Chapter 375 Malicious Speculation

“After I became pregnant, she would often beat me when no one else was around.”

As she spoke, Yu Niang opened her clothes to Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang. Li San Niang looked at the bruises on Yu Niang's body and couldn't understand how a woman could have such hatred for another woman.

Yu Niang closed her eyes, trying to hold back her tears, and continued, choking back sobs, "I've talked to An Lang about this before, but he kept telling me to hold back. He said she was his own mother who raised him with great difficulty, and he had to be filial to her."

"shit!

He can be filial to himself if he wants; you weren't born of his mother, so what does it have to do with you?"

Qiu Xiang puffed out her cheeks angrily, but when she saw Li San Niang's glare, she lowered her voice.

"That's how it is. Whoever gave birth to the child should be the one to take care of them. How can you push the responsibility of taking care of them onto someone else?"

"Ah," Yu Niang laughed and cried at the same time, "You must not be married yet, my lady?"

Qiu Xiang was puzzled. What did this have to do with whether she got married or not?

"Okay, continue. What happened next?"

"I had no other choice but to endure it, thinking that things would be alright once the baby was born."

But several times during this time I contemplated suicide, which is why I left these things behind.

Yu Niang lowered her head, looking at the scars on her wrists. "But I was wrong. I was pregnant and working at home, counting down the days."

She seemed to dislike me more and more. One day, she even looked at my stomach with a sinister gaze, and I was really scared.

While I was out collecting the dirty laundry, I asked someone to find my aunt. She came to see me, but I didn't dare tell her I'd been beaten and scolded. I only said I missed her and had sent someone to tell her.

Yu Niang raised her head and said, "After Auntie came, she quieted down for a while."

That's how I was able to give birth to my child safely.

"Then why this time," Li Sanniang looked at Yu Niang's wrist, which she had just bandaged, "was it?"

“When I was in postpartum confinement, she wouldn’t let Anlang into the room, saying that I was unclean because I had given birth, and she made Anlang sleep in the same room with her.”

"That's alright, but," Yu Niang raised her head, glared, and said fiercely, "she actually put green shavings into my room while An Lang was not at home during the day!"

I took the stone knife from under my pillow and cut my wrist to scare the person away.

Li San Niang was extremely surprised; she never expected it to be like this!

"How dare she?"

This is a crime!

Seeing the disbelief on Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang's faces, Yu Niang smiled and said with a wry smile, "That person climbed over the wall and ran away. Hearing my scream, An Lang, who happened to be home, brought me to the clinic."

No matter what I say, Anlang won't believe me.

Besides, even if Anlang believed me, he wouldn't let me file a lawsuit!

"So what do you want?"

"Please trouble the female doctor to contact my uncle and aunt. They live in Liujia Alley on Waisan Road."

I don't want to be with Anlang anymore. I want a divorce. I don't want to die.

Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang exchanged a glance, and then Li San Niang nodded to Yu Niang, "You will continue to pretend to be asleep. After I give you the medicine, I will leave you here on the grounds that your condition is unclear and needs to be observed."

Since it's in the outer three cities, it's not far from the inner city. It's not even noon yet, so your uncle and aunt should be able to get here in time.”

"Thank you, female doctor."

Li San Niang keenly heard footsteps outside and gestured for Yu Niang to lie down. Yu Niang quickly lay down, closed her eyes, and pretended to be asleep.

Xu An brought in a bowl of medicine. Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang helped Yu Niang, who was pretending to be asleep, to sit up and fed her the medicine. Then they said to Xu An, "Now that she has drunk the medicine, we don't know if it will work."

Let her stay and observe. If nothing unexpected happens this afternoon, you can take her home.

Xu An glanced at Yu Niang on the bed. Seeing Li San Niang say this, he opened his mouth, then, remembering the appearance of Granny Xu at home, nodded in agreement.

Once she was sure Xu An had left, Qiu Xiang quickly went out to find someone on the street to send a message to Yu Niang's uncle and aunt who lived in the outer three cities.

How could a family that can refuse a bride price and even provide a dowry not care about their daughter?

