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Chapter 12 The Powerful Aunt Su

The noise quickly drew out Su's second uncle and aunt, who were discussing how to deal with Su Yue inside the house.

When Aunt Su saw that everyone in the village was surrounding Su Yue and Wang Xiuying next door, and that her youngest son was carrying a big fat rabbit, her eyes revealed astonishment and surprise.

You see, she was saving every penny to pay Su Dabao's tuition, and her family hadn't eaten meat in a long time.

The chicken I cooked for lunch today was only killed to draw blood from the evil spirit on Su Yue's body. If I had known that I hadn't succeeded, hadn't even gotten to eat the chicken, and had instead gotten a beating, I would never have killed one this morning.

The rabbit in her son's hand must belong to their family. Compared to Wang Xiuying's tantrum on the ground, it seemed insignificant.

Aunt Su didn't even care about being afraid of Su Yue.

"Well, you, Wang Xiuying, how dare you bully my child while my husband and I are away! Everyone, come and see!" Aunt Su scolded.

When Wang Xiuying saw that Aunt Su had come out, she knew she wouldn't get the rabbit. She cried out, "Everyone, come and see! Su Lao Er's family is bullying people! Waaaaah! Village Chief, I want to see the Village Chief too! That brat Su Yue knocked out my teeth! I want them to pay me five taels of silver, or I'm going to stay at your house and never leave!"

Aunt Su wouldn't tolerate her. She was still fuming from being beaten by Su Yue these past two days, so she snatched the rabbit from Su Xiaobao's hand and stuffed it into Su Dabao's arms, who had also come out, telling him to take it home quickly.

He rushed up and started fighting with Wang Xiuying. What precious teeth? She dared to extort five taels of silver from their family. Did she think he was easy to bully?

At this moment, the villagers on the sidelines also started watching the excitement.

"You dare bite me, you little slut! I'll tear your mouth apart!" Aunt Su kept pinching Wang Xiuying's soft flesh, but unexpectedly, she actually bit her.

"Hey, Wang Dani, you shameless old hag, I'll bite you to death! Everyone knows you're always beating and scolding Su Laoda's orphan, and now you're pretending to protect him. It makes everyone in the village know how vicious you are. Hey, you dare pull my hair!" Wang Xiuying retorted defiantly.

Wang Dani is Su Ershen's real name. The two women were from the same village before they got married, and they have always been at odds with each other since they were children.

“I’m vicious, but I’m not as vicious as you. You’re always instigating your mother-in-law to beat and scold your brother-in-law’s family. You get all the good things in the village. I think you’re the most vicious person in the whole village.”

The two men were locked in a fierce fight on the ground, neither gaining the upper hand, yet no one stepped forward to separate them.

This is the liveliest time the village has had in months since the drought started.

Just as the two sides were wrestling, a voice came from the crowd.

"Alright, stop fighting! And all of you, you're just watching the show without helping to separate these two. What kind of behavior is this?" Everyone turned to look and saw an old man walking over.

Once the villagers heard that Village Chief Su had spoken, they decided it was best not to stand by and watch the commotion and went to separate the two.

When Wang Xiuying saw the village chief arrive, she tearfully recounted how Su Yue's family had bullied her.

Wang Xiuying has been very good at disguising herself in the Wang family all these years, and few people in the village know that she is actually a cunning and deceitful person.

But Aunt Su was different. Although her parents-in-law were shrewish when they were alive, they were not vicious.

Ever since the eldest son and his parents-in-law died, Aunt Su has been acting like she's possessed. She's always beating and scolding Su Yue, the eldest son's daughter, and she just can't stand the sight of her.

It's not surprising that Aunt Su would act this way, seeing her brother Su Laosan living a prosperous life in town, with no worries about food or drink.

Looking at their own home, they were barely able to eat or dress properly every day, yet they still had to scrimp and save to send their son to school, hoping he would pass the imperial examinations. But fate had other plans, and they encountered a year of drought.

The school had already sent its students home to study on their own, and classes would resume once the drought was over.

The Su family, including the second and third, discussed selling the house left by the eldest son before his death, because whoever raised Su Yue would get two more taels of silver, which was a great bargain.

Aunt Su took the initiative to raise Su Yue and treated her well at first, but later she started to beat and scold her, and didn't treat little Su Yue like a human being.

If adults do this, children will definitely imitate them, and the three Su brothers also began to find pleasure in bullying Su Yue.

In the village, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news spreads like wildfire.

News of this story quickly spread throughout the village.

After listening to Wang Xiuying's tearful account, the village chief asked Su Yue, who had been standing aside watching the commotion, "Yue girl, she said you hit her first. We can't just take her word for it. You tell us what happened."

Su Yue thought that the old village chief was quite reasonable and did not prevent her from speaking just because she was young.

"Grandpa Village Chief, you have to stand up for me! Aunt Xiuying wanted to buy the rabbits that my third cousin and I caught for two coins. We refused to sell, so she tried to steal our wild rabbits." As she spoke, Su Yue squeezed out a tear, which hung in her eyes, looking pitifully at Village Chief Su.

"Grandpa Village Chief, I didn't hit Aunt Xiuying. She was the one who tried to hit me, which is why I fell to the ground. She even wants us to pay her five taels of silver! Waaah! Grandpa Village Chief, you must stand up for Yue'er! Waaah!" She then grabbed the village chief's hand and started crying.

"That's right, Grandpa Village Chief, she was the one who tried to steal our rabbits and even hit my little sister Yue." Su Xiaobao squeezed next to Village Chief Su at this moment.

Village Chief Su sighed as he looked at Wang Xiuying, who was still throwing a tantrum on the ground. He then pointed angrily at Wang Lao Er, who was hiding in the crowd, and said, "Look what your wife has done! She even bullies a little kid. If there's a next time, your whole family will have to move out of the village!"

Seeing this, Wang Lao Er quickly came out from behind and slapped Wang Xiuying across the face. He then turned to the village chief and said obsequiously that he would definitely teach his wife a lesson when he got back, and compensate Su Yue with half a string of cash before he would let it go.

The Wang family were not native to the village; they had fled famine from elsewhere twenty or thirty years ago. So they knew that if they were driven out of the village, their lives would be over.

Wouldn't he be beaten to death by his parents and brothers?

Su Yue accepted the half-string of cash handed over by Village Chief Su, and after saying a lot of comforting words, she finally managed to send all the villagers back.

After everyone had left, Su Yue stuffed the money into her pocket, told her second aunt that she was hungry and asked her to cook the rabbit for her, then went inside to wait for dinner.

In those days, who could afford to eat meat? Even though Aunt Su's cooking skills weren't very good, the aroma of her meat dishes still wafted everywhere.

Especially the children of the families living nearby were crying and craving meat. The adults, unable to resist the temptation, would beat them and then scold Aunt Su's family.

The worst off was Wang Xiuying's family, who lived closest to her. When they went back, they were scolded by their mother-in-law and then beaten by their own husband.

The resentment in his heart was immense; smelling the aroma of meat, he cursed Su Yue's ancestors for eighteen generations.