Chapter 220 Undeserved Calamity
The people around her immediately swarmed over and helped her to sit down aside.
Only then did she feel better. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Xiuniang squatting beside her with a worried expression.
"Mom, how are you? Let's go to see a doctor, okay?" As Xiuniang said that, her eyes turned red.
Besides, she turned her head towards the group of children and scolded, "Are you all blind? Do you have to run into people in such a big open space? My mother is so aged. If anything happens to her, I'll flay you little brats."
The boy who bumped into Cuihua muttered with his head down, "I didn't mean to hit her. She was the one who got in the way."
If he didn't say this, Xiuniang would scold him a little to vent her anger and that would be the end of this matter.
But after hearing his words, Xiuniang looked at him with frightening coldness in her eyes, "What did you say? Say it again."
The boy obviously knew he said something he shouldn't say, so he shut up.
But it was too late to shut up at this point. Xiuniang stood up and got closer to him step by step.
"So you wanted to hit me from the beginning? There is no enmity between us. Why did you want to make trouble for me? I'm only three months pregnant. Do you actually want to kill my baby?!"
The boy obviously did not expect that she was pregnant. He immediately raised his head and looked at her with his mouth wide open, not knowing how to defend himself at that moment.
While speaking, Xiuniang already walked in front of him, "Talk to me! Why don't you say anything?"
The boy pursed his lips and looked very torn.
Xiuniang raised her hand and slapped him. His mother looked at him with great concern and wanted to go forward, but her mother-in-law held her back.
The boy felt his face burning hot, but then he heard Xiuniang ask him, "How is that? Shitou, does it hurt?"
Shitou felt a little aggrieved. He pursed his lips and nodded his head.
Xiuniang reprimanded him fiercely again, "I just slapped you and you know it hurts. Have you ever thought about how much it hurts when you hit my mother-in-law with your head? If you hit your head on me, would my baby have been dead? I would say that it's not too much to sue you, you little brat!"
Being reprimanded by her, Shitou almost couldn't hold back his tears. Suddenly, he knelt down in front of everyone.
"I was wrong. Don't sue me. I was really wrong. I will never run wildly again."
"Stand up!" Xiuniang frowned and said.
But Shitou shook his head, "How about you slap me again?"
"Why should I slap you? Wouldn't that be easy for you? I can let it go, but my mother-in-law may even have problems walking after you hit her like this. How can she work? You do all the work until she recovers. Are you willing to do that?"
Shitou agreed. Only then did Xiuniang let him go, "In this case, come to my house early tomorrow morning!"
Speaking of which, she turned her head to look at the woman beside her, "Shitou's mom, do you think this is a good arrangement?"
Shitou's mother smiled embarrassedly, "Yes. I'll let Shitou go to your house tomorrow morning!"
After dealing with these things, Xiuniang asked her mother-in-law with her head down. Only when she knew that Cuihua's pain went away a little did she say to the villagers around her, "Folks, would you please help me get my mother home?"
They were all from the same village. Since this happened, they naturally could not stand by and do nothing.
Several women helped to send Cuihua back home. After Shitou's mother walked out of Wu's house, she asked her mother-in-law, "Mom, why did you stop me just now? Look at how Shitou was beaten by her. The slap mark on his face hasn't faded yet. Instead, they swelled up."
Her mother-in-law grunted, "You always spoil the child. He thinks he can do everything! If you don't teach your child how to behave, someone will teach him for you. Fortunately, nothing serious happened this time. If the grandson of the Wu family had been lost, I'm afraid it couldn't be solved with a slap. Besides, the old lady suffered. You have to vent their anger, right?"
Shitou's mother sighed and didn't know what to say at that moment.
Her mother-in-law continued, "Boys are tough. A slap won't hurt him. I think it may be a good thing! Look, is our Shitou different today?"
Tou's mother nodded, "He seems to be a little different."
"That's right. I think our Shitou has become responsible, too. It's a good thing! Let's go. Don't worry about it. Go back! You can't spoil the child like this anymore!"
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Jiuyue came back at midday. She dismounted, patted the red face of the horse, and added two handfuls of hay for it before shouting towards the yard, "I'm back!"
But this time, her mother-in-law did not come out to welcome her.
She felt a little strange. Then she thought of the dream she had before she left and her heart skipped a beat. "Did something really happen?" She wondered.
Just as she was walking hastily toward the hall, Xiuniang walked out to meet her. Once Xiuniang saw Jiuyue, she said, "Jiuyue, you're finally back!"
Jiuyue looked at her from head to toe and asked nervously, "Second sister-in-law, are you all right?"
Xiuniang shook her head, "I'm okay. Come with me to see mom now."
Jiuyue's face changed and she quickly ran towards the house.
As soon as she crossed the threshold and saw her mother-in-law lying on the bed, she couldn't help but cry.
"Mom, what happened to you? Weren't you still fine when I left yesterday?"
Once Cuihua saw Jiuyue crying, she wanted to wipe Jiuyue's tears. But as soon as she moved, she felt unbearable pain in her abdomen.
She gulped and said to Xiuniang, "Xiuniang, wipe September's tears for her."
"Look at you two keep crying. Your second sister-in-law just stopped crying, and you're crying now."
Jiuyue took her second sister-in-law's handkerchief and wiped the tears before asking her, "What happened to you?"
When Jiuyue saw Xiuniang speak in good spirits, she knew that nothing serious happened to Xiuniang.
Cuihua sighed, "We met a naughty boy. He bumped into us with his head while we were sunbathing outside."
Xiuniang admitted her fault with her head down, "It's all my fault. She would have been fine if she hadn't shielded me from him."
However, Cuihua glared at her, "What are you talking about? I will be in pain for two days at most. But if he hit you, what would happen to my grandson?"
Xiuniang did not speak anymore, but Jiuyue stretched out her hand and touched Cuihua's pulse, "I'm checking if you've got any internal injuries."