She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Grandma Yu: "What nonsense are you spouting, old woman? Of course, a son takes my husband's surname, not his mother's."

Grandma Xia: "Well, you didn't have a son either, did you? What are you barking about, you dog? You even said you'd better jump into the river and die. Go ahead and die then. There's a river right behind us, so it's convenient for you to jump."

Grandma Yu nimbly got up from the ground. She couldn't understand what Grandma Xia was saying. Isn't it something that only married men do when their children take their surname? What was she talking about?

"Are you out of your mind?" Grandma Yu yelled.

Grandma Xia: "You're the one who's messed up, you murderer."

Grandma Yu: "Are you sick? You've been living here for so long, how dare you talk to me like that?"

Old Mrs. Xia: "Are you sick? Are you going to kill someone?"

Grandma Yu: "Who do those little brats think they are?"

Old Mrs. Xia: "You're a woman too, you're not human, you're a beast, you've killed people."

Grandma Yu was furious: "I'll fight you to the death!"

Old Mrs. Xia: "You murderer, do you think I'm afraid of you? Believe me or not, I'll call my apprentice over and beat you and your good-for-nothing son to death with one punch."

Grandma Yu: "Let's see who dares to make a move?"

Qiao Shan returned to Grandma Xia's side at just the right moment. Seeing this scene, he was quite bewildered. He had been called back by Qiao Yi, who had gone to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things. The apprenticeship gift and the housewarming gift were not the same thing.

Old Mrs. Xia: "Disciple, come here now, or your master will be beaten."

When Qiao Shan, a big man, stood in front of the two old ladies, Grandma Yu dared not speak.

What a joke! She's going to take that brat Yu Yan back to marry someone else; she hasn't lived enough yet.

Before leaving, she said harshly, "Zheng Qianlan, you unchaste woman, you've led my granddaughter astray, you beat your mother-in-law and husband, it's outrageous! You just wait and see. I'll let you off the hook today, but don't think I'm giving up so easily. Yu Yan is a child of the Yu family, and it's up to the Yu family to take care of her."

Zheng Qianlan and Yu Yan were stunned. In the past, the people who came to persuade them would at most criticize the Yu family mother and son in a roundabout way, and sometimes they would blame both sides equally. No one had ever helped them as readily and firmly as Old Lady Xia.

Zheng Qianlan helped her daughter up and walked to Grandma Xia's side. "Thank you, sister."

Grandma Xia was still turning her head to praise Qiao Shan's large physique, saying it was very useful, as he didn't even need to lift a finger; just standing there was a living advertisement. Upon hearing this, she waved her hand and said, "What's the big deal? We're all women, and we all suffer. As long as you're not being unreasonable, I'll help if I can."

Although Grandma Xia's own family was in a mess, she didn't know how to manage it anymore. The new courtyard would surely be quieter. Her sister lived alone; if she got along well with the neighbors, they might be able to lend a hand if needed in the future.

Grandma Xia thought she was quite clever; a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative.

After Zheng Qianlan returned home with her daughter, she started crying, showing no signs of the shrew who had just hit and cursed people.

Yu Yan was already used to it. Her mother was all bark and no bite. Every time she finished fighting with Grandma Yu and her father, she would come home crying.

Today, she has a better chance of winning because an older comrade spoke up for her. If it were in the past, there might have been other people from other compounds coming to laugh at her and mock her mother for being unfilial to her elders and for leading her daughter astray and being unfilial to her father.

But why don't they consider that, given the personalities of those people in the Yu family, why should she be filial to her father? Her mother had so many children killed, and the fact that she didn't raise a knife to kill them all was already out of consideration for her.

Because she's alive, her mother still has a glimmer of hope. If she were gone, her mother wouldn't even want to live anymore, and she'd definitely take all those wicked people from the Yu family with her.

Even if I don't have that much ability, I will try my best to take as many people as I can.

If you set a fire in the middle of the night, everyone will die.

Looking at her weeping mother, Yu Yan felt a pang of heartache. Her mother had truly suffered her whole life.

"Mom, let's not argue with them anymore. Why don't you divorce him?" Yu Yan advised again.