Hu Guihua was enraged and blurted out, "Hua Qingqing, you're so shameless! Are you even a woman? All you talk about are men. You reek of promiscuity from afar. You must be dirty! All of you from the Yu family are the same. You're all sluts!"
Yu Jianhua let out an embarrassed cry.
"Mom!"
Hua Qingqing remained calm and retorted, "Your heart and nose are rotten, so you smell the stench of a slut because it's your own stink! You have foot odor and bad breath. Anyone who gets close to you will be infected with the smell. If you're so stinky, don't try to slander me, a pure and lovely girl! Let me give you a tip. Go home and soak in a mixture of feces and urine to get rid of the smell. It's called using stink to fight stink! You've been stinky for decades. This is the only way to save you. Otherwise, you'll stink yourself to death."
If the previous scolding was just about being dirty, now it was both dirty and stinky.
The onlookers gasped in surprise.
It was the first time they had seen an old woman and a young girl arguing, with the old woman being scolded speechless by the young girl! This young girl was really not afraid at all. Her scolding was well - reasoned and full of wit.
Hu Guihua also met such an opponent for the first time. Compared to this one, Yu Yunlin she met before was nothing.
No, why did the Yu family always produce such annoying good - for - nothings!
The laughter around her seemed like mockery.
Hu Guihua's face turned deathly pale with anger, and she screeched, "You're a parentless bastard. Your parents wasted food giving birth to you. You have no manners at all. All of you from the Yu family are the same. I've really opened my eyes today. Yu Jianhua is a broken shoe who can't give birth, a hen that can't lay eggs. I'll tell my son to divorce her later!"
Fine, fine, she couldn't win the scolding, so she started dragging others into it, right?
Hua Qingqing immediately stepped up her attack.
"Has your brain rotted too? My dad is the minister of the capital's armed police force. He came back from the battlefield. You're cursing me for not having a dad. Do you want to curse the country for lacking talents? What's your intention, Hu Guihua? Are you a spy from outside?"
I was talking about family matters with you, but you changed the topic to scold me?
Hu Guihua was a bit confused and was about to speak when Hua Qingqing interrupted her without giving her a chance.
"Your mother really did a disservice to the people and the Party by giving birth to you. You keep talking about 'hen' and 'broken shoe' so casually. Is it because you're one yourself? If you can lay eggs, lay a few more to add some meat to your family's meals! And your son, with his square face, upturned nose, and thick lips. He's bad luck for his wife and children. To be honest, most cases of not having children are the man's problem. It's because your son is infertile. Divorce is okay. We're upright. Without a slut of a man, there will be another good one. My aunt is good - looking, not like that unwanted big pumpkin in your family!"
Hua Qingqing's voice got louder and louder.
"Back then, my aunt graduated from high school and was a full - time worker at the lumber mill, while your son was just a cleaner there. Now your son has tricked my aunt out of her job. You two sluts beat and scold her at home. Your son went to our factory with a stick yesterday. A dozen people saw him beating someone. That's all evidence! When my aunt recovers, she'll sue your son, make him go to jail, and make him lose his job! You and your son are just two piles of cow dung. You're born to be on the ground. In the future, you can be put in the fields to add some nutrients to the soil because that's all you're good for!"
Seeing that she couldn't fight back, Hu Guihua sat on the ground with her legs apart and wailed non - stop.
"Is there any justice left? Young people these days don't know how to respect the old and care for the young. My daughter - in - law doesn't care about me. What's the point of living..."
Yu Jianhua was a bit worried. She lifted the quilt and got out of bed to help Hu Guihua up, but Hua Qingqing stopped her.
"Auntie, don't touch her!"
Hua Qingqing glanced at Hu Guihua. "Are you a mummy? You've been wailing for so long without a tear. Are you faking it again?"
At this time, a man at the door shouted, "It's not proper for you, a junior, to scold an elder like that, isn't it?"
Hua Qingqing turned to look at him. "Do you know her? Do you know what she's done?"
The man shook his head. "I don't know her. I just can't stand you being so aggressive as a girl."
Hua Qingqing laughed. "If you don't know her, why are you butting in? People might think you're her lover. Looking at your wrinkled face, your age is about right. If you want to be a hero, come here and let me slap you a few times. Her son beat my aunt into the hospital. It's not too much for me to hit her lover once, is it?"
She then asked the other onlookers at the door.
"Everyone, do you think it's too much?"
Who would have thought that there would be interaction while watching the show? Several young women in the crowd shouted.
"Not too much!"
"Uncle, look, they all say it's not too much. When are you coming over for me to slap you a few times?"
The man was embarrassed. He mumbled something about a good man not fighting with a woman and left in a hurry.
Hua Qingqing sneered. Hu Guihua, who had been pretending to cry on the ground, quietly got up at some point. Before Hua Qingqing could say anything, she pushed through the onlookers at the door and ran away.
There was no more show to watch.
The onlookers also left.
Hua Qingqing told Yu Jianhua to lie in bed.
Yu Jianhua said worriedly, "Qingqing, you shouldn't have been so impulsive just now. With my mother - in - law's personality, she won't make it easy for you."
"Make it hard for me?"
"She can't scold me or beat me. How can she make it hard for me? I don't care about anything else."
Hua Qingqing shrugged and took off her schoolbag.
Seeing that she wouldn't listen, Yu Jianhua sighed. "I can't argue with you. But you're a girl after all. Scolding her like that is bad for your reputation."
Hua Qingqing took out the photos. Hearing this, she opened her eyes wide.
"How could it be?"
"I have a very good reputation. I'm the top student in school, a well - known good student. What's wrong with me teaching my aunt's husband a lesson for beating my aunt who was being abused?"
She suddenly lowered her voice and looked a bit sad. "Auntie, do you also think I did something wrong?"
Of course Yu Jianhua didn't think so.
She sighed. "I really can't argue with you."
"I'm getting discharged from the hospital today. Why did you come here? Isn't it cold?"
Seeing that her face was red from the wind, Yu Jianhua touched her face lovingly. Her palm felt cold.
Hua Qingqing smiled. "Of course I'm here to pick you up. Auntie, don't go back. Just stay at the factory. There's a party at the factory on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year."
"Also, I have something to tell you..."
Yu Jianhua waited for a while but didn't hear anything.
"If you have something to say, just say it. It's not like you to be so hesitant."
Hua Qingqing put the two photos in her hand on the quilt. The white quilt made the black - and - white photos even clearer.
Yu Jianhua looked down, picked them up, and her hand trembled when she saw the familiar figure.