Chapter 184 Why am I angry with you again? !
The clothes on the old lady were made by Xu Wenxiu and her two sisters-in-law. Although the effort they put into making them was not as great as the ones delivered to the embroidery shop, the materials used for the old lady and the child were the best possible.
The designs are elegant and the style is regular. When it is displayed in front of the many old ladies in the village, it is absolutely unique and decent.
But even such decent clothes, when hung on the old lady's skinny and protruding frame, seemed to have an inexplicable sense of eeriness, emptiness, and even like a ghost show.
The old lady had lost a lot of weight. She was visibly skin and bones, her eye sockets were deeply sunken, her loose skin drooped uncontrollably at the corners of her mouth, and there was an alarming amount of silver in her hair. At first glance, she looked more than ten years older, and her old age was evident.
What on earth is going on?
Sang Zhixia hesitated for a moment, then couldn't help herself. She lowered her voice and said, "Grandma, have you been feeling unwell lately? How about asking Xu Yu to call a doctor to see you?"
When the old lady heard the word "doctor", her eyes narrowed suddenly. She was panicked and tense, and uttered two words stiffly: "No need."
Sang Zhixia became increasingly confused and felt more and more strange.
The old lady is most reluctant to do hard work and will avoid it whenever possible.
If you really can't avoid it, just claim that you are not feeling well and ask a doctor to prescribe medicine and take your pulse. In short, you will never stand up if you can lie down, and you will never do it yourself if you can open your mouth to eat.
But the old lady's recent transformation is too great.
Did she just hear someone coming back and wanted to come out to help with cooking???
Sang Zhixia looked at Xu Yu inquiringly. Xu Yu came over and rubbed her head, saying calmly, "Grandma, Third Uncle and my mother are probably staying at the winery until late at night. I'll make dinner and bring it to you."
The old lady instinctively resented the fact that Xu Yu was cooking while Sang Zhixia was idle. Her deep-grooved brows knitted together as she spoke in a bad tone, "Where's the old man? He's gone too?"
"Grandfather has gone to the village school and hasn't returned yet, but he'll probably go visit when he does."
"Are you going?"
"What am I going to do?"
The old lady cut Xu Yu off angrily and said coldly, "I'll just rest in the house."
"besides……"
The old lady's gloomy eyes swept over Xu Yu, and her tone was inexplicably sharp: "Didn't I ask you to call your second uncle back? I've been telling you for such a long time, why is your second uncle still nowhere to be seen?"
"Did you ignore my instructions and not even call your uncle?!"
Xu Yu showed a hint of helplessness, and said with a wry smile: "Grandma, you know my second uncle's temper. Even if I conveyed my message, but..."
"From what I've seen, Second Uncle doesn't seem to want to come back for the time being. Xu Minghui's persuasion is useless. It doesn't look like Second Uncle has changed his mind."
The old lady seemed unwilling to believe it and raised her voice and scolded, "Nonsense!"
"Since I was the one calling him, how could he possibly say he wouldn't come back?! I saw it was clearly you..."
"Zhizhi."
Xu Yu ignored the old lady's sudden scolding and turned to Sang Zhixia, who had stood up at some point. "I washed the clothes you took off this morning and hung them in the backyard. Go check if they're dry. If they are, bring them in and help me fold them before it gets dark."
When Sang Zhixia heard that he wanted to send her away to be scolded alone, she felt a little uncomfortable.
The old lady is so rude.
If you are angry, just vent your rage on someone else. Why do you always catch Xu Yu, who always obeys you and never resists?
"What did Xu Yu do to offend anyone? Why doesn't he get any of the good things?"
Sang Zhixia couldn't help but side-eye the old lady, muttering angrily, "Grandfather was so ill before, and Second Uncle didn't seem to show any interest in coming back to visit. Now that everything is fine at home, he's definitely even less willing to come back. Xu Yu was just a messenger, why are you picking on him to vent your anger?"
Xu Yu shook his head with a smile in his eyes, and Sang Zhixia pouted and walked away.
Disrespectful to the elderly!
Bully the weak and fear the strong!
You deserve it for being as thin as a skeleton!
Sang Zhixia was just speaking casually to defend Xu Yu, without any deep meaning.
But when she mentioned the old man's illness, she succeeded in making the old lady break out in a cold sweat on her forehead.
After the old man recovered from his illness, no one in the family mentioned it again, as if everything was over.
But after the old man recovered from his illness, he moved out of the main room and now lives in the inner room of the west house with Xu Mingyang.
Regarding the temporary change of house, the old man only said that he wanted to urge the Xu family's most likely newcomer to study hard, for he was afraid that Xu Mingyang would really grow up recklessly and become a laughing stock of the Xu family.
The others didn't think there was anything wrong with this. They just laughed at Xu Mingyang and advised him to remember to work hard and not let the old man down.
