How Shameless!

Mrs. Tian sneered and continued eating her pastry contentedly, as Lu Gui watched on dumbfounded.

Lu Gui's face was full of bitterness. Is this his biological mother? He must be her adopted son!

After Mrs. Tian had finished eating her pastry, Lu Jiao again used the basket as a cover to take out two big peaches, one for Mrs. Tian and one for herself.

Mrs. Tian was still angry with her Youngest Son, so she did not refuse the big peach offered by Lu Jiao and ate it with relish.

If Lu Gui was hungry earlier, he was now starving. The mouth-watering aroma of peaches was driving him ravenous.

He hadn't ever eaten such good peaches, even when he had grown so old. Just by looking at them, he could tell that these peaches were definitely not cheap. Has his sister grown rich now?

After eating a red bean pastry and a big peach, the mother and daughter were not so hungry anymore and accelerated their pace to reach Xie Clan Village as soon as possible.

Lu Gui, who was following behind them, was starving and had no strength to walk anymore. He pitifully called out to Lu Jiao, "Sister, my good sister, please sympathize with your brother."

"I was wrong before. I'm sorry. I won't dare yell at you in the future. Not only that, but I swear that I'll treat Sister with respect."

Lu Jiao's footsteps came to a halt, and she turned to face Lu Gui behind her as she said, "Do you think I'm angry because you talked rudely to me? No, I don't care if you're good to me, you don't like me, I don't like you. Everyone is even. The key point is that you are disrespectful to your mother, which makes me very angry."

Lu Jiao's words moved Mrs. Tian, who stood on the side, wiping away her tears.

Look, it's not in vain that she pampered Jiaojiao all these years, right? After all, her daughter is the only one who has a conscience. If she didn't have Jiaojiao's support, maybe she would have been bullied to death by the whole Lu family.

But Lu Jiao's actual intentions were not to ignore Lu Gui the whole time. Instead, she simply wanted to teach him a lesson so that he would not dare disrespect Mrs. Tian in the future.

She did not take to heart the rude words Lu Gui had said to her earlier. After all, she did not regard this guy as her brother.

"Okay, I'll give you a piece of red bean cake, but if you ever disrespect Mother again, see if I don't clean you up."

Lu Jiao took out a piece of red bean cake for Lu Gui and resumed walking towards Xie Clan Village. Lu Gui was so grateful that he wanted to kneel down in front of her right then and there. Woo! Woo! This red bean cake is so delicious!

The three reached Xie Clan Village quite soon.

Before Lu Jiao had even reached her house, she could see that a small crowd had gathered in front of the fenced courtyard.

Her expression changed instantly, and subconsciously, her fingers clenched into fists.

Could it be that someone else came to her house to bully Xie Yunjin and the four little boys?

If that's the case, she definitely won't spare these people this time.

Lu Jiao had a very grim expression.

Beside her, Mrs. Tian could also see a bunch of people standing in front of her daughter's house.

Mrs. Tian's expression also changed, and she and Lu Jiao ran straight to the door of the Xie family's home.

Just as the trio arrived in front of the main gate, someone in the crowd noticed Lu Jiao walking over and shouted,

"Yunjin's wife, you have guests. They all seem to be rich people. They even came in a horse-drawn carriage."

The residents of Xie Clan Village are all so poor that even owning a bullock cart would be considered a luxury. Now, when a horse-drawn carriage had arrived in the village, all the village folks flocked to Xie Yunjin's house to see what was going on.

Lu Jiao breathed a sigh of relief. Everything's fine as long as no one came to pick on Xie Yunjin and the four little ones.

Lu Jiao led Mrs. Tian and Lu Gui into the yard. She didn't even bother to look at the carriage parked outside the fence of the yard.

The villagers of Xie Clan Village were talking about it enthusiastically when some of them remarked,

"It seems that Yunjin's classmates from the county school came to see him."

"They even brought a lot of things, including food and clothes."

"Yunjin's Mother, Eldest Sister-in-law, and Youngest Sister all seem to be here."

