Northeast: My Absurd Woman

Yang Juhua was brought back to her senses by Han Liqiang's call, and she reached out her hand, slowly approaching Yang Wuni.

"Fourth Sister, stop right there! Don't come any closer, or I won't give you the knife."

All these years you haven't come home, nor have you told Dad that this guy is bullying you.

So what? You swallowed your pride and got this beast as your reward, and he's been good to you?

I saw you being bullied today, so I have to teach him a lesson.

Let him know that our Yang family's daughter isn't someone he can just hit or scold as he pleases.

Yang Wuni scolded Yang Juhua, her eyes fixed on Han Liqiang with even greater determination.

"Hey! You there, are you Yang Wuni's man? You'd better come over here and get your wife out of here."

Even a grown man like him can't control his own woman.

If Yang Wuni really dares to hurt me, I... I'll sue you.

Han Liqiang looked at Zhang Changyao, who was leaning against the corner of the room, and pointed at him with a stick.

"Fourth brother-in-law, it's not that I don't want to take care of it, it's that I can't."

You're afraid of getting a bloody hole, but I'm not made of iron either, I'm scared too!

You can't extort money from me, so you're going to hit my Yang Wuni with a stick.

My daughter, Yang Wuni, was forced into a corner and picked up a sharp knife, throwing it at you. This was legitimate self-defense.

We've never been to your house in eight lifetimes, how could we possibly come here just to stab you?

It's because you're used to slaughtering pigs that you bully my wife, a weak woman. My wife had no choice but to fight back.

It's unlikely my Yang Wuni has broken the law, but it's possible you'll end up in jail with a bloody scar on your head.

Zhang Changyao used two different explanations to illustrate the current situation in order to remind Yang Wuni.

If Han Liqiang is injured, tell her how to say it in a way that is in her best interest.

"Han Liqiang, you bullied my sister, and I couldn't stand it, so you wanted to beat me with a stick."

I had no other choice but to pick up the butcher knife, and you still wouldn't let it go and wanted to hit me.

What am I supposed to do if I don't stab you? Are you going to let you beat me and my fourth sister to death?

Yang Wuni was enlightened by Zhang Changyao and immediately followed his lead.

He instinctively raised the butcher knife above his head, ready to strike Han Liqiang at any moment.

"Liqiang, you bastard, I told you not to bully Juhua, but you wouldn't listen."

Now that the girl is standing up for his fourth sister, you still dare to hit her back.

You've forgotten the pain once the wound has healed, and you've forgotten what happened to Wu Ni a few years ago.

Did you use a rice bowl to scrape a bump the size of an egg off your head?

Han Liqiang's mother, Han Wushi, came out carrying a fire poker.

They slapped Han Liqiang's buttocks repeatedly.

Han Liqiang's faded work pants were soon covered with black welts from being whipped.

"Mother, ask Yang Juhua if I would willingly scold her."

She paid five cents for a pig bristle, but instead of collecting it, she used the slurry from slaughtering pigs to flush it into the latrine.

Han Liqiang covered his buttocks and ran in circles, dodging Han Wu's fire poker.

"Throw it away if you want, don't want it if you don't want it. Can you get a wife for five cents, or buy a mother for your son?"

You damn bastard, you can't even tell what's important.

If it weren't for Chrysanthemum taking care of your father, mother, and children inside and out...

You still have time to slaughter pigs and sell pork? Go eat pig manure!

Exhausted, Han Wu leaned against the wall, panting heavily, unable to scold or hit Han Liqiang.

"Han Liqiang, you have no conscience. I flushed the pig bristles into the latrine so that I could get a few more pigs."

Pig bristles are sold individually, not by weight, and when they're gathered together, they accumulate to a large quantity.

"That way, we can collect enough pig bristles for one more pig." Yang Juhua squatted on the ground, wiping away her tears and crying.

"Wu Ni, put the knife down. Your brother-in-law is a pig butcher, and Gou Dan is no fool."

If you hurt him, it will be Juhua, the children, and this old man like me who suffer the hardship and poverty.

Han Wushi, leaning on a fire poker, walked over unsteadily.

He reached out and took the pig-slaughtering knife from Yang Wuni's hand, then stabbed it into the hairless pig lying on the wooden table.

Han Liqiang also threw down the wooden stick in his hand, picked up the pig-slaughtering knife, and went to gut the hairless pig.

Yang Wuni helped Han Wushi into the house. Yang Juhua wiped away her tears with her sleeve, stood up and helped Han Liqiang pull out the pig's leg.

"Hey! You unreasonable guy, can't you be a little more discerning and come help tear off the pig's leg?"

It's often said that scholars are unteachable, and now it seems that's quite true; they spout nonsense and are utterly useless.

Han Liqiang was so angry with Yang Wuni that he trembled and couldn't even support the lower half of the hairless pig's body.

He could only point the butcher's knife at Zhang Changyao, who dared not come closer.

"Fourth brother-in-law, I'm not talking nonsense, that's the law."

Those who don't understand the law will suffer in silence if they ever go to war with someone.

Zhang Changyao was pulling on a pig's hind leg, talking incessantly.

"Hmph! He's nothing but a mouthful of nonsense. When a war breaks out, who cares about him?"

"I'll just go up and stab him, and I can make him open his mouth and talk about the law." Han Liqiang picked up the knife and brandished it at Zhang Changyao.

"Zhang Changyao, he's gesturing with a knife at you, don't help him."

Han Liqiang, remember this: if you dare to bully my fourth sister again, I'll sever your tendons in your hands and feet.

Use the largest mortar and pestle to sew up your broken car bumper.

There's no point in wasting time talking to someone like you, you're such a boorish, ignorant man.

Yang Wuni added some firewood to the stove, and when she heard that Han Liqiang was still not speaking human language, she came out and cursed him again.

"Lian Qiaozi, no wonder you're so honest. Even if I married a woman like Yang Wuni, I wouldn't dare to cause trouble."

Is this even a woman? This is a shrew reincarnated, here to take men's lives!

Han Liqiang pulled out the pig intestines and shook the blood off his hands.

"Fourth brother-in-law, you're really wrong. You should treat a woman well, as gentle as a kitten."

If you treat her badly, she'll become fearless and act like a shrew.

"If you don't believe me, be nicer to Fourth Sister and see what she becomes." Zhang Changyao tried to persuade Han Liqiang.

"Lianqiaozi, that's a term used by you scholars, I don't agree with it."

I think women need to be disciplined with scolding and beatings; the more you try to appease them, the more trouble they'll cause.

Didn't you hear what the older generation says? "A beaten wife is like dough kneaded; a woman needs to be beaten, the more she'll submit."

Han Liqiang chopped at the pig's large bones with an axe, and bone fragments flew onto his face, which he wiped with his sleeve, leaving his face covered in blood.

"Yes! That's what the older generation said, but they didn't tell you."

What kind of life did he lead after he drove his wife away?

They eat the same pig slop every day, and their homes, both inside and out, are not as good as the den of the good wolf sow.

The child's clothes were riddled with holes, not a single piece of cloth was intact.

In winter, the child's nose would runny and his eyes would be watering from the cold, and his heels would crack and bleed.

As Zhang Changyao spoke, he couldn't help but sob, these few words.

It reminded him of the winter when Zhang Shuhua wasn't home, and the suffering he endured alongside Zhang Kaiju.

"Oh my god! If I'm not nice to your fourth sister, are you going to give me a crying scene?"