The South Island is nice too, but she still prefers the weather in Kyoto. That's settled then.
Tang Yue wandered off to check on the courtyard by herself.
As she walked, she inadvertently entered an alley. Many houses were already asleep, but one family was still quite lively. She couldn't help but eavesdrop for a while.
"What? You still think you're some kind of empress dowager that we should fawn over? Let me tell you, that time is over. Do you know what you are now? A stray dog! Don't you understand what a stray dog is?"
"Who... who is the Empress Dowager now?"
"Tch! When Dad was home, everyone had to fawn over you every day. How much housework did you ever do? You were always being waited on hand and foot. And you still say you're not some kind of empress dowager."
"You, you're being really rude."
"I'm being rude? Ha! Why don't you tell me what your old man has done? Huh? Now, when we walk out like this, who can hold their head high? Huh? Ke Qiangguo was even demoted because of that old bastard, do you know that? Why don't you just die?"
The sound of a woman sobbing could be heard from inside the room. But the voice of another woman had not yet stopped.
"Crying, crying, crying? Are you mourning? Who are you crying for? Let me tell you, no one pities you. Besides, you don't deserve pity. You should have gone down to the countryside with Ke Dazhi and died there. What are you doing here? Huh?"
"You're wasting our food! We don't even have enough for ourselves, and you're taking our rations! Are you even human?! You're even taking your grandson's food!"
As she spoke, it seemed she had gotten the hang of it, and Tang Yue heard the old woman's hissing breaths.
Ke Dazhi? Ke Qiangguo? Tang Yue didn't know who these people were. But she had a bold guess: could Ke Dazhi be Old Master Ke? What a coincidence! They ran into each other like this?
And what about that woman being bullied inside? Isn't that her grandmother?
The woman endured the pain as her hand was pinched, "Ke Qiangguo, are you still my son? You, you... couldn't you at least ask about your father's situation?"
"Get lost! Inquire? Inquire about what? Are you waiting for your son to be sent down to the countryside along with Ke Dazhi? Huh? How can you be so heartless?"
Tang Yue's consciousness had already entered this house. The woman who was cursing looked to be in her thirties and was well-maintained, but her appearance was very mean, and her eyes almost bulged out when she cursed.
Looking at the woman who was being scolded, she was pale and thin, with a hunched back. But no matter how the woman scolded her, she stubbornly stared at the middle-aged man sitting on the sofa with his head down.
The middle-aged man remained silent, letting his wife hurl insults at his mother, occasionally pinching her.
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