Old Mrs. Xie was dumbfounded: "Xie Yanbei, you actually teamed up with outsiders to bully your own grandparents?"
Xie Yanbei lowered his eyelashes, his cold tone not wavering at all.
"Let's talk about the facts. You know you're wrong but you refuse to correct your mistakes. There are problems with your thinking and work style."
It’s no use calling him grandparents, because he and Ji Qingzhou are on the same side.
Seeing that Xie Yanbei was so helpful, Ji Qingzhou did not waste the opportunity and went straight forward to take the pulse of the two elders one by one.
"Grandpa Xie, Grandma Xie's pulse is as strong as a bull's. They must have been eating very well in the past two years. I don't think they are sick. Don't worry, everyone."
Old Mrs. Xie and Old Man Xie failed to pretend to be sick and were about to refute.
The villagers argued back and forth with each other.
"If you exploit the second brother's family, won't they eat well?"
"Don't you have a headache? Why are you covering your butt? These two are just pretending!"
The village chief and Director Wan, who had watched the whole process, became increasingly angry and walked forward with stern faces.
"If the villagers hadn't reported it, I wouldn't have known there were such corrupt elders in the village."
"Your thoughts and behavior are nothing but the remnants of bad habits!"
The aura of the two of them suppressed Old Man Xie and Old Lady Xie.
The two old men turned pale and stammered for a long time, then simply shut their mouths and pretended to be dead.
Seeing them like this, some enthusiastic villagers rushed into the yards on both sides and pulled out Xie Tianrui and Xie Peng.
"Hey, aren't the eldest and third sons of the Xie family at home?"
"We've been here for so long and you two haven't come out to say a word. I wonder if you've been hiding in your room, pretending to be cowards."
The two men's faces turned pale and blue after being scolded. They lowered their heads and dared not say a word.
Sun Yuehong and Guo Hui were even more miserable, they couldn't hide even if they wanted to.
They could only hide in the house and tremble before the angry villagers noticed them.
"What the hell, Ji Zhiqing usually looks so gentle and weak, but I didn't expect him to be so fierce?"
Guo Hui remembered what she had just heard about asking them to pay back the money, and she slapped her head and rushed into the house, frantically looking for the IOU.
"That's weird. I clearly put the IOU away, so how come I can't find it?"
I turned the whole house upside down, but still couldn't find it.
Guo Hui was extremely anxious. How could she destroy the evidence when she couldn't find the IOU?
Sun Yuehong heard the noise outside and hurried into the house to search, but also found nothing.
The two men were so frightened that they saw a ghost and were sweating profusely.
At this moment, light footsteps sounded behind him.
"Auntie and Third Aunt are here, aren't they? It's so lively outside, why don't you go out and take a look?"
Ji Qingzhou, along with two aunts, walked into the Xie family's yard in two or three steps.
Seeing the two men turning the house upside down as if it had been robbed, she pretended to be surprised and exposed their little tricks.
"The two elders are so anxious, could it be that they want to find the IOU and destroy the evidence that they owe us money?"
These two families were cunning. When they wrote the IOU, they took advantage of Ye Lanqing's illness and forced her to hand over the money in a daze.
They only signed one copy of the IOU, which was supposed to be in duplicate, and kept it for themselves.
Thinking of the grievances Ye Lanqing had suffered in the past, Ji Qingzhou's eyes darkened.
"In that case, why not let everyone help us find it together?"
Sun Yuehong and Guo Hui didn't expect them to break into the yard so quickly. They were dumbfounded and kept trying to argue.
"We don't know what the IOU is."
"You don't know, but the villagers know it very well."
The enthusiastic Mrs. Li and Sister Wang rolled their eyes.
"When Lan Qing went to get the money and brought it over, I watched her all the way. I was wondering how she could have emptied out the family savings. Now I know that you guys took advantage of her illness to trick her out of it!"
Without Ji Qingzhou even mentioning it, the two of them volunteered to help find the IOU.
They walked into the room in two or three steps, rummaged around a few times, and saw Ji Qingzhou find it from the gap under the table. After all, it was she who hid it.
Sun Yuehong was still gloating over her misfortune when Ji Qingzhou brought two middle-aged women into her house and found the IOU in the same way.
The two were stunned for a moment and didn't even see where they found it.
I searched the whole house but couldn't find the IOU. How come Ji Qingzhou found it so quickly when he arrived?
There was chaos in the yard. Outside the yard, old man Xie and old lady Xie were so scared when they saw that their son had been arrested that they started to deny the debt frantically.
"What do you mean by owing money or not? That's impossible!"
"We only have three sons in total. How could we possibly favor one over the other? Ever since the second son left, we've treated Lan Qing like our own daughter and have taken care of her wholeheartedly!"
Old man Xie took advantage of no one's attention and secretly pinched old lady Xie.
When Mrs. Xie got the hint, she slapped her thigh and started crying.
"Lanqing and Yanbei used to be very close to us, but they must have been led astray by that Ji Zhiqing."
"Those city people are so extravagant, you can't trust what they say!"
Driving these orphans and their widows out of their home and exploiting them to death, forcing them to live in a dilapidated old house for so many years, is that what you call caring with all your heart?
Ye Lanqing used to be confused and didn’t know how to speak out when he was wronged.
But as Ji Qingzhou gave her more acupuncture treatments, her condition gradually improved and she regained her basic judgment ability.
Looking at the ugly faces of my parents-in-law, I just feel disgusted.
Ye Lanqing felt a chill in her heart and did not let Ji Qingzhou continue to protect her. Instead, she stood up and told the truth.
"Dad, Mom, don't you feel it's insulting to your conscience to say that?"
Ye Lanqing's eyes were bitter, his thin body stood in the wind, looking shaky.
"Let's not talk about how I've been doing these past few years. I just want to ask you one thing. You've been so biased over the years. Do you still remember what you promised Jingwu back then?"
I have kept these words in my heart for so long that speaking them out again is like tearing the wound open again.
In the past, Xie Jingwu was unable to say anything when he was treated unfairly due to blood ties.
But people are all made of flesh and blood. Seeing her husband, who was so strong and resolute in the army, only able to be sad in secret when he returned home, Ye Lanqing felt distressed.
He couldn't express his grievances, so she spoke for him.
"When the news of Jingwu's death came back, Yanbei and I felt like the sky had fallen."
Ye Lanqing's eyes were red and every word he said was filled with tears.
"As parents, you've only been sad for one day. Jingwu's body is still warm, and you're already forcing me and my son to take all the compensation money away from us."
"Fortunately, we saw through your true colors long ago. The pension was saved by Jingwu's comrades and has not been touched in all these years."
When Old Man Xie and Old Lady Xie heard this, they became furious instantly!
Even Mrs. Li and Aunt Wang couldn't hold him down because of his old bones, and he jumped up to a height of eight feet.
"We said it was impossible for my son to not have the pension, but it turns out you guys hid it!"
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