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Meanwhile, while Bai Lin and Mo Yi were enjoying their sweet moment, the door of the Mo family’s courtyard was knocked.
Mo Chunhua and Mo Anan had just finished lunch together. The table hadn’t been cleared yet when they heard the knock and went to open the door, only to see Bai Laoda and his family.
Mo Chunhua had naturally met the parents of the prospective bride for her son and Bai Rouya herself before. However, while she had welcomed them with open arms initially, there was no possibility of a warm reception now.
“Why is it you?” Mo Chunhua frowned.
Wang Shi, however, remained unfazed by her tone and continued to smile, saying, “Dear mother-in-law, you say such things. We’re relatives now, so we should visit each other often.”
Mo Chunhua felt uncomfortable. She remembered vividly how this woman had caused a scene on the day of Bai Lin’s wedding, refusing to accept the dowry and insisting that they marry her ‘daughter’!
“What relatives? I don’t recall our family marrying your daughter,” Mo Chunhua retorted, annoyed.
Undeterred, Wang Shi continued, “You’re being too formal. Even though you didn’t marry our daughter, you married my nephew. Since Bai Lin’s parents passed away early, we are like his parents. Calling you mother-in-law isn’t wrong.”
After saying this, Wang Shi pushed her way into the house.
Although Mo Chunhua was reluctant, she realized that these people were indeed some of Bai Lin’s few relatives in this world. More importantly, she wasn’t sure what Bai Lin’s attitude was towards them. After all, he was their daughter-in-law, and she didn’t want to appear unkind.
So, she had no choice but to suppress her displeasure and let them in.
Once inside the courtyard, Bai Lin’s family showed no restraint. They greedily eyed the much more spacious courtyard compared to theirs, as well as the free-range chickens. Wang Shi’s eyes were filled with greed. Moreover, the aroma of the food left in the kitchen by Mo Chunhua only heightened their sense of being in the right place.
However, when they eagerly entered the hall, all they saw were empty bowls and plates that had been cleaned.
Wang Shi turned back and glared at Bai Laoda, whispering discontentedly, “I told you to clean up faster, but you had to drag your feet! Look, everything’s finished!”
Seeing the grease stains at the bottom of the plates and the bones on the table, Wang Shi felt a pang of regret. She turned to Mo Chunhua and smiled, “Did you just finish lunch?”
Mo Chunhua, knowing the intention behind the question, couldn’t be bothered to respond. She simply heard the other person continue, “Speaking of which, we were in a hurry when we left and haven’t had lunch yet. Mother-in-law, your cooking skills are really amazing. The food smells so good even if we haven’t tasted it. It’s a shame we couldn’t try it!”
Wang Shi’s intentions were clear, but Mo Chunhua pretended not to understand and just chuckled twice.
Mo Chunhua used to be quite accepting when she was younger, but she had mellowed out a lot after having two children. She wasn’t about to go out of her way to accommodate these people.
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When she saw the bamboo basket from them, she already had a feeling that there was nothing good inside. Bringing up the topic of food as soon as they arrived was probably just an attempt to freeload.
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As Mo Chunhua was thinking about how to get rid of them, she heard noises outside the courtyard gate. It turned out that Bai Lin and Mo Yi had already returned.
“Chunhua!”
Mo Dali’s voice came from the courtyard.
He looked around the empty courtyard, puzzled. Usually, his wife would come to greet him at the courtyard gate. What was going on today?
Just as he was wondering, he saw Mo Chunhua hurry out, followed by three unexpected guests.
“So it’s father-in-law who’s back!”
Wang Shi slapped her thigh, smiling warmly. Mo Chunhua had been unmoved by their efforts earlier, but now she had set her sights on Mo Dali’s, thinking she might be able to get something out of him.
When they entered the courtyard, they also saw Bai Lin and his so-called “foolish” husband.
Seeing Bai Lin, Bai Laoda, felt disdain in his heart. Just a fool, yet he managed to marry into a good family.
However, seeing Bai Lin’s appearance, he felt that his health had indeed improved a lot. He could now walk freely and even seemed to have gained some weight compared to before. This confirmed that the Mo family had some spare money and were willing to support a sickly person like him.
Bai Laoda, as he had done in the past, adopted a seniority posture and said to Bai Lin, “Have you forgotten your manners? Don’t you know how to address your uncle?”
Hearing this, Bai Lin’s hand inside his sleeve involuntarily clenched. At this moment, seeing these people, he felt a surge of hatred.
If it weren’t for them, he wouldn’t have fallen into the role of a male wife. He was living relatively well now, largely thanks to the Mo family being decent people. But if they hadn’t accepted him back then, where would his resentment have landed?
He would have had to abandon this status as a male wife to take the imperial examination, but who knows how many twists and turns that would have involved.
And now that his life was getting better, they came running over. Who didn’t know what they were up to?
Thinking of this, Bai Lin coldly snorted, “I don’t remember there being an uncle in this world who would take advantage of his nephew’s recent passing to seize his property.”
Hearing Bai Lin’s words, Bai Laoda suddenly felt unable to show his face, pointing at Bai Lin’s nose and scolding, “Is this how you speak to your elders? The ownership of the land has been decided by the village chief. Besides, you, a sickly person, do you have the strength to farm? When you were sick at home, wasn’t it us who had to take care of you?”
Wang Shi also followed suit, dissatisfied, “Exactly, we came here out of kindness to see you, and you don’t even appreciate it!”
“Kindness? I only saw the heart of a wolf disguised in the feathers of a dog.”
