Speaking of which, it was Wufu’s first visit to the home of her nominally maternal grandmother since arriving in this world.
Looking at the tightly shut wooden door, the corner of Wufu’s mouth curled in a cold sneer. Madam Zhou said her dear Aunt borrowed the hairpin to wear for a couple of days for the sake of appearances, promising to return it after her cousin’s wedding.
It was clearly a robbery, and her mother had given them a fig leaf of decency with the word "borrow," fine, let’s say "borrow," but could a borrowed item be returned?
Even Hongyu, the new servant girl, knew of her Aunt’s family’s shamelessness and understood that anything lent to them was like throwing a meat bun to a dog — gone, never to return!
After hearing the whole story, Wufu ignored Madam Zhou’s entreaties and headed straight for the Zhou family home without a second word.
Fearing that Wufu would make an ugly scene, Madam Zhou insisted on coming along, but Wufu said, "Mother, I am very angry. If you must come with me, I guarantee my fury will be even greater, and the scene I’ll make even uglier!"
Madam Zhou immediately froze and dared not insist.
"Relax, as long as they have the sense to return the hairpin to me, I won’t make things difficult for them. But if they don’t take the hint, then they can’t blame me for showing them why the flowers are so red!" Wufu huffed coldly.
Leaving behind Madam Zhou, Wufu jogged all the way to their door.
It was dusk and while smoke was beginning to rise from the next-door neighbor’s cooking, the Zhou family’s home remained very peaceful and quiet.
Peaceful, huh? They don’t deserve it!
Wufu let out a cold laugh, stood in front of the door, and then viciously kicked it forward, sending the seemingly sturdy door flying off its hinges.
"If you’re not dead, roll out here!" Wufu bellowed, standing in the middle of the courtyard.
The sound of the door being kicked off its hinges wasn’t small; the first to come out was her grandmother, Old Lady Zhou. Seeing Wufu, she began with a start, then, seeing the broken door, her face darkened with anger and shot up like a rocket.
"What are you doing?" Old Lady Zhou had turned the world upside down. Did she think this was any place she could come and go wild, even daring to break the door? Had she lost her mind?
Wufu glanced at Old Lady Zhou and said coolly, "What am I doing here? It’s obvious, I’ve come to cause trouble and pick a fight!"
"How dare you!" Old Lady Zhou, infuriated, stumbled forward, not thinking twice before walking over and aiming a slap at Wufu’s face.
Without slapping this wretched girl, she wouldn’t know her place.
Zhou Xiuer, stepping out from the room just in time to see this, looked gleeful and her eyes sparkled with schadenfreude.
But the next moment, she was dumbfounded!
Wufu deftly caught Old Lady Zhou’s wrist, gave it a pull and a twist, and effortlessly pushed her aside.
Old Lady Zhou was also stunned, never expecting Wufu to fight back.
"You... you dare to strike me?" Old Lady Zhou glanced at her own wrist, her face filled with shock.
As the calming needle of the Old Zhou family, from her husband to her children and grandchildren, who hadn’t treated her with respect and never dared show the slightest disobedience or disrespect. But Wufu, she actually dared...
Just now, she did strike out, didn’t she? She pushed me away, didn’t she?
This disloyal and unfilial wretch!
"Grandma, I didn’t hit you, it was you who wanted to hit me, and I was merely defending myself," said Wufu, not bothering to discuss filial piety with her. She had had enough of this family long ago.
As for filial piety? They mean nothing, not worthy of her, Wufu’s, respect.
They don’t deserve it!
"Grandma, let’s sue her, she dared to strike you, we’ll go to the County Government Office and take our grievance to the County Magistrate. Let him punish her crime and make her sit in jail!" Zhou Xiuer, as if she had caught Wufu’s misstep, excitedly came over to help Old Lady Zhou up, urging persistently.
"Fine, go ahead, sue me. I’d like to see the County Magistrate judge this case of robbery and what sort of crime it constitutes!" Wufu said with a cold laugh, "Let’s go, right now!"