I really wanted to slap her when I heard that.

Do I have to wait for you to team up with someone to tie me up and sell me to gangsters as a wife?

Seeing Zhang Cuilan take out the rope, I shouted at the top of my lungs, hoping someone would hear.

But a sentence from Zhang Cuilan made my heart sink halfway.

"Your mother is at work, your grandmother is out shopping, there are only three of us in this family."

"You can shout as much as you want, when you get tired of shouting, it will be easier for us."

They laughed arrogantly, full of foul language.

I struggled frantically, but ultimately, two fists are no match for four hands.

At the critical moment, the door opened from the outside.

Grandma, who had returned from shopping, raised her cane and fiercely swung it at Zhang Cuilan.

"You rascals, what are you doing!"

Zhang Cuilan was dumbfounded, barely dodging Grandma's cane, and asked nervously, "Aunt, I'm Cuilan, why are you hitting me?"

Grandma didn't buy it, she shielded me and continued, "I'm hitting you!

"What, you come to someone else's house to snatch a child, and you're afraid of being hit!"

Zhang Cuilan awkwardly smiled, quickly casting a pleading look at Aunt Two.

Aunt Two calmly hid the rope, turned to Grandma, and said seriously, "This brat dared to defy her elders, we are teaching her on behalf of her sister-in-law."

"Elders?"

Grandma looked surprised, "She's just a neighbor with the same surname from my maternal family, calling her auntie sounds friendly, but she really thinks she's a big shot.

"Coming to someone else's house to bully their child without any relation, if it were me, I would find a secluded place and give myself a good slap, how can she have the face to call herself an elder?"

After Grandma finished speaking, Zhang Cuilan's face turned dark as if she could wring out water.

If we have to blame someone for this, it's not all her fault, blame Grandma for only saying half of the story.

Although she and Grandma have no blood relation, in the past, Grandma praised her for being well-behaved and even wanted my dad to marry her.

But my dad was educated and refused to marry this vulgar and gossipy woman.

Zhang Cuilan tried every means but failed, so she ended up marrying a butcher.

Since I was born, Grandma, dissatisfied with my mom not having a son, started acting like an elder, frequently visiting our home.

Either she teamed up with Aunt Two to bully me and my mom, or she came to find my dad for no reason.

Even if these two things didn't work, she would rummage through my mom's things inside out.

Regardless of value, as long as she fancied it, she would take it all.

This time was no different, on my mom's birthday, the Hermès scarf my dad gave her was already tied around her own neck.

"Cuilan, why don't you leave..."

Aunt Two was very nervous.

She knew Grandma had recently changed her temper, but she didn't know to what extent.

Calling Zhang Cuilan over today to tie me up was a kind of test.

If Grandma was just putting on a show, then she could easily sell me for money.

If Grandma was serious, then since Zhang Cuilan made the first move, she would have an excuse to absolve herself.

Either way, it was beneficial to her and harmless.

Zhang Cuilan, not getting what she wanted, left in a huff, without saying a word.

Grandma didn't stop her, she calmly took out her phone and dialed a number after Zhang Cuilan left.

"Hello, is this the police station?

"I want to report a theft, my house has been robbed."