Chapter 132: You’re Not Allowed to Hurt My Mom!

From the moment Li Jinhua laid eyes on Chu Yue, all the rage she had been bottling up these past few days exploded completely.

It was all her fault!

All of it—her fault!

“You wretched girl! First, you made me lose my eldest grandson! Now you’re stirring up rebellion with Wang Chunling and forcing my son to kick me out of the house! This is all your doing! You’ll never have a good end, you little wretch!”

Since Li Jinhua was about to leave the compound anyway, she had nothing left to lose. She was determined to make Chu Yue pay somehow.

So, regardless of the many watching eyes around her, with a twisted expression and a sudden surge of anger, she charged at Chu Yue. Her old hands, with long, filthy fingernails, reached straight for Chu Yue’s face.

She wanted to scratch up that beautiful face, make her too ashamed to show herself in public again.

At this moment, Li Jinhua clearly hadn’t learned her lesson at all.

Zhou Zhijian, who had been helping carry all of Li Jinhua’s bags, realized something was wrong the instant she rushed out. If Chu Yue got hurt, he had no idea how to explain it to Lu Zhanlin.

But he was too far to stop her and his hands were full, so he could only watch helplessly as she lunged forward.

Chu Yue, however, wasn’t the least bit worried.

If Li Jinhua really came at her, she only needed to lift one leg and aim a solid kick at her knee. There’s an acupoint there—if she hit it hard enough, she could leave Li Jinhua’s whole leg aching and numb, like it was disabled.

Not only did Chu Yue feel no sympathy, she was even ready to let Li Jinhua humiliate herself again in front of everyone with a hard fall right on her butt.

But things changed in the blink of an eye.

The outcome wasn’t what Li Jinhua expected—nor what Chu Yue anticipated.

Because just as Chu Yue was about to lift her leg, a small figure rushed forward even faster.

“You’re not allowed to hurt my mom!”

Lu Xiaobao’s little face was serious, and he let out a fierce shout as he threw himself in front of Li Jinhua without a second thought.

He had appeared so suddenly that Li Jinhua never expected it. That tiny figure was already standing firmly in front of Chu Yue, and then—shoved her hard.

In that instant, everyone watching held their breath and widened their eyes in disbelief as the aggressive, furious Li Jinhua was actually pushed backward by a child no more than five or six years old.

Lu Xiaobao… had that much strength?

Li Jinhua stumbled, staggering backward repeatedly. In the end, she couldn’t steady herself and landed flat on the ground with a painful “Owwww—ayooo!”

Xiaobao looked down at his hands, a little shocked and a little unsure—had he really pushed her down that hard?

But in the next second, he clenched his fists tightly!

As long as he had strength, he would use it to protect Chu Yue.

He had to protect his mom!

That small figure now stood tall and proud with a commanding presence, unmoving in front of Chu Yue. His eyes were sharp and alert as he stared down Li Jinhua, not dropping his guard for even a second.

Some of the women nearby, who had originally come to watch Li Jinhua leave in disgrace, hadn’t expected such a dramatic turn of events. They blinked in amazement, unsure how to respond.

“Does Xiaobao really have that much strength? He actually pushed Li Jinhua to the ground?”

“You clearly don’t know who Yuanbao is! That’s the son of Commander Lu—we all know he’s got strong genes!”

“That shove just now—gotta admit—he had real presence! Honestly, he looked a bit like Commander Lu…”

Chu Yue couldn’t help but smile slightly at the sisters-in-law’s praise of Lu Yuanbao.
There was a visible pride in her expression she simply couldn’t hide.

What the sisters-in-law couldn’t see, she saw at a glance—when Lu Yuanbao had reached out to push Li Jinhua, his lower body formed a horse stance, while his upper body moved with the precision of Baduanjin combined with the fluid power of Tai Chi.

Soft on the outside, strong within. He had indeed learned something real. His strength was far from ordinary.

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“You… you… you’re both wicked! The adult is vicious-hearted, scheming with Wang Chunling to trick me. I had barely stepped out the door before you two did this shameless thing. Aren’t you afraid you’ll have a son with no butt-hole?

And you—this little one—do you really think she sees you as her son? Calling her ‘Mom’ is a joke! A stepmother is always a stepmother! Just wait till she has her own child—see if she still wants you around.

By then you won’t even get a bite of warm food. You’re nothing but a wild mutt without a father or mother—”

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Li Jinhua, realizing she couldn’t beat Chu Yue—or even Lu Yuanbao—gave up fighting entirely.
She just plopped herself on the ground and started cursing like a madwoman, spewing whatever was most vile and hurtful.

Chu Yue’s brows furrowed deeply.

From the moment Li Jinhua pointed her finger at Lu Yuanbao, she had already guessed what kind of filth was about to come out of her mouth, and instinctively reached out to cover Yuanbao’s ears.

“Yuanbao, don’t listen.”

Her expression turned ice-cold. Up until now, Chu Yue had been far too polite to Li Jinhua.
But for this old woman to still be so arrogant even as she was leaving—maybe it was time she got a taste of real consequences.

Respecting the elderly only applies when they deserve it.
Li Jinhua did not.

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Just as Chu Yue was about to make her move—

To her surprise, a group of people suddenly rushed out.

And not just one or two—a whole bunch.

With a loud commotion, a dozen or so sturdy-looking men appeared, each holding thick wooden sticks.
No one knew where they came from, but the moment they emerged, they surrounded Li Jinhua.

They pounded the sticks on the ground with a threatening rhythm, faces fierce and intimidating like mountain bandits.

“You rotten old woman—who do you think you are, talking to Comrade Chu like that?! You got a death wish?”

“With a filthy mouth like yours—if you were in our village, I swear we’d beat you till you couldn’t talk again!”

“You dare bully Comrade Chu?! You didn’t even ask if we agreed with that! Brothers—do we agree?!”

“No! We don’t! We don’t! Captain Han, stop being polite with this old hag! Throw her in the pigpen! A few days in there will shut her up!”

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The scene stunned everyone.

Not just Li Jinhua—even the onlooking sisters-in-law were left dumbfounded, completely clueless as to when Chu Yue had gotten to know this kind of crowd.

Judging from their accents, these were clearly local villagers. Their clothes suggested they were field workers.
But the way they spoke—it was full of respect and protectiveness toward Chu Yue.

Everyone was left wondering:

“Who the heck are these people…?”

But Chu Yue recognized them instantly.

The man leading the group was Han Shi, the captain of a production team—someone she’d briefly met on New Year’s Eve.

Han Shi and his group had walked two hours through the mountains, carrying all sorts of things—
gongs, suonas, red paper lanterns, even an entire side of pork—
all to show their gratitude to Chu Yue, whom they saw as a savior of their entire village for her help that night.

But before they could bang their gongs and properly thank her, they ran into Li Jinhua cursing at Chu Yue.

That lit a fire under Han Shi’s temper.
With just one word from him, the public-spirited villagers surged forward and surrounded Li Jinhua, resulting in this dramatic standoff.

“Captain Han, stop being polite with her—beat her up first and then talk!”