"What are you doing? Didn’t you see she’s gone crazy?" Wang Meili angrily pointed at Gu Lingling, "Look at what she did to my Gu Juan!"
Gu Lingling looked at Wang Meili with puzzled and astonished almond eyes, "Auntie, if someone called you a seductress, wouldn’t you be angry?"
She was also momentarily anxious earlier and didn’t expect Gu Lingling to catch her mistake.
"See what nonsense this child is talking about, everyone knows what kind of person your mom was." Wang Meili forced a smile, "Good girl, you hit Juanzi already. Aren’t you satisfied now?"
"If you still aren’t satisfied, let’s go home first, and I’ll deal with her properly then."
Go home to deal with Gu Juan?
More like go home to deal with Gu Lingling.
"Auntie, what does Gu Juan mean by saying that?" Gu Lingling looked at Wang Meili with grievances and sadness, "Why did she call my mom a seductress?"
"My mom has been dead for so many years, why still insult her."
As she spoke, she began to cry softly.
"Auntie, you told me my mom was a bad woman, didn’t like me, only liked my brother." Gu Lingling sobbed, "You told me not to visit my mom’s grave all these years."
"But my dad said my mom was a good woman, my brother and I were both her kids, and she loved us dearly."
"Now Gu Juan says my mom was a seductress."
"Auntie, tell me, what kind of person was my mom?"
"All uncles and aunts, who should I listen to?"
"Wang Meili." Zhang Lanzhi trembled with anger, "Is this how you’ve been teaching the children? I’ve said it, no wonder Lingling has become stranger over the years. Even unwilling to visit her mom’s grave, turns out you’ve been instigating it behind the scenes."
"Wang Meili, you must have a black heart, right? How well Ruqian treated you when she was alive."
"I say, Lanzhi, you believe what the child says?" Wang Meili said, aggrievedly looking around, "Everyone says being a stepmother is hard, and this truly is a thankless job."
"Being good to Lingling, people say I have ulterior motives, if the child does something wrong, I can’t hit or scold her."
"Now this, in front of so many people... Lingling, I don’t expect you to remember my kindness, but you can’t throw dirt on me ."
"It doesn’t matter if you don’t call me mom, but I’m still your aunt, how can you slander me , how am I supposed to live in this village afterwards?"
"I might as well die." Wang Meili cried loudly, recounting to everyone how well she had taken care of Gu Lingling over the years, even at the expense of Gu Juan.
Gu Lingling never expected Wang Meili to be so shameless, wasn’t she always pretending to be virtuous? Yet she could also sit on the ground like Old Mrs. Gu, slap her thighs and howl, cursing all the while.
"But you can’t call my mom a seductress, she’s not, she’s not!" Gu Lingling, with reddened eyes like she had been provoked, pushed Wang Meili, "Don’t call my mom names, you are not allowed to insult her anymore, my mom is not a seductress!"
Might as well stick a label on Wang Meili first.
"Lingling!" Zhang Lanzhi, fearing Gu Lingling would suffer, hurried over but discretely blocked Wang Meili’s hand.
Wang Meili was originally sitting on the ground, and Gu Lingling’s sudden outburst left her momentarily at a loss for rebuttal. By the time she reacted, Gu Lingling had pinched her a few times on the soft part of her chest.
Ouch... it hurts, this damn girl!
But that action in the eyes of others just looked like she was massaging Wang Meili.
"Don’t insult my mom, even though she’s no longer here, why do you still slander her?" Gu Lingling cried and shouted.
The anger of two lifetimes exploded at this moment.
"My mom is not a seductress, stop insulting her." Gu Lingling kept speaking but her voice grew smaller and smaller...
"Lingling, Lingling..."
Zhang Lanzhi anxiously said, holding the fainted Gu Lingling in her arms, "Lingling, wake up? Don’t scare Aunt Lanzhi."
"Wang Meili, how ruthless you are, see how you scared Lingling into fainting, how can your heart be so cold, do you want to torment her until she joins her mom underground?" Zhang Lanzhi looked coldly at Wang Meili, "Lingling slandered you? She might have been quiet before, but she never lied."
"I will have a word with Gu Chunhai about this, we’ll see."
"If anything happens to Lingling, just wait to go to jail."