Chapter 44: Chapter 44 Annoyance Turns to Rage
Compensate with money?
I’ve seen people with shameless faces, but never as thick-skinned as this.
Before Mrs. An could even agree, Su Yunjin stepped forward, looked at Mrs. Feng and her husband, and sneered, “Dreaming of compensation? Dream on!”
“What? You, a Su, hit me and injured me, and you still don’t want to compensate? I’ll tell you this, if you don’t compensate, I’ll take this matter to the Magistrate and have him decide for me,” Mrs. Feng spat furiously, cursing at Su Yunjin.
“Go ahead, by all means go! You can find the Magistrate right now, I’d like to see if he’s going to side with you or with me,” Su Yunjin scoffed coldly, not afraid of Mrs. Feng going to the Magistrate at all.
Mrs. Feng was the one looking for trouble today, and even if I did hit her, it was because she provoked me.
Mrs. Feng dared not actually go to the Magistrate after Su Yunjin spoke like that. The offensive things she had said to Su Yunjin today had been heard by many women in the village.
Everyone knew that Mrs. Feng cursed Su Yunjin first and Su Yunjin hit her afterward, so Mrs. Feng was even less justified. Mrs. Feng kept quiet, and ignoring her, Su Yunjin turned to the other people in the yard and asked, “Does everyone here know why I hit Mrs. Feng?”
With the commotion caused by Mrs. Feng and her husband, the Gu Family’s yard was now surrounded by many villagers who had come to watch, including several who had seen Mrs. Feng cursing Su Yunjin earlier in the day.
No sooner had Su Yunjin finished asking than whispers filled the courtyard.
“Today’s incident can’t all be blamed on the Gu Family’s daughter-in-law for hitting someone. First, that Dahu’s wife was saying the Gu Family’s daughter-in-law drowning was because her husband was a lame, and she sought to end her life. Then saying, considering how poor her in-laws are and that her husband is a cripple, she’s bound to suffer at the Gu Family, better off drowned than alive.”
“Yes, yes, I heard it too, and it was even worse! Mrs. Feng also said if she were the Gu Family’s daughter-in-law, she would have jumped into the river long ago! How could she expect to live in the Gu Family and have a crippled man provide for her?”
“Mrs. Feng’s words were so nasty, way too excessive, wasn’t it? How could she speak like that?”
Listening to the crowd, Mrs. Feng’s face became increasingly guilty, while Mrs. An’s expression had already turned as dark as it could be.
After a moment of guilt, Mrs. Feng boldly continued, “Even if I did say those things, so what? I was only speaking the truth! Who doesn’t know the state of the Gu Family right now? It’s Su Yunjin who hit someone now, injured me, so she is the one who’s wrong and she should compensate me.”
“Right, compensate!” Mrs. Feng’s husband also wanted the Gu Family to pay up, with Niu Dahu roaring along, “If the Gu Family doesn’t compensate today, this matter isn’t over!”
Su Yunjin wasn’t afraid of Mrs. Feng and her husband either, and she flatly refused with a cold laugh, “No money! Not to mention I didn’t injure you at all, but even if I did, I wouldn’t pay you a single copper coin.”
“You, a Su? How can you say you didn’t injure me? Are you trying to deny it? The swelling on my face wasn’t caused by you, and you pushed me to the ground, hurt my back, …”
Su Yunjin interrupted Mrs. Feng before she could finish, “Hold on, make yourself clear, who pushed you to the ground? You fell on your own today, I didn’t touch you.”
Indeed, Mrs. Feng had fallen on her own today. Su Yunjin had merely kicked a stone, and to everyone watching, Mrs. Feng’s fall seemed to have nothing to do with Su Yunjin.