The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 489 Diverting the Conflict

Wu Musheng was slapped so hard that he saw stars.

Wu Na screamed.

Wu Musheng wanted to fight back, but Tong Huaqiong's murderous gaze was truly terrifying.

Nie Xiaofeng and Su Chengmin rushed up and flanked Wu Musheng from the left and right, meaning that no matter how much Tong Huaqiong fanned him, he wouldn't make a fuss.

Tong Huaqiong stopped, after all, slapping someone is quite tiring.

“Pan Di, come here,” Tong Huaqiong said.

Tong Pandi ignored everything and went up to scratch Wu Musheng's face.

Wu Musheng couldn't dodge; his face was scratched so badly it looked like a soy sauce shop had been opened, with bloody cuts spreading from his face to his neck.

Tong Pandi, in a fit of rage, used all her strength.

Wu Na screamed, "Tong Pandi, you bitch, how dare you hit my brother!"

Tong Pandi slapped Wu Na across the face.

She'd wanted to hit her ex-sister-in-law for a long time.

Back in the Wu family, she was bullied by Wu Musheng and tormented by Qiao Shi, with Wu Na often stirring up trouble.

She just couldn't understand. Wu Na would also get married and have children in the future. How could she be so sure that she would marry a good husband and have a good son? How could she not understand the suffering of being a woman herself, and why did she have to trample her into the mud?

Seeing that Tong Pandi had unleashed his full power, Tong Huaqiong knew that she didn't need to intervene, so she protected Hua'er, Man'er, and the others behind her.

Everyone clicked their tongues. This former sister-in-law was calling her a "slut" in front of everyone, which showed how she had humiliated her sister-in-law at home.

Tong Pandi bowed to the old woman who had spoken about divorce and said gracefully, "Thank you for speaking up for me, ma'am. We are both women, but you have such keen insight that you can see through this scoundrel's true colors."

Tong Pandi swept her phoenix eyes across the crowd and said, “This beast is indeed my ex-husband from whom I divorced. This old lady is right. As a mother, I went through so much hardship to divorce him and take my child with me because I didn’t want my child to be tormented in the Wu family. To be honest, in the six years I was married into the Wu family, I not only suffered humiliation myself, but also caused my daughter to be tortured. Hua’er is my eldest daughter, and I also have a younger daughter. When my younger daughter was born, the Wu family, together with the midwife Cai, wanted to strangle her. I was afraid that if I didn’t divorce him, all three of us would die, so I begged my aunt to help me get a divorce from the Wu family.”

As Tong Pandi spoke, her eyes reddened, and the sound of Hua'er sobbing added to the atmosphere, so no one doubted what Tong Pandi was saying.

Tong Huaqiong added, "I am the owner of Jufulai, and this is my niece. I did make the decision to divorce my niece. Logically speaking, I am neither her parents nor her maternal family after she got married. If I had made the decision to divorce her, I would have been criticized by people who did not know the truth. If the Wu family had not been so bullying, and if my niece had not had no way to survive in the Wu family, I would not have bothered to make her divorce."

After careful consideration, everyone realized that Tong Huaqiong's words made a lot of sense.

It's said that it's better to tear down a temple than to break up a marriage, because breaking up someone's marriage is considered a sin, punishable by being boiled in oil. The fact that Manager Tong would rather be boiled in oil after death than let her niece's marriage end shows just how miserable her niece's life was in the Wu family.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman in the crowd said, "You all know Cai the midwife, right? She's the midwife who was beheaded last winter for murdering a pregnant woman and her baby. She was caught because she tried to murder the niece of the village head, Suifeng, and the village head reported her to the county government. Why would a midwife murder a pregnant woman and her baby with whom she had no grudge? Wasn't it at the behest of her employer?"

Tong Huaqiong looked up and saw that the person speaking was Ma the midwife.

After Cai the midwife fell ill, Ma the midwife, thanks to her good reputation, became a well-known midwife in Pingchuan County. She often traveled through the streets and alleys of Pingchuan County, and many women recognized her.

The beheading of Cai the midwife was such a sensational event that everyone in Pingchuan County knew about it.

