If You Bet, You Have to Accept Defeat. Don't You Understand That?
Qiuyue sneered and said, "I choose you."
Zhou Wanwan chuckled and said, "No, I really don't understand what you're thinking? Of all the people to choose, why do you want to choose me?"
Qiuyue looked at her and said, "What? Are you afraid?"
Zhou Wanwan sighed and looked at her, saying, "It's not that I'm afraid, but you'd better think it through."
"What do I have to think about? I'm going to choose you." Of all these people, the one most confident in defeating Zhou Wanwan is the one who will win.
Fang Ting laughed loudly, "Qiuyue, it has to be you! You picked the worst one out of all!"
Zhou Wanwan coughed and said, "Alright! Pick me! But I need to warm up a bit."
Zhou Min, from the neighboring uncle's family, couldn't help but sneer, "He's about to start causing trouble again, he needs to warm up first!"
Zhou Min, from her uncle's family, couldn't help but say, "What if Qiuyue loses control and kills someone?"
Zhou Xiaoyan, from her second uncle's family, looked at Zhou Wanwan and said, "Wanwan, why don't you just give up? She's already over ten years old, and you're only six. If you can't beat her, you'll be the one who suffers."
Zhou Wanwan had a pretty good impression of her second uncle's daughters, Zhou Xiaoyan and Zhou Xiaoting.
On the first night after she returned, Zhou Xiaoyan brought Zhou Xiaoting to see her and gave her a purse.
The two sisters had a very low status in the family; anyone could bully them.
The three daughters of the third uncle's family, Zhou Mei, Zhou Lan, and Zhou Zhu, treated the two sisters as their maids.
Zhou Mei glared at Zhou Xiaoyan and said:
Zhou Xiaoyan, what do you mean by that?
Do you even have a say in this? I asked you to mop the floor, did you clean it properly?
Old Madam Zhou rushed over and slapped Zhou Xiaoyan across the face, saying, "Why are you being so nosy here? Who do you think you are?"
Fang Ting looked at Zhou Wanwan and asked, "Are you still going to compete or not?"
After warming up, Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "Of course we'll compete."
Qiuyue stared intently at Zhou Wanwan and said, "I want to see just how capable you are, you country bumpkin from the mountains."
The two quickly became entangled in combat.
Zhou Wanwan was extremely fast and agile.
Everyone else thought she just ate, slept, and played all day.
But no one knew that she would set aside an hour every day to focus on martial arts practice, and her foundation was very solid.
In addition, she had no shortage of medicinal herbs and often drank Lingbao's bathwater, so although she couldn't compare to those personal maids who practiced day and night, she was far superior to ordinary martial arts practitioners.
Qiuyue's kung fu was indeed formidable, and the two fought fiercely for a time, neither gaining the upper hand.
But as the fight went on, Qiuyue's moves became increasingly ruthless, each strike aimed at a fatal spot, clearly indicating her malicious intent.
Just as Zhou Wanwan dodged to the side, Qiuyue's eyes hardened, and she suddenly pulled out a dagger from her sleeve, stabbing it viciously at Zhou Wanwan!
The attack was swift and deadly, and everyone around turned pale with fright.
"Wanwan, be careful!" the older brothers shouted.
With a sharp "crack," Qiuyue's right arm was suddenly broken!
The dagger in her hand clattered to the ground.
Qiuyue was writhing in pain, letting out a piercing scream, "Ah--!"
Everyone was stunned, staring blankly at her twisted and deformed arm, no one able to process what had just happened.
Qiuyue was already on the verge of losing, so she decided to secretly kill Zhou Wanwan with a dagger.
As a result, not only was Zhou Wanwan not injured, but his own arm was broken on the spot, leading to this outcome.
Zhou Wanwan looked at Qiuyue and said, "We were just sparring, why did you have to resort to violence? Now you've hurt yourself and others, haven't you?"
Qiuyue looked at her with a face full of horror and said, "You... you're not human at all."
Zhou Wanwan looked at Qiuyue, whose arms were broken, and said, "Oh? I'm not human, then what am I? Fang Ting, remember to keep your bet, one hundred kowtows."
Fang Ting's face darkened, and Qian Huihui quickly said, "Oh dear! You kids are really something, how can you take your own family members so seriously? What's with all this kowtowing?"
Old Madam Zhou quickly added:
"Her maid's hands are crippled, so let's just forget about it!"
But what exactly did you do, girl? How did you break someone's hand?
Zhou Wanwan smiled faintly and said:
"Since you signed the contract, you have to fulfill it. It's not something you can just decide to do as you please."
If I lose, won't I have to give her all my gold and jewels? Will you settle things then?"
Old Madam Zhou pursed her lips and said:
"Don't always think we've treated you so badly. Haven't we been good enough to you since you came back?"
"You get to choose whatever's in the house; we'll just use the worst stuff. What more could you want?"
Liu Su'e couldn't help but speak up:
"I don't even know what they're going to give us. Is it just those few broken beds?"
We agreed before we came back that the house was ours.
When we got back, we not only didn't have a house, we didn't even have a bed, and they wouldn't even give us breakfast.
Old Madam Zhou said angrily:
"Liu Su'e, you're really something now! I say one thing, and you have to say ten."
Zhou Fusheng, is this how you treat me with filial piety?
Zhou Fusheng looked at her and said:
"A loving mother leads to a filial son; only a loving mother can inspire a filial son. If you treat us well, I will definitely speak well of my wife."
But your heart is always biased. Although I am not your biological child, I have been filial to you since I was a child.
Since you kicked us out, we've signed a severance agreement, so don't expect me to be filial.
"What... what do you mean by this?"
"It means exactly what it says! It's clearly stated in our severance agreement that I won't have to support you in your old age."
Please don't make things difficult for us. You said you missed us, so we'll come back for a few days. After that, we have to go back too.
Just as Old Madam Zhou was about to speak, Qian Huihui interrupted:
"Mother, fourth brother, fourth sister-in-law, we are all family, so let's not speak like strangers."
We are already very happy that our fourth brother and sister-in-law have come back to stay with us and keep our parents company.
As for our parents, we're here! We'll take care of them in their old age.
Qian Huihui really didn't want to let this opportunity slip by, knowing that Zhou Fusheng and Liu Su'e's lives were getting better and better.
Just look at Zhou Wanwan's gold and silver jewelry; it's not something an ordinary family could afford.
Old Madam Zhou naturally understood what she meant. She coughed and said:
"I just thought we're all family, there's no need to be so ruthless."
"You tell me, making a prefect's daughter kowtow a hundred times, wouldn't that make her a laughingstock?"
Fang Ting snorted and said, "I'm not going to embarrass myself like that!"
Zhou Wanwan looked at Fang Ting and said:
What does that mean?
To put it bluntly, when you signed the contract, you didn't intend to kowtow, did you?
Don't you understand the principle of accepting the consequences of a bet?