Old Mrs. Mu stopped under Mr. Mu’s roar, but she still glared at Chen Hong with eyes that could eat her alive.
It was as if she wanted to eat Chen Hong raw.
Chen Hong was extrely embarrassed at this mont, her hair was loose, her face was swollen, and her clothes were torn.
Both of them, after this fight, neither gained any advantage, but after a while, Old Mrs. Mu started clutching her head and cried out in pain.
Previously, she hadn’t noticed the bleeding from hitting the cabinet because she was eager to fight Chen Hong, but now that she was idle, the pain beca much more noticeable.
She wiped the back of her head with her hand, and finding it full of blood, the anger that Mr. Mu had suppressed in her surged up again.
"Fifth, your old mother gives you two choices today: either get rid of this slut, this whore quickly, or you leave the Old Mu Family with this woman. I’ll consider I never had you as a son!"
This ti, Old Mrs. Mu had laid down a firm order: if Chen Hong doesn’t leave, she won’t want her son either.
Chen Hong’s face turned pale instantly, not because she valued the Old Mu Family.
But she hadn’t found another place yet; leaving like this, without a house or shelter, how could she survive?
She didn’t want to go back to Wang the blacksmith’s house; she didn’t want to be sold off a second ti.
No, she couldn’t leave. If she left, she’d have nothing.
"Dad, Mom, I’m the only daughter-in-law Danyan wants to marry, you can’t drive away, I... I... I beg you!"
Chen Hong pitifully pleaded with Mr. Mu and Old Mrs. Mu.
"Not driving you away, who said that? This is my old lady’s house, I decide who can live here.
If I don’t let you live here, you have to get out, and take Fifth with you.
You shaless woman, our Old Mu Family is a respectable family, and because of you, this shaless widow, the whole Er Gui Village is laughing at us. Whether you leave today or not, you’re leaving!"
Old Mrs. Mu threw out these words and hurriedly went to call the fourth branch, Mu Dajiang, to find so herbs for herself.
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The third branch of the family and Lu Yuanfeng, Yuanbao, and a few others, stepped out into the fields with the first ray of morning sunshine, everyone chatting and laughing as they went to work.
Walking along the road, the late autumn wind blew, making the rice ears full of grains sway in the breeze.
That was the color farrs loved the most.
This ti, after Mu Shuangshuang and Lu Yuanfeng discussed, they decided the first thing to harvest was the acre of fertile land Shuangshuang originally tricked away from the Old Mu Family.
That piece of land had the plumpest grains of rice among the five plots, and it was also the most fruitful acre of land.
If they didn’t get it ho first, nobody could feel at ease.
However, the six or seven people from the Third Branch of the Old Mu Family going to work in the fields drew the attention of the passing villagers.
Everyone was talking, so envious, so jealous.
After all, Lu Yuanfeng’s strength was evident, and when it ca to work, he was unbeatable; perhaps two or three of the village’s laborers couldn’t match his strength alone.
"Hey, what do you say, what does Lu Family’s Fengzi always do for the Old Mu Family’s third branch without pay?" the Zhang Family’s daughter-in-law, Qian, asked the person next to her in the village east.
"Pay? Are you stupid? Don’t you know the relationship between Feng and Shuang? They’re preparing to get married, why talk about that stuff?"
Now almost everyone in Er Gui Village knew that Lu Yuanfeng, the oldest grandson of the Old Lu Family, would marry Mu Shuangshuang from the Old Mu Family’s Third Branch in the future.
Talking about money between these two families was basically nonsense.
"You’re the silly one. These two aren’t married or engaged, and they’re not a family yet.
Besides, it’s said that even brothers settle accounts clearly. Don’t think that since the two families are good now, when soone gets wings, who knows who will kick whom!"
Auntie Qian spoke with a hint of sarcasm, glaring at Mu Shuangshuang.
She just wanted others to know that Mu Shuangshuang was restless and would eventually leave Lu Yuanfeng for profit.
Afraid that the villagers didn’t understand, she made her words even more straightforward: "Maybe this Shuang is just coaxing Fengzi to work for her for nothing, and once her family’s field rice is all in the barn or she cheats all of Fengzi’s money, she’ll kick him to the curb."
The villagers’ reactions to Qian’s words ranged from belief to disbelief, but most held a skeptical attitude.
Because Qian, usually, had a loose tongue and liked to gossip about other people’s family affairs,
essentially being the type who couldn’t bear to see others doing well, always speaking poorly of anyone else’s good fortune, waiting for trouble to ensue.
If it were soone else, they would have ignored her, letting her ramble on.
But Mu Shuangshuang was not an ordinary person, she pulled out the long carrying pole in her hand, blocking Qian’s path.
"What did you say? Who’s coaxing who to work for nothing?" Mu Shuangshuang asked irritably.
Qian, with years of gossip under her belt, was being questioned for the first ti, so her attitude wasn’t great.
"I’m saying you’re coaxing Fengzi to work for you for nothing, and you’ll kick him away one day. What? Want to hit ? Co on, hit on the head, I just don’t believe a little girl can do anything to !"
Qian’s words were particularly infuriating; if it wasn’t for Mu Shuangshuang being in a good mood today, she would have waved the pole a long ti ago.
But she still glared back at Qian, just about to speak, when Yu Si Niang tugged at her sleeve.
"Shuangshuang, let it go, let’s go to work!"
Yu Si Niang clearly trying to be a peacemaker, often told Mu Shuangshuang not to argue with others, since they all lived in the sa village, tolerating would let things pass.
The ancient thought of valuing harmony was well reflected in Yu Si Niang and Mu Dashan.
Basically, whatever the issue, they always took the initiative to admit fault.
But Mu Shuangshuang was not of that nature, she was the kind who, if you didn’t ss with her, all was well, but if provoked, she’d find a way to get even.
Call her combative or unsympathetic.
She simply wouldn’t stand being wronged.
"Auntie Qian, it’s not your place to talk about other people’s matters, so don’t. The relationship between and Shuang, and with Uncle Third and Aunt Si, isn’t as sordid as you think.
I have three acres of land myself, while Shuangshuang’s family only has two; we combine the work in the fields, and if anything, it’s Shuangshuang’s family who’s losing out.
Moreover, whenever I work for Shuangshuang’s family, it’s voluntary on my part, sothing any man should do, and no one has the right to interfere!"
Lu Yuanfeng put down the carrying pole in his hand, reasoning with Qian.
Qian felt Lu Yuanfeng was crazy.
"Idiot, really an idiot, I’m speaking up for you, yet you’re siding with this girl, no wonder your grandmother told that you’re so bewitched by this girl that you don’t even want your own father anymore, really pitiful!"
This drama queen Qian deliberately put on an act of deep sorrow, just wanting the villagers to join her in disliking Mu Shuangshuang.
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