mtlumby2d Chapter 25 The Matter Ends Without a Clear Answer
Chapter 25 The Matter Ends Without a Clear Answer
Fighting is fighting, and during a fight you might want to kill the other person, but once the fight is over, that's it.
The same applies to arguing.
But after the fight, he still made such irrational and resolute remarks, which made everyone understand his determination even more.
After a moment of silence, Zhao Zhongcai said, "Today's incident was caused by Niu Aixiang's foul mouth, but Yuanqing, it's really unacceptable for you to bring your younger siblings to your future in-laws' house to cause trouble!"
This is outrageous! This is the first time I've ever seen someone go to their future father-in-law's house to fight. Does this guy not want to get married?
Upon hearing this, Gu Baoxia, the future daughter-in-law herself, rolled her eyes.
Her eyesight was poor, and she didn't even realize that Lu Yuanqing had such a fierce side.
She's always been very opinionated, and although she was constantly controlled at home, her biggest dream was to marry a man who had no opinions of his own, so that she could take charge of the household after marriage.
The old Lu Yuanqing was a good match, but the current Lu Yuanqing is not suitable at all.
Lu Yuanqing twitched the corner of his mouth; he had no intention of marrying Gu Baoxia anyway!
Gu Baoxia is too fierce; he prefers gentle women.
Listening to the surrounding chatter, with people offering various opinions and criticisms of him, none of them saying anything good, Lu Yuanqing sighed inwardly. He feared that after this incident, his Lu family would become the subject of gossip for the rest of their lives.
“Captain, I was just too angry. You tell me, I work hard every day with my younger brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and niece. Our family is so poor, but we have never caused any trouble for the village. We live a peaceful life. I don’t know why we offended Sister-in-law Gu. She insists on causing trouble for us. I was so angry that I did something so impulsive.”
As soon as Lu Yuanqing said this words of weakness, some of the older villagers changed their opinion of him a lot.
We're all from the same village. In many cases, if you don't want to be labeled as a hooligan, a scoundrel, or any other kind of person, you can't be too absolute. Showing weakness appropriately will prevent some people who like to rely on their seniority or age from lecturing you.
Sure enough, as soon as he said this reasonable thing, those who originally hated him and had a lot of opinions about his personality all turned their attention to Niu Aixiang.
Niu Aixiang was at a loss for words. She had no idea that Lu Yuanqing had taken the wrong medicine at some point and was being so tough this time. He made such a big fuss over a few words to her.
Not a single member of the Gu family spoke up for her; they all watched coldly. Even her mother-in-law, Tian Xiaoju, glared at her fiercely, looking as if she was about to teach her a lesson.
Niu Aixiang knew she was probably going to be punished this time, and she felt very aggrieved. All she could do was glare angrily at the Lu family's kids.
Lu Mingdong's face was marked with scratches from fingernails. When he saw Niu Aixiang glaring at them, he curled his lips and whispered quickly, "Cry."
Lu Mingxi, who had the best understanding with him, immediately understood what he meant. Having survived being hit several times during the chaos without crying, she suddenly burst into tears, wailing, "Daddy, Mommy, where...where are you! Someone's bullying us! We're working so hard, we're staying home so peacefully, and people are chasing us and yelling at us! Waaah, ahh!!!"
Her lead caused Lu Yuanhuan, who had been silently shedding tears, to cry out loud as well.
Lu Yuanhuan was very inexperienced in fighting for the first time. Even with the weapon she picked up on the road, she was still overpowered. If Lu Mingxi hadn't been with her and helped her several times along the way, she would have been beaten to a pulp.
So, while Lu Yuanqing and the others were explaining and arguing, she cried because she was in so much pain, but she just kept crying silently because she didn't want to disturb them.
Although she didn't know why Xiaoxi, who hadn't cried before, suddenly started crying, she thought she was injured somewhere. Only now did she realize the pain and quickly checked her over.
While checking, she cried out, "Xiao west, where does it hurt? Where are you injured? Waaah... Xiao west... Third Brother, Xiao west is crying!"
Their crying completely interrupted the argument, especially since the team leader was now handling the compensation claims. They had to pay for the damaged property, and everyone was injured in the fight; they needed to pay for medical treatment.
But when the two started crying, Lu Yuanqing was so frightened that he couldn't care about anything else and quickly turned around to look.
He belatedly realized that, in his anger, he had actually gotten into a fight with his younger siblings and nephews and nieces.
Good heavens! His sons, Dong and west, are only 10 and 12 years old respectively, and he actually brought them to fight!
The careless Lu Yuanqing felt guilty!
"Huanhuan, where are you and Xiaoxi hurt?" Lu Yuanqing asked anxiously.
It's not easy to fix a little girl's injury!
