Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 712: Intimidation - Mo Qingze Gets Caught (1)_1

Chapter 712: Chapter 712: Intimidation - Mo Qingze Gets Caught (1)_1

Although it’s said that family scandals should not be publicized, there is no relation between the two families anymore, and the fault does not lie with our own. He didn’t find it difficult to speak up.

After the villagers confirmed that everything Mo Qingze said was true, the elder indeed had no intention of getting involved, "Since this is Ziyu’s private matter, you should resolve it yourself." Having said that, he sat down again and continued to drink with the other instructors.

Seeing this, Old Man Mo and his two companions were completely dumbfounded. Wasn’t their intentional choice to make a scene at this time precisely to garner sympathy in front of everyone and to force this pack of ungrateful wretches to let off their daughter (sister)? How could it have turned out this way?

The reaction of several teachers allowed Mo Qingze to set his mind at ease, and his gaze towards Old Man Mo and the other two was filled with disgust, "Mo Yongxi has harmed my family time and again, and the Government wishes for her ten years of hard labor—all her own doing! Even if you kneel until this ground is worn through today, I, Mo Qingze, will not plead with the Government for the chief culprit who harmed my family. Better you give up hope early and stop bothering us, or else, don’t blame me for being rude!"

Seeing Mo Qingze’s face turned ashen and his demeanor not the least in jest, Old Man Mo and the others felt a sudden surge of timidity. But having waited so long for this opportunity, how could they give it up without a fight?

A dark cloud passed over Old Man Mo’s eyes, but the look on his wrinkled face became more woeful, "Qingze, you’re a Scholar now, and the Yan girl is a County Lord—both father and daughter are dignified persons of status. Even if you’ve cut ties with your second uncle’s family, blood ties can’t be severed! If this gets out, aren’t you afraid that people will say you are bullying others using your power or disowning your relatives?"

Bullying others using power? Disowning relatives? With two such big accusations thrown at them, both the father and daughter of Mo Family’s complexions turned cold—was he hinting that if they didn’t spare Mo Yongxi this time, he would go around tarnishing the Mo Family’s reputation?

It wasn’t just the father and daughter of Mo Family who heard the threat hidden in Old Man Mo’s words. The villagers looked at the three with disdain and began whispering among themselves. It was only natural for a father to seek leniency at the victim’s home for his daughter sentenced to hard labor for harming someone, but turning a plea into a threat was utterly shameless!

"The entire village knows what Mo Yongxi did—she fully deserves her current plight. To think you can threaten us into exonerating her, there’s no way in hell!" Mo Yan was about to burst into laughter from the anger provoked by Old Man Mo as she spoke with emphatic finality, "My Mo Family stands with integrity and fears no skewed shadows. Whether you spread rumors that my father and I are bullies or that we disown our relatives, go ahead with your lies, I want to see if you have the audacity to distort the truth!"

The vile deeds of Mo Yongxi were not only numerous, but everyone in the village was also aware of them. Trying to whitewash Mo Yongxi and shift the blame onto her own family—Mo Yan did not underestimate Old Man Mo, but he simply did not possess that ability. Otherwise, could Lao Mo’s House have fallen into such a dilapidated state?

"You, you..." Seeing the contempt in Mo Yan’s eyes, Old Man Mo suddenly found himself choked up, unable to utter a complete sentence, his face turning beet red.

Mo Yongxi was the only daughter of Lao Mo’s House and born in her father’s old age; Old Man Mo had a tender spot for her in his heart. However, to say he was kneeling on the ground to plead with his nephew for Mo Yongxi out of pure concern—well, that was not necessarily true.

Knowing that his eldest son was incapable and that it was uncertain who would depend on whom in the future; his second son had other plans beyond his control. His only hope was Mo Yongxi. As long as she could be released, the fine marriage with Fang Family could continue, and he could rely on his daughter and Fang Family to enjoy some comfort in old age. In the end, the scene he made today was for his own sake.

Knowing that further commotion would be fruitless, and seeing his hopes for the future dashed, Old Man Mo stopped playing the pitiful card. He rose from the ground and dragged Mo Yongfu up as well, his eyes sunk deep into their sockets, staring venomously at the father and daughter of Mo Family, he said with a spiteful tone, "I will remember the humiliation today! If you father and daughter can be heartless, don’t blame me for being ungrateful, hmph!"