Chapter 32: Chapter 32 Playing the Blame Game

    Ma Jinbao, who always obeyed Li Zhaodi’s words, raised his hand and violently slapped toward Yue Xiaofang’s face.@@@@

    Yue Xiaofang had long been frightened by the beatings, and her earlier courage had only arisen from the need to protect her mother.

    Seeing the palm strike coming, she instinctively closed her eyes and raised her hands to protect her head.

    Just at that moment, Ma Jinbao’s wrist was firmly grasped.

    The person’s strength was immense, like a pair of iron pliers, causing Ma Jinbao to cry out in pain involuntarily.

    He feared his wrist would be crushed.

    Yue Jiandong looked down at him from above, his gaze sharp as a knife, causing Ma Jinbao, who tended to bully the weak and fear the strong, to instantly go weak in the knees.

    “Coward, only good at hitting women,” Yue Jiandong said as he violently flung away his hand, causing Ma Jinbao to fall to the ground with a thud.

    The three brothers of the Yue Family arrived late to the scene, and Li Zhaodi swallowed her saliva, quietly taking two steps back.

    At that moment, someone shouted, “The village chief is coming!”

    The onlookers dispersed, and an ordinary-looking middle-aged man walked into the center of the crowd.

    It was none other than the village chief of Jinshan Village—Ma Shulin.

    Lin Chunju’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed, feeling that she had been rather rash in taking action.

    Turning her head, she saw Yue Qingqing giving her a sweet smile.

    Lin Chunju’s mind immediately steadied, yet she didn’t notice her youngest son making faces next to her.

    Li Zhaodi, crying crocodile tears without any consequences, wailed for a while without hearing the village chief speak, feeling embarrassed as if she couldn’t continue the act.

    “Village, Village chief,” Ma Cuicui tentatively called out.

    Suddenly, Ma Shulin asked, “Li Zhaodi, you said your daughter-in-law ran out for no reason, then how did she get the injuries on her arm?”

    Li Zhaodi sneered, “Who knows how she got them? She’s capable of calling her family over, isn’t she capable of framing me?”

    “Did you look closely? The injuries on her arm are both new and old. Yue Xiaofang just returned to her mother’s home last night, how could she have inflicted months-old scars to frame you?” he said.

    Li Zhaodi opened her mouth but found herself at a loss for words.

    Ma Cuicui, unwilling to accept this, retorted, “So what? She’s the mother-in-law. What’s wrong with disciplining her daughter-in-law?”

    Ma Shulin drawled, “Do you know that in recent years, the country has been cracking down on such behavior? To beat someone like this, you could go to prison.”

    Upon hearing this, the three members of the Ma Family shuddered, growing fearful.

    Go to prison? Surely it couldn’t be that serious.