Chapter 30: The Bad Guys Come Again, Xiaozhen Burns Them With Tongs

“Oh, forget it, forget it, let’s not talk about the past. Let’s talk about the present, what should we do? I heard she made over ten yuan yesterday, I can’t swallow this.”

Ye Zhengguo said angrily, “You can’t swallow it, do you think I can? If I had known she was capable, I would have kept her at home to steam buns and sell them, why did I marry her off? I work as a laborer for others, I work my ass off all day and only earn five yuan.”

At that time, the price of labor was seven yuan a day for a bricklayer, five yuan for a male laborer, and only four yuan for a female laborer.

And that work was so tiring.

The more they thought about it, the more they felt that they had lost a lot by marrying her off for one hundred yuan, the more they felt unwilling.

As they were talking, they had already reached Xie’s house.

Sun Qing stopped him, “Remember, I’ll go and pester that little beast, you go and grab the steamer and run.”

“Don’t worry.”

Sun Qing said again, “Look at the chimney, they must be steaming something, right? Will it be ready if we go now?”

Ye Zhengguo took a deep breath, “I can already smell it.”

He remembered that he had swallowed his pride and gone next door to ask for half a bun to eat yesterday, now his mouth was watering.

The bun was really well-steamed, fragrant and soft, it wasn’t like the hard buns she used to steam at home.

Ye Zhengguo said angrily, “This dead girl, I’ll… hey, this door is bolted.”

Ye Xiaozhen was taking out the steamed buns and dumplings from the steamer, she heard the sound coming from outside the fence.

She stood by the window and looked out, she saw Ye Zhengguo and Sun Qing outside the fence.

Did their wounds heal? They’re coming to pick a fight again?

Wow, they healed so quickly, it hasn’t even been a few days.

Ye Xiaozhen picked up a stick and went out, just as Ye Zhengguo was about to forcefully push open the wooden gate, she hit him with the stick.

“Ouch, you murderer, how dare you hit your father?”

“Catch the thief, catch the thief!”

Ye Xiaozhen swung the stick wildly.

The two of them retreated.

This time Sun Qing was quick, she ran to the front and didn’t get hit twice.

Ye Zhengguo ran to the back, he took several solid hits.

He ran for a while, but he was so angry that he turned around and tried to grab the stick from Ye Xiaozhen.

Ye Zhengguo was in his forties, he was in his prime, compared to the skinny little girl, the difference in strength was obvious.

After taking a few hits, he managed to grab the stick from Ye Xiaozhen’s hand.

“You little beast, dare to hit your father? Come on, come again!”

Come again?

I’m not really stupid, you know!

Ye Xiaozhen saw that the stick was gone, so she ran, she ran towards the biggest public yard in the village.

People started to gather around, separating the furious Ye Zhengguo.

The village head also came out, he stared at Ye Zhengguo and said, “What’s going on? Ye Zhengguo, why are you beating your foolish daughter again?”

“Tui!” Ye Zhengguo spat, he looked at Ye Xiaozhen behind the village head and said, “This little beast, she’s getting too big for her britches. Now she doesn’t even respect her father, she hits me when she sees me. I think she needs a lesson, move aside, let me beat her into submission, then she’ll learn.”

He then tried to get past the village head to grab Ye Xiaozhen.

The village head stopped him and kicked him.

“Get out, Ye Zhengguo, I’m here today, you’re not allowed to cause trouble.”

Others also stopped him.

“Why are you hitting her?”

“Why not?” Ye Zhengguo showed everyone his bruises, “Look how she hit me, is that not a reason?”

Old Lady Liu, Xie’s neighbor, said, “Don’t pretend you didn’t see it! You and Sun Qing kicked their gate, you started the trouble first, then you chased them with a stick.”

“Ah? So you two started the trouble? I say, Ye Zhengguo, you dislike her for being stupid, now she doesn’t even want to be around you, just pretend you don’t have this daughter. Why do you keep picking on her?” Someone said angrily.

“I…” Ye Zhengguo was so angry that he threw the stick on the ground, he said, “I raised her for so long, I raised a white-eyed wolf. You all ate the buns she steamed, I, her father, haven’t even had one, I’m not happy.”

Now everyone understood what was going on.

“Just because of buns?” The village head was speechless, “If you want to eat them, buy them with your money, she didn’t say she wouldn’t sell them to you.”

“What? I’m her father, do I have to pay for buns?”

“If you want to eat for free, you have to ask her husband. Your daughter is a fool, she doesn’t run the household, what’s the point of taking your anger out on her?”

Everyone thought the village head made sense, and they gave Ye Zhengguo a solution.

“You can’t expect her to be filial like a normal daughter, that’s impossible.”

“She’s a fool, she doesn’t want to be here.”

“If you want to acknowledge this relationship, you have to get along with your son-in-law.”

Ye Zhengguo knew these words made sense, he couldn’t argue.

But would he dare to go to Xie Lin’an?

If he dared, would he still go to their house when no one was home?

Originally, Ye Zhengguo thought the timing was wrong today, he was going to let it go.

But at this time, Sun Qing stepped forward and said, “Whether you acknowledge it or not is one thing, but today she hit her father, that has to be resolved, we have to teach her a lesson.”

The village head snorted coldly, “It’s all because of you, you troublemaker, hmph, if it weren’t for you, this stepmother, instigating him, would this father be so unfatherly?”

“Hey, you, the village head, why do you have so much to say? We’re taking care of our own child, what’s it to you?”

Ye Zhengguo thought she made sense, he nodded and said, “Yes, I’m disciplining my own daughter, what’s it to you? Hmph, this little beast, if I hadn’t grabbed the stick and taken a few hits, I don’t know what she would have done to me.”

The village head refused, he scolded them.

The women in the village also scolded them, especially the few who ate the free buns yesterday.

Sun Qing and Ye Zhengguo didn’t back down, they all argued together.

At this time, a middle-aged,猥琐 man in his forties walked up to Ye Xiaozhen, he smiled and said, “Little fool, your father is a big man, he’s much stronger than you, of course, you can’t beat him with a stick. Don’t you use fire? Next time, just use tongs.”

He chuckled and gestured, “Those red-hot tongs, burn your father, see if he dares to grab them.”

This man was also a famous person in their village.

Wang Lao Wu, the one who beat his wife and drove her crazy to death.

This is the real bad guy.

That’s really mean, wouldn’t red-hot tongs cause a murder?

Hmph, the responsibility was handed to her, of course, she had to take it.

Ye Xiaozhen nodded repeatedly, she said fiercely to Ye Zhengguo and Sun Qing, who were arguing with the villagers, “If the bad guys come again, Xiaozhen will burn them with tongs.”