The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 75 - How Did I Give Birth to a Fool Like You
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Wang Yongzhu wanted to grab a knife and chop someone—how could this be Fourth Brother?
He was clearly a team-killing pig!
Did he still think that his reputation wasn’t stinky enough in the village?
After taking a deep breath and steadying her own breathing, she explained expressionlessly, “I accidentally sewed the cloth onto the skirt while I was learning needlework, so I wanted to snip the thread with the scissors.
Which eye saw me wanting to harm myself?”
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone’s gaze shifted to Wang Yongzhu’s skirt, which they had not noticed in the previous chaos.
Now they could all clearly see a gray cloth hanging from Wang Yongzhu’s green skirt, fluttering in the wind.
“Snort—” After a moment of silence, several suppressed chuckles erupted from the yard.
Wang Yongzhu looked at Li Zhugen Brothers expressionlessly, their faces nearly contorting with the effort to hold back laughter.
It figures—as far as anyone in the village knew, no girl had ever learned to sew by stitching the cloth to her own skirt.
And no one had ever heard of someone being mistaken for self-harm while trying to cut a thread with scissors!
How bad could one’s craft really be?
Looking at the others, Wang Yongping wore a dumbfounded expression, blankly staring at the piece of cloth on his sister’s skirt.
Wang Laozhu turned his head away with his shoulders shaking intermittantly.
Lady Lin, too, hurriedly covered her mouth and ducked into the house before Wang Yongzhu looked her way.
Only Song Chongjin maintained an expression as if he were dead, though the twitching muscles around his mouth betrayed his current thoughts.
Wang Yongzhu simply decided to give up completely, just let it go—there was nothing she could do about it, so let them think what they wanted.
Old Granny Zhang, seeing her own daughter’s face turning blue with anger, and although she too wanted to laugh, she couldn’t—fearing it might hurt her old daughter’s feelings.
She coughed and tried to offer some reassurance, “It’s okay, it’s okay, everyone goes through this!
Let me have a look, oh my, my daughter’s craftsmanship is quite fine, even better than your sister-in-law’s—”
It was an outright awkward attempt to praise!
It was only then that Wang Yongping snapped out of it, grinning at Wang Yongzhu to curry favor, “Little sister is learning needlework, that’s good, truly worthy of being my sister.
The way this cloth is sewn so neatly, no other girl’s work can compare, right?”
He even turned his head to seek the opinions of Li Zhugen Brothers and Song Chongjin!
In Wang Yongping’s heart, his little sister was the fattest—oh no, the best!
Even if she had sewn the cloth onto her skirt, it was still the most beautifully done.
Wang Yongzhu could not stand it any longer and refused to take any more!
She snatched the scissors from Wang Yongping’s hand, her gaze deadly, “Fourth Brother, I think you can shut up now!”
Even though Wang Yongping was dense, at that moment, seeing his little sister almost exploding with anger, he reflexively covered his mouth and gave a foolish grin to Wang Yongzhu.
Wang Yongzhu held her forehead…
It was up to Old Wang to intervene before his old daughter got too worked up.
He stepped forward, defused the situation, and with a few words, sent the Li Family Brothers and Song Chongjin out of the yard.
As he stepped back through his own front door, he heard his old daughter grit her teeth and growl, “Dad, close the door, let the dogs out!”
The Li Family Brothers and Song Chongjin, who had just stepped outside, exchanged glances, then pivoted back to the Wang Family’s main gate and pressed their ears against it to listen to the commotion inside.
Old Wang was busy closing the door while asking, “Daughter, what do you plan to do?”
Wang Yongzhu gave a cold smile, moved slowly into the room, and fetched the feather duster to hand to Old Granny Zhang, “Mother, I feel like Fourth Brother needs his hide tightened lately—”
As soon as Wang Yongping caught sight of the feather duster, his back began to ache.
His own mother wielded that duster quite skillfully; just the other day, he had been hit by it and was still in pain.
