Chapter 551: Chapter 551 Venting Anger Chapter 551: Chapter 551 Venting Anger Hearing this, Old Lady Mo’s lips curved into a smirk of triumph, and she immediately stopped crying, then whispered to Madam Xie, “If you want me to let off that wretched girl Xuexue, bring over the Land Deed quickly.”
The neighbors crowded at the courtyard gate gesticulated and buzzed with discussion, all saying that Xuexue shouldn’t have hit her grandmother. Even if she had come to take something, she had no right to treat Old Lady Mo like that—wrong as she might be, she was still her grandmother.
“Go on, I’ll bring it to you right now.”
Hearing this, Madam Xie’s face paled, and she hurriedly turned, intending to step into the house to fetch the Land Deed for Old Lady Mo, hoping to keep the peace and not let the crying go on any longer, which would ruin Xuexue’s reputation.
Old Lady Mo’s ploy became clear through her earlier threat to Madam Xie for the Land Deed. Xuexue finally understood—the old hag had been coveting her watermelon patch. Having failed to take it by force, she resorted to this nasty trick.
“Mother, you must not go,” Xuexue shouted to Madam Xie.
“Xuexue, it’s no solution for your grandmother to keep up this fuss. Just give it to her,” Madam Xie stopped in her tracks and said to Xuexue with a sense of helplessness.
“If we yield to her today! What if tomorrow she wants to move into our house? Do we have to move out and give her our place to live?” Xuexue felt incensed, thinking that her adoptive mother was nurturing a tiger that would bring harm.
While they were caught up in their unending argument,
A shout of surprise came from the crowd at the gate: “The village head is here!”
At the sound of the commotion, Xuexue and Madam Xie stopped talking and looked up.
The neighbors, who had been blocking the doorway, quickly made way. The village head walked in from outside, accompanied by Xiao Chunchun.
It turned out that Chuner, the clever little girl, had a sudden realization after calling Xuexue back from the field. Thinking something was amiss, she hurried to the Village Chief’s House and had brought the village head over.
“Village head, you’ve arrived just in time. That wretched girl Xuexue dared to hit her own grandmother—she’s beyond reason!” Old Lady Mo said, then rolled up her sleeve to show the village head the wound on her arm: “Look how cruel this wretched girl is. Look what she has done to an Old Maid like me! Village head, oh! You must seek justice for me!” Old Lady Mo wailed miserably as she spoke.
Old Lady Mo put on this act on purpose because she heard Xuexue refuse to give Madam Xie the Land Deed, so she deliberately added fuel to the fire, pressing them to hand over the Land Deed immediately.
The village head looked down and indeed saw a cut on her arm. He lifted his gaze to Xuexue and asked, “Was it you who did this?”
“Yes,” Xuexue admitted openly, since many had seen it, she had nothing to hide.
Before the village head could speak, Old Lady Mo interjected forcefully, “Village head, look! The Old Maid didn’t wrong her, see? The wretched girl admits it herself.”
At Old Lady Mo’s interruption, the village head frowned in displeasure and then asked Xuexue, “Why did you hit her?”
Xuexue, fearlessly, answered clearly and loudly, “She hit my mother, so I hit her.”
Old Lady Mo immediately started to clamor again, “See! See! What is she saying? She’s infuriating this Old Maid.”
The village head nodded. On his way over, Chuner had already given him the outline of the situation. He understood that Old Lady Mo was deliberately picking a fight with Madam Xie over the earlier incident, which had led to this farce.
“Auntie Mo, you were in the wrong from the start.”
“Is there no justice left? I, an Old Maid, got injured and you still say I’m not in the right.” Hearing that, Old Lady Mo began her ghostly wailing and howling once more.