Chapter 890: Scumbag Brother and Scumbag Father, Get Lost (36)

Chapter 890: Chapter 890: Scumbag Brother and Scumbag Father, Get Lost (36)

"Old man, you really know a lot. Is that old man’s wife virtuous?" Yaan Huai, wearing a straw hat, sat on the ox cart.

This ox cart was hired by him to take him back from the county town. He specifically chose someone who talks a lot usually, believing that a wife must listen to her husband and not disobey him.

This way, as soon as the topic comes up, the person will definitely spread his own views.

Moreover, he had inquired, the person’s wife was the obedient kind, whatever he said, she dared not refute in the slightest.

Actually, there are many such women, quite a few in Yaan Huai’s village. Many men feel that women should unconditionally follow their arrangements, and if not satisfied, they will resort to violence.

In his early years, he often heard of wives from whose family who were beaten to death for not observing woman’s conduct.

He later learned that it was just drunken men who accidentally beat someone to death, fearing arrest and punishment. The family would then uniformly claim that the woman was not observing woman’s conduct, and in a moment of impulse, she was killed, which seemed reasonable.

His mother died like that. Only then did he realize that many such stories were false, merely someone concocting a tale to escape guilt.

His alcoholic father drowned after falling into a ditch while drunk. Hearing the news of his father’s death, he felt pleased inside, not feeling sorry for himself at all.

He studied because he knew that to change the laws, studying was the only way.

He studied desperately because in the past his mother was beaten to death by his alcoholic father and even had to bear the disgrace. He not only wanted to cleanse his mother’s unjust reputation but also find a way to prevent such incidents from happening. Later, he found that studying could potentially achieve this.

Upon meeting Mr. Meng, he saw a different hope in him and was more eager to realize this wish.

"My wife can cook, wash clothes, and work in the fields, she works hard and never complains. Every day when I come home, there’s hot food, and after dinner, she would bring the foot bath water and help me wash my feet..." The old man driving the ox cart kept boasting about the enjoyment he had at home, quite proud, "A wife should serve her husband well to be a good wife."

Yaan Huai felt a bit nauseous but continued to ask, "If there is a wife who is fierce at home, who retorts when scolded, who fights back when slapped, how should it be?"

"Such women who dare defy their husbands are lacking womanly virtue. Beat her once and she’ll be obedient, if not, then beat her again until she listens."

Yaan Huai clenched his fists, his face hidden under the straw hat lost its smile, replaced by a chilling coldness.

He seemed to return to his childhood, witnessing his drunken father beating his mother. At that time, he was just a small child, trying to stop it, but in vain, as his strength was too small, he was locked outside the room, able only to hear his mother’s screams inside. That time, his mother was beaten to death, and his father shouted to the outside: "You shameless woman who doesn’t observe woman’s conduct, trying to seduce another man..."

The whole village came, knowing that his mother did not observe woman’s conduct.

After his mother died, everyone clapped their hands in delight, not thinking his drunken father did wrong by accidentally beating his mother to death, instead considering it a public service.

"If she can’t be beaten down?" Yaan Huai continued to ask, "I think it’s better to cast her out, right?"

The old man agreed heartily, "If she’s really too fierce, cast her out. She’s already been discarded, no man would want her, let’s see how she lives, she wouldn’t even be able to return to her natal family."

Yaan Huai glanced sideways at Meng Chongxi and his son, who had been listening not far away, and said, "Old man, let’s continue with the cart, I want to get home soon."

"Alrighty."