Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 268 I'm informing you
Mr. Xiong had gone to great lengths to attend this wedding banquet, and was naturally unwilling to leave now.

But if they didn't leave now, they might never be able to leave again. In the end, they could only glare at Madam Kou with resentment.

Madam Kou trembled all over and almost collapsed, unable to walk.

Mr. Xiong was even angrier when he saw her like this, and finally couldn't hold back his temper and cursed, "Useless thing, why aren't you going to help your mother?"

Kou Huaqing suddenly realized something, his face turned pale, and he floated to Madam Kou's side like a ghost. He pulled her up forcefully and followed behind Mr. Xiong and his wife, slinking away in a sorry state.

The group was scrambled out of the Du family's side gate, watching helplessly as the door behind them opened and closed again. Mr. Xiong could no longer contain his anger and turned around to slap Kou Huaqing.

He used all his strength in that slap, which turned Kou Huaqing's face to one side, and it swelled up shortly afterward.

Seeing her beloved son being beaten, Madam Kou screamed, "Hua Qing, Hua Qing, are you alright? How could you hit someone like that?"

"Why can't I hit him? I wish I could kill him right now." Mr. Xiong's face turned ashen with rage, his expression contorted with rage. "You should be glad I don't hit women, otherwise you would have been beaten to death by now."

After calming down considerably from his anger, Mr. Xiong looked at the closed side door and knew that there was no way to change the situation. He gave the mother and son a cold look and said in a way that left no room for refusal, "Go back and get a divorce."

"Divorce? Why would you want a divorce? You can't get a divorce!" Mrs. Kou screamed. Kou Huaqing, ignoring the pain on his face, rushed forward and grabbed his wife's hand.

“Dad, I know it’s all my fault today. I shouldn’t have brought Mom here, and I shouldn’t have let her run around and talk nonsense without keeping an eye on her. I know I was wrong. Please give me another chance and don’t let Wanwan divorce me.”

"It's too late to realize your mistake now." Mr. Xiong showed no mercy, grabbing his daughter and saying, "Let's go."

"Dad, Dad..." Kou Huaqing knelt down with a thud. "Even if you're angry, please forgive me this time for the sake of the two children. They're still young and can't live without their father!"

“Child, yes, I had forgotten about you if you hadn’t mentioned it. There’s a child.” Mr. Xiong paused, but then said something that made the Kou mother and son even more wary.

"Both children will stay with their mother. Considering the years you've been married, we won't take back the house you're living in now. You'd better take care of yourself from now on."

"What? No way!" Before Kou Huaqing could say anything, Madam Kou shouted, "Why should the children all go to the mother? Even if we really get a divorce, each of us should have one child. The older one should go to us, and the younger one to you."

Kou Huaqing and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter.

Mr. Xiong saw through Madam Kou's intentions at a glance, and laughed angrily, "You seem to have misunderstood something. I am informing you, not discussing it with you."

"That's way too domineering of you..."

"Mom, please stop talking!"

"Me, domineering? Hahahaha, I've been domineering for a long time. Huaqing, it's not that your father is heartless, but your mother offended Old Master Du, and I can't protect you either. Rather than let the children wander with you and live a life of hunger and cold, it's better for them to become children of my Xiong family. At least they can have enough to eat and won't have to be beggars."

Mr. Xiong left after saying those few words, too lazy to pay attention to those two idiots anymore, and pulled his daughter away without looking back.

Madam Kou wanted to chase after him again, but her son pulled her back.

"What are you doing? Didn't you hear him say he was going to take all the children away? That's your son, why..." "Why? Because he doesn't have a stupid mother who's holding him back." Kou Huaqing's blood boiled. Thinking about how he had worked so hard for so many years, endured his wife's spoiled temper, and groveled before his father-in-law, only to end up with nothing, he couldn't hold back any longer and grabbed Mrs. Kou by the neck.

"Why did you say those things in someone else's house? Why did you have to be so talkative? Your tongue is so long it should be cut off, I'll cut it off for you right now, okay? Why did I bring an idiot like you here today? It's all over, everything is over. Why did you do this? You ruined me, you ruined everything!"

Mrs. Kou's eyes rolled back as she was being pinched, and she kept digging at Kou Huaqing's fingers and hitting his arm.

Fortunately, Kou Huaqing still retained some rationality and let go before strangling her to death.

Looking indifferently at Madam Kou, who was collapsed on the ground coughing incessantly, Kou Huaqing numbly took out his phone and made a call.

"Third brother, Mom did something stupid. You'll be a beggar with me now."

Ignoring the furious curses on the other end of the phone, she hung up immediately, covered her face, and chuckled softly. Then, as she laughed, she couldn't help but cry.

Du Anrao didn't know what happened after the Kou family mother and son and the Xiong family father and daughter left the Du family, but he could guess the general idea.

Mr. Xiong's extremely angry expression before leaving and the fleeting anger and resentment on Kou Huaqing's face had already sealed her fate.

The children who truly loved her and were willing to be filial to her were driven away one by one by her. Instead, they treated two venomous snakes that could bite her to death at any time as treasures. She deserves her current fate.

With the annoying person gone, the atmosphere immediately improved.

Du Desheng had intended to introduce Du Anrao to everyone, so that she could become familiar to them and get rid of the troublesome people. He immediately beckoned to Du Anrao and called her over to his side.

"This is the granddaughter of my in-laws whom I mentioned before. An'an, this is your Uncle Xu, Uncle Yang, Uncle Wu, and Uncle Hu."

Du Anrao had already heard Du Miao introduce the identities of the people, so when Du Desheng introduced him to them, he quickly followed Du Desheng's instructions and obediently greeted them: "Uncle Xu, Uncle Yang, Uncle Wu, Uncle Hu."

"I've heard your grandfather talk about you before, but today I'm finally meeting you in person."

The middle-aged man who had spoken earlier, whom Du Desheng had referred to as Uncle Xu, turned to the others and introduced, "You all heard about the gold mine that was recently discovered in the wasteland in the northern suburbs, right? That land was bought by this little guy."

"So it was you. That piece of wasteland in the northern suburbs has been unsold for so many years, and no one has been able to acquire it. You just unearthed a gold mine with your bid. Old Du, your granddaughter is quite something."

"That's right, that's right. Mr. Du, your granddaughter is clearly an outstanding person. You can just wait to enjoy your life."

Although he knew these people were just flattering him out of respect for Du Desheng, Du Anrao was still a little embarrassed by the compliments: "It was all just luck."

"There's no need to be modest. Luck is also a kind of strength. Some people are poor no matter how much they scheme, while others can turn lead into gold with ease. There's some truth to the saying about luck."

Du Anrao met Uncle Xu's gentle gaze, his heart stirred slightly, he pursed his lips and remained silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Although it may be a bit presumptuous of me to say this, please forgive my rudeness, may I speak with you all alone?"

(End of this chapter)