Chapter 606: Return to the Mo House (2)
In the previous lifetime, he was still working diligently in Nancheng at this age, with nary a thought that he would have such a family background.
And in this lifetime, he initially thought he would get married to Yao Yao in their hometown first, but unexpectedly, he returned here so soon.
The children looked at the beautiful and large courtyard before them and were rather cautious. This was their great-grandparents’ house?
Steward Zhong smiled. “Beihan, this is the Mo House. Old Master and Old Lady have been making the preparations since this morning. Hurry, bring the kids in!”
Mo Beihan nodded and held Mo Chengrui’s hand in one hand and Mu Mu’s hand in the other. “Let’s go!”
The few of them followed Steward Zhong into the house. When they reached the living room, Steward Zhong told Old Master Mo, “Old Master, Old Lady, I’ve brought them here.”
Steward Zhong stood aside while Mo Beihan walked forward with the kids. “Grandfather, Grandmother!”
Afterward, he told the kids, “Greet Great-grandfather and Great-grandmother!”
The children did not recognize Old Master Mo and Grandma Mo, but looking at Mo Beihan and then at the old couple, they greeted, “Great-grandfather, Great-grandmother!”
Old Master Mo and Grandma Mo almost shed tears of joy.
Meanwhile, Mo Huai, Jiang Hongying and Mo Yunhao were completely dumbfounded!
The family of three, amazingly, had the same expression as they looked at Mo Beihan and the rest in confusion.
On the other hand, the second son of the Mo family, Mo Wei, widened his eyes the moment he saw Mo Beihan enter, not because of anything else, but because he looked especially similar to Old Master in his youth.
Although he was the younger son, his father was in the prime of life during his teenage years, and he could still remember how his father looked when he was younger.
Almost instinctively, Mo Wei turned to look at the dumbfounded Mo Huai opposite him.
His parents gave birth to him at an old age, and he was still very young now, so it was simply impossible to have such an old son like Mo Beihan. Thus, it was only possible for Mo Beihan to be his elder brother, Mo Huai’s son.
No one in the Mo family had heard that his elder brother had such a son, especially these younger ones behind him…
Great-grandfather, Great-grandmother?
Uh… The Mo family even has great-grandchildren already?
Grandfather Mo was ecstatic as he stood up excitedly. “Good! Good! Come, sit here!”
Old Master Mo pointed to the seat beside him.
Thus, Mo Beihan led the four kids to sit beside Grandfather and Grandmother Mo.
Grandfather Mo looked at Mo Huai and said, “Son, he is Mo Beihan. Do you still remember him?”
Mo Huai’s expression could not become any stiffer!
It had been more than ten years, and he had already forgotten about those matters. But Mo Beihan’s appearance finally made certain events reappear in his mind.
When he left back then, this child was still a small baby who was being carried in his arms!
Mo Huai was speechless as he looked at Mo Beihan.
Old Master Mo scoffed. “Let me introduce them! This is Beihan, the grandson of my Mo family. He has an elder brother called Mo Beiting, but Beiting is no longer around anymore. These four children have been left behind by Mo Beiting. They are the great-grandsons of the Mo family.”
Then, he told Mo Beihan, “Beihan, this is your father, Mo Huai. Beside him is your stepmother, Jiang Hongying, while this is your younger brother, Mo Yunhao.
“This is your young uncle and young aunt.”
Mo Beihan ignored Mo Huai and Jiang Hongying directly to greet Mo Wei and his wife, Yang Lerong, “Young Uncle, Young Aunt!”
Chapter 607: Return to the Mo House (3)
Afterward, Mo Beihan looked at the kids and said “Greet your second grandfather and second grandma!”
The kids said, “Second Grandfather, Second Grandma!”
Mo Wei: …
Yang Lerong: …
They were still so young, but they’re already grandparents?
“No!”
Before Mo Wei and Yang Lerong could respond, Jiang Hongying’s scream pierced through the air. She finally realized what was happening and stood up abruptly. Her face was contorted.
“Who are you all? Mo Huai, who are they?”
She glared at Mo Huai as though she wanted to devour him.
Mo Huai shivered in fear from his wife’s glare. “I… I…”
After stuttering for a long time, he still had not said anything.
