Chapter 312: Felt A Slight Heartache
Liu Duo asked Ye Yang to let go of her hand, “Yang, you don’t need to bother with me.”
She walked forward and pulled Liu Ran behind her to protect him. In one fell swoop, she grabbed the broom in Grandma Liu’s hand. “Old hag. People like you are a scourge on the world! I don’t have a single bit of relation to you, so stop going on and on about how you are my elder.”
“You want me to give you filial piety money? I would rather give it to a beggar than to give even half a copper coin to you!” She let go when she finished, causing Grandma Liu to fall backward and onto the ground.
Ye Yang walked out with his hands free. Liu Quanyan and his son were no match for him. Liu Qing screamed when he was. .h.i.t. Even though Liu Quanyan had a carrying pole, Ye Yang yanked it from him to admire it.
However, he controlled his strength and didn’t use as much force as he did with Liu Qing. After all, he was older and wouldn’t be able to endure as much!
“Okay, okay. They learned their lesson so stop hitting them.” Liu Quanfu held Ye Yang. He was afraid it might cause an incident. It wouldn’t be good for Liu Duo and her husbands either if that happened.
“What misfortune for our family. The granddaughter is beating her elders… We went through great pains to raise her and married her off, but she came back here with her husband to beat her own family members…” Grandma Liu wailed and cried loudly.
Hearing the ruckus, the neighbors came out to watch the lively scene.
Liu Duo plugged her ears and ignored it. She turned her head to look at Liu Ran and saw he was being strong and didn’t cry. He was a completely different person compared to when he was with her. She felt a slight heartache.
Ye Yang stopped his fierce beating on Liu Qing and his father and walked over to Liu Duo. He only relaxed after he saw she wasn’t hurt.
The spectators were pointing at Liu Duo and Ye Yang, but Liu Duo didn’t care. “Yang, are you hurt?”
Ye Yang shook his head. He had only been hit a few times. It was nothing.
“Then let’s go. I don’t want to stay here any longer. Let’s not come back here again in the future.” She held his hand and left with him.
Liu Quanfu and Liu Lius.h.i.+ looked at their backs and felt too embarra.s.sed to call them. Liu Ran also didn’t make a sound. Liu Duo had brought him there to find Liu Lius.h.i.+ out of the goodness of her heart, but such an incident had occurred, and it made him feel quite guilty.
After taking a few steps, Liu Duo stopped, turned around, and said to Liu Lius.h.i.+, “If you want to live a good life, sometimes you need to be callous. If you keep enduring it, keep being a doormat for others, and keep practicing unquestioning filial piety, other people will only keep treating you even worse!”
When she finished speaking, she walked away, hand in hand with Ye Yang.
It was only when Liu Ran couldn’t see Liu Duo and Ye Yang’s backs that he turned to look at his dad, Liu Quanfu, for a while. He then went back to his own room.
That look made Liu Quanfu feel flabbergasted. Was this the kind of expression a child should have in his eyes? His eyes were filled with disappointment towards him. And were there traces of some hatred?
After they returned home, Ye Yang diligently helped Ye Ling and the others with processing the bamboo shoots. He didn’t take what had just happened to heart. Liu Duo didn’t show any change on the surface. She just felt a bit concerned about Liu Ran in her heart.
She sat expressionlessly at the side and looked at Ye Mo. His cool and arrogant face was filled with a serious expression as he meticulously did the bookkeeping and payments.
When Ye Mo was free, he couldn’t help but look at Liu Duo. He saw her looking at him and his eyes lit up. Has this brat been secretly looking at me?
If Liu Duo knew what he was thinking, she would definitely say, Secretly looking? I am clearly, openly looking at you, okay?
He walked over cooly and arrogantly and sat beside her. He faked a cough and said, “Liu Duo, where is the kid? Why didn’t he return with you? Where is his mom?”
He didn’t see Liu Ran when they returned. He also didn’t see Liu Lius.h.i.+, who they had gone to look for, so he was quite curious. He was just busy at the moment and didn’t have time to ask.