945 The old Yu couple dig past feuds up On the side, one of the elders of the Big River Village weakly coughed and then said, " Yu Dong Lin, he is still a mer…. You shouldn't be so harsh on him, he was once your husband——"
" I don't care who he is. I don't know any mer who is ruthless enough to scheme against the children of his wife. Have you forgotten elders? As a mer, it's his responsibility to take care of my children equally and never harm them! No matter from whose womb my children came out as long as he is my husband and what did he do? He schemed against my daughter, my grandson and my granddaughter wanting to end their lives all because he was jealous?"
Old Madam Yu glared at the mer who was crouching on the ground with fear in his eyes and continued speaking, " I hate myself. I truly hate myself that I brought this mer into my family and caused my daughter to die! I even separated my granddaughter and her family from my house under his instigation as he cried that Yu Dong was good for nothing and she will ruin our family but who made her good for nothing? It's him!"
" He was the one who together with Qiu Bai ruined by good granddaughter! And if that wasn't all, he went ahead and planted a green hat on my head! Take him to a doctor and have him diagnosed, I will bet with my entire life on the line that this mer is more than three months pregnant! And two months ago we were still married," Old Madam Yu trembled as she glared at Old Master Tong with rage burning in her eyes.
She then turned to look at the elders and added, " From harming the children of his wife to having an affair. What kind of sin did he not commit? With these crimes of his, he should be sent to the yamen to be executed!"
" No!" Old Master Tong howled in horror, he felt frightened, angry and distressed by the look of pure hate in his wife's eyes. It looks like that from now on he will never be able to approach Old Madam Yu, nor could he threaten her any more. He had become her archenemy as he had killed his daughter…
even if he did not use his own hands, the scheme did come from his head and the fact that Yu Mai's life was ruined by him was also known to the world.
Even if Yu Dong Lin was to kill him, no one will say a word as he did everything that a mer was not supposed to do!
" Dong Lin, please, please let me off. Don't send me to Yamen," despite being kicked Old Master Tong once again crawled and then hugged Old Madam Yu's thigh. " I have given birth to a daughter for you and think about our mer son, he might not be living here anymore but he is still your flesh and blood, if his in-laws find out about this shameful matter then our mer son will be divorced and sent back! Please remember the time when we were together and had affection for each other and pardon my crime. Don't …Don't send me to yamen, I promise I will not do this ever again," Old Master Tong knew that only Old Madam Yu was his last chance for survival.
She was the only one who had the right to send him to the Yamen as long as she agrees to not send him, his old life will be saved.
"So you do know that this is shameful? Where did you sell your shame when you came to scheme against me and tried to pass off this bastard as my child?" Old Madam Yu was so angry that she laughed, with a forceful tug, she wrenched her leg away from Old Master Tong and then stated calmly, " And how dare you bring the matter of our mer son up? Have you forgotten that it was you who sold your son away? It has been years and yet Yu Le had never come back home! Can't you see that he is still angry with you and what about Hao'er and Qingze? Your mer son is a son but the children born by my first husband are not children?"
" You better not bring them up, Tong Li! I still haven't forgiven you for sending my sons away like they were some accessories! Sold to far away land, what did you say? That those families where you married them off were good? And what kind of marriages did you bring back? You know it better!"
Back then when her sons grew up, Tong Li as the patriarch of the house had taken the responsibility of marrying them off, and each match was worse than the first one. She had argued with him and told him that she was not going to let her sons marry those women but Tong Li did not listen, since he did not care about mers, he did not even bother to look around the financial conditions of the match he was bringing for her sons.
He simply fixed their marriage as soon as their match said yes, later on, she went looking for other matches and asked Tong Li to not look for any as he had ruined her eldest son but the mer did not listen, he knew that if she was to look for a good match then they will have to sell their lands and hand the desired dowries for the two mers.
Thus, he went behind her back and then fixed their matches at the same time before announcing it to the entire village as well as the neighbouring village.
As a match once fixed could not be broken, Old Madam Yu had to marry her sons off to faraway lands as she was afraid that their reputation will go down the drain. And now that Old Master Tong's own skin was on the line, he dared to shamelessly bring up her son ?! Has he forgotten why she started to sleep away from him and did not touch him anymore?
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