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Chapter 631 The Peace Rope is Broken (5)_1

Chapter 631: Chapter 631 The Peace Rope is Broken (5)_1

Shu Jiao had just reached the stairs of the building when

the scattered group of boys, having learned that their sister had been bullied, all rushed over. Besides Ruan Wei and Ruan Qun, Ruan Lei was still too young, but the rest were in junior or senior high school and already big lads.

Their frames mostly resembled their father’s—tall and imposing. Just standing there, without saying a word, they had already scared the mother and son quite badly.

The drunken young man named Ruan Xinke had sobered up at this moment. He wasn’t from their village and was related to the Ruan Family by a distant kinship.

In earlier years, there hadn’t been much contact between the two families, but as the Ruan Family’s business had flourished in recent years, many people had sought to establish connections with them. Ruan Xinke was one of them.

He had been fairly well-off from childhood and the only son in his family. Naturally, he was a bit spoiled. Now, already in his twenties, he hadn’t found a good job and had been idling at home.

This time, when he came to the Ruan Family for a drink and brought a gift of ten yuan, he was looking to forge a relationship and see if he could find something to do.

But who knew? Accustomed to drinking at home, Ruan Xinke had consumed a lot at the Ruan’s. Boasting with the few young men at his table, all of them unreliable, he lost his reason after drinking and, over some trivial matter, began to fight. Thinking he was at home, he grabbed a wine bottle and smashed it against the nearest stair railing, causing this commotion.

Looking at the Ruan Family standing there like a mountain, Ruan Xinke stammered, "Jianguo, big brother, I truly... I really didn’t mean it... I’m sorry."

Ruan Xinke’s mother, facing so many distant nephews and grandnephews, also felt very apprehensive, yet remembering she was an elder, she immediately puffed out her chest and said to Jianguo, "Jianguo, Xinke is still young, and thoughtless, please..."

"Still young?" Shu Jiao, who had reached the bottom of the stairs, chuckled softly, her voice gentle but her tone laced with frost, "How young? Is he a few years old, a child, or a teenager in his teens? Even younger than Ruan Hao from my house? I wouldn’t dare say Ruan Hao is still young. Your son, who is so grown, is still young? Are you kidding me?"

"This is the Ruan Family’s business, I am speaking to my nephew. Is there a place for you to interrupt? Aren’t you old enough to have a sense of propriety?"

If Ruan Xinke’s mother, Mrs. Wen, felt somewhat intimidated by the Ruan Family, she acted completely superior towards Shu Jiao—viewing her as nothing more than an outsider woman. In her eyes, she had no right to interject into a conversation involving the Ruan Family members.

After scolding Shu Jiao, Mrs. Wen turned her disapproving gaze back toward Jianguo, "Jianguo, everyone says you married well, but I’m not so sure. What kind of wife interjects in a conversation between elders and their husband? It’s disgraceful! You must teach her properly in the future, otherwise, she’ll walk all over you!"

At her own home, Mrs. Wen had always dictated the family matters. Here at the Ruan Family’s place, she assumed authority naturally as if she genuinely considered herself an elder of the Ruan family.

She even thought of saying that a disobedient wife, such as Shu Jiao, deserved a beating until she became obedient, but seeing Ruan Hao and Ruan Jie, who towered over her, she ultimately dared not to voice this thought.