Yu Dong pouted. She turned to look at the woman lying on the floor and carefully examined her.

“It is broken but not unmendable,” replied Yu Dong as she stood up from the ground. Inwardly she was already grumbling and feeling annoyed, maybe she needed to teach a good lesson to Shen Li. How dare this mer, care for another woman when she was telling him to leave her alone!

As for the fights between the two villages, when had Yu Dong cared about it?

When Shen Li heard that the damage was not too big, he sighed in relief. He turned to look at the villagers who were watching the excitement in front of them and said to them, “Can someone call Doctor Gu? And —if possible send someone to her village to relay the message to her family.”

Shen Li didn’t want to relay this matter to Zhou Jiao Jiao’s family but there was no point in hiding it. At least with them present Zhou Jiao Jiao wouldn’t be able to make a mess. The matter would be relayed to the Zhou family as it took place.

Yu Dong turned and looked at her husband. Though she knew what he was planning to do, she couldn’t help but say, “Do we really need to pay for her treatment? She was the one who was in the wrong.”

“That’s right, Brother Li,” Ye Liu turned to look at Shen Li. He pointed at Zhou Jiao Jiao and said after pondering for a moment, “She was the one who tried to harass me. You can’t blame me. It was Zhou Jiao Jiao who tried to molest me, I was just defending myself. Why should we pay for her treatment? She deserved to be crippled for life!”

Shen Li was speechless. He understood what Ye Liu and Yu Dong were saying but could they not see through the entire picture? Though he didn’t know who Zhou Jiao Jiao was, he did know that one of her daddies was a powerful matchmaker.

He was the one who introduced matches to the nearby villages including their own. If Zhou Jiao Jiao was not treated timely, the ones who would be in trouble would be their children!

“You two calm down,” Shen Li rubbed his forehead and said to the two of them, “I am not asking you to apologise to her. The reason I asked for Doctor Gu is that I don’t want this matter to escalate any further. You might not know this but Zhou Jiao Jiao’s third daddy is a matchmaker.”

“We cannot get on the wrong side of that mer, what if it disrupts the matches of our young ones?”

He paused and added, “And we just dump her in her village she will certainly twist the truth around. We can at least make use of her unconscious state and tell the things that she had done.”

Only then did Ye Liu recall that Zhou Jiao Jiao had a daddy who worked as a matchmaker and was highly sought after.

His expression turned complicated as he glanced at Zhou Jiao Jiao.

On the other hand, one of the women raced to the village where Zhou Jiao Jiao lived. She found Daddy Zhou and said to him, “Master Zhou, go to the Big River Village. Your daughter was apprehended for tugging and pulling with a married mer. You need to go and deal with this matter.”

Upon hearing those words, Daddy Zhou raised his head. His expression turned haughty as he questioned, “What do you mean by my daughter was apprehended? Who dares to catch her, do they not fear the wrath of my family?”

The woman rolled her eyes when she heard Daddy Zhou’s arrogant words. No wonder he raised such a bratty woman, even when she told him that it was his daughter who was pulling and tugging a married mer, he was pushing the blame on the victim’s head.

“You will know it if you follow me. Your daughter was caught by the wife of the mer, so you might as well hurry up,” the woman told Daddy Zhou who didn’t take her warning seriously.

“It is not the fault of my daughter,” said Daddy Zhou. He loved his daughter, Zhou Jiao Jiao to the point that he was more or less blind to her flaws. He blinked his eyes and said to the woman, “It’s that woman’s fault. If she had kept a close eye on her husband then nothing like this would have happened. I assure you—this happened because of that mer. It must be him who seduced my daughter.”

As he spoke he marched out of the house while shouting for the villagers to pick up rods, sticks and stones. They were going to deal with the arrogant Big River Village this time no matter what!

How dare they beat his daughter! If people were to find out that Zhou Jiao Jiao was beaten by the wife of a mer she had teased, how would she raise her head in the village?

***

“Who dared to beat my daughter?!” A voice roared.

Village Head Gu who was resting in her house was dragged out of her bed. She was clearly resting in peace but then she heard that the Zhou Village had come to look for trouble. As the village head, she could not stay in her house, thus with two broken legs— she had no choice but to ask her two daughters to carry her out of the house.

With her arms thrown around the necks of her two daughters, Village Head Gu looked at Daddy Zhou who from every angle looked like he was here to ask for trouble.

“What is the meaning of this?” Despite her funny condition, Village Head Gu tried to act as dignified as possible. “Why are you carrying so many weapons? Are you planning a siege or something?”

Daddy Zhou placed his hands on his hips and glared at Village Head Gu before saying, “I am not here to commence a siege but yes, I am here to fight! Someone hurt my daughter and I am here to ask for an explanation. If you do not give me one —I will not let this matter rest.”

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