"stop."

Su Luo snatched the stick from Chen Xique's hand and struck Chen Xique with all her might.

"Ah... Su Luo, you bitch, how dare you hit me."

Chen Xique was hit on the back with a stick, and when she turned around, she grabbed the stick from Su Luo's hand.

"If you dare to hit my son, what harm is there in me hitting you back?"

Su Luo kicked Chen Xique in the stomach, sending her flying onto the woodpile. Su Luo seemed to have lost her mind and hit Chen Xique several more times with the stick.

"Magpie!"

Chen Dazhi and Luo Mei rushed over instantly. Luo Mei grabbed Su Luo's hair, while Chen Dazhi snatched the stick from Su Luo's hand and slapped her across the face.

"Luo Luo!"

Just as Zhao Ruyun was about to get up to help Su Luo, Chen Dazhi pointed at Zhao Ruyun with a bamboo stick and said, "Don't move!"

With just two words, Zhao Ruyun dared not get up. Su Luo didn't know what Zhao Ruyun was afraid of; she seemed like a completely different person.

"Luo Luo!"

"Mother! Mother!" Zhao Ruyun held Yan Chuan and Yi Huan, and the three of them knelt on the ground, crying helplessly.

"Su Luo, have you gone crazy yet? I didn't come here to fight today."

Chen Dazhi and Luo Mei each grabbed one of Su Luo's hands and pressed down on her shoulders, treating her like a prisoner.

Su Luo was ambushed from behind by the two men, but they were no match for her at all; they were too inexperienced to catch her.

Looking at Su Luo's icy expression, Chen Dazhi and Luo Mei trembled slightly. Last time, Su Luo had beaten them so badly that they couldn't get out of bed.

"Su Luo, you'd better not move, or I'll beat your mother-in-law and child to death."

Chen Xique actually picked up their family's wood-chopping knife from the woodpile and held it to Zhao Ruyun's neck.

Su Luo was startled: "Don't touch them." Zhao Ruyun shook her head and cried bitterly. A bloody gash was cut on her neck by a woodcutter's knife, and blood was flowing out at a visible speed.

“We didn’t want this to happen either, but we told you to come over and we were going to start hitting the magpies.”

Luo Mei pressed hard on Su Luo's shoulder, causing Su Luo so much pain that she could only grit her teeth and endure it.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Chen Dazhi didn't want to waste words with Su Luo: "We just want the recipe for making tofu. How can we let outsiders take the Chen family's stuff?"

In Chen Dazhi and Luo Mei's hearts, this tofu belonged to them, even though Su Luo was giving away things from home.

According to family rules, he should have been whipped ninety-nine times and made to walk barefoot through the charcoal fire before he was spared. Even what he did was considered lenient.

"So you all have conjunctivitis. Let me tell you, dream on if you think you can learn how to make tofu from me."

Su Luo was calculating how to break free quickly and save Zhao Ruyun and the two children from Chen Xique's knife.

Chen Dazhi showed the bamboo strip to Zhao Ruyun again. Every time Zhao Ruyun saw the bamboo strip, she seemed to be terrified and could hardly breathe.

"Second sister-in-law, if your daughter-in-law is disobedient, then don't blame me for being impolite."

Unable to threaten Su Luo, Chen Dazhi could only threaten Zhao Ruyun.

"Luo...Luo Luo, I...I'm sorry."

Zhao Ruyun was so heartbroken that she could hardly speak, and could not utter a complete sentence.

"Luo Luo, please tell them what you know. I'm so sorry, I'm begging you."

Zhao Ruyun burst into tears, her eyes as still as death.

Su Luo glared angrily at Chen Dazhi and Luo Mei. The silver hairpin she had bought for Zhao Ruyun was now being worn on Luo Mei's head.

"Grandma, are you stupid?"

Su Luo didn't know what kind of threat Chen Dazhi and the others had used to make Zhao Ruyun turn around and help them.

