Mu Yan hadn't spoken yet when Li Hua and her mother suddenly squeezed out of the crowd, rushing over to stand in front of Mu Yan.

  "Grandma, it was actually Mu Yan's father who saved me and Nainai back then. He is our benefactor!"

  Don't look at old Mrs. Li's age, but her spirit is not one bit worse, she's got one hand on her waist and the other spitting a mouthful of phlegm onto the ground.

  "Rubbish! What lifesaver? You think that little money can raise his son? He must be dreaming!"

  Then he looked at Mu Yan: "Didn't your dad leave you anything when he left? Or didn't he tell you when to come pick you up?"

  Mu Yan shook his head with a gloomy face.

  "I didn't know my dad was leaving, it was only after he left and I saw the letter he left behind that I found out about Auntie!"

  The implication is that his father had already arranged a way out for him, and since it was a way out, he couldn't come back to find him again.

  "Letter? Can you recognize characters? Still characters?"

  "Of course I know characters, my father is knowledgeable, how can I not recognize characters, can't my father teach me?"

  The old lady was speechless after this scolding, and only then did she remember that her father-in-law was in the know.

  He was a young intellectual sent to the countryside, and was arranged by a peasant woman to get married, which for him was absolutely humiliating.

  This humiliation was absolutely unacceptable for him, he didn't even have time to recover, how could he possibly take the initiative to come back?

  As for whether his father left him anything or not, it's none of your business as an old lady.

  Moyan changed the subject with just a few words and didn't respond directly at all.

  "That's impossible! You've brought nothing and just come to my Li family to freeload!"

  "You may have fooled Li Hua, but you can't fool me! I disagree!"

  Joking aside, having one more mouth to feed may not affect others much, but it's a big impact on her.

  With this kid around, will she still be filial in the future?

  But it had never occurred to him that Mu Yan was already a half-grown child, old enough to earn work points, and didn't need Li Hua to support him; he could support himself.

  Some people's vision is narrow to the point of being confined to a well, and they never think far ahead.

  Mu Yan didn't bother to entangle with the old lady too much, but instead gave Li Hua a grateful glance.

  This glance contained too many emotions, and even if Li Hua reacted slowly, Mu Yan had said such a big lie for the sake of her mother and daughter, and she was willing to take the risk of being pursued by the Wang family. As a person who is about to become their aunt, if she doesn't show some presence, it would be too much.

  She is indeed a foolish filial daughter, but she also knows how to repay kindness. She is very clear that her current situation is the result of someone's efforts.

  He immediately ignored the old lady's words and stared at her intently.

  "Grandma, when I was on the verge of death in the hospital and my child and I were starving, if it weren't for the kindness of others helping us, would we be where we are today?"

  What you're implying is that when I was on the brink of death, none of you cared, but the benefactor did. Now that I've managed to survive, I'm not even allowed to repay them?

  What kind of twisted logic is this?

  Thinking of this, even Li Hua with a good temper had some resentment towards the old lady.

  She took a deep breath and spoke in a stiff voice towards the old lady's gloomy and frightening face.

  "So whether you agree or not, I will raise this child. Besides, when the child grows up, it won't need me to exert any effort, nor do you."

  With a "slap", the old lady actually jumped up and slapped Li Hua with all her might, without any politeness.

  Not only was Li Hua stunned by this slap, but the scene also became quiet in an instant because of it.

  Li Xiang saw that his mother had been beaten and felt extremely angry. Looking at the old lady's distorted face, he suddenly burst into tears.

  "Bad person, old lady is a bad person, old lady hit my mom, you are a bad person, don't give you meat to send, don't give you grain to send, mom, don't be good to her!"