Seeing that there was conflict within the Qiu family, Zhao Yuanyuan and the others quietly left. To be honest, they all disapproved of Qiu Hui's current arrogant personality.

Qiu Yan kicked the broken branch with all her might, and the next instant, Qiu Hui cried out in pain, clutching her mouth. "Ah...it hurts...Qiu Yan, you did that on purpose, didn't you!"

She was hit squarely in the mouth by a tree branch, her lips were swollen and red, her teeth ached terribly, and her eyes instantly filled with tears. It really hurt.

It wasn't just her lips and teeth; her head, arms, legs, and her entire body ached.

Qiu Yan looked down at Qiu Hui, "Yes, I did it on purpose. Qiu Hui, if I ever hear you spewing nonsense again, believe me, I'll make sure you never speak again for the rest of your life!"

Qiu Hui trembled twice, feeling an even greater pain in her teeth, and she kept covering her mouth with her hand.

She glared at Qiu Yan, subconsciously took a step back, and said coquettishly to Qiu Dayu, who was still in the tree as if nothing had happened, "Uncle, look, she's bullying me."

Qiu Dayu looked at Qiu Hui and sighed. They were all family, so why couldn't they get along?

He leaped down from the peach tree and said to Qiu Hui:

"I'm not trying to be mean, Qiu Hui, but you were clearly just deliberately picking a fight. What did Xiao Ling'er and Qiu Xu do to you? Why are you always picking on them?"

Although he was a bit of a scoundrel, he could distinguish right from wrong and was not irredeemably evil.

"It's clearly Qiu Yan who's picking on me! Didn't you see her hit me with a branch? Uncle, I want to eat peaches too. You picked peaches for Qiu Yan and the others, but you won't give me any. You're so unfair!" Qiu Hui said, wiping away tears. She looked as if she had suffered a great injustice.

Qiu Dayu shrugged and waved his hand, his mouth swollen from being slapped, but he still wanted to eat. "Didn't you see I didn't pick a single one? Qiu Yan picked all those peaches. If you want some, go ask her."

Qiu Hui wiped away her tears and sobbed.

By now, Qiu Yan had already jumped around the high branches of the tree, and had picked all the peaches on the treetop.

She climbed down from the peach tree and counted the peaches. There were twenty-eight in total, but because they were wild peaches, they weren't very big.

"We have peaches to eat!" Qiu Ling'er looked at the fresh peaches excitedly; they looked delicious.

Qiu Yan smiled faintly and tidied the messy stray hairs on Qiu Ling'er's forehead. "Go back and wash up before you eat."

Qiu Dayu glanced at Qiu Hui's longing gaze at the peaches, thought for a moment, then turned to Qiu Yan and said the same thing as before, "Qiu Yan, I was the one who found these wild peaches first, so they're partly mine."

Qiu Hui's eyes flickered slightly. "That's right, this peach belongs to my uncle, no, more than half!"

"Dream on! They grow in the mountains; whoever picks them keeps them!" Qiu Yan spoke coldly, devoid of any emotion. If half of the peaches were given to Qiu Dayu, they would still end up in the stomachs of Qiu Hui and Yang Shi, among others.

Just thinking about it makes her feel incredibly disgusted!

"Don't forget, I'm your uncle!" Qiu Dayu thought, no matter what, Qiu Yan should at least consider the uncle-niece relationship.

"Another one trying to intimidate me by using his seniority, Qiu Dayu. Our eldest son's family has long since severed ties with you. From now on, don't bother me unless it's absolutely necessary!"

"You... how can you address your uncle by his given name like that!" Qiu Dayu didn't know what he had done wrong. Perhaps it was because he was Yang's son.

"I admit it, so you are. I don't admit it, so go cool off somewhere else!"

Qiu Yan's words made Qiu Dayu's face turn red and white in turns. Helpless, he could only shake his head at Qiu Hui.

"Hmph, my uncle is really useless. Why be so polite with her?" Qiu Hui, unable to get the peaches, resorted to snatching them as usual.

She seemed to have forgotten the lesson she had just learned, and didn't realize that this Qiu Yan was not the same Qiu Yan as before!

Just as Qiu Hui reached her hands into Qiu Yan's pockets, a sharp pain suddenly shot through her wrists...

She didn't even see how Qiu Yan made her move before Qiu Yan kicked her in the lower abdomen.

Another sharp pain shot through Qiu Hui, causing her body to tilt backward and fly out, crashing heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, Qiu Dayu strode forward, quickly helped Qiu Hui up from the ground, and frowned at Qiu Yan, "Qiu Yan, you seem like a different person today, you were too ruthless."

Qiu Hui's tears welled up instantly. She felt extremely wronged and glared at Qiu Dayu again.

Qiu Dayu rubbed his nose. He had just helped the person up when he was met with a cold look. What had he done to deserve this? "Didn't you ask for it? What does it have to do with me?"

He admitted that he was a little bit...gloating.

He usually sees Qiu Yan and the others being bullied by Qiu Hui, and he can't stand it, so he helps them. But Qiu Hui always ends up crying and complaining to his third sister-in-law.

In the blink of an eye, his third sister-in-law was able to complain to his mother, causing him to be scolded for no reason and also causing Qiu Yan and the others to be beaten.

It's quite rare to see Qiu Hui suffer setbacks these days, and he finds it rather unusual.

"Qiu Yan, you just wait!"

"I'm waiting, I'm just afraid you won't come!" Qiu Yan was never one to back down from trouble. If the third branch of the family could behave themselves, she had no intention of causing trouble. But if these people dared to bully her and her brother again, she would definitely retaliate in kind!

Qiu Hui, though outwardly fierce, was actually quite weak and didn't dare to snatch the peaches again. After a while, she dragged her aching body away angrily.

Seeing that Qiu Yan was ignoring him, Qiu Dayu didn't want to embarrass himself in front of her, so he reached out and hugged Xiao Ling'er.

"Ling'er, your uncle always dotes on you the most. Quickly tell your sister to share some of these peaches with me."

Qiu Ling'er forcefully broke free from Qiu Dayu's embrace: "My sister picked the peaches, you have to ask her."

My uncle would disappear for ten days or half a month at a time. When he did see her, he would always pat her head, showing how much he doted on her.

Qiu Dayu opened his mouth, wondering what he should do to get some wild peaches, when he saw Qiu Yan half-squatting down, looking down and carefully observing the weeds on the ground.

Qiu Dayu rolled his eyes, and taking advantage of Qiu Yan's inattention, reached out and grabbed a peach. "You can have one, right?"

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Qiu Yan suddenly stood up, hooked one foot, pulled with one hand, and grabbed Qiu Dayu's arm.

"Ah... Qiu Yan, what are you doing!" Qiu Dayu's eyes flashed with displeasure. Qiu Yan's movements were too fast; he hadn't even had time to react.

"You haven't changed your ways!" Qiu Yan said. To Qiu Dayu's surprise, instead of taking back the peach, she took another one out of her pocket and handed it to him. Then, she pointed to the two plants on the ground.

"Help me dig it out, but don't damage the roots."

"Huh?" Qiu Dayu carefully took the peach, afraid that Qiu Yan might try to harm him.

He looked down at the plant on the ground carefully, but after a long time, he still couldn't recognize it. "Qiu Yan, what do you need this weed for? There's no shovel or sickle, how am I supposed to dig it up?"

"If you won't dig it up, give me back my peaches." Qiu Yan pretended to snatch them, and Qiu Dayu quickly protected them with his hands.

"I'll dig then!" He compromised for the sake of the peaches.