Chapter 1691: Chapter 1693: She’s Gone!
Yang Xiaocui glanced at Aunt Lan Hua on the heated brick bed, and there was no trace of affection left in her eyes; just like that, she followed Yang Daniu out of the room.
Aunt Lan Hua on the kang watched the land deed being snatched away—snatched by her own daughter no less—she was mad enough to die, hurriedly braced herself to get down and grab it back, shouting as she moved, "You two give me back my land deed, give me back my land deed."
"Yang Xiaocui, you heartless thing, you actually teamed up with an outsider to screw your own mother."
"You’re taking your old mother’s lifeblood, the land deed you can’t take away."
"..."
"..."
Listening to her mother’s shouting, Yang Xiaocui didn’t turn back to look at her even once, and just followed Yang Daniu out of her own courtyard.
She hadn’t wanted to, but her mother had broken her heart again and again, forcing her onto today’s dead-end road, and in the end still wanted to send her off to Yang Daniu.
Then she would let this ruthless mother of hers have a taste of losing the thing she cared about most.
Wasn’t she the one who treasured her Silver the most?
Wasn’t she the one who treasured that land the most?
Aunt Lan Hua’s steps were too slow. By the time she reached the gate, Yang Xiaocui and Yang Daniu were already far away.
She just stood there watching the two of them leave, taking away her lifeblood, the land deed, and her heart felt as if it were dripping blood!
She was so furious that her breath caught in her chest, and she stumbled and collapsed right there at the gate.
The people hiding in the house only came out to see what was going on after hearing that Yang Daniu had left.
And then they saw Aunt Lan Hua lying at their own gate.
Everyone hurried forward and helped Aunt Lan Hua up from the ground. "Ma, Ma..."
Hearing her sons calling her, Aunt Lan Hua finally opened her eyes. Looking at the three sons surrounding her, she only grew even angrier inside.
Just now she’d been shouting like that, hoping her sons would come out and help her, keep that land deed safe, but the three good sons she’d given birth to hadn’t come out to help at all. They really were her good sons.
And that daughter—when it came down to her lifeblood, she actually teamed up with an outsider to bully her own mother, turning this home into a complete mess.
If it weren’t for that daughter doing wrong, would their family have ended up like this?
No, absolutely not. It was all that daughter’s fault.
Wonderful, just wonderful!
What a fine batch of sons and daughters she had borne!
She stretched out her hand and spoke feebly, "You really are my good sons, good daughter..."
Before she could finish, the hand she’d stretched out fell limply down.
Seeing Aunt Lan Hua like this, Yang Xiaocui’s three older brothers panicked completely; she looked just like someone at their final moment, and one by one they were scared stiff, mouths calling nonstop, "Ma, Ma..."
It was the daughters-in-law who were a bit more clearheaded right then; one of them reached out to feel under Aunt Lan Hua’s nose, and when she sensed there was no more breath from Aunt Lan Hua, she jumped in fright too, but still forced herself to say it out loud, "Mother-in-law seems to have stopped breathing."
"What?" The three sons of Aunt Lan Hua, not believing it, all reached out to feel for themselves.
When they truly felt no breath from their mother, they all collapsed onto the ground at once, stunned for a few seconds, then hugged Aunt Lan Hua and began to wail in grief.
"Ma, Ma, how could you just go like this?"
Although Aunt Lan Hua had been a bit harsh and mean in daily life, she was still the mother who had given birth to and raised them. Seeing her dead, they couldn’t help but feel guilty, guilty for not having come out to help.
They cried and howled for quite a while before finally carrying her back into the house, and the whole family began to prepare Aunt Lan Hua’s funeral.