Chapter 94

I saw Er Dama, like a hidden expert, lurking in the crowd.

Er Dama wasn't in a hurry to act; she was waiting for an opportunity. Once she spotted it, she kicked the Deaf Old Lady's lower leg with all her might. With that one kick, the Deaf Old Lady's lower leg emitted a soft "Crack!" sound; the Deaf Old Lady's leg had been broken by Er Dama.

Clearly, Er Dama hated the Deaf Old Lady to the core.

Xu Damao thought about it and it made sense: the Deaf Old Lady considered herself the Old Ancestor and often bullied this person or oppressed that person. The Deaf Old Lady and Er Dama both lived in the Houyuan, and being close to Er Dama, she naturally bullied her whenever she had the chance.

It was evident that the two had long-standing grievances. Now that Er Dama had finally caught the chance to take revenge, after breaking the Deaf Old Lady's leg, she immediately hid back in the crowd, pretending to denounce the Deaf Old Lady.

The Deaf Old Lady couldn't help but let out a miserable scream.

Everyone didn't stop at all. Although the Deaf Old Lady's scream was very loud, the crowd's denouncements were even louder; the Deaf Old Lady's scream was directly drowned out by the crowd's voices and didn't attract anyone's attention at all.

Seeing this, Xu Damao was afraid that the crowd would get too excited and beat the Deaf Old Lady and Yi Dama to death, so he quietly retreated from the crowd.

With Xu Damao's retreat, the men of the Siheyuan also began to pull out. The men of the Siheyuan had only acted to show their stance, so their blows were naturally not heavy; the ones hitting hard were those old hags.

Once these men retreated, the old hags, after beating the Deaf Old Lady and Yi Dama for a while, were also afraid of being held responsible for a homicide, so they quickly retreated like a tide and went back to their own homes.

Leaving only the blood-covered Yi Dama and the broken-legged Deaf Old Lady wailing there.

After Yi Dama recovered slightly, she took out money to ask Yan Jiecheng to take them to the hospital. This time, no matter how much money Yi Dama offered, Yan Jiecheng was uncharacteristically unmoved.

The Yan family understood that money could be earned at any time, but this kind of matter could not be touched; once you were involved, you would be doomed forever.

In the end, Yi Dama had to endure the pain and stand up, borrow a flatbed cart from the neighboring courtyard, and beg people from other courtyards to take her and the Deaf Old Lady to the hospital.

"Old Lady, what are we going to do?" Yi Dama said, crying in pain after receiving treatment while lying on the hospital bed.

"Heh, you're asking her that question? With how selfish she is, how could she sincerely tell you what to do? Even if she did, the ultimate goal would be for her own benefit, because this deaf old woman knows that once you leave, no one will be there to serve her," He Yuzhu sneered.

"Why are you here?" Yi Dama looked at He Yuzhu in disbelief.

"I'm here to point you toward a bright path," He Yuzhu said with a light laugh.

The Deaf Old Lady, lying on another hospital bed, had her expression change drastically and immediately roared: "Don't listen to him!"

"Yi Zhonghai's death is a foregone conclusion. What you need to do now is to quickly put all the money in the house into your own hands, then divorce Yi Zhonghai. After finishing this, you should immediately take the money and leave to seek refuge with your relatives. If you have no relatives, you can remarry."

"The reason you don't have children is not because you can't give birth, but because Yi Zhonghai can't. If Yi Zhonghai could, with his methods and money, wouldn't it be easy to find three or five widows in the countryside to bear him children?"

"Xu Damao can easily sleep with widows in the countryside, so don't tell me Yi Zhonghai doesn't have that ability or skill. Since you're already at the hospital, you can check whether it's you who can't give birth or Yi Zhonghai."

"By the way, don't listen to a word this deaf old woman says; you can't even trust a single punctuation mark of hers. Everything she does is to keep you here so you can serve her like a beast of burden. I believe that with your intelligence, you can see this."

"I've said what I needed to say; it's up to you to decide where to go," He Yuzhu said and left. Of course, He Yuzhu was doing this to make Yi Zhonghai's family broken and dead, and to ensure the Deaf Old Lady met a miserable end.

"Guixiang, don't listen to Shazhu. Shazhu is here to kick us while we're down. We ended up in this state all because of Shazhu; it was Shazhu who framed us like this. If it weren't for Shazhu, you would still be the high-and-mighty Yi Dama in the Siheyuan," the Deaf Old Lady said immediately.

Yi Dama was a smart person; how could someone who had shared a bed with an old, sinister thief like Yi Zhonghai for decades be a fool? Some things are like window paper—one poke and they break.

In the past, Yi Dama was trapped in the situation and couldn't see many things clearly. Now, after He Yuzhu's hint, Yi Dama immediately woke up.

Yi Dama knew Yi Zhonghai very well. Just as He Yuzhu said, if Yi Zhonghai really could have children, he would have long ago tried every possible way to make someone else have them; Yi Zhonghai had the ability to do such things.

Children were Yi Dama's heartache. In the end, ignoring the Deaf Old Lady's persuasion, Yi Dama resolutely found a doctor to check if she could have children.

Seeing this, the Deaf Old Lady knew that Yi Dama had developed ulterior motives and couldn't help but lie on the hospital bed with a pale face.

At this moment, the Deaf Old Lady hated He Yuzhu to the core. She could no longer maintain her past image and began to curse He Yuzhu with all sorts of vicious, sharp, and mean language, just like Jia Zhangshi.

Yi Dama had never seen the Deaf Old Lady lose her composure like this. Afterward, Yi Dama suddenly realized that in the past, no one could touch the Deaf Old Lady's vital interests, which was why she could maintain her usual form.

Now that He Yuzhu had touched the Deaf Old Lady's vital interests, she had revealed her true colors.

As the Deaf Old Lady cursed, she eventually fainted.

Yi Dama, however, did not fall asleep. Her eyes were fixed on the ceiling, and the events of these years flashed through her mind like a slide show, especially the events of the recent period, which appeared in Yi Dama's mind one by one.

The changes in the courtyard made Yi Dama understand that the situation had undergone a fundamental change. This time, Yi Zhonghai was truly in grave danger.

If not for that, would the people in the Siheyuan dare to beat her and the Deaf Old Lady so arrogantly? Yi Dama knew the character of the beasts in the Siheyuan too well.

"Fortunately, Jia Zhangshi was taken away for labor; otherwise, with Jia Zhangshi's greed, she would definitely have eaten my 'dead end' inheritance," Yi Dama thought to herself.

Yi Dama felt it was time to consider things for herself. Everything would wait for the results tomorrow morning. In a daze, Yi Dama fell asleep.

When Yi Dama woke up, it was already the next morning. Yi Dama subconsciously looked at the Deaf Old Lady's bed and found that she was not there, feeling an instinctive shock in her heart.

Yi Dama immediately endured the pain and left the ward to look for the Deaf Old Lady. Not long after, Yi Dama heard the Deaf Old Lady's voice from not far away.

"Doctor, I beg you, please change this test result. My daughter-in-law is so old; she can't have children anymore. It's too dangerous to have children at such an age."

"The elderly all say that women can hold up half the sky. Now, having a boy or a girl is the same. I already have two granddaughters, but my daughter-in-law insists on continuing the family line and must have a boy. Doctor, I beg you, please change this test result."

"Change it to 'cannot conceive,' so my daughter-in-law will give up," the Deaf Old Lady pleaded.

(End of this chapter)