3369 The Target of All

Mo Lian secretly chuckled, pulling his little wife's hand and moving slightly to the side.

He suddenly noticed the little one with her head bowed, her shoulders trembling slightly.

His heart stirred, and he quickly bent down to look at her small face.

Upon seeing it, he found her eyes crinkled with laughter, as she was secretly snickering to herself.

Mo Lian was immediately amused. He raised a hand and patted his wife's head, whispering, "Qiaoqiao, it's fine, it's okay to laugh out loud..."

Because everyone else was laughing now anyway...

Mu Jinglao swiftly dodged his father's kicks, executing a seamless series of escape maneuvers.

When Old Master Mu looked up again, that troublesome son had already disappeared into the crowd, out of reach.

You really are too much, you bastard!

He just grabbed a handful of dirt from his own backyard and gave it to his dad, not spending a single penny!

Little did they know, to get a nice-looking box, Sixth Master Mu still spent a bit of money.

The guests couldn't help but laugh. Seeing Old Master Mu's displeased face, they tried hard to stifle their laughter, but it was incredibly difficult...

Long Shouxin laughed, "Sixth Master Mu is truly a man of character, haha, haha, hahahaha!"

At this point, the gifts from the collateral branches were also unboxed.

Each one was more bizarre and cheap than the last; someone even gave Old Master Mu a cheap silver bracelet...

They must have counted on the Old Master throwing the gifts into the storeroom every year without ever checking them!

Old Master Mu sighed and said, "I usually say not to send gifts."

"But then all of you would say, 'That won't do! How can you celebrate your birthday without gifts?'" The old man's voice held a hint of helplessness. "As a result, every year you put on a false front, and celebrating my birthday with gifts became a mere formality, essentially turning into a project for you to compete and fight amongst yourselves."

"The old man thought, since that's the case, I might as well treat everyone equally. I won't unbox the gifts you send; they'll all be stored in the warehouse first. Whenever you need them for marriages, I'll open the warehouse and return them to you."

It's a good thing no one in the clan got married in the past two years, isn't it?

Otherwise, if they were all unboxed and found to be such useless trash, who knows if the Old Master would have fainted on the spot.

"Now look, to save money and keep up appearances, each of you has learned to put effort into the gift boxes! It must have taken a lot of effort to find these big and small, exquisite, and beautiful boxes, right? Maybe you even had to pay for them??" Old Master Mu's beard bristled and his eyes widened.

Everyone was speechless, not knowing what to say.

Being exposed publicly like this was truly... indescribable.

Feeling guilty towards the Old Master was one thing, but they also hated Mu Rouxuan to the core!

This eldest young lady of the Mu family was truly a piece of work. It was one thing for her to be out of touch with worldly affairs, but now she was coming to expose their shortcomings!

If you disliked the collateral branches deceiving the Old Master, couldn't you have warned them privately?

She had to do this when guests filled the house.

By doing this, everyone lost face. Was this young lady feeling happy now?

Mu Qingya was incredibly intelligent. One look at everyone's expressions and she knew that her daughter's actions today had offended everyone in the clan!

How could she be so insensitive to human relations?

She tightened the handkerchief in her hand. Just as she was about to step forward, she heard Mu Rouxuan say, "There's still one more box that hasn't been unboxed!"

Everyone's gaze followed her finger, landing on the small brocade box in the Old Master's hand.

That was the small brocade box the Crown Princess had presented.

Everyone silently glanced at Young Miss Mu, shaking their heads inwardly.