Chapter 178: Driving Li Xuan Out of the Junshuyuan

"How could Commander Kong marry a woman like that? Just thinking about a woman who has been in prison living in our Junshuyuan makes me worried!"

"That's right, what if she gets a dark heart next time and tries to abduct our children?"

"Why don't we report this to the troops! Make their whole family move away!"

"I know this might sound unpleasant, but Commander Kong's character is truly... at such an old age, instead of enjoying his twilight years in peace, why keep marrying one after another? What can he even do? At his age, tell me, isn't he just bringing her home to look at her, unable to do anything at all?"

Several women giggled.

"If he can't do it, doesn't he still have his son?..."

"You really dare to say anything!"

It was at this moment that Li Xuan returned.

Seeing Si Rong standing with these women, she subconsciously felt that Si Rong was in cahoots with them.

So she glared fiercely at the group.

The group:...

After she left, everyone spoke even more viciously.

"Look at her attitude! She even dares to glare at us! Does she have the nerve after having been in prison?"

"Isn't that so? Who dares to offend her now? If she gets unhappy, she might just abduct someone's child!"

Si Rong spoke up at the right moment, holding her child, looking worried, "Sister-in-law is right, I am terrified every day now. If my Jiang Cheng hadn't been there that day, who knows what would have happened now..."

She didn't finish the rest of her sentence, leaving it to the aunts' imaginations.

A child is a mother's life.

"No! I really don't think we can let her stay in our Family Quarters anymore!"

"That won't be easy to drive away, with Commander Kong here, and I see that Kong Lingdong is also very attentive to his Little Mother!"

"If only she could be like that previous successor of Kong Lingdong's and get kicked out of our Junshuyuan."

Si Rong asked curiously at this point, "What happened back then?"

Speaking of this, Lao Wu Shen had plenty to say.

She first looked around like a thief, then looked at Si Rong with excitement and recounted it vividly, "Back then, it was me who discovered it!"

"That woman had a sewing machine. After lunch that day, I wanted to go find her to make some clothes, and as a result, I saw that mother and son in the room... really, I couldn't even bear to look."

"It was so shameful! That woman's clothes were hanging on Kong Lingdong's neck, and Kong Lingdong was grabbing her ankles—it was quite the scene!"

Si Rong:...

She had a mental image; it was indeed quite a scene.

If it could happen again, it would be great to be able to drive Li Xuan out of the Junshuyuan.

It had to be done step by step; Si Rong first invited Lao Wu Shen to her home for tea.

Lao Wu Shen and Si Rong hit it off immediately, and she told her all the gossip about everyone in the Junshuyuan that she knew.

Whose child didn't look like their father but instead looked like their second uncle, whose wife fought and divorced her mother-in-law, and so on.

Soon, these words spread like a gust of wind, and Li Xuan heard them too.

After being released from prison, Kong Yue had been much colder toward her and no longer bothered her at night.

He even warned her to go out less in the future and to get out if she caused any more trouble.

Li Xuan could only obey; if she were kicked out by the Kong Family, she would have to return to the miserable life in the Pinminku where she never knew if she would have her next meal.

This rumor wasn't something she heard by going out; it reached her ears right at the entrance of the Kong Family home while those old women were chatting.

Kong Lingdong actually had an ambiguous relationship with his Little Mother in the past?

No wonder his wife and children had always been abroad and didn't even make it back for her wedding banquet.

Heavens!

Somehow, Li Xuan thought of herself.

She thought of the "Little Mother" calls from Kong Lingdong, and the occasional skin-to-skin contact between them that made her heart race.

And that one night in the past, the sound she heard behind the curtains.

Could it be that Kong Lingdong was hiding there?

Eavesdropping on her and his father every night?

Li Xuan felt angry at first, but upon further reflection, there was a sense of forbidden excitement.

To think that during the day, he still maintained the appearance of a proper stepson in front of her.

She thought, she must find an opportunity to expose him!

This would also be to her advantage; she could then hold these two men in the palm of her hand.

Li Xuan also went to see her own grandson; Lin Meixi was also in the Kong Family for her postpartum confinement, which was personally arranged by Kong Lingdong.

As soon as Li Xuan thought that all of this was because Kong Lingdong was taking care of the mother and daughter for her sake, her heart fluttered again.

Lin Meixi held some resentment toward her, so she refused to talk much with Li Xuan.

She had originally thought that Li Xuan, as a mother, would take all the blame upon herself in court to ensure Shen Chi's release.

She didn't expect Li Xuan to be so selfish, caring only for herself.

The child looked very much like Shen Chi, especially the eyes, but Li Xuan still discovered something wrong.

This child was not quite normal.

She frowned, picked up the child, and asked Lin Meixi about the child's daily condition.

The child didn't cry much, ate when fed, had very slow reactions, and sometimes made strange cooing noises for no reason.

Wasn't that just a fool?

Li Xuan couldn't accept it; if her son in prison knew his daughter was mentally disabled, how much pain would he be in?

"Mom, is there something wrong with the child?" Lin Meixi told her about the process of her difficult labor that day with a nervous expression.

"It's her again!" When Li Xuan learned that it was Si Rong who had deliberately provoked Lin Meixi, causing the difficult labor, she blamed everything regarding her granddaughter's mental deficiency on Si Rong.

Between them, it was truly a situation of life and death.

Li Xuan took her granddaughter to the hospital for an examination, and the doctor directly diagnosed her as intellectually disabled.

She sat on the street in agony, blaming Si Rong one moment and Lin Meixi the next, feeling that they were both to blame for harming her granddaughter.

However, she also knew in her heart that such a child would be of no use when she grew up.

For the sake of her son, she sent her granddaughter to the Fuliyuan.

After separating from her granddaughter, Li Xuan felt great pain, and she blamed all of this pain on Si Rong as well.

How could Heaven be so blind? It should have let Si Rong give birth to a mentally disabled child instead!

She had expected Lin Meixi to cry and make a scene when she returned empty-handed, but she did not expect her to accept it so calmly.

"It was eight lifetimes of bad luck for the child to be reincarnated into your Shen family; perhaps her luck will be better if she is sent away."

Li Xuan did not take her seriously, her heart still preoccupied with the matter she needed to verify.

In the evening, someone came by selling rice wine, which Li Xuan had always loved to eat.

She held a bowl and bought two yuan's worth; no one else in the family would eat it, only Kong Lingdong said he would have a little. Originally, Li Xuan wanted to get him another bowl, but she didn't expect him to take her spoon directly and start eating.

Li Xuan's face turned red instantly.

At the same time, she felt her body heating up, and her gaze toward Kong Lingdong gradually became burning.

"Lingdong," she said, her voice trembling abnormally, "that night, were you behind our curtains?"

"Little Mother..."

Lao Wu Shen wanted to make clothes again; she had skillful hands and was very good at managing a household, so the clothes for everyone in the family were made by her own hands.

She had originally intended to use Si Rong's sewing machine, but she didn't expect Si Rong to say the sewing machine was broken; however, Wang Ma mentioned from the side that the sewing machine at the Kong Family was the best to use.

Thus, the group headed toward the Kong Family.