Hold!

Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but swear, and immediately stood up, saying, "I'll go pick her up."

After saying that, he went out the door.

Not in the mood for a leisurely walk, Tang Xiaoxiao drove for five minutes to the Chen family's house, and after getting out of the car, she went straight into the Chen family's gate.

Like the Tang family, the Chen family also lived in a three-story detached house. However, unlike Tang's mother, who was always clean and tidy, Chen's mother was very lazy. In Tang's mother's words, the dust on the windowsill was so thick that it could bury flies, but she wouldn't bother to wipe it.

Upon entering the house, an indescribable stench filled the air. In the cold winter, with few households opening windows for ventilation, the smell was even stronger. Suppressing her discomfort, Tang Xiaoxiao followed the layout from her memory, turning down a corridor to reach the Chen family's living room. The sight that greeted her made her pupils shrink.

There were quite a few people in the living room. The elderly Chen couple had two sons, and their second son, Chen Le, was now married. The elderly Chen couple, Chen Yong's family of three, and their second son and his wife were all gathered together. Mr. and Mrs. Chen sat on chairs against the wall, while the second son and his wife stood together with strange expressions. A young woman was squatting on the ground. Tang Xiaoxiao didn't recognize her, but based on her identity, she guessed that she was Chen Yong's second wife.

At this moment, she had her back to Tang Xiaoxiao and was hugging a little boy in front of her, comforting him. Chen Yong was standing not far away from her. The little girl next to Chen Yong was Xuanxuan, but at this moment, Xuanxuan's eyes were red and she stood there helplessly. Compared to the people in the room, she looked helpless and pitiful.

Upon seeing Tang Xiaoxiao enter, Xuanxuan rushed towards her like a fledgling swallow, hugged her waist tightly, called out "Auntie" in a pitiful voice, and buried her face in Tang Xiaoxiao's arms.

Tang Xiaoxiao bent down and picked up Xuanxuan's little head, carefully looked at her face, and angrily discovered that a faint red handprint had appeared on the little girl's tender left cheek.

"What happened?" Tang Xiaoxiao stood up and asked.

The woman who had been squatting stood up and faced Tang Xiaoxiao, angrily saying, "What's going on? This little girl has no manners at all. She dared to push my son. My son is only four years old. How could she do such a thing!"

Ignoring the woman's clamor, Tang Xiaoxiao lowered her head and softly asked Xuanxuan, "Xuanxuan, tell your aunt, is what she said true?"

Xuanxuan whispered, "I pushed him, but..."

"No buts! You're so young and already learning bad habits, I don't know how your mother raised you!" The woman interrupted Xuanxuan loudly. Tang Xiaoxiao retorted angrily, "Shut up!"

Then he comforted Xuanxuan: "Xuanxuan, don't be afraid, continue."

"He pulled my hair and tried to snatch my watch... It was a new gift my mom bought for me. I wouldn't give it to him, so he bit me. It hurt, so I pushed him away, and then that auntie hit me..."

Tang Xiaoxiao lifted Xuanxuan's arm and saw a row of small teeth marks. The wound was not big but quite deep, and blood was already faintly visible.

Taking a deep breath, Tang Xiaoxiao took two steps forward. Seeing that her expression was off, the woman involuntarily took a step back, then said in a fierce but weak voice, "So what if I hit her? Her mother didn't teach her well, so I'll take over... Ah!" Before she could finish speaking, she felt a tightness in her neck, and then a burning pain came from one side of her face.

The woman's face was visibly swollen.

Tang Xiaoxiao acted too quickly; the Chen family members didn't even have time to react. By the time they came to their senses, Tang Xiaoxiao had already struck them with both hands, delivering more than a dozen blows.

"To discipline my sister's daughter?"

"Smack!"

"You think you're worthy?"

"Smack!"

Who do you think you are!

"Smack!"

"Hitting a child, is this your kind of upbringing?"

"Smack!"

Tang Xiaoxiao hit and cursed at the same time. The woman screamed and tried desperately to scratch Tang Xiaoxiao with both hands, but she was less than 1.6 meters tall. Tang Xiaoxiao stretched out her arm, and she waved her arms wildly like a clown but could not touch Tang Xiaoxiao at all.

Chen Yong was closest to the scene and only came to his senses after his wife had been slapped more than a dozen times. He stepped forward to try and stop Tang Xiaoxiao.

Tang Xiaoxiao released the woman's collar, turned around, and kicked Chen Yong in the stomach.

"Ah!!! I'll beat you to death!"

When her daughter-in-law was being beaten, Chen's mother didn't step forward. But when she saw her son being beaten as well, she couldn't sit still anymore and rushed over screaming.

Tang Xiaoxiao impatiently waved her hand to block Chen's mother. Chen's mother was also nearly sixty years old and in poor health. Unlike her son, she was not as resilient to the blow and fell to the ground, unable to get up for a while.

At this point, the other members of the Chen family simply dared not utter a sound.

Tang Xiaoxiao already knew what kind of people the Chen family were. They were bullies who preyed on the weak and feared the strong. They were selfish and rotten to the core, yet incredibly cowardly. This family of good-for-nothings had harmed her sister and were now bullying her niece. Tang Xiaoxiao really wanted to kill these bastards.

Walking up to Chen Yong, who was slumped on the ground with his eyes darting around, Tang Xiaoxiao squatted down and patted Chen Yong's face with the back of her hand. Then, with a look of disgust, she pulled out a tissue from the coffee table, wiped her hands vigorously, threw the tissue at his face, and said coldly, "From now on, you and your family are not allowed to appear in front of my sister. Remember that, or if I find out even once, it won't be as simple as this beating today."

After speaking, she stood up and looked around. Everyone avoided her gaze. Tang Xiaoxiao's feat of kicking Chen Yong, a big man, away had really frightened them.

“Xuanxuan is nine years old this year. She has not received a single penny of child support from your family since she was five years old. Five thousand a year, until she turns eighteen, a total of sixty-five thousand, which adds up to several hundred thousand. I won’t settle the matter of Xuanxuan’s injuries today. I will come to collect it tomorrow at noon. Will you give it or not?” Tang Xiaoxiao looked at Chen Yong meaningfully, “Think it over carefully.”