Chapter 1218 Burned the farm
"Zi Mu, where are you going?" Some villagers were scared away when they saw Zi Mu marching towards his farm. No one knew what he was doing, but the second they saw him take out a flint from his house, their eyes widened.
"Zi Mu! You cannot burn your farm!"
"Stop someone stop! Zi Mu is burning his farm!"
"Old Master Zi! Stop hiding inside your house, your son seemed to have gone crazy!"Nôv(el)B\\jnn
The villagers could see that all the suppression that Old Master Zi had done on Zi Mu and his husband, had finally snapped. This time around, Zi Mu did not and was not joking!
The screams of the villagers made Old Master Zi feel uncomfortable. He thought that they were making a fuss out of nothing, but somewhere in his heart, he felt a bit nervous. This was why he walked over to the window to see what Zi Mu was doing, and that was when he saw Zi Mu burning his farm!
He was burning the fruit farm, which brought money to their house! Though they had given the fruit farm to Zi Mu thinking that it was barren and useless.
Zi Mu was the one who had worked hard on the farm and turned the barren land into a flourishing fruit farm. Though it was Zi Mu who worked hard, Old Master Zi and the Zi family had long taken the fruit farm as their property. How could he not panic when Old Master Zi saw what Zi Mu was doing?
"Zi Mu, you bastard! What are you doing?" Old Master Zi who was hiding inside the house immediately rushed out. It was as if someone had replaced his feet with wheels, he rushed out of the house faster than when Master Ma told him that Zi Zan was bullied and her skin was burned.
Behind him was the rest of the Zi family. They all looked to the fruit farm which was their golden egg-laying hen and felt their heart jump into their throat. This was the one farm that brought the most money to their house, how could Zi Mu burn that farm?
The entire family ran to the fruit farm, with Old Master Zi in the lead. But even if they rushed out of their house as if they were flying, the Zi family was still slower than Zi Mu, who was already at the farm. They could only watch the farm getting burned in flames.
"Someone quick! Put out the fire! Put out the fire!" Old Master Zi shouted at the villagers, but no one moved. They all looked at one another before someone spoke up, "Old Master Zi, don't joke around. There is a shortage of water, how can we even think of wasting it like this?"
Old Master Zi felt his heart fall at the bottom of his chest. He turned to look at his son before going hysterical. He hit and scratched Zi Mu as if he were facing his enemy.
"Why did you burn the farm? What are we going to eat now? What is your eldest nephew going to do now? How are we going to find a mer for him?" Old Master Zi screamed and shouted as he punched and slapped his son. If no one had known that Zi Mu was his own, they all would have thought that Zi Mu was Old Master Zi's enemy.
Zi Mu did not say anything. He let his father hit him until Old Master Zi was done hitting him.
"Ah Mu, why did you burn the farm?" Zi Zexi asked with an expression of heartache. He looked at the burning farm and felt as if he was watching the money that could have been used for his family. It was a good thing that he sent his husband to his maternal family since the water in the well at their family was getting low.
Or else his husband would have gone hysterical, not that he wouldn't now.
"That's right, Ah Mu. Why did you burn the entire farm like this?" Zi De could not help but question his brother angrily. The fruit farm was the biggest contributor to their wealth, now that Zi Mu had burned the farm like this, what were they supposed to do?
"You feel upset? Your heart is hurting now? My heart is hurting as well! It's just that my heart is hurting for my daughter!" Zi Mu yelled at his family. His eyes looked at them coldly as he continued, "I burned this fruit farm wanting to see how important my family was to all of you.
You all showed me my importance." He then looked away from his brothers and stared at his Daddy, who was breathing fire.
"Daddy, I know that you do not like me, but do you really have to ignore my daughter like this?" Zi Mu questioned his father when the latter did not respond, he turned to look at his mother, who was looking anywhere but at him. "And mother, what Zan Zan had done to this family, I don't think I need to tell you. Now that she is in this situation, you actually ignored her so heartlessly?
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Before doing this, did you not feel ashamed? You ate and drank lavishly on her income and now that she is in this situation, could you have not shown a bit of compassion? You left her outside in this heat like this…"
"Even the neighbours who were helped by Zan Zan know better than you how to repay a favour!"
Zi Mu's words caused the three women of the Zi family to blush in shame. Only Master Zi felt as if he did nothing wrong, he puffed his chest and said, "What do you mean? Didn't our family raise her for so long? We can't even take her wages now——"
"You did not work in the sweltering heat! I did! I was the one who earned the wages to feed my daughter if she had to be filial to anyone, then it should be not her uncles and her grandfather. And even if it was her turn to be filial, she should be the last one, as there are three more elder brothers in line."