Madam Liu understood what her son meant. He was using the reputation of all the girls in the Cao family to force the Cao family to punish Madam Xu.
Although the Cao family and the Chu family's first branch were in-laws, the girls still had to take care of their reputations. Moreover, Madam Xu usually took many things from the Chu family, including valuable ones.
Every time Madam Xu was high-profile and received benefits, they would always complain that Madam Cao did not give enough behind her back. Therefore, many villagers knew that Madam Xu had received benefits from Madam Cao.
The villagers who had heard the news before only said that Madam Cao was easy to deceive.
However, now that the Chu family wanted to be calculative, Madam Cao was also forced to be calculative. The nature of the matter had changed. Madam Cao only needed to say that Madam Xu took the things because her daughter was going to have a marriage with the Chu family
