In the afternoon, Li Xiaoyu was cultivating the land next to the yard when he heard footsteps like horses running in the distance.

She stopped what she was doing and looked over.

She held the hoe handle with one hand and stepped on the front blade of the hoe with her toes.

Li Wu and Li Guangchang, each carrying a shoulder pole, rushed over like two fighting cocks.

"You bastard, don't leave until I come and take care of you."

Li Wu pointed at Li Xiaoyu and roared angrily.

Behind them, there was Wang Guihua, who looked anxious. She looked like she was about to cry and shouted to Li Wu, "Dad, please talk to me nicely."

At the end were the crying Sun Cuicui and the terrified Li Mei.

Gu Fei sat on the threshold of the main room, holding a branch in his left hand, drawing and writing in the fine clay basin he had prepared earlier.

Hearing the cursing not far away, he did not stop his actions.

At this time, Li Wu and others had already arrived in front of Li Xiaoyu. "You bastard, are you bored because you have eaten too much? You are hanging your old shoes in front of us and your brother."

As he said this, he raised the carrying pole and swung it at the latter's buttocks.

Li Xiaoyu dodged quickly, then picked up the hoe and hit Li Guangchang on the butt with the hoe handle.

"Hey, Li Xiaoyu, you crazy bitch, you hit my paw?"

Her grip was quite strong and Li Guangchang screamed.

He bounced up and down like a monkey.

Li Wu's swing of the carrying pole missed, and when he saw his younger daughter beating his older son, his face immediately turned the color of liver.

He angrily shouted at the calm-looking woman, "You little bastard, it's fine if you hit me, but you also hit your elder brother. Are you trying to turn the tables?"

Li Xiaoyu hid while carrying a hoe to beat Li Guangchang.

"I'm beating him up. Your good son hung up his broken shoes in my house first, so what's the problem with me returning a bunch of broken shoes to him?"

"You're talking nonsense. I didn't hang a pair of sluts on your house."

Li Guangchang had just finished shouting when Li Xiaoyu hit him on the waist with a hoe. He cried out in pain, "You little bastard, you are murdering your own brother."

The three of them formed a closed loop, just like a dog chasing a cat and a cat catching a mouse.

Li Guangchang turned around and tried to fight back with a carrying pole, but he didn't hit anyone. Instead, the woman swung the carrying pole with her hoe, knocking it to the ground and hitting his shoulder.

"Ouch, you little beast, you are going to beat me to death."

"Old man, help me."

He screamed in pain, but didn't dare to stop and ran up the mountain quickly.

Li Xiaoyu was chasing after her. In order to avoid being too excited and incontinent tears, she kept controlling her emotions.

He shouted calmly: "I am going to beat you to death, you are a beast. If I don't give you pot cakes to eat, you will hang your broken shoes on the door of my house."

"Stop right there, you big beast."

Listening to them calling them little beasts and big beasts one after another, Li Wu was so angry that his head was about to explode.

"You two idiots, stand up here."

He couldn't outrun them, so he could only chase them up the mountain, panting, carrying a shoulder pole.

Seeing her husband being beaten by Li Xiaoyu, Sun Cuicui slapped Li Mei in the face and scolded her harshly: "Your father was beaten by your third aunt, what are you still doing standing here? Why don't you go help your father?"

Her voice was so sharp and shrill that it immediately woke up Wang Guihua, who couldn't be stopped by anyone.

Li Mei was stunned by the sudden slap in the face. She looked at her mother with tears in her eyes and saw that she was staring at her like an enemy.

She covered her face, lowered her head in grievance, and turned to walk up the mountain.

Just as she took a step, a dry and rough hand grabbed her little hand and the little girl looked up.

I found out that it was my grandmother who I always hated.

Suddenly, her face was filled with astonishment, "Grandma..."

Hearing the little girl's timid voice, Wang Guihua thought of what Li Xiaoyu said to her last time, and her mind suddenly became hot.

He pulled Li Mei to his side.

Then she grabbed Sun Cuicui who was about to run up the mountain. For the first time, she acted like a mother-in-law in front of her daughter-in-law.

"It was you who instigated Guangchang to hang the broken shoes at the door of Gu's house!"

No one knows a child better than his mother.

Wang Guihua knew very well what kind of personality her son had.

Seeing her mother-in-law staring at her with affirmative eyes, Sun Cuicui felt a little panicked, knowing that her mother-in-law was a weak person.

She adjusted her mood immediately.

He yelled at her as usual: "Mom, are you getting old and confused?"

"It was your third daughter who hung a pair of old shoes in our house, mocking our family as old shoes. How would I know who hung the old shoes in her house?"

When she returned home that day, Sun Cuicui asked Li Guangchang, and no one saw him go to Gu's house.

So she was not afraid of Wang Guihua's questions at all.

Besides, what kind of trouble can a cowardly old woman cause?

Looking at Sun Cuicui with a fierce look on her face, Wang Guihua stopped her and did not let her go up the mountain.

She, who always spoke in a cowardly manner, said firmly in a weak voice: "I know my son. Even if he is a worthless person, he can't think of such a vicious method."

After hearing this, Sun Cuicui also understood the trick.

She stared at Wang Guihua as if she were a fool, pointed at the mountain behind the Gu family and yelled, "Mom, you are really getting old and confused."

"Have you forgotten how Li Xiaoyu scolded you before? Can you believe her words?"

How could Wang Guihua forget...

She didn't want Sun Cuicui to join the grandfather and the other two in bullying Li Xiaoyu. She was beginning to have the urge to back out, so she held her granddaughter's hand tightly to strengthen her resolve.

The little girl whose hand was pinched hurt frowned.

She looked up at her grandmother who hated her and had been beaten just as often as she had been. She endured the pain and didn't cry out.

"She is my daughter!" Wang Guihua shouted, "She won't hang her shoes for no reason."

Seeing tears welling up in her mother-in-law's eyes, Sun Cuicui didn't care and said sarcastically, "Then you just don't trust your son."

There was a subtle threat in her voice.

"Don't forget that Guangchang will take care of you and your father in the future."

Hearing the threat in her words, Wang Guihua was so angry that she wanted to cry. She glared at Sun Cuicui.

She whispered softly, "I don't trust you."

There are no outsiders here except them.

Sun Cuicui was too lazy to pretend with this useless mother-in-law, so she pulled Li Mei to her side.

He taunted, "You deserve to be beaten by your father-in-law. Do you think I don't know? Your third daughter stole your money, called you a loser, and cursed you to die soon. I heard all these words."

"You live a pathetic life, so you can only raise four useless people."

The harsh words one after another made Wang Guihua's face turn red as blood, and her chest heaved as if she would faint at any time.

She didn't dare to fight with anyone, and her shriveled hands were clenched tightly.

Her rough hands and skin color covered her bulging blood vessels. Apart from her bulging eyes with red bloodshot, Sun Cuicui could not see any fierce look in her.

Just as she was about to turn around and go up the mountain, Wang Guihua pulled her back again.

The voice that had always been timid roared with full force: "I am a coward. No matter what Xiaoyu did in the past, she dared to fight back when her father beat me. I am willing to be a coward for the rest of my life."

"Just that one time," Sun Cuicui sneered.

She was talking about the last time Li Xiaoyu beat Li Wu at Gu's house. She and Li Guangchang went into the city that day and were not at home.

"So what if it happens once? Even if it's only once in this lifetime."

"She is also protecting me as a mother. She is a million times better than a woman like you who only stirs up trouble every day."

Wang Guihua shouted these words.

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