Chapter 542: Chapter 542: Frantically Pacing Chapter 542: Chapter 542: Frantically Pacing “Elder brother, why are you shouting so loudly? Are you trying to scare me to death?” Mo Xiuzhi patted her chest with her hand, her face filled with residual fright.
“You, an unmarried girl, bullying your elders and bossing them around, do you think that’s appropriate? Aren’t you afraid that your reputation will be ruined if word gets out?”
Mo Xiaoqiang’s face was stern. He had just been bullied by Old Lady Mo and Mr. and Mrs. Mo Daoyan at the melon field and was still harboring a bellyful of anger, which Mo Xiuzhi had unwittingly walked into.
“What rubbish elders; you’ve divorced her already; she no longer belongs to our household,” Xiuzhi couldn’t help but scream out.
At these words, Mo Xiaoqiang grew even angrier. “Since you know she’s not a part of our family anymore, what right do you have to order her around?”
“It’s her own shamelessness, insisting on sticking to us and doing chores for our family; it’s not my fault.”
“You…,” Mo Xiaoqiang was so furious that he raised his arm high, intending to slap her.
“Ah!”
Seeing this, Xiuzhi hadn’t even been struck yet, but she was already screaming and holding her head.
Madam Xie put down the spatula and quickly grabbed his arm, persuading, “Forget it, Xiuzhi is still young and naive; don’t stoop to her level.”
Only then did Mo Xiaoqiang lower his hand, glowering at Mo Xiuzhi, he said, “This time, for your elder aunt’s sake, I won’t hit you. But if there’s a next time, if you dare to be so disrespectful again, I won’t let you off.”
Mo Xiuzhi sulkily turned around and strode out of the kitchen, when suddenly, she turned back and viciously warned Madam Xie, “If you dare to babble about today’s events and tarnish my reputation, grandmother surely won’t spare you; you’d better remember that.”
“You little wretch, I think you’re begging for a beating,” Mo Xiaoqiang was so incensed he wanted to charge at her and hit her.
Mo Xiuzhi screamed and ran off, vanishing from sight in the blink of an eye.
Madam Xie sat in front of the stove, shoving kindling into it, getting ready to stir-fry the last dish.
Mo Xiaoqiang snatched the kindling from her hands, saying angrily, “Stop cooking. Are you daft, woman? They tell you to do something and you just do it. They bully you because they see you’re easy to bully. If you stood your ground, they wouldn’t dare to take advantage of you.”
Madam Xie was very surprised by Mo Xiaoqiang’s unusual behavior today and stared at him blankly, “What’s wrong with you today? Why are you so angry?”
Mo Xiaoqiang took a deep breath and tried to quell his anger before recounting the treatment he faced from Old Lady Mo and Mo Daoyan in the melon field to Madam Xie.
“How could they behave like that? What will Xuexue do when she comes back?”
Madam Xie paced worriedly. She had planned to keep her head down and endure, sending two melons every day to Old Lady Mo to prevent her from making troubles. But as the saying goes, ‘Too much greed is not enough; wanting to swallow an elephant,’ two melons and several taels of silver were not enough to satisfy their greed.
“We can’t solve this; we can only wait for Xuexue to deal with it,” he said.
Just now in the field, as they chased him with a carrying pole, Mo Xiaoqiang felt helpless. He couldn’t just stand there and let them hit him; he wasn’t stupid and could only temporarily avoid them.
Madam Xie guiltily bowed her head, looking very remorseful, “We’re so useless as parents. We can’t help our daughter with anything and only add to her troubles.”
“Wife, don’t be sad. Let’s go home and wait for Xuexue’s return so we can come up with a solution together,” he comforted her.
After saying that, Mo Xiaoqiang pulled Madam Xie away from the Mo family.
Madam Xie, who had always been resistant to Mo Xiaoqiang, was feeling dejected and didn’t even notice that she was being led by Mo Xiaoqiang the whole way, looking very intimate.