Unable to count on Mo Huai, Jiang Hongying looked at Old Master Mo and Grandma Mo agitatedly, “Father, Mother, how can you all randomly bring these kids back and say that they’re from the Mo family? Who can prove that?
“Mo Huai has been in the capital for so many years, and the Mo family is so strict. How can he have such a grown child? I will not acknowledge them. I’ll definitely not acknowledge them!”
Old Master Mo scoffed without saying anything and looked at Mo Huai instead. “Tell her, who are Beihan and these kids?”
Mo Huai’s expression was extremely stiff now. Never would he have dreamt that his past would actually be brought to light one day.
That time in the countryside was his nightmare. He had never been through such suffering, and it was too difficult for him. If he did not marry, it was very likely that he would have starved to death!
He did not wish to die. Not at all.
So he married that woman, the younger sister of the local brigade leader. After marrying her, he would be taken care of and would not starve.
“I… I… I don’t know. I… I really…”
Before Mo Huai finished his sentence, he was kicked in the chest by the furious Old Master Mo and tumbled down the sofa.
“Scumbag, how dare you say you don’t know even now?”
Old Master Mo was becoming more and more disappointed in his eldest son. “Did you forget everything you did in the South Lake Brigade? You married a wife and had kids in the countryside. After the Mo family allowed you to come back, you abandoned them and returned without telling us anything. You hid this from the family for so many years. If not for you, my eldest grandson might not have died, and these kids would not have needed to suffer in the countryside for so many years!
“Scumbag! Scumbag!”
The more Old Master Mo spoke, the more furious he became, and he could not help but give Mo Huai a few more kicks.
“Ah… I was wrong, I was wrong. Father, stop hitting me, stop hitting me…”
Mo Huai really developed a phobia from his parents’ recent beatings!
Looking at Mo Huai, who lay on the ground battered and exhausted after only a few kicks, even the younger ones began to despise him a little, what more Mo Beihan.
So this was their grandfather!
He was too inferior to their young uncle. Young Uncle is so powerful, and this grandfather is so old already but is screaming after just a few hits. Was there a need?
Grandma Mo pulled Old Master Mo back. “All right, don’t beat him anymore. Beihan and the kids just came back today. We should be happy. Don’t make the house so gloomy.”
Old Master Mo finally stopped.
He looked at Jiang Hongying and Mo Yunhao and said, “Mo Huai had Beihan when he got married in the countryside. After he came home, he hid everything from us. We didn’t know he was already married and had kids. It was only afterwards that we did when he married you and had Yunhao.
“It is Mo Huai who let you all down. I will punish him. You all are free to settle scores with him as you wish.”
Chapter 608: Return to the Mo House (4)
Mo Huai was frightened. “Father…”
“Shut up. You have no position to speak here!” Old Master Mo kicked him angrily again, causing Mo Huai to let out a tragic cry and to be too fearful to speak.
“Enough!” Jiang Hongying shrieked.
She looked at Old Master Mo and then at Mo Beihan. Her facial expression was distorted like never before. “I don’t care. Mo Huai is my husband, and we are legally married. Even if these really are kids that Mo Huai had in the countryside, they’re just the bastard children of a countryside woman. They have no rights to stay in the Mo family. I will definitely not acknowledge them!
“Shut up!” Old Master Mo was livid. “The Mo family’s descendants do not require your acknowledgment. Jiang Hongying, don’t fail to appreciate my kindness when I’m giving you face!”
Had she been a sensible and magnanimous daughter-in-law, in such an abrupt situation, the Mo family would have definitely taken pity on the mother and son, give them the same amount of respect and would even compensate them.
After all, this was Mo Huai’s wrongdoing, and Jiang Hongying and Mo Huai were actually considered victims.
However, Old Master Mo could not sympathize with Jiang Hongying at all. She was overbearing, unreasonable and had never spared a thought for the Mo family, yet she was hell-bent on using the Mo family to support the Jiang family.
He really did not care about such a senseless daughter-in-law.
In other words, Old Master Mo completely excluded Jiang Hongying and Mo Yunhao from the family decision making.
These two people’s feelings were not within the Mo family’s area of consideration at all. Anyway, they had never thought about the feelings of the other Mo family members.
