TCN: Mei Gongqing

Chapter 132: Chen Rong Decisively Cuts Ties

Standing at the doorstep, she waved her finger seemingly at Chen Rong and growled, "Do you think it's so easy for me to hold this house up? All the good-for-nothings end up here... Have you seen your temptress looks in the mirror? Go seduce a man to marry you. Why should I feed a bunch of peasants and stray dogs?"

This had been a very dreadful abuse. Chen Rong looked to her older brother and was greeted with his ashen face. His whole being angrily trembled, but he could not utter a single word while his wife was still spitting saliva everywhere.

Chen Rong slowly stood up.

She ignored her sister-in-law and walked to her brother. "Ah Rong," he stammered, "don't take offense..." He hadn't finished but his wife had sat herself on the floor wailing: "Go to hell, you useless jerk. It was so difficult to find an office but you still managed to lose it. If I haven't been here to hold this house up, your bones would've long been fed to the dogs. Go to hell! Who gives you the rights to make me keep these tramps? Boohoohoo..."

The younger Mr. Chen's voice was completely drown out by her wailing. He had to close his mouth and look guiltily at Chen Rong.

She dropped her gaze at the sight of her brother's gaunt and tired face, and his wretched oppressed appearance.

When her sister-in-law finally stopped crying, Chen Rong suddenly called, "Nurse Ping, bring a silk scroll and some ink here."

Everyone stilled.

Her sister-in-law widened her yellow murky eyes at Chen Rong.

Nurse Ping soon came back with brush and ink.

Chen Rong placed the silk scroll onto the table, wrote a few lines, then went to her sister-in-law and flung it at her. "Make it official with your signature."

Surprised, her sister-in-law looked down at the silk scroll and read, "I now break off all ties with my older brother Chen Qi. Henceforth, for richer or poorer, we shall be unrelated in life and death, and such as strangers." Chen Rong's name was already signed below.

Everybody was stunned this time.

They looked at Chen Rong in disbelief, even her sister-in-law was flabbergasted. She came from the marketplace and had met all sorts of people, but there was none who would so ruthlessly burn her bridges like this.

Her brother's face turned green. He took a step and cried, "Ah Rong!" He was shaking with anger. "Ah Rong, you...!"

Chen Rong turned around to look at him.

She slowly went to her brother. Her eyes were mischievous and peculiar. Momentarily, her brother thought he was returning to seven years ago. At that time in Ping, this sister of his had had the same twinkles in her eyes whenever she got into trouble and came home wanting him to shoulder the burden. And he had never once refused her.

He swallowed his criticism. At this time, Chen Rong turned around, lowered her head and wept, "Father only left so little property behind and on top of that we were met with bandits and barbarians on the way south. If not for the Wang House's protection, where would we be now? After everything we went through to find you, I never thought that you wouldn't want to take us in. Fine, don't take us in. We have hands and feet. I refuse to believe that we can't survive in Jiankang."

Chen Rong's sister-in-law had felt suspicious to see her so blithely cut ties with her brother, so she hadn't been resolved to sign. Now hearing this from Chen Rong, she quickly scribbled a few strokes and pressed her finger onto the parchment. She next hurriedly gave her husband the silk scroll and yelled, "Quick, sign it," pulling his thumb and pressing it down for him.