The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 1657 - 1651: A Lesson

"Wah—" Jindao and Jinfu were already exhausted and extremely aggrieved, teetering on the brink of collapse.

It’s just that they’re used to being little tyrants on normal days and care a lot about keeping face.

When they’re wildly running around the village, they often hear the men in the village say, if you’re a man, you can’t say you can’t do it!

A few Little Beans, using adult language, haven’t even grown all their hair yet, but already think they’re real men! The pure kind.

So being pure men, even if they’re about to cry, they can’t say they can’t do it!

These little pure men wouldn’t admit they couldn’t do it out loud, but in their hearts, they hoped their parents would step in to save them from their terrifying and pretty old aunt.

They waited for so long, but none of their highly anticipated parents stepped forward, and they began to question life again.

Am I still your most beloved baby?

Finally, Wang Yongping stood up, and all the Little Beans’ eyes brightened, eagerly watching, just waiting for that terrifying old aunt to agree so they could be liberated.

Unexpectedly, the father who usually boasted about being unbeatable in Qilidun, hunting on the mountains, fishing in the river, farming, and doing business, and who was respectfully called Master Fourth Wang everywhere he went, was cowed with just one look from the old aunt!

In the minds of the Little Beans, Wang Yongping’s tall and majestic image suddenly collapsed by half.

And when they saw Wang Yongping turning around, not only scared but also turning his back to them, looking stern and as if he were pledging allegiance, scolding them, their hearts instantly felt cold.

At home, Jindao and Jinfu really have strict mothers and indulgent fathers, but they mostly fear Liu Xiaoqiao because she really knows how to lay hands on people.

But as for their father, they know, even though Wang Yongping looks tall and strong, with a lot of strength, he is very doting on the two brothers, especially their little sister, reluctant to even say a harsh word.

At this moment, being reprimanded by Wang Yongping for a couple of sentences, they felt they had encountered the greatest betrayal of their lives.

Plus, their bodies were nearly at their limit, they couldn’t hold it any longer, dropped the wooden buckets and basins, and sat down to cry loudly.

Even though Jinshao is a bit older, when carrying water earlier, he as the oldest among the four, was very honest and didn’t slack off.

This half-tub of water was mostly his contribution.

He could have held on a bit longer, but seeing Jindao and Jinfu sitting on the ground crying, he felt a pang in his nose and couldn’t help but cry too.

Brother Rong is not the youngest among the Little Beans, but he is the weakest in physique, kind of like Quan Xiuniang’s slender build.

He is the eldest member of the family and the only grandson of the Wang family at the moment, so everyone dotes on him extra.

Seeing his three little uncles cry, how could he hold back, he pursed his lips and followed suit.

Well! At least four thousand ducks have started quarreling again!

Wang Yongzhu glared at Wang Yongping disdainfully. Before he could speak, Old Granny Zhang swished a broom onto Wang Yongping’s back.

"You muddlehead who can never achieve anything but ruin! Did your old mother teach you this way back in the day? The old saying is true, ’filial sons come from the rod!’ What? Are these little brats made of gold or inlaid with jade? Can’t touch them or punish them?"

"What? You brats have only been away from your old mother and sister for a few years and you’ve already forgotten your roots, huh? Back then, Jindou and the others, as long as your old mother and sister said the word, which one of them didn’t go obediently? Dare talk back once? I’ll rip their mouths off! Dare to cry? Is it that the feather duster isn’t swinging smoothly or the broom doesn’t hurt?"

"Just because you’ve had a few good days, your tail is up to the sky? Consider yourselves hotshots? Pampering these little rascals until they’ve got no discipline! Whose kids come to a relative’s house and on the first day break vats and climb trees?"

"Did your old mother teach you like this as a kid? Have you forgotten how when you ran to someone else’s house and broke their things, how your old mother dealt with you?"

Hearing Old Granny Zhang’s words, all the Wang brothers couldn’t help but shiver at the memory of their childhood, where they were punished kneeling and broke several bamboo sticks, and couldn’t help but feel a phantom ache on their backs and thighs.

Back in the day, though Old Granny Zhang could scold anyone in Qilidun into submission, she wasn’t unreasonable.

If someone bullied the Wang family, she was unforgiving.

But if the kids in her own family did something wrong, she wasn’t the type to act shamelessly and refuse to acknowledge it. She always took the kids to apologize first, paid compensation when needed.

After the apologies, she’d be back home, lock them in the yard, and beat the hell out of them! Beat them to memory and dare not do it again! Then she’d stop!

This is how Jindou and the older kids were raised.

But it seems these younger ones have been indeed indulged a bit since the Wang family became well-off and everyone in Qilidun is fawning over them, not daring to offend them, so they’ve started to float a bit.

Although they still constrained the older children, they let the younger ones slide quite a bit.

If Old Granny Zhang were still at the Wang house before, surely, if there was a first time, they’d be sorted out into submission already.

Feeling bad for the children, Wang Yonggui couldn’t help but mutter, "But this isn’t someone else’s house, it’s our own sister’s house, and besides, what they broke isn’t something expensive. The kids know they were wrong, and they’ve been taught a lesson already—"

"Pah! You’re spoiled to the core! What do you mean not something valuable? You think that vat isn’t valuable? You have no sense! In the Capital City, that’s called feng shui, that’s called scenery. Those cost a lot of Silver to have someone make, and there’s a lot in there!"

"Those two fish in there, they’re called Fengshui Wealth-Attracting Fish! Do you know? They’ve been nurtured for years, only to be almost killed by a few brats! In the Capital City, that’s ruining someone’s entire family’s feng shui, that’s sowing a life-and-death feud, do you understand?"

"And furthermore, the old saying holds, screen needles while young, you’ll steal gold when grown! You see this matter as insignificant now, letting it slide! You’ve had good times for too long, forgetful of those days with Li Jinlong?"

Old Granny Zhang spat in Wang Yonggui’s face.

The name Li Jinlong made the Wang family change their expressions.

Especially Wang Yongping and Wang Yongfu.

Thinking of Li Jinlong, wasn’t it because Li Dagui kept indulging him, that he went astray and did those crazy things?

Thinking of the fate of Li Dagui and Li Jinlong, those in the Wang family who had felt a bit sympathetic and uneasy just moments ago now felt their backs grow cold, startling their minds to clarity.

Especially Wang Yongfu, who back then was the most direct victim of Li Jinlong’s deeds.

If it weren’t for Song Chongjin bringing the medicine, he probably wouldn’t have endured it and would have ended it himself.

If none of that had happened, if he hadn’t gotten injured, perhaps nowadays life in the big house would look completely different.

He might not pursue much today, just hoping to see Jinhoo and Jinguan establish themselves and have no regrets.

And to see Brother Rong grow up healthy, because in his view, even though Brother Rong may be weaker than the likes of Jindao, he’s quite a smart child, and the big house counts on Brother Rong to rise up in the future.

But if this indulgence continues, can Brother Rong really support the big house in the future? If he turns out like Li Jinlong, he fears that even in death, he wouldn’t rest in peace!