mesbooks Chapter 132 Exposed
Chapter 132 Exposed
"I think you're the one who should be looking for a Taoist priest!" Old Madam Ye was quite angry with her youngest daughter-in-law. "Are you just looking for trouble?"
Li felt wronged. "It's not that I'm looking for trouble. You have no idea how awful the people outside are saying. They say Wan Ning crawled out of a tomb, that she's possessed by a female ghost, that our Ye family knows witchcraft, and that we should stay away from our family and never have anything to do with us. All these years, you've been biased towards the eldest branch of the family. Yes, we second branch are incompetent, but you don't have to be so biased, do you?"
Ye Xianrong, who was standing nearby, also said yes, and Madam Ye immediately smashed her teacup.
"Am I being biased? After the eldest son died, did any of you care about me? All you know is how to curry favor with the powerful, and run away the moment someone falls from grace." Old Madam Ye became increasingly angry as she spoke, slamming her hand on the table. "You say I'm biased? Why don't you ask yourselves what you've been doing all these years?"
Li didn't think she had done anything wrong. "Why does Mother say that? When the eldest son's family fell on hard times, our second son's family wasn't much better off. How could we help each other?"
Ye Xianrong tugged at Li's arm, but Li ignored him. "What happened with Wan Ning this time is really unpleasant. You have to think about the whole Ye family, don't you?"
"Get out! All of you, get out!" Old Madam Ye roared.
Just as Li was about to say something, Old Madam Ye suddenly fainted.
Now Li was truly frightened. If anything happened to Old Madam Ye, she would be branded as someone who had caused her mother-in-law's death, and would not only be divorced but also unable to live a normal life.
Granny Wang quickly sent someone to fetch the doctor, and when the doctor arrived, Ye Wanning also came.
After learning what had happened, Ye Wanning looked at Li Shi with a dark expression and grabbed Li Shi's hand, "Second Aunt, why bother to invite a Taoist priest? I'm standing right in front of you now. You can feel for yourself whether I'm alive or dead."
She pressed closer, while Li retreated step by step.
Seeing Ye Wanning right in front of her, Li was terrified. "What... what are you doing? I'm your second aunt, don't you know your place?"
"Am I the one who doesn't understand, or are you, Second Aunt, the one who doesn't understand?" Ye Wanning emphasized, "Knowing that Grandmother is not well, you still come to argue with her. Do you want to make things worse like yesterday?"
When the topic turned to the fact that Old Madam Ye had fainted from anger, Madam Li felt guilty and stammered, "I..."
"What do you mean, 'you'?" Ye Wanning released Li Shi. "You said it yourself, we are all Ye family members. If I have a bad reputation, your second branch won't fare any better. Second Aunt had better remember that and not talk nonsense outside, or you'll have to think about what you've done!"
Ye Xianrong couldn't stand it anymore. "Wanning, your second aunt is an elder, how can you talk like that?"
"If I don't speak like this, how should I speak? Second Uncle, pat your chest and tell me, have you taken care of Grandmother all these years? If not, then don't point fingers. The eldest branch of the family has already separated from your second branch. If you insist on saying something unpleasant, then don't come again." Ye Wanning immediately gave them the order to leave.
Lin and Jiang Si, who arrived at the scene, were stunned. They knew she was powerful before, but Ye Wanning's methods were more subtle and less overt.
Seeing that the second wife and her husband dared not speak, Jiang Si felt relieved and advised, "Wan Ning, stop talking. Let's go see Grandmother."
Ye Wanning's gaze swept over the second wife and her husband before she followed her sisters-in-law into the house to inquire about her grandmother's condition.