Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 789 Compromise (2)_1

Chapter 789: Chapter 789 Compromise (2)_1

The medicine ball, smoothly sent down with the Spirit Spring Water, showed signs of stabilizing Tie Tou’s pulse after a Moment had passed. Mo Yan then checked Tie Tou’s pulse again and found it steadier. He let out a quiet sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and asked, "Aunt Wu, how did Brother Tie Tou end up like this?"

Upon hearing this, Wu’s face was stricken with deep sorrow, and the tears she had just stopped flowed down once more. "It’s my fault, all my fault. I shouldn’t have hit him so hard, I shouldn’t have forced him to break it off with that girl... It’s all on me, all my fault..."

Through Aunt Wu’s broken words, Mo Yan came to understand why Tie Tou had ended up in such a state. He was extremely frustrated with himself for not intervening earlier to resolve the conflict between mother and son, thinking that perhaps then today’s events might have been avoided.

It turned out that ever since Wu learned her son had fallen for a Kiln girl who had turned to a respectable life and refused to turn back, she had not had a good night’s sleep. Every day, besides setting up her stall, she was busy with matchmakers trying to find a suitable girl.

There were plenty of suitable girls given the Wu family’s circumstances, but Tie Tou was not at all interested. Just a few days ago, Wu found a girl from a neighboring village to her liking and decided to settle the marriage without telling Tie Tou. She spent twenty taels of silver on a pair of gold bracelets as a betrothal gift and sent them to the girl’s family, waiting for an auspicious Moment to make the engagement official.

However, Tie Tou somehow found out about this and ran to the girl’s house in the middle of the night. He just said he had someone he liked already and didn’t want to wrong the girl, asking her to look for another suitor. This infuriated the girl, who hurled the betrothal gift at Tie Tou, the wooden box’s sharp corner drawing blood from his forehead.

The girl’s family, feeling outraged at being insulted by the Wu family, approached the matchmaker the next day demanding an explanation. Wu only found out about Tie Tou’s actions after returning from her stall.

Wu was uncontrollably angry and profoundly disappointed with what Tie Tou had done. Since he wouldn’t return until late at night, she could only suppress her rage and wait for him.

That day happened to be the eve of the Little New Year. Tie Tou came back from the shop two hours earlier than usual, expecting a good meal, but as soon as he entered the house, Wu silently made him kneel in the main hall and demanded that he go with her to the neighboring village the next morning to apologize to the girl’s family, and to affirm the marriage arrangement.

Tie Tou’s heart belonged only to Liu Qingqing; he had never considered marrying any other woman. He firmly rejected both of Aunt Wu’s demands.

Seeing Tie Tou persist in his folly, Wu, in a fit of fury, raised her hand to him again. Soon, there wasn’t a spot on Tie Tou’s back that was unmarked, his mother laying into him until welts formed, yet he clenched his teeth and endured her beating and scolding without yielding.

Dani could not bear to watch and tried to sneak off to the Mo Family for help from Mo Yan, but was intercepted by Aunt Wu, who then drove Dani and the other two back to their rooms. When Tie Tou still refused to admit his error and lost her sanity for a moment, she snapped a wooden rod as thick as her wrist over him.

Yet, the physical pain did nothing to change Tie Tou’s mind or make him yield to his mother’s will.

Driven to a frenzy, Aunt Wu dashed to the kitchen, grabbed a kitchen knife, and held it to her throat, threatening her own life to coerce Tie Tou.

Tie Tou, being dutifully filial, wouldn’t drive his own mother to her death, no matter how much he loved Liu Qingqing. His face twisted in agony, he finally yielded to his mother’s demands—he wouldn’t go see Liu Qingqing anymore and would sever all ties with her.

Thinking that her son had "returned to the right path," Aunt Wu was overjoyed. She comforted him and then let him go back to his room to rest. Little did she know that when she and the daughter prepared to leave for the stall early the next morning, Tie Tou, who usually woke even earlier than they did, had his door tightly closed.

Wu knew how harsh she had been the night before and, sensing something was amiss, frantically knocked on the door, but there was no response. In her panic, she broke open the window and climbed into Tie Tou’s room, only to find her son unconscious and the bed covered in blood...