“Yes. Usually, when a mother sees her child taking food from a pregnant woman, even if she doesn’t stop them immediately, she’ll feel a little embarrassed. But she didn’t.” Su Wantang’s eyes deepened. “Not only was she not embarrassed, I even saw a hint of… a hint of encouragement and expectation in her eyes.”
It was as if she really wanted Xiao Feng to do that, and really wanted to see herself get angry.
"Later, when you scolded Xiaofeng, she immediately started arguing with you. Looking back now, that argument didn't seem like you were simply protecting the child; it seemed more like you were using the situation as an excuse to deliberately escalate things."
Qin Tian frowned, following Su Wantang's train of thought, and the more he thought about it, the more alarmed he became.
"And then there are all those rumors she spread outside," Su Wantang continued. "She said we were eating and drinking for free and cheating you out of your money. These words may seem like petty pettiness, but think about it, why would she say such things? What is her purpose?"
"The goal... is to drive you away," Qin Tian interjected.
“Yes, she just wants to get rid of us.” Su Wantang nodded. “But why is she so eager for us to leave? Our arrival is just adding two more pairs of chopsticks. The food Lin Chuan brought back is enough for us to eat for a long time. Besides, you also said that Lin Chuan’s job was arranged by the organization and has nothing to do with you. What is she afraid of? Or rather, how has our arrival hindered her?”
A series of question marks struck Qin Tianxin like a heavy hammer.
He had never considered the issue from this perspective. He always thought that Li Xiumei was just a shallow rural woman who felt resentful seeing how good he was to her niece, which was why she caused so much trouble.
But now, after listening to Su Wantang's analysis, the nature of the whole matter seems to have changed.
"And today too." Su Wantang's voice lowered even further. "She had Xiaofeng fake illness to frame me. Uncle, this isn't a small matter; it's a false accusation. If you weren't home today, or if you believed her and sent me to the police station, what would have happened? I'm a pregnant woman; my reputation would be ruined, and I might even have a criminal record."
Qin Tian's face turned ashen.
He couldn't imagine the consequences. If Wan Tang really suffered any accident because of this, he would never be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life.
"That poisonous woman!" He slammed his fist on the table, making the water glass on the table jump.
Lu Linchuan had been listening in silence until now, when he finally spoke. His voice was frighteningly calm: "Wantang's suspicions are reasonable. It's unlikely that an ordinary housewife would have such a meticulous mind and such vicious methods. There may be someone behind her, or perhaps she herself has problems."
His soldier's intuition told him that something unusual and dangerous was about to happen.
Li Xiumei's behavior doesn't resemble that of a simple, resentful woman; it's more like she's carrying out a mission. Every step has a clear purpose. The previous rumors were intended to isolate them and drive them out of the house. Today's framing is a more radical tactic taken after the first step failed.
Her goal seemed to be to stop Su Wantang and Lu Linchuan from staying in this house and by Qin Tian's side at all costs.
Why?
Qin Tian is a key national scientific research expert, and the projects he works on are top secret. Everyone around him has undergone rigorous political vetting.
When he married Li Xiumei, the organization also investigated her. The records showed that she came from a poor peasant family with a good social standing, and was a rural girl with impeccable revolutionary credentials.
Could it be... that there was a problem with the screening process? Or did she forge her identity?
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