"Oh, you little Ms. Li, it turns out it was you, a lowly woman, causing trouble! It’s your family’s buckets that I used, both looking the same." When Ms. Luo heard this, she immediately became furious and went right up to Ms. Li Junior, pointing and cursing at her.
Yang Xiaochuan, for some reason, also came over. Upon hearing this, he very unmanly grabbed Li Junior by the hair and slapped her across the face twice.
Now, Li Junior fell to the ground, ranting and cursing as she sat there.
"You still have the nerve to yell?" Ms. Luo didn’t think there was anything wrong with Yang Xiaochuan’s actions nor did she think there was anything immoral about a man hitting a woman. She argued with Li Junior, "I just wanted to borrow your family’s bucket for a moment. If you didn’t want to lend it, you could simply refuse. Why do you plot behind my back? How dare you frame me? You despicable woman, you deserve to be beaten to death."
Jiang Xiaohan was beaten by Yang Xiaochuan, and the news soon reached Yang Jinhai, her husband. Yang Jinhai and his mother soon arrived on the scene.
After seeing Li Junior’s swollen face, Yang Jinhai immediately charged towards Yang Xiaochuan, and the two men engaged in a scuffle.
The nearby Li Junior also charged at Ms. Luo to join the fight.
As for Yang Jinhai’s mother, she stood to the side, cursing and swearing.
Old Yang glowered at the scene unfolding before him, "Stop, all of you stop!"
Unfortunately, the people fighting simply wouldn’t listen to him.
Yang Chuxia coldly observed the situation, choosing not to intervene. Initially, it seemed that Ms. Luo was in the right, but Yang Xiaochuan ruined it by going out of his way to hit a woman. Regardless of who’s wrong in this situation, what he did looks quite ugly.
However, perhaps it’s because Yang Chuxia came from the modern era, his way of thinking was different from these ancient people. For them, Yang Xiaochuan did nothing wrong.
They felt that Li Junior deserved the beating. Why did she switch Ms. Luo’s bucket?
If she didn’t want to let people borrow her buckets, then she should just say so straight up. What was she thinking by switching their shrimp, and leaving half a bucket of smelly shrimp and crab?
One had to admit that Ms. Luo was unlucky. From the moment she went to borrow the bucket, she had been set up by Li Junior.
It all began when Li Junior went crabbing with others the day before yesterday. She wanted to make some extra money but didn’t have a chance to sell the crabs to Yang Chuxia before spotting her mother-in-law. She hid the crabs without thinking.
When she got back home, her mother-in-law ordered her to do many other things, and she soon became too busy to remember the crabs. When she finally remembered, the once-living crabs had died, and the already dead ones had spoiled.
As she wallowed in anger and pity, Ms. Luo came to borrow the bucket. Li Junior immediately had an idea and followed Ms. Luo outside.
As soon as they reached the seashore, she took the opportunity to swap her bucket with Ms. Luo’s, not expecting to be caught by Yang Qingbao.
"Aunt-in-law, this is your daughter-in-law’s fault. She should not have switched Ms. Luo’s bucket. Look at the poor Ms. Luo, wronged and now stained from doing your daughter-in-law’s dirty work." Old Aunt-in-law Gen chimed in from the side, stoking the fire.
Upon hearing Old Aunt-in-law Gen’s words, Yang Jinhai’s mother’s already unpleasant face grew uglier.
From the start, the old lady had valued saving face, which is why she didn’t allow Yang Jinling to return home.
Originally, she could feign ignorance if no one mentioned it. But now that the cat was out of the bag, she couldn’t save face. With a flick of her wrist, she stormed back home, not even bothering to check on her son and daughter-in-law behind her.
"Stop, all of you stop!" Land Officer Yang also arrived. "Go on, pull them apart. What kind of spectacle do they think they’re making of themselves?"