Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 331: Financial Ruin and the Harrier’s Message (2)_1

Chapter 331: Chapter 331: Financial Ruin and the Harrier’s Message (2)_1

Seeing the situation, Hu felt confident she had swayed Lizhong and became even more earnest in detailing the various benefits of Lixiu returning to the Zhang Family, "My dear in-law, please let Xiu Er come back. I swear I will treat her like my own daughter and never let her suffer the slightest hardship again."

Zhang Ming, too, cast aside his fear and, following his mother’s lead, put on the air of a true lover, making all kinds of promises with vehement oaths.

Watching the mother and son duo, spitting bullets in their eagerness, Lizhong couldn’t help but recall the time he had promised Lixiu to the Zhang Family. Back then, they had made the same assurances, but what was the result? He had been blind once, ruining his daughter’s life. Would he be blind again and destroy the rest of his daughter’s peaceful days?

"Are you done talking?" Lizhong interrupted the two with a steely gaze, "If you’re done, then leave. Xiu Er is doing well now, she will not return to the Zhang family. In the future, you should also refrain from visiting. Pretend the Li and Zhang families have never been related by marriage."

Just as Hu was passionately making her case, she was cut off. Upon hearing that Lizhong wanted them to leave, she turned her head incredulously towards Zhang Ming and asked, "Ming Er, did I hear that wrong?"

Zhang Ming, too, widened his eyes. Seeing Lizhong’s frosty expression, he opened his mouth and stuttered, "Mother, it seems, it seems you heard right."

"You refuse? You actually refuse?" It was only then that Hu was willing to believe what she heard. She could never have anticipated such an outcome after saying so much and, in a fit of rage, blurted out insults, "Do you, you childless wretch, keep your daughter around in the hopes of getting a live-in son-in-law to carry on the Li family lineage? Don’t delude yourself. Your daughter is like a hen that lays no eggs, even a hundred live-in sons-in-law would be useless! If she won’t return to our Zhang family, she’ll die without anyone to tend to her... Ow, it hurts so much, murder, murder—"

Mo Yan, who was attending to customers, heard Hu’s screams from the small room and jumped, instinctively looking over.

The customer, who was paying, clutched his chest in fright and said uncertainly, "What’s happening there? Who is inside? It couldn’t be a real fight, could it?"

Worried about scaring away customers, Mo Yan quickly made up an excuse, "Well, you see, it’s almost the New Year, and in our village, to celebrate the festive season, every family is practicing their talents. Our shopkeeper is no exception; he’s using some spare time to practice. He’s working on his voice!"

The customer, upon hearing this, grew interested and asked a few more questions. Between the old woman’s pained cries and the young man’s terrified pleas, he couldn’t help but praise, "This must be ventriloquism, right? Sounds so authentic. Your shopkeeper’s got quite the talent!"

Mo Yan forced a couple of dry laughs and hastily threw together a few more excuses to finally send the customer on his way.

Hearing the commotion from the small room, Mo Yan was very anxious. With no other customers in the shop, she instructed Tie Tou and Wang Pangtou to look after the place and hurriedly ran to knock on the door, genuinely worried that Lizhong wasn’t a match for the mother and son duo and might be at a disadvantage.

But after several knocks, the door remained closed, and all she could hear were the Zhang family mother and son’s successive screams. Mo Yan let out a sigh of relief, feeling quite pleased. Yet, she also feared that, in his anger, Lizhong might actually hurt them seriously, leaving her feeling unsettled.

Inside the small room, Lizhong’s face was dark and terrifying. Ignoring the persistent knocking outside, he stood at the door with a stick in hand, seizing every opportunity to strike the mother and son duo.

Fearing the stick in his hand, the mother and son didn’t dare to fight back and could only shrink into a corner and take the beating. When Hu’s instep was hit by the stick again, she finally couldn’t contain herself and cursed spitefully, "If you don’t kill us today, I swear I will report you the moment I’m out, ensuring you, this vile creature, end up in jail!"