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In a village near a remote border town, an old woman is wielding a long stick about the size of a thumb, whipping a little girl lying on the ground in her yard.

She muttered under her breath, "You worthless thing, you have no right to speak. You have to marry me whether you like it or not."

A young woman rushed over, threw herself on top of the little girl, and cried out, "Mom, please don't hit her! Hit me instead! Please!"

The old woman showed no sign of stopping, and the stick fell entirely on the young woman.

The old woman hit and cursed at the same time: "It's all because of your good daughters that you dare to disobey this old woman. I'm not dead yet, and it's not your place to say 'no' in this family."

The young woman silently endured her mother-in-law's merciless beatings and scoldings.

Heartbroken, she touched the spot on her daughter's forehead where blood was flowing incessantly, only to find her daughter motionless. She quickly checked her daughter's breathing and discovered that her daughter was no longer breathing.

The young woman suddenly burst into tears, crying out, "Mumu, my daughter Mumu! How could you abandon your mother like this? My poor daughter..."

The old woman was stunned when she heard this; she had killed someone.

In a moment of stunned silence, the young woman turned around, shoved the old woman to the ground, and roared at her, "Old woman, I've put up with you for too long! Give me back my daughter's life..."

The young woman was about to rush forward and fight the old woman when she was pulled back by the old woman's second and third sons, who had just rushed back from outside.

He then scolded, "Chen, how dare you hit your mother-in-law! A vicious woman like you will surely be cursed by the villagers."

Chen Donghua struggled to break free from the two brothers' grip, but how could a woman be a match for two grown men?

"Second Uncle, Third Uncle, what are you doing? Let go of my mother!" Two more figures rushed in from outside.

One was about sixteen years old, and the other about fifteen. The two of them stepped forward together and reached out to pull on their second and third uncles' arms, trying to make them let go.

"Xiaojun, Xiaohai, go check on your sister! Mom can't feel her breathing anymore. Please check her carefully again..." Chen Donghua cried out.

Someone happened to be passing by and heard the commotion in the yard. He peeked in and heard Chen Donghua's words. He immediately took off running.

He ran while shouting, "Help! Help! Old woman Ruan Zhang has killed someone! Help!"

Soon, the villagers heard the shouts and rushed to Ruan Shuigen's house to see what was going on. Some even went to report to the village chief and clan head.

Upon hearing their mother's words, Ruan Xiaojun and Ruan Xiaohai rushed to where their younger sister was lying.

Ruan Xiaojun helped his sister up, then sat down on the ground, letting his sister lean against him.

Ruan Xiaohai covered his sister's forehead wound with his left hand and put his right hand under her nose to check several times, but he couldn't feel any breath at all.

Ruan Xiaohai cried as she said to her older brother, "Brother, my sister... she's not breathing... sob sob sob..."

Upon hearing her son's words, Chen Donghua fainted on the spot.

Chen Donglan, the second daughter-in-law of Ruan Shuisheng next door, is Chen Donghua's cousin and is about five or six years younger than Chen Donghua.

She heard the commotion at her cousin's house and rushed over.

Hearing this devastating news as soon as she arrived, she rushed forward, supporting Chen Donghua and calling out, "Big sister, big sister, wake up, wake up!"

Villagers began to run in one after another and saw two people who had not moved.

People started whispering among themselves: "Old Mrs. Zhang, how could you be so cruel? How could you do something so brutal..."

"Old woman Zhang, you've killed someone! When the village chief and clan head arrive, they'll definitely not let you off the hook..."

"Old woman Zhang, you take advantage of the fact that your eldest son, Ruan Dongping, is gone every day to bully his wife and children. Are you even human...?"

Everyone was cursing Ruan Zhangshi.

Old Mrs. Zhang finally realized that she had accidentally killed her own granddaughter. She collapsed to the ground, and in her fright, a yellow liquid flowed out.

When Ruan Dongchang, the second son of the Ruan family, and Ruan Dongyu, the third son, saw their mother sitting on the ground, they wanted to help her up.

But upon smelling the sour, foul odor, they stopped in their tracks in disgust and stood aside, watching with unease.

"The village chief and clan chief have arrived."

Someone shouted something, and everyone made way for them to enter the courtyard.

The courtyard was already surrounded by layers upon layers of people.

"Stop arguing! What happened?" the village chief shouted.

The once noisy and chaotic scene was suddenly reduced to only Old Lady Zhang's cries of injustice.

Ruan Xiaohai told his older brother to cover his younger sister's still bleeding forehead wound, and then ran over to her.

She knelt down before the village chief and clan chief, crying, "Grandpa Village Chief, Grandpa Clan Chief, my sister was beaten to death by Grandma, she's not breathing anymore..."

She was already sobbing uncontrollably after she finished speaking.

The village chief's youngest son rushed over to where Ruan Mumu was lying, reached out and checked her breathing. There was no breath. He tried several more times, but still nothing.

So he shook his head and said to his father, "Father, he's really dead."

A bold woman nearby also stepped forward and tried checking several times, but still shook her head and said, "She's really not breathing."

"Someone, take Granny Zhang to the town's village head to await her fate. Other villagers, if you can lend a hand, do so and give this child a proper burial."

Immediately, several young men from the village stepped forward, grabbed Old Lady Zhang, and prepared to leave.

Old Mrs. Zhang struggled to keep everyone away, shouting, "He's just a good-for-nothing. If he's beaten to death, so be it. Do you expect me, an old woman, to pay with my life?"

The village chief and the clan chief couldn't stand it anymore. The village chief immediately shouted, "This is outrageous! Gag her!"

When Zhang's two sons heard their mother say this, they turned pale with fright.

If we let her continue talking nonsense like this, she'll definitely ruin her own child.

So one of the brothers covered his mother's mouth, and the other went to find a rag to stuff into her mouth.

Just as everyone was trying to pull Old Lady Zhang away, Chen Donghua slowly woke up.

The courtyard was full of people, including the village chief and the clan chief.

She hurriedly crawled to the village chief and clan head, kowtowing repeatedly and crying out, "Please, village chief and clan head, do justice for my daughter, my poor daughter..."

While everyone was watching to see how the village chief and clan head would handle the matter concerning Old Lady Zhang.

Ruan Xiaojun felt his hand, which was covering his sister's wound, being slapped away, and then he heard a girl's muffled groan: "Squeak, it hurts, it hurts so much..."

Ruan Xiaojun thought it was a hallucination, but he felt pain in his hand where he had been hit.

He looked at his sister's face, and saw the girl suddenly open her eyes, then exclaim in surprise, "Mother, Mother, Mother... Sister... She's awake."

Looking at the unfamiliar place and the courtyard full of strangers, Ruan Mumu felt a sense of bewilderment...