Chapter 503: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
## Chapter 503: The Way to Divorce (Part 1)
Mo Wu Shi's words struck Mo Yan like a thunderclap, leaving her stunned for a while before she could react. She quickly helped Wu Shi to sit down and anxiously asked, "Aunt, what happened? How did you come up with the idea of divorcing?"
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Mo Yan's surprise was understandable. Wu Shi had endured so much hardship in the past at the old Mo family's household without ever mentioning divorce from Mo Yongfu. Now, when their lives were gradually improving with the small food stall business, she suddenly wanted a divorce. Despite Wu Shi's soft nature, even though she had toughened up a bit after being forced to almost jump into the river last year, she was still a gentle woman. Something must have happened, something serious, to push her to this point.
It had to be something that involved the old Mo family, and perhaps even Mo Yongfu himself, to have hurt her so deeply that she would want a divorce.
This question touched upon Wu Shi's sore spot, causing her to burst into tears again. After Mo Yan comforted her for a while, she finally stopped crying and choked out, "I can't stay with the old Mo family anymore. I don't want to stay. They're all forcing me... forcing me... After all these years, the feelings between husband and wife are gone... I want to divorce Mo Yongfu... divorce... get far away from that big pit of the old Mo family..."
When Mo Yan heard Wu Shi referring to herself as "I" instead of the usual "aunt" in her presence, she knew the situation was serious, and that the talk of divorce was not just casual.
Suppressing her own anxiety, Mo Yan patiently comforted Wu Shi. Once she had calmed down, Mo Yan carefully inquired about the details and finally understood the whole story.
It turned out that after Hong Shi and Niu Shi made a scene at the food stall last time without gaining any benefits and left in a huff, they developed a deep hatred for the "disobedient" Wu Shi. After returning home, the two of them, along with Mo Yongxi, concluded that Wu Shi must be holding onto a lot of money and began scheming to extract it from her.
Wu Shi had long seen through their true colors and was very cautious. Besides Da Ni who knew the real situation and that she had a share in the food stall, she told no one else and repeatedly warned Da Ni to be careful not to let any of them pry out any information.
Da Ni, inheriting Wu Shi's gentle nature, was very clear-minded and naturally wouldn't reveal anything about the food stall. Even when her father, Mo Yongfu, asked a few times inadvertently, she firmly insisted that the food stall belonged to her cousin, and she and her mother were just helping out for wages.
After months of trying every trick in the book—both hard and soft—the trio still couldn't pry open the mouths of Wu Shi and Da Ni. Aside from cursing and giving them dirty looks, they had no choice but to watch helplessly as the mother and daughter went out early and came back late, earning money, while their hearts itched like a hundred cats were scratching them.
The greedy trio wouldn't give up easily. If it weren't for the old Mo family's ruined reputation in the village and the village chief's warning that any more trouble would get the old Mo family expelled from Liuyang Village, they would have long since grabbed Wu Shi and her daughter to force them to hand over the money and the food recipes.
Unable to deal with Wu Shi and her daughter, they shifted their focus to Mo Yongfu.
Mo Yongfu was honest and dull, without any means to make his parents and siblings live well. From childhood to adulthood, he was always the one who worked the most and received the least among the four siblings.
He understood some things in his heart and knew his parents were biased, causing his wife and children to suffer many grievances. Yet he sided with his parents more, pretending not to see anything. Only after Si Ni was sold and subsequent events occurred did he start feeling dissatisfied with his parents and gradually stopped listening to them as much as before.
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