Bai Lin’s eyes were sharp, and he spoke without reservation. Mo Yi, who was standing aside, tilted his head, feeling like he was being inexplicably implicated.
He tugged at Bai Lin’s sleeve and whispered, “I think dogs are pretty good.”
Hearing this, Bai Lin’s expression softened for a moment. He felt that this silly little fool liked dogs, so he didn’t like being compared to Bai Laoda and a dog. He quickly reassured him, “Alright, alright, dogs are good. He’s not comparable to a dog.”
Upon hearing this, Mo Yi smiled, and Mo Chunhua and Mo Dali couldn’t help but stifle their laughter.
Seeing this, Bai Laoda was so angry that his nose almost crooked. He reached out to hit Bai Lin, but the next moment his wrist was caught by Mo Yi.
“Ah!”
With a miserable cry, Bai Laoda half-knelt on the ground, feeling as if his wrist was being squeezed by a pair of steel pliers, as if it would be snapped in the next second.
Seeing this, Wang Shi immediately rushed forward, trying to pry Mo Yi’s hand open, but she was pushed to the ground by Mo Chunhua.
Thinking of pushing her son, did she think that she, as a mother, didn’t exist!
“Still want to come to my house and act arrogantly, bah, I see you’re like a toad trying to eat swan meat, not knowing your own weight!”
Mo Chunhua pinched her waist, and Mo Anan quickly handed the nearby pole over to her mother. Mo Chunhua held the pole with great momentum, gestured to Wang Shi, and started scolding her.
Seeing this, Wang Shi thought Mo Chunhua was going to hit her with the pole, and was instantly frightened. As for Bai Laoda beside her, he had no strength to resist, and could only howl in pain.
Mo Yi did intend to twist the man’s wrist, but thinking of the shamelessness and trouble of these people, his mind turned, and he didn’t immediately act.
The Mo family was good, and he didn’t want to cause trouble for them. Even if he were to act, it wouldn’t be now. Letting these people catch any handle on them again would only cause more trouble.
So, he just threw Bai Laoda aside like trash and picked up the steel fork used to pick straw by the door, and forcefully stabbed it into the ground. The steel fork went straight into the ground.
“Scram!”
The young man’s voice turned cold, and Bai Laoda was so scared that cold sweat poured down his back as he looked at the steel fork at his feet. He never expected that a fool would have such ability.
Hearing Mo Yi’s words, he immediately covered his wrist and scrambled away. Wang Shi and Bai Rouya, who had been silent on the side from the beginning, hurriedly followed.
Seeing this, Mo Chunhua thought of the basket they had sent earlier, and also brought it over. She lifted the curtain and looked inside, only to find it filled with common vegetables.
With a sneer, she threw the basket of vegetables directly at the three of them, sarcastically saying, “Such a generous gift, we can’t afford it. If any of you dare to come again to take advantage and cause trouble on our home, don’t blame me for being impolite!”
The vegetables in the basket fell all over them, and the neighbors heard the commotion and started poking their heads out.
Seeing that it was Bai Laoda’s family who had caused trouble at the Mo family’s wedding, coupled with Mo Chunhua’s words, the villagers had a good idea of why they had come. They mocked them, saying, “I knew it was them, turns out it’s the family that took the bride price and then called off the wedding.”
“My goodness, they have the nerve to come here and try to ingratiate themselves with relatives, how shameless!”
“That’s right! Coming to take advantage of their cousin’s family who’s getting married, who would dare to marry their daughters to them? It’s really disgraceful!”
“Oh my, Aunt Cuiying, you’re right. I need to remind my big brother from the neighboring village not to associate with such people anymore.”
The surrounding villagers all pointed and laughed at them. Bai Rouya heard their words and realized that this matter would tarnish her reputation.
Hearing them say she took advantage and even spread rumors about marrying her cousin for money, she burst into tears, feeling humiliated. But before she could cry much, Wang Shi gave her a hard twist.
“You still have the nerve to cry? If it weren’t for you, your father and I wouldn’t have suffered like this. You’re a burden, shut up!”
As Wang Shi spoke, she viciously twisted Bai Rouya’s waist. Bai Rouya couldn’t help but endure the pain silently, allowing her mother to scold and beat her as they fled in embarrassment.
Bai Lin looked blankly at the scene before him, never expecting his uncle’s family to be so easily driven away by the Mo family.
Turning his head with some concern towards the Mo family, today’s incident was somewhat because of him.
Unexpectedly, Mo Chunhua, who had been fierce before, came over and patted his hand reassuringly, saying, “Child, you’ve suffered too. Don’t worry, in the Mo family, no one dares to bully you.”
Mo Dali also nodded, and Mo Anan smiled and said, “That’s right, sister-in-law, not only us, but also my brother, he’s so powerful!”
Mo Yi quickly patted his chest and looked at Bai Lin earnestly, saying, “That’s right, my dear, I will protect you!”
Bai Lin heard this, opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn’t find the words.
He felt a lump forming in his throat. Even though he had already decided not to let Bai’s family off lightly after imperial examination taking action himself and being protected by someone else were two different things.
He felt incredibly fortunate to have met such a family. Of course, most importantly, there was this little fool. With him around, everything seemed to change.
Even though he had been seriously ill before, had his property seized, and been forcibly married off, Bai Lin had only felt hatred, never a sense of weakness. But now, he couldn’t help but feel his eyes welling up with tears.
No one can mess with the Mo family▼• ᴥ •▼乃
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Just wait until the sickly and poor sister-in-law eats the little husband until there’s not even the bones left! Kkkkkkk