I Double Dare You

"Don't you dare go!" Zhang Meili roughly pushed Xue Gouzi back, "Your brother isn't fully recovered yet, so you stay at home and take care of him! I'll go over to your eldest uncle's house to see if I can get an old hen to nourish your brother back to health. Fourth aunt really plays favorites, sending such a big old hen, all prepared and ready to eat, to Jiang Yue, but not giving one to our family! Doesn't she see that Jiang Yue was picked up from somewhere, and they aren't as much our own flesh and blood as you are!"

Xue Gouzi almost stumbled and fell from being pushed. He knew what Zhang Meili was doing and thinking was wrong, but he was too timid to voice any objections, fearing she would beat him again.

"If I come back and don't see you, you'll see how I deal with you!" Having made the threatening statement, Zhang Meili went out the door.

Left with no choice, Xue Gouzi put down his carrying basket, giving up on going to dig for raspberries.