Wang Yayun made up her mind and resolutely turned her gaze away from Xie Mingzhu, her eyes even carrying a hint of disdain and disgust.
Just as she was about to return to her son's side to comfort him, she turned around and suddenly found herself face to face with Shu Ying.
Those sharp and insightful eyes seemed to see right through her, inside and out.
Wang Yayun suddenly jolted awake and blinked rapidly a few times, feeling somewhat guilty.
Shu Ying had just seen her staring at her sister, her eyes darting around as she plotted something, and she knew that she definitely didn't have good intentions. She guessed that she was trying to scheme against her sister again, but after thinking about it, she felt disgusted.
She wasn't entirely sure at first, but when Wang Yayun met her gaze and looked guilty, Shu Ying instantly became certain.
She gave a forced, insincere smile.
"Oh, what are you plotting with all this anger and anxiety? You're not thinking of finding a new wife for your son again, are you?"
Wang Yayun was stunned for a moment, looking flustered as if her thoughts had been seen through.
Shu Ying chuckled.
"Oh dear, I forgot. You just said that Xie Wanying is your family's daughter for life, a good daughter-in-law for life. You won't abandon her for such a small thing, right?"
"Otherwise, what would you become? Wouldn't you become opportunists who use people when they need them and then discard them when they don't, sycophants who fawn over the powerful?"
"If you don't keep your word, what's the difference between talking and farting?"
Wang Yayun's face was a little pale.
The neighbors around couldn't help but smirk to themselves.
Wang Yayun looked somewhat embarrassed and glared at Shu Ying with a hint of resentment.
Shu Ying, however, had no intention of letting her off so easily, and continued.
"Moreover, Xie Wanying took a lot of things from the Xie family back then. Sometimes she would even sneak away a piece of good meat or a basket of eggs."
"Over the years, all that money and stuff you've accumulated, has it all been moved to your house? You must have eaten and used it quite a bit, right?"
"So, although Xie Wanying isn't very nice to us, she has made some contributions to you, her mother-in-law, and Fang Deshan, her husband, and has given you a lot of benefits, right?"
"If your family just abandons someone like this, divorces them after they're convicted and goes to find someone new, what will people say about you if this gets out in the future?"
"Sigh, I guess they'll start calling you guys mean and heartless again!"
"If this kind of reputation gets out, how will I, this fake brother-in-law, ever find a wife again? Tsk tsk, what if I'm a bachelor for the rest of my life..."
Shu Ying blinked as if she suddenly remembered something.
"By the way, your family really wants a grandson, right?"
"I won't be able to hug you anymore!"
Wang Yayun's heart skipped a beat. She stared wide-eyed at Shu Ying, feeling that Shu Ying was deliberately trying to annoy them.
But after thinking about it, I realized that what Shuying said seemed to be right.
Xie Wanying is a hot potato; they can neither throw her away nor keep her. If they lose her, people will say that their family is ungrateful and heartless, and it will be difficult for any girl to marry into their family again.
But if they don't get a divorce, his son can't just keep waiting for Xie Wanying to be released from prison, can he?
It's not a good thing to talk about a wife who has been to prison!
And does she really want to wait until Xie Wanying is released from prison before she can have a grandson?
How could she possibly wait that long!
They're truly in a bind!
The fire in Wang Yayun's heart burned even brighter. She bit her lip tightly, completely at a loss for what to do. In the end, under the watchful eyes of Shu Ying and her group, she could only slink away from the military compound.
As they walked out, they could hear many people talking behind their backs about what had happened to their family that day, with constant laughter and mockery.
Wang Yayun and Fang Deshan turned green with shock.
Fang Deshan gritted his teeth: "No wonder the gatekeepers at the military compound let us in so easily today. I thought it was something good, but it turns out there's this kind of rotten stuff waiting for us..."
"Mom, listen to this. Everyone around us is talking about it. Now almost the entire military compound knows about it."
"There are plenty of gossipy women in the compound, and a bunch of retired old men and women who have nothing to do at home, wandering around outside all day chatting with people... This matter will surely reach our side by tomorrow, won't it?"
Fang Deshan's face turned ashen with anger.
"That damned woman is a real rotten apple, she's ruined our whole family's peace!"
Just then, a jarring laugh came from the side.
Fang Deshan didn't need to turn his head; he could see out of the corner of his eye the old women sitting around the stone table not far away, cracking sunflower seeds and laughing so hard their shoulders were shaking.
"Hey, you guys think Xie Wanying and Fang Deshan have been married for so long, and they've been trying to get pregnant all the time, but she still hasn't conceived. She's even gone so far as to fake a pregnancy to avoid it... Isn't that a bit too much?"
"They've tried so hard and still can't get pregnant. I think it's probably not the woman's problem, but Fang Deshan's own!"
“That’s right, that’s right. The old Chinese medicine doctor who treated me before said that it’s rare for the woman to have a problem in this kind of situation. If a woman can’t get pregnant, it’s probably the man’s problem.”
The older women found it increasingly amusing as they talked, and when they looked up at Fang Deshan, their faces flushed from trying to suppress their laughter.
“We can all see through this, do you think Xie Wanying’s mother-in-law really didn’t see through it?”
"She should have some idea of what's going on, right? I think she just doesn't want to admit that her son is no good, so she's deliberately tormenting her daughter-in-law to vent her anger. Didn't Xie Wanying just say that her mother-in-law even made her drink her husband's urine?!"
"How twisted must a mother-in-law be to come up with such a trick?"
"Oh my, this family is really something. The old man is disrespectful and torments his daughter-in-law, the son is useless but doesn't look for the reasons within himself, and the daughter-in-law is clearly a fake but insists on pretending to be a real phoenix. Tsk tsk tsk, it's like a bunch of rotten apples together, not a single good person in the whole family."
Fang Deshan was so angry that he was panting heavily. He stared at the scene with wide eyes, and his stomach also cramped with pain.
"What nonsense are you all spouting? Shut up, do you hear me?!"
After shouting for only a couple of minutes, the sounds subsided due to the pain in his stomach.
"Pfft—look at how weak he is, I knew he had something wrong with him, didn't I?"
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