Wrongful Accusation (3)
“Dad… I-I was standing behind them, so I didn’t really see…” Ruan Jiaojiao’s demure and pure little face looked a little pale.
She glanced at Ruan Mengmeng and then quickly lowered her head again.
It looked as though she was too afraid to say anything.
“Don’t be scared, Jiaojiao, your grandma’s on your side! See, your aunt and your dad are here too. Even your maternal grandma, your uncle, and your aunt are here… All of us will support you, so just tell the truth!”
“That’s right, Jiaojiao, just tell us! What on earth happened? Was it this… this person who pushed your mother down…” Madam Qin hugged her maternal granddaughter, tears flooding her wrinkled face.
She had never stopped crying since she heard that her pregnant daughter was lying on the operating table, fighting for her life.
“I…” Ruan Jiaojiao hugged her maternal grandmother back and glanced at Ruan Mengmeng before shirking back again.
“I did… I did see Big Sis standing on the stairs with her hand outstretched.”
“See! I knew it, I knew you were the one who did it, you useless girl! You cursed witch, how could you be so evil? Why did you hurt my grandson?! Of all the people to die falling down the stairs, why aren’t you one of them?! You evil curse!”
“Mom, don’t say that… Mengmeng’s still young, and you know what her temper’s like. I’m sure she didn’t mean it. For all we knew, she just lost control and did it without thinking.”
