Liu Shengrui loves going out to play because there are many other children in the yard.

Zhang Cuihua usually has to do all sorts of housework, so she can only play with him after she's finished. It's so great that she can go out to play early now!

"Let's go." Mo Youyou walked to the door and stretched out her hand.

Liu Shengrui took the initiative to place his little hand in his mother's palm and gently held it.

The feeling of being held by a small hand made Mo Youyou's love for her son overflow even more.

"Play! Play!" Liu Shengrui shouted loudly, looking extremely happy and excited.

Everything was perfect until Mo Youyou brought her son to the very center of the compound, where everyone usually gathered to chat and play.

"Sisters, you're all chatting here!" Mo Youyou usually looked down on these military wives, but for her son's sake, she actually took the initiative to greet them and sat down next to them.

"Xiao Rui, go play by yourself," Mo Youyou said, letting go of her son's hand. She planned to chat with the military wives and build rapport.

I'll just consider it for my son's sake. Anyway, I don't really want to be friends with these military wives; it's just for show.

"Hmm." But the military wives' reaction was indifferent.

They continued their previous conversation as if Mo Youyou hadn't appeared at all, chatting away as if Mo Youyou's presence or absence didn't matter, since they wouldn't initiate a conversation with her anyway.

Even if Mo Youyou takes the initiative to talk to a military wife, the wife will only smile and then turn her head to chat with someone else.

Mo Youyou was extremely unhappy!

What are these military wives pulling at?

So what if the men in their families got a position in the military and were allocated a house in the family compound? They still can't change the despicable and stupid nature in their bones!

But as long as Xiao Rui was having fun, Mo Youyou didn't want to hold it against him. She turned to look at the children—

Originally, not all the children gathered together to play; they mostly stayed in twos and threes, occasionally huddling together to whisper to each other, creating a harmonious scene.

Liu Shengrui's arrival disrupted this harmony.

“Play with me!” Liu Shengrui said, running up to a few children, staring at them curiously, trying to join in.

But as soon as he got close, the children immediately ran away, as if they had agreed beforehand, and went to another place to continue playing, but they just wouldn't let Liu Shengrui join them.

"Hmph!" Liu Shengrui was angry and abandoned those children, then tried to join the game with a few other children.

But the outcome was still the same.

Whenever Liu Shengrui approached someone, the children would scatter as if fleeing. Once they were out of the way, they would continue playing with the other children, completely ignoring him.

No, to be precise, it was all the children who tacitly and silently isolated Liu Shengrui.

Upon seeing this, Mo Youyou was immediately furious.

As an adult, she naturally couldn't go around asking every child why they didn't play with Liu Shengrui.

If only one child did this, she could ask why, but now it's a group of children, all of them are doing it, so asking won't change anything.

Therefore, the focus should be on the parents of these children.

"What do you mean by this, ladies?" Mo Youyou pointed at Liu Shengrui, who was being isolated, and questioned the group of military wives angrily.

She was extremely upset, but for her son's sake, she didn't immediately start cursing. Instead, she tried her best to stay calm and communicate properly with the military wives.

“I believe the children meant no harm. They must have done this at the behest of adults. I want to ask you, why don't you let your children play with my son? Why?!”

“We’re all from the same compound, is it really necessary to go this far? Why are you making your children avoid my son? This is exclusion, this is isolation, do you dare say you don’t know that?!”

Mo Youyou's words directly broke the ice, and the fact that the military wives had deliberately ignored her before was also brought to the forefront.

"Sisters-in-law," Mo Youyou said, though she couldn't help but let out a cold laugh, "aren't you going to say anything?"

The faces of the group of military wives all turned grim; they looked at each other with displeasure.

Indeed, Mo Youyou was right; they were not enthusiastic towards her and were ostracizing and isolating her son, Liu Shengrui.

The children's synchronized movements and reactions are the result of repeated admonitions from their wives at home.

But the military wives didn't do it on purpose!

Didn't these children play with Liu Shengrui at the beginning?

But what was the result?

The turning point when she realized something was wrong with Liu Shengrui was the time when Mo Youyou and Su Yueya had a fight, and Mo Youyou herself brought up Chaoxiong's matter.

The military wives all knew that Chao Xiong's matter couldn't be discussed openly, and those two words couldn't be easily mentioned in front of Mo Youyou, otherwise she would definitely explode, and who knows how ugly the situation would become.

After all, they are neighbors living in the same compound and know each other, so there's no need to escalate things to that point.

However, the military wives would never back down on the issue of the children not being able to play together, as it concerned the safety of their own children, and no one wanted to be the one bullied by Liu Shengrui.

“Youyou, actually this isn’t entirely our fault.” While many military wives remained silent, Sister Yuan’er stepped forward and took the initiative to speak for everyone.

“We did tell our own children to try not to play with your Xiao Rui, but we were forced to do so. In the beginning, which family rejected your Xiao Rui?” Sister Yuan asked rhetorically.

Mo Youyou found it laughable. How dare these people say that? So, they did something wrong, but it turned out they were forced to do it? They really know how to make excuses for themselves.

"Alright, Sister Yuan'er, then tell me, who forced you, and how?" Mo Youyou asked, her attitude gradually becoming more aggressive.

She's been bullied to this extent; if she doesn't show some backbone, these military wives will probably really take her for a fool!

The military wives must give her an explanation for what happened today.

Because Sister Yuan'er was the first to stand up, she unfortunately became the target, the one Mo Youyou was targeting.

But the military wives were very united and got along well. They felt they couldn't be the kind of people who would hide behind the scenes to reap the benefits and then turn a blind eye at crucial moments. So they all stood up and spoke up one after another.

It's not just about helping Sister Yuan'er, it's also about helping yourself.

“I should be qualified, shouldn’t I?” Mei Jie stepped forward and looked directly at Mo Youyou.