In front of the whole family, or rather in front of Mo Beihan and these kids, Old Master Mo actually belittled her. This was simply something Jiang Hongying could not stand. Mo Huai suddenly had a son who was already so grown up, and the problem was there were so many grandchildren behind him!
How much property would have to be split up?
No way!
The Mo family was hers. No one should dream of snatching it from her!
“Father!” Jiang Hongying shouted furiously, “I am the mistress of the Mo family and Mo Huai’s wife. I have the power to decide his offspring. These bastard children…”
“If I hear you say bastard children another time, you can get lost from this family!”
“Grandfather, how could you be so cruel? So many people just suddenly appeared. Are they really Father’s offspring just because you said so? Why can’t we object?”
Old Master Mo scoffed coldly. “You all are right. I said they are the descendants of the Mo family so they are. You two cannot stand it? Cannot accept it? Sure! Get lost right now. This is what my Mo family is like. If you don’t accept it, then get lost right now!”
Ridiculous, did they really think he was a pushover?
How dare they yell at him and even object to him openly. He protected the Mo family’s position and raised these bunch of people with much difficulty, but how dare they speak to him like this! This was simply ridiculous!
Jiang Hongying and Mo Yunhao could not believe their ears.
They were the Mo family’s female owner and eldest grandson. They were the successors! How could the Old Master just chase them away like that?
Grandma Mo stood up at this time and looked at Jiang Hongying. “Let me remind you. You’re just the daughter-in-law of the Mo family, not the mistress. Your father and I are not dead yet! It’s not your turn to become the head of the family.”
Jiang Hongying paled and staggered, almost losing her balance.
Old Master Mo looked at Mo Yunhao with an imposing expression that could not be resisted. “Yunhao, your father had two children before you. Your eldest brother, Mo Beiting, has already passed on, but that does not mean he never existed. Thus, Mo Beihan is your second brother. Greet him!”
Chapter 609: Return to the Mo House (5)
Mo Yunhao looked at Mo Beihan for a long time but could not utter a word!
No matter how foolish he was, he knew what he was going to face after his so-called “second brother” returned to the Mo family.
Since young, his mother had been telling him that he was the eldest grandson and the successor of the Mo family, so everything that the Mo family owned would belong to him in the future.
The Mo family had a large business and being able to survive in the current circumstance was definitely not what an ordinary family could achieve.
His grandfather was an extremely capable man. It was just that the Mo family was being very low-key due to the current circumstance.
His mother told him that he must obtain the entire Mo family in the future and that it was a given for him to succeed the Mo family because he was the eldest grandson.
However, his father was not the only child of his grandparents. There was still his young uncle whom his grandparents doted on even more, and Young Uncle also had his children.
Young Uncle was intelligent and adept at schemes, so he was definitely eyeing the family head position of the Mo family. Thus, since young, his mother had warned him to guard against Young Uncle.
After so many years, Young Uncle was indeed doted upon, but after all, he was not the eldest son, and his kids were not the eldest grandson and were even younger than him by many years. He had always believed that it was not likely for Young Uncle to succeed the Mo family and that the Mo family still belonged to them.
After all, it was perfectly justifiable since they were the eldest son and eldest grandson!
However, he never expected that there would be an additional Mo Beihan now.
He was an elder brother who was older than him and had four kids behind him.
Elder brother!
He snatched his position as the eldest grandson!
Seeing that Mo Yunhao did not say anything, Old Master Mo narrowed his eyes and said rather menacingly, “Yunhao, do you not listen to your grandfather’s words anymore?”
Mo Yunhao shuddered at the voice. “Grand… grandfather…”
Old Master Mo said, “Yunhao, you must understand that your second brother is your second brother and that these kids are your eldest brother’s children. They carry the Mo family’s bloodline. You will never be able to change this fact!
“So, it was definite that they would return to the Mo family. You have no authority to make them leave. If you want to blame anyone, it is your own father. It is him who hid this truth from you all for so many years. Had I known about your eldest brother and second brother’s existence, I would have brought them back home a long time ago.
“Had I known that your father already wedded and had kids in the countryside, I would definitely not have allowed him and your mother to marry. This is clearly harming your mother.”
Jiang Hongying’s face turned pale once again.
