Old Mrs. Song is reborn; get out of here, you scumbag husband and illegitimate child!

Footsteps echoed in disarray on the dirt road to Yangcuo.

Cai Dapao's mother's face was covered in mud, and the fierce glint in her eyes was impossible to hide.

She turned to her eldest daughter-in-law behind her and yelled, "Go, run a few steps to the neighboring village and call your sister-in-law. We must raze the Yang family to the ground today."

"Mom, what good is my sister by herself?" The eldest daughter-in-law jogged after her.

"Tell her to call your brother-in-law." Cai Dapao's mother spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. "That shameless slut Yang Axiu gave birth to someone else's bastard child and is causing trouble for Dapao every day at home."

Back then, she insisted on a divorce, even taking Yunyun with her and extorting six hundred yuan from our family. If she doesn't pay it back today, I'll skin her whole family alive. And she even encouraged my sister to cause trouble for me.”

The surname Yang accounts for half of the surnames in Yangcuo.

Yang Axiu's house is in the middle of the village.

People in rural areas go to bed early.

The lights were already off.

Grandma Yang couldn't sleep after drinking strong tea that night, so she turned over and pulled the thin blanket over herself.

"Old man, what do you think of Ah Xiu's doing in the new city? Is You De treating her well?"

Old Yang was smoking a cigarette.

The red glow of the cigarette butt flickered in the darkness.

"Good my ass. Cai Youde is a complete scoundrel." Old Man Yang coughed twice. "He slept with our daughter and had a son, but he refuses to divorce that woman surnamed Song no matter what."

He's just taking advantage of our kind-hearted family. Our third son, Zhixin, is getting married, and we're short several hundred yuan for the bride price, but Cai Youde pretends not to see it and won't pay a single cent.

Grandma Yang lowered her voice, "He has no choice but to pay this money because of his reputation. But it's a good thing that Ah Xiu got divorced. It cuts off Cai Dapao's hopes, and no one will know that Yunyun and Tiantian are someone else's children."

Old Yang tapped his pipe.

"It's all your fault for spoiling him. He's done such a shameless and disgraceful thing."

"You're worried about losing face now?" Old Mrs. Yang rolled her eyes. "When you were using the money Cai Youde sent to smoke opium and drink alcohol, why didn't you say you were losing face?"

After Youde cleaned up the Song family's barren hen and kicked her out, Axiu entered the house and took charge.

She has us back in her hometown to take care of her two older children, and now that she's old, she'll have four children to rely on. Who else is as fortunate as her?

"Leave with nothing? Would the Song family agree to that?"

"They have no choice but to agree," Old Mrs. Yang sneered. "They won't even lay an egg, yet they're seizing other people's property. Have they no shame?"

"Call Ah Xiu tomorrow and tell her to get some money back as soon as possible."

"Okay." Grandma Yang lifted the blanket and pulled the light cord. "I drank too much sweet potato porridge tonight, so I keep having to go to the toilet."

A commotion erupted at the entrance of the village.

The beams of torches and flashlights flickered wildly, and the barking of dogs filled the air.

Cai Dapao's mother rushed to the front, her dry voice filled with curses. "Are all the Yang Dacong family members dead? Come out and see the good daughters your village has raised. That slut Yang Axiu, she's been taking off her pants and exchanging them for money since she was little."

He speaks too loudly.

One by one, the lights in the neighboring houses came on.

Several men wearing cloaks pushed open the door and came out.

"Who's wailing like that in the middle of the night?" A shirtless man pointed impatiently into the middle of the road. "You son of a bitch, your daughter-in-law has been divorced for three years. What are you doing here in Yangcuo in the middle of the night causing trouble?"

Cai Dapao's mother rushed over in two strides, "I was cursing that slut Yang Axiu, why are you jumping out like that? What, you slept with her too?"

The man's face turned purple.

"You old woman, did you stuff your mouth with shit? Believe me or not, I'll slap you."

"Old Gan Lin," Cai Dapao's mother nudged his chest with her head, "You're getting angry because I hit the nail on the head, aren't you? Does your wife also go out with her husband every night to sleep with other men and have four bastards?"

"Your Yang family really has this fine tradition; even the shameless can band together to protect their own. Do you feel so light-hearted spending the money from selling your daughter?"

The shirtless man was stunned by this sudden outburst of filth.

The raised hand hovered in mid-air.

Before he could react, Sister-in-law Song slammed the shovel in her hand onto the ground.

"Stop talking nonsense! Go to Yang Axiu's house and smash it to pieces!"

"Smash whoever blocks the way."

Cai Dapao's mother turned around and pointed. "It's that big iron gate up ahead."

Dozens of people surged over.

"Bang! Bang!"

