"Ma'am, you can't believe a word this girl says."
"Everyone in our brigade wants to give this girl a beating. When you go back, tell the people in the other brigades too. Don't let her fool you again."
"So young, and already rotten to the core. The eldest branch of the Wang Family must have terrible feng shui."
The onlookers all talked at once, recounting everything Wang Cuicui had done in their brigade, incident by incident.
Aunt Sun still hadn't released her grip on Wang Cuicui's hair, her eyes brimming with unrelenting fury.
These days, most people did value sons more, but her family happened to prefer daughters.
Neither she nor her husband could bear to say a harsh word to their daughter, yet this wretched child had dared to slander her in front of everyone!
"Your daughter doesn't have the good fortune to bear a son! That's her own problem. What good does coming after me do?"
With Auntie Sun pulling her hair, Wang Cuicui felt as though her scalp were about to be torn off.
She had lived far too comfortably for her first ten years and had never learned to back down.
Faced with the furious Auntie Sun, she not only refused to admit her mistake or apologize, but even felt she was the one being wronged.
Her angry voice only fanned Auntie Sun's fury higher.
"What are you all standing around for?"
Auntie Sun looked at the sons who had come with her and flung Wang Cuicui at their feet.
"You shameless little wretch! You even dared to bully my daughter!"
The Sun Family's sons were all sturdy men. In their brigade, hardly anyone dared to come looking for trouble with them.
Only when Wang Cuicui saw the fists of those strong men about to land