But is this really the case?
Having lived with the old man for most of her life, the old lady can probably grasp about 50% of his thoughts, if not 70%.
After the old man became seriously ill, she mistakenly thought that there would be no more mistakes. She was careless and wanted to regain the right to speak for the Xu family. She was indeed a little hasty and must have been exposed.
The old lady knew that the old man was suspicious of her.
No longer living in the same house was the first line of defense drawn by the old man.
The old lady tensed up her nerves and thought about everything she could say. She even rehearsed in her mind countless times how she should answer if the old man asked her so as to get herself out of this exposed conspiracy. But the old man didn't ask a single question.
No one asked.
The house was quieter than before, but in the old lady's eyes, this calmness was no different from a knife cutting meat.
The old lady also tried to secretly contact the person who had sent her something before, but the message she sent fell on deaf ears without any response. The next morning, she saw the contact token she had painstakingly sent out, still unopened, by her pillow.
The moment she saw that thing, the old lady's heart sank into the bottom of the abyss.
Her actions have long been exposed, and someone is watching her every move, both openly and covertly.
The things sent out would be sent back in the same condition. She didn't even dare to think about whether the person she hoped would get this thing and help her deliver the message was still alive.
The entire Xu family was like a cage built to kill. She looked at every person who smiled at her as if she saw an enemy who wanted to take her life. Behind every smiling face was a hideous and vicious murderous intent.
She was trapped here, with a knife of death hanging over her head and she didn't know when it would suddenly fall. She lived in fear every day, not daring to speak out.
She couldn't help but suspect that everyone in the Xu family was waiting to take her life. She couldn't help but feel anxious when she ate or drank. She couldn't eat or sleep well. The demons and fears in her heart followed her like a shadow, deeply trapping her.
She couldn't escape.
There was no way the old man would let her live.
But she didn't dare tell anyone except Uncle Xu...
Poisoning a husband is a felony.
No matter whether she was the noble old marquis' wife of the Xu family in Kyoto, or the old lady of the Xu family in the village, once such a serious crime was known to others, there would be no way for her to survive.
Sang Zhixia said that, did she do it on purpose?
she……
The old lady turned her head suddenly with bloodshot eyes, but what she saw was Xu Yu's calm and indifferent face.
Xu Yu's voice was soft, but each word was like an invisible sharp edge, piercing the rotten flesh of the old lady's heart. "Second Uncle has always been like this, so powerful but so cowardly. With such an unexpected mistake, he must be very panicked and scared right now. I'm afraid he won't dare set foot in our house again."
"Grandma, what do you say?"
The old lady's eyes widened suddenly, and she looked at Xu Yu as if she had seen a demon: "What do you mean by that?!"
"What's the meaning?"
Xu Yu laughed with interest and said softly, "How could my grandson have such hidden meanings? Grandmother, you worry too much."
"I just want to remind you that next time if you want to give something away, you can use me like you did today."
"Even though my father wasn't your grandmother's biological child, I've been calling you grandmother for years. I don't mind doing small chores like running errands and delivering things. It saves me the trouble of driving others around, and it also saves me the trouble of having to chase people out to kill rats in the middle of the night."
"Besides, how can outsiders be as reliable as family members?"
Xu Yu exposed the old lady's greatest fear and clearly caught the fear that could not be suppressed in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and the unavoidable sneer in her eyes.
Greedy.
Exaggerating your ambition will only bring disaster upon yourself.
His good second uncle, whether in his insatiable mind or his cowardly and fearful attitude, really looked exactly like the old lady in front of him.
"Grandma, there's no need to panic. As long as Grandpa doesn't make a decision, you'll remain the old lady of the Xu family, and no one will dare to do anything to you."
Xu Yu thought of the look the old lady had given Sang Zhixia just now. The smile on his lips faded, replaced by a biting coldness: "Just don't look at people you shouldn't look at, and don't have thoughts that you shouldn't have."
"If Sang Zhixia loses a hair, the next thing you send to your pillow will be your second uncle's head."
Xu Yu spoke each word softly and with a gentle demeanor, like a younger generation who admired his elders.
But the old lady could no longer bear such excitement. She retreated in panic with a look of fear and fell to the ground. She didn't even dare to look back at Xu Yu. She climbed up using her hands and feet and fled into the main room, as if there was an evil ghost chasing her, and the door slammed with a deafening sound.
Xu Yu also heard the sound of the door being locked from the inside, and it was locked repeatedly several times.
Xu Yu narrowed his eyes. Sang Zhixia heard the sound of the door slamming and came out holding clothes, with anger in her eyes.
"Why am I mad at you again?!"
Is it ever going to end?
Do you really think Xu Yu is a soft persimmon that can be easily squeezed?!
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