"I won’t! I want to stay here for the New Year!" Gu Shuangshuang was also very stubborn; she insisted on finishing what she had set out to do.
"Are you not ashamed enough?" Duan Aihua stared at Gu Shuangshuang, and upon seeing the fur coat she was wearing, raised her hand and slapped her, "Look at what you’re wearing! Look at what you look like now!"
"I think it’s quite good!"
"You ungrateful girl! Are you trying to infuriate me to death?" Duan Aihua was so angry she felt like she was going to explode, and she really wanted to beat Gu Shuangshuang black and blue.
How did this girl turn out this way!
When Tian Ermei saw Gu Shuangshuang’s mother about to hit Gu Shuangshuang, she quickly hugged her to protect her, "You can’t hit my sister-in-law! My sister-in-law is already pregnant! If you hurt her, our whole family won’t let you off!"
"Gu Shuangshuang is my daughter! What ’your sister-in-law’? Let me tell you, I don’t acknowledge her and your brother’s affair!"
The people at the market saw that it was getting lively here, and immediately all crowded around.
Gu Shuangshuang knew that such a commotion would make the Tian Family lose face in the village, and she did not want this to happen. Therefore, she took a deep breath and said to Tian Ermei, "Ermei, go back. I’m fine, you go back and tell Tian Niu that I’ve left first, and ask him to send my luggage to Commander Qin’s house!"
"Sister-in-law..." Tian Ermei weighed things hastily in her heart and decided it was better to listen to Gu Shuangshuang, "Okay, sister-in-law, I’ll go back and tell my brother!"
Having said that, Tian Ermei shouldered her basket and turned to run away.
"Let’s go! I’ll go back with you!" Gu Shuangshuang said.
"It’s not that easy!" Duan Aihua had originally just wanted to take Gu Shuangshuang away, but hearing that she was pregnant, her rage suddenly shot through the roof, "Take me to Tian Niu’s house! I must confront him personally and ask why this good-for-nothing dares to do such a thing! Gu Shuangshuang, you’re only nineteen! You’re not even of legal marriage age!"
"Duan Aihua! If you keep talking nonsense here, I really will not let you off!" Her words completely enraged Gu Shuangshuang.
She could bear losing face.
It didn’t matter, as no one here knew her anyway.
But Tian Niu couldn’t, and neither could the honest and kind-hearted Tian Family. She couldn’t let her mother’s loose tongue slander the good reputation of the Tian Family.
An Hao saw that this situation was not good; if the argument continued, it would be bad for everyone.
She understood Gu Shuangshuang’s feelings further, so she said to Duan Aihua, "Settling scores with Tian Niu is one thing, but can we please go back to the car first? After all, with so many people watching, I think you wouldn’t want Gu Shuangshuang to lose face here, right? Besides, you know Shuangshuang’s temper; she responds better to gentleness than to harshness."
After thinking it over, Duan Aihua realized there was some sense to that, and she tried to suppress the fury rising in her, "Let’s go! We’ll talk in the car."
Gu Shuangshuang, with eyes red, glared at Duan Aihua but stubbornly refused to move an inch.
"Stop making a scene, Shuangshuang. Let’s go! If this continues, things really won’t end well. You don’t want to make Tian Niu look bad, right?" An Hao persuaded her from the side.
Gu Shuangshuang huffed coldly, only then following Duan Aihua.
As soon as they got in the car, Duan Aihua’s temper exploded, and she slapped Gu Shuangshuang hard across the face, "Gu Shuangshuang, I think you’re becoming completely lawless, aren’t you? You’ve even learned to elope with a man without a word."
This was the first time in Gu Shuangshuang’s life that she had been slapped, and it was by her own biological mother.
She covered her stinging face and glared fiercely at Duan Aihua, "Now you remember to control me? Where were you before?"