"Who did this?"

"Who the hell did this!!!"

Liu Ji stood in the courtyard, his eyes seeming to blaze with fire, turning blood-red, making the Mo Family members tremble and continuously retreat.

Oh my goodness, I never knew the son-in-law could be this terrifying when he gets angry.

Bao’er burst into tears, but before his cries could escape, Eldest Sister-in-law Mo covered his mouth.

Liu Ji’s desperate gaze swept over each person’s face and finally settled on the obviously guilty-looking Mo Family members.

Eldest Brother Mo stammered, "Brother-in-law, do you have any problems?"

Liu Ji roared, "How could I not have problems?!"

Spittle sprayed all over Eldest Brother Mo’s face, and he quickly raised his sleeve to block it, but it was no use.

To the Mo Family members, Liu Ji’s outburst seemed utterly inexplicable; they couldn’t fathom why he was so furious.

Whose house isn’t like this?

They hadn’t broken or damaged anything, just left things a bit messy, and hadn’t had time to tidy up.

Seeing the Mo Family members showing no sign of remorse, and looking at him with incomprehension, Liu Ji could no longer suppress his anger. He grabbed the broom in the courtyard and began driving them out.

"Get out!"

"All of you, get out!"

"If I see any of you again, I’ll beat you to death!"

The Mo Family members were shocked, dodging Liu Ji’s flying broom while anxiously explaining, "Son-in-law, son-in-law, calm down. We’ll just clean up the house for you, won’t we?"

It would have been better if they hadn’t mentioned it. Once they did, Liu Ji remembered how his carefully crafted space now resembled a pigsty, and he became even more furious, shouting towards the backyard:

"Ah Wang, harness their ox-cart! Get them the hell out of here, and don’t let me see your disgusting faces again!"

Seeing Bao’er left behind by the fleeing adults, crying helplessly in the courtyard, Liu Ji, thinking not to involve the child, pulled all the copper coins out of his pocket and stuffed them into Bao’er’s collar, then carried the child towards the gate.

Ah Wang was quick with the harnessing, and within moments, the Mo Family’s ox-cart was ready and pulled to the gate.

Liu Ji placed Bao’er on the cart and sternly instructed him:

"Eat well, wash and bathe frequently, don’t follow your parents and grandparents, be a good person, and live a good life through hard work!"

Bao’er was so bewildered that he forgot to cry, but he obediently nodded, hiccuping as he said, "Understood, uncle-in-law."

Liu Ji took a deep breath, patted the child’s head, turned back to the house, and packed all the leftovers from the main room, including snacks and candies, stuffing Bao’er until he couldn’t hold any more.

Liu Ji clapped his hands, turned around, and saw that the four adults from the Mo Family were still lingering, and he lost it: "Get out!!!"

Old Master Mo clutched his chest, pointed at Liu Ji, his lips trembling with anger, "You, you rascal! I’m your father-in-law, how can you treat me like this?"

Liu Ji’s eyes narrowed dangerously. Well, they no longer called him the scholar son-in-law and outright cursed him as a rascal!

Liu Ji spat, "Father-in-law? What kind of father-in-law are you? Go ask around the whole village, my wife’s family has long since died out!"

He didn’t want to say another word to them, afraid that he couldn’t resist actually hitting them with the broom.

Thinking about the filth and chaos in the study made Liu Ji’s heartache unbearable.

"Get going!" Liu Ji signaled discreetly to Ah Wang with his eyes.

Ah Wang hesitated a bit, glancing into the courtyard. Seeing Mrs. Qin smiling and nodding, he then proceeded to "help" Old Master Mo, Old Madam Mo, Eldest Brother Mo, and Eldest Sister-in-law Mo onto the ox-cart.

"Wait a minute."

Qin Yao suddenly spoke.

Everyone turned to look, only to see her walking out with a sack of grain in her hand, placing it on the Mo Family’s ox-cart.

Mrs. Li followed, carrying a basket full of eggs and five strips of bacon, putting them together with the grain.

Faced with the Mo Family members’ surprised looks, Qin Yao gave a helpless smile, as if indicating family scandals shouldn’t be spread abroad, and that she couldn’t do anything about Liu Ji, patting Eldest Sister-in-law Mo’s arm heavily, conveying everything without words.

"Take it slow on the road." With that, Qin Yao stepped back and waved to the Mo Family members.

The atmosphere reached that point, the Mo Family members had no choice but to leave.

Glaring at Liu Ji with both resentment and fear, the Mo Family reluctantly drove the ox-cart away.

But seeing the cart full of goods, and Bao’er embracing snacks and candies he couldn’t hold, they suddenly felt a bit guilty towards Qin Yao.

Turns out it was Liu San’s nonsense, and Miss Qin was actually quite nice, previously entertaining them generously, unlike Liu Ji, who turned hostile in an instant.

Eldest Sister-in-law Mo counted all the copper coins pulled out from her son’s collar, totaling to two hundred cents.

"Had we known the son-in-law was so particular, we wouldn’t dare to touch a thing inside his house, even if we had to sleep in the courtyard..." Old Mrs. Mo regretted sighing.

Old Master Mo was still angry, exchanged glances with his son, thinking that women had short-sightedness; with just a bit of grain and two hundred cents, they forgot about being thrown out by Liu San just now.

Liu Ji’s remark about his wife’s family being long dead deeply pierced the hearts of the Mo family father and son, breaking their defenses.

Indeed, now he has a new wife, why would he care about these old wife’s family members anymore?

"Dad, why did my sister have to die so early?" Eldest Brother Mo asked irritably.

Old Master Mo remained silent, coming all this way with nothing gained, even thrown out, becoming a laughingstock for the Liu Family Village, feeling utterly suffocated.

Looking up, he saw his grandson Bao’er happily eating snacks, and couldn’t help but curse resentfully:

"Eat, eat, eat, all you know is to eat! If you hadn’t gnawed on those bones all over the place, would your uncle-in-law be this angry and have kicked us out?"

Eldest Sister-in-law Mo was speechless but didn’t dare say anything to her father-in-law, protecting her son in front of her, patting his little face, "Let’s eat at home."

Bao’er protested, "Back home, my brothers and sisters will snatch it away, and I won’t have any left."

This was all given by uncle-in-law; he didn’t want to bring it back to share with his cousins.

Eldest Sister-in-law Mo tapped her son’s forehead, calling him greedy.

But she didn’t say anything about not allowing him to eat, secretly opening the grain sack to find it was filled with peeled golden millet.

"Mom!" Eldest Sister-in-law Mo excitedly pulled her mother-in-law, indicating her to see quickly.

Old Mrs. Mo leaned in to take a look and was beaming, "Had we known, why wait for the son-in-law to return? His wife is much easier to talk to and more generous."

At this, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law paused, suddenly recalling something.

Yesterday, that woman called Yue Niang mentioned that the lady originally prepared five taels of silver for them.

In the end, because they wanted to wait for the son-in-law to return, they even made a scene and drove the girl away.

At that time, the girl also said, the matter couldn’t be handled by Liu Ji, but they didn’t believe it.

Now, it’s all gone, the five taels of silver.

Thinking about it, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deeply regretted it.