"What are they thinking? They kicked their son out first, and now that they see someone bringing them some good stuff, they come strutting back! Humph!"

On seeing Lu Jiao, someone hurriedly yelled, "Yunjin's wife, quickly go in and have a look."

Lu Jiao led Mrs. Tian and Lu Gui into the hall after she greeted and nodded at the people standing beside the fence.

There was indeed a lot of stuff piled up on the ground in the hall.

Mrs. Ruan's sad voice could be heard from the east bedroom, "Thank you for coming to see my Third Son. My Third Son has classmates like you who care for him, so it's not in vain for him to learn to read."

She sobbed softly as she spoke, as if she felt pained to see her Third Son lying on the bed like this.

As soon as Mrs. Ruan's finished speaking, Xie Lan's voice could be heard, "Yes, after the third brother was injured, my mother was troubled day and night, and she lost a lot of weight because she couldn't eat or sleep well."

Outside the room, the more Mrs. Tian heard, the more angry she became, and when she couldn't take it anymore, she rushed in there with a loud bang, only to attack Mrs. Ruan.

"Old woman Ruan, you are so shameless. You kicked out your seriously injured son, and now you pretend to be so caring in front of others! How shameless!"

"Look at this house. It has nothing. How did you have the audacity to come over here to cause trouble?"

Lu Jiao also rushed over behind Mrs. Tian to the east bedroom. It was only then that the four little ones noticed that she had returned. They instantly became delighted. The Youngest Child quickly rushed over and wrapped his little arms around Lu Jiao's thigh while saying, "Mother, you are back."

He blinked his peach-blossom eyes, which were beaming with joy.

The Second Child and the Third Child were also full of smiles, and although the Eldest Child didn't express it explicitly, his eyes were beaming with joy.

Lu Jiao raised her hand, and after patting the heads of the four little ones, she turned to face the people in the room.

There were a total of four young people in the room, all of whom were roughly the same age as Xie Yunjin. One of them was dressed in a long brocade gown and had his hair tied back with a jade hairpin, looking like a young master of a wealthy family. The other three looked ordinary, but they all exuded the elegant and dignified aura unique to Scholars.

However, when the four of them saw Lu Jiao, initially their faces were full of surprise since they had all thought that Xie Yunjin, being one of the most distinguished Scholars in Qinghe county, would marry a beautiful woman. Even if his wife did not happen to be a peerless beauty, at the very least, she would be presentable. No matter what, they had not expected that Yunjin's wife would be such a shabby-looking fat woman.

The four people all looked at Xie Yunjin with sympathetic eyes, but their expressions quickly returned to normal, and they stepped forward to greet Lu Jiao.

"Nice to meet you, Sister-in-law."

Lu Jiao nodded and returned the greeting, being neither humble nor arrogant, and said, "I thank the four young masters for coming to visit my husband."

The four of them were surprised because the fat woman seemed to have impeccable manners. They would have thought that she was a young lady from some wealthy family if it weren't for her shabby appearance.

Lu Jiao didn't bother to pay attention to what these people were thinking. Instead, she turned to look at Xie Yunjin.

Seeing that Xie Yunjin's eyes were gloomy and hostile and his entire body was emitting a cold aura, Lu Jiao worriedly asked him, "Are you alright?"

Xie Yunjin's expression softened a little. Then, he turned to look at Mrs. Tian and said, "Greetings to Mother-in-law. "

Mrs. Tian nodded, and Mrs. Ruan, who had been thrown to the corner near the door by her, had an extremely hideous expression on her face as she cast a mean look at Lu Jiao and Mrs. Tian.

She came here to get some stuff after learning that Lu Jiao had gone to her parents' house.

The things that Xie Yunjin's classmates brought can be taken back and used as wedding gifts for Yunhua and as dowry for Xie Lan.

However, she didn't expect Lu Jiao to come back, but even if she came back, she wouldn't be able to stop her. If she dares to stop her, she'll let her face the consequences of stopping her.

A frown was etched on Mrs. Ruan's face as she thought of this, with her hostile eyes glaring alternately at Lu Jiao and Mrs Tian.