“Enough!” Second Master Jiang could no longer listen. He glared at Master Deng and said to him fiercely, “How can you be so insensible? No matter what, Little Xiu is your eldest brother-in-law. Not only are you quibbling with him, you have also beaten him.”
“Just a few months of feeding the family and you feel wronged? Before you came to this family, Little Xiu had sacrificed a lot for this family,” Second Master Jiang condemned. “Who do you think you are to say such words to Little Xiu? How dare you raise your hands on Little Xiu?”
Of course, he was lying, what kind of sacrifice would a short and narrow-minded mer like Master Xiu make? He was simply saying these things to save Master Xiu’s face as he had always been biased towards Eldest Sister Jiang and Second Sister Jiang.
How could he not?
One was his daughter and the other one was his niece.
How could he not support them?
“Enough with your quibbling,” Second Master Jiang spoke hurriedly while scolding Master Deng like a fair elder. “Come here and apologise to your eldest brother-in-law. It’s already embarrassing enough that we married the daughter of the Jiang family to a mer from a butcher family but you actually dared to bring those shrew-like habits to our house!”
“Get on your knees and kowtow three times in front of your eldest daughter-in-law and brother-in-law for the disrespect you have shown.”
“Goodness, this is why I stopped you from marrying Little Zhu to him,” Second Master Jiang said to his wife. “He had ruined the reputation of our family, just look at him!”
Madam Jiang did not say anything, instead, it was Master Deng who turned and looked at his wife.
“Mingzhu say something!”
Only now did he realise that he was never a family member in the eyes of these people. The reason they were fine with pushing the work of the entire house on his shoulders was because they took him as a servant!
In their eyes, he was not worthy of marrying in their house. Thus, for them letting him have the honour of marrying Jiang Mingzhu was enough of a compensation.
This was — truly too much!
Only now did he understand why Jiang Fenhua asked him to separate from this family. He knew what kind of people they were!
Jiang Mingzhu’s head was lowered and no one knew what she was thinking.
Master Xiu laughed inwardly. Jiang Mingzhu despite being treated like such had always been filial to their parents, what could she even say? She must be waiting for Master Deng to kowtow in front of them!
Hah! This was what he gets for going against me, thought Master Xiu to himself.
He then turned and tugged on the sleeves of his wife’s robe. Eldest Sister Jiang immediately understood what her husband wanted and rolled her sleeves, she glared at Master Deng and Jiang Mingzhu before saying, “Do you not know how to get on your knees? Mingzhu, you better tell your husband to kowtow to us or else I will make him get on his knees! How dare he disobey father as well?”
Since she was young Eldest Sister Jiang had bullied Jiang Mingzhu whose father was a servant. More importantly, Jiang Mingzhu was too honest and easy to bully.
Even in the past she and the second sister would keep the extra money that they earned but Jiang Mingzhu would honestly hand everything to their mother.
From a very young age, Jiang Mingzhu had been raising the family. She just did not know it yet!
Eldest Sister Jiang had never taken this sister of hers seriously. For her Jiang Mingzhu was weak and useless.
So what if she hid the money and did not deliberately hand it over? What could they do to her? Her stepdaddy was willing to stand on her side.
“That’s enough,” The Second Sister peeked at the clenched fingers of Jiang Mingzhu and noticed that something was amiss about her third sister, she tried to warn the eldest sister but the woman did not appreciate her warning.
She waved her hand dismissively and said to Second Sister Jiang, “Quiet. Why are you meddling in this matter? Can you not see that an elder is teaching a lesson to the younger ones?”
She then turned to look at Jiang Mingzhu and said to her, “Did you not hear what I said, you deaf bitch? Do you want me to make your husband kowtow?”
Everyone was looking at Jiang Mingzhu.
Master Deng was disappointed when he looked at his wife who was silent. He could not believe that his wife was quiet even though he was pushed to this extent. He couldn’t help but clench his teeth. If he was forced to kowtow today then he would definitely divorce Jiang Mingzhu.
He had never suffered such grievances and had never tolerated such unfair treatment before. His brothers-in-law and sisters treated him really well. However, for the sake of Jiang Mingzhu, he had suffered silently.
Even worked like an ox and bull for this family.
All because he thought that his wife was a wonderful person and she treated him well.
That was the reason why he endured everything now. But now that he was being forced to kowtow and his wife was still standing silently, he did not want to live this life anymore.
“Ah! You bitch since you cannot teach your husband, see how I do it!” Eldest Sister Jiang took a step towards Master Deng who took a step back.
But how could she let go of him? Eldest Sister Jiang chased after him and soon caught him before knotting his hair in her fingers and forcing Master Deng to kneel.
“Enough!” Suddenly a roar echoed in the corridor and Eldest Sister Jiang felt someone push her. “I want to split up from this family!”
Jiang Mingzhu snapped harshly.
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