Dà Mai's tears flowed uncontrollably. "Grandma never allowed my mother to see a doctor, saying doctors were men."
"Then why didn't you find the team leader?"
"I... My grandparents aren't afraid of the team leader, they even said it's a family matter. But I know they are afraid of Third Uncle Gong, and I think they are also afraid of Zheng Guo, Uncle."
Tian Jing looked at the person beside her. "Zheng Ge, are you going?"
"What are your plans?"
"Of course, we have to help. This started because of me. I want to see if they're showing off for me."
"She dares!"
Li Zhengguo's voice was ice cold. "Dà Mai, go call Doctor Yang. We'll be right there."
"Okay."
Dà Mai ran off. The two returned to the main hall, informed Li's mother, and then grabbed their jackets to go to Li's uncle's house.
"Zhengguo, Tiantian."
Li's mother stopped her son and daughter-in-law.
"Mom?"
"Mother-in-law?"
"Minmin is being considered for marriage with the Tian family, and the matchmaker for this side is Dà Mai's grandmother."
Tian Jing raised an eyebrow. "Mother-in-law means you suspect that Aunt Li deliberately chose the Tian family?"
"Yes, that's what I suspect. Her heart is cruel enough. If your father hadn't protected me, I don't know how much I would have suffered at her hands. This is also why we split up early and moved to the end of the village, away from them."
"I understand. Don't worry, Mother-in-law."
When Tian Jing and Li Zhengguo arrived at Li's uncle's house, they were in a stalemate.
Because Aunt Li refused to let Doctor Yang see her elder son's wife.
If it weren't for Dà Mai pitifully tugging at him, Doctor Yang would have turned and left long ago.
"Alas~" Tian Jing sighed loudly, drawing the attention of the noisy people in the courtyard.
"Why do women make things difficult for women? Which mother-in-law wasn't a daughter-in-law first? Why bother? You have daughters too. If your daughter encountered such things in her in-laws' home, wouldn't your heart ache?"
"They say people's hearts are made of flesh, but I think only the person themselves knows if their heart is made of flesh."
"Who are you?" Aunt Li's face darkened. Was Tian Jing implying something?
"Who am I?"
Tian Jing raised an eyebrow. "Since Uncle Li's wife has become senile, you should step down from managing the household. The fortune accumulated in the family is being wasted by your muddle-headed squabbling. Dà Mai, take Doctor Yang to see your mother."
"No," Aunt Li still blocked them.
"Dà Mai, be brave. Not resisting means death, resisting also means death. Since it's death either way, you might as well do it with a bang."
Dà Mai nodded tearfully and forcefully pushed Aunt Li away. "Grandma, I hate you. It's your fault that my father doesn't have a son. I hate you!"
Aunt Li was pushed back several steps and was about to fall. Tian Jing flashed forward and caught her. Su Dan Novel Network
"Dà Mai, doing this will turn you from being in the right to being in the wrong. You need to push with skill. She's an elder. Unless you can withstand future gossip."
"Yes, I understand. Doctor Yang, let's go see my mother quickly."
Tian Jing held Aunt Li's arm, preventing her from further obstruction. She could only watch as Doctor Yang entered the side room.
Tian Jing released Aunt Li and looked around the courtyard.
The house was half stone and half adobe, also with three main rooms and two side rooms.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," Tian Jing clicked her tongue. "A family without rules, no wonder it's become so chaotic."
"You have rules? You have rules and you come to my house to instigate my granddaughter to treat me like this?"
Aunt Li's retort made Tian Jing shake her head. "Uncle Li's wife, this is a new society. The great leader said that where there is oppression, there is resistance."
"You can monopolize power in your home, and you can set rules for your sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren, but what about your rules?"
"You, a village woman who has no regard for rules, still want to set rules for the younger generation? Heh heh heh, the ancestors of the Li family would be angered back to life by you."
"Tian Jing," Uncle Li spoke. "What are your rules?"
"My rules?"
Tian Jing turned to look at the old man sitting at the entrance of the main hall, who had been silent. "After entering Li Zhengguo's Li family, I am the rule."
Seeing Uncle Li and Aunt Li turn red in the face and want to get angry because of her arrogant words, Tian Jing sneered. "You're not convinced? Even if you're not convinced, you have to be. Because of force, because of ability, because of overwhelming power."
"As the saying goes, 'not of the same family, one doesn't enter the same door.' I am truly suited to be a Li family wife because I know how to use overwhelming power.
"An ordinary village woman can use the rules she sets as the rules for her family. I, someone who has martial arts, ability, and skills, why can't I be the rule of Li Zhengguo's family?"
"Since you want to talk about rules, then I will tell you about rules. Raising children for old age support has been passed down since ancient times. Living with the elder son in old age has also been passed down since ancient times. Mothers-in-law oppressing daughters-in-law has also been passed down since ancient times."
"But I've never seen an elder son living in a side room."
"The east room is for elders, the west room is for the elder son. This is the custom for everyone. I didn't expect the custom in Uncle Li's family to be so different."
"Does one side room house a family of four? Next to the side room is the kitchen, right? This side room must have been partitioned from the original kitchen, right? Uncle Li, is Li Rongguo your biological child?"
"Uncle Li, you recognize me and know my name. Aunt Li still asks who I am? If she doesn't recognize me, does she not recognize the man beside me either?"
Without giving Uncle Li a chance to speak, Tian Jing turned to Aunt Li.
"It is said that Aunt Li was the matchmaker for Li Min's marriage. Did she want the simple-minded Li Min to be tormented under the hand of Old Mrs. Tian, who is very much like you? Or did she fancy my original meekness? To be bullied like your elder son and daughter-in-law, and not dare to speak out?"
"Regretting it now? Regretting bringing me into Li Zhengguo's Li family? Regretting that Li Zhengguo's Li family is rising?"
"If you regret it, and you can grit your teeth and persevere, I could give you a word of 'admiration.' But now you're using your elder son to try and connect with Li Zhengguo?"
"Connect if you must, we have no objections, and we'll even switch things up. But I gave Dà Mai a bit of brown sugar. Dà Mai is filial and gave it to her mother to drink some brown sugar water, and she was severely beaten. Are you showing off to me?"
"The doctor is at the door, and you refuse to let him in. Are you trying to take the opportunity to torture your elder daughter-in-law, who miscarried, to death, and then frame me for it?"
"Let me tell you, Aunt Li, you change your excuse. If you kill your elder daughter-in-law a couple of days later, I won't have any objections. I might even set off firecrackers to celebrate."
"But you pushed someone because of the brown sugar I gave, and it caused problems. You not only don't care, but you also stop Dà Mai from finding a doctor. This is you showing off to me."
"Doctor Yang was called by Li Zhengguo through Dà Mai. Dà Mai must have told you, right? You are showing disrespect to my husband and me."
"My face, no one, not even the ancestors of the Li family, is allowed to disrespect. Whoever dares to disrespect me, I will peel off their skin layer by layer."
The aura emanating from Tian Jing suddenly intensified.
Aunt Li retreated more than ten steps before steadying herself.
Uncle Li, who was sitting, also felt as if he was under a thousand pounds of pressure.
He was extremely shocked. Tian Jing's martial prowess was truly not just a rumor, and her sharp tongue was equally not a rumor.