Chapter 472: Mom and Grandma's Relics
When Wang Yueqing returned to the room, Wei Zhuer angrily scolded Madam Wei in front of her, "Mom, I was reluctant to leave this family just now, but I didn't expect grandma to want to sell me to pay back the money. I was really blind to call her grandma for more than 20 years." Hiding in the room and hearing the conversation between Madam Wei and Wang Yueqing, Wei Zhuer hated Madam Wei so much that she had scolded the old lady a thousand times in her heart.
"That damn old woman has a snake heart in human form. I curse her to die a horrible death. Mom, let's leave here quickly." Wei Zhu'er no longer had any reluctance to leave. She was really grateful to Madam Wei for breaking her filter about the Wei family!
The mother and daughter packed up their things. Wang Yueqing put the divorce agreement in a file bag and placed it in the drawer of the bedside table, then took Wei Zhuer into the car and left.
Meanwhile, Madam Wei had already taken a car to the house where Zhou Dai had lived with her mother since she was a child. After the jewelry company moved to Jinghai, Zhou Dai had moved back in. She happened to be on break today. When she heard the doorbell, she went out to open the door. Seeing the old lady and her bodyguard behind her, Zhou Dai stepped back with a cold expression, about to close the door. Madam Wei then spoke:
"Your mother had a jade pendant, a peace jade given to her by her parents. After she gave birth to you and your brother, she cut the jade pendant in half and made a necklace, giving you two half each. Before, when you came to the Wei family and wanted to get it back, I lied and said I lost it. Now, I want to return it to you."
The half jade pendant in Madam Wei's palm brought a touch of trance to Zhou Dai's cold face. Her thoughts could not help but drift back to the time when her mother lay on her sickbed.
"Daidai, I've only let down two people in my life: you and your grandmother. To you, I'm sorry for not having a healthy body and mind to accompany you as you grew up, to see you have your own career and marriage. I'm sorry. To your grandmother, my mother, I'm sorry for not listening to her and prioritizing my career, and instead indulging in love. I was willing to give birth to you two without getting a legal marriage with your father, leaving you with a bad reputation. Your grandmother told me when I was very young that I must not follow her example and get pregnant before marriage, but I followed her path anyway. I even lost half of the things she left me..."
This relic was the jade pendant that the brother and sister wore around their necks. When Zhou Dai learned about the importance of the jade pendant from her mother, she ran to the Wei family to ask Wei Changjiang to return the jade pendant. However, Wei Changjiang refused to see her and it was his father's new wife who drove her away.
Zhou Dai still vividly remembers the scene of this woman mocking her.
"Old woman, you were so cruel to the children back then, how could you possibly come here specifically to return the jade pendant now?"
At that time, she couldn't get the jade pendant back, so she went to a jewelry store and asked the owner to get her a similar one. She took it back and gave it to her mother, and only then did her mother rest in peace.
The old woman now wanted to use this half jade pendant to negotiate with her, which really disgusted her.
"Your mother is dead, so there's no point in me keeping it." The reason why she refused to return the jade pendant was because she heard Zhou Dai, who was kneeling in the yard, say that the jade pendant was very important to her mother. She just wanted Zhou Dai's mother to die with regrets. This was the price of stealing someone else's man.
"Zhou Dai, I'll return the jade pendant to you. If you come with me, we'll be even."
"Even? Madam Wei, that's easy for you to say. The deep blood feud between me and your Wei family will never be evened."
"If you're so fussy, then we won't be able to have a good chat." Madam Wei spoke with a calculated tone. "This half of the jade pendant is a relic your grandmother left to your mother. I believe your mother's dying wish was to see the two halves of the jade pendant come together in perfect harmony. Unfortunately, she never got to see that sight. This half of the jade pendant has become a relic of the dead. Tell me, if we grind it into powder and throw it on the ground for people to step on, will your grandmother be able to sense it from the heavens?"
"If you are a feudal superstitious person, just get away from me." Zhou Dai had been in the workplace for so long, how could she not know that the old woman was using provocation.
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