Yang suddenly jumped up, "Mother, all the jewelry in my room is gone!"
"What?" Mother Shen's drowsiness instantly vanished, and she rushed back to her room to search her own cabinet.
"My silver... where's my silver!"
Mother Shen's face turned pale. She turned everything upside down but couldn't find her silver.
"These little beasts! Born of a mother but raised like wild dogs! They stole my silver, my entire fortune!"
Mother Shen wailed and cried, her shouts reaching several nearby families.
Yang, standing at the doorway, heard this and collapsed onto the ground.
How could it have come to this...
Shen Wang's face also turned pale.
All the family's silver was managed by Mother. Had it all been stolen?
"Report it to the authorities!" Shen Wang seemed to have grasped a lifeline. "Yes, let's report it to the authorities right now!"
The three of them didn't have time to think and rushed to town to report the crime.
But those were beggars who wandered everywhere, with no identification. They couldn't find anyone, and reporting it to the authorities only resulted in them being told to go home and wait.
...
Li Yueshu was completely unaware of this, busy at Hengde Pharmacy.
In two days, it would be the academy's break. She wanted to rest for a day and spend time bonding with the children at home.
Now, Ayu fully trusted and relied on her, and the other three children were no longer as disgusted with her as they were initially. This was a significant leap forward.
However, she didn't know what the future held for the four children, so she still needed to put more effort into them.
Thinking this, Li Yueshu worked faster.
At this moment, a commotion suddenly erupted at the pharmacy entrance.
Hearing the commotion, everyone looked over in confusion. They saw an old ox cart parked at the entrance, and Aunt Liu ran in with a worried expression.
"Third daughter-in-law, something has happened at your house!" she panted anxiously. "Your mother-in-law has taken your eldest brother and sister-in-law to your house to move things. My old man is trying to stop them!"
Li Yueshu's expression changed. Without any further explanation, she quickly got onto the ox cart.
Seeing this, Shen Wei immediately dropped the medicinal herbs in his hands and climbed on as well.
Li Yueshu wasted no words, directly driving the ox cart towards home, almost in a frenzy like driving horses.
Soon, they arrived.
Before they even got close, Li Yueshu could hear Mother Shen's arrogant voice, "Li Yueshu is my Shen family's daughter-in-law, and she should be filial to me!"
"If she hadn't deliberately adopted a few wild brats and hadn't explained things clearly, we wouldn't have brought those ungrateful wretches home and ended up with all our silver and jewelry stolen!"
Old Man Liu's face turned red with anger at her twisted logic. He pointed at her nose, unable to speak for a long time.
Mother Mo also stood by, her face having regained some color thanks to Li Yueshu's careful nurturing.
But now, facing the unreasonable Shen family of three, she coughed several times in anger.
"You... you're coming to my house to move things in broad daylight while Madam Shen is away, this is banditry!"
"Bah, nonsense!" Mother Shen, hands on her hips, directly scolded, "Li Yueshu has caused us so much trouble, she should compensate us!"
"If you want to talk about bandits, that's you! You've been eating and drinking for free with your son, and making my daughter-in-law pay for tuition and use top-quality medicinal herbs to keep you alive. I've never seen such shameless people as you and your son!"
At this point, Mother Shen seemed even more incensed. She went up and hit Mother Mo, "Shameless creature, return the Shen family's belongings!"
Mother Mo was naturally gentle. Seeing Mother Shen lunging at her, she became flustered and didn't know how to react.
"Ah, don't... don't hit me, stop!"
Mother Mo was pushed to the ground. Before she could get up, Mother Shen was on top of her, scratching her, and spewing all sorts of unpleasant words.
"Oh my, stop, stop!" Old Man Liu was startled by this scene and rushed over to intervene.
Seeing that no one was blocking the doorway, Shen Wang and Yang immediately tried to rush into the house.
When Li Yueshu and Shen Wei ran over, they saw this scene.
Instantly, a surge of anger welled up in her heart.
Li Yueshu, holding the whip in her hand, threw it at Mother Shen without hesitation.
"Ah—"
Accompanied by a scream, Mother Shen fell sideways, showing the force of the throw.
Li Yueshu quickly stepped forward to help Mother Mo up. Seeing that she was only disheveled and not injured, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But Mother Mo was clearly severely frightened, her face as pale as paper.
Li Yueshu handed Mother Mo to Shen Wei, then looked at the Shen family of three with icy eyes.
On the way back, she had already heard the whole story from Aunt Liu.
The shamelessness of the Shen family truly reached new depths with each passing moment.
Li Yueshu lightly rubbed her index finger, her gaze chilling.
Originally, she thought that since they were Shen Wei's family, as long as they didn't go too far, she could turn a blind eye.
But now it seemed her tolerance had only emboldened them.
"Uncle Liu, please go and invite the village elder."
Old Man Liu didn't hesitate and practically ran off.
Yang's expression changed slightly. "Sister-in-law, this is our family matter, there's no need to trouble the village elder, is there?"
Li Yueshu glanced at her expressionlessly, making Yang feel an inexplicable chill down her spine.
Soon, the village elder was invited.
Just as Li Yueshu was about to speak, Mother Shen suddenly let out a wail, "Village elder, you must do justice for me! This is inhumane! A daughter-in-law hitting her mother-in-law, I don't want to live anymore..."
"Then go and die!"
Li Yueshu suddenly spoke, directly interrupting Mother Shen's wailing lament.
Everyone was stunned by this statement, looking at Li Yueshu as if they had seen a ghost. Even the Liu couple and Mother Mo were frozen in place.
Only Shen Wei remained calm and nodded in approval.
However, everyone's attention was on Li Yueshu, so no one noticed his "treasonous" action.
Yang looked terrified. "You... what did you say?"
"Didn't hear clearly?" Li Yueshu raised an eyebrow. "I said, since you don't want to live, then go and die."
Shen Wang pointed at her, his finger trembling. "You're crazy!"
Li Yueshu looked at him coldly. "If I'm crazy, it's because your Shen family drove me crazy!"
She seemed utterly unconcerned about gaining a reputation for being unfilial. "Everyone in the surrounding villages knows that when Shen Wei was born, you abandoned him to a wandering Taoist priest because you disliked his fate."
"When he returned three years ago, he had saved money from working as a handyman for a wealthy family and could hunt. Your whole family didn't have to work in the fields, and you even built the only tiled-roof house in the village."
"But a year ago, when he had an accident, within a month, you drove the four children out of the house, claiming to have married me to take care of them."
"But when we divided the property, besides a quilt and a few broken bowls, what else did you give us? Even recently, when Shen Wei returned, you dismissed the two taels of silver in clinic fees owed to Uncle Liu with something worth a few coins and blamed it on me."
"Now I earn money by my own ability to support the family, and you're envious and want to learn from me. You invited wolves into the house, yet you blame everything on me. Where do you get the nerve?"