“Who are you? Why and where are you taking my husband?” Li Hanyang answered as she looked at Yu Dong with an unfriendly gaze.
“And who are you? I mean shouldn’t you know the niece of your husband?” Yu Dong asked with a raise of her brow. She smiled and snidely added, “Well given that your family etiquettes are to lock the door when a guest comes, I am not surprised.”
Niece? This well-dressed woman was Yu Jiao Yu’s niece. Impossible!
“Second brother!” A new voice joined them and Li Hanyang turned to look at the mer who had walked inside. Now even if she wanted to refuse she could not as Yu Le who seemed to be carved from the same mould as Yu Jiao Yu was enough to prove the words of Yu Dong.
“Elder brother!” Yu Jiao Yu’s eyes turned red when he saw his second brother, it had been years since the last time he saw his elder brother.
He couldn’t help himself and threw himself in the open and waiting arms of Yu Le. “Elder Brother, how are you?”
“I’m excellent, what about you though Jiao Jiao?” Yu Le asked even though he could see that his brother was not treated well, he raised his head and glared at Li Hanyang who blinked her eyes and turned her head away pointedly.
“I am —I am fine,” said Yu Jiao Yu even though he looked anything but fine.
Yu Le clicked his tongue with a twinge of annoyance and said to Yu Jiao Yu, “I can see how fine you are, anyways Dong Dong and I are here to take you with us, Mother misses you and the children.” He added quickly when he saw the thin and frail-looking mer sons.
“No!” Li Hanyang immediately spoke up, when she thought about the three hundred taels that she could make by sending these mers away, she stopped Yu Le instantly. “What do you mean by bringing him back? I am his wife and I say that he is not going anywhere! Anyway, you have pretended that Jiao Jiao does not exist for years, so you can continue doing so.”
If one did not know the truth they would think that it was Yu Dong and the Yu family who abandoned Yu Jiao Yu and never bothered to see him again.
Yu Le knew that Li Hanyang would say this. Before he came here, his mother had already asked him to pay attention to his words as Li Hanyang would certainly try to make trouble for him.
Now that he saw Li Hanyang bringing up the years-old matters, he smiled at the woman and said unhurriedly, “We can’t forget Jiao Jiao, after all, he is our family and my little brother. It is just that I did not know that for the sake of entering your house, I would have to chop the door down. If I had known then I would have done it years ago,”
He then turned to look at Yu Jiao Yu and said in a reproving voice, “You should have told me this, Jiao Jiao. All these times we brought chicken and whatnot, if you had told me that the door needed chopping I would have brought an axe with me, wouldn’t I?”
Li Hanyang and the rest of the Li family: “…”
Li Cui was worried that his daddy would listen to his mother again. He was extremely anxious! This was an opportunity that the heavens had provided him and his brothers with, they could not stay here anymore.
If they did then his mother would definitely send him and his brothers to the west. Though he was the second youngest, he was not a fool. He knew that there was something wrong. If that job was any good then his auntie would have sent her son to the west.
There was no way she would hand something so good to them!
So he immediately tugged on the sleeves of his daddy and nodded at him furtively when the mer turned and looked at him. Yu Jiao Yu’s eyes flashed and he understood something, he patted the head of his son gently and comforted him without saying anything.
He turned his gaze and looked at his wife and Gao Chi, he knew something was wrong with the two of them.
Li Hanyang thought that her husband would refuse to leave but he was standing quietly by his brother’s side while his brother took jibes at her and her family. They even chopped the door of her house!
Her expression immediately changed and she turned to look at Yu Jiao Yu. She scolded him angrily, “What are you staying quiet like a mute? Say something! I am telling you there is no point in threatening me with your family. If they dared to take you away today then you might as well never return! I was standing up for you and here you are, watching others insult me and my family!
You really are a heartless and ungrateful mer, aren’t you?”
Yu Dong who heard Li Hanyang’s scolding was amused. She calmly said to the woman, “Auntie, I think you have a funny way to stand up for your husband. When his family had money and was doing alright you had a jolly good relationship with them but the second our family met with trouble you cut us off. What? Were you worried that we would ask for all the benefits that you took from us?”
“I married him by giving your family ten taels! I deserved those benefits—”
“You should have simply married a mer of your status if you could not take ten taels out of your pockets,” said Yu Dong coolly. “Who asked you to stretch yourself?”
“Anyway, we are here to take my uncle away. Unless you have his slave contract, you cannot stop him from leaving and if you threaten him with divorce, do you believe me when I say I will burn your entire place down?”
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