Chapter 47 of Volume One: A Family

  Mo Xiao looked at her father's face, which didn't seem to have anything wrong with it. Yue Tianlin was also constantly observing his father's face, afraid that he would say something wrong, and in a short while, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

  Mo Xiao's father coughed lightly, and Yue Tianlin hurried over to pour him a glass of water. The way he did it was even more flattering than offering a sacrifice.

  Mo Dao Yu took a sip of water and slowly put down the cup. "You're too kind, how could I dare trouble you to pour water for me personally?"

  "You and I being polite to each other is just tormenting me, it's my good fortune accumulated over several lifetimes for you to pour me a glass of water!" At this time, Yue Tianlin didn't look like the boss of a company at all, but rather like a mouse whose nerves had been shattered.

  Mo Dao didn't smile, but his face didn't even twitch. "We're all family sooner or later, so let's not stand on ceremony here."

  "What's a family?" Mo Xiao suddenly realized something was off and stood up, blurting out.

  "I'm talking to your uncle, you don't have a say in this, sit down." Mo Dao-yuan said sternly to Mo Xiao.

  Mo Xiao stood still, not moving, while Mo Dao's hand tightly grasped the cup in his hand, his eyes slowly shifting towards Mo Xiao. Mo Xiao's mother quickly pulled Mo Xiao to sit down.

  "I'm afraid we've made fools of ourselves. Although Mo Xiao has grown up so big, she still has a bit of a childish personality."

  "After all, he's still a kid, and besides, having a bit of temper is what makes a man." Yuetian Lin always knew how to say pleasant things.

  Yue Yue remained silent the whole time, only laughing along with everyone else when they did. At this moment, Yue Yue didn't seem as arrogant and overbearing as she usually was. She had put away her usual annoying demeanor from school and actually looked like a refined young lady from a scholarly family, with proper manners and a dignified appearance.

  Don't say that it's been a long time since we last spoke, but your face still looks terrible. Mo Xiao is still sitting in his seat, but how can he eat his meal?

  "Yueyue, come sit here with Auntie. I like girls like you, so well-behaved and lovely, most suitable to be the daughter-in-law of our Mo family."

  "Auntie, you're making me blush," Yueyue said, sitting down with a red face. "Auntie, I heard that you love drinking tea the most. The other day, I even learned how to brew tea on purpose. One of these days, I'll make a good pot of tea for you."

  "Really? You're actually being thoughtful?"

  "We understand now that our future mother-in-law is in pain, and we will definitely show filial piety to you in the future."

  "Yes, you know our Mo family is wealthy and influential, we don't lack money or anything else, just a good daughter-in-law who meets our expectations. Daoyuan and I have only one precious son, of course, we can't let him down."

  "Yes, it's true that we're all getting old and leaving such a big family business to Mo Xiao alone must be very tiring. We should find him a kind-hearted, gentle, and considerate wife, shouldn't we? At our age, we don't care about money anymore; what matters most is for our precious son to have a happy marriage."

  "You're absolutely right, come on and let me toast you a glass."

  "What's going on? What does this mean, Yueyue? What's the meaning of this in your family?" Mo Xiao stood up with a "clink", knocking against the wine cup in front of him.

  "Shut up and sit down," Mo Dao Yuan's tone was stiff, without a hint of gentleness.

  "Don't interfere, won't you even let me interfere with my own lifelong matters?"

  "Sit down." Mo Dao-yuan's voice began to tremble with a terrible fear, and as soon as the two words came out, everyone held their breath and dared not make a sound. The air seemed to freeze, and Mo Xiao was about to be frozen stiff, only his mother kept tugging at his sleeve.

  "Not me, you guys."

  Mo Xiao tore open his tie, threw his suit jacket on the ground and pushed open the door to leave, also kicking over a flower vase at the entrance.

  A new young waitress heard the noise and came forward to intercept Mo Xiao, "Sir, you broke our vase and need to pay compensation, it's 1,500 yuan. Would you like to pay in cash or by credit card?" Mo Xiao looked at her, and the manager next to him quickly pulled the little waitress away and apologized to Mo Xiao with a bow.

  Don't bother with so much nonsense, open your wallet and take out your ID card and credit card, and give the rest to that little service staff.

  "Mo Xiao, you can leave now. I'll see if you dare to come back tonight." Mo Dao Yuan's cup smashed heavily onto the floor. Mo Xiao didn't stop in his tracks and had already walked a great distance away. "Look at the good son you've raised," Mo Dao Yuan's voice was trembling with rage, venting all his resentment on Tian Hui Xin.

  "Hey, what's wrong?"

  "Mo Xiao, something's happened at the beggar's house, come quickly."

  "Sukui's father was laid off, and he's been in a bad mood every day, indulging in gambling, and the family's money is almost all lost." Xicao said vaguely over the phone.

  "How could this be? What about Su Qi'er?"

  "Unbeknownst to her, her mom was on the verge of divorcing her dad over this very matter!"

  Mo Xiao got on the bus and found that he didn't have any money on him. What was he supposed to do? He had to go beg for some.

  "Master, I don't have any cash on me."

  "No money for what car. Go down, how did you catch up with a rogue." The driver master slammed on the brakes and stopped by the side of the road.

  "I really have an emergency, otherwise I'll pawn my ID card here, can you take me to the place first?"

  "ID card? Who knows how many fake ID cards you have." The driver's attitude suddenly turned very bad.

  "This is really mine, no fake. If you don't believe me, take me to a place and my friend will pay you."

  "No way, what if you run away? My old arms and legs can't catch up with you. Stop talking nonsense, hurry down."

  "I really have an emergency."

  "It's none of your business, if you have money, I'll leave now." Mo Xiao shouted at the car, and the driver sped away, as if encountering Mo Xiao was an unlucky thing.

  Mo Xiao got off the car with a sigh of helplessness and could only run all the way. Sometimes, having no money means you can't do anything. After a long time, Mo Xiao finally rushed to everyone's side and saw Su Qi'er, who looked like an abandoned child.

  "After the incident, my mother said we wouldn't be able to go back to our hometown and hide. But before we could even leave, my father was taken away. They said since we couldn't pay off the debt, if we wanted to leave, we might as well take his corpse back with us to support him for the rest of his life." Su Qi'er said, crying.

  "What should I do? What am I supposed to do?"

  "Why didn't you tell me about something so big earlier?"

  "The beggar refused to tell us, he was afraid..."

  "We are the best brothers, no matter what happens, we will be with you. How much money does your dad owe? I'll pay it back." Mo Xiao took the responsibility very righteously.

  "What if your father finds out? He already looks down on our kind of family, I don't want to make things difficult for you." Su Qi'er lifted her head, her eyes full of terrifying and heart-wrenching bloodshot lines.

  "Don't be like this, you're my brother. When I was addicted to drugs, if it wasn't for you and Dazi accompanying me all the time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have died from drug addiction, but would have been beaten to death by my dad instead. Let me repay you a little bit of kindness!" Mo Xiao spoke with a sincere tone, but in his heart, he was worried about how to slink back home with his tail between his legs.