Asking a question was met with a slap or a kick, much to everyone's sheer delight.
Nobody else intervened, only Er Gouzi's mother came over, tugging at the man, "Husband, calm down, stop hitting him, don't get so worked up..."
In the past, when a mother stopped a father from hitting their child, it was mostly out of concern not to hurt the child. Now, she urged him not to get worked up himself. A single word of difference really just shows how disheartened the mother must feel to have such a son!
