Chapter 508: 508: Qiao Changshun's toughness: I'm telling you!

Qiao Changshun boldly stood his ground for once, leaving everyone stunned.

Once they regained their senses, the three men leading the donkey carts quickly snapped their whips.

The Sun Family was also taken aback.

They hadn’t expected that Qiao Changshun would dare speak up like this.

Qiao Zhaodi exhaled in relief. Qiao Changshun finally asserted himself, sparing her the trouble of intervening. That felt good.

However, this thought just appeared in her mind when the bristling attitude of the Sun Family made her heart race again.

Qiao Changshun wasn’t sitting in the center of the cart. He was at the rear, his legs barely off the ground. The Sun Family dashed over in a few strides, grabbing his arm and yanked him off the donkey cart, “Even if we’re not kin anymore, I’m still your mother!”

“I have something to say to you. Listen before you go!”

Qiao Changshun hadn’t expected her to get physical and ended up tumbling off the cart, bucket and all.

Fortunately, the donkey cart was low, so the fall wasn’t a hard one.

However, recalling Qiao Xiaomai’s words, his face turned somewhat pale.

If he handled this poorly, the consequences could be severe!

He started to scramble backward, clearly intent on resisting, “What are you trying to do?”

“I’m talking marriage for you. Look at yourself, not an ounce of manliness! Stand up, the woman’s family is watching!” The Sun Family pointed with her fan towards a carriage parked on the edge of the threshing floor.

Qiao Changshun was taken aback, “!!!”.

Talking about marriage—it was like a death sentence to him!

Stumbling and scrambling, he started to sprint forward, shouting, “Give me a hand, quickly! Stop my mother!”

His overreaction left everyone stunned. Once they came to, they jumped off their carts to grab him, “Changsun, what’s going on?”.

“What’s going on? I’m arranging a marriage for him! Look at this uselessness; no wonder Zhuang Luhe ran off with another man!” the Sun Family scoffed.

Although the dozen or so people had now surrounded Qiao Changshun, she wasn’t intimidated in the least.

As long as Qiao Xiaomai wasn’t around, she felt free to run rampant.

Seeing this, Qiao Zhaodi gripping a vine stick, she stood atop the donkey cart, trying to mask her nervousness, her voice loud, “You don’t have to fix a marriage. Xiaomai has already asked someone to look for my second aunt!”

Despite her high volume, her voice was noticeably trembling.

The Sun Family snorted dismissively, not even looking at Qiao Zhaodi’s feeble attempt at assertiveness. She kept her eyes on Qiao Changshun and said, “Even if that slut Zhuang Luhe comes back, she would be immersed in a pig cage. Changsun is now wealthy, and with hobbled legs, he needs a caring person to look after him.”

“Changsun, do you see that carriage? The beautiful woman I got for you is inside it. She’s from the County Town—her husband died of a disease, and she can’t live there anymore, so she wants to find a decent man in the countryside.”

“She’s good at embroidery. Take a look at this fan—it’s her work, and she could make quite a sum from her embroidery!”

“She is both beautiful and skilled, and also gentle and virtuous. She is countless times better than that slut Zhuang Luhe. So? What do you think? Isn’t this marriage I arranged for you good?”

Hiding behind the villagers, Qiao Changshun said anxiously and angrily, “I’ve severed ties with you and you don’t need to worry about my affairs anymore. Besides, Luhe is just out working. If you ruin her reputation again, I, I, I…”

His tone was trembling and wavering. He had rehearsed this numerous times in the past two days, but when it actually came out, his brain was a blank canvas.

“I, I, I’ll… I’ll take you to the County Government Office!”