Chapter 09: You Can Try

“Lin Zhaodi, I’ll tell you straight up, you’re just a dog raised by my Li family! You do what I tell you, and you’ll be fine! Don’t think about going against me!” Li Pozi said coldly, her words harsh.

Li Zhuangzhi didn’t think there was anything wrong with her words either. Seeing Lin Zhaodi’s dazed expression, he pushed her again and slapped her: “Are you deaf? Did you hear what my mother said!”

His words were no less harsh than Li Pozi’s: “If I had known you were barren, why would I have married you! Your Lin family is a bunch of money-losing girls, I should have known you couldn’t bear a son! You wasted my dowry money!”

“If there’s still no movement this year, you get out! Get out and go back to your Lin family, see if your mother will sell you again, to see which man gets unlucky!” Li Zhuangzhi pulled Lin Zhaodi’s hair.

Li Pozi disagreed: “What do you mean send her back to the Lin family to be sold? If she’s going to be sold, we’ll sell her! We paid for her, why should we give the Lin family anything for free! Once we sell her, I’ll get you a new wife, one who can bear a son! We’ll have money, we can even marry a big girl!”

The more Li Pozi thought about it, the more she thought it was a good idea. With Li Zhuangzhi’s encouragement, she really started thinking about it.

Lin Zhaodi’s face was pale and her expression was terrible. Finally, trembling, she couldn’t help but speak: “You’re not human!”

“All these years, I haven’t had any merit, but I’ve had my share of hardship! You guys, you guys…!”

She was at fault for not being able to bear children, but how had they treated her? She had been a workhorse in the Li family, doing all the dirty and tiring work, even harder and more diligent than when she was at her own mother’s house. Even when Li Zhuangzhi was out with other women, she pretended not to see it. Now they actually wanted to sell her!

“Do you have a right to speak?” Seeing her glaring at him, Li Zhuangzhi was annoyed. Lin Zhaodi had never dared to glare at him like that before. He slapped her again and kicked her: “You want us to support you for the rest of your life? What are you dreaming about! I can find you a buyer, you should be happy! See which man will want you!”

“Li Zhuangzhi, you bastard! You animal!” Lin Zhaodi’s eyes were red, she got up and lunged at him, the resentment she had suppressed for so long finally exploded: “Selling your wife, what kind of man are you! You’re lazy and good-for-nothing all day long! You’re either at the gambling table or running around with those dirty women! When have you ever earned a penny to bring home! When have you ever tended to the fields? All you do is drink and beat your wife, what kind of future can you have! Which woman would be blind to marry you! Only I would put up with you for so long!”

Lin Zhaodi lunged forward, desperately scratching and hitting Li Zhuangzhi.

“You, you bitch!”

Seeing her actually dare to fight Li Zhuangzhi, Li Pozi was both surprised and angry. She went forward to pull Lin Zhaodi’s hair and slapped her several times.

Li Zhuangzhi came to his senses and kicked Lin Zhaodi away.

The strength of men and women was vastly different. Lin Zhaodi was no match for Li Zhuangzhi. Her words had completely angered him, he kicked Lin Zhaodi several times in a row.

“Stop it!” Hu Yao ran over anxiously, pushing Li Zhuangzhi who was about to kick Lin Zhaodi again, her eyes red with anger: “Do you want to beat her to death?”

Li Zhuangzhi was furious, he didn’t listen to her at all, and didn’t notice that she was different from usual. He simply brushed her aside.

Hu Yao bumped into the wall, her head dizzy for a moment, but seeing him about to beat Lin Zhaodi, whose mouth was already bleeding, she didn’t care about anything else, she gritted her teeth and rushed forward, grabbing Li Pozi who was watching the show, and shouted loudly:

“If you hit her again, I’ll strangle your mother to death!”

Li Pozi didn’t expect this, she was choked by her for a moment, her eyes rolled back, and she almost passed out.

Not only did Li Pozi not expect it, Li Zhuangzhi and Lin Zhaodi didn’t expect it either.

Li Zhuangzhi had heard Lin Zhaodi mention that Hu Yao was better yesterday, and now he saw it for himself, he believed it.

“Sister-in-law, this is our family business, don’t meddle in it, even Han Ge wouldn’t care about this!” Li Zhuangzhi’s face was still bad, but to Hu Yao, he softened his tone a little.

It wasn’t that he respected Hu Yao, his sister-in-law, but he was afraid of Jiang Han.

“I don’t care if he cares or not, you can’t hit Sister Zhaodi!” Hu Yao said coldly, Lin Zhaodi had been so good to her, how could she just watch and let her be isolated and helpless, beaten and scolded.

This Li Zhuangzhi looked like he was drunk and crazy, but in these few exchanges, Hu Yao discovered that he was incredibly sober! He was just that kind of low-class person! He beat Lin Zhaodi, even without the excuse of being drunk, he would do it whenever he wanted!

She had been very nervous before, and she was afraid that Li Zhuangzhi would beat her too, but now it seemed that he still feared her status as his sister-in-law.

Hu Yao’s slightly disordered heart calmed down a little.

Li Zhuangzhi’s face darkened: “Lin Zhaodi is my wife, I can beat her if I want to! I can sell her if I want to! I don’t need to look at anyone’s face!”

The word “sell” struck a nerve in Hu Yao. She stared at him, her eyes cold: “If you dare to sell her, I’ll report it to the police! You can try!”

Hu Yao’s body trembled, her hands couldn’t help but tighten.

Li Pozi desperately patted her hands, finally her eyes rolled back and she completely fainted.

Her body fell, Hu Yao came to her senses, she was startled and took a few steps back.

Without her support, Li Pozi fell heavily to the ground.

“Mother!” Li Zhuangzhi strode forward, he really didn’t expect Hu Yao to be serious, she actually strangled Li Pozi half to death. He was furious again: “Hu Yao! Don’t think you’re…!”

He didn’t finish his sentence, his body swayed twice and he fell down, unconscious. Before he passed out, he was full of disbelief.

Lin Zhaodi clenched the wooden stool in her hand, her face numb and indifferent, the foot of the stool still had a little blood on it.

In front of Hu Yao, she slammed the stool down on Li Zhuangzhi again, Li Pozi also got hit.

Perhaps it was too painful, the mother and son who were lying on the ground unconscious twitched for a few seconds.

Hu Yao was stunned.

“Xiaoyao, thank you.” Lin Zhaodi turned her head to look at her, and pulled out a smile.

Her mouth still had blood on it, and her smile was a little creepy.

But she smiled sincerely at Hu Yao, and she gently pulled up her clean hem to wipe the blood off Hu Yao’s arm.

“It’s getting late, your wound hasn’t healed, go back and rest well, don’t scare Xiao Chao, nothing happened today, nothing happened that has anything to do with you.” Lin Zhaodi looked at Hu Yao warmly.

Hu Yao couldn’t help but feel a little scared of her at this moment.

But she couldn’t resist the good impression she had left in her heart, and Li Zhuangzhi and his mother and son were so hateful! She didn’t think there was anything wrong with Lin Zhaodi fighting back, she had been suppressed for too long!