My fourth cousin immediately muttered guiltily, "Didn't we give you a red envelope? That's enough money to hire a nanny!"

My third cousin rolled her eyes and said, "That's right, that's right. Besides, you gave birth to a little girl. We're already being kind by not blaming you. You expect us to take care of you? You really have wild ideas."

The eldest cousin chimed in, "You're lucky to have married our Qiao Sheng. What more could you want? Since you married my brother for our money, you have to pay the price. At the very least, you should give our Hu family a healthy baby boy."

Bai Xi was almost tired of hearing these words, but she still patiently repeated them again:

“I was already out of confinement when you gave me the money. Three months had passed, and the baby had been switched. Besides, the money wasn’t what I asked you for; it was your brother who asked you for it. Don’t blame me, okay? I’m tired of talking to you.”

Seeing the noisy women in the house, Hu Qiaosheng was so frightened that he hid next to Yang Zhi and sat obediently beside him.

Now, only the tall and strong Yang Zhineng makes him feel safe!

Seeing that they were still being unreasonable, Bai Xi could no longer tolerate it and finally lost her temper.

She said irritably, "You all started making a racket as soon as you came in. Can't you just shut up for a minute? It's so annoying."

Thinking of this, Bai Xi was furious. "You say I'm after your family's money? I married into your Hu family when I was eighteen, almost nine years ago. How much have you ever given me?"

"You're saying I took your family's money? Did your family give me a bride price? Did they give me a change-of-address fee? You didn't give me anything, so what are you bragging about?"

"If I had known earlier that Hu Qiaosheng had such a group of older sisters, I would never have fallen for him even if you beat me to death."

Looking at the angry, fair-skinned woman, Mrs. Hu felt a little guilty and muttered softly, "Back then, my family was poor."

"Later, when your family became wealthy, I didn't see you make up for it."

"But you didn't ask for it. If you had asked, we would definitely have given it to you."

"Luckily I didn't speak up. If I had, I would never have been able to hold my head up high in the Hu family again."

When the eldest cousin heard that Bai Xi looked down on her cousin, her anger, which had just been suppressed, flared up again.

The Hu family members were generally not tall, and she was afraid of being overshadowed by the 168cm tall, fair-skinned woman, so she stood a short distance away and pointed at her, saying:

"Why do you look down on Qiao Sheng? Our Qiao Sheng is rich and handsome, he's just a little short, but otherwise he's perfect. Why do you look down on him?"

Bai Xi wasn't afraid of her at all, and deliberately picked out the most hurtful things to say to her, each sentence piercing the hearts of the Hu family women.

The argument between the two sides grew increasingly heated, and the eldest cousin made a move as if she was about to attack Bai Xi.

Seeing that the two sides were about to fight, Yang Zhi, who was sitting on the sofa, quickly spoke up.

As an outsider, he shouldn't meddle in the Hu family's affairs.

However, seeing that Bai Xi would definitely suffer a loss if she took on several women from the Hu family by herself, she quickly stepped in to smooth things over.

"Alright, alright, we're here to talk about the kids, so let's not go off-topic."

As soon as the child was mentioned, Mrs. Hu immediately said, "Both families should get a DNA paternity test done. It will be clear immediately whether the child has been switched. I have a relative who works at a hospital. I'll have Mr. Qiao put in a word with him, and it can speed things up for us."

The eldest cousin chimed in, "Let's make this clear first: if that boy is from our family, we're going to take him home."

Yang Zhi quickly retorted, "I won't agree. I raised him all these years, why should you just take him away like that? We have to respect the child's wishes..."

Bai Xi watched as they were about to argue heatedly in the living room again. Before the divorce, she often encountered such scenes and was already used to them.

Actually, Bai Xi didn't want to hand the child over to the Hu family. There were many women in their family, and they still followed the traditional model of men being in charge of external affairs and women being in charge of internal affairs. This spoiled Hu the man, making him lazy, cowardly, and without any sense of responsibility.

The women in the Hu family seem quite formidable, but they're all talk and no action. They're only good at bullying people at home, and they don't even know how to use foul language when they curse.

It's just the same few sentences over and over again. At first, it makes you angry, but it gets more and more boring as you listen to it. The insults have no power at all.

The family doesn't have any particularly bad intentions, they just have a few petty thoughts.

They didn't treat Bai Xi as one of their own, so they were wary and calculating towards her in every way, which she could understand. After all, she was also wary of the Hu family.

She won't argue with them about these things now; all she needs to do in the future is win over Hu Qiaosheng. She's confident she can get him to back down.

.........

At Xingxing Kindergarten, Hu Feifei, a senior student, is having a great time.

She was pulling the hair of the little girl sitting in the front row. The little girl was obviously a bit timid; she didn't dare to make a sound while her hair was being pulled, but her eyes were full of tears, and her little mouth was pouting, clearly she was furious.

Hu Feifei realized she couldn't tease her anymore, or the teacher would find out and her parents would have to be called in again. If her dad came, he'd definitely spank her again.

A short while later, the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

This was the last class, so the teacher quickly had the children put on their clothes and shoes, tidy up their desks, and then took them outside to wait for their parents to pick them up.

When Hu Feifei was waiting for her mother at the school gate, she immediately noticed that Yang Mingpeng was also waiting there.

She tiptoed over and gently tugged at Yang Mingpeng's little schoolbag. Yang Mingpeng was staring eagerly at the door, hoping his father would come to pick him up.

His father used to wait for him at the door as soon as he finished class, but it seems he hasn't come yet today.

He was feeling a little down, his head hanging low, when suddenly he felt his little backpack being tugged.

He turned around and saw that it was Hu Feifei. He immediately asked happily, "Feifei, what can I do for you?"

His neighbor's little sister, Feifei, used to be so aloof. She would always look up at him and never talk to him. Now that she's taking the initiative to be friendly with him, he's overjoyed. Apart from going to kindergarten, he doesn't have any close friends.

She's either going to work with her dad or playing happily at kindergarten.

Hu Feifei seemed to have a little secret to tell him. She tiptoed close to his ear and whispered, "I heard from my dad that your mom and dad got divorced. Is that true?"

Yang Mingpeng's mood was slightly affected when he heard her ask that question.

He didn't want to tell Feifei any of this. When his parents divorced, he was often talked about in the village. People said he was abandoned by his mother and that he was a bad kid, otherwise why would his mother not want him?

He wasn't sad at all. His mother didn't want him anyway, and he didn't spend much time with her or know her well.

He's just a little annoyed because the other kids don't want to play with him.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Hu Feifei said again, "No wonder Aunt Lü hasn't come to your house anymore. Sigh, I miss her."

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