Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

CHAPTER 94: CONFRONTATION (3)

Great Uncle Zhangsan said: “Since you realized your mistake, you should be punished! You have to kneel outside of Ancestral Hall for one day and one night to ensure that from now on you wouldn’t violate the law anymore, in the future, you have to take great care of your nephews, are you both willing?”

Womenfolk didn’t have the qualifications to kneel inside the Ancestral Hall, so she could only kneel at the courtyard outside. In this kind of weather, kneeling outside for a full day and night wouldn’t be comfortable at all. Great Uncle Zhangsan abhor her cunning and evil heart, and even more irritated after she said himself as ‘old bastard’ several times, so he stated clearly his wish to put her in order.

Who knew that Mrs. Qiao only took this punishment of ‘kneeling at the Ancestral Hall’ as something insignificant, but when she heard that she had to take care of Lian Fangzhou and her brothers and sister, she felt like a thorn ferociously stung her heart.

Just imagining when in the future how Lian Fangzhou and those squirts using this sentence to come to her home and beg for her family’s things everyday, she became frantic and furious!

“They also have their own field and land, have a house to stay in, and there are also other people who will help them from time to time! Humph! Even bringing them to make charcoal! Is there any other family who would treat others like this?! They’re still not satisfied? Still want me to take care of them? What do you call this ah?! I still have a son to support, he needs to attend school, my own affairs are piled up and still not over, how could I take care other people? Who will take care of me?!!”

Mrs. Qiao shouted in a big heap, glaring at Lian Fangzhou then coldly laughed: “I actually took care of her, it’s just that someone doesn’t even feel grateful! Still want to put the blame on me, digging a hole to make me jump in, making a false charge against me! Humph! What’s not good if you become like that Concubine Hua? It’s not easy for me to pull a connection with Concubine Hua and let her said a few good words so that this girl will have a future filled with tasty food and silk cloth! But you all see this dead girl, she won’t even say half a gratitude, instead, she takes me as her personal enemy and bit me! Really ungrateful!”

Lian Fangzhou was furious until she became speechless, she sold her and still want her to be grateful to her!

“Aunt Qiao, don’t speak carelessly!” Hua Jintao was standing at the side without speaking, but when she heard Mrs. Qiao, she said: “Who’s going to be whose concubine, how can I not know about this? It was because I accidentally said that I want to buy a maid, you tried every possible way to sell Fangzhou to me! You still guaranteed that she was willing, so you deceived her to ride my carriage, I didn’t ask her on the way, and only knew the truth when I have already arrived home! Fangzhou was living her life just fine, there’s still her brothers and sister under her care, how could you do this kind of thing?! This is your own niece! Luckily, me and my Lord wouldn’t be unreasonable and take advantage of other people, so I delivered her back here!”

Mrs. Qiao was dumbstruck!

Lian Fangzhou didn’t wait for her reaction and wept: “Aunt, how can you have such a ruthless heart?! You sold me to be a slave, then will you continue and sell my brothers and sister? You sold us, wanting to harm our flesh and blood, don’t you fear my father and mother’s souls in heaven won’t have a peaceful rest?! Selling us brothers and sisters, and then possessing our house and land, you really made a good scheme! Still deceiving me that there’s work in town, then made me go with Concubine Hua, isn’t this all your own work?!” [还哄我说什么在县城里为我找了份活计，让我跟着花姨奶奶走，这就是你说的活计吗!]

“Mrs. Lian Qiao, do you still have any words to say?!” Zhang Lizheng heavily beat the side table.

Selling her own niece to be slaves, and still scheming to seize their properties, how can this woman’s mind be so sinister and vicious?! Zhang Lizheng also thought that this Mrs. Qiao can really do something like this!

Not saying anything else, looking at her still acting so aggressive at this time, he already knew that this woman wasn’t someone who has a kind heart.

“I didn’t! I didn’t!” Mrs. Qiao was driven mad with anger, she yelled, “They wronged me! Treated me unjustly! You with surname Hua, you smelly woman, we had an agreement before, you have the impudence to back out and bite this grandmother now! You won’t have a good death!”

