"I want to split the family, Mom. I can’t stay in this house any longer," Ma Laoer said angrily.

In the past life, it was Ma Laoer who also clamored for a family split. The original owner couldn’t bear to split Ma Laoer’s family, so she expelled Ma Xiangdong’s family home instead.

But now...

Yuan Chun picked up a stick and gave Ma Laoer and his wife a beating, "I’m still alive and you want to split the family, you want to be in charge. Why don’t you just go to heaven?"

Ma Laoer, clutching his sore backside, ran around the yard, "Ah... Mom, stop beating, stop beating, you’re about to kill me, it hurts too much."

Yuan Chun didn’t care whether he was in pain; she just wanted to vent her anger on behalf of the original owner, "Serves you right if it hurts. You two ungrateful things need a good beating."

Several elders watched Yuan Chun beat the children but did not intervene. They only fueled the fire, "Mrs. Xiang Dong, your Xiang Nan is too ungrateful. Xiang Dong just got home, and he’s already causing trouble, wanting a family split. You better discipline them properly."

"Beat them hard; such ungrateful daughter-in-law and son, if not beaten, won’t learn their place."

"Xiang Dong lost a leg protecting our country and is a hero to us common folk. Now that he’s back, your family should take good care of him."

"Xiang Nan, you’re really despicable. Your father died young, and Xiang Dong held the family together at a young age. Without Xiang Dong’s hard work, how could your family live so well? It’s bad enough you’re not grateful, but you add insult to injury by clamoring for a family split. Xiang Nan, you are such an ingrate."

"If the parents are still alive, there should be no family split. There’s no village where the sons clamor for splitting the family when the parents are still alive."

"I think it’s because Mrs. Xiang Dong spoils Xiang Nan and his wife too much. If my son and daughter-in-law were clamoring for a family split, I’d be mad enough to take a knife to them."

"Kids can be infuriating; a beating solves everything."

...

Wang Cui was hit several times, grimacing in pain. Seeing the old folks still sneering, she cursed angrily, "What does it matter to you old farts? Mind your own business. Get out... get out of my house. Our family’s matters don’t need your interference."

Third Uncle’s wife was trembling with rage, "Xiang Nan’s wife, you’re shameless. You get beaten, and you take it out on us elders. We are your seniors."

"You curse us as old farts. Do you even acknowledge us as elders? Mrs. Xiang Dong, hit her hard; such an ungrateful daughter-in-law deserves a good beating."

"Yes, hit her hard. If one beating doesn’t work, it’s because you didn’t hit enough. Hit her again."

"So ungrateful, she dares to curse us old farts in front of us. Who knows how maliciously she curses behind our backs."

Yuan Chun’s face blackened with a look of bitter anger, chased Wang Cui while beating her, "No respect for elders, today I will beat you ungrateful children to death."

Yuan Chun swung the stick with such speed it was visible only as shadows, falling like raindrops on Ma Laoer and his wife.

While hitting, she cursed, "Cold-blooded, cruel-eyed wolves, seeing your big brother lost a leg, you want to abandon him and split the family separately. I’m telling you, as long as I’m alive, don’t even think about abandoning this family."

"Want to split the family? Unless this old woman dies, otherwise, your family can roll out of this house."

Hmph, wanting to split the family.

Split crap to eat.

Yuan Chun, exhausted from beating, pulled over a bench and sat down, glaring at Ma Laoer and his wife wailing on the ground, "Laoer, I know ever since you got married, you don’t listen to me anymore. You’ve long had a rift with me, you resent me for favoring the third and fifth, but not you."