Chapter 235: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 235: Gaining Another Uncle (3)
Indeed, the Mo family had three or four grown-up daughters and granddaughters! Upon hearing this, some of the onlookers began to understand the difficulties faced by the old Mo family.
However, even if selling daughters to scrape together dowry money was a common practice, who in their right mind would dare to marry their daughter into such a family? With such a precedent, if the Mo family continued to be poor in the future, would daughters born into the family be sold off to other families to scrape together dowry money again?
Thinking of this, the people's sympathy for the old Mo vanished into thin air.
"Even so, you can't sell our Erni'er!" Upon hearing this, Niu Shi held onto Mo Erni'er and started crying, using the opportunity to make a scene. "We're poor, but it's not Erni'er's fault. Why sell her? Big brother and sister-in-law still have two daughters. Why not sell them instead?"
This hit a sore spot for first family.
Wu Shi was furious, her eyes going dark, wishing she could rush up and give this malicious sister-in-law a beating! If it weren't for her coming up with the rotten idea, how could her fourth daughter have been sold off?
Now, hearing Niu Shi's suggestion to sell her daughter again, all the old grievances surged up, and with a roar, she pounced forward, grabbing Niu Shi's hair and starting to hit her.
"You rotten thing with a black heart, what grudge do you have against me to want to sell my daughter? You've already harmed my fourth daughter, and now you want to harm my eldest and third daughters too? I'll beat you to death, you black-hearted wretch!"
Ever since Niu Shi married into the Mo family, she had always been domineering and oppressive towards Wu Shi. Enduring years of humiliation, all the pent-up anger burst out at once. With a surprising burst of strength, she pressed Niu Shi down and started hitting her wildly.
Niu Shi, caught off guard, was hit a few times by Wu Shi. However, being sturdy and well-fed, she was much stronger than the thin and weak Wu Shi. She quickly pushed Wu Shi off and started fighting back.
The two sisters-in-law fought each other, pulling hair, scratching necks, and grabbing faces—using almost every move in the book when it came to women's fights.
From selling daughters to splitting the family, then from fathers hitting sons to now sisters-in-law fighting each other, the whole scene seemed like a grand drama. Even the people from the Mo family's entourage were wide-eyed in astonishment.
Mo Yan had long wanted to beat Niu Shi, but she refrained due to her seniority. Now that Wu Shi had started, she wished Wu Shi would give Niu Shi a few more hits, but she also worried that Wu Shi might suffer.
The old Mo's face was as black as ink. He shouted at his dumbfounded sons, "Hurry up and pull these two women apart!"
Finally, after much difficulty, the two sisters-in-law, who were reluctant to part, were separated by their respective husbands' pulling and dragging. Niu Shi still had a few strands of Wu Shi's hair between her fingers, while there were still pieces of Wu Shi's flesh under Niu Shi's fingernails.
The two of them glared at each other, wishing they could rush up again and pin each other down to beat each other up.
Having seen enough of the spectacle, it was time to get back to business.
At this moment, the three henchmen who had been sitting watching the show stood up and walked towards the old Mo. The female leader looked at Mo Erni'er, who was still kneeling on the ground, and nodded in satisfaction at Hong Shi. "This girl looks quite delicate, but she's a bit too old. Not easy to train. I'll give you eight taels of silver."
As she spoke, the woman took out eight pieces of silver weighing one tael each from her purse and handed them to Mo Hongshi.
Hong Shi's face sank, displeased. "Eight taels of silver? I heard that girls of her age can be sold for twenty taels."
The woman looked at Hong Shi, a meaningful smile playing on her lips. "If you sell her to a high-class brothel or a secret brothel, you can get forty taels, not to mention twenty. It depends on whether Auntie is willing or not."
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