Mother Ye had felt a little in the wrong for beating them up over a misunderstanding, but Ye Yaodong's reminder instantly put her back on solid ground.
Planting both hands on her hips, she spat, "Bull-fucking-shit! You stole most of our longans, and you stole our seabird eggs too!"
"No! My son would never steal! Stop slandering and framing him, you old hag! Pay us compensation!"
"Who in the village doesn't know he's a thief?"
"You're the thief! Your whole family are thieves! We only picked up a piece of wood. How is that stealing? You were the ones who didn't put it away properly and left it lying around."
Seeing that the family were still shamelessly arguing, Mother Ye simply started searching herself. To her surprise, she found three seabird eggs in an unlocked cupboard.
Furious, she slapped her thigh. "Look! Look! Still trying to deny it? I've found the evidence! You even stole our seabird eggs! I knew more than half our things were missing. So you lot had taken them all! You damned bastards, you deserve to die..."
Mother Xu immediately stopped sprawling on the floor. She stood and snatched the eggs out of her hands. "These are our eggs! What makes you say they're yours? Have they got your name on them? Are you fucking blind?"
"Fuck your mother! These are clearly the seabird eggs we collected! I'd recognize them even if they were burned to ashes..."
"We picked these up by the sea."
"Have they got your names carved into them? Shameless! Stealing even a few eggs, like you've never seen anything in your lives! Why don't you go begging? Even the beggars outside have more dignity than you. At least they beg openly, unlike you sewer rats, who only do sneaky things that can't