“Ma Jinhua, all your acting skills won’t work on me. Your son is dead, and my daughter has no reason to stay in your house. Today, I must take Yingying back to Liujia Village!”

"Heh! You think you can just take it back like that?"

Ma Jinhua's cold smile sent chills down one's spine.

"Do you really think all the men in my Zhu family are dead? When I married that jinx, the Zhu family gave her a dowry. Now she should be keeping her chastity for my son!"

"Remain chaste? Don't think I don't know what you're up to. Zhu Jianqiang left behind those three burdens, and you don't want to take them on because it's too much trouble. So you want to tie my daughter down and make her raise your children for you? Dream on!"

As she spoke, Liu Chenshi spat angrily onto the ground.

"Liu Chenshi, I know what you're up to. Your daughter gets a dowry every time she marries. I've heard you've already found a husband for that jinx, but that's not going to happen!"

"Alright, alright, you two, please stop arguing..."

Ma Qiumei tried to mediate, but she had her own agenda regarding the Liu family's plan to take Liu Yingying back.

"Mother-in-law, please listen to my advice. My elder brother is dead, but my sister-in-law is still young. Even if we can keep her in our family... we probably can't keep her heart!"

Good heavens!

Isn't this clearly telling everyone that Liu Yingying is a slut who can't stand being alone?

Liu Yingying frowned as she listened outside the door. Just as she was about to go in, she heard Zhao Di speak again.

"Second Aunt, you're talking nonsense! Liu Niang isn't like that at all. She's already told us that she'll never leave us in this lifetime!"

"Heh! You actually believe this kind of nonsense that's meant to fool a child?" Ma Qiumei glanced at Zhao Di with disdain.

She had already agreed on a price with the brothels in town; once Liu was taken back, she would send this girl to such a place...

Zhao Di was unaware of Ma's sinister intentions; she only felt uncomfortable under Ma's gaze.

But would Liu Niang really abandon them?

"You decided who I belonged to in my own home, but did you ask for my opinion?"

Liu Yingying carried the bamboo house through the door, and the courtyard fell silent for a few seconds.

"Liu Niang! You're back!" Zhao Di greeted her with a smile as she stepped forward.

But Old Mrs. Liu rushed forward as if she had seen her heart's desire, "My poor daughter, yesterday I almost had to bury my child, I thought I would never see you again!"

"Mother, don't overthink it. Although I did hit Da Bao yesterday, it wasn't enough to kill him."

Liu Yingying remained expressionless, deliberately misinterpreting Old Lady Liu's meaning.

Haha, what do you mean by caring about her!

If the Liu family truly treated her as a human being, they wouldn't have tolerated Liu Dabao's humiliation of her!

Upon hearing this, Old Lady Liu paused for a moment, wanting to explain; "No... I mean..."

“Mother! I understand what you mean. Da Bao is a disappointment. He's in his twenties and still can't find a wife. He's always causing trouble outside, making you and Dad lose face in the village. But don't worry, even if Da Bao gets beaten to death outside one day, I won't abandon you two. It's not like you'll never see me again!”

Liu Yingying spoke with a sincere expression, and then pushed the old lady away. She didn't like some people getting too close to her.

Ignoring the look of heart attack on Old Lady Liu's face, Liu Yingying casually put down the bamboo basket and handed it to Zhao Di, "Take this to the kitchen!"

But Ma Qiumei, standing to the side, caught sight of the pheasants and eggs in the bamboo basket, and even... some glossy, juicy fruits.

These things are so rare in times of famine!

Where did Liu Yingying get so many good things from?

Ma Qiumei's eyes immediately reddened. She grabbed the bamboo house from Zhao Di's hand and glared at her, demanding, "Your family has been so poor we can't even afford to eat for ages. Tell me, who gave you these things?"

"Who gave it to me is none of your business."

Liu Yingying glanced at her disdainfully, grabbed the bamboo basket and shoved it into Zhao Di's hands, adding sarcastically, "Quick, take it to the kitchen and hide it well, lest someone with a grudge tries to take it!"

These words were an indiscriminate attack on everyone present except for Old Zhu's three children.

Especially Old Lady Liu, whose face was like a magician's, turning green and red in an instant.

In recent years, she has taken a lot of things from her daughter's house to subsidize her son.

They always say they'll borrow, but they never pay it back!

Liu Yingying's words were a slap in the face to her old face!

Similarly, Ma Qiumei was stunned for a few seconds by the scolding, but compared to saving face, the pheasant she was about to get was more important. So she deliberately shouted loudly at Ma Jinhua, "Mother-in-law, look what I said. If my sister-in-law didn't have a lover outside, who would send her these things?"

Ma Jinhua was also looking at Liu Yingying with suspicion, "Is what your sister-in-law said true?"

"Ha!" Liu Yingying sneered angrily.

Then, "slap!" A loud slap landed on Ma Qiumei's face.

"You hit me again?"

Although this wasn't the first time Ma Qiumei had been beaten, it didn't diminish her shock at the moment, yet she dared not retaliate.

Liu Yingying glanced at her sideways, her tone seemingly disdainful yet laced with a hint of threat: "Are you sure you want to slander my innocence like this?"

Ma Qiumei bit her lip, too guilty to answer!

"Eldest daughter-in-law, you're being far too domineering!" Ma Jinhua's dissatisfied voice rang out.

"I'm arrogant?" Liu Yingying sneered and retorted, "After the scholar died, he left us, a widow and her children, and we didn't expect you to help us at all. But you are all heartless as mothers and cruel as siblings. If it weren't for God's mercy, I would probably be dead by now. How dare you come here to cause trouble?"

"Since you don't want to leave me and the children a way out, then fine, let's all go to the Yellow Springs today and find the scholar to settle this matter!"

Liu Yingying, with an attitude of "barefoot and not afraid of those wearing shoes," pulled a wood-chopping knife from the bamboo basket and plunged it into the ground with a clang, startling the others who involuntarily took several steps back.

hehe!

They are also afraid of death.

“Mother-in-law, I told you that my sister-in-law fell into the water the day before yesterday and injured her brain, and that you shouldn’t come over now and upset her, but you wouldn’t listen. Fine, this has nothing to do with me anyway, I’m going back now!”

Seeing that things were going badly, Ma Qiumei decisively stabbed Ma Jinhua in the back and quickly ran away.

Ma Jinhua: ...

She knew that her second son's wife was the most selfish and heartless, but right now Liu was going crazy, how could she leave an old woman like herself alone?

"Mother-in-law, is there anything else you would like to say?"

Liu Yingying looked at her with a half-smile, giving Ma Jinhua the illusion that she was being asked to give her last words.

"No...no!"

Ma Jinhua casually pointed at Liu Chenshi; "Yingzi, you've misunderstood. I only came to check on you since my mother-in-law was visiting and you weren't there. Now that you're back, you and your daughter can talk privately!" After saying that, she also fled in a panic.

It seems the eldest son's wife has really gone mad!