But Mrs. Guo couldn't stand to hear anything anymore and kept saying that the Ye family was talking nonsense and that Ye Lao Si was throwing dirty water on her daughter.

"Anyway, I don't care. I married a living person into your family. It's useless for you to say anything to me now.

"Either you return my daughter to me, or you pay me money!"

The last sentence immediately exposed Mrs. Guo's purpose.

Mrs. Ye couldn't help but ask, "Are you crazy about money? Are you here to blackmail me?"

"For what your daughter did, if we hadn't been able to find your family at the time, we should have asked them to pay compensation!"

But no matter what the Ye family and Wang Guangping said, Mrs. Guo refused to admit it and insisted that they were ganging up to bully others.

She sat on the ground crying and making a fuss, which finally made Ye Laosi angry.

Ye Lao Si suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Mrs. Guo's arm, lifted her up and said, "You don't believe me, right? Come on, I'll take you to the government office.

"I'm willing to risk my life again, and we'll talk things over in front of the county magistrate.

"Let's see who's being unreasonable and who's trying to blackmail whom!"

When Mrs. Guo saw that Ye Lao Si was serious, she immediately became timid.

She grabbed the door frame and refused to let go no matter what.

“Murder—”

"Help—"

"You are trying to kill our whole family—"

Her shouting attracted the two children who were playing outside.

"Grandma, what's wrong with you?"

"What happened?"

The Guo family had an extremely difficult journey from fleeing famine to entering the pass, and they were often bullied and insulted.

So when they saw Mrs. Guo's appearance, the two children went to Ye Laosi together.

The younger brother rushed over and hugged Ye Laosi's legs, while the older brother rushed over and started punching and kicking him.

Boss Ye picked up the two children, one in each hand, and his head was buzzing with anxiety from the scene.

"Aunt Guo, what the fourth brother said is right. If you really don't believe it, let's go to the government office.

"If you can talk about this matter calmly, we can return part of Guo's dowry to you."

When Mrs. Guo heard this, she immediately started to feel suspicious.

Back then, Guo's dowry was not generous. Her family only made two sets of luggage for her, one set of clothes for each season, and five taels of silver in the bottom of the box.

It would be fine if all of it was returned, but what does it mean to return part of it?

"What do you mean by returning a part to us? How much is a part?" asked Mrs. Guo.

"You can take all the luggage and clothes. The money in the bottom of the box has long been spent by Guo. There is no reason for my family to give you money."

When she heard that the most important money was gone, Mrs. Guo was unwilling to do it at all and immediately shook her head like a rattle.

"No way! Your family is too cunning. The fourth son got fifty taels of silver, and we haven't even asked for any compensation. You actually want to withhold the silver for my daughter's dowry?"

To be honest, the Ye family really can't afford the five taels of silver now.

But that's not the case.

Guo was like a troublemaker, causing so much trouble to the Ye family, and in the end she almost killed Old Madam Ye.

If we were to give five taels of silver to the Guo family at this time, no one would feel comfortable with it.

Seeing that the two families were about to break down the negotiations, Wang Guangping quickly added fuel to the fire and said, "Fourth Brother, why are you nagging her so much?

"Take her directly to the government office and accuse her of blackmail. The county magistrate will definitely take care of your family."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Guo turned around and scolded Wang Guangping.

"This is a family affair between our two families. What does it have to do with you, an outsider? Even if you are the village chief, you are overstepping your bounds!"

"I didn't care about you," Wang Guangping said, "but the Ye family is from our village. Isn't it okay for me to give them some advice?"

"All of you..." Old Mrs. Guo was so angry that her voice began to tremble.

She suddenly turned her head and looked around the room, shouting, "This is too much bullying. I really can't live like this..."

Before he could finish his words, he had already crashed into the door frame.

Fortunately, Mrs. Ye San reacted quickly. Relying on the fact that she was closest to the door, she rushed over and stood between Mrs. Guo and the door frame.

Old Mrs. Guo bumped her head against Mrs. Ye's stomach. Fortunately, she didn't intend to commit suicide, she was just putting on a show to scare people, so she didn't use much force.

Even so, Mrs. Ye San still got a stomachache from the collision, and was helped down by Ye Lao San Neng with a grimace in her mouth.

Seeing that all her tricks were defeated by the Ye family, Mrs. Guo didn't know what to do for a moment.

Just as she was racking her brains over what to do next, a voice suddenly shouted from behind her: "Are you done yet?"

Old Mrs. Guo turned her head and saw that it was Old Man Guo who had finally recovered. He was helped to sit up by Guo Shijie and was patting the edge of the kang and staring at her.

"You damn old man, I've been humiliated all my life following you.

"Your daughter is gone, and you can't even seek justice for her. What's the point of having you as a father?"

"How dare you say that!" Old Man Guo raised his trembling hand and pointed at Old Madam Guo, "Fengying's bad habits of being spoiled and greedy for pleasure were all caused by you!

"Fengying was such a well-behaved and sensible child when she was little. It's all because of you that you spoiled her excessively every day and turned a good child into this!

"Of course, I'm also wrong in this matter. I shouldn't have ignored your behavior just to avoid a quarrel.

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