My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

However, the two did not get to see Kong Xiufang's heartbroken tears and regretful expression.

After the two helped Wei Shen back to his residence, Kong Xiufang quickly came to greet them. Seeing their appearance, Kong Xiufang was astonished, "What happened?"

Following Wei Shen's instructions, Shi Tiezhu and Zhang Xiong recounted their encounter with their enemies on the way.

Kong Xiufang's face almost contorted in shock.

"You mean you didn't catch up with her at all? You ran into your enemies on the way and got into a fight with them?"

Shi Tiezhu said, "Yes, but actually the reason we confronted our enemies today was to track down the refugee you mentioned. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been so careless as to run into them."

Kong Xiufang's expression changed instantly. "Those are your own enemies from before, they have nothing to do with me, don't expect me to take responsibility."

Shi Tiezhu glanced at Wei Shen, seemingly unwilling but forced to compromise due to Wei Shen's imposing presence, and said, "We didn't mean to ask you to take responsibility. It's just that Brother Wei was seriously injured, and we brothers were also badly injured. We're afraid we won't be able to fulfill our promise to you for the time being."

Kong Xiufang looked at the group, sighed inwardly at her bad luck, and stormed off.

On the other side, after Ji Yunshuang and Gao Lan divided the money, they drove the oxcart back to the village.

The three men had just reached the village entrance in their oxcart when they heard a woman scream. And the sound was coming from the direction of the Fang family's old house.

Upon hearing the sound, Gao Lan's joy vanished, and her hands, gripping the cow rope, turned pale.

Seeing this, Ji Yunshuang guessed that the lady was related to her and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Gao Lan said awkwardly and nervously, "That's my mother-in-law's voice. I don't know what she's up to now. What if she's offended me in any way..."

Ji Yunshuang patted her hand reassuringly and said, "Don't worry, she is her, and you are you. It won't affect our friendship because of her. And I won't hold back from slapping her just to save face for you when she goes too far."

Hearing Ji Yunshuang's words, Gao Lan suddenly felt relieved.

She laughed and said, "Let's do it this way, Sister Ji. You're such a straightforward person. I really like you."

With that, Gao Lan quickened her pace, urging the oxcart towards the Fang family's old house.

At the entrance of the Fang family's old house, Old Lady Wang was cursing Gu Chunzhi with spittle flying, saying that Gu Chunzhi was a widow and must be having affairs everywhere, which is why her son followed suit and stole her second daughter-in-law as soon as he arrived.

"You guys really have a good plan. You want my son to work for your family, and your son to secretly sleep with my wife, and then you don't have to take responsibility?"

Old Mrs. Wang put one hand on her hip, pointed at Gu Chunzhi, and cursed, "I'm telling you, no way! You have to give me an explanation today, or I'll go to the yamen to file a complaint. A family like yours, which has no shame, must move out of Shuanghe Village. You can't stay in the village and tarnish our reputation."

Upon hearing the news, Wang Erniu rushed over. While apologizing to Lu Yinheng and Gu Chunzhi, he pulled Old Lady Wang towards home, advising, "Mother, don't listen to the rumors outside. Lanniang isn't that kind of person."

Besides, Lu Erdi is a handsome and talented man; what kind of wife couldn't he find? How could he possibly have an affair with Lanniang?

This is definitely a lie someone made up out of jealousy about our close relationship, trying to frame us. Don't fall for their tricks.

Old Mrs. Wang refused to leave, and began hitting her son hard, saying, "How could I have given birth to such a fool like you? People are defecating in your wife's burrow, and you're still taking their side. You're all a bunch of idiots, who would be so jealous of you? Are you trying to drive me crazy?"

Wang Erniu let Old Lady Wang throw him around, but he said, "Mother, I know I can't compare to my eldest brother and third brother. You can look down on me, but you can't join outsiders in smearing Lanniang. I know what kind of person she is. She would never do anything to betray me."

Old Mrs. Wang was heartbroken. "Good heavens! Good heavens! You've forgotten your mother after you got married. You don't even believe your own mother anymore."

Wang Erniu lowered his head, "I didn't!"

"You don't have it, then you—" Before Old Lady Wang could come up with any brilliant idea, she saw her second daughter-in-law driving an oxcart back with the Lu family's daughter-in-law.

Thinking of the gossip in the village, she was instantly enraged and gritted her teeth, saying, "You should drown that slut in a pig cage right now."

Gao Lan's face paled, but she forced herself to remain calm and said, "Mother... what's wrong? I..."

"You still have the nerve to ask what happened?" Old Mrs. Wang said, spitting as she spoke, "The whole village knows about your scandalous affair with the second son of the Lu family."

She glared at Ji Yunshuang with a venomous look. "You went out with this slut? What were you doing? Is she a pimp? Promoting you to her own second uncle wasn't enough, she also—"

Before she could finish speaking, Ji Yunshuang slapped her, knocking out three of her teeth.

Old Mrs. Wang's yellow teeth, along with blood and saliva, stained Ji Yunshuang's hand. She disgustedly took out a handkerchief to wipe her hands, saying, "It stinks!"

No one knew whether she meant that Old Lady Wang's mouth was too smelly, or that her saliva was too smelly, or both.

In short, I was deeply moved.

Grandma Wang covered her face, too shocked to speak for a long time.

She had dominated Shuanghe Village for many years, and was practically invincible in verbal sparring. The young wives in the village didn't dare to challenge her.

There were a few veterans who could barely put up a fight against them a few years ago.

But ever since Wang Dazhi and Wang Xiaofeng have both made a name for themselves in the past two years, the other few shrewish old women in the village have stopped bothering them.

After all, every time they argued, Old Lady Wang would say that her son Xiaofeng gave her half a string of silver every month, and that her son Dazhi had sent back some nice things, which really stung her.

To my surprise, the newly arrived young wife in the village, who was not much of a talker, knocked out three of her teeth.

Amidst the shocked gazes of the crowd, Ji Yunshuang finally wiped her hands clean.

She raised an eyebrow, looked around at the onlookers, and said in an icy tone, "Someone tell me, what exactly is going on here? I'm an upright young lady, I can't be unjustly labeled as a pimp."

The crowd, who had just been watching the spectacle, suddenly felt a surge of oppressive power. They looked at each other, but no one dared to utter a sound.

Finally, Lu Wuzheng said, "Sister-in-law, Aunt Wang came to cause trouble because she heard rumors outside. I don't know which family wants to harm me and Sister-in-law Wang, but they actually spread rumors about us..."

He simply couldn't bring himself to say what came next.

But those few words from him were enough.

Ji Yunshuang turned to look at Old Lady Wang and said, "Who told you this? Find the person and we'll confront them."

When Old Lady Wang met her gaze, she inexplicably dared not act out. She pointed to two women in the crowd and said, "That's what I heard from them."

Ji Yunshuang looked over, and the two women immediately shook their heads, saying that they had only heard it from others.

Wu Xialian was enjoying watching the excitement from the crowd when Ji Yunshuang arrived and started investigating the case like a county magistrate.

She panicked and quickly shrank her neck and bent her waist, trying to sneak away.