Chapter 289: The people from the big house come back and are all beaten out

After returning to the front gate, Du Wanwan went to the door of a nearby house to find a woman and asked her, "Is that the old house of the Pingyang Marquis family?"

"Yes!" The woman looked at Du Wanwan, "Are you a relative of theirs?"

Du Wanwan shook her head. "I am the wife of the Ye family. I came from Liangjun City. What happened to the Ye family today? Why did they close the door in broad daylight? Did something happen?"

The woman came out to take a look, and sure enough, the Ye family had locked the doors and windows. She was also puzzled: "I didn't hear anything happened? Why did they lock the doors for no reason? Are you from Liangjun City? I heard your house was raided?"

There was a burning gossip in the woman's tone, but Du Wanwan pretended not to understand and lowered her head, looking extremely sad.

"Really? I don't know what the Ye family means. Do they not want to see us and not let us go home?"

"That's impossible, right?" The woman turned around and went to the next door to ask another woman, "Aunt! Do you know why the Ye family closed the door for no reason?"

"I don't know." The aunt was about forty years old, her family lived in good conditions, and she was well fed. "The Ye family has become fussy since the old lady from the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion came back.

The door was often half open and half closed. In the past, the younger generation who came in and out would greet our neighbors enthusiastically. But when the old lady came back, they didn’t dare to do that, as if they were scared to death of her.”

Du Wanwan thought, is there such a thing? It seems that this old lady is very powerful and should not be underestimated!

"Is the old lady really that powerful?" Du Wanwan pretended to be frightened, "What should we do? The door of the Ye family is closed, we can't get in at all, where are we going to stay tonight?

Adults can still tolerate it, and it's okay for them to sit under anyone's eaves for a night, but my son is only a little over a year old, how can he bear it?"

The Ye family’s old house was not located in the wealthy area in the south of the city, but in the east of the city, a semi-poor place.

The people here belong to the lower end of the middle class. Their families either own shops or fields outside the city. They cannot compare with kings, generals, or wealthy businessmen, but they are better off than ordinary poor people.

There are some families who have servants, but they are not many. Most of them can feed themselves and have enough food and clothing.

The people living in the Ye family’s old house probably have similar living conditions to their neighbors, otherwise the house wouldn’t be so dilapidated and not even repaired.

After hearing what Du Wanwan said, the chubby aunt followed her to look at Chen Xiangxiu, Xu, Yetingyu, and Chenchen with his big eyes blinking who were standing outside the gate waiting to come in.

Suddenly I felt that this person was so old and so small and so pitiful.

He rushed back to the capital from such a far place as Liangjun City, but he couldn't go home, and even the little child suffered with him. My uncle could tolerate it, but her aunt really couldn't.

He yelled at the top of his lungs, "Everyone, come and take a look! The Ye family is really interesting. Their descendants came back from far away, but they didn't let them in and closed the door."

My aunt has a very loud voice. With one roar, five or six women came out, and people came out from all directions.

When they saw Du Wanwan and the others, everyone felt sorry for them.

"The Ye family is now headed by the old lady who returned from the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion. The old uncle of the Ye family is no longer in charge of things. The old lady of the Ye family must have ordered the door to be closed."

"I heard that she didn't like her eldest son's family in Liang County. She scolded them for a whole day when she came back to the old house. No wonder you were locked out when you came back. Didn't she want you to come in?"

"That's right. I heard from her daughter-in-law that if anyone from the first house comes back, they will all be kicked out."

Chen Xiangxiu cried and said, "Something happened in the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion. My second uncle Ye Zhengchun was found to have embezzled and accepted bribes. He was arrested for a month and then he accused our master.

The title of Marquis of Pingyang was dismissed, and my master and his two sons were exiled to the bitter cold land in the north. What right did his second aunt have to drive our eldest wife out? If her master had not done something wrong, how could our family have suffered such a disaster?

We were sent back to the capital from a long distance, but we didn't expect to be unable to return home. What should we do?"

Xu and Yetingyu didn't say anything, they just kept shedding tears silently. The clever little Chenchen saw his mother, grandma, aunt and grandma crying, so he also started crying heart-wrenchingly.

For a moment, this commotion attracted many people to gather in front of the Ye family’s gate.

When Ye Zhengchun's wife Fang heard this, she felt that something was wrong and ran back to report to the old lady.

"Oh no! There are a lot of people outside the gate talking about us. Chen Xiangxiu cried and told everyone about her family's affairs. The neighbors felt very sorry for them. Old lady! If this continues, I'm afraid we won't be able to drive them away, and our reputation will be ruined."

Ye Zhengqiu's wife, Liang, sat aside in silence. She strongly disagreed with the old lady's approach, but unfortunately she was the daughter-in-law, and even if she said something, the always strong old lady would not listen.

It would be better to just say nothing and let them make a fuss. Sooner or later, the family would be broken up, and the old lady would be relieved.

The eldest and second sons have been exiled, and the title of the marquis has been stripped, but the old lady is still making trouble. Is she trying to force everyone to death?

Push it! Push it! Let’s see if the old lady has the ability to force the eldest brother’s family to death.

"Do we still have a reputation?" The old lady's eyes widened in anger and she stood up suddenly. "Go out and see if Chen Xiangxiu has learned his lesson? Does he know to find help? Remember, only Xu and Yetingyu and her daughter are allowed to stay. No one else is allowed to come in."

After the second son was exiled, the old lady thought more and more that the King of Qi had played a trick on them. He had originally planned to take back the eldest son's title and find a way to give it to the second son.

Unexpectedly, the King of Qi took advantage of the situation and seized the Marquis of Pingyang Mansion in the capital. All the private money she had saved for most of her life was confiscated without a penny left.

All the servants in the house were taken away, even the old maid who served her was not spared. They were all taken away, without leaving a single one.

She had been scheming all her life, and had enjoyed wealth and glory all her life, but when she got old, she was left with nothing and had to return to her old house.

She had never been to the Ye family's old house. She didn't need to come to worship ancestors during festivals, as that was a man's job. On weekdays, people from the old house went to Pingyang Marquis's Mansion to see her, but it depended on her mood.

When she's happy, she'll see them. When she's unhappy, she's too lazy to even see them. She teases them like she's teasing a kitten or a puppy. Who would have thought that she would come back one day? Isn't this a slap in her face?

Seeing that the Ye family had fallen on hard times, the people in the old house of the Ye family didn't even want to talk to them. They completely lost the respect they had in the past and ignored them.

How could she bear it? She should have the final say in the Ye family, not those clan members who usually found it difficult to even see her.

The King of Qi was really abominable. In order to kill the eldest son, he actually plotted against her second son. Judging from the situation, the second son would have no hope of returning.

She really shouldn't have agreed to let the second son get too close to the King of Qi. The King of Qi was a poisonous snake, a devil who ate people without leaving any bones.

(End of this chapter)