Chapter 228: Chapter 228 Being Dragged
Suddenly, the two of them started fighting.
Mrs. Cui, fueled by a surge of boundless rage and seizing the initiative, dragged Kong Ya to the ground, initially gaining the upper hand, but Kong Ya, younger and stronger, retaliated fiercely. With a swift grab, she pulled at Mrs. Cui’s pants leg and brought her down too, and the two wrestled together on the ground.
The crowd rushed to separate them. With many hands making light work, the two were quickly pulled apart, several people holding them at bay with a ter between them. Although their bodies were restrained, neither woman was willing to let the other one have the last word. They cursed each other with filthy language—a fierce and spectacular verbal duel.
But clearly, Kong Ya had the advantage. Her vocal projections were not weak, and she powerfully dominated the lagging Mrs. Cui. She fixated on the noisy incident in Gao Hong’s bed, “What kind of people let what kind of people through their doors! The whole family, from old to young, has no sha! It’s incredible! If my family ever did sothing so disgraceful, I’d rather just bang my head against the wall and die to avoid further embarrassnt all the way to my ancestors. There’s truth to the saying ‘the older you get, the less sha you have’…”
“Who are you calling shaless, you whore sared with filth! I’ll rip your mouth to shreds!… I’m going to report you to the leaders for spouting nonsense and get your man a derit! Make you go back to farming! A pestilent wretch!…” Mrs. Cui retorted fiercely, her words making many married won in the crowd blush.
When Kong Ya heard the threat of reporting, she beca even more agitated, “Go ahead, report ! You think I’m scared? I’ll go too, I want to ask the leaders if your noisy affairs next door count as ruining people’s silence or if it’s just shaless behavior…”
Seeing the two won escalating their quarrel, and knowing the n of their households were about to return from training, the bystanders started to intervene. Curious about what had actually happened, they urged the won to clear the air and return to their respective hos. Kong Ya loudly demanded justice, “Everyone, judge for yourselves! It’s well known that Mrs. Cui is unreasonable and causes trouble often. She hasn’t stopped picking fights since she moved here a few months ago. Tell if this makes any sense. Her good-for-nothing grandson threw sand into the pot of soup I was cooking right outside my door, and I caught him red-handed. I was so angry I smacked him. Deserved it, don’t you think? And I barely touched him! No bruises, no bleeding, yet she cos out demanding dical expenses? It’s an outright scam! I’ve even got a loss myself to claim here—I was cooking an old chicken in that pot of soup; they owe for the chicken…”
“Tch, you heartless creature! My grandson cried for two whole hours because of your slap. Who knows if he’s been internally injured? This is a matter of life and death! There’s no justice anymore. This wretched woman is accusing my grandson based on who knows from where this sand ca, still holding a grudge about accidentally spilling a few of your beans that were drying by your door! Don’t believe her; she’s just out to harm our family!”
“Harm your ancestors, will you listen to her twisting the facts! Her house, with two ill-bred brats that co from a mother but lack a father’s upbringing. Everyone in the courtyard despises them. Didn’t they beat up Sister-in-law Dahua’s son just the other day? We all saw it… This is the epito of shalessness… You don’t know what it’s like to live next to them. At night, even more shaless things happen—their daughter-in-law is so loud when they’re at it, sounds like a blaring horn… You tell , is that sothing to be proud of? It’s disgraceful! My family has young children, think about the terrible influence…”
Kong Ya had said this during their earlier spat, but the noise and confusion might have made it difficult for so to hear clearly. Now that she repeated it, there was a collective gasp from the crowd. This was explosive news indeed.
Even ordinarily, if a husband and wife held hands outside, people would gossip. But now, they were actually causing such a commotion in the dead of night that the whole neighborhood knew—the shalessness! If this were in tis past, they would have been dragged out and labeled as adulterers. Indeed, they have no sha. Most in the crowd now looked at Mrs. Cui with disdain, their gazes filled with contempt. Gao Hong was not here at the mont, and the Cui family only had Mrs. Cui and two grandsons who were standing at the back, eating buns and enjoying the spectacle. Although it wasn’t Mrs. Cui who had done this, it was her daughter-in-law after all, part of her household. Moreover, with the current situation of swindling people, everyone suddenly found her disagreeable.
Mrs. Cui, hearing this, beca extrely agitated. She thrashed about, trying to break free from the many hands holding her back as she attempted to charge at Kong Ya. She scread at the top of her lungs for Kong Ya to shut up, crying and cursing, her spit and snot flowing freely as she accused her of speaking nonsense.
So people, perhaps feeling a bit of sympathy, said to Kong Ya, “Maybe you heard wrong. After all, we are close to the back mountain where you could mistake the cries of wild cats or dogs. Usually, Gao Hong doesn’t seem like that kind of person.”
Kong Ya, puffing up her chest with great confidence, retorted, “Last ti Mrs. Cui went back to her hotown, didn’t she? She was gone for a total of ten days, and I heard those noises every single day. As soon as Mrs. Cui ca back, the noises stopped. Are you saying I’m seeing ghosts? Even if I wanted to fra her, I wouldn’t use such things to do it. Whether she did it or not, she knows herself. Moreover, the previous neighbors should know too. I don’t believe she hasn’t done it before.” As she spoke, she scanned the crowd and imdiately spotted Yang Peimin, her eyes lighting up as if she had struck gold. Pointing at her, she said, “Sister-in-law Shen must have heard it too, you all used to live next door. Sister-in-law Dahua even lived across the stairwell. Sister-in-law Shen, you better speak up. Was Gao Hong like this before? Not having any sha?”
Then, everyone’s eyes turned to Yang Peimin.
Yang Peimin had been simply pulled into the crowd to watch the scene unfold and now found the chaos spilling onto her.
Mrs. Cui imdiately cried out to her, “Please have rcy, Shen Yi’s wife; don’t speak carelessly. This could drive our family to death. It was wrong of us to have borrowed things from you in the past, but you can’t hold a grudge because of that… If you dare to fra us, I swear I’ll throw myself at your doorstep tonight…”
Mrs. Cui wasn’t stupid—she struck first to gain the upper hand, but she was also acting shalessly!
“Don’t listen to her mad words. Sister-in-law Shen, just tell the truth. We cannot let people like them corrupt the good customs of our community!”
Yang Peimin, eyeing the situation unfolding between the two won—both of whom she disliked—felt an even greater sense of aversion.
She spoke indifferently, “When I arrived, it was too short a ti for to know anything. Didn’t I co right after Aunt Cui?”
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