The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 4 Breaking the Rules and Beating People
"Mother, you don't need your sister-in-law's help, I can do it myself."

Chen Sufen dared not ask Liu Yue'e for help.

Otherwise, if this guy tries to sow discord in front of his mother later, it will be me and Man'er who suffer.

Chen Sufeng first placed the first bowl of rice in front of Tong Huaqiong, and then placed the remaining bowls one by one in front of Gu Taohua, Gu Jingzhe, Gu Yaozu, and Liu Yue'e's bamboo stalks.

The remaining bowl was placed in front of Man'er, and finally she picked up her own bowl and sat in a corner far away from the dining table.

In this family, Chen Sufeng, who works like an ox, is not qualified to sit at the table.

"Come and sit down," Tong Huaqiong called to Chen Sufen.

Chen Sufen dared not sit at the table.

"Go get a stool for your sister-in-law." Gu Taohua, who was about to pick up her chopsticks to eat the eggs, was told by Tong Huaqiong to get a stool for her sister-in-law. She was unwilling to get up. As soon as she left the table, Yaozu would finish the stir-fried eggs with chives.

"Sister-in-law, you don't need to sit at the table," Gu Taohua muttered, picking up an egg and about to put it in her mouth.

With a "smack," Tong Huaqiong slapped Gu Taohua's hand holding the chopsticks, spilling eggs all over the table.

“If you’re not moving, then you and your sister-in-law can switch places.”

Tong Huaqiong slapped Gu Taohua on the back again.

The fat on this big girl's body was so thick that it made Tong Huaqiong's hand hurt.

"Yaozu, go get a stool for your aunt." Gu Taohua glared at Yaozu.

Yaozu dared not disobey his aunt, so he got up and brought over a stool.

Chen Sufen dared not disobey her mother-in-law. Under Tong Huaqiong's piercing gaze, Chen Sufen trembled as she sat down at the table.

"Please don't touch your chopsticks yet."

Tong Huaqiong glanced at each of the rice bowls in front of them.

The rice in her bowl was thick, as were Gu Taohua's and Yaozu's. Gu Dashu's rice was slightly thinner, and Liu Yue'e's was even thinner than Gu Dashu's.

When it was Chen Sufen's and Man'er's turn to eat, Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but curse herself for being an old hag.

The two bowls of rice were so thin they were like water; she could count the number of grains of rice at a glance.

At the Gu family dinner table, people of different statuses eat from different bowls—a rule established by Tong Huaqiong's original self, Tong Dajiao.

Tong Huaqiong is going to break this ridiculous rule today.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? Can't a person eat?" Gu Dashu complained, his eyes gleaming with hunger.

The dishes on this table are too bland.

He fondly recalled the banquet that the Zheng family's steward had treated him to at Zui Qingfeng Restaurant in the county town a few days ago.

The delicious meat and fine wine kept him savoring the memory.

He was looking forward to Man'er marrying into the family so that he could become the manager of the Zheng family shop and go to Zui Qingfeng every day to eat meat and drink wine.

"Su-Fen, pour everyone's food into the pot, stir it, and serve it again," Tong Hua-Qiong said.

Chen Su-fen thought she had misheard and dared not move.

She has been married into the Gu family for so many years, and this has always been the rule at the dinner table.

"Su-Fen, you dare not disobey me?" Tong Huaqiong knew that being gentle with Chen Su-Fen would only frighten her, so she continued to act like a shrew and used a commanding tone.

"No... Mother, I didn't dare to..."

Chen Sufeng was so frightened that she couldn't speak coherently. She quickly poured the rice from everyone's bowls into the pot, stirred it as Tong Huaqiong instructed, and then served it back to her.

Everyone's bowl of rice is the same now.

"How can anyone eat this watery rice?"

Gu Taohua pouted in dissatisfaction.

Even if the rice in our house was a gift from the Zheng family, it was still a gift for the Gu family. Do Chen Sufeng and Man'er deserve to eat it?
"You think eating a bowl of porridge is a hardship? Your sister-in-law eats it every day! Look at you, you're as fat as a stone block, you could crush a fat pig, and you still eat and eat!" Tong Huaqiong scolded Gu Taohua without any politeness.

Gu Taohua glared at Chen Sufen with hatred, then picked up a large piece of egg with her chopsticks and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Eat your food." Seeing that Chen Sufeng was only drinking her porridge with her head down and did not dare to pick up any food with her chopsticks, Tong Huaqiong ordered her to pick up some food.

Chen Sufen dared not pick up her chopsticks.

Gu Dashu and Liu Yue'e looked at each other. What's wrong with the old woman?

Today is a bit unusual.

"Where are my and my aunt's boiled eggs?" Yaozu shouted.

Chen Sufeng almost forgot about the boiled eggs floating in the vegetable washing basin, so she quickly got off the table, took them, and handed one to Yaozu and one to Gu Taohua.

This was stipulated by my mother-in-law, who said that my sister-in-law was a precious guest in the family, and Yaozu was the heir of the Gu family, so the two of them should have an extra boiled egg with each meal to nourish their bodies.

"What about Man'er's?" Tong Huaqiong asked.

Chen Sufen murmured, "Man'er loves pickled vegetables."

Tong Huaqiong slammed down her chopsticks and said to Gu Taohua and Yaozu, "Give your eggs to Man'er."

Gu Taohua was naturally unhappy.

She gets all the good food at home, otherwise how could she have grown into such a chubby girl?

