Chapter 94: Chapter 94 Damn Butcher Yu
After Auntie Sun returned from Doctor Xu’s place, where her wound had been dressed, she lay on her bed, crying and weeping all night, sleepless. The pain from the wound on her arm was nothing compared to the agony in her heart.
Having lost all her gold and silver treasures, those were the hard-earned money she got by selling her body. She had planned that with that wealth, she would have a worry-free next life. But that damned Butcher Yu had caused her to return to her old destitute ways, now literally left with nothing at all.
Auntie Sun felt an extraordinary pain in her heart, the more she thought about it, the angrier she got. It wasn’t even dawn yet when she quietly got up, changed her clothes, hastily dressed up, and left the house.
Butcher Yu’s village was quite far, just riding a bullock-cart would take four hours; moreover, it was not yet bright outside, and there were no bullock-carts available. Wanting to retrieve her money sooner, Auntie Sun steeled her heart and decided to walk there.
Auntie Sun went off to settle accounts with Butcher Yu without Mo Xiaoqiang noticing, as he was still lying in bed, snugly under his quilt, fast asleep.
It wasn’t until a piercing scream rang out in the main hall that he was awakened.
“Oh my! Who is it? Disturbing my beautiful dream this early in the morning, how annoying.” Disturbed by Auntie Sun’s crying the previous night, he had only fallen asleep at midnight, and just when Mo Xiaoqiang was deeply asleep, he couldn’t help but mutter a complaint, turned over with the quilt, and continued sleeping.
It wasn’t until Old Lady Mo appeared in his room and shouted, “Mo Xiaoqiang, what on earth happened at home?”
Last night they had gone to the town to attend a wedding feast. After the feast, they had realized it was too late and unsafe to travel back at night, so they had stayed overnight in town and hurried home early in the morning.
As soon as they entered the village, the villagers looked at them strangely, but they didn’t mind, assuming that it was because they had enjoyed fine food at the town feast and the villagers were envious of their family.
Unexpectedly, when they got home and opened the door, they were startled; the house was a complete mess, not a single thing was intact, everything was smashed, and the people of the Mo family were terrified half to death. The scene was as if bandits had raided them. The family members quickly reacted, each rushed back to their rooms to check if their possessions were untouched.
Upon inspection, they were relieved to find no loss at all, but Old Lady Mo flew into a rage, blaming Mo Xiaoqiang and his wife for leaving the house in such a state.
Enraged, she wanted to settle accounts with Auntie Sun, but found only Mo Xiaoqiang asleep in his room, with no sign of Auntie Sun.
“Oh my! Mother, what are you doing? So early in the morning, won’t you let me sleep?” Mo Xiaoqiang mumbled sleepily.
“Sleep, sleep, I’ll let you sleep,” Old Lady Mo retorted sarcastically.
The big incident at home and Mo Xiaoqiang’s leisurely attitude completely infuriated Old Lady Mo. For the first time in her life, she lost her temper with her son, stepped forward in three strides, and yanked off the thick quilt from his body.
Mo Xiaoqiang, who was wearing just a thin robe to sleep, felt a sudden rush of cold when the quilt was removed by Old Lady Mo and involuntarily shivered, instantly fully awake.
“Qiangqiang, what exactly happened at home?” Old Lady Mo was extremely anxious, faced with an unconcerned Mo Xiaoqiang.
Reminded by Old Lady Mo, Mo Xiaoqiang suddenly recalled the events of the previous night. He hastily turned to look and realized that Auntie Sun was missing. He quickly asked, “Mother, where is my wife?”
“Who knows where that damned woman has gone to! I left the house to her care, and she let it come to this state. When I see her, I’m going to skin her alive, she’s really made me furious.” Old Lady Mo was furious, not wishing to vent her anger on her own son, she reserved it for Auntie Sun.