If he were to be hit again, he feared he wouldn’t be able to leave the bed for several days.
His eyes quickly darted around, seeking an escape route in the yard.
Old Granny Zhang was both annoyed and amused, knowing that her eldest daughter had lost face in front of others and wanted her to whip Laosi to vent her anger.
But Laosi had indeed been recklessly impulsive today; knowing how important a girl’s reputation is, even if he had really seen his elder sister trying to harm herself, he should have kept quiet.
Keeping his arms folded, it would have been better to find a solution among family.
To shout out like that, and to be seen by outsiders, wasn’t it just inviting others to say that his sister was bewitched?
No wonder his daughter’s reputation was unfavorable; it was all the doing of such blockheads like Laosi in his own family.
Thinking this way, even she couldn’t accept not giving Laosi a good thrashing.
Although Old Granny Zhang was getting on in years, her years of disciplining the children at home had given her a good arm.
Seizing the opportunity, she grabbed Wang Yongping’s leg, which was already halfway over the wall, and started to beat him with the feather duster.
“How did I give birth to such an idiot like you?
Any brother would fear for his sister’s reputation, but you seem to wish hers were tarnished, right?
Even if your sister had no intention of taking her own life, couldn’t you have snatched the scissors first, then calmly talked her down?
Why did you have to yell?
You wanted to make sure the whole village could hear, didn’t you?
Fool—”
Wang Yongzhu calmly found the knot in front of everyone, snipped it off, and pulled out the thread.
In the meantime, she enjoyed watching Wang Yongping howl and plead for mercy as he was thrashed.
Wang Laozhu shook his head and went inside early on; it seemed he agreed that his youngest son needed a lesson.
He was an adult who was preparing to start his own household, but he still behaved like a blathering fool.
How was he going to manage a household in the future?
If it weren’t for his weakened body, he too would have wanted to give a few lashes.
He only half-heartedly told Old Granny Zhang, “Don’t always hit the legs; if you lame him, it’s no good for working the fields.
Just pick places with more flesh to whip.”
Lady Jiang saw the bad turn of events early on and hid in the kitchen, not daring to come out.
In such a scene, if anything went wrong, she would be collateral damage; she certainly couldn’t stay long.
Even Lady Lin didn’t dare watch the excitement for too long, to avoid being dragged into Old Granny Zhang’s wrath.
Old Granny Zhang only stopped, panting with effort, when she was out of strength, “That’s it for today, but if I ever hear of you again tarnishing your sister’s good name outside, I will break your legs!”
Wang Yongping climbed awkwardly down from the wall, whimpering and feeling aggrieved as he struggled to Wang Yongzhu to explain, “Little sister, I really didn’t know you were just cutting a thread; I thought you were going to stab your leg!
Fourth Brother never meant to damage your reputation.
Don’t worry, I’ll go talk to the Li Family Brothers and the Song Brothers.
They are honest folks; they won’t spread rumors!”
The three reputable men outside the yard exchanged glances, each feeling a bit sheepish.
It was Li Zhugen who pulled the others back, tiptoeing quietly away before speaking, “We must not let today’s incident leak out, or how could we face Brother Yongping?
Don’t you agree?”
Li Zhugan naturally concurred, and both brothers warily watched Song Chongjin, who had just broken off an engagement with Wang Yongzhu, hoping he wouldn’t take the chance to damage her already compromised reputation further.
Song Chongjin’s mouth twitched as if he was being mocked; was he that kind of gossiper?
But seeing the worried looks of the Li Family Brothers, he simply nodded silently in agreement, barely managing to say, “I won’t talk!”
Reassured, the Li Family Brothers slapped Song Chongjin on the shoulder, “That’s good.
Regardless of the engagement being called off, it’s Wang Yongzhu’s reputation that suffered.
You are a man; whatever happened is in the past.
If you harp on it, that would be indecent.
Keeping quiet is what we men should do!
Alright, time for us to head home.”
