Jiang Xin looked at Su Yan who was running away, his eyes full of suspicion, and scratched his head twice. Could it be that she had caught a cold?
While eating breakfast, Jiang Xin stared at Su Yan and said, "Sister Su, your face was so red when you woke up this morning, and it's still red now. Did you catch a cold? Let Doctor Wu take a look later."
Su Yan, who had no appetite, looked up in surprise when she heard this. Seeing him staring at her like this, she felt her face was so hot that it was like boiling water.
"No...no, I'm not sick."
Ge Shuzhen also looked over, reached out and touched it, and exclaimed: "Your face is so burned, and you still say you are not sick."
After that, he looked at Jiang Xin and said, "After dinner, go find Doctor Wu. This illness can't be delayed any longer."
"Oh, I'll go right away."
After hearing what his mother said, Jiang Xin drank the porridge in the bowl in two big gulps and ran away. A moment later, there was a noise outside the yard, and the sound became louder and louder.
Jiang Yongtian frowned: "This kid just went to see a doctor, how could he make such a big fuss?"
"Why does this sound like Ning Dani to me?" Ge Shuzhen said, then listened carefully and it was indeed: "Oh no, it's Ning Dani for sure."
Ge Shuzhen put down her bowl and chopsticks and rushed out first. Jiang Yongtian sighed and put down his bowl and chopsticks as well, then walked out with his head down. He seemed to have aged several years in an instant.
Ke Xin stared at the porridge in her bowl and lowered her head helplessly. Why was it so difficult every day? She couldn't even have breakfast in peace. She resigned herself to her fate and put down the bowl of porridge in her hand. She followed her second brother and walked out of the kitchen with Su Yan.
At the door, Ning Dani was sitting on the ground crying, slapping her thighs with her hands, tears falling like water. She was dirty, her face was sharp, and she had lost a lot of weight. It seemed that she had not had a good month.
"You Jiang family are such heartless people. I'm not a good person, but I'm pregnant with your child. You actually ignored me all these days. You must have been eaten by dogs!"
"Wuwuwu... You guys didn't care, but you still extorted ten taels of silver from my father and beat my three brothers half to death... If you don't give me ten taels of silver today, I'll beat this piece of meat out of my belly and make your Jiang family extinct."
Bang!
Ge Shuzhen slapped Ning Dani in the face and yelled at her, "You're looking for trouble so early in the morning. You're such a troublesome thing."
"Extorting ten taels of silver from you? Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey or stuck in a doorframe? It was you, your three brothers, who ganged up on me and beat my eldest son to a pulp. Ten taels of silver was your father's voluntary compensation and medical expenses. What? It's been a month since this happened, and you're still bringing it up?"
"Do you want me to arrest you and take you to the government office now, so that the county magistrate can give you a thorough trial?"
Ning Dani wiped the tears from her face. She knew that she was no match for her mother-in-law whether in fighting or scolding. This crazy woman often did farm work and had very strong hands. She would only suffer if she faced her.
She stood up, holding her belly with her neck stiff, raised her chin, pointed at her belly which had not yet protruded, and said proudly: "I am pregnant with your grandson now. You must give me five taels of silver every month, otherwise I will abort your grandson."
Ge Shuzhen looked at her flat belly and sneered, "When I divorced you, I told you that you can have the baby or not. It's none of my business if you abort it now."
She said such harsh words, but after all, the child in her belly is his. No one would believe her if she said she didn't feel sorry for him. But if he wasn't strong, she would take control of him, and there would be endless troubles in the future.
Ning Dani, who came prepared this time, was not afraid of these words. She sneered at her ex-mother-in-law and said, "Don't regret it. If I abort the baby, I will carry the child's body and spread the news everywhere. You, a vicious mother-in-law, killed your grandson with your own hands. Then I will see which daughter dares to marry into your family."
This move was like strangling Ge Shuzhen's neck and lifeline. It didn't matter if she was called vicious, but her two sons were not married yet. If this matter were to spread, whether it was true or false, the reputation of the two children would be damaged. She didn't dare to take the risk.
Seeing Ge Shuzhen's humiliation, Ning Dani was so happy that she almost jumped up and laughed. She became even more unscrupulous: "I want to stay in your house to take care of the baby until I give birth. I will give you a set of clothes and five taels of silver every month, and I will take good care of you with good food and drink. When the baby is born, if it's a boy, I will give you another 100 taels. If it's a girl, I will give you half of that, 50 taels. I will never see the child again in this life."
Hearing this, Ge Shuzhen's face was distorted with anger. Jiang Xin on the side clenched his fists and wanted to beat her up, but Su Yan grabbed his arm and advised, "Don't be impulsive."
Ning Dani looked at Su Yan who was beside Jiang Xin. The two of them were pulling each other like this, and in her eyes it looked like flirting.
At that moment, Ning Dani jumped up again: "You two are such a pair of dogs! No wonder Jiang Xin insisted on divorcing me when I was pregnant. It turns out that you two were secretly together. You are indeed shameless vixens."
After scolding Su Yan and Jiang Xin, Ning Dani shouted to the surrounding villagers, "Everyone, come and see! Su Yan seduced that slutty Jiang Xin behind my back. Hey, Jiang Xin divorced me just to get that bitch Su Yan in. I'm still pregnant with their Jiang family's child. You are such a heartless bunch."
Su Yan was so angry that tears streamed down her face when she heard someone calling her a slut. She choked and said, "I didn't do it. You're wrongly accusing me. I was sold to the Jiang family. Everyone in the village can testify to that."
Seeing Su Yan burst into tears, Jiang Xin frowned and pointed at Ning Dani: "Shut your stinky mouth, Su Yan and I are innocent."
"Innocent?" Ning Dani snorted coldly, "We all live in the same courtyard, who can prove your innocence?"
"Besides, there are more bachelors in the Jiang family than women. You and Jiang Shan are both young men full of vigor. How dare you say you don't have any thoughts in that area?" She poked at the Jiang family's sore spot and stepped hard on it, continuing: "I'm afraid you bought Su Yan to entertain you..."
Before he could finish the word "吧", Jiang Kexin slapped him hard in the face.
Jiang Kexin looked at Ning Dani with cold eyes: "You are so arrogant because you are pregnant with my brother's child. Have you forgotten that I don't tolerate any sand in my eyes?"
After saying that, he grabbed her collar and pulled her in front of him, forcing her face to face his. Ke Xin sneered, "You are slandering people with your white teeth. Do you think everyone in the village is stupid? I wonder if you will be sentenced for wrongfully accusing a girl of her innocence."
After saying that, he looked at Jiang Shan, whose eyes were red with anger, and said, "Second brother, find a rope to tie him up."
"Big brother, you and second brother should take him to the town and hand him over to the mayor. Let the mayor judge the right and wrong. I don't believe he will let you, a scoundrel, get away with it."
After instructing his eldest brother, his second brother came with a rope and tied the person up tightly in no time. He also stuffed the smelly socks that had not been washed yesterday into Ning Dani's broken mouth. Fearing that she would spit them out, he tied her mouth again with a rope.
The two brothers went to the town together. The village became a lot more lively because of this incident, but some people also talked about the marriage of the young man from the Jiang family behind his back.
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