“You all heard her, this human is simply a lunatic!” Hua Jintao’s face at once became unsightly as she said, “That’s right, we made an agreement before, but how do I know that you were scheming a sinister plot, you basically deceived me! How about my ten liang? Quickly give it back to me!”

Mrs. Qiao angrily howled, “What the f*ck with ten liang?! Clearly it was only five!”

“That’s right, it was five liang, this was what you yourself acknowledged to, hurry and give it back to me!” Hua Jintao humphed, “It was just a trivial five silver, I don’t care about it, you also don’t need to give it back to me, just give it to Fangzhou, look at her, she’s frightened to such a state, treat it as me helping her to get over this shock!”

Lian Fangzhou lightly said, “I don’t need any silver, I only want Auntie’s one sentence!”

“You all are digging a hole for me to jump in! Utterly devoid of conscience, all are wretched bastards!” Mrs. Qiao cursed in a loud voice.

But she still can’t pick on Hua Jintao too much, they had tacit understanding after the deal they made last night, so she didn’t speak too bluntly. At this time, Hua Jintao wanting to repudiate their agreement, Mrs. Qiao contemplated over this matter but she still can’t find half a word to say!

Lian Li who was standing beside Mrs. Qiao wanted to shut her from when she opened her mouth, but the Village Elders glared at him, so he was helpless and could only just hear it with gnashed teeth.

But he already came to the end of his patience, he knew the more Mrs. Qiao talk, the more things would get worse, so he shouted loudly, “SHUT UP! You disgusting wife who can’t tell good from bad!”

Mrs. Qiao was suffering from Hua Jintao making a fool of her, along with Lian Fangzhou who cornered her, she was already fuming with anger a long time ago, so when she saw Lian Li not only was just standing there without helping her, but also lecturing herself, she became even more insane. She pointed her finger to Lian Li and cursed him with hatred, “You old bastard, you idiot! Your mouth only saying beautiful things, but when something happened, it’s always me who has to shoulder it! Your talk behind everybody’s back isn’t any less than anyone! You hate this girl even more than me, you can’t wait to distance yourself away from her, what are you still pretending for?! Are you thinking that you’re their Uncle now?!”

“You dead wife, you really gone mad! What crazy words are you yelling about?!” Lian Li was angry and nervous, so he hurriedly stepped forwards wanting to beat Mrs. Qiao.

Ah Jian who was silent from the start, stepped forward and dexterously stopped him, he said in a light voice, “Even if Uncle is mad, you can’t act like this in front of Li Zheng and other Village Elders!”

“It’s not your goddamn business! We don’t need you, with different surname, to take care of our family’s matter!” Lian Li spitted.

“Can I take care of it?” Granduncle Zhangwu snorted coldly, “Whether she’s insane, whether the words she said are crazy words, we several old fools are still not senile yet! If your heart is apprehensive, then just honestly stand at the side!”

Lian Li hastily smiled and didn’t dare to talk back, he glared with hate to Ah Jian, but he still had no choice but to retreat to the side, his heart was letting loose a stream of curses and indecent words to Mrs. Qiao.

Mrs. Qiao glared at him furiously, raining curses and pointed at Zhang Lizheng with a cold smile, “I think I understand now! You and this dead girl were a partner! You want to help her putting me to death! Who doesn’t know that those sacks of charcoal were given to your house?! My house is poor so we don’t have anything to give ah, so you don’t even regard me as a person, everyone just treating me unjustly, trampling one me! God above ah, open your eyes and see ah! I’m wronged, I’m wronged!”

Mrs. Qiao was yelling and weeping, her meaning was very clear, it was obviously Lian Fangzhou who bribed Li Zheng, intentionally directing him to punish her.

TL NOTE

Reason for me translating this: I want to read the continuation of Fangzhou slapping those bloody bastards, so I feel like I can just read, translate and help comrades in need too. (o>艸<)

I’m only going to post this one chapter on NU [at new year], coz it’d be dangerous if I post the rest. Hope the readers could find this here! And hope nothing’s go wrong! (´∀｀；)

I’ll be posting the rest of the chapters here, so be sure to check out from time to time.

As usual, not editted.