With Song Ersao and Cai Dapao's mother each kicking, the iron gate, which wasn't even properly secured, was kicked open.

The yard immediately erupted into chaos.

The elderly couple from the Yang family rushed out in a panic before they were even properly dressed.

Two older brothers and their wives, and two younger brothers also emerged from the side room.

"What are you doing?" Yang's eldest son had just shouted out.

The men that Brother Song brought didn't waste any words.

A dozen or so sticks were raised in unison.

The water vat in the yard was smashed with a stick. All the windows in the main room shattered.

"beat."

Someone shouted out.

The Song family and the Cai family were surprisingly united at this moment.

A group of people rushed up and pinned Yang's sons against the wall, giving them a good beating.

The sound of a fist hitting flesh was muffled.

Song Ersao stared at Yang Laoma, who was huddled on the steps.

She strode up the steps, grabbed Old Lady Yang by the hair, and slapped her twice across the face.

"I'll make you give birth to that inhuman beast."

Grandma Yang was so badly beaten that she saw stars.

She didn't see any members of the Cai family clearly; she only recognized that the person who hit her was Song Ersao.

Grandma Yang struggled to straighten her neck. "What right do you have to hit me? Your Song Yulu doesn't lay eggs herself, she's occupying someone else's nest, and you still think you're right?"

Before Song Ersao could respond, Cai Dapao's mother's eyes turned red.

"Sister Cai, listen to this!" Sister Song Er turned around and roared, "This old hag knows her daughter is selling herself everywhere, and she's even encouraging your granddaughter to be distant from you. The whole family is making a fool of you."

Cai Dapao's mother let out a howl and pounced on Yang's mother, straddling her.

He used both hands, one on each side, to scratch his face.

"You knew all along, didn't you? You old vile woman, you tricked me into raising your bastard child."

Grandma Yang was pinned to the ground and couldn't get up.

His howling went off-key.

The two daughters-in-law of the Yang family, standing at the doorway, understood what was happening.

The two men exchanged a glance, their faces turning ashen.

The older sister-in-law turned around and went back into the house, where she grabbed a blanket and wrapped the child in it.

"I can't live like this anymore." The sister-in-law carried her child and walked out, without even glancing at her husband who was crawling all over the ground after being beaten.

"Sister-in-law, wait for me!" The sister-in-law also chased after her, carrying the child.

The two squeezed through the crowd and walked towards the woman's parents' home without looking back.

Nobody stopped them.

The yard was smashed to pieces.

Brother Song led a few men and carried a ladder up to the roof.

The tiles were overturned one by one and smashed down with a crackling sound.

The roof was soon mostly empty.

The village chief of Yangcuo finally arrived at the door with more than a dozen of his relatives.

"Stop! What are you all doing?" the village chief shouted at the top of his lungs.

The Cai family's sisters-in-law lined up at the door, their carrying poles laid across the ground, effectively blocking the village chief and his entourage from entering.

Cai's second sister-in-law put her hands on her hips and began to shake.

"Village chief, are you trying to take sides? Yang Axiu cheated on her husband with another man, had a son with Cai Youde, and even that girl in front of her is an illegitimate child. Her whole family knows."

The village chief's face darkened.

"Impossible! There must be some misunderstanding. Ah Xiu isn't that kind of person."

"Misunderstanding my foot!" Big Cannon Second Sister spat out. "Both of Yang's daughters-in-law are ashamed and have taken their children back to their parents' homes. Yang's parents admitted it themselves; Yang Axiu had ambiguous relationships with men in the village when she was a young girl. You, the village head, want to cover it up?"

The old women chatted amongst themselves.

"Exactly. Who knows how many men Yang Axiu has cheated on? One woman serving two husbands, she doesn't even care about human ethics. If Yang Axiu can be with one, she can be with ten."

Big Cannon Second Sister rolled her eyes.

"Village Chief Yang, you're protecting her so much, does that mean you've slept with her too?"

The village chief's wife followed behind.

Hearing this, he turned green with anger.

"You're talking nonsense, stop spouting rubbish!" The village chief's wife went up to tear her mouth apart.

The old women immediately retaliated:

"What nonsense are we spouting? The girls in your village sleep with everyone, like dogs, they'll go for it without hesitation. And you all just stand by and watch, I bet every man in Yangcuo is having an affair with her."

The dirty water was splashed so hard that even the Yang family brothers who came to help stopped in their tracks.

Neither advancing nor retreating is an option.

If you take just one step forward, you'll be accused of stealing your sister-in-law and sleeping with your brother's wife.

The village chief's wife grabbed him. "Why are you meddling in this mess? Why are you getting involved in such trivial matters?"

The village chief was pulled back two steps and refused to speak again.