Chapter 698: Meeting an Old Acquaintance Again

The young woman, fat as a ball, was timid and submissive, her voice as small as a mosquito's hum: "Mom, let it go..."

"Get lost!"

The old woman glared with arched brows, immediately finding an outlet for her frustration.

She turned her head and cursed: "You useless thing, only good at bullying your own family. Weren't you quite something before? Look at that cowardly appearance of yours, you don't know how to do anything but eat. My son would be better off raising a pig than raising you."

"Raising a pig could at least be traded for money by the end of the year, but raising you just means you only eat..."

The fat woman kept her head down; the more she was scolded, the lower her head sank.

Shi Youxuan felt the fat woman looked a bit familiar, but she couldn't remember for a moment where she had seen her.

Seeing her mother being scolded, the little girl was so scared she wailed loudly.

While crying, she hugged her grandmother's thigh and begged: "Grandma, don't be angry, please don't drive my mommy away. I don't want a stepmother, I only want my real mommy..."

It looked like the fat woman was often bullied by her mother-in-law at home.

"Get lost! You money-losing goods!"

The old woman raised her foot to kick the girl in the chest... If that kick landed, the girl would either die or be kicked unconscious.

Strictly speaking, the three of them were a family, so Shi Youxuan shouldn't interfere.

But she really couldn't stand to watch, so she pulled the girl over and shielded her behind her back, saying loudly: "Is this child your own granddaughter? You didn't kidnap her, did you?"

"Of course she's my own granddaughter, pay up!"

Everyone could see that the old woman valued money more than her granddaughter.

Shi Youxuan signaled with her eyes for her husband to take the family away and wait for her in the parking lot outside.

Sheng Hanyu felt a bit helpless.

The old woman was about to be in trouble, but that was fine; she deserved to be punished.

Sheng Hanyu took the family away, and the old woman immediately became arrogant: "Pay up, hurry." As she spoke, she reached into her hand to snatch it.

There was only one woman left on the other side, and she felt that since there were more people on her side, she wouldn't be at a disadvantage.

Shi Youxuan very readily let her snatch the money away.

Then Shi Youxuan leaned close to her and said in a volume only the two of them could hear: "I thought this matter couldn't be settled without a hundred or eighty thousand, but it turns out it was dismissed for such a small amount. I don't know whether to call you stupid or dim-witted, hee hee."

"Huh?"

The old woman's eyeballs rolled around, her face full of unwillingness and annoyance.

Suddenly, without warning, she sat on the ground and began to throw a tantrum, slapping her thighs and rolling around: "Oh my, I can't live anymore, this is too bullying! A life for a life, debts must be repaid, and you only pay two hundred for a robbery in broad daylight? Bah! Not leaving a way for the poor to live..."

The onlookers pointed and whispered, all feeling that the old woman was going too far.

It was just a child snatching a lollipop.

She made it sound like some heinous crime.

And it kept getting more outrageous; the old woman demanded that Shi Youxuan pay two hundred thousand in compensation!

She must be crazy with poverty!

Airport Security came over, dragged the old woman up, and prepared to take her away.

Shi Youxuan said to the Security Guard: "She looks mentally unstable to me. Why not send her to a psychiatric hospital? It's too easy for someone like this to endanger social order while out in public."

"I don't have a mental illness, don't talk nonsense..."

But the surrounding onlookers chimed in to confirm: "Right, call the psychiatric hospital. She doesn't look like a normal person to me either."

"Call the police. If she's mentally sound, then she's just too evil—both stupid and evil."

"How many years can one get for extortion?"

"Starting at eight years..."

The more the old woman heard, the more terrified she became. She knew fear now, immediately stopped crying and making a scene, and scrambled up from the ground.

She didn't even have time to brush the dust off her body, busy trying to prove herself: "I'm very normal, especially normal, not a single thing wrong with me."

Shi Youxuan: "Really? Which normal person would think a lollipop is worth a hundred thousand?"

