The crowd, still unclear about what had happened: ...

That Liu Cui is really annoying!

"Liu Cui, you're an elder, it's not good to talk like that to a young girl!" A woman who had recently become a mother glanced at Liu Cui and said softly.

Upon hearing this, Liu Cui stopped wailing, looked up and glared at her fiercely, spitting out, "What do you know, you new bride? All you do is gossip! Why are you spouting nonsense about other people's business!"

The woman was too shy to utter such vulgarities. After being scolded by Liu Cui, her face flushed. Her lips trembled, and she pointed at Liu Cui for a long time, unable to utter a single word in rebuttal.

Someone nearby couldn't stand it anymore and angrily berated Liu Cui: "Liu Cui, how can you have such a venomous mouth? What kind of nonsense are you spouting!"

"What did I say? I'm just telling the truth. Why are you helping other wives? People who don't know better will think you two are having an affair!" Liu Cuike wasn't afraid of this person at all. She rolled her eyes and started talking nonsense.

"You!" The man was furious, but Liu Cui was a woman, so he couldn't do anything to her!

"Alright, Liu Cui, stop making a scene here. The truth will come out when my granddaughter comes back!" Grandma Ding couldn't stand Liu Cui anymore. She sat down on a chair in the yard and looked at Liu Cui, waiting for Ding Kemeng and the others to return.

“If you feel wronged, then let everyone sit here and wait together to see if it was really my granddaughter who hit someone. If it was, I will naturally make her apologize to you! But if you are just talking nonsense here, don’t blame me for disregarding our fellow villagers!”

Grandma Ding's words still carried a lot of authority, and everyone, out of consideration for her feelings, sat down in the courtyard, intending to keep her company while she waited.

Liu Cui stopped lying on the ground, stood up, pushed aside a woman, grabbed her stool, and sat down on it herself.

The woman was pushed aside and was in a bad mood, but she didn't say anything. She just glared at Liu Cui and found another stool to sit down.

After waiting for about half an hour, Ding Kemeng and the others returned.

It was summer, and the sun was scorching. Lu Ziyin was worried that Ding Kemeng would suffer from heatstroke, so after picking some fruit, she suggested they go back. Tang Zhizhou was just picking fruit for fun, and seeing that Ding Kemeng couldn't stand the sun, he also decided to go back.

The three of them walked back side by side. Ding Kemeng was very happy. She ran to the front door and found that the gate to the yard was not closed. She was a little strange. She went in and saw a large group of people.

Lu Ziyin and the other person followed them in, and were quite puzzled to see so many people.

"Sister Meng, is something wrong in your village? There are so many people here?" Tang Zhizhou whispered in Ding Kemeng's ear.

Ding Kemeng shook her head. She didn't know what had happened either, but she had a feeling it wasn't a good thing.

Many people saw Ding Kemeng and immediately said to Grandma Ding, who was sitting down, "Grandma Ding, your granddaughter is back!"

Upon hearing the voice, Liu Cui immediately stood up, stepped over the crowd, looked at Ding Kemeng, and shouted, "You brat, you're finally back! Get over here right now, look at the state of my son you've caused him!"

Upon hearing Liu Cui's voice, Lu Ziyin's expression immediately turned cold. He looked at Liu Cui with a gloomy gaze, which made Liu Cui break out in a cold sweat.

This boy looks young, how can he be so scary!

"What are you looking at? Don't you know any manners? Don't you even greet your elders?" Liu Cui pointed her finger in the air, her voice shrill and extremely unpleasant to hear.

"Who do you think you are, an elder!" Lu Ziyin snorted coldly, not even glancing at Liu Cui, and put her hand on Ding Kemeng's shoulder, protecting her as she walked towards Grandma Ding.

This was the first time Tang Zhizhou had ever seen a village shrew cursing like this. Although it was novel, he wasn't so happy that the shrew was cursing his brother.

"Auntie, we're all people of the new century now. Can you please stop acting like a shrew and spewing all sorts of foul language?"

Lu Ziyin's gaze at least made Liu Cui a little afraid, but Tang Zhizhou had no intimidating power at all, and Liu Cui immediately felt angry.

Pointing at Tang Zhizhou, she said to Grandma Ding and the villagers around her, "Look at this! Look at Ding's granddaughter, how shrewd she is! You won't believe it until you see it! She's so young, and she's already brought two men home!"

"Liu Cui! If you keep talking nonsense, believe me, I'll tear your mouth apart!" Grandma Ding really couldn't stand Liu Cui anymore. She kept slandering her granddaughter, and now she was going too far!

Lu Ziyin scanned the crowd. These people should all be Grandma Ding's neighbors, from the same village. So this Liu Cui should also be from the same village.

As her gaze shifted, Lu Ziyin suddenly saw something. Behind the woman named Liu Cui stood a little boy—the one who had tried to extort him with his sister this morning!

Lu Ziyin looked at Liu Cui again and suddenly understood something.

"Oh dear~ You can't argue with me, so you're going to resort to violence! Come on, I'm not afraid of you!" Liu Cui was still holding a rolling pin, waving it around arrogantly.

"You!" Grandma Ding was so angry that she didn't want to talk to her anymore. She turned to Ding Kemeng and said softly, "Mengmeng, tell Grandma, have you ever hit Liu Cui's son? Tell the truth, don't be afraid, Grandma will stand up for you!"

Ding Kemeng glanced at the little boy behind Liu Cui and shook her head: "Grandma, I didn't lay a hand on her." She thought the matter from this morning was over, but she didn't expect the Gao family to be so shameless and still want to cause trouble!

"Did you hear that? My granddaughter said no!" Seeing her granddaughter shake her head, Grandma Ding's expression finally softened a little.

Liu Cui snorted coldly, "Your granddaughter, of course you'll listen to whatever she says, but my son is injured!"

"This..." Grandma Ding was immediately at a loss. Her Mengmeng had such a good personality, how could she possibly hit someone!

Lu Ziyin gently released Ding Kemeng's hand, ignoring her suggestive glances, and stepped forward. Standing in front of Liu Cui with her over 1.8-meter-tall frame, she looked down at her and said, "I'm the one who hit her. If you're going to find someone, you should be looking for me!"

"Lu Ziyin!" Ding Kemeng exclaimed, "What do you mean you hit him? You didn't hit Gao Jiewei at all! They're clearly trying to extort money from you!"

"He admitted it! Everyone heard it, the kid admitted it!" Liu Cui smiled, very excited.

"What do you mean you admitted it? Didn't Ding's granddaughter say that your son was extorting money from others?!"

"That's right!"

Several women stood in the crowd and spoke in hushed tones.

Tang Zhizhou wasn't idle either. He reached out and pulled Gao Jiewei, who was hiding behind Liu Cui, out. "You're just a kid. You're so young, yet you've already learned how to extort people?"

Although Lu Ziyin, that scoundrel, has a bad temper, he would never do something as degrading as hitting a child!