Chapter 1062: Label me as unfilial? Then I might act like one!
" You…" Old Madam Rong was furious, she never expected that her soft persimmon-like daughter would one day stand in front of her and talk back like this, she wanted to say something harsh but before she could say anything, Lang's voice echoed in the yard of the Rong family.
" Madam Yu, I have found the silver handed by the magistrate's office. It was buried under the bed of Old Madam Rong and her husband," Lang spoke loudly as she carried a small wooden box in her hands and then came to a stop in front of Yu Dong. " There are only five taels as for the remaining ten taels, there is none."
Yu Dong opened the box and then picked up a tael that was lying inside. Sure enough, she saw a special code written on the tael, this idea was something that she came up with because Yu Dong knew that there would be people who would dare to steal this fund.
This special code was written by the workers of the county office and they were noted down in the treasury, with such a code written on the tael it would be easier to trace the person down in case the tael was found in the hands of those who did not deserve it.
She raised her hand and dropped the tael in the box before turning to look at Old Madam Rong and asked, " Now what?"
Old Madam Rong shivered under the gaze of Yu Dong. She licked her lips and then said, " Th...There are only five taels and they were given to us by Rong Yi. The remaining money must be with her."
Even at this point Old Madam Rong was struggling to push the blame on Rong Yi who narrowed her eyes and then looked at her mother with some annoyance in her eyes but instead of getting angry, she lowered her head and heartbrokenly said, " Mother, I know that you despise me but isn't this too much?
You and Father took away the silver taels and did not allow me and Shiqi to even keep a single tael, this matter is not a small one. You better take out the rest of the money and hand it to Madam Yu."
" RONG YI!" Old Madam Rong was so angry that she was trembling, she never expected that her daughter would one day bite her in the back like this, she looked at Rong Yi with glaring eyes but the latter did not budge this time around instead she looked at Old Madam Rong with a firm gaze.
" There is no need to get agitated," Yu Dong spoke from the side, as she watched the Old Rong couple perform a two-man show. She calmly looked at Old Madam Rong and then stated, " I sent a mammy to take a look at Rong Yi's house and she also took some of the villagers with her, they should be coming."
And no sooner her words fall, Mammy Lin who went to look for the taels in Rong Yi's house with some villagers following her to see the gossip returned.
" Madam Yu, there is no money at Rong Yi's house only a few broken copper coins," Mammy Lin spoke, she did not know how Rong Yi and her husband were alive till now, with such a small sum of money they should have died by now.
" Thats right! I could not believe it when I saw it, Old Madam Rong and Old Master Rong always made it sound like Rong Yi was some sort of prodigal daughter who made things difficult for them but when I went inside that large house, I saw that other than four walls there is nothing inside other than a broken bed and some old pots and pans!"
" There wasn't even a blanket, I saw it with my own eyes. The only thing that was inside the box of clothes was a small covering sheet which was made out of old cotton-padded jackets and it was so old that it had mould growing on it, what prodigal daughter? That old Rong couple did not even treat Rong Yi like a human despite saying that they were troubled by Rong Yi!"
" Bah! What trouble? Obviously, they used their status as elders and then suppressed Rong Yi. I bet everything Rong Yi said was the truth including the fact that Rong Xi pushed her off the building to snatch her job."
Old Madam Rong turned to look at the woman who spoke just now and then shouted at her, " You, Xu Yunjie what are you talking about? I have raised this girl till now, even if I took a bit of her money what's wrong with it? And as for pushing her down where is the evidence!?"
Rong Xi who just arrived at the village and heard the words 'pushing down' paused in her stride. She looked at the crowd that was standing in front of her house and suddenly felt her heart jump. Why…why did she have a feeling that something really bad was going to happen today?
Even so, she was scared, she could only rush inside the house.
" Mother, what happened?" Rong Xi questioned, she looked gentle and kind but now no one believed her facade. Her parents were not good people, how can they teach Rong Xi anything good?
Seeing the gazes of people around her, Rong Xi panicked even more before turning to look at Rong Yi and then said in a slightly admonishing voice, " Sister Yi, I know that you are upset with the accident but how many times are you going to trouble mother and father? Are you only going to stop when you are labelled unfilial?"
In the past, these words would have worked but Rong Yi was no longer the same. Just now she watched her husband and child almost lose their lives, how could she still bow her head? If she bowed her head now then she might as well wait for her family to die!
" You all always want me to label as unfilial, right? If that is the case then I might as well make your words come true!"
Rong Yi's words caused a bad premonition to rise in the hearts of the Rong family and sure enough, the next second they heard Rong Yi loudly say, " I want to separate from this family!"