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Jiang Mingzhu was not an unreasonable woman. She turned to look at her husband and advised him to let go.
“Little Deng let go of brother-in-law.”
Master Deng was furious but he still listened to his wife a lot. Thus even though he was bursting with anger, he let go of Master Xiu. Since his wife asked him to let go then he would let go.
However as soon as he let go Master Xiu pretended to faint as he fell on the ground and with his elbows supporting his upper body, he cried loudly.
“Help! Help! Sob! Sob! I cannot live anymore! Look at this, the juniors are hitting the elders.
How can I raise my head like this? How can I live in the future?” Master Xiu fell on the ground hoping to attract the attention of the servants. As long as the servants gossiped about this matter, Master Deng and Jiang Mingzhu were done for!
He cried as if he wanted to prove that he was more wronged than Dou E.
He wanted to see everyone how far Master Deng had gone by hitting him.
Everyone praised Master Deng for being filial, hardworking and honest. While they gossiped behind his back and said that he was lazy and not a good mer. Now he would show everyone Master Deng’s true colour!
Mother Jiang who had been pretending as if she could not hear the yelling and fighting, finally could not hold back anymore and stepped out of the room which belonged to her.
She walked over to her third daughter’s courtyard and her eyes flashed when she saw that Master Xiu had been beaten up by Master Deng.
Even though she was biased against her two daughters, she was not as resistant against Jiang Mingzhu as everyone thought. If not she would not have made such calculations to marry Jiang Mingzhu and carry on her bloodline.
If she had not pretended to hate Jiang Mingzhu then her second husband would have made sure that Jiang Mingzhu remained unmarried.
After all, the father of Second Sister Jiang was her first husband’s cousin.
And he hated Jiang Mingzhu for what happened to his cousin.
“Whats the fuss?” Mother Jiang asked as Second Master Jiang followed her. He glanced at Master Xiu who was beaten up and frowned before turning to look at Master Deng,
“What kind of atrocious act is this?” he asked angrily.
“Daddy Ye! You have to help us,” it had to be said that Eldest Sister Jiang was really skilled in acting. She immediately rushed forward as she helped her husband and hugged him tightly. “I know that I have not treated Mingzhu well but I have never gone too far. Just a few small pranks, how can she let her husband hit mine and that so ruthlessly?”
“Look at how badly my husband had been beaten!”
She hugged and cried while Master Xiu followed her rhythm and cried as well.
Second Sister Jiang and Master Sang looked at one another before turning to look at Eldest Sister Jiang and Master Xiu. These two really knew how to act. But were they not worried that Master Deng would retaliate?
That mer was not as easy to deal with as they thought.
It wouldn’t be good if Master Deng publicised the matters that happened in their family. Would it?
Sure enough.
Master Deng exploded when he saw that Eldest Sister Jiang and Master Xiu were being shameless.
“Pah! Stop slandering me, do you think that everyone is a fool here? You and your husband have been scheming and calculating against my wife from the very day I came to this house.”
“You think I don’t know? Heh! You might not know this but my family lives just three blocks next to your husband’s sisters! And my brothers-in-law are also close with his,” he tipped his chin to Master Xiu whose face turned pale when he heard Master Deng bring up his family.
He wanted to say something but he was halted by Master Deng who continued angrily, “From what I heard, you haven’t even gone back to your house ever since the drought started as you were worried that your family who are fourth ranking officials might ask you for food and money.”
“Who doesn’t know that even a second-ranking official is having trouble surviving at this time? Who are you trying to fool?”
“My wife knows that you are deliberately skipping and skimping but she is kind enough to feed your family but you seriously know how to ride on our head right?”
“Not to mention as soon as I married, most of the servants were let go or fired. Only a few of them who care for your children are left. As for me? I have to do the work of the entire house.”
“You all promised me that you would work along with me. But have you worked at all? No! You have pushed me to do all the work while you all live a comfortable life. Do you take me as a servant?”
Master Xiu wanted to nod his head but caught himself at the right moment.
“You know I am not in good health!” Master Xiu cried as he sobbed pitifully. But inwardly he was rather pleased. This was good, even if he were to receive a few points of criticism, the one who would suffer would be Master Deng.
“Hah! You are not in good health? Then how come you can eat more than six bowls of rice and even send your children to pay attention to what I am cooking? Tsk tsk, you are really sneaky, Master Xiu.”
“You were worried that I would secretly eat something and wanted to stop that right? But guess what the meals that you eat are made from ingredients that my wife purchases from her own money! Why can we not eat more than you?”
“Or does it mean that we not only have to raise your family, but we will also have to stay as downtrodden as possible?”
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