Thanks to Mo Bei's daily guidance, Li Rou Niang quickly dodged the bottle, slipped behind Zhao Er Gou, and used his momentum to kick him again!

Zhao Ergou lunged forward and tripped and fell flat on his face.

Ouch!

Before Zhao Ergou could react, Li Rouniang went up and kicked him a few more times.

Zhao Ergou grimaced in pain, and just as he got up, Li Rouniang kicked him again, sending him sprawling on his back and hitting his tail!

"Li Rou Niang, you're bullying us too much! I'm going to tell the clan chief that you and your husband had a bad relationship and eventually divorced, and now you're trying to break us up! You're so vicious!"

Zhao Ergou, the villain, falsely accused Zhao Youtian, clutching the base of his tail and howling as he ran to find him.

Zhao Youtian listened to Zhao Ergou's tearful account and felt puzzled. He had met Li Rouniang a few times and she was not the kind of person who would want to cause trouble.

"Zhao Ergou, are you telling the truth? Then let me ask you why Xiuer was so distraught. What happened between you two?"

Zhao Youtian wanted to find out more before making a decision.

"Why would she be so foolish? It's just that Li Rouniang talking nonsense. Xiuer probably went to the river to wash clothes, and when she went to retrieve them from the river, Li Rouniang misunderstood and brought her home. She must have told all sorts of nonsense, causing my wife and me to not want to live a peaceful life. Clan chief, you have to control this woman. She's a menace to our village. Everyone has disagreements sometimes. If there's a little conflict, she'll get a divorce. How will things be like then?"

Zhao Ergou spoke with conviction, he didn't believe that Xiuer, that wretched woman, would dare to talk nonsense outside, he'd skin her alive when he got back.

Zhao Youtian felt that Zhao Ergou's words made sense, so he decided to go forward and talk to Xiuer.

Meanwhile, Li Rouniang came out of the house after chasing Zhao Ergou away. Xiuer was already pale with fright. She knew that this matter would not end well and was really worried that she would implicate the kind-hearted Li Rouniang.

Li Rouniang was the only person who gave her warmth.

She looked at her innocent and cheerful daughter, bit her lip, and said, "Madam Li, thank you for helping me, but I still have to go back. If I don't go back, I'm afraid it will cause trouble and implicate you. But I don't want to take my little grass with me. Could you please take care of her for two days? Please."

Li Rouniang held Xiu'er's hand and asked earnestly, "Since you're so worried, why do you want to go back? You've already been pushed to this point; do you really want to go back and watch him bully you again? No way." Li Rouniang urged her.

"No, Madam Li, as long as Xiaocao stays with you, I can endure anything else." Xiuer's eyes welled up with tears.

"What do you mean by that? What has he done to Xiaocao? Isn't Xiaocao his daughter? Is he going to sell her? That's truly heartless. Xiaocao is so young, how could he bear to do that?" Li Rouniang guessed.

"No, Rou Niang, don't talk nonsense. Xiao Cao is Er Gou's biological daughter. You can't ruin Xiao Cao's reputation, it's just..."

Xiuer simply couldn't bring herself to say it; how could she possibly say it?

A biological father trying to harm his own baby daughter? How could she possibly say such a heinous and inhumane thing? Even if she did, who would believe her?

“Xiuer, things have come to this point. Tell me what happened, and I’ll see if I can help you. Even if it’s not for yourself, for the sake of the child, you have to stand up for yourself.”

Li Rouniang sympathized with Xiuer. What drove a mother to take her child to her death without resistance? In Xiuer, she seemed to see her own past self, helpless and fearful.

"Madam Li, I—" Xiu'er was about to say something when Zhao Youtian and Zhao Ergou stormed in at the door.

Zhao Ergou pointed at Li Rouniang and said, "Li Rouniang, aren't you arrogant? In front of the clan chief, tell me properly why you've bewitched my wife into not coming home!"

“When did I stop Xiuer from going home? I only brought her back because I saw she was about to jump into the river, afraid she might do something rash.”

"I'd like to ask you, why did your own wife want to drown herself? Explain yourself to the clan chief."

"Women are so petty. What could be so serious? I just said a few words to her and hit her a couple of times. Isn't it normal for couples to have disagreements? Don't make a mountain out of a molehill."

Zhao Ergou shrugged dismissively, without saying anything concrete.

Li Rouniang looked at Xiuer and asked, "Is what he said true?"

Xiuer glanced at Zhao Ergou's fierce gaze, then lowered her head and remained silent.

Zhao Youtian quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "Xiu, it's common for couples to quarrel. Why don't you go home with Er Gou? You're making things difficult for everyone. Besides, it's not good for you to stay with Li Niangzi and let people gossip. Even if you don't think about others, you should at least think about your child, Xiao Cao."

Xiuer kept her head down, remaining silent and still not moving. Zhao Ergou, unable to contain his temper, went up and pulled Xiuer over: "Stop dawdling! Didn't you hear the clan leader talking to you? You're just standing there like a rock. What are you trying to do? Hurry up and take the child home with me."

"Ergou, how about we leave Xiaocao with Madam Li for a while?" Xiuer looked at Zhao Ergou, her big eyes filled with tears.

"What kind of nonsense is it to leave my daughter with her? Stop dawdling and take her home right now." Zhao Ergou completely ignored Xiu'er's pleas.

After saying that, he pushed Xiuer twice, telling her to go and hold the child.

Xiuer, like a robot, silently picked up the child and brought him out. Zhao Ergou, grinning, opened his arms and said, "Oh dear, Daddy missed Xiaocao. Let Daddy hold you!"

She reached out to hug the child. Xiuer finally couldn't hold back anymore, abruptly pulled her hand back, hugged Xiaocao tightly, and said, "I don't want to go back with you, and I won't give Xiaocao to someone like you."

"You bitch, what nonsense are you spouting?" Zhao Ergou was so angry that he slapped her across the face.

Li Rouniang angrily pushed Zhao Ergou aside and stood in front of Xiuer: "Zhao Ergou, how dare you hit someone in front of the clan leader?"

"Ergou, calm down. Xiuer, you should just say what you mean directly. You can't be so willful." Zhao Youtian tried to mediate between the two sides. As for Xiuer being beaten earlier, he didn't care. What man hasn't hit his wife before?

Xiuer lowered her head, glanced at the furious Zhao Ergou out of the corner of her eye, then looked at the soft, delicate Xiaocao in her arms, and seemed to have made up her mind: "Clan leader, I will not be with this beast Zhao Ergou, and I will not go back. He is not human, he is an animal. He actually tried to violate Xiaocao."

It was like a bolt from the blue. It completely stunned everyone present!