The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 79 - Can’t Understand Human Speech (1)_1

Lady Fang’s heart trembled.

Remembering her efforts to separate the household, and now that they had split, she, as a mother, must be strong and resolute!

Drawing in a breath, she said, “We never took Silver Coin from anyone, and we certainly didn’t take yours!”

Fang Li, seeing her denial, looked even more displeased and pointed at Lady Fang and then at Lady Yu, “You two must be in cahoots, huh?

Still claiming you haven’t taken anything—you got nothing from the family separation, renovated the house, and have the silver to feed a few mouths; how dare you say you didn’t take Lady Yu’s money for yourselves!?”

“That was money we saved up on our own!” Lady Fang explained.

“You…

saved up that much money!?” Fang Li didn’t believe it at all.

“If it wasn’t from Lady Yu, where did you manage to save up money?

The Fang family has long disowned you as a daughter, and yet you dare to secretly take your maternal family’s Silver Coin!”

Si Ya, with furious eyes, couldn’t help herself, “That is the money we made by gathering pheasant eggs and selling bamboo rats in the mountains!

We have never laid eyes on one wen money from your family!” Not once did they come when her mother and sisters were starving, threadbare, beaten, and scolded.

Now that they had separated from the family and heard they had a bit of silver, they came demanding money!

“You dare say you haven’t laid eyes on one wen money from my family!?

Don’t think I don’t know that Lady Yu often slips you money in secret!” Fang Li glared at her, then extended his hand towards Lady Fang, “I’ll let the past go, but this time she took money from our home to give to you, and I won’t let this slide—give the money back to me!”

“We truly haven’t taken your money, it was earned by us—our income from selling bamboo rats!” Lady Fang stressed.

Fang Li simply didn’t believe that these women could earn any money, “…still selling bamboo rats?

How come you didn’t say you hunt, catching wild boars, deer, and roes?”

Si Ya teetered on the edge of fury.

Pei Qin stopped her, then looked at Fang Li with a sneer, “Wild boars, deer, and roes are indeed harder to catch than bamboo rats, but it’s not impossible to hunt them.

Do you want to come with us?

When we were living in the mountains, we even came across wolves—wolf pelts probably sell for a good price!”

Fang Li looked at her, pursed his lips contemptuously, and snorted, “Big talk; you think I would believe you?

Hurry up and return our family’s Silver Coin!

Otherwise…”

“Our money is from selling bamboo rats!

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We have never laid eyes on your family’s money!” Si Ya’s face became so enflamed with anger it turned purple-blue.

San Ya, too, looked unwell, “It truly is the money from selling bamboo rats, we sold them in the county town, at Moon Tavern, just ask around and you’ll know!”

Seeing her mention specific details, Fang Li still found it hard to believe, “You few frail women selling bamboo rats…

You must have colluded with Lady Yu and are refusing to hand over the money from my family…”

Pei Qin didn’t let him finish, cursed under her breath, charged at him, grabbed one of his arms, twisted the collar of his clothes, drew up a knee and thrust it viciously into his abdomen.

In a blink of an eye, she had thrown Fang Li violently to the ground.