"...Si Lang, Liulang, you don’t understand, you just keep acting up, you just keep acting up..."
Si Lang, Liulang not understanding is the dialect of Thirty Mile Camp, aning soone is muddled, doesn’t make sense, and is unreasonable.
Lian Shouren, Lian Shouyi, Lady Gu, Lady He, Lian Jizu, and others all gathered around the chive beds, so even stepping into the beds, loudly persuading and trying to stop Lady Zhou.
But Lady Zhou was exceptionally fierce; whoever dared to approach her would be flung away with a twist of her waist, even Lian Xiuxiu wasn’t spared.
Behind Lian Shouren and the others, another circle ford, consisting of Lian Duoduo, Si Lang, and other younger grandsons. These children weren’t as tense as Lian Shouren and his group; on the contrary, their faces and actions showed excitent, as if they found it amusing.
Lady Chiang and Zhao Xiue also stood in this group, with Lady Chiang holding Niuniu and Zhao Xiue with her pregnant belly, obviously both not in a position to push forward.
Lian Manman took one look and knew what was at the bottom of her heart.
By then, Lady Zhou had already trampled a large patch of chives beyond recognition, and she turned toward the nearby cabbage patch. The young cabbages had grown over two inches tall above the ground, closely packed and not yet thinned. Lady Zhou rushed over and started stomping and kicking the young cabbages, and soon, the damage was grievous, and there was devastation all around.
If Lady Zhou continued this way, the entire backyard vegetable garden would be ruined. Everyone had worked so hard to cultivate it, especially Old Master Lian, who had put so much effort into this plot of land.
Lian Manman thought for a mont and decided she had to help cure Lady Zhou’s madness, and it wasn’t because of the garden.
With this in mind, Lian Manman ran forward and stopped next to Lady Gu.
"Oh my, my grandma’s illness is quite severe. My father just heard about it and has gone to fetch a doctor for my grandma; he’ll be back soon," Lian Manman feigned panic, speaking loudly.
Lady Zhou paused for a mont, then her curses grew louder, her movents beca even more vigorous, and the stomping strength increased.
"Wasn’t grandma just fine a while ago? How did she get so sick so suddenly?" At this point, Lian Manman turned her head and addressed Lady Gu, "Aunt, grandma was with you just now, wasn’t she?"
Lady Gu was taken aback.
"Aunt, grandma like this, of course, can’t go with my uncle for his appointnt. You’ll definitely have to stay and take care of grandma," Lian Manman didn’t wait for her to react and quickly added.
"Aunt, don’t doubt what I’m saying." Lian Manman looked around and then lowered her voice to say, "When the doctor arrives, he has to declare that my grandma can’t travel far. You’ll have to stay and take care of grandma. No one else’s words will do!"
After finishing her words, Lian Manman looked aningfully at Lady Gu.
Lady Gu opened her mouth, she understood the implication in Lian Manman’s words. In the past, if Lian Manman had spoken this way, she might not have believed it, not have cared, but today, after what had happened, she had no choice but to believe.
Lian Shouxin and Lady Zhang had that influence in Thirty Mile Camp.
Not allowing her to accompany Lian Shouren on his post, but having her stay to take care of Lady Zhou, was sothing she could not tolerate at all.
"Mother, please calm down, let’s go back inside," Lady Gu quickly beckoned to Lian Shouren and Lian Jizu to co forward and pull Lady Zhou back to the house.
This attempt at intervention finally carried sincerity.
But Lady Zhou was not yet ready to give in.
After completely trampling down the bok choy, she shrugged off Lady Gu and others who had advanced towards her, and pounced toward the opposite dry cucumber bed like a fierce wind.
The dry cucumber plants had already spread across the trellis, with large and small dry cucumbers hanging beneath.
Lady Zhou kicked and grabbed, and in a short span of ti, she had destroyed half the bed of dry cucumbers, but her face and hands had also been injured, wounds inflicted by herself as she flung herself against the straw trellis.
Because the injuries hurt, Lady Zhou beca even angrier, and her movents grew even more frantic, as if she were facing not dry cucumbers, but a sworn enemy whom she couldn’t share the sky with.
"Aiya, how co my grandma’s madness is so fierce this ti?" Lian Manman said as she stepped closer, standing next to Zhao Xiue and speaking loudly.
"Exactly, I’ve never seen anyone beco so crazed with anger." Zhao Xiue said.
Mad with anger, but by whom?
Lian Manman ignored Zhao Xiue’s interjection.
"Sister-in-law Xiue, this madness, it’s always rooted in sothing, right? I heard it even passes on through generations. That Old Lady Huang from our town, she seed to have gone mad in her forties or fifties. Her daughter was originally fine, but a few days ago, out of nowhere, she went mad too. Everyone says it’s the madness passed down from her mother."
"Just yesterday, I heard they want to send Old Lady Huang’s daughter back. They say if she had that root of madness, they wouldn’t want to be kin with her. They also said the Old Huang Family acted dishonorably by hiding her madness and deceiving them into marriage, and now they want to demand the bride price back."
Lady Zhou’s curses abruptly stopped, and she shifted slightly but didn’t kick at the dry cucumber plants again. Holding onto a cucumber plant with one hand, she twisted her head towards Lian Manman.
Everyone gasped in unison.
As Lady Zhou turned, she stepped on sothing and suddenly slipped, her whole body losing balance and tumbling backward. Lian Xiuxiu, who was close behind Lady Zhou, hurried to help her, but was also pulled down. In a panic, Lian Xiuxiu’s hand flailed out and grabbed Lady Gu who was beside her.
The three of them collapsed in a heap onto the dry cucumber bed.
Lian Shouren, Lian Shouyi, and Lian Jizu hastily stepped forward to help the three up and slowly led them away.
"Aiyah, why does it sll so foul?" Zhao Xiue frowned, covering her nose and mouth.
Lian Manman also sensed a putrid sll hitting her face, and quickly followed Zhao Xiue’s lead, covering her nose and mouth with her hand.
"Ah, it must be Liulang – definitely him, he must have defecated under the cucumber trellis again!"
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Ruoyan wanted to send these people away quickly, but they were too fierce in temperant and simply would not leave. (To be continued... If you like this work, please vote for it at Qidian (qidian) with recomndation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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