Ma the midwife's words further confirmed the Wu family's inhumanity.

Everyone looked at Wu Musheng and Wu Na with even more ferocity than they would at a kidnapper.

What kind of good family would kill their own flesh and blood?

Who knows how a family like that might cheat customers when they open a shop? Is it still safe to go to Wu Ji's shop?
"Absolutely not, lest we be tainted with bad luck." A well-dressed lady, watching the drama unfold online, spoke up righteously. "Madam, I ran into you at Linglong Pavilion a few days ago. You were being harassed by the young master of Wu Ji. I didn't expect that when he couldn't harass you, he would try to take advantage of my daughter. That man is truly wicked."

To be honest, conflicts between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, and between husbands and wives, can ignite public anger in any era. The women watching were either wives themselves or had been mistreated by their mothers-in-law, so they naturally empathized with Tong Pandi.

Once you start to empathize, you can't help but want to comment.

As soon as the lady finished her comment, a seemingly straightforward woman spoke up: "Why would they target their daughter? Isn't it because they know their daughter is their mother's heart and soul, and they think that if they control their daughter, they can control their mother? They're already divorced, so why are they still bothering her? Isn't it because Wu Ji is jealous of Ju Fu Lai's good business and can't compete with them through legitimate means, so they came up with this despicable idea? This person is more than just bad; even calling them a beast is an insult to beasts. This person deserves to go to the eighteenth level of hell to be skinned alive and boiled in oil."

Seeing that the woman was cursing so vehemently, everyone chimed in.

Therefore, it can be concluded that Wu Ji was jealous of Ju Fu Lai, which is why he came up with such a despicable trick.

"Thank you all for speaking up for justice. Without your help, Hua'er would have been taken away by the Wu family. We are all mothers, and if our child were taken away, it would be no different from tearing out a mother's heart. You not only saved Hua'er, but also my brother Pandi."

Seeing that the time was right, Tong Huaqiong prepared to take Tong Pandi and the others back.

These children should not linger in the whirlpool.

As for the Wu family, they probably wouldn't dare to make any more moves on the two children.

Wu Musheng thought he could coax Tong Pandi back with a few sweet words. But no, Tong Pandi, who had lived two lives, would not stand by and watch her two daughters go to the Wu family to suffer.

Tong Huaqiong said to the crowd, "To thank everyone, if you want to buy anything at Jufulai in the next two days, you will get a 30% discount, no matter what you buy."

After saying that, he asked Nie Xiaofeng and Su Chengmin to write down everyone's names.

The good reputation of Suifeng Township's generous and magnanimous people instantly blossomed in people's hearts, and Tong Huaqiong gave Jufulai a free advertisement.

At that moment, someone took the lead and threw rotten eggs at Wu Musheng. Wu Musheng couldn't dodge in time, and the rotten egg juice stung his scratched face, making him wince in pain.

Some people threw rotten eggs, some threw rotten vegetable leaves, and some threw stones.

Not only did Wu Musheng fail to dodge, but neither did Wu Na.

Although it was Tong Pandi who proposed the divorce, in everyone's eyes, Wu Musheng was the one who abandoned his wife and daughter.

Unfaithful men are never liked, and people feel no guilt at all when they throw all sorts of filthy garbage at Wu Musheng; on the contrary, they feel a sense of cathartic relief.

Wu Musheng and Wu Na fled in panic.

Tong Huaqiong led Tong Pandi and the others away from the place of trouble.

Nie Xiaofeng and Su Chengmin quietly stretched out their feet and tripped Wu Musheng and Wu Na, knocking them to the ground.

"Ouch, my back."

"My face! Don't throw it away, don't throw it away, I'm going to die!"

Hiding in the crowd, Gu Ruinian gritted his teeth and slipped away quietly along the wall before Tong Huaqiong and the others noticed.

He secretly resented the onlookers for ruining Wu Musheng's plan, while also cursing Wu Musheng as an idiot who couldn't even control a child.

Gu Ruinian's mind was buzzing. Widow Tong was indeed shrewd. Instead of focusing on Wu Musheng, she shifted the conflict to Wu Ji and Jufulai.

Wu Ji's business was getting worse and worse.