Chapter 959: A son alive is better than dead
The Li family hated Yu Dong and the Yu family, they wanted to make use of Yu Le's identity as a mer and Li Sangyu's husband to make the Yu family submit to them but instead of agreeing with them, Yu Dong simply arched a brow and said, " And send my uncle for you all to kill? There is no need for so much nonsense, take out the dowry that you took. I have enough money to raise Uncle Le and his daughter for the rest of their lives."
If you have the money then why are you ripping us off? Are ten taels that big of a thing for you ?!
Though the Li family scolded Yu Dong, they couldn't beat her up. Especially after seeing Li Sangyu being sent flying away when she somehow managed to summon her courage to attack Yu Dong. All it took was a flick of Yu Dong's arm and Li Sangyu broke open the wall of the thatched hut as she was sent flying.
In the end, under Yu Dong's tyranny, they had to take out not only the ten taels but even the head gears that Min Yan liked a lot. Though the mer made a huge fuss but no one was in any mood to listen to him anymore, their lives were on the line, how can they care about a mer who could not see past his benefits and greed?
Even Old Master Li who usually allowed Min Yan to get away with a lot of things was annoyed and shouted at him, " If you have so much to complain then go and ask your mother to make you some silver head gears stop making a fuss in front of us!"
" Uncle..?" Min Yan was shocked when he saw Old Master Li getting angry at him but for the sake of not making things difficult for himself in the Li family, he stayed quiet. But at the same time, he was truly envious of Yu Le, that mer really had it all —— not only was he good-looking, he even had such a protective family, if he was to return home, his father would beat the crap out of him for getting a divorce from his wife!
Why was god so unfair?
Yu Dong looked at the ten taels of silver and the head gears before turning to look at the puny amount of meat in the basket that the Li family offered her and curled the side of her lips, " You only brought this much? I thought that my mother gave you venison, beef and bear claws… where are those?"
' But your mother was a huntress! She could catch them with ease, where do you want us to bring those things?' Old Madam Li cursed Yu Dong a hundred times in her head, if she had known that Yu Le had such a backing she wouldn't have allowed her daughter to act foolishly anymore but it was too late to regret!
She smiled at Yu Dong and then replied with an awkward smile, " Miss Yu… we are just a small family who rely on farming, how can we even get those things?"
" But you sure opened your mouth wide when you asked for those things right?" Old Madam Yu sneered when she remembered how Old Madam Li asked for this and that from her saying that what she was asking was normal and it was a dowry that every mer received from their family!
Old Madam Li stiffened upon hearing Old Madam Yu's words, she looked at the elderly woman and stated quietly, " There is no need for you to be so stiff, Madam Yu. I know that you are angry but you cannot drive our family to a corner like this!"
" Humph," Old Madam Yu sneered upon hearing Old Madam Li's words because she still remembered how Old Madam Li asked for seven silver taels as Yu Le's dowry after he got engaged to Li Sangyu, back then Old Madam Yu said the same thing. She told Old Madam Li that she did not have enough money and yet the woman simply shrugged her shoulders and asked her to sell her house if there was not enough money while threatening to break off the engagement.
Back then if Old Madam Yu was not scared of ruining her son's reputation, she would have let this woman break the engagement! At least then her son would have never suffered like this, it was her fault to care so much about society and what others would say that her son suffered this much.
Old Madam Yu shivered when she thought about how these people left her son to die, if he was not strong enough then he would have frozen to death somewhere and she would have never known what these people did to him —— if she had known then she would have accepted her son with a bad reputation because a son with a bad reputation was much better than a dead one.
" I don't care! The venison alone could have fetched my daughter more than ten taels and yet she handed it all to you —— even the bear claws and beef were handed to you to nourish my son after he got married but I don't think it went inside his stomach, you ate meat which costs more than thirty taels and dared to look down on my son and mistreat him?" Old Madam Yu snapped as she banged her cane on the ground. " My granddaughter already said that we are going to make you spit back everything you took… don't think that the Yu family members are dead just because my son was kind enough to treat you all nicely even when you mistreated him. For me, my son is more important than anything … I don't care if you don't him back, I can raise him on my own!"
" This old woman is capable enough to that but what you did to him…" Old Madam Yu's eyes flashed as she sneered, " I can never forgive that… so today I will teach you a lesson that you will think twice before harming a mer ever again."
She then turned to look at Yu Dong and with her chin raised said, " Do whatever you want make them spit out those thirty taels and the medical expenses for little Yuya."
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