Chapter 115 Fainting

"Face? Foundation?"

Old Mrs. Jiang had already been completely blinded by anger.

Facing the elders' accusations, he showed no remorse at all. Instead, he retaliated shrilly like a cat whose tail had been stepped on:

"Does the Jiang family still have dignity? They've clearly been disgraced by that unfilial son Jiang Baichuan and that shameless divorced wife Jiang Qingning!"

"They are the shame and scourge of the Jiang family. If they are not eliminated, the Jiang family will never have peace. I am cleaning up the Jiang family and clearing up the family tradition. What do you old fools know?"

She became more and more excited as she spoke, and her crutches pounded loudly on the ground.

"I am the most senior elder in the Jiang family, and I was granted the title by the emperor. It is not your turn to tell me what to do."

"You keep saying Jiang Baichuan is good, Jiang Qingning is good, then why don't you go to Lingnan to find him, why don't you go to Ning Pavilion to seek refuge with her, and stay here to take advantage of your seniority and teach me a lesson? I think you have accepted their benefits and are deliberately trying to go against me!"

"You are slandering me!"

Sixth Uncle was so angry that his beard was shaking. He pointed at Old Lady Jiang and couldn't speak clearly.

"Jiang Lu! You are simply unreasonable. You have done such a heartless thing today. You will regret it in the future. The spirits of the Jiang family ancestors in heaven will never forgive you!"

"regret?"

Old Madam Jiang acted as if she had just heard a ridiculous joke. "What I regret most is that I didn't strangle that disobedient and unfilial Jiang Baichuan to death earlier, and didn't kick them out of the house when he married that Xiao family member."

"As for that little bitch Jiang Qingning, and that traitor Jiang Yuerou, I'm so happy to expel them from the family tree. I regret not taking action sooner."

She looked around at the elders who were trembling with anger, her eyes filled with contempt and impatience:

"Don't you feel sorry for them? Don't you think I did something wrong? If you have the ability, go and change the family tree, invite Jiang Baichuan back from Lingnan to be the head of the family, and worship Jiang Qingning, the divorced woman, and see if she can save you and the Jiang family."

“You…you…”

Sixth Uncle was so angry at these extremely malicious and distorted words that he felt dizzy and staggered. Fortunately, he was supported by the elders next to him.

Another younger elder with a hot temper could no longer tolerate it.

Looking at the stubborn look of Old Lady Jiang, he glanced at Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Songyan who were standing beside him with their heads down and their eyes flickering.

He suddenly slammed the table and stood up, shouting:

"Jiang Lu, you keep saying that the eldest branch is a disaster and that they destroyed the Jiang family. Well, then I will tell you today! Who is the disaster that truly destroyed the Jiang family and hollowed out the foundation of the Jiang family!"

He pointed his finger suddenly at Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Songyan.

"It's your two good sons, Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Songyan!"

"Wha…what?"

The smug look on Mrs. Jiang's face froze instantly, and she turned her head abruptly to look at her two sons who were being pointed at.

Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Songyan's faces turned pale as paper, and their eyes dodged in fear.

The elder's voice was filled with grief and sorrow: "You think dividing the family is a good thing? You think they're going to set up their own business? Bullshit! They're using the family property they've been given to fill that bottomless pit!"

"The two brothers have long been addicted to gambling. The Hongyun Casino and Qianjinlou are their dens for spending money.

They had already secretly sold off most of the land, shops, and farms that the Jiang family had given them!

"The rest were all mortgaged to pawnshops and underground money lenders, where interest was compounded and the debt piled up.

The Jiang family's wealth accumulated over generations has been squandered by them. I'm afraid the old house you live in now will soon be lost!"

These words were like a bolt from the blue, exploding over Old Lady Jiang's head.

She turned her head in disbelief, staring at Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Songyan, her voice trembling:

"Is what he said true? You're gambling and selling off your property?"

"Mother."

Jiang Baizhou's face was pale, his lips trembling, he wanted to explain himself, but he couldn't utter a word, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead.

"It's not me, mother. They are the ones who are slandering me..." Jiang Songyan was so scared that he was incoherent.

"slander?!"

The clan elder sneered angrily, pulled out a thick stack of papers from his sleeve, and threw it hard on the incense table in front of Old Mrs. Jiang, causing the candlelight to flicker.

"Look for yourself! This is the proof of their pawning of land and shop deeds. This is a note from an underground moneylender demanding payment. It's written in black and white, and it has their fingerprints on it!"

"Even the red gold and jeweled headpiece that you brought as a dowry was stolen and pawned by your good son Jiang Baizhou, and you are the only one who is kept in the dark.

You are still cleaning up the house for these two termites. You are cleaning up the last backbone of the Jiang family, leaving behind two blood-sucking termites. You are really good!"

Old Mrs. Jiang grabbed the stack of papers with trembling hands.

The familiar name of the farm and shop, the eye-catching pawn amount, the ridiculously high interest rate, and the pawn ticket with the red gold headpiece that she treasured so much and would only wear on important occasions.

She flipped through the pages one by one, her fingers shaking so much that she could hardly hold the paper.

With every picture she looked at, her face grew paler.

The inheritance that she thought was firmly in her son's hands had already become fleeting chips on the gambling table and IOUs with compounding interest in underground money lenders.

The elder of the clan was furious: "I'm afraid the old lady has long forgotten which son gave you the title of your noble lady!"

"A dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, but you gave birth to two stinky loaches from the rotten ground, dragging down the entire family of the eldest son who brought honor to the family!"

"This family is divided well! It's divided well. The Jiang family has received so much kindness from Baichuan, they should have set their whole family free long ago!"

"puff!"

A mouthful of sweet and fishy blood spurted out of Mrs. Jiang's mouth, unable to be restrained any longer.

Scarlet blood splattered on the incense table and splashed everywhere.

"grandmother!"

Jiang Ruyi screamed in fright.

"old lady!"

Everyone exclaimed.

Old Mrs. Jiang felt dizzy and everything in front of her became blurry.

She was wrong, she was really wrong.

The two sons she had favored all her life turned out to be the parasites who drained the Jiang family's foundation.

The eldest son's lineage, whom she hated and expelled, was the only remaining part of the Jiang family that had not tarnished its reputation.

What she cut out with her own hands was the Jiang family's last hope and backbone, but she left two poisonous snakes by her side.

Ancestors, how can she face them?

"ah!!!"

Old Mrs. Jiang wailed, and her body jerked back like a puppet with its strings cut.

"Bang!"

Old Mrs. Jiang fell straight to the ground and completely lost consciousness.

"old lady!"

"Mother!"

"Quick! Call a doctor!"

"Pinch the Ren Zhong!"

The ancestral hall was instantly in chaos.

Jiang Baizhou and Jiang Songyan rushed to their mother's side, crying and wailing, not knowing whether they were truly sad or frightened.

Jiang Ruyi was so frightened that she didn't know what to do.

The elders looked at this chaotic scene and the blood-stained family tree on the ground, shaking their heads and sighing, tears streaming down their faces.

It's over.

The Jiang family is really finished this time.