Chapter 599
Perhaps because Su Xiaoxiao and Aunt Guo had put on a show in front of Jiang Guoli last time, he thought he had the upper hand with Aunt Guo and didn’t rush to press her to return. After all, the household chores were being taken care of by Hu Yuezhen, so it wouldn’t be a bother to him.
However, on the day they were supposed to start work, Jiang Guoli discovered not only had Su Xiaoxiao not shown up, but Aunt Guo hadn’t gone to work either. When he asked the village head, he learned that neither of them would be working anymore.
Only Jiang Yexun was still wandering about, looking even lazier than before, which made Jiang Guoli feel more agitated. He threw down the seedlings in his hands and stormed to Su Xiaoxiao’s house, banging loudly on the wooden door.
“Open the door! Guo Hongxiang, open the door right now!” he shouted angrily.
Aunt Guo furrowed her brows tightly, clearly reluctant to open the door. But Su Xiaoxiao grabbed her hand and reassured her, “Aunt, just open it. We need to clash with him a bit. This is the only way to achieve our goal. We can’t avoid him forever.”
Aunt Guo took a deep breath and finally stood up to open the door.
As soon as the door opened, a slap was thrown directly at her.
Aunt Guo’s pupils trembled in shock, unable to react in time. Fortunately, Su Xiaoxiao had been standing right behind her and quickly pulled her out of harm’s way. Su Xiaoxiao lifted her foot and delivered a hard kick to Jiang Guoli’s knee.
“Ah!” Jiang Guoli let out a piercing scream and immediately fell to his knees.
However, Aunt Guo quickly regained her composure, urgently rushing to help Su Xiaoxiao and looking at her with concern.
“Mother, I’m fine.” Su Xiaoxiao could tell what she was worried about and quickly reassured her in a soft voice.
Having caught his breath, Jiang Guoli glared at the two of them with fury. “I’m the one who’s been hit, and you care about her? And Su Xiaoxiao, I’m your father-in-law, how dare you lay a hand on me?”
“Who told you to try to hit my mother-in-law?” Su Xiaoxiao shot back with logic and strength.
Before Jiang Guoli could say anything else, Aunt Guo had already rushed to his face, raised her hand, and slapped him hard across the face.
At this point, the man was genuinely stunned, his entire body frozen in place.
But Aunt Guo didn’t stop there. She slapped him again, one after another, each slap echoing loudly.
Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up. She turned away as if searching for something, but in fact, she reached into her space and handed Aunt Guo a thick wooden rod, the size of a wrist.
“Mother, it hurts to use your hands. Use the stick,” Su Xiaoxiao suggested cheerfully.
Jiang Guoli finally snapped out of his stupor and sprang to his feet.
“Good for you, Guo… Ah!”
Before he could finish his sentence, Su Xiaoxiao kicked him in the knee again. This time, she was standing firmly, and the force of her kick was even stronger.
Jiang Guoli’s face contorted with pain, his old features twisting in agony.
The next second, Aunt Guo raised the wooden stick and started hammering it down on him, each blow falling like a rain of fury.
Jiang Guoli, who had started out cursing and defying them, eventually found himself on the ground, groveling and begging for mercy.
But Aunt Guo wasn’t about to let him off the hook. All the frustrations from the past twenty years, all the humiliations her children had suffered in the Jiang family, she was determined to pay him back now.
Su Xiaoxiao simply crossed her arms and watched leisurely as Jiang Guoli made a fool of himself.
It wasn’t until nearly half an hour later that the people from the Jiang family realized he had been gone for too long without returning. They came looking for him and found him, lying on the ground like a dead dog.
“Guo Hongxiang, have you gone crazy? How dare you lay a hand on my father!” Jiang Quankun stood in front of Jiang Guoli, his eyes filled with venom as he glared at Aunt Guo.
But Aunt Guo didn’t care one bit. She raised the wooden stick and aimed for his head, swinging it with all her might.
Jiang Quankun was startled and quickly dodged to the side.
Aunt Guo placed her hands on her hips, pointing at him and scolding, “Get lost! Who do you think you are, trying to interfere in my business? This is between me and your father. It’s none of your business.”
“But you hit my father! In this day and age, how can a wife hit her husband?” Jiang Quankun retorted, still unwilling to accept.
Just then, the door to the neighboring Jiang family house opened, and Dong Jiaxuan waddled out, holding her stomach.
“That’s right. The man is the pillar of the family, the woman’s sky. How can a woman hit a man?” She tilted her chin, looking down at Aunt Guo in disdain.
Before she could finish speaking, Su Xiaoxiao’s slap landed sharply on her face.
“Ah!” Dong Jiaxuan screamed in pain.
She wanted to curse, but when she looked into Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes, filled with cold fury, she froze. A cold sweat ran down her back, and she didn’t dare say another word.
Meanwhile, Jiang Guoli, who had just been lying on the ground like a dead dog, suddenly scrambled to his feet.
He hurried to Dong Jiaxuan’s side, his face filled with concern.
“Are you okay?” He reached out to support her, his eyes scanning her with worry. After confirming she was fine, he gritted his teeth and shot Su Xiaoxiao a vicious glare.
“How can you be so vicious? Jiaxuan was not only in the same batch as you in the educated youth program, but she’s also your childhood playmate. Now she’s your second sister-in-law, carrying your second brother’s child.”
Su Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes, her gaze flicking back and forth between the two of them, her mind turning.