The old woman glared at Shi Youxuan: "You told me, saying you were prepared to compensate me a hundred or eighty thousand..."

"Hahahahahaha..."

The surrounding crowd burst into laughter.

"Look, still saying she's not mentally ill? How sick has she become? Does that person have so much money they have nowhere to throw it?"

"Exactly, hurry up and call the psychiatric hospital. Let them come and take her away. Having someone like this in society is a danger to society; it's too unstable."

"Call the police!"

Not a single person spoke in her favor.

This was different from the old woman's usual understanding.

In the environment she lived in, throwing a tantrum worked well—it was effective!

But the quality of airport passengers was relatively higher, and they didn't buy her act.

"Ah... I was just joking with you, don't take it seriously." The old woman reacted quite quickly and immediately changed her tune.

Shi Youxuan smiled charmingly: "Oh, so it was a joke... But I'm not joking, what should we do?"

"I think it's very necessary for you to go to a psychiatric hospital and be locked up for a year or so. Actually, this is for your own good. If you are a normal person, that behavior just now counts as fraud, and if you go to Prison, you'll have to sit for many years..."

"Thump—"

The old woman's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground.

She had simply wanted to extort some money to spend, never expecting to provoke such a huge problem.

Although it was Shi Youxuan who set the trap for her to fall into, everyone had heard what she said, and there were witnesses to testify.

She was caught in a dilemma.

Prison or a psychiatric hospital—and she could even choose?

She did not want to choose either.

Although the old woman was wicked, she was not stupid.

She knew she had run into a tough opponent, so she immediately changed her attitude, apologizing to Shi Youxuan with a fawning smile: "I'm sorry, Madam. Please be the bigger person and forgive me this once. I'll kneel to you..."

As she spoke, she was about to kneel.

She knew how to bend and stretch.

Shi Youxuan would not let her kneel to her, so she quickly jumped to the side: "What are you doing? Moral kidnapping? When extortion doesn't work, you switch to kneeling? You really do have all sorts of tricks..."

Most people either respond to soft tactics or hard ones.

The old woman had truly not met many people like Shi Youxuan, who responded to neither.

She was dumbfounded.

Suddenly, she grabbed her daughter-in-law and began beating her indiscriminately.

While beating her, she said: "You useless thing, it's all your fault. If it weren't for you getting a terminal illness with no money for treatment, I wouldn't have been forced to use such despicable methods..."

Shi Youxuan's eyes widened.

She was astonished, not because of the old woman's bottomless excuses.

But because she recognized the fat woman being beaten—Jiang Siwei!

Jiang Siwei was Yuke's cousin.

Since she was little, she had taken Yuke as her idol and worshipped her to no end, often joining her cousin in teasing Shi Youxuan.

Furthermore, she had aspired to marry a rich man since she was a child, but looking at her mother-in-law, she clearly hadn't married anyone wealthy.

Also, how had she become so fat?

Well.

She had been this fat since she was a child, but back then, although Jiang Siwei was fat and stupid, she was still a vibrant girl.

Not like now, lifeless, only knowing how to be submissive when beaten, silently shedding tears.

Jiang Siwei was the same age as Shi Youxuan, but she looked like she was forty years old.

"Stop."

Shi Youxuan scolded the old woman, telling her to stop.

She said to Jiang Siwei's mother-in-law: "Come with me, apologize to my mother-in-law, and this matter will be considered over."

"Really?"

The old woman was pleasantly surprised, but still a bit incredulous.

"If you don't want to, forget it. I don't want to force anyone."

"I'm willing, I'm willing! I'll go with you immediately and guarantee the old madam will be satisfied..." Just by apologizing, she could avoid such huge trouble; only a fool wouldn't be willing.

The old woman was about to follow Shi Youxuan happily, but she noticed her staring at her daughter-in-law.

And Jiang Siwei wished she could hide in a crack in the ground.

"Madam, do you know my daughter-in-law?" Her mind became active again.