Chapter 1022: The Spearhead is Still Aimed at the Mother-in-law

Of course, it was absolutely not because the old man had keen insight; Sheng Jiang did not have that ability.

The only thing that could explain it was one point—someone was monitoring Sheng Jiang, and discovered Lao Qi in the process!

"You come back."

Sheng Hanyu let Lao Qi return; being discovered once was nothing, as long as the person behind the scenes continued to stir up trouble, they would sooner or later show their fox tail.

Not two days later, rumors suddenly spread in the residential compound.

Wang Yinghao usually had a good reputation in the compound, and people would take the initiative to greet her when they met.

But these past few days, the neighbors in the compound were all a bit abnormal; although they would still greet her when they met, their gazes were clearly wrong.

Carrying disdain, after Wang Yinghao walked past, people would whisper behind her back and point fingers.

Every time she walked near, people would stop talking.

The rumors in the compound had not yet passed, and Wang Yinghao had an incident at the vegetable market.

She went to the market to buy vegetables, but the vegetable vendor, who was usually familiar and enthusiastic, had a cold face; not only did she not sell things to her, but she also used vicious words to hurt her.

Wang Yinghao had just picked up a bunch of fresh Xiaoqing vegetables when they were snatched away.

"I won't sell to you. Don't come to me to buy things in the future. Even if my vegetables rot and no one buys them, I won't sell them to a mistress. Bah! Shameless."

Wang Yinghao had a good temper, but that did not mean she could be humiliated at will.

She questioned the stall owner: "What right do you have to scold people?"

The woman selling vegetables was burly and had a loud voice: "What right? Just because you are shameless, successfully seduced your own brother-in-law to get to the top, became a brother-in-law's mistress, and even sent your own sister to Prison, why can't I scold you?"

"I hate mistresses the most in my life. Don't let me see you again in the future, otherwise, I will scold you every time I see you. Even if I am poor or starve to death, I will never sell vegetables to you!"

Not only her, but people nearby also chimed in.

These people did not have a high level of education, but their ability to scold others was one more fierce than the next!

Wang Yinghao was not good at scolding people to begin with, and now being besieged by so many people, she could not defend herself and fled in a panic.

The woman behind her scolded with increasing vigor: "Shameless mistress, looking like a human but acting like a dog, looking like a good person, but not doing human things..."

She arrived home and locked herself in her room, never coming out again.

It was too stifling.

Being scolded as a mistress for no reason, when she was clearly the victim, yet now she was being slandered and had become a third party who destroyed someone else's family.

And being scolded today also gave a reasonable explanation for the abnormalities of these past few days.

Neighbors whispering behind her back, her husband leaving early and returning late these days, the money at home disappearing... could it be that that person had returned?

If it was, she would definitely not let her off.

It should be, it must be.

At this moment, Wang Yinghao had the impulse to flee immediately.

She could not fight her sister; her sister Wang Yingzhi was her nightmare.

Shi Youxuan sensed something was wrong and went to knock on the door: "Mom, are you not feeling well? Open the door, Mom!"

"I'm fine, I'm fine, you go do your work, don't worry about me."

Although she said she was fine, the mother-in-law's voice carried a sobbing tone.

Unable to ask anything from the mother-in-law, Shi Youxuan went to ask Fang Jie and Xiao Ya to see if they knew what had happened to the old lady outside.

Fang Jie: "Madam, there have been many rumors in the compound these past two days, all about the old lady, and they are very nasty."

"What is being spread outside?"

Fang Jie's face flushed red, and she stammered for a long while, still unable to say it.

Xiao Ya: "I'll say it, the rumor outside is that the old lady is the old master's mistress who rose to the top, and in order to rise to the top, she even sent the original wife to Prison..."

And it was not just these.

The twins had been picked up from kindergarten; both were listless and looked aggrieved.

Shi Youxuan asked: "Why are you unhappy? Did something happen at kindergarten? Tell Mommy."

The two children threw themselves into her arms and cried loudly, saying aggrievedly while crying: "Woooo... when we left school today, some parents said very nasty things. They said my grandma is shameless, and that we are all 'the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked'..."

Sheng Zihan: "Woooo, Mommy, what is a beam?"

Shi Youxuan comforted her two sons: "A beam is a large piece of wood used to build houses in the past. It is not used anymore, so what they said is all wrong. Grandma is not a mistress; they are slandering her."

Since the rumors had already spread to the kindergarten, then it was highly likely that the primary school would have them too, as the two older ones finished school slightly later.

Shi Youxuan went to the school gate in person to pick up the two older ones.

Just as she arrived at the school, the famous big-mouth in the parent group came over, full of gossip.

"Zichen's mom, don't blame me for being meddlesome, your mother-in-law... tsk tsk!" The big-mouth did not finish her sentence and looked at her with sympathetic eyes.

Shi Youxuan was very annoyed and retorted: "My mother-in-law is quite good, kind, generous, and gentle. Her values are very correct, and she never gossips behind people's backs, nor does she believe or spread rumors."

"Hey, why are you talking like that? I'm doing this for your own good."

"Then I thank you for your kindness. If you have the energy to be good to others, you should care more about your own family. I heard that yesterday your husband accompanied a beautiful woman to a gold shop to buy a gold bracelet, this thick."

She gestured casually; such a thick gold bracelet could weigh half a jin.

After saying that, she added a finishing blow: "Much bigger than the one on your wrist."

The woman's eyes widened round.

The big-mouth had just been complaining that Shi Youxuan did not know what was good for her, but now she had forgotten it all.

"Is what you said true?" She gritted her teeth, her eyes wide and round.

"It's true, absolutely true, someone saw it with their own eyes."

Heaven and conscience, Shi Youxuan was just using the other person's methods against them, just saying it casually.

Who knew the woman would turn around and angrily drag her husband out of their car, questioning him on the spot, and soon began wailing and beating her chest: "Heavens, this life can't go on, you actually spent our family's money on another woman... who is that vixen? I'm going to scratch her face!"

Shi Youxuan covered her forehead.

It's actually true?

This is too much of a coincidence.

With such a scene unfolding at the school gate, people were drawn to the new spectacle, so naturally, no one was gossiping about Wang Yinghao anymore.

The school bell rang, and the children all came out.

Big Mouth was having a whale of a time fighting with her husband, and their child, feeling embarrassed, quietly left on their own.

……

The crowd watching the commotion at the school gate grew smaller, and Shi Youxuan also picked up the two children to go home.

Sheng Zichen and Litian were not affected, and everything was as usual after they got home.

But this incident alerted Shi Youxuan and her husband; the situation was becoming increasingly clear—it was aimed at their mother-in-law.

Their mother-in-law only had one "enemy"—Wang Yingzhi!

Calculating the time, Wang Yingzhi was sentenced to ten years back then.

She went in before Zichen was born, and now Zichen is over nine years old; the timing fits perfectly—Wang Yingzhi has been released from prison!

All the confusion from these past few days has now suddenly become clear!

Her father-in-law returned from outside and was blocked at the main gate by his daughter-in-law: "I need to talk to you."

"Huh? Okay."

Her father-in-law's expression was very poor; he didn't even dare to look her in the eye.

"Dad, has Wang Yingzhi changed much in these ten years?"

"A big change..."

He blurted it out, realized he had said the wrong thing as soon as the words left his mouth, and hurriedly corrected himself: "What are you talking about? I don't understand."