One egg a meal wasn't enough for her; asking her to give one to Man'er was out of the question. "Mother, you said it yourself: daughters should be pampered. If you don't give me the best food at my parents' house, who will care about me when I get to my husband's family?" Gu Taohua said while peeling an egg.

“As the eldest grandson of the Gu family, Yaozu should eat these eggs.”

Liu Yue'e was unwilling to share her son's eggs with Man'er, and glared at Man'er fiercely.

She's a worthless piece of trash; she doesn't even deserve to try and steal her son's food!

"Man'er won't eat, Man'er will eat pickled vegetables." Man'er was so frightened that she added a piece of pickled vegetables with her chopsticks.

"The title of the eldest grandson of the Gu family is not enough. Even if he is the ancestor, he should not eat this egg."

Tong Huaqiong rolled her eyes at Liu Yue'e.

"You're not listening to me anymore, are you?"

Tong Huaqiong then slammed the bowl down, snatched the eggs from Gu Taohua and Gu Yaozu's hands and handed them to Man'er and Chen Sufeng. She then knocked away Gu Dashu's chopsticks as he reached for the stir-fried eggs with chives, and brought the whole plate of stir-fried eggs with chives to herself and Chen Sufeng.

“You guys eat the cabbage and pickled vegetables, and Sufeng, Man’er, and I will eat this plate of eggs.”

Gu Yaozu had never been treated like this before.

As the eldest grandson of the Gu family, he was always pampered, and the family always gave him the best of everything, except for Gu Taohua. Normally, he would share these eggs with his aunt.

Tonight, his grandmother actually stole his eggs for a worthless item. How could he tolerate that?
With a quick glance and a smirk, Gu Yaozu burst into loud sobs.

"I want eggs, I want eggs."

Liu Yue'e felt sorry for her son and tried to snatch Man'er's eggs, but withdrew her hand under Tong Huaqiong's piercing gaze.

To avoid conflict, Chen Sufen was about to hand the eggs in her hand to Yaozu, but Gu Taohua intercepted them, which made Tong Huaqiong so angry that her liver hurt.

Yaozu howled for a while, but when he found that his grandmother, who always doted on him, was unmoved, he began to attack Man'er.

"Give me back my eggs."

"Why should my eggs be given to this money-losing company?"

"You good-for-nothing, hurry up and go be a young widow in the Zheng family..."

The words "money-loser" and "widow" infuriated Tong Huaqiong, and she grabbed Yaozu and slapped him twice.

"You good-for-nothing little rascal, you deserve to be cut in half at the waist."

Tong Huaqiong searched for the ending of Gu Yaozu's past life, feeling a surge of pleasure.

"Who's the money-loser? Who's being called a widow?"

Tong Huaqiong picked up a feather duster from the side and swung it at Gu Yaozu's head.

Gu Yaozu's dry howling turned into wet sobs after being whipped.

Liu Yue'e hurriedly protected her.

Gu Dashu pushed Liu Yue'e aside and pressed down on Gu Yaozu, making Tong Huaqiong slap him. Although Gu Dashu wasn't a good person, he was still very filial to his mother. Just now, her son kept mentioning widows; what else could it be but a stab to his mother's heart?

It wasn't easy for their mother, a widow, to raise the three siblings alone.

Anyone who dares to stab a widow in the heart deserves a beating, even if it's her own son.

"You think you can make yourself shaky just because you have a little something growing down there? You really think you can bring glory to your ancestors? If your ancestors knew they had a descendant like you, they would be so angry that they would die in the arms of the King of Hell."

"You heartless, rotten seed, you money-losing brat. I'll teach you to be bad, I'll teach you to bully Man'er."

Tong Huaqiong pulled down Yaozu's pants and used a feather duster to whip Yaozu's buttocks hard.

While eating her eggs, Gu Taohua watched her nephew get beaten. Tong Huaqiong yelled and shifted her target with the feather duster, aiming it at Gu Taohua's forehead.

"I'll let you eat! I'll let you eat! You stone block do nothing all day but eat. You're not even as good as a fat pig. At least a fat pig can be sold for meat during the holidays. What good are you? You're so lazy and don't move all day, why don't you just eat yourself to death?"

Half an egg rolled to the ground after Gu Taohua was hit.

She had never been hit by a finger in her life, and this was the first time she had ever been whipped with a feather duster.

It hurts, it really hurts!

"Mother, have you gone mad?"

Gu Taohua screamed loudly.

“I’m crazy. If I weren’t crazy, I wouldn’t be smoking. You’re a bunch of lowlifes raised by black-hearted seeds, a bunch of rotten bamboo that can’t grow properly. Smoking you is too lenient.”

Tong Huaqiong cursed while waving a feather duster.

"And you, Gu Dashu, you heartless bastard, struck by lightning and torn apart by five horses. You do nothing all day, yet you want to rely on your niece to become the manager? Are you dreaming of your ancestors?"

"Your wife is no better. You two are a terrible couple, the worst kind of scumbags ever. You're always causing trouble and bullying the eldest son, doing shameless and lawless things. I'll beat you all to death, you bunch of bastards."

Not only did they draw Gu Yaozu and Gu Taohua, but they also drew Gu Dashu and Liu Yue'e.

Several thorny bamboo stalks darted around the table and around the room.

Tong Huaqiong went berserk, whipping whoever she could get her hands on. Not satisfied with a feather duster, she switched to a fire poker, chasing several pieces of bamboo into the yard with the fire poker.

Everyone felt excruciating pain from being whipped on their shoulders, backs, thighs, and buttocks.

The entire Gu family was plunged into wailing.

(End of this chapter)