Chapter 6: Tragic Woman 6

Chapter 6: Tragic Woman 6

"Shengjun, you were born from my womb after ten months of pregnancy. The pain is in your body and the ache is in my heart. How could I not ask? I am caring for you."

Old Lady Chen tried to follow him in, but the thatched hut door slammed shut with a *thud*, nearly hitting her in the face.

Old Lady Chen's face turned pitch black. She immediately planted her hands on her hips and began cursing, "Chen Shengjun, you unfilial thing! I am caring for you, and you actually dare to slam the door in my face? Get out here right now..."

*Bang! Bang! Bang!*

She kicked the door several times with force.

Chen Shengjun said irritably, "Mother, can you stop making a racket? Let me rest for a bit."

"Rest my ass! You want to rest? Get up right now and take me and your three brothers to settle the score with them!" Old Lady Chen continued to kick the door relentlessly.

Chen Shengjun covered his face with the quilt and ignored her.

He couldn't let his mother go to the Feng family to cause trouble.

He couldn't let things escalate.

Before he and Feng Yuanchun could "cook the rice and make it into finished meals," their business could not be known by the Feng family. Otherwise, the Feng family would never agree to this marriage; they would even prevent him from dating Feng Yuanchun.

Yes.

The purpose of Chen Shengjun's meeting with Feng Yuanchun today wasn't actually to talk about breaking up, but to ensure that he and Feng Yuanchun "cooked the rice and made it into finished meals."

As long as he destroyed Feng Yuanchun's purity, it wouldn't be him begging her to marry him, but the Feng family begging him to marry her.

In his previous life, Chen Shengjun's scheme had succeeded.

But in this life, Yuanchun had arrived, and naturally, it had left him with nothing but broken eggs and scattered feathers.

After a bout of cursing outside the door, seeing that her youngest son wouldn't open up, Old Lady Chen went to the main room in a rage. She scolded her three sons lying on their wooden beds, "It's almost dark, and you still haven't gotten up? Why aren't you all lazy to death?"

"Mother, it's dark already. Have you cooked yet? We're all hungry."

The eldest, Chen Shengjin, sat up unhappily. "The Village Chief said that since the autumn harvest is coming soon, there's less work in the fields. He told everyone to rest at home for a couple of days to recover their strength for the harvest. How is it wrong for us to listen to the Village Chief?"

The second son, Chen Shengfu, also nodded in agreement. "Mother, men's work is heavy. If we don't recover our energy, we won't be able to put in the effort during the autumn harvest. We'll earn fewer work points, and the grain we get won't be enough to last us a few months."

"Mother, make a few more wild vegetable cakes tonight so your sons can eat their fill before the autumn harvest." The third son, Chen Shengcai, only cared about filling his stomach.

Looking at her useless sons, Old Lady Chen's face puffed up with anger. "Eat, eat, eat! All you know is how to eat! Shengjun was beaten, and you brothers don't even know how to stand up for him; you only think about eating. Why don't you just eat me? Chop me up and stew me in a pot so you can have a meal of meat!"

"Mother, don't mention meat. Once you mention meat, I start craving it. Mother, working during the autumn harvest is too tiring. Let's kill a chicken when the time comes to nourish our bodies." Chen Shengcai glanced at the chicken coop and swallowed hard, his face full of anticipation.

Chen Shengfu's eyes lit up. "Mother, how about we kill a chicken and eat it tonight? Better to eat and nourish ourselves early. I'll go boil the water."

"Mother, I'll go catch the chicken." Chen Shengjin also nimbly put on his shoes and prepared to run toward the chicken coop.

Furious, Old Lady Chen grabbed a broom and angrily swung it at her three sons. "You want to eat meat? I'll give you shit to eat! I'm warning you, if any of you dare kill my chickens, I'll take a knife and kill you, chop you into small pieces, and stew you in a pot!"

She swung the broom with such force that it whistled through the air. The three Chen brothers wailed like ghosts, crying out as they ran out of the house, startling the three old hens that had just entered the coop into flying out.

Chickens flying and people jumping—it was quite a lively scene.

(End of Chapter)