelled up. The big bluish-black patch on the child’s tender and soft skin looked truly frightening.

This old lady….

F*ck this old lady….

Lin Qingwan wished to burst out with all these obscene words but quickly controlled herself. She took in a deep breath and exhaled out. After a good while, she controlled herself.

A daughter-in-law swearing at her mother-in-law is very disgraceful and a grave breach of the norms of society. Once these abusive words come out, no matter how justified or unjustified you are, it would entirely become you being unreasonable. At this moment, Lin Qingwan very much loathed this sort of suppression from ‘filial piety’ and this unequal ranking in the relationship of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. No matter how one’s mother-in-law is wrong, a daughter-in-law cannot object even a bit.

Lin Qingwan calmed down all the raging thoughts in her heart, angrily glaring for a moment into space, and then said: “Mother-in-law, Erniu and Sanniu are both kids, as such it is unlikely for them to learn to chew on their tongues. Moreover, children are usually not sensible, thus upon returning back, in front of me and third dimei, they accidentally blurted out, however…”

She turned around and glared at He-shis triangular eyes, “…We didn’t speak about this to anyone else, because for one we don’t possess such skill of gossiping, second, we don’t have such thoughts, and third, we promised the kids to not to speak about it outside. Because…” She paused and once again took a deep breath, “Because the kids said that their grandmother had warned them that if they spoke about it anywhere, they would be slapped hard…”

When everyone heard these words, several pairs of eyes turned to He-shi, making He-shi wish to drill a hole in the ground and hide.

When Yao-shi heard about slapping her kids, she cried even louder.

Seeing Lin Qingwan taking the initiative to stand on behalf of them, she also spoke out with trembling lips.

“…The child…is so young, mother-in-law…you…you hit so heavily…even more so you want to slap my kids…”

“Mother, ah…Mother…You…” Yang Tiegen also didn’t know what to say. It was his mother who hit his child. He couldn’t move or scold. He can neither do anything nor say anything. He could do nothing but crouch down with his head in his hands and yell helplessly. Such a big man with a sullen appearance looked truly dejected.

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