A sumptuous al was laid on the table, with mbers of the Old Yu Family and the third branch gathered around.
Before they could sit down, Li Juhua, who had run away before, returned.
True to Old Yu Family’s words, running away was just for show.
Just wanted to see her own status in the Old Yu Family’s eyes.
Now she knew she had no status.
Li Juhua had lost all hope; her husband was unreliable, her in-laws didn’t welco her, and her son was not around.
With the notion of making the most of each al, Li Juhua found a seat for herself, and before Old Mrs. Yu and Mr. Yu could say to start eating, she had already started eating alone.
at, dried fish, bamboo shoots—she devoured them as if she hadn’t eaten in three days and nights.
Mr. Yu and Old Mrs. Yu’s faces darkened.
They really had no desire to pay attention to the disgraced abandoned wife in front of them.
Although Mu Shuangshuang was the host, Li Juhua had co with Old Yu Family’s mbers.
To beat her would be to disgrace Old Yu Family’s face, and she wouldn’t do such a thing.
Li sat alone, wolfing down a bowl of cured at, an entire dried fish, three bowls of rice, and a bowl of hot soup, nearly as if she were eating pig slop.
When she finished, her stomach looked like that of a pregnant woman four months along.
Trying to stand up was no longer a simple task.
"Oh no... my stomach hurts, my stomach hurts..." Li yelled, clutching her stomach.
Sweat beads as large as grapes rolled down her face.
This was probably the consequence of eating alone, thought Mu Shuangshuang.
Li Juhua moaned and groaned for a long ti, but no one went to help her.
Her stomach pain must have beco unbearable, as Li Juhua clutched her stomach and headed straight for the third branch’s latrine.
At this point, Old Mrs. Yu’s face grew dark as night; she wished she could strangle Li Juhua.
But since Li Juhua wasn’t there, she could only berate Yu Erlang: "Look at the good wife you married – is this even a woman?"
Going to soone else’s house, first to criticize, then after running away, coming back and eating more than half of soone else’s al.
This kind of wife is just a disaster to keep.
Even though Li Juhua had been abandoned, Old Mrs. Yu still felt embarrassed.
Yu Erlang also felt ashad, and at this mont, he was too angry to eat.
"Mother, I’ll go find that woman." Yu Erlang said.
"Why go look for her? Are you afraid of her?" Old Mrs. Yu said irritably.
She was probably really angry, as Old Mrs. Yu’s tone began to resemble Old Mrs. Mu’s relentless style.
Yu Si Niang, fearing for the old lady’s health, quickly helped her to sit down.
Mu Shuangshuang began to clean up the ss, saying: "Egg dumplings are still steaming in the pot, I’ve made two bowls of cured at and dried fish, and if that’s not enough, we can make a hot pot and cook so greens. After all, we want to eat until we’re full."
The midday al was finally finished, and Old Mrs. Yu and Mr. Yu were taken by Yu Si Niang and Mu Dashan to see the third branch’s fields and the school.
It was rare for them to visit, so the elders were interested in everything about the third branch.
Mu Shuangshuang stayed ho because ever since Li Juhua had gone into the third branch’s latrine at alti, she hadn’t co out.
Mu Shuangshuang thought Li Juhua might be up to sothing and wasn’t afraid as long as she was around.
But after only just taking a nap, Yu Erlang ca anxiously looking for Mu Shuangshuang.
He wanted her help to find a doctor.
Li Juhua’s al, whether due to overeating or otherwise, since entering the latrine, it was as if a mountain was collapsing, and part of her intestines had even co out.
An hour of squatting in the latrine had left Li Juhua completely exhausted.
When Yu Erlang went in, Li Juhua had fallen into the latrine pit, covered in filth, nearly suffocating him.
A day of marriage often becos a hundred days of kindness, and Yu Erlang couldn’t bear to let Li Juhua die in the latrine pit like that.
He wiped Li Juhua’s bottom and found that part of her intestines had co out, nearly sickening him.
But he managed to hold it together.
After hearing Yu Erlang’s description, Mu Shuangshuang wanted to laugh but felt it was immoral.
In the end, she barely held it in until she got to Zhang Huai Shu’s house, and as soon as she finished describing the symptoms, she squatted on the ground, laughing uncontrollably.
Zhang Huai Shu’s face turned as black as coal.
"Shuang, I must really have a grudge against your Old Mu Family.
The last ti it was that Mu Xiangxiang, this ti it’s your aunt by marriage, I... I’m getting on in years, and if this happens a few more tis, my life will be over."
Mu Shuangshuang held back her laughter and apologized to Zhang Huai Shu.
But even in her eyes, that sly smile left Zhang Huai Shu helpless.
Ah, Zhang Huai Shu, once the most sought-after barefoot doctor in the area, had now beco soone who specializes in examining feces and urine.
They went together to the third branch, where Li had been placed in Mu Dashan’s room.
Feng Xiaohua changed her clothes, but the sll still lingered.
Zhang Huai Shu, suppressing his nausea, completed his diagnosis and prescribed dicine.
When Mu Shuangshuang invited him to stay for a al or tea, he quickly ran away.
Watching Zhang Huai Shu’s departing figure, Mu Shuangshuang shrugged helplessly.
This matter really had nothing to do with her.
"Shuangshuang, today... I’ve troubled you. For Mother to do such a foolish thing again, I’m ashad myself." Yu Erlang said, his face as red as a monkey’s behind.
Mu Shuangshuang waved her hand.
Li Juhua was soone she had dealt with for quite so ti.
Back when she gave her sixth uncle dicine to cause impotence, and now she’s overeaten and gotten sick – it seed like divine retribution.
"Second Uncle, I know it’s not my place to interfere with the matters of the elders, but I still want to say sothing.
When it’s ti to cut, cut. If you think there’s no hope with Aunt Li, then let her go; don’t let her upset grandmother anymore.
If you still want to make it work with her, then live a good life together, and communicate well with Aunt Li."
Li had been abandoned, so Mu Shuangshuang didn’t have to call her Aunt anymore.
However, Mu Shuangshuang still felt that Yu Erlang’s handling of Li’s matter was unfair.
The so-called test was just an excuse Yu Erlang found.
No matter how bad Li was, if he had no intention of living with her anymore, he should have let her go. Dragging it on was no good for anyone.
Yu Erlang was taken aback, and with a mournful face, he said to Mu Shuangshuang: "I don’t know either. She is my genius son’s mother; I can’t let her marry a fifty-year-old widower.
But with her temper, I don’t want to take her back and suffer again. Shuangshuang, to be honest, because of that woman stirring things up, I almost felt... I almost felt that your sixth uncle should never have children in his lifeti.
Everything in the tea garden should belong to our second branch."
"Shuangshuang, you’re not married yet, you don’t know. When you haven’t started sothing yet, but there’s always soone next to you implanting ideas in your head. It’s sothing you don’t want to do, but because of her influence, you can’t help thinking about it and doing it..."
Mu Shuangshuang was stunned. She never knew that a woman could have such power to influence a man’s independent judgnt.
Even... could make him have such vicious thoughts!
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