Chapter 253: All Misfortune Returns to the Second Aunt

"Eldest brother," the cousin cried in grievance.

"Don't call me eldest brother," the Second Young Master Lu Xin punched him: "You don't deserve it. Neither you nor your mother are human. You are ungrateful white-eyed wolves; no matter how well we treat you, you only plot against us."

Beaten by the cousin he was closest to, the cousin cried out, his heart filled with immense grievance.

As the eldest brother, the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi went over with a cold face, kicked the cousin who had just gotten up back to the ground, causing his hand to bleed immediately. That kick was likely too vicious; the cousin felt as if his breath had nearly stopped.

"You still have the face to call me eldest brother?" the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi looked murderous: "I wish I could kill both of you. Don't call me. Who are you pretending for? You are full of malice."

The cousin shouted loudly: "We didn't harm you."

The answer was a beating. The Second Young Master Lu Xin and others struck with lethal intent, as if wanting to kill him. The Hou Fu concubine daughters gritted their teeth, pulled the Second Aunt's hair bun, and slapped her face.

The Second Aunt screamed like a pig being slaughtered: "Murder! Bullying orphans and widows..."

"You still have the face to say that?" the concubine daughters pressed their hands on the shrew: "Mother, we will hold her down; you hit her."

The Second Aunt was large and strong, her body full of flesh from eating well. The concubine daughters were weak and couldn't hold her down. The Second Aunt was furious, thrashing like a hard-to-kill fish, looking for a chance to strike back, until the Prince Anyuan Hou kicked her.

The shrew slammed heavily onto the ground, blood flowing down her face.

The concubine daughters pounced on her to beat her. If anyone in the entire Hou Fu cared most about the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi, it was the concubine sons and daughters. The Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi treated his younger brothers and sisters the best. Dare to plot against their eldest brother, and the concubine sons and daughters would take a killing intent.

Seeing his mother almost beaten to death, the cousin rushed over desperately to block the blows.

The shrew sighed in relief. She thought this was like before, when the Hou Fu people, mindful that they were orphans and a widow, cared for them everywhere and looked after the cousin especially. Just as the shrew relaxed, the Hou Fu people pinned them down and beat them head to toe.

Qin Yan narrowed his eyes, standing aside with Qin Bi, Qin Xun, and Qin Lang, watching coldly. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes today and known the situation all along, who would have thought that caring for orphans and a widow would raise such a poisonous woman?

You treat her well, and she climbs onto your nose and face, even developing thoughts of harming others.

The two aunts were dumbfounded, both afraid and thinking they were too idle. They dared not break up the fight. The cousin sister who came with them was terrified. By the time they reacted, the Second Branch mother and son were already beaten black and blue.

The gossipy aunt looked at the cloud cluster in the sky, which the black mist was clinging to desperately. She hid behind the stone table in the courtyard in fear. The little maids and old women also hid there, their eyes filled with shock.

"Don't hit your cousin," this aunt squatted, peeking out and shouting loudly to the Hou Fu young masters and young ladies. She pointed at the shrew whose head was swollen like a pig's head: "Hit her! She is the worst of them all. It wouldn't be an overkill to beat her to death. Your cousin has no bad intentions."

She spoke the truth; anyone with eyes could see that the Second Aunt was the mastermind behind all the plotting.

But who cared?

"Beat them all together. We treated them too well," the Prince Anyuan Hou and his wife's eyes turned red. The Prince Anyuan Hou Fu pointed at the mother and son who couldn't get up on the ground: "To devise such a vicious scheme to harm my Hou Fu He Shizi is an unforgivable crime. Beat them to death."

The concubine sons and daughters struck together, not worrying at all about killing them.

This mother and son were not willing to be beaten without moving. Several times they tried to struggle and get up, but the Prince Anyuan Hou stepped on them flat. The better he had treated them before, the more ruthless he was now.

How dare they? The Prince Anyuan Hou had the heart to kill.

The young aunt looked up at the black mist clinging tightly to the cloud cluster, trembling with fear, afraid to get tainted by such evil things. She pulled her daughter, saw her sister-in-law, and walked over.

"You can't hide here anymore, you can't hide here anymore..." the gossipy aunt waved her hands repeatedly.

The young aunt hesitated, turned her head, and saw the Hou Fu people throwing punches and kicks, determined to kill this mother and son. She hurriedly spoke: "Don't beat the Lu family child to death. Just beat him once to vent your anger."

"Beat them," the Prince Anyuan Hou ordered.

Everyone struck harder. The Second Aunt cried out for her parents and mother, while the cousin protected his mother and cried at the same time.

The young aunt dared not interfere anymore; she couldn't control it anyway. Besides, if the Hou Fu beat the Second Branch mother and son to death, it wouldn't be an overkill. What kind of wicked thoughts did they have? Even when seeking blessings, they had no good intentions.

Before, when they heard that the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi felt unwell whenever he saw his Second Aunt, the clan members suspected he was overthinking it. Now, there was no doubt; they had seen the evil thing clinging to blessings in broad daylight.

As the Second Branch mother and son were beaten, the black mist clinging tightly to the cloud cluster squealed in pain.

Suddenly, hearing the hair-raising wailing of ghosts and wolves in broad daylight, the gossipy aunt, who had been squatting and watching the beating, looked up at the terrifying sound and fell to the ground in fright.

"Oh my god!" this aunt was about to cry. Why did she come to join this fun?!

It was still broad daylight! She closed her eyes, but that wouldn't work. Opening them, she searched and found that the rocks, plants, and flowers nearby were relatively high. Several maids and old women were hiding there, while she only had one maid and one old woman with her.

Too few people; it didn't give her courage.

This aunt crawled over, as cowardly as one could be.

The two behind her also wanted to go over, but didn't move. Why? They were too scared to move.

The young aunt let out a "Oh my" scream, pulled her daughter, and ran towards the rocks, looking up at the sky as she ran, worried that the black mist would fly down to harm people.

Looking up didn't help; everyone was staring at the cloud cluster in the sky.

The black mist was the Second Aunt's misfortune. As the shrew was beaten half to death, the misfortune slowly weakened. Burned by the auspicious cloud cluster, it squealed and transformed into a huge bloody mouth, extremely terrifying.

The timid maids and old women rolled their eyes and fainted.

The young aunt's daughter squatted on the ground, covering her head and daring not to move, hoping not to be seen. Qin Bi was angry; if such black mist flew down to harm people, how could you not know?

The black mist let out a piercing scream in unwillingness. Even the guards felt their brains go fuzzy. "Oh my god, this ghost thing is too scary. We've only heard about it before, never seen the real thing. My scalp is crawling."

As the black mist grew weaker, the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi's auspicious cloud cluster grew stronger.

The Prince Anyuan Hou and the young masters and young ladies in the manor finally realized that others beating the Second Branch mother and son had no effect; only blows from the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi's own relatives could hurt the black mist.

The Prince Anyuan Hou Fu felt distressed watching this, tears of self-blame falling: "I didn't stand up for my children, allowing you two evil mother and son to take advantage and develop such wicked thoughts to cling to blessings. I will kill you."

Qin Bi saw the expressions of everyone in the Hou Fu and then told them: "As long as your whole family is united against a common enemy, the absorbed misfortune will leave and return entirely to the Second Branch. You have seen it; as long as you protect the Prince Anyuan Hou He Shizi, the Second Branch's misfortune will find it hard to cling to blessings."

Upon hearing this, Lu Xin was no longer polite.