The word "landlord" is really too sensitive, especially since they had experienced the terrifying memories of that era. So when Old Lady Li shouted it out, not only did she scare the mother and daughter half to death, but also startled Old Man Meng who was hiding in the house smoking his pipe, as well as Meng's two sons.

  "What's going on?"

  Old Meng had just stepped out of the door when he saw the mother and daughter standing at a loss in front of the kitchen door, looking pale.

  "Dad, brother, hurry up and shut her mouth, if she keeps talking like this, our whole family will be unlucky!"

  Heaven knows how terrified she is of going through that dreadful memory again, those two words are like a nightmare to her.

  At present, let alone Meng Yuanyuan, the faces of other members of the Meng family are also extremely ugly.

  Old Meng took his pipe and tapped it on his shoe, then walked over to look at them with a stern face.

  "You two make it clear, how can others come to scold for no reason?"

  Meng's mother opened her mouth, just about to speak, when Meng Yuanyuan couldn't wait any longer and repeated the conversation they had just had.

  "Dad, I don't know how much others have heard, anyway after hearing it all they went out and lay down at the door, bursting into tears. Now is not the time to investigate responsibility, what should we do? Later on there will be more onlookers, but it'll be even harder to wrap things up!"

  "What about Jia Li? Where did he go after this happened?"

  Meng Yuan's heart sank: "He came back for dinner, but there was no food, so he got angry and slammed the door on his way out!"

  "What?" Meng Lao's face seemed to turn even uglier, and Meng Yuen was so scared that she didn't dare make a sound. Just as her father was about to scold her severely, Meng Jia's older brother suddenly furrowed his brow and asked: "Dad, this isn't right, how could that old woman suddenly come to our house? It's clear someone has informed on us!"

  After finishing speaking, she glared at Mengyuan with a resentful tone: "It's all because of you, can't even manage your own man, what's the use of having you?"

  "Isn't it just a matter of adding more water to the thin soup? Must you take it this far? Now that others have grasped your weakness, let's see how you'll wrap things up!"

  "Brother, how can you push all the responsibility onto us? That bowl of soup was still drunk by your son, wasn't it? If he hadn't made a fuss about not being full, mother would have served him more. Now everything is our fault, why don't you look for reasons within yourself? The bowls are all the same, and I haven't seen my three kids say they're not full either."

  "You, you're quite bold now, aren't you? You dare to talk back to me? Weren't those your words? You said you didn't know where he went. Since you don't know where he went, what's wrong with giving it to my son?"

  Old Meng saw that something was wrong and no one wanted to take responsibility but instead thought of how to shirk it, so he got angry, "Alright, all of you shut up!"

  Then he turned to Meng's mother and said, "Don't hide behind me, this matter is your fault. Now that old woman is crying at the door, it's not suitable for a big man like me to go over there, you go." Then he said to Meng Yu again, "Your two sisters are useless, you are the daughter-in-law of our family, you should also go. This is not our Mengjia Village, when you should lower your posture, you should lower it. First think of a way to calm down your mother-in-law before talking about other things."

  Meng Yuanyuan took a look at the crowded people outside, and also saw the disgust towards their family between the lines, it was clear that the old lady had said something again.

  He frowned and took a step back: "I'm not going, I'd rather die than go. Whoever wants to go can go, but I'm not going!"

  He spoke and then turned around and entered the house, Meng's mother hated iron for not becoming steel.

  "Come here, who else will go if you don't? Are those two dough-faced women going to do it? That's the real embarrassment. Come on, or I'll have your mother come over and pull your ears!"