Chapter 855 Extremely Selfish
When Mr. and Mrs. Ji called out, everyone present turned to look at them.
The young man, who had checked with several people outside the hospital, frowned and muttered, "Didn't you say you didn't know them before?"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Ji looked embarrassed and explained in a low voice, "It's been more than ten years since we last met. I really didn't recognize you at first."
Of course, the main reason is still...
"Qiuyan, what happened to you? And why..."
It's no wonder that Mrs. Ji didn't recognize Shang Qiuyan earlier. In her memory, if they hadn't met today, Shang Qiuyan would still be that sixteen-year-old girl who was a few years younger than her daughter.
Rather than the weathered woman in front of her, whose face was as pale as paper, whose body was thin and even somewhat hunched, and who looked ten years older than her daughter.
Ji Yafeng, who was standing to the side, gradually calmed down under Zhai Yizhong's comforting words. When she heard what her mother said, she couldn't help but show surprise.
"Mom, is she really Qiuyan's cousin?"
"Cousin?" Zhai Yizhong was also stunned. So it turned out that the kidnapper was actually... a relative of theirs?
When Ji Yafeng was talking to Zhai Yizhong, Shang Qiuyan had been missing for several years, so it was normal that Zhai Yizhong didn't know.
Ji Yafeng's gaze swept between her parents and Shang Qiuyan twice, and she whispered to Zhai Yizhong, "My cousin Qiuyan is my uncle's daughter."
"Your uncle? You have an uncle?"
Ji Yafeng looked up at him and glared at him: "Why can't I have an uncle?"
Zhai Yizhong realized he had misspoke and guiltily touched his nose: "That's not what I meant. I was just wondering, since you have an uncle, why have I never heard you mention him?"
"That's because..."
"That's because they've long forgotten about my parents." Before Ji Yafeng could finish speaking, Shang Qiuyan interrupted her loudly. Her eyes, which were unusually prominent due to her extreme thinness, stared at the Ji family members with a venomous look, filled with resentment.
"How dare they remember my parents? How dare they think of them? Thinking of them must give them nightmares every day, dreams that they come back to take your lives, dreams that they question you, how could you be so cruel, even to your own son and brother, killing them!"
When Mrs. Ji heard Shang Qiuyan say this, her eyes immediately reddened: "Qiuyan, you've misunderstood. It's not what you think. Your parents..."
"What misunderstanding? Do you dare say that you didn't kill my parents? Do you dare say that their deaths have nothing to do with you?"
Mrs. Ji choked up, tears streaming down her face, and turned away, refusing to look at her again.
Upon seeing this, Mr. Ji's face darkened. While comforting his wife, he glared at Shang Qiuyan with an unfriendly expression.
Yin Zhixing, who had already received basic hemostasis, was eager to stir up trouble and said, "Have you ever seen anyone who killed someone willingly admit to being a murderer? These hypocrites, even if they really killed someone, will definitely find a high-sounding reason to beautify their evil deeds. It's disgusting."
"Enough!" Ji Yafeng was so angry that she almost grabbed a brick and hit them all.
"Your parents deserved to die; it had nothing to do with my parents!"
"What did you say?" Shang Qiuyan was originally feeling smug because she had provoked Mr. and Mrs. Ji and thought she had torn off their hypocritical masks in front of so many people.
Upon hearing Ji Yafeng's words, he felt his blood rush to his head and struggled violently.
Those who were restraining her were worried that if they used too much force, they would break her already skinny arm.
"Ya Feng." Mother Ji felt a pang of pity and wanted to stop Ji Ya Feng from continuing.
Ji Yafeng couldn't bear it. If the two of them had only tied her up today, she might have felt a little pity for her cousin whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
But the other party didn't even spare her young daughter. When they were captured, Ji Yafeng overheard them discussing how to kill them all after they got the money.
Ji Yafeng knew she wasn't a saint, nor was she a pushover who would be bullied and slandered at will. She had no intention of indulging this lunatic.
"My uncle, your father, was arrested and imprisoned for embezzling a huge sum of company funds. He later died in prison because he refused to take his medicine and eat. What does that have to do with my parents? I know you resent my parents for not saving him and not trying to get him out of prison. But did my parents have that ability? They didn't. And even if they did, I want to ask, why?"
"Why should he?! He made the mistake himself. That company was left to me by my grandfather. I only gave your father a chance to work there because of my mother. But he repaid kindness with enmity and didn't care about my mother's feelings at all. He embezzled a huge amount of public funds by taking advantage of his position. Because of what he did, the company left to me by my grandfather went bankrupt, and my parents were left with a mountain of debt. They almost jumped off a building because of the creditors."
"It's already a miracle that my parents don't hate him, yet they want us to save him? How dare you?"
Shang Qiuyan's face turned bright red, whether from anger or embarrassment, it was hard to tell.
"So what if it is? You're all fine now, aren't you? Money can be earned back. My dad is your own brother, your only brother. You called the police to arrest him because of this, causing him to die in jail and ruining our family. Do you dare say you're completely without fault?"
The people around thought that this was a family matter, and they shouldn't listen to only one side of the story, nor should they offer their opinions.
After hearing this, how could anyone not understand? Ji Yafeng was telling the truth, and because it was true, everyone was speechless after hearing Shang Qiuyan's extremely selfish words.
Because Ji's parents were strong-willed and didn't let her brother, who was dragging her down, drive them to jump off a building, all those past hurts could be erased with a single sentence.
Just because her father died, and out of respect for the dead, one can ignore the wrongdoings he committed and the harm he caused to the Ji family, glorify him as a victim instead of a perpetrator, and then feel at ease resenting the Ji family.
This woman is truly insane and truly selfish.
Ye Wanxi found it amusing and vaguely recalled a story about a folk tale she had heard when she went down the mountain with her senior sisters in her previous life.
A lazy, good-for-nothing drunkard once walked past the back door of a wealthy family and happened to bump into the family's daughter returning from worshipping Buddha.
The young lady of this house was fair-skinned, beautiful, and dignified. The drunkard, attracted by her beauty and also eyeing the wealthy family's money, secretly climbed over the wall that very night to try and seduce her, making her the son-in-law of this rich merchant, and seizing his fortune to fund his gambling and drinking.
(End of this chapter)
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