As everyone was happily eating and chatting, a sudden, inappropriate voice interrupted their conversation.
Mo Yunmei finally returned from outside. Before she even entered the door, she could tell from the smell that they were stir-frying snails at home. She rushed in quickly, but when she found an outsider there, she paused for a moment. When she heard Zhao telling someone else how to stir-fry snails, she became furious.
She rushed straight to Zhao, demanding, "How could you reveal such an important method to someone else?"
Zhao's face turned cold. "What kind of attitude is this? Is this the kind of attitude and tone you should use when talking to your sister-in-law? You have no manners! There are other people here!"
Mo Yunmei looked around and saw that they were all villagers, people from nearby, and acquaintances, so she wasn't so reserved.
She argued forcefully, "Ignore them! I only ask, why did you tell others how to stir-fry snails? Sister Qiuxia has already sold the recipe to the teahouse, so you can't tell anyone else! What will happen to Sister Qiuxia if the teahouse investigates after you tell so many people?"
The group was a bit confused. What did they mean by "sold out"? What was Sister Qiuxia going to do? Was this snail-frying method not from the Mo family?
Zhao looked at Mo Yunmei as if she were crazy, and really wanted to slap her twice to see if she could shake some of the water out of her brain. She was always so brain-dead!
The thought of how excited she was to go and negotiate, only to be told that someone had already sold the formula, made Zhao's anger rise again!
"Is your brain full of tofu? If you're so devoted to outsiders, then you might as well live with them and not come back to the Mo family! Why do you have to let others tell you what you've done? Who stole the chili peppers? Who leaked the recipe for stir-fried snails to others?"
"The Mo family's stir-fried snail recipe—when did it become anyone else's business? I can tell others what I want, and it's none of your concern! Even your second brother wouldn't dare talk to me like that, and you think you're so high and mighty? Everything I taught you before has been passed on to the dogs!"
Mo Yunmei didn't expect Zhao Shi to be so ruthless and directly criticize her. She was a little embarrassed for a moment, but her rebellious spirit and self-esteem made her fight back to the end.
"So what if I told Sister Qiuxia? So what if I gave her the chili peppers? Our family has income now, we can make money, but Sister Qiuxia has nothing. She has many children and needs a lot of money. She really needs an income. What's wrong with me giving her one? We can still make money even without this income, but her family won't have anything to eat if they don't have it!"
The group of people who came to eat snails were dumbfounded. How come they had never noticed such a strange side to Mo Yunmei? Was she trying to save all living beings?
The eldest and second eldest Mo brothers' faces turned completely black. Seeing that things were about to get out of control, the couple quickly picked some snails and asked the group to take them back to their families to try.
The group was quite sensible; why not take so much back to share with their families? So they all went home.
Although Qin and Zhao were furious, they still retained some rationality. Knowing their husbands' temperament, they stopped arguing with Mo Yunmei and quickly took their husbands' arms, talking to them about other things to distract them.
Mo Yunmei, unaware that she had narrowly escaped disaster, continued hopping around and eventually found Su Nanxi.
Su Nanxi didn't want to pay any attention to them. Let them do whatever they wanted. Anyway, she was of no use. She might as well mind her own business. Isn't sucking snails more fun?
But even though she doesn't offend anyone, there are always people who don't like her and want to mess with her.
Mo Yunmei stormed over, yelling, "Was this your doing? Were you going to tell everyone the recipe? You've already given away the rice noodle recipe, and now you want to tell everyone how to stir-fry snails? How much stuff does the Mo family have that you can squander? You're such a hypocritical woman!"
"Slap! Slap!"
It was very crisp and loud.
Two shiny handprints instantly appeared on Mo Yunmei's face, one on each side, quite symmetrical.
The others didn't react much, but secretly they felt a sense of satisfaction, as he had done something they hadn't dared to do. They were constrained by societal norms and didn't dare to physically assault him, but the thought of slapping him a few times had long been on their minds.
Su Nanxi didn't care about any relationship. She had reached her limit and didn't want to endure it any longer. She would rather be a shrew than suffer injustice forever.
Repeatedly challenging someone's bottom line is clearly asking for trouble!
She's been so thoroughly brainwashed that she tries to use worldly morality to blackmail him, thinking that no matter what he does, nothing will happen to her!
If you're so ambitious, why don't you just go to heaven!
Mo Yunmei snapped out of her daze and was about to get angry when she looked up and saw Su Nanxi exuding an aura of power. She couldn't help but take a few steps back.
That's terrifying!
How could this ugly monster have such sharp eyes and such a powerful aura?
Remembering that Su Nanxi seemed to have some skills, Mo Yunmei finally snapped out of her daze, dared not do anything reckless, covered her face and turned to run away as if fleeing.
The other members of the Mo family were somewhat taken aback when they suddenly saw Su Nanxi's sharp and aloof demeanor; it turned out that people could change when they were angered.
Mo Qinghe saw it clearly, her eyes clouded with a mist. Perhaps, this was the real her.
But he didn't find it ugly or scary at all. On the contrary, he damn well thought it was cool and good-looking!
Somehow, something seemed to have plucked a string in his heart, and the aftershocks rippled outwards.
Su Nanxi lost her appetite, washed her hands, and went back to her room.
It was too hot and humid at night, so Su Nanxi changed into a slip dress to cool down.
She didn't need to worry about anything anymore. Mo Qinghe wasn't coming near her anymore, and there was still space between them, so she was perfectly safe.
Without communication, everyone becomes immersed in their own world, thinking about their own things.
Su Nanxi thought, "The weather is so hot; a drought might be on the horizon. We have to find a way to solve this. If it really is a drought, the crops will fail, and that would be a huge problem. At the very least, many people will go hungry; at worst, it could cause unrest and affect national stability."
She needs to investigate thoroughly and, considering the actual situation here, do her best to make some changes.
Given the prevailing circumstances, she couldn't escape them either.
I fell asleep while thinking about it. Once I fell asleep, I relaxed and stopped sleeping on my side. Instead, I started to spread my legs out in a starfish position.
Mo Qinghe didn't sleep either. With his eyes closed, he thought about many things, especially Su Nanxi. He was very conflicted and agitated, and he got stuck in a rut, believing in his own thoughts.
Feeling annoyed, a hand slapped at me from the side, without much force, as if it were unintentional, and then there was no more movement, only the sound of steady, long breathing.
Mo Qinghe knew that Su Nanxi was asleep, and that Su Nanxi must have turned over and shaken her hand over.
He was sleeping on his side, but in order not to wake Su Nanxi, he slowly turned over, gently took her hand, and tried to put it properly so that it wouldn't rest on his body.
Holding her hand, the smooth, jade-like skin made his own hand feel so hot that he almost couldn't hold it anymore.
He tried to calm himself down, gently placed her hand beside her, and then slowly released it.
One glance, and instantly, he felt his blood boil!
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