Third Great Uncle Zhang then stated, “Since you know you’re in the wrong, then you should receive punishment! Then sentenced you to kneel outside the ancestral temple for one day and one night, vow to never make this mistake again and from today onward, look after your nephews and nieces more. Are you willing?”
Female doesn’t have the qualification to kneel in the ancestral temple but instead kneel in the yard outside. With this kind of weather, to kneel outside, it wasn’t something one can bear. Third Great Uncle disliked her sly evil intention and was deeply furious with her calling them ‘still-not-dead-yet’, so it was clear that he wanted to punish her.
On the other hand, when Mrs. Qiao heard this punishment, kneeling at the ancestral hall and make a vow, she was fine with it. But the sentence telling her to‘look after’ Lian Fang Zhou and her siblings sharply cut her heart.
Just the thought of the siblings relying on these words to come over every few days looking for care and asking for things made her go mad in fury.
“They also have field, land and a house to live in. As well as that, there are others caring for them from time to time. Hmph, even brought them along for making charcoal! If it were any others, would there be such a treatment? They still don’t know how to be content? I still need to give care? What do you call this? I have a son to raise, need to send him to school and a large amount of personal matter that needed to be done. How can I have time to care for others? Who is there to look after me!?”
Mrs. Qiao bolted out a large pile of jabbering as she glared at Lian Fang Zhou. She sneered, “But even if I care for her, she won’t be grateful! And on top of that, she’ll dig a pit for me to jump in and frame me! Hmph, what’s wrong with being like concubine Hua? It took me a lot of effort to establish a connection with concubine Hua and spoke numerous good word for her to get it. What’s so bad about becoming someone’s concubine, you can eat fragrantly and drink lavishly. Now, look at that dead girl, not one word of gratitude, instead, treating me as an enemy! So heartless!”
Lian Fang Zhou muted by anger. She sold the other person and expected the other to be grateful to her!
“Aunt Qiao, don’t randomly talk!”Hua Jin Tao who remained silent so far quickly interjected after hearing Mrs. Qiao’s words. “What becoming a concubine or not? How come I don’t know such a matter? Because I inadvertently said our home needed to buy a maid, you persuaded me to buy Lian Fang Zhou. You also promised me she was willing and tricked her into getting on my carriage. I didn’t ask on the way back, so only knew what was going on when I reached home. Lian Fang Zhou living a good life and got younger siblings to care for, so how can you do this!? This is your blood-related niece! Luckily, Master and I aren’t overbearing and abusive people. And so we sent her back!”
Mrs. Qiao was dumbstruck!
Not waiting for her to react, Lian Fang Zhou sobbed out, “Aunt, you're so coldhearted! First, you sell me to be a be slave. Are you planning to sell my siblings next? You oppress us and cause our family to separate. Are you not afraid that my parents won’t be in peace in Heaven! Sell us siblings and take over our house and land. What a good plan you have! You told me that you found work for me in town and coaxed me to go with concubine Hua. This is your so-called work!?”
“Mrs. Lian-Qiao, what do you have to say?”Zhang li zheng slammed on the tea table.
Selling blood-related niece as a slave and then schemed for the land asset, this woman’s heart is so heartless! What’s more, Zhang li zheng and the others believed Mrs. Qiao could really do this kind of stuff!
Let’s not mention other stuff, one can tell how vicious the woman is, just by looking how arrogant she was acting now.
“I didn’t! I didn’t,” Mrs. Qiao was furious, she loudly yelled. “They are falsely accusing me! False accusation! Surname Hua, you lousy woman, didn't we already agreed on it! Now you actually bite me back! Damn you! ”
"You hear this? This person is simply a madwoman!" Hua Jin Tao's expression immediately became ugly and said, "That's right, we had already agreed on it. But I didn't know you were up to no good in the midst of it. You were tricking me! My ten liang ne? Return that to me now!"
So enraged, Mrs. Qiao bellowed, "It wasn't ten liang! It was clearly five liang!"
"That's right, it was five liang. You confessed this yourself, now return that back to me!" Hua Jin Tao harrumphed. "It's just five liang, I don't really care about it. So you don't need to return it to me, give it to Fang Zhou ah. Treat it as compensation for her pitifully suffering a shock for nothing!"
Lian Fang Zhou indifferently declared, " I don't any money. I just Aunt's promise!"
"You guys dug a pit for me to fall! Have no conscience at all! You all are terrible things!" Mrs. Qiao berated.
However, she can't do anything to Hua Jin Tao. A lot of last night's talk between the two was tacit understanding, it was sensed out rather than saying it outright. At this time, Hua Jin Tao denies it, Mrs. Qiao can only suffocate to death and not find a single word to utter.
Lian Li wanted to bawl for her to shut up when Mrs. Qiao started talking. But the village elders shot a glare over, ordering him to stand aside. He can only helplessly listen.
At this point, he can no longer endure it. Knowing if Mrs. Qiao kept on talking, it'll become worst, so he then roared, "Shut up! You ungrateful, lousy woman!"
Mrs. Qiao's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were spitting rage after being forced to bitter silent by Hua Jin Tao and also continuously squeezed into a corner by Lian Fang Zhou. Now instead of seeing Lian Li wasn't standing on her side and helping her, he berate her. She wanted to go crazy. She pointed at Lian Li and viciously criticized. "You still-not-dead thing! Your mouth speaks nicely, but once things go wrong, I have to shoulder it by myself! Privately, you criticize more than anymore! You hate that dead girl more than me and wish for her to disappear from your sight. What are you acting for! Acting like this, would she treat you like an uncle?"
"Dead woman, you're out of your mind! What crazy talk are you saying!" Lian Li became mad and anxious. He dashed over to beat Mrs. Qiao.
Ah Jian, who was remaining silent, effortlessly stopped him. He indifferently uttered, "Uncle Lian, don't be so enraged in front of li zheng and village elders!"
"None of your business! It's not an outsider's turn to manage my family matter!" Lian Li spat out.
"Can I manage?" Fifth Great Uncle coldly harrumphed. He icily said, "Whether she's crazy or not and whether she's uttering crazy talk or not, we aren't muddled-headed yet! If you aren't feeling ill at ease, then obediently stand at the side now!"
Lian Li instantly smiled apologetically and uttered 'dare not'. He shot daggers at Ah Jian and had no choice but to retreat to the side. He abusively scolded Mrs. Qiao in his mind.
"Pah" Mrs. Qiao gave him a heated glare. With a shriek, she zoomed in on Zhang li zheng. As she pointed, she coldly declared, "I finally understand! You and that dead girl are cohorts! You want to help her punish me! She sent you one sack of charcoal after another to your home. Who doesn't know how to be cogitative! My family is poor. We don't have anything to gift ah! No wonder people don't treat me as a person. All here to accuse me and step over me! Heaven, open your eyes and look! I have been accused! Falsely accused!"
As she spoke, she was loud and started sobbing. The meaning was obvious. Apparently, Lian Fang Zhou bribed li zheng, purposely targeted her and wanted to control her.
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