Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 151 Exposing the True Culprit (2)_1

Chapter 151: Chapter 151 Exposing the True Culprit (2)_1

Old Man Mo snapped back to his senses and his face immediately changed, "Yan girl, after all, this is a matter within our own family. Family scandals should not be publicized. Do you really want everyone to know about this?"

The sorrowful expression on his face was just short of pointing at Mo Yan’s nose and scolding her for being ignorant of the big picture and tarnishing the family’s reputation.

Digging another pit for me? So relentless in your scheming!

Mo Yan had become completely immune to Old Man Mo’s little tricks. Now that she didn’t have to worry about her father’s feelings anymore, there was no need to be polite to this family.

"Great-uncle, if your daughter had been willing to apologize to my dad following Aunt Cai’s advice, would this matter have become known by everyone? Even if we don’t go to the village chief, without taking a day, the news of your daughter deliberately harming my cousin’s family will spread throughout Liu Yang Village!"

Old Man Mo’s face instantly turned from green to white, "What do you want, then? No matter how precious those fruit seedlings are, they are inanimate objects!"

Are you trying to weasel out of this?

Mo Yan laughed, "Even if they are inanimate objects, they are precious inanimate objects. Considering our kinship, I will not quibble about the cost of transportation. You just need to compensate me for the money spent on the fruit seedlings, great-uncle."

Upon hearing this, Old Man Mo breathed a sigh of relief, "How much? We will compensate!" He was eager to compensate, hoping to salvage some of the family’s reputation.

If Mo Yan knew what he was thinking, she would have laughed at his naivety. Since her arrival in Liu Yang Village, his family had caused several dramatic incidents. Where was their reputation to speak of?

"What, compensate with money?" When she heard that they had to compensate, Mo Hong’s family, who had been too scared by Little Flower to move, suddenly jumped up, "Why should we pay for a few broken fruit trees?"

Mo Yan didn’t care to listen to her and began to calculate: "The destroyed fruit seedlings amount to twenty-three, crabapples at five taels of silver each, totaling four seedlings; longans at ten taels of silver each, comprising six seedlings... In total, you need to compensate two hundred and thirty-five taels of silver."

With each price Mo Yan mentioned for the fruit seedlings, the faces of Lao Mo’s House paled a little more. By the end, not only their faces were incredibly unsightly, but the reactions of other villagers were also quite telling.

Not finding that enough, Mo Yan added, "That’s already calculating on the cheap side. If we include transportation costs, it wouldn’t be enough without eight hundred to a thousand taels! Great-uncle, when do you plan to compensate me for these silver taels?"

She didn’t know how much the fruit seedlings cost, but considering they had been transported from far away nanfan, they certainly weren’t cheap. She truly wasn’t intentionally calculating a high price to trap them.

Old Man Mo glared at Mo Yan with a pale face, his old eyes filled with resentment. He had already concluded that Mo Yan was seizing this opportunity to trap them.

Mo Yan stood there, letting him glare at her. After all, she wouldn’t lose any flesh over it!

But Mrs. Hong couldn’t stand it anymore. She sat on the ground and began to slap Mo Yongxi’s back while sobbing bitterly, "You accursed wretch! You are taking our whole family’s life..."

Although she was ostensibly cursing the trouble-causing Mo Yongxi, she was actually scolding Mo Yan underhandedly!

The crowd watched her performance, as clear as day about what was happening, feeling even more contempt for that family. They had destroyed someone else’s property and now all they did was cry and curse. It was better to steer clear of this family in the future!

Being watched by those kinds of eyes, Mo Yonglu, who had been silent the whole time, felt extremely embarrassed. He gritted his teeth, stepped forward to face Mo Yan, and said in a deep voice, "Yan girl, we will compensate for the silver, but we don’t have enough at home. Could you give us some time?"

"Second brother, what are you saying?"

"Her father, have you lost your mind!"

Mrs. Hong and Mrs. Niu screamed at the same time, frantically rushing up to hold back Mo Yonglu, wishing he could take back what he had just said.

Mo Yonglu looked steadily at Mo Yan, ignoring the protestations of his mother and wife.

Mo Yan was extremely surprised on the inside. She hadn’t expected Mo Yonglu to be the one willing to accept the debt. She observed him carefully and noticed he seemed to have truly changed; he no longer had the thuggishness and ferocity of before. Could it be that he had truly reformed?

However, whether he really changed for the better or was pretending, as long as he acknowledged the debt, that was fine by her, "Second uncle, a delay can be arranged, but we must draw up a debt acknowledgment."

Mo Yan knew full well that even if they dismantled Lao Mo’s House, they would not be able to produce that sum of silver. She was not after the silver itself, but rather wanted Lao Mo’s House to tread carefully around them and not trouble her family again. She didn’t want to waste her time and energy on these people.

Mo Yonglu agreed to the debt acknowledgment, and apart from Mrs. Hong and Mrs. Niu, the rest of Lao Mo’s House tacitly accepted.

But Mo Yan wouldn’t be satisfied with only Mo Yonglu acknowledging the debt. If only his name was on the debt acknowledgment, and he later separated and lived independently, someone might cause trouble again. Therefore, apart from the younger generation, everyone else’s names had to be included.

Lao Mo’s House was in the wrong, and under the watchful eyes of the villagers, they had to comply. A group of them went to the construction site, where Mo Qingze, witnessed by Yang Bao, wrote the debt acknowledgment and had Old Man Mo, Mo Yonglu, and others sign and affix their seal.

Afterward, Mo Yan had Mo Qingze write another document, stating that Lao Mo’s House should not trouble them again in the future, otherwise, they would take the debt acknowledgment to the Government Office to press for the repayment of the silver.

As they signed the second document, the faces of everyone from Lao Mo’s House were green.

With the issue resolved, Old Man Mo and his family had no face to stay any longer. Just as they were leaving, Mo Yongxi suddenly turned her head, glaring viciously at Mo Yan with a look of hatred as if she wanted to kill her.

Mo Yan’s heart stirred, and she quickly stepped forward to block Old Man Mo, pointing at Mo Yongxi, "Last time our timber was burned, someone saw with their own eyes that she was the one who set the fire. Even though the timber didn’t cost money, we had to pay for labor, which you should compensate us for, shouldn’t you?"

No sooner had she finished speaking than Mo Yongxi charged up, cursing in a furious rage, "You liar! That night, it was pitch-black and nobody was around; it’s impossible for anyone to have seen."

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