“Mother, they said that bamboo strip represents the great-grandfather. If we don’t behave, they’ll dig up Grandpa’s grave and remove us from the family genealogy.”

Yan Chuan immediately told Su Luo what Chen Dazhi's family had said to threaten them.

"You dare..."

They actually threatened them by digging up dead bodies. What kind of bamboo stick represents the old master? Is it a royal whip? Or a dragon mace? A farmer, trying to imitate the teachings of an emperor.

“What do we have to be afraid of? As the eldest brother, you are like a father to me. You should listen to me, or get out of the Chen family’s genealogy.”

What family tree? Su Luo didn't care.

"You brought this on yourselves."

Su Luo's eyes darkened, and every cell in her body was surging with anger as she prepared to retrieve her weapon from her spatial storage.

Before they could even get their hands on the item, a sword flashed past Su Luo's eyes. To dodge the sword, Chen Dazhi released Su Luo's hand.

"Lady Su, don't kill anyone."

Ah Xu knocked Chen Dazhi back a few steps, then leaped forward and used his sword to deflect the woodcutter's axe from Chen Xique's hand.

They rescued Zhao Ruyun and the two children and pulled them aside.

Taking advantage of an opening in her right hand, Su Luo produced a dagger from the spatial storage and turned to slash Luo Mei's arm.

"Ah, someone's been murdered!" Luo Mei cried out in pain, clutching her hand.

Su Luo did have murderous intent just now, but Ah Xu is right, killing someone in the village is not so easy to resolve.

“Su Luo, you’ve even found help. Let me tell you, I hold the Chen family’s discipline whip. If you make another move, even the ancestor won’t let you off.”

Chen Dazhi even threatened Su Luo with the bamboo stick in his hand, but would Su Luo be afraid of his bamboo stick?

The dagger in his hand was still stained with Luo Mei's blood. Luo Mei was injured and unable to move. Chen Xique was also controlled by A Xu. There was no one left to help Chen Dazhi.

Seeing Su Luo's bloodshot eyes, completely ignoring the bamboo strips left by the old man, Chen Dazhi panicked completely.

"Since it is a disciplinary whip, I will make good use of it."

As she spoke, Su Luo moved swiftly, and Chen Dazhi didn't even know when the bamboo strip in his hand was snatched into Su Luo's hands.

Knowing that Su Luo was whipping him with bamboo sticks, leaving bloody welts, he snapped out of his daze and tried to dodge, but no matter how he tried, Su Luo still managed to hit him accurately.

"Su Luo, I am your elder, how dare you hit me?"

Chen Dazhi's clothes were stained with blood, but Su Luo still showed no sign of letting him go.

“What I’m holding is Old Master Chen’s bamboo cane. I’m beating you on behalf of your father.”

"Father, Su Luo, please don't hit my father."

What goes around comes around. Chen Xique now has Ah Xu's sword at her neck and can barely protect herself, so why should she care about her father?

Chen Dazhi was beaten so badly by Su Luo that he couldn't get up and curled up on the ground.

He flicked the bamboo stick in his hand and walked towards Chen Xique.

"Su Luo, don't come any closer, don't hit me..."

Chen Xique trembled all over, but dared not move, fearing that if she moved, Axu would kill her.

"Su Luo, if you dare to touch Xi Que, I'll fight you to the death."

For her daughter's sake, Luo Mei endured the pain to protect her.

“I’ve said it before, our family has nothing to do with you anymore. If you come to the kiln to cause trouble again, don’t blame me for being impolite.”

Ah Xu sheathed his sword; Su Luo could easily handle these two men on her own.

The bamboo stick in Su Luo's hand seemed to come alive, striking Chen Xique and Luo Mei in turn.

The entire kiln was filled with sighs of pain. Anyone who dared to hurt her son and daughter was a grudge that Su Luo couldn't bear for even a second longer.