A big pot of wild chicken with mushrooms, Yuan Chun couldn’t finish it, so she put more than half of it away.
When Zhao Dongxiu and Mrs. Zhao returned, Yuan Chun was walking downstairs to aid digestion after eating too much.
As soon as Mrs. Zhao saw her, her eyes were like they were poisoned, and she rushed over viciously, "You little bitch, you hit me, and you still have the mind to stroll around. I’ll fight you today."
"Ah... help, she’s going to kill me..."
Frightened, Yuan Chun screamed and ran towards the crowd.
"Help, help, my sister-in-law’s mother is going to kill me... boohoo, it was clearly her own carelessness that caused her to fall face-first, yet she slanders me for hitting her. I’m... I’m really wronged to death, boohoo... Seeing my brother is not at home, they bully me, boohoo..."
Yuan Chun deliberately ran towards a crowd, and seeing her foolish husband’s mother was there, she quickly hid behind her former mother-in-law.
Mrs. Zhao came chasing with claws bared, about to grab Yuan Chun’s hair, when Mrs. Chen hurriedly blocked her, "Comrade, if you have something to say, say it nicely. Please don’t hit the child."
"Boohoo, I’m not her child. She is my sister-in-law’s mother," Yuan Chun cried and explained.
Mrs. Chen’s face darkened, "Then you especially shouldn’t hit her. If the child does something wrong, her parents should discipline her. As the in-law, how can you hit your in-law’s sister? That doesn’t make sense."
"I don’t care about her reasoning. She hit me, so I can’t let her go," Mrs. Zhao pushed Mrs. Chen and reached to grab Yuan Chun again.
Yuan Chun deftly dodged her claws, "I didn’t hit you. You’re wronging me. Boohoo, I came to help my brother and sister-in-law with the kids, and my sister-in-law bullies me every day. These days, while my brother is on a business trip and not at home, my sister-in-law found all kinds of excuses not to feed me. I got hungry and went to the mountains to pick mushrooms. You wanted to take all my mushrooms, and when I didn’t give them to you, you accused me of hitting you. Boohoo..."
Yuan Chun tearfully explained.
Everyone immediately looked at Zhao Dongxiu with strange eyes.
Someone said, "Zhao Dongxiu, your sister-in-law came to help with the kids. Instead of treating her well, you’re abusive. Is your conscience clear? You need to know, your sister-in-law helping you with the kids is a kindness you should be thankful for."
"Exactly. Zhao Dongxiu, even if you don’t want to be grateful, don’t repay kindness with malice."
"Zhao Dongxiu, I didn’t think you were an ungrateful person."
"Zhao Dongxiu, how can you bully your husband’s sister while Wei Cai Gou is not at home? No wonder Comrade Xiao Wei has lost so much weight since helping you with the kids, it’s because you didn’t feed her."
"Oh dear, this girl is still growing, how can she endure being hungry every day."
"Zhao Dongxiu, your sister-in-law is so good to you; you can’t bully honest people."
...
Zhao Dongxiu was jeered by the crowd, feeling extremely embarrassed, and her hatred towards her sister-in-law grew deeper.
Especially when she saw Yuan Chun throw a provocative look her way, she was fuming, angrily saying, "I did not, I didn’t stop her from eating."
"Sister-in-law, how can you lie? Last time when my brother went to the countryside to buy pork and wasn’t home, you locked all the cabinets at home, went to eat at the cafeteria yourself, and left me at home to starve. If my brother hadn’t returned in time, I surely would’ve been the first sister-in-law to starve to death at the steel factory."
As Yuan Chun spoke, she shed a few tears to show her grievance.
Someone sympathized, saying, "Mr. Zhao, your heart is too ruthless, treating such a good sister-in-law this way. How can you bear to mistreat her?"