"Third brother, third brother, why are they bullying us like this! What did we do wrong? Why do they have the right to do this?!" Lu Yuanhuan was overwhelmed with grief, as if she wanted to cry out all the pent-up frustration she had been holding in for so long.
"Just because...just because there are no adults in our family? We didn't cause any trouble, so what right does she have to come to our house and yell at us? What right do you have to lecture Fourth Brother?!"
Lu Yuanhuan was incoherent and just wanted to cry.
Lu Mingxi couldn't shed tears, so she could only cover her eyes and wail at the top of her lungs. Anyway, it was their fault that they had been wronged, and it was understandable that her family had come to their door to fight; they had been forced into it!
Lu Mingdong kept his head down, trying not to let anyone see the emotions in his eyes. But his disheveled appearance, coupled with the fact that he was deliberately putting on an act, made anyone who saw him secretly curse whoever was treating him like this.
Lu Yuanbo didn't think he had made any moves. He didn't know that, apart from Lu Yuanhuan, his nephew and niece were all faking it. Seeing them like this, they were so anxious they were about to jump up and down.
When everyone saw the family, all of them so young, crying so sadly, they all felt a pang of sympathy.
Lu Guobin and Zhang Panlan felt especially sorry for them. They pointed at the Gu family and cursed them a few times before taking them home.
The matter was left unresolved.
The Gu family members looked as uncomfortable as if they had swallowed a fly.
After everyone left, Gu Hailiang slapped Niu Aixiang across the face.
Caught off guard, Niu Aixiang wanted to retaliate, but when she met Gu Hailiang's cold face, she awkwardly lowered her raised hand.
She was the one who caused this incident, although she strongly suspected that Lu Yuanqing was just waiting for this opportunity to kill her as a warning to everyone in the village who disdained or wanted to bully the Lu family.
But no matter how you speculate, she was just unlucky enough to get into trouble, causing her house to be vandalized and a fight to break out.
In this fight, no one gained an advantage; both suffered losses.
"What were you doing at the Lu family's place?" Tian Xiaoju asked in an unfriendly tone.
If Niu Aixiang hadn't given a reasonable explanation, she wouldn't have let it go today.
It was also because the younger members of the Lu family looked rather pitiful that Tian Xiaoju couldn't say anything when everyone was on their side, even though she really wanted to argue with the Lu family.
Therefore, all the pent-up anger is now ready to be vented on the culprit, Niu Aixiang.
"I...I originally wanted to go to the Lu family to talk about my younger brother!" Niu Aixiang said, shrinking her neck.
She can be domineering in general, and even fought with Gu Hailiang a few times after getting married, but Tian Xiaoju is her mother-in-law, who is naturally a generation above her, so she doesn't dare to confront her directly.
Moreover, she had experienced Tian Xiaoju's methods firsthand and was usually terrified of her.
Therefore, Niu Aixiang spoke the truth directly, without hiding anything.
Tian Xiaoju frowned. "You want to introduce Lu Yuanhuan to your little brother?"
With Niu Bao's unlucky appearance, honestly, he doesn't deserve it!
Gu Hailiang suddenly realized, "So all those things that were said in the village a few days ago were actually fabricated by you?"
As a grown man, he didn't care much about the gossip of the old women in the village. Recently, he was busy preparing to fight for the village accountant's retirement due to his age, so he only listened to a few words of the rumors.
When he heard this, he was dismissive. Even if Niu Bao was his brother-in-law, he wouldn't look down on him. As for Lu Yuanhuan, who usually had little presence but was always working whenever he was around, he still felt that Niu Bao was not good enough for him.
He even felt that Niu Bao was not good enough for a daughter from a good family.
Upon hearing the rumors, he assumed that all the elders of the Lu family were gone and that the Lu family was truly beyond saving, which led Lu Yuanhuan to go astray as well.
Unexpectedly, it turned out that his wife and brother-in-law were the ones who caused the trouble.
“I understand. You and your younger brother planned to ruin Lu Yuanhuan’s reputation with rumors, so that she would have no choice but to marry Niu Bao. But you found that the rumors had been circulating in the village for several days, but the Lu family didn’t take them seriously at all. So you came to their door to try to arrange this marriage.”
"But the Lu family obviously didn't want to. Lu Yuanbo talked back to you a few times, and then you felt that there were no adults in his family. Lu Yuanqing was not a good person and easy to bully, so you shamelessly lectured them."
"Hmph!!!" Gu Hailiang couldn't help but sneer as he spoke, "And needless to say, you didn't get away with it. You even got my house vandalized and we were beaten up!!!"
It has to be said that Gu Hailiang is a smart man, and a very smart man who understands his wife and brother-in-law very well!