In just over an hour, Yu Niang's uncle and aunt arrived. When the aunt saw Yu Niang's wrist lying on the bed, she burst into tears.

Aunt stepped forward and hugged Yu Niang, gently patting her back, "You heartless thing, you're so reckless!"

Your uncle and I raised you for over ten years, and this is how you look down on yourself!

The two women hugged each other and cried. Uncle Yu Niang, who was anxiously waiting outside the curtain, heard their cries and immediately called out, "What's wrong? What's wrong? Zhu Zi's mother, why are you crying? How is Yu Niang? Is she badly hurt?"

After she had calmed down from crying, her aunt helped Yu Niang out.

It's definitely not acceptable if the person sent and the person to be picked up are not the same.

Li San Niang reported this matter to Manager Gao, "...Manager, what should we do now?"

Manager Gao immediately summoned Qili and instructed him, "Go outside and find a constable to come here."

When the constables arrived, they were invited into the inner room, and Yu Niang and her uncle and aunt also went in.

After a quarter of an hour, the group came out of the door, bowed, and left the medical hall.

"This is a difficult matter. After all, she is a married woman. Even if her own uncle comes to pick her up, we cannot make the decision."

When the constables arrive, you can simply say that he was abused by his mother-in-law, thus having a legitimate reason to take him home.

Li San Niang nodded with a stern face, "Thank you, steward, I understand."

Li San Niang returned to her consultation spot, feeling extremely distressed and finding the situation utterly ridiculous.

It's ridiculous that a married woman, even if abused by her mother-in-law, cannot be taken away by her relatives.

Li San Niang hoped that the government could intervene in this matter and allow Yu Niang to divorce him. Even if her life was hard, at least she wouldn't be in mortal danger.

"Third Sister, why doesn't Yu Niang's husband care about her?"

I noticed he was clearly very nervous when he brought Yu Niang here, so why did he only tell Yu Niang to endure it when it came to his own mother?

Looking at Qiu Xiang's indignant face, Li San Niang sighed inwardly, "Alas, it's all about interests."

First, she is his own mother. You've heard Yu Niang say that Granny Xu is a widow who raised Xu An single-handedly by saving every penny.

If Xu An were to clash with his own mother for Yu Niang's sake, the neighbors would surely gossip and even look down on him, which would be bad for his reputation.

Secondly, Yu Niang is too foolish.

She didn't understand. Xu Anding knew everything. She thought Xu An was always away doing business and didn't understand what kind of person his mother was.

Xu An definitely knows everything.

How could someone who works as a labor foreman and travels back and forth between two places with merchants not see what kind of life Yu Niang is living at home?

But precisely because he knew this, Xu An took advantage of Yu Niang's weakness and kindness. Yu Niang was easy to bully; what did it matter if she had uncles and aunts, she was just an orphan?

Aren't we just destined to be tormented by others?

Furthermore, I suspect that Xu An is already feeling uncomfortable because of Xu Pozi's distorted feelings.

Therefore, in order to resist the distorted affection from her mother, the only option was to let Yu Niang suffer some torment.

Li San Niang leaned closer to Qiu Xiang and whispered, "Sometimes I tend to assume the worst."

I even think that Xu An did it on purpose. He deliberately let Granny Xu torment Yu Niang, hoping to kill or force Yu Niang to her death, and then he would righteously expose this matter so that Granny Xu would be punished by law.

Only then could he be freed from having to endure Xu Pozi's distorted feelings.

In this way, he got the result he wanted without spending a single penny.

He became a completely innocent victim, free to remarry with his son.

Qiu Xiang was greatly shocked, never expecting there to be such a reason behind it.

"Third Miss, if we go to the Jingzhao Prefecture, is it possible that they will grant Yu Niang a divorce?"

Li San Niang shook her head: "I don't know either. I'm just afraid that if Granny Xu tries to smear Yu Niang and Xu An cowers and doesn't say anything, it will be very difficult."

Even if a complete break is to be made, it should only apply to husband and wife. How should this conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law be judged?

Hopefully, the court will grant them a divorce; otherwise, given Yu Niang's mental state, she might actually do something drastic.