"Qiaoqiao, it was all my fault back then. I shouldn't have suspected Zheng Yulan because you paid for Guoqing's medical treatment and Zheng Yulan worked at your brother's duck shop, and I dragged you into it. Blame me, not your brother Dacheng. Your brother Dacheng can't lose his job! I beg you."

As Aunt Zhao cried, she reached out to hug Jiang Qiaoqiao's leg.

Jiang Qiaoqiao's eyes turned cold. This Aunt Zhao was truly incorrigible; she was still subtly implying something about her.

On the surface, her words were an admission of wrongdoing, but in reality, she was implying to everyone that Jiang Qiaoqiao had been trying to steal Zheng Yulan's boyfriend all along.

Although the neighbors dared not speak loudly, they couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"Qiaoqiao paid for Xiao Guoqing's medical treatment? Qiaoqiao is really kind-hearted."

"That's hard to say. Didn't you hear what Aunt Zhao said? Zheng Yulan is working at Qiaoqiao's brother's shop now! And her brother isn't married!"

"Hey, I saw Zheng Yulan riding on the back of a man's bicycle the other day. Could that man be..." The man gestured with his chin toward Jiang Qiaoqiao.

"Most likely."

"Jiang Qiaoqiao's adoptive mother is from the same village as my cousin's husband's family. I heard that her brother broke his leg two years ago and still has steel nails in his bone. It's hard for him to find a wife in the countryside. Do you think Jiang Qiaoqiao really had her eye on Zheng Yulan from the beginning?"

"You can't just say things like that, she's the factory director's wife now!" someone immediately reminded her.

...

Upon hearing these sounds, Aunt Zhao immediately cried and promised, "Qiaoqiao, I promise I will never bother Yulan and her son again. Please, please don't let Beixiao take away your brother Dacheng's job!"

Waaaaah... Our family is living off your brother Dacheng's meager salary. If he stops earning money, our whole family will have no choice but to die, waaaah..."

A cold smile curled at the corner of Jiang Qiaoqiao's lips.

Is he threatening her with death?

Huo Beixiao stepped forward, wanting to protect Jiang Qiaoqiao behind him.

Jiang Qiaoqiao tugged at his sleeve, signaling him not to come forward.

Her clear eyes stared intently at Aunt Zhao. "Aunt Zhao, you are heartless. You can watch your own grandson die. I can't do that."

If you insist that I had ulterior motives towards Sister Yulan, then I can easily prove my innocence. I'll have my brother fire Sister Yulan tomorrow!

I just don't know if, when Sister Yulan and her son Guoqing can't survive, you, as their grandmother, will lend a helping hand or, like you did with Guoqing's pneumonia last time, just watch them die!

Jiang Qiaoqiao's voice was neither loud nor soft, but it carried a compelling and intimidating force.

Aunt Zhao stopped crying, wiped away her tears and shrank back, "I...I didn't say that you had designs on Zheng Yulan all along."

Seeing Aunt Zhao's guilty look, everyone understood perfectly well.

Zheng Yulan had clearly been released from the detention center, but she was still resentful. She deliberately staged this incident while everyone was there, just to ruin Jiang Qiaoqiao's reputation.

"That Aunt Zhao is too cruel. If Qiaoqiao were a person who acts impulsively, Yulan would definitely lose her job if she made such a scene."

"If she weren't so heartless, she wouldn't have just stood by and watched Guoqing die of illness without doing anything about it. He was her own grandson!"

"He's ruthless and wicked. We should stay away from people like that in the future, or we might end up getting schemed against one of them."

...

The crowd's voices were filled with contempt for Aunt Zhao.

Huo Beixiao stepped forward at this moment, his sharp eyes fixed on Aunt Zhao, and said in a deep voice, "Aunt Zhao, one should first be a good person before doing anything else."

As soon as he finished speaking, Huo Beixiao hurriedly squeezed through the crowd.

Stomping her feet, she looked both angry and helpless, saying, "Mom, what are you doing? Didn't we already settle things when we left today? We won't bring up the past anymore, and you shouldn't bother Yulan and her son anymore. We'll just live our lives well. Why are you making a fuss again? Sigh..."

When Aunt Zhao saw her son, she felt a little guilty, and her eyes flickered.

But she quickly calmed down and said defiantly, "What do you mean by 'make a good life'? How can we make a good life in our current state?"

"Why can't I make a scene? If it weren't for Jiang Qiaoqiao meddling in our business, that poor son would have been sickly since he was little. If he had died, Zheng Yulan could have given you another one! It was she who instigated that woman to divorce you, so she should take responsibility!"

Aunt Zhao became more and more confident as she spoke.

When Wang Dacheng saw that his mother was completely unresponsive, he suddenly felt a pang of sadness.

His mother has always been so sarcastic and unreasonable, but in all the years that Yulan has been married to him, he has only occasionally said a word or two in her defense.

Most of the time, when his mother and Yulan had a conflict, he would hide in the factory to get some peace and quiet.

His mother wanted to start a business like Jiang Qiaoqiao, and during the time when she used all the family's savings to buy goods, the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law reached its peak.

He basically lived at the factory during that period.

It was only after Xiao Guoqing's fever became too high that Yulan asked someone to tell him, and he finally returned.

But when his mother gritted her teeth and said she had no money, he didn't firmly stand by Yulan's side and ask her to give Xiao Guoqing money to go to the hospital. He just told Yulan not to argue with his mother and to go find a folk doctor to treat Xiao Guoqing first. If that didn't work, they would think of another way.

When Yulan carried Xiao Guoqing away that day, he should have realized that what happened was just a fuse.

He actually believed his mother, thinking that Yulan, with her sickly little Guoqing and nowhere else to go, would soon come back to beg them for help.

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