Old Master Mo said, “My Mo family has always believed in keeping promises. Since Mo Huai married a lady and even had children with her, he must take responsibility. Had I known this scoundrel has a wife and children in the countryside, I would have definitely brought the lady to the Mo family to be the daughter-in-law of my Mo family.”
Jiang Hongying and Mo Yunhao were ash pale, and they could not utter a single word.
Although what he said seemed to be said to Mo Yunhao, it was, in reality, directed to Jiang Hongying.
To let her understand that Mo Beihan’s return to the Mo family would not be changed, and regardless of whether she acknowledged him or not, Mo Beihan’s identity as the grandson of the Mo family would not be affected.
Another point was to warn her that the Mo family could accept that daughter-in-law from the countryside.
Seeing that Jiang Hongying was speechless out of fear, Old Master Mo scoffed coldly.
Useless!
If Jiang Hongying could put up a generous front to accept Mo Beihan and the kids and say that she would take good care of the kids, perhaps Old Master Mo might even see her in a better light.
As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Mo family, she could not even compose herself in such a scene. If the family really encountered any trouble, Jiang Hongying would not be of a single use!
Chapter 610: Return to the Mo House (6)
Powerful families had their own law of survival.
Jiang Hongying was born in the Jiang family. Although it was not considered a top influential family, it was still considered one of the powerful families and had interacted with the high society as well.
After marrying into the Mo family for so many years, her status elevated greatly, yet she still did not understand such logic.
Look at those true mistresses of the wealthy families. Which of them were like Jiang Hongying, who screamed and shamelessly said that she would not acknowledge them?
Ha!
Was there any use even if she did not acknowledge them?
This situation in the Mo family had happened in many other families before. Leaving aside having a wife and children in the countryside before marriage, many even had illegitimate children. What immoral deeds could those playboys not do?
However, among those wealthy families, unless they were too inferior to appear in public, the true mistress of a wealthy family would definitely not yap about nonsense like Jiang Hongying.
No matter how resentful they were, they were aware that they could not make any decision. As long as the child carried their husband’s blood, and that the Old Master and Old Lady of the family acknowledged them, they simply would not be able to prevent those children from acknowledging one’s roots and ancestors.
Many were very generous on the surface, but how fiercely they fought in secret was unknown.
Although Old Master Mo despised those cruel people who used unscrupulous means to harm their family just to gain a little family benefit, he could understand their rejection of these illegitimate children.
If Jiang Hongying and Mo Yunhao simply did not like Mo Beihan or even detested him, Old Master Mo could understand. After all, who could accept that their husband had hidden such a huge matter from them?
However, Jiang Hongying called them bastard children right in their faces while her eyes were dripping with evil when she looked at Mo Beihan and even the kids. This was no longer just cruel. She was unbridling cruel.
Such a woman must not be tolerated!
Looking at Mo Yunhao, Old Master Mo said in an extremely cold tone that bore no defiance!
“Yunhao, greet your second brother!”
Under Old Master Mo’s terrifying gaze, Mo Yunhao broke out in cold sweat. This was his first time seeing such a frightening side of his grandfather.
In his memory, his grandparents were very compassionate seniors. He had never understood why his friends were so fearful of the Old Master at home. What could an elderly possibly do to them?
Now, he understood!
“Second… Second Brother!”
Mo Yunhao ultimately greeted with much unwillingness.
Old Master Mo nodded. “All right, I called all of you here to introduce Beihan and the kids to you all. We are a family from now on. Other matters can be discussed in the future. It’s not early anymore. Let’s prepare to have lunch!
“In the future, Beihan and the kids will be living in the Mo House. Let’s have a family lunch first. Number two!”
Mo Wei hurriedly replied, “Present!”
“When your two young ones return from home, quickly let them meet their cousins.”
“Yes!” Mo Wei agreed.
“As for you…” Old Master Mo lowered his head to look at Mo Huai, who just crawled up and was trying his best to reduce his presence in a corner. “Steward Zhong, after this meal, lock this scoundrel up in the backyard and starve him for three days. Let him have a taste of the hunger that the countryside people experience.”
“Yes!”
Mo Huai raised his head in alarm. “Father…”
“Shut up. I’ll starve you for six days if you dare beg for mercy!”
Mo Huai sealed his lips immediately.