B5SB -Chapter 66 Old Lady Zhou Gets Beaten

Gu Family Village

“Bang, bang, bang.”

Old Lady Zhou and the others arrived home very late. Exhausted and hungry, they grabbed a quick bite. Not long after lying down, someone knocked at the door.

Seeing no movement in her son’s room, Old Lady Zhou got up irritably and shouted toward the door, “Who is it? Trying to scare someone?”

When she opened the door, she saw Grandma Gu and her two daughters-in-law. Before she could even start cursing, Grandma Gu pinned her to the ground.

Grandma Gu, agile on her feet, straddled Old Lady Zhou’s stomach.

She slapped Old Lady Zhou’s face from side to side. “You dared to snatch my precious granddaughter! The one I raised with such care! How dare you steal her, the nerve of you!”

“I’ll make you jealous, I’ll make you envious! You rotten guts, trying to take advantage of me? I’ll beat you to death!”

“Ah… you’ll kill me! You old hag, never die!” Old Lady Zhou protected her face with one hand and furiously grabbed Grandma Gu’s waist with the other.

Grandma Gu cried out in pain and shouted to Wang Ni and Chen Xiu, “What are you two standing there for? Hurry up and help me!”

The eldest daughter-in-law Wang Ni and second daughter-in-law Chen Xiu exchanged glances, then stepped forward to hold Old Lady Zhou’s arms.

Grandma Gu knew Old Lady Zhou too well. “You went to find Xiao Han, and dared to ruin my granddaughter’s reputation outside? Every time I see you, I’ll hit you.”

She rained fierce slaps on Old Lady Zhou’s face.

“Ow…” Old Lady Zhou’s face was swollen from Grandma Gu’s blows.

Wang Ni looked at her mother-in-law’s battered face and said, “Mom, that’s enough, don’t hit her anymore. Someone might get seriously hurt.”

Hearing this, Grandma Gu stopped hitting, shook off her arms, and stood up. Still unsatisfied, she kicked Old Lady Zhou.

Panting, Grandma Gu said, “She’s really getting old… I didn’t even enjoy it enough, and I can’t get a proper hit in. What a bargain for this old thing.”

Old Lady Zhou rolled on the ground, refusing to get up, and wailed, “I’m going to the team leader! You old witch, you have to pay my medical bills!”

Grandma Gu wasn’t intimidated. “Bah! You’re always thinking nonsense. I haven’t even accused your family of stealing my child yet!”

Old Lady Zhou lay on the ground, confronting the standing Grandma Gu. “That’s my child! You grabbed the wrong one! That little slut sent you things that belong to my family!”

Grandma Gu looked at Old Lady Zhou’s greedy face. “Bah! You stole my grandson and still want to snatch my granddaughter!”

“Who would believe you? Zhang Cuihua had a difficult birth at your home. It was your family’s fault! If not for worrying about your stinky family affecting Gu Family Village…”

Grandma Gu looked at her with disdain. “The whole village knows your family stole my child. If the team leader hadn’t stopped me, do you think you’d still be safe at home?”

Unable to argue with Grandma Gu, Old Lady Zhou shouted to someone inside the house, “Zhou Jianguo, are you dead? Your mother is being beaten!”

Inside, Liu Zhaodi had woken up when Grandma Gu started hitting, but she didn’t dare come out.

Zhou Jianguo instructed Liu Zhaodi, “Go help your mother and get Er Ya. Her grandmother is being beaten, and she’s pretending to be dead inside.”

Liu Zhaodi had no desire to help the old woman; she thought it would be better if she were dead.

Rarely, she spoke up for Er Ya, “Father, Er Ya just gave birth. She needs to recover before having another child. Mother is calling you.”

Zhou Jianguo turned over irritably. “It’s all women’s business. How could I, a grown man, help?”

No matter how much Old Lady Zhou wailed and screamed, no one came out of the house.

Grandma Gu sneered at her. “Stop crying! With a son as unfilial as yours, who cares if you live or die? You wanted to snatch my granddaughter? You better look in a mirror! Your Zhou family could produce a filial child like Xiao Han? Are your eyes smeared with cow dung?”

Old Lady Zhou felt a chill in her heart. She had raised her son with such hardship, married him off, had children…

And she never imagined that her son Jianguo wouldn’t even peek when he heard her being beaten.

Grandma Gu saw the look of sheer misery on Old Lady Zhou’s face and felt immensely satisfied.

“Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, let’s go,” Grandma Gu called to her daughters-in-law and left the yard.

Three days later.

Gu Yihan trudged into the accounting office, sat heavily at her desk, and rested her head on the table, her mind pounding.

Sister Li noticed her and quietly asked, “Not feeling well?”

Gu Yihan lifted her eyes and said listlessly, “Nothing serious. Maybe I caught a chill.”

She felt it had something to do with her space, as she could now only take things out but couldn’t store anything, and there was a side effect—her head was buzzing.

Tang Jiaojiao entered the office with red eyes, plopped down at a desk, and cried loudly.

Sisters Li and Zhang looked at her and asked, “What’s wrong, Little Tang?”

Between hiccups, Tang Jiaojiao said, “My mom doesn’t approve of me dating Liu Yang.”

Gu Yihan rubbed her head, puzzled. “You’ve confirmed your relationship with Comrade Liu Yang?”

Tang Jiaojiao, eyes swollen and red, said, “Not yet.”

Gu Yihan: “…”

Sisters Zhang and Li exchanged a helpless glance. “You haven’t confirmed, so even if your mom agreed, it wouldn’t matter if Liu Yang disagreed.”

Gu Yihan looked at Tang Jiaojiao’s red eyes, knowing she’d been crying for a while. She teased, “And all those tears for nothing. How much water will you have to drink to make up for it?”

“Hic… hic.”

Tang Jiaojiao hiccuped repeatedly and said aggrievedly, “I feel Liu Yang might still like me. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have chased after me the last time I ran out crying.”

Sister Zhang: “…”

Gu Yihan glanced at Sister Zhang, feeling a little relieved, and couldn’t help but snicker, “Haha.”

Sister Li knew why Liu Yang had chased after Tang Jiaojiao that day and covered her mouth, laughing.

Tang Jiaojiao, puzzled, asked, “What’s so funny?”

“Creak.”

Liu Yang came in, noticing the laughter from inside, and asked, “What’s so happy? I could hear you from afar.”

Seeing the complicated looks of everyone inside, he asked, “Do I have something wrong with me?”

Sister Li smiled, “No, you seem more energetic than before.”

Liu Yang took out eight White Rabbit candies from his pocket, two for each, smiling: “Everyone has a happy occasion. These are my wedding candies, limited, not many, just to share the joy.”

After he spoke, the room went silent. Everyone looked at Tang Jiaojiao.

He finally noticed her red, tear-filled eyes. Tang Jiaojiao was truly upset. Feeling foolish for imagining things, she walked to Sister Zhang.

“Sister Zhang, I’m not feeling well today. I need to take a day off.”

Sister Zhang didn’t stop her, simply said, “Go tell Officer Ma in HR, and be careful on the way.”

Tang Jiaojiao gave Liu Yang a resentful glance and left the office.

Liu Yang was completely confused. “Why are you looking at me? I have nothing to do with this.”