Xiaobao waddled out of the hut and leaned against the door, his head tilted as he looked at the man running away into the distance, confused. "Mommy, who was that just now?"

"No one," Qi Qingyao said with a smile as she continued to boil the water.

After Qi Yuanye left the hut, he ran straight to his oldest brother's house. He told his oldest brother and sister-in-law everything that had happened, while Qi Yuancheng and Madam Guo were stunned to hear his story.

Qi Yuancheng did not expect that fool to have such a way with words now.

His wild and cocky Fifth Brother could not get a word in edgewise.

Madam Guo was feeling a little scared in retrospect. That fool really was not dead! Thank goodness she had not gone there today, or she would be on the receiving end of that tongue-lashing instead.

Qi Yuanye ranted and spilled all his dissatisfaction before he gave it a bit more thought. Addressing Qi Yuancheng, he said,

"Big Brother, I think that fool isn't so foolish anymore."

"No way! She insulted you like that! Of course she's still an idiot." Qi Yuancheng was angry on his fifth brother's behalf.

Qi Yuanye mumbled, "What she said was terrible, and I didn't understand all of it either, but she seemed really sharp. She doesn't look as half-witted as she used to look."

Qi Yuancheng said angrily, "How is she not mad, then? She's barely even understandable! Of course she's insane."

Qi Yuanye did not say anything.

When Qi Qingyao had butted heads with him just now, he remembered how she leaned against the door and spoke with an air of ease… She was not quite the same half-wit he remembered from before.

Qi Yuancheng said, "In any case, we have to tell Dad that the fool and her burdens aren't dead yet. He'll decide what to do."

Qi Yuanye nodded.

When Qi Yuancheng and Qi Yuanye both told Old Man Qi what happened, their father was still in disbelief. Nevertheless, both of his sons had confirmed it, and they could not both be lying. He soon accepted the truth, after which he asked his oldest son to call his fourth and fifth sons over. It was time for a small family meeting.

Qi Yuancheng was the most unhappy of them all. He was the oldest, and their parents stayed with him, so he was the first to lodge his complaint and broach the subject. "Dad, if that idiot isn't dead yet, we'll have to help raise her and her three burdens again!"

"The three b*stards are three years old now. If they don't die soon, they'll grow older and bigger. When they get to seven or eight, they'll have a growth spurt and eat us out of house and home." Madam Liang was the fourth son Yuanxiu's wife. She had never liked her second sister-in-law, who was both stupid and insane! That halfwit was a burden to the entire Qi family! After she spoke, though, she instinctively glanced at her husband, Yuanxiu, worried that he would scold her for butting in. Since he did not say anything, she felt slightly relieved.

Immediately after that, Madam Guo gave everyone an exaggerated recount of her encounter with Qi Qingyao too.

Qi Yuanye hastened Old Man Qi. "Dad, hurry up and decide."

"Decide what? She didn't die even after we threw her away. What are the odds?" Old Man Qi frowned and said impatiently, "We can't exactly try to suffocate her in secret!"

Madam Wu was Old Man Qi's wife and Qi Qingyao's birth mother. Whenever she remembered how the entire Qi family could not show their faces anywhere around Baishui Town because of Qi Qingyao's existence, and how her mother-in-law had scolded her several times because of Qi Qingyao, Madam Wu could not help but feel upset and frustrated.

Last time, she had been the one who suggested that the men of the family throw Qi Qingyao and her three b*stards far away.

In the end, the half-wit survived even that.

Madam Wu stewed in her anger for a while before she told Qi Yuancheng, "Why don't you and your brother sneak over to her place in the middle of the night and smother her to death? It's extremely cold out these days anyway, so we can tell everyone that she froze to death."

Her sons and daughters-in-law all froze for a second when they heard her suggestion.

Only Yuanxiu openly supported his mother, saying, "That's a good idea."