The three egg-laying hens had been carefully tended to; she hadn't even had the heart to kill one for her grandson's birthday last month.
Sun Lixia also shrieked, "Big brother, don't spout nonsense! Our Zhiwen and Zhiwu have always been honest. How could they possibly push San Ya into the water? San Ya must be lying!"
Though she was blustering , inside she felt a bit uneasy. The eldest, though always shirking and unreasonable, had never wrongfully accused anyone without cause.
But even if it really was her two sons who did it, she would deny it to the death. After all, no one saw it happen!
"Stuff your mother's stinking fart!"
Jiang Changhai cursed forcefully, his spit flying, "Our Mianmian is the most obedient and well-behaved, not like Zhiwen and Zhiwu who do wrong and then don't have the courage to admit it. A couple of useless cowards!"
With all this talk of farts, she felt like she was starting to smell them.
Zhang Guihua wiped the spit from her face, glaring unhappily, "Eldest, how can you talk ? Zhiwen and Zhiwu are your own nephews."
Sun Lixia and Jiang Changtao, the couple from the Third Branch, looked on with displeasure. The eldest brother's words were too disrespectful to their branch of the family.
"Nieces aren't as dear as daughters! My daughter is so smart. What if her brain were damaged from being submerged in water? Could you compensate for that?!" Jiang Changhai certainly didn't buy their excuses.
"Plus I'm not wrong. What kind of man does something wrong and won't admit it? It's better to be castrated and become a girl!"
As he spoke, he even cast a malicious glance toward his nephews' crotches, as if he'd go to the kitchen to grab a knife and castrate them at any moment.
The two boys shivered, feeling a chill in their groin.
But Jiang Mianmian on the bed felt her ears grow hot; her dad's way of intimidating the kids was quite perverse.
However, everything her father did was for her, so she wasn't going to undermine him!
The next second, the younger nephew, Jiang Zhiwu, cried out from too much fear, "Don't cut my wee-wee off, I didn't push Mianmian sister on purpose."
Sun Lixia quickly covered his mouth, angrily accusing first, "Dad, Mom, look how fierce big brother is, Zhiwu is so scared he's talking nonsense!"
Jiang Changhai couldn't be bothered to argue with her and reached out to grab his elder nephew's clothes, lifting him up like a chick, "Your brother admitted it already, now it's your turn."
Seeing their uncle with a murderous look, Jiang Zhiwen couldn't help but start crying out loud as well.
Sun Lixia screamed in horror, "Ah!! What are you trying to do to Zhiwen?!"
Jiang Changtao roared angrily, "Eldest brother, you've gone too far."
Zhang Guihua was both angry and anxious, "Eldest, put Zhiwen down right now."
The room was a noisy tumult, causing Jiang Mianmian's head to ache. She quickly covered her ears.
The girls from the Second Branch huddled in the corner, not even daring to breathe too loudly.
Just then, with a "bang," the patriarch of the family, Jiang Dashan, who'd been silently smoking his pipe, slammed his hand on the table and spoke up, "Enough, all of you shut up!"
In an instant, everyone in the room fell silent.
Jiang Dashan, with half-closed lids, glanced at his eldest son, "Eldest, put Zhiwen down."
Jiang Changhai compliantly set his nephew down, his face still taut, "Dad, I only have one daughter, Mianmian. You've got to back me up here, or else I'm going to the village chief to settle this!"
As he spoke, he stealthily flexed his wrist, thinking that his elder nephew was quite heavy; he wouldn't have been able to hold him much longer.
"I know what I'm doing."
Jiang Dashan took a drag from his pipe and waved his grandsons over, "Zhiwen, Zhiwu, come here."
Sun Lixia didn't want her sons to go over but also did not dare to defy her father-in-law. She could only secretly hope that her sons would be strong and not confess!