Chapter 104 A Family of Vampires

This family treated Liu Xiangyang like an animal, and Liu Xuejun immediately exploded: "What do you take my brother for? You can just order him around as you please?"

The villagers watching were used to it, and even a little envious. After all, Liu Xiangyang had always accepted such unreasonable demands in the past.

Sure enough, Liu Xiangyang patted his younger brother on the shoulder, signaling him to calm down.

Then, he turned to look at the family of vampires and calmly dropped a bombshell:

"Father, Mother, I've come today to bring Hongmei back."

As soon as Liu Xiangyang finished speaking, the Shen family members were still dumbfounded and had no idea what "send it back" meant.

Father Shen's face darkened: "Come back to live here? This little bit of food isn't enough. With her appetite, we'll need at least another ten catties of rice and flour!"

Mother Shen was also displeased and rolled her eyes: "The two families live so close, why are you running back to your parents' house every day? You've finished all the work in the fields and the second child doesn't need anyone to take care of him. Leave your things here and get back home right now!"

These words were like a bucket of ice water, chilling Shen Hongmei to the bone.

She finally couldn't hold back anymore and broke down in tears: "What do you mean? Am I not worth this truckload of junk? In your eyes, am I just a working animal?"

Mother Shen looked at her as if she were a fool: "Otherwise what? A married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl. You're already a member of the Liu family. Do you still want to come back and freeload?"

Shen Hongmei stared intently at her mother: "You're not a member of the Shen family anymore? Then why did you accept my money and grain so readily every time I brought them home?"

Mother Shen grabbed the sack of grain and declared righteously, "That's the filial piety you owe me! I gave birth to you, so you have to pay back the debt!"

Shen Hongmei swayed as if struck by lightning.

Zhang Xiuying's words suddenly flashed through my mind: "My daughter will always have a place in this family!"

She knew that even if Liu Zhixia got married, the Liu family would always keep a room for her.

And what about herself? In this family, she never had a place of her own.

She turned to look at Liu Zhixia, her eyes filled with despair and jealousy: "Why? We're both married daughters, so why is our fate so different?"

Liu Zhixia's eyes were icy as she said, enunciating each word clearly: "You could have had this kind of life, but unfortunately, you ruined it yourself."

Shen Hongmei trembled all over. Only at this moment did she truly understand what she had lost.

"Mother, these all seem to be my eldest sister's old clothes? Should we take them?" Shen Lao Er's wife asked, looking puzzled as she rummaged through the oxcart.

Mother Shen didn't even lift her eyelids: "What's done is done! Keep it all! Have the Liu family buy her new ones! You brat, do you hear me? Tell Zhang Xiuying to buy a couple more sets, one for your mother too!"

The more Shen Lao Er's wife searched, the more suspicious she became: "Why is even the cotton-padded coat still here? Sister, how long are you planning to stay?"

Looking at these two greedy old hags, Liu Xiangyang finally lost his temper and said in a deep voice, "Hongmei and I are divorced. I brought her back today. These things are compensation from the Liu family."

A deathly silence.

The Shen family members who were moving things froze, all their movements instantly suspended.

"What the heck?!"

The silence was broken by a strange cry from the father.

Liu Xiangyang said expressionlessly, "We're divorced. The person has been delivered, the things have been delivered, let's go."

Just as he was about to turn around, his father rushed up and blocked his way: "You scoundrel! My daughter gave birth to your son, and you want to divorce her after only a few years?"

Mother Shen pounced on Liu Xiangyang like a mad dog, grabbing his collar tightly: "If you don't give me an explanation today, nobody's leaving! What did my daughter do wrong?"

Liu Xuejun sneered: "Auntie, what good deeds has Shen Hongmei done? You should ask her yourself! Do you really want us to expose her in front of the whole village?"

The villagers, always eager for drama, jeered, "Speak up! Why were they sent back? They deserve an explanation!"

At this moment, Mother Shen only wanted to protect this cash cow and didn't care about losing face. She yelled at the top of her lungs, "Yes! They must give an explanation!"

Shen Laosan, being younger, sensed something was amiss and tugged at his mother's sleeve: "Mother, this isn't exactly honorable. Shall we go inside and talk?"

Father Shen snorted coldly and said domineeringly, "What are you afraid of? Let him talk! Even if this brat cheated on me and got pregnant with an illegitimate child, just beat her up, right? Now that you've married her, she's a member of your Liu family. Why should I return her?"

"You..." Liu Xiangyang was dumbfounded, disgusted by these shameless remarks. "That's your own daughter! I've given her plenty of money and done her a lot of work for her, and in your eyes she's just a commodity?"

Suddenly, Shen Lao Er rushed up to Shen Hongmei and slapped her hard across the face!

After hitting her, he turned to Liu Xiangyang with a forced smile and said, "Brother-in-law, calm down! My sister has a bad temper, but a beating is enough to make her behave! The kids are all grown up, so let's just make do. How can we just get a divorce like that?"

Liu Xiangyang's lips moved, but in the end, out of consideration for their past relationship, he couldn't bear to expose Shen Hongmei's past in public.

But Liu Zhixia knew that being soft-hearted at this time would only cause her trouble.

She glanced around at the onlookers and said in a clear, loud voice, "Shen Hongmei wants to report our family for speculation and profiteering to the brigade."

The crowd erupted in chaos.

These days, speculation and profiteering are serious crimes!

Father Shen's face turned deathly pale instantly. He pointed at Liu Xiangyang and cursed angrily, "You Liu family! How dare you do something that could get you killed! Get out of here! Don't try to smear our family!"

He kept telling people to get out, but his hands didn't stop; he quickly moved the things on the ground into the yard.

An older woman next to Liu Zhixia grabbed her arm, looking at her suspiciously: "Girl, since you reported it, why weren't you arrested?"

Liu Xuejun said irritably, "If we really had a problem, would we be standing here? The brigade searched our house from top to bottom and found nothing!"

Upon hearing this, the aunt pointed at Shen Hongmei and cursed, "You heartless wretch! Your in-laws haven't done anything wrong, yet you're spreading rumors? How dare you throw such a deadly accusation at me?"

Shen Hongmei panicked and shook her head frantically: "No, I didn't go to the brigade to tell them! I didn't report them!"

Liu Zhixia sneered: "You didn't go to the brigade, but you personally threatened to report your whole family at home."

"That's really vicious!" the aunt spat in disgust. "The Liu family treated you with their whole heart, and you actually used something like this to threaten your in-laws? Even a dog would be better than you!"

Enraged, Shen's mother rushed forward and grabbed Shen Hongmei's arm tightly: "You brat! Have you lost your mind? Even if they really did it, wouldn't that money still be yours? If you cut down your money tree, who will bring food to the family in the future?"

Shen Hongmei cried out in pain, "I was just trying to scare them... I didn't mean to actually go..."

But nobody believed him. Once such vicious words were uttered, life would become unbearable. Who would dare keep a ticking time bomb by their pillow?

Liu Xiangyang glanced at Shen Hongmei one last time with mixed feelings, then turned to the two elders of the Shen family and said coldly, "Now that you've explained everything, let's go."