Chapter 13 - This is Pig’s Dung (1/2)

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w.a.n.g Mudan (i.e. Peony) blushed and asked, “You, you were sneakily watching us eat meat in the middle of the night?”

“Well, now you admit that you were eating dog meat, don’t you?” said Li Hongmei angrily. “Humph, I was also fumbling down to your place with the smell of the meat. At the time I didn’t expose this since I didn’t want to embarra.s.s you. But look at you! We were rarely eating anything good while you’d rather shout it out for the whole village to hear!”

Chen Ju was smiling to herself. Chen Ju looked to be in a good relations.h.i.+p with w.a.n.g Mudan but she was actually hoping to see them make a scene like this.

But Chen Ju’s pleasure from others’ misfortune did not last, since Li Hongmei suddenly pointed to Chen Ju and said, “So did my third sister-in-law. Last night, third brother came back from the town with some osmanthus cakes, right? Wrapped in oil paper which you brought back. The oil paper is still in the backyard!”

Then Li Hongmei asked Chen Ju’s five-year-old daughter Xiao Baoxue, “Baoxue, tell auntie. Was the cake sweet at all?”

Chen Ju was trying to cover her hands over her daughter’s mouth but it was too late and Baoxue cried excitedly, “Very sweet!”

“Sister-in-law, you…” Chen Ju had been helping w.a.n.g Mudan to attack Li Hongmei. Now Li Hongmei suddenly exposed her secret, which made her flush with anger.

Old Mr. Xiao pounded his walking stick on the ground. “You selfish and mean women. You dare…dare…”

But w.a.n.g Mudan had recovered. In order not to let old Mr. Xiao scold her, she once again aimed her fire at Li Hongmei. “So what if we were really hiding something to eat? We somehow still know to eat secretly. How about you? You eat openly, and we have caught you. Aren’t you too c.o.c.ky?”

“What am I c.o.c.ky about? I was eating pig’s offal, some garbage that you would have complained about if I cooked for you! Why should we not eat it openly?” answered Li Hongmei, standing akimbo.

“Pig’s offal? You think I’m blind or what. You’ve got meat-roasted pork!” said w.a.n.g Mudan.

Chen Ju also followed. “Pig’s offal smells like s.h.i.+t but yours clearly has a meaty smell. You not only think we are blind, but treat us like we have stuffy nose.”

“You don’t believe me, do you? If you don’t believe me, I’ll find evidence for you!” Li Hongmei was not afraid of them. She simply picked up a stick and picked out some pig manure from the yard when cleaning up the pig’s offal.

“Sister-in-law, is it pig’s dung or not? Third Sister-in-law, come and have a look too. Isn’t it pig’s s.h.i.+t?” Li Hongmei approached w.a.n.g Mudan and Chen Ju with a stick stained with excrement.