Farm Girl's Manor

Having completed the pulse diagnosis, Mo Yan quickly stepped forward, "Doctor, how is Grandfather Li?"

Liyan also watched the doctor nervously, fearing he would deliver bad news.

The doctor wore a grave expression and gestured for Mo Yan to step outside to talk. Mo Yan understood and convinced Liyan, who wanted to follow, to stay and take care of her grandfather. Then she followed the doctor to the front hall.

"Young lady, what is your relationship with the patient? If it’s convenient, you should call someone from his family who can make decisions!"

At these words, Mo Yan’s heart skipped a beat—it seemed Grandfather Li really was in a bad way!

"Doctor, I am his relative. The old man only has one granddaughter and a married daughter left. The granddaughter is that young girl just now, and the daughter is not here. Please tell me whatever it is, and I will convey your message."

The doctor nodded, pondered for a moment, and then said, "The patient has been struck by a sudden and severe anger, which suggests that he must have suffered a major setback not long ago. Moreover, as people age, his condition has affected his lungs and viscera. As the saying goes, ’A problem of the heart requires a solution from the heart.’ If we can console the patient well and carefully regulate his condition for a period, there is still the possibility of recovery. However, if the patient cannot get past this, I fear even immortals would be powerless to save him!"

Mo Yan listened in silence. Grandfather Li had fallen seriously ill from the shock of his son and daughter-in-law’s murder not long ago. The fact that he fell ill again with sudden anger was likely related to his daughter. Putting together what the onlookers had mentioned earlier, could it be that Grandfather Li’s daughter had heartlessly driven someone away, causing him to be in this state?

After a while, Mo Yan thought it best to get the full story from Liyan before trying to unravel the old man’s emotional knot.

Taking the prescription the doctor had written, Mo Yan went to the neighboring pharmacy to get the medicine. While the attendant was preparing it, she called Liyan outside and relayed the doctor’s words to her. That’s when she saw a deep-seated hatred on the young girl’s still youthful face.

Mo Yan sighed inwardly and drew the frail-shouldered girl into her arms, hoping to offer her some comfort. She didn’t want Liyan, at such a young age, to be burdened with hatred, as it wouldn’t be good for her future growth.

Mo Yan’s silent consolation couldn’t stop Liyan’s tears from flowing. She threw herself into Mo Yan’s warming embrace, her sorrowful sobs piercing deeply into Mo Yan’s heart, "Sister Yan, I’m so full of hate, I really hate them! If it wasn’t for their heartlessness, my aunt would not be gone, and Grandpa wouldn’t be ill. I hate them so much!"

Liyan cried her heart out. In the soft comforting voice of Mo Yan, she gradually recounted everything they had encountered after arriving in Jing City.

Liyan would never forget everything that happened that afternoon! Her grandfather had taken her to find her aunt’s house—the Zhang Family. The person who opened the door was not her aunt but a woman around twenty years old with a big belly.

Assuming they were impoverished relatives looking for a handout because of their plain clothes, the woman immediately tried to send them away, "Where are these beggars from? You’re too late for leftovers!" With that, she attempted to bolt the door. freewёbnoνel.com

Being mistaken for beggars, anyone would be angry.

Lizhong suppressed the displeasure rising in his chest and managed a strained smile, "Are you a relative of the Zhang Family? Is Zhang Ming present? I am his father-in-law, please call him for me!"

Upon hearing this, the woman’s face changed dramatically, "Bah, there’s no son-in-law here, get lost quickly!"

How could Lizhong not see that the woman was putting on a front? Just as he was about to question her further, he heard a familiar voice coming from inside the house.

"My lady, who is outside?"

The woman turned her head and was about to say "a beggar," when the door was pushed open forcefully.

"Zhang Ming, she is your wife, who is my daughter to you!"

Lizhong glared fiercely at the pale-faced Zhang Ming, his heart filled with extreme anger.

Following that, the entire Zhang Family was thrown into chaos, attracting many neighbors to come and watch the excitement. Under Lizhong’s aggressive questioning, amidst the neighbors’ gossip, Zhang Ming’s family had no choice but to reveal everything.

It turned out that, six months earlier, they had divorced Lizhong’s daughter Lixiu under the pretense of "barrenness," withholding her dowry and forcing her to leave the Zhang Family’s house empty-handed. Since then, Lixiu left alone and vanished without a trace.

In fact, Lixiu was not infertile. According to a neighbor who was on good terms with her, Lixiu had been pregnant three times. However, her mother-in-law from the Hu family was not easy to deal with. Jealous of the affection between her son and daughter-in-law, she overloaded Lixiu with all the household chores. Later, when Lixiu became pregnant, the Hu woman did not let her rest. Her first two pregnancies did not last beyond three months before she miscarried due to exhaustion. The last baby, barely reaching eight months, was lost when, inexplicably, the Hu woman pushed Lixiu, leading to a premature birth. The baby died shortly after delivery, and Lixiu was so badly injured that she could no longer have children.

The Hu woman, who already disliked her, became even more hostile, secretly stirring up trouble between Lixiu and her son. Over time, Zhang Ming, who had initially cared somewhat for his marital relationship, wavered and soon became entangled in an affair with a young widow, the very pregnant woman mentioned earlier, and secretly conceived a child with her.

By then, Lixiu, unable to bear children, was undoubtedly an eyesore to the Zhang Family members. The Hu woman exaggerated the situation to her and incited her son, Zhang Ming, to divorce his wife.

Lixiu, naturally mild-tempered, could endure all sorts of hardships from her mother-in-law, but she could not bear her husband’s cruel betrayal. After a huge argument with Zhang Ming, she was beaten so badly by him and the Hu woman that she could not get out of bed. Before she could even recover slightly, Zhang Ming issued her a divorce document and drove her out of the house.

After learning all of this, Lizhong, overwhelmed with regret and rage, gave the faithless Zhang Ming a severe thrashing and had not yet left the Zhang Family’s doorstep when he suddenly vomited several mouthfuls of fresh blood and collapsed in the Zhang Family’s courtyard.

Fearing that he might die in their home and bring a lawsuit upon them, the Zhang Family quickly dispersed the onlooking neighbors and threw Lizhong and his granddaughter out onto the street in the middle of the night.

There was no one on the street, and Liyan was still a young child. Seeing her unconscious grandfather, she could only cry helplessly. Fortunately, it wasn’t long before Lizhong awoke, but his condition was much worse than before.

Having no relatives in Jing City and not a penny to their names, Liyan thought of Mo Yan’s family. But Jing City was so vast, looking for a few people was like searching for a needle in a haystack. All she could do was support her sick grandfather as they went from door to door in West Market, asking around. This search went on for half a month.

When they were hungry, they swallowed their pride and begged; when they were tired, they huddled in the corners of other people’s walls. Lizhong’s illness grew more severe by the day, and he spent most of his time unconscious, rarely awakening. Liyan, in her distress, had no choice but to kneel at the entrance of a doctor’s clinic and plead for medical treatment, but without silver, which doctor would help?

Unable to watch her only remaining family member die before her eyes, Liyan thought of selling herself, leading to the scene on the bridge.

"Sister Yan, woohoo, I hate them, I wish all of the Zhang Family would die!"

Mo Yan gently patted the little girl’s back, her lips moving, but she could not utter a word of comfort. Putting herself in the girl’s shoes, she thought if someone hurt her family like this, she would never let them off, whether in heaven or hell. The Zhang Family was simply too cruel!