When Aunt Wang entered the Bai family's courtyard, she saw a young woman of about twenty lying on the ground, sobbing.
She recognized the girl; she had come to the Bai family yesterday and said she was a relative of Jiang Dai's family, and her name seemed to be Chunlai.
There were some broken pieces of porcelain on the ground next to the girl.
Bai's second sister-in-law stood in front of Chunlai, her whole body radiating unconcealed panic.
"Chunlai, how are you? Are you hurt?"
Jiang Dai ran to Chunlai's side, wanting to help her up.
But spring came and I did not rise.
Ignoring the sharpness of the broken porcelain shards, she actually reached out to pick them up from the ground, crying intermittently.
Perhaps a shard of porcelain cut his hand; the specks of blood stood out starkly against the light-colored porcelain.
Jiang Dai quickly squatted down and reached out to stop Chunlai from picking up the porcelain shards.
"Sister Jiang, I'm fine, it's just that the only heirloom celadon jar my mother left me is broken..."
Chunlai's voice was choked with sobs as she spoke, and she leaned on Jiang Dai's shoulder, looking utterly pitiful.
"Although it's not, although it's not something very valuable, only worth two taels of silver in the capital, it's the only thing my mother left me!"
To outsiders, he looked incredibly pitiful.
But only Chunlai and Jiang Dai knew.
Chunlai was actually doing this for the first time, and she was a little embarrassed, so she had to lean on Jiang Dai's shoulder to cover it up.
"My poor Chunlai sister..."
Jiang Dai comforted Chunlai, who was on the verge of collapse, her tone full of heartache.
Seeing the two frail women crying, the people around them looked at the strong and impulsive second sister-in-law of the Bai family with a sense of reproach.
The three sons of powerful figures standing in the crowd immediately realized that something was wrong.
Bai Yunqi: [This whole scene, I bet Mother didn't plan it herself! Chunlai knows martial arts, how could she cry so easily?]
Bai Yunxing: [This porcelain jar... if I remember correctly, it was the one Liang Tian'er carried when she came last time, the one that contained candied fruits.]
Although such items are only used as gifts for distinguished guests in some famous restaurants in the capital and are not considered valuable, they would still cost several hundred coins if you wanted to buy them.
Now all they talk about is their family heirloom, the only thing Mother left them—two taels of silver. Mother and Aunt Chunlai were truly shrewd schemers.
Bai Yun'an: [Hmph, this whole charade was probably Mother's idea again!]
Looking at her stunned younger sister, who seemed frightened by the scene, Bai Yun'an lowered her head slightly and whispered:
"Don't worry, Aunt Chunlai is very capable."
Juanjuan looked at her three calm brothers and nodded absently, lost in thought.
"I just pushed her! How can this porcelain jar be so expensive!"
Bai's second sister-in-law panicked. In fact, she didn't quite know what she had said; she just said whatever came to mind.
"You're holding onto something so expensive! Why don't you treat it like a precious treasure?"
Jiang Dai's face was filled with grief and anger: "She was already holding the porcelain jar, and you still pushed her!"
"This is still my home! Second sister-in-law, you barged in and now you're blaming us for not putting the porcelain jar away properly? There's no justice in this world!"
As Jiang Dai spoke, she let loose, crying and shouting, "This is outrageous! Breaking into someone's house, damaging their things, and then blaming them for not keeping them safe!"
I hadn't planned to use this tactic, but Sister-in-law Bai barged in right in front of everyone.
Someone has broken into her home, is Jiang Dai really going to calmly reason with them?
"That's right, going in without the owner's permission is the act of a thief!"
"This is outrageous! Even though they're sisters-in-law, they can't just barge in like that!"
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