Even with Dai Weijuan’s quick reflexes, she truly didn’t anticipate such a turn of events.
She missed by just an arm’s length, failing to catch hold. She watched as the old lady fell straight onto the concrete floor, hearing a teeth-clenching crack.
At her age, almost sixty, any fall could be dangerous. With such a hard fall, Mother Dai felt her old bones were about to fall apart. The excruciating pain in her thigh was like being cut with knives and axes; just a slight move would make her break into a cold sweat.
It was really time for the daughter-in-law and daughters to work together to quickly get her to the hospital for examination and treatment. But instead, they bickered like fighting cocks, arguing about who was right or wrong and who was to blame, without a single person caring about the patient who needed the most attention.
To Dai Weijuan, her mother was a super amulet that allowed her to act as she pleased with her eldest brother, her strongest shield.
As long as the old lady was around, she could be arrogant in front of her brothers.
Now that the shield had fallen before her eyes, would Dai Weijuan let go of Bai Jing, the culprit?
Things were different now; Bai Jing was no longer the Bai family’s prideful eldest daughter that she had to fawn over while suppressing her disdain.
A phoenix without feathers is worse than a chicken; it was time for her to learn how to be a daughter-in-law and a sister-in-law.
With a vicious glint in her eyes, Dai Weijuan slapped Bai Jing twice.
Bai Jing was completely stunned!
It took her a while to realize she had been beaten, beaten!
The one who slapped her was the rural sister-in-law who used to grovel before her like a lapdog?
"You, Dai Weijuan, you shrew, how dare you hit me?" Bai Jing trembled with extreme anger and humiliation, pointing at Dai Weijuan with a shaking finger: "Even my parents never laid a hand on me, and yet you shameless creature dare to hit me?"
"I’m hitting you, you ungrateful brat! As a daughter-in-law, lazy and idle, not bearing children, you have my mom serving you until she’s exhausted. And yet you dare to upset her, causing her to fall and get hurt, you’re lucky I’m letting you off with just a beating! In this new era, if you were such an unvirtuous daughter-in-law in the past, you’d be tied up and drowned, and everyone would clap with joy!" Dai Weijuan’s tone was contemptuous, as she smacked Bai Jing’s pointing finger away.
"Who, who says I’m not bearing children, it’s clearly because your brother got injured!" Touched upon her sorest point, Bai Jing immediately bristled, staring at Dai Weijuan viciously.
"Bah! Stop using my brother’s injury as an excuse all the time. He married someone as unlucky as you for years before anything happened! In five or six years, you haven’t even laid an egg, where do you get the nerve to pin all the responsibility on my brother?" With no more reservations, Dai Weijuan jabbed words like daggers into Bai Jing’s vulnerability.
Her sharp tongue struck a chord, and Huang Wei, listening, felt secretly satisfied in her heart.
Made you act all high and mighty because of your strong family backing, now with no tree to rely on, you finally taste your own bitter fruit!
Already fuming, seeing Huang Wei’s smug, mocking gaze pushed Bai Jing over the edge like a lit firecracker, she charged at Dai Weijuan and Huang Wei with a howl.
Trained diligently from childhood with her father and brother, even good at shooting, Bai Jing was no coward!
Earlier, she took those slaps from Dai Weijuan totally caught off guard, but now that she’s recovered, not even ten Dai Weijuan and Huang Weis tied together could be her match.
With a few punches and kicks, the sisters-in-law had nothing left but verbal sparring.
Listening to their crude, obscene curses, Bai Jing quickly returned fire with their own tactics.
With a few solid slaps, she left Dai Weijuan and Huang Wei’s cheeks swollen like buns, mouths spilling blood.
And Liu Hong, watching coldly, seemed to see two teeth fly out of Dai Weijuan’s mouth with a spurt of bloody water.
All over gossip and earning some pocket money, how did it turn into such a dangerous situation?
Fearing Bai Jing in her frenzy would turn on her, even Liu Hong, just visiting, quickly slunk along the edge, not even bringing up the leftover payment, using the excuse of family matters needing attention, she slipped away in a flash!
By the time a thoroughly irritated Dai Weiguo dragged his weary body home, he saw a group of people peeking and craning around his home entrance. From afar, cries, curses, and pleas filled the air.
Hurriedly rushing in, what greeted him was a scene that nearly tore his heart apart: his mother was dragging one leg, her voice hoarse from crying, still pleading for Bai Jing to spare his little sister Weijuan and second sister-in-law Huang Wei. While Bai Jing, like a fierce deity, was beating the two, leaving their faces swollen like pig heads.
Seeing him enter, the three women burst into tears altogether, like finally seeing a savior under the executioner’s knife.
Dai Weiguo’s face instantly turned as black as a pot bottom, almost squeezing out each word from between gritted teeth: "What is all this chaos again, don’t we have enough of a laughingstock? Can’t we just talk things out properly instead of resorting to violence? Aren’t you all cadres’ families, have some thoughtfulness, be mindful of your own quality and influence!"
"Big brother should ask our good big sister-in-law if she plans to remain a Dai family daughter-in-law. Making mom faint, causing her to fall and get injured. Then slapping the sister-in-law and the younger sister-in-law, I bet you can’t find another daughter-in-law in the entire Republic!" Dai Weijuan snorted coldly, opening her mouth wide to show her brother the teeth knocked out.
"What, mom fainted, fell and injured?" Dai Weiguo’s eyes sharpened, seeing the old lady’s distorted posture, indeed one leg bent at an odd angle. Immediately he picked up the phone to call for a car, no matter the issue, they’d attend to her injuries first.
As for those who ignored the seriously injured old lady, focusing only on bickering and fighting, he now felt nothing but weariness, wanting to ignore them all.
Upon seeing this, Dai Weijuan and Huang Wei quickly followed, ready to clean their own names while splashing dirt onto that wretched Bai Jing!
With the matter of causing the old lady to faint and suffer injuries, Bai Jing wouldn’t be able to explain herself no matter what.
As for the petty schemes and malicious intentions of her foolish sister-in-law and vicious sister-in-law, Bai Jing couldn’t care less.
After all, things had escalated to this point, what more could happen?
Break the pot, let it fall!
No matter how repressed and furious, Dai Weiguo wouldn’t dare, nor could, lay a finger on her right now, much less act on those bitches’ wishes for a divorce.
Unless, the Dai’s filial piety was so extreme, they’d sacrifice his most cherished future just to vent his mother’s anger.
Heh, if that’s the case, Bai Jing might actually look up to him. Acknowledging that even a mind filled with worldly gains wasn’t completely vile, with a hint of genuine filial piety left.
But, was that possible?