Chapter 85 Beating Up the First Wife_1
Ever since hearing that his younger brother’s wife had been rewarded with one hundred taels of silver by a nobleman in Zhou’s Family, Mu Zhongli treated that silver as part of his own wealth. The Second Room belongs to the Mu Family, so by all rights, their money should also go to us in the main room. This is only natural and just. When he heard that the Second Room had taken the money and left without saying a word, he was nearly driven mad. Blisters from burns even started to form on his lips. After all, that was a hundred hard-earned taels of silver!
Later, through much painstaking inquiry, he finally learned from a villager who went into town for some New Year’s shopping last night that Zhou’s father had been running a kebab stall at the Bafu Restaurant in town. The Zhou Family and the folks in the Second Room had always been in good relations and they both left at the same time, so they surely knew the whereabouts of the Second Room. Thus, as soon as day broke, he took his son and rushed off in a fit of anxiety. He was determined that, no matter what happened today, he had to get that one hundred taels of silver back by hook or by crook!
Outside the door of the Bafu Restaurant
The father and son of the Mu and Zhou Families were standing facing each other, their eyes filled with anger. Mu Zhongli, with his neck stiff, roared at Zhou Laowu, "By what right does a Zhou like you stop me from seeing my nephews and nieces? I’m their real uncle, that surely means more than your outsider status!"
Zhou Laowu was also looking grim, with an equally unyielding sarcasm, "Eldest Brother Mu, we’ve lived in the same village for so many years. I know you well enough to know when you’re laying an egg. If it wasn’t for the handful of taels of silver in the Second Room, you wouldn’t even remember having a nephew or niece in the Second Room!"
"You...you’re talking nonsense!"
Being seen through his real intentions, Mu Zhongli flew into a rage over his sense of shame, pointing at Zhou Laowu and cursing, "Well done, Zhou Laowu, you seem dutiful and honest, but you’re actually the most deceitful one! Here you are meddling and not letting me see the Second Room. You definitely have your eyes on the hundred taels of silver from my family’s second room. You think they are some weak women and children that are easy to deceive! Let me tell you, so long as I, Mu Zhongli, am around, you won’t even get a single penny from my family’s money!"
"Your family’s silver? You’ve got nerve, guessing everyone else with the same low standards as yours! How ridiculous!" Zhou Laowu couldn’t help laughing out of anger.
These two quarrelled and clashed on one side, and Mu Chongcai, who was watching from the sidelines, had already grown impatient. This impatient butcher was a hothead, who had a preference for fighting and brawling. He just wanted to gang up on Zhou Family’s father and son, knock them down, and force them to disclose where the Second Room was!