In Meng Zihan's view, Ye Linchen is in big trouble this time.
As a student, it was unusual for her to rent a house, and since the neighbors didn't know about the Ye family, they naturally had preconceived notions and believed Meng Xueyun's words.
Ye Linchen can ask Teacher Li to testify if she cheated on the exam, but now her biological mother is accusing her of stealing money. Who can prove her innocence?
If this comes to fruition, Ye Linchen will have no choice but to return to the Ye family home and won't be able to rent a place outside.
After all, who wants to be neighbors with a thief?
Sure enough, as soon as Meng Xueyun said that, people immediately echoed her.
"What's going on? Why let a thief in? What if someone gets robbed?"
Ye Linchen immediately retorted, "I didn't steal any money! I didn't run away from home!" She looked at Meng Xueyun, "You're the ones who kicked me out!"
"Kick you out? Don't you know why we're kicking you out?!" Meng Xueyun shouted. "Because you cheated on the exam! You grew up in the countryside; your character is already ruined!"
“So what if we grew up in the countryside! We all grew up in the countryside!” Aunt Chen interrupted Meng Xueyun with a strong voice. “I’m wondering, your Ye family moved to the city more than ten years ago, how come your biological daughter grew up in the countryside?”
Meng Xueyun was taken aback by her question and immediately felt a little guilty.
"This is our family matter, it has nothing to do with you."
Not only did his voice become softer, but his demeanor also weakened.
Aunt Shen, however, was full of imposing manner, and with her hands on her hips, she launched into a series of questions.
"Then explain again why no one went to pick up your biological daughter when she came back from the countryside a couple of days ago?"
"Why have you been beating me every day for only two days since I got back?"
Why don't I even have my own room when I get home?
"Why are you accusing her of cheating on the exam when she clearly has good grades?"
"Explain each and every one of these things to everyone properly."
Aunt Shen had heard that a child had run away from home after cheating on an exam, so she went to the dormitory area to inquire about it.
Unexpectedly, this inquiry led to something quite extraordinary.
She not only learned the whole story, but also how the Ye family abused and slandered her daughter, wanting to sacrifice her daughter's future to raise her niece.
How could any parent in the world act like this?
In her anger, Aunt Shen cursed the Ye family for being blinded by greed, neglecting their sensible and academically gifted daughter to meddle in other people's children.
The Ye family's daughter ran well; she would have run too!
I didn't expect that after listening to the gossip, I would hear that the Ye family had made a scene in the alley and even in Ye Linchen's rented room.
So it turns out that Xiao Ye is the Ye family's daughter who was bullied and abused!
No wonder she saw Ye Linchen with injuries on his face when he came back that day, and he was trying to hide them, as if he was afraid of being seen.
At the time, she was afraid of embarrassing Ye Linchen, so she didn't dare to ask what had happened.
Now everything is connected.
Xiao Ye is so pitiful!
How could such a smart and well-behaved child encounter such heartless family members!
Aunt Shen is usually a warm-hearted, straightforward, and indignant person. Now that something unfair has happened in front of her, how could she stand idly by!
Moreover, this is her territory. She will never allow the Ye family to bully Ye Linchen here!
So she immediately told her landlady, Aunt Cai, who had come back for a visit, and then dragged her over to support Ye Linchen.
Meng Xueyun was stunned by Aunt Shen's series of questions.
She was speechless for a long time before her face flushed red and she shouted, "Nonsense! That's not true!"
Ye Zhenghua turned to Ye Linchen with a stern face and questioned him.
"Xiao Chen, was it you? Were you the one who smeared us? What are you up to?!"
Stop trying to pin the blame on her!
Landlady Aunt Cai immediately stood in front of Ye Linchen.
She was tall and strong, completely blocking Ye Linchen's view, and her voice was loud and clear, echoing in the narrow alley.
"The mess you two made has spread throughout the entire dormitory area, even alarming the factory leaders. Do you really need someone else to smear you?"
"Exactly, a coward who dares to do something but not take responsibility!"
Aunt Shen rejoined the battle.
"How dare you call Xiao Ye heartless? You're the one who's ungrateful! Every family is happy when their daughter does well on exams. Even if they don't have money, they'll try their best to raise it. But you two are different. The mother can't work, so you insist on making your high-achieving daughter drop out of school to work and get paid to tutor your niece. If she doesn't agree, you beat her up and even kick Xiao Ye out of the house. You can't find such heartless parents anywhere else in the world!"
With their two loud voices ringing out together, the situation instantly turned around. Meng Xueyun panicked and raised her voice as well, almost to the point of cracking.
"How am I heartless! If I were heartless, would I have come looking for her? We didn't even have dinner, what were we doing out here looking for her? We hit her because she cheated and stole money, we only did it in a fit of anger!"
"Isn't your coming to our door now just about money?" a neighbor retorted. "You're implying that you want them to return the items and take their money home. You don't care about your daughter at all. Is that the attitude a normal parent should have?"
Meng Xueyun immediately turned her head away: "That's because she stole money from home! We really had no other choice, we had no money for food, that's why we said that!"
Ignoring everyone else, Ye Zhenghua roared at Ye Linchen.
"Ye Linchen, is this how you treat your parents? Do you just let others slander them? How can you be so unfilial!"
Today's events can't be easily dismissed; I can only hope to divert attention by blaming Ye Linchen for being unfilial.
Ye Linchen stared coldly at him, refusing to back down.
Everyone was speaking up for her; she couldn't be a coward and let Meng Xueyun and Ye Zhenghua smear her.
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