Transmigrated to Ancient Times with System

Chapter 18 Li Family

When Li Yao arrived in the yard, Li Fu asked a little smugly, "It seems you are still afraid, so you came too early. Did you bring the silver?"

"What silver?" Li Yao asked.

"What did you say?" Li Fu was angry when he heard these words "Wang Er injured Li Xian and has to compensate ten taels of silver!"

"Oh, you're talking about this," Li Yao said unhurriedly, "That day Wang Er was also injured by Li Xian, and spent a whole 15 taels of silver on medicine. So if you calculate it this way, you still owe me five taels."

When Li Yao's mother Lu Shi heard this, she immediately scolded, "Shameless cheap slut, are you trying to rebel against heaven? You beat your own family members and still dare to ask us for money?"

Li Fu also shouted loudly, "Today if you don't pay, I will beat you to death!"

More than a dozen strong men surrounded them with unkind expressions.

But Li Yao was not to be easily threatened either. With one hand on her hip, she pointed at Li Fu's nose and said, "Come on if you dare! If you take half a step back, I'll curse your name backwards!"

"You little slut, you really want to rebel against heaven! Watch me fix you today!"

As Lu Shi spoke, she picked up a broom to Li Yao, but she didn't expect that the usually obedient Li Yao would not tolerate it today. She grabbed the broom.

"I'll spare you for your age, I won't fight you. But if you continue to be shameless, don't blame me for turning against you!" Li Yao said.

"You... you..."

Lu Shi didn't expect Li Yao to be so arrogant. She was so angry her face turned pale.

"Beat her! Beat this little bitch to death!"

As soon as Li Fu heard this, he directly grabbed Li Yao's hair, but before his hand arrived, he was kicked in the belly by Li Yao. The intense pain made him involuntarily bend over, but waiting for him was Li Yao's knee.

Snap!

Li Fu's nose was smashed, and tears and blood spurted out together.

When the other Li men saw this, they wanted to come forward to help, but Li Yao raised her broom, "Who else dares to come? I'll say it today: whoever comes across me, don't blame me for fighting desperately with him!"

The crowd was deterred by her momentum, and no one dared to take another step forward.

After all, the injured Li Fu was just a clansman, not a brother. And Li Yao's notoriety was already well known to all. If they really provoked her to desperation, it would be more trouble than it was worth.

Seeing that so many people were helpless against Li Yao and her eldest son was groaning in pain on the ground, Lu Shi jumped up again.

"Little slut, you ate leopard guts and still dare to hurt people! Take her to sue!"

"Hurry up and sue!" Li Yao didn't back down at all, "I'd love to see how the magistrate will rule when dozens of men bully a woman alone! It will also let everyone know how you rely on power to oppress the weak, and add glory to Li Xian's face."

At the mention of Li Xian, Lu Shi panicked.

The literati's greatest fear was losing face.

Li Xian was going to take the imperial examination and become an official in the future. If this matter got big, it would definitely affect his career.

"You unfilial thing! When Li Xian becomes an official, don't expect to get any favors! From now on, don't expect me to say a word for you for anything!"

"As if you've ever helped me," Li Yao said, "How much have I given you over the years, how much money have I given to you and you said all nice things, that you'll help me when there's an issue? But what happened? When Wang Er was rejected for marriage, who hid in the room like a tortoise? A natal family like this is better off not having!"

"Fine, fine, since you say it so heartlessly, don't blame me for disowning you! From now on, don't even think about stepping through my Li's door again!"

This was exactly what Li Yao was waiting for her to say: "Consider me already dead. Let's all bear witness, in case she goes back on it later."

Lu Shi was so angry, her face turned green.

She didn't expect that Li Yao, a widow with four children to raise, would really dare to disown her own mother.

But breaking off relations was impossible.

Everyone knew Li Yao had made money from her business. If relations were really cut off, how would she still give money to support Li Xian's studies?

So she neatly lay down on the ground.

"Heaven, what sin have I committed?"

"I raised an unfilial and rebellious thing who won't even recognize her own mother!"

"Heaven, strike her dead with lightning!"

...

After wailing for a while and seeing Li Yao hadn't left, thinking this tactic was working, Lu Shi secretly signaled her eldest daughter-in-law, Zou Shi.

"Sister, what's all this noise about?" Understanding her meaning, Zou Shi hurried forward to reconcile, "We're all one family. Arguing a few words over a small matter, it'll be over after turning away for a bit. What's more, you're mother's own daughter. Just say a couple good words to coax her, her anger will vanish. We'll still be one family in the future, right?"

"Done?" Li Yao asked. "Hurry up and return my old hen, I'm in a rush to go back."

Zou Shi: ...I tried to reconcile, you talk to me about an old hen?

"I'll go find it myself."

Li Yao went straight to the chicken coop, immediately spotting her family's old hen.

Seeing her really leaving with the old hen, Lu Shi jumped up from the ground and hurled all kinds of vicious curses and foul language at her retreating back.

Li Yao knew it wasn't realistic to completely free herself of her original family.

But at least she could have some peace for now.

Thinking this, she couldn't help feeling light and refreshed.

But she hadn't gone far when she saw He Xiaoya and Second Sister-in-Law Zhou walking anxiously towards her.