Chapter 84: Chapter 84 Fractured Bones
“How dare you, Auntie Sun, to bully your way here—I see you’re tired of living,” Xuexue emerged from the shadows, her gaze icy as she looked at the couple.
“Xuexue, you’re back! I was so worried about you. What did they do to you?” Madam Xie hurried forward as soon as she saw Xuexue, examining her from head to toe before asking.
The words that Auntie Sun had blurted out earlier had left Madam Xie terrified—it would have been strange if she wasn’t worried.
“Mom, I’ll tell you about it later. I need to deal with these two scumbags first.”
As Xuexue suddenly appeared, Mo Xiaoqiang and Auntie Sun involuntarily exchanged glances, both seeing elation in each other’s eyes. As long as she had returned, they could explain themselves to the Butcher, and it seemed that the forty taels of silver were now secure.
Just as Mo Xiaoqiang was secretly pleased with the prospect of gaining silver, he heard Xuexue’s scornful words and immediately stiffened, assuming a fatherly authority as he loudly admonished, “Xuexue, do not be disrespectful! She is your stepmother, and I am your father. How can you, a junior, speak to us this way? You are becoming more and more presumptuous.”
“Bah! To have you as a father is truly my misfortune.” Recalling the events of the evening, which had been nothing but terrifying, and if it hadn’t been for the injured man she encountered, she would probably have died from burning lust. Xuexue could no longer hold back and spat at him.
From tonight’s incident, she realized that Mo Xiaoqiang was nothing but scum, from initially being unaware to eventually condoning Auntie Sun bringing a man to rape his own daughter, all for forty taels of silver.
“Xuexue, how can you speak to your father like that? He was only looking out for you, finding you a good marriage,” Auntie Sun, a cunning woman, slithered forward, feigning concern for Xuexue as she smiled.
“And you, you vixen spirit! I feel nauseous just looking at you. Disappear from my sight before I lose my temper,” Xuexue said, glaring angrily.
“Xuexue, Butcher Yu is waiting for you, so you should return with your stepmother now,” Auntie Sun coaxed, carefully observing Xuexue’s reactions to see if she showed any signs of being affected by the aphrodisiac. If she was, she and Mo Xiaoqiang could carry her back to the Mo family and deliver her to Butcher Yu.
“Not leaving, are you? Well, if you don’t leave, you might consider leaving your other ear behind,” Xuexue said as she picked up a pole lying on the ground—it was the same one Auntie Sun had been holding earlier.
Watching the clear sharpness in Xuexue’s eyes apart from rage, Auntie Sun was greatly puzzled. The aphrodisiac she had administered should have been effective, given the reliability of those drugs she had obtained from her time in the brothel, courtesy of nanny.
While Auntie Sun was dazed, Xuexue struck her with the stick.
Reacting instinctively for self-protection, Auntie Sun automatically raised her arm to block…
The sound of breaking bones was audible, showing just how furious Xuexue was. If not restrained by the consequences of murder, she would have smashed Auntie Sun’s head in to avoid further trouble.
“Ah…, it hurts, it kills me!”
Auntie Sun clutched her arm, crouching on the ground and wailing miserably.
This sudden turn of events stunned Mo Xiaoqiang; he thought Xuexue, like Madam Xie, would not dare to actually strike and was just blustering. So, he did not take her words seriously and was considering, once back home and Auntie Sun gave him the silver, visiting the brothel tomorrow for a tender reunion.