Liu Sheng reached out to grab Jiang Yu’s hair behind Zhou Yan, but Zhou Yan blocked him fiercely.

Unable to grab Jiang Yu, he turned his frustration onto Zhou Yan, scolding, “Zhou Yan, you’re a married woman, why are you meddling in other people’s affairs? Do you really think I won’t hit you? Get out of my way!”

Zhou Yan’s elder brother, Zhou Dashan, took a few steps forward, entering the courtyard, and coldly said, “Liu Sheng, try hitting my sister!”

The Zhou family brothers all stepped forward, their faces filled with hostility.

Liu Sheng swallowed and tried to justify himself, “It’s because your sister is meddling in my family’s affairs! Why don’t you manage your own sister?”

“You just said my sister is a married woman, now she’s a member of the Jiang family, so let her manage the Jiang family’s affairs. What does it have to do with the Zhou family?” Zhou Dashan shot him a cold glance and said lightly.

Liu Sheng was speechless, unsure of how to refute that.

After all, it was true that a mother-in-law could intervene in her daughter-in-law’s matters, especially when her son was beating Jiang Yu in front of the maternal family.

Liu Pozi, seeing her son caught off guard, grew irritated and yelled, “Jiang Yu is just a useless hen who can’t lay eggs! Our Liu family has been kind enough to feed her and give her a place to stay. What’s she still dissatisfied with, causing me so much trouble!

Oh, this is going to kill me! This kind of daughter-in-law should be struck by lightning! Zhou Yan, what are you thinking, protecting her? Are you trying to drive me to my death?”

Zhou Yan remained unmoved.

If Liu Sheng hit her, her brothers wouldn’t let him get away with it and might even fight him back.

But if Liu Pozi tried to make a move, she was a woman and an elder, so how could her maternal family intervene?

Let Liu Pozi scream and cry, after all, she was already married, and as long as she didn’t care about her reputation, Liu Pozi had nothing to hold over her.

Liu Pozi wailed for a while, and seeing that Zhou Yan showed no sign of guilt or compromise, she stopped abruptly.

She turned to Jiang Yu and shouted angrily, “Jiang Yu, get out here! You belong to the Liu family, even if you die, you’ll be a ghost of the Liu family. Where do you think you can run? You can hide for a while, but not forever! When Zhou Yan goes back, you’ll still stay in the Liu family! Come out here, don’t make me go drag you myself!”

Jiang Yu’s face turned pale, looking at the cruel expression on her mother-in-law and Liu Sheng’s face.

Her legs felt heavy as if they were filled with lead, but she still quietly said, “Second sister-in-law, please go back home.”

Zhou Yan shook her head, “I’ll wait for elder sister-in-law to come.”

A bitter smile appeared on Jiang Yu’s pale face.

She believed elder sister-in-law would come, but how could she possibly come?

Not to mention the fact that she was occupying a share of the family’s food, but just the fact that Liu Sheng’s fifth sister was living with the head of the town’s patrol officers, made the Liu family bold enough to behave so recklessly.

Outsiders didn’t know about the relationship between the head of the patrol and the Liu family, but elder sister-in-law knew it very well.

How could she dare offend the Liu family, especially for someone like Jiang Yu, who had already accepted the bride price and married into the family?

Zhou Yan wouldn’t step aside.

Liu Sheng dared not approach with the Zhou brothers around, and Liu Pozi couldn’t call for Jiang Yu.

The courtyard fell silent.

Suddenly, Wang Chuntao inside the house groaned and shouted, “I’m not feeling well, please bring me something to eat quickly. If the precious grandson gets hungry, it will be bad!”

Liu Pozi’s expression immediately turned anxious, and pointing at Jiang Yu, she shouted, “Did you hear that? Go bring food for her right now! Let me tell you, our Liu family only has one son, and you are useless! If you keep affecting my precious grandson, see if I don’t peel your skin off!”

She had given birth to five daughters before finally having a son, and now she was a major benefactor to the Liu family.

She had long disliked Jiang Yu.

“Why aren’t you going yet? If you weren’t useless, would I have to go find someone else? Now, Chuntao is working hard for you, you should be grateful to her. Since I’m old and an elder, it’s naturally your job to do this.” Liu Sheng urged anxiously.

“Pah! I’ve never seen someone who works so hard for others!” Zhou Yan was livid.

The villagers outside the mud brick wall widened their eyes, thinking they had misheard, especially the women, who whispered and discussed.

“The Liu family is too shameless! If it were me, I’d just send Jiang Yu back to her family. Why keep torturing her here?”

“Such a thing isn’t human!”

“Jiang Yu came into this family late, so she doesn’t understand. Liu Pozi gave birth to five daughters before having Liu Sheng as a son, so of course, he’s treated like the apple of her eye. How could he do any work?”

“Liu Pozi had five daughters, and when the daughter-in-law came in, she was already used to being served. Of course, she wouldn’t do anything herself. If they send Jiang Yu away, who would do the work?”

“Wait, Liu Sheng has five sisters? How come we’ve never seen them visit their parents’ home? Where did they marry? What are their husbands’ names?”

“Where could they have gone? Liu Sheng’s family is so poor, how could they afford to marry off all five daughters? Maybe they sold them off as concubines to rich families.”

“Ha! Do you think rich families just take any woman in? If they sold them as concubines, that would at least be better than sending them to a brothel!”

The young wife who had just married into the family gasped.

Nearby, someone immediately hushed them, saying, “Don’t say that! I heard Liu Sheng’s sister has a relationship with the head of the town patrol. Be careful, they might come after us!”

“If they spread rumors, we’ll be in big trouble.”

“Liu Pozi is proud of herself, let’s just pretend we don’t know anything.”

“Poor girls who marry into the Liu family, they can’t escape.”

…

The discussions grew louder and louder, and Liu Sheng, seeing Zhou Yan firmly blocking the way, exchanged a look with Liu Pozi.

Liu Pozi rushed to grab Jiang Yu from Zhou Yan’s left, and Zhou Yan instinctively moved left to block her.

Liu Sheng saw an opening and rushed to the right, grabbing Jiang Yu’s hair and pulling her out by force.

Jiang Yu’s head couldn’t lift as her hair was yanked, and she stumbled.

She frantically slapped at Liu Sheng’s hand, then suddenly stopped, enduring the sharp pain in her scalp.

She reached up to her hair.

Her hairpin!

Since she couldn’t survive, why let this beast get away!

With one hand gripping her hair, Liu Sheng raised his other hand to slap her, gloating, “Let’s see who can protect you now!”

“Stop!” a loud voice shouted at the same time.

Liu Sheng froze, his slap still raised.

In the next moment, someone came charging at him, crashing into him with immense force.

The impact made him stagger backward, loosening his grip.

He fell several meters until he hit the wall of the brick house and finally stopped.

Liu Pozi, who had been holding Zhou Yan back, immediately saw her son being knocked back, and her focus shifted entirely to him.

She rushed to him, crying out, “My son, are you okay? Does it hurt?”

She wiped her tears and snot and looked up at the person who had arrived.

When she saw who it was, she froze, shocked in place.