Mu Yu had always been threatened. In the past, Bai Zhi would at most scare her, but Huifang directly poisoned her.
"Mom, she harmed me."
Mu Yu cried profusely, pointing at Huifang as she spoke.
Huifang blinked her confused, big eyes, looking somewhat wronged and sad.
"Sister, what are you talking about? Everyone has seen how sincere I am towards you. What good does it do you to slander me ?"
A smile lingered on her lips, and she appeared not to be angry, just a bit wronged.
Old Mrs. Mu observed her daughter’s face, which had completely changed in that moment.
"What have you done to my daughter? I trusted you so much. How could you bully my daughter?"
In that instant, Old Mrs. Mu found it hard to accept; she had trusted Huifang way more than Bai Xin.
She had not only handed over the grocery store to her but also let her manage the house.
"How does doing this benefit you? I had accepted you, trusted you with the grocery store. How could you betray my trust ?"
She thought about how she had already borne their Mu Family’s child, so she definitely wouldn’t be unfaithful, but she never expected Huifang to go this far.
"Your words are strange. How have I betrayed your trust? Haven’t I been good to you all? I even cook for you."
Huifang sneered coldly, no longer pretending. She had suffered quite a bit this month.
"You and your old hag ways, one moment the food isn’t salty enough, the next it’s too soft—I’ve had enough of you, let me tell you.
Your daughter, pig-like, did I do wrong by making her lose weight? It’s lucky that someone would want her at all, and do you know why your son was taken away?
Huifang stood before them, looking down on them as if they were clowns.
"You’re talking nonsense, just nonsense."
Before Old Mrs. Mu could speak, Mu Yu had already started screaming in despair.
"Am I talking nonsense?" Huifang laughed even louder, her look full of sarcasm.
"Tell me, why were you threatened by me? Isn’t it because you were afraid that your old mother would find out that your brother was taken away because of you? That day, they hauled away two big trucks full of gold and silver jewelry from your house."
Huifang knew this because the neighbors had told her.
"What are you saying..."
Old Mrs. Mu looked at Huifang incredulously, then turned back to Mu Yu.
Mu Yu was so scared she cried even more, her guilty appearance making Old Mrs. Mu’s heart skip a beat.
"It’s not true, Mom, I didn’t mean to harm my brother, I really didn’t. I didn’t deliberately boast about our family’s wealth, and I didn’t lead Bai Zhi and the others there; I just couldn’t bear their mocking."
It was just unbearable, their mocking looks that led her to...
Old Mrs. Mu, without hesitation, slapped her.
Mu Yu widened her eyes, unable to accept that her mother had just hit her.
"It was you I hit; how could you hurt your brother ? Do you know he is our family’s hope? Why wasn’t it you who got arrested—why not you?"
In that moment, Old Mrs. Mu would have rather it been Mu Yu who was arrested, not Mu Yi.
"I was wrong, so now I’m paying for it; now I’ve been poisoned. What more do you want? Considering you thought of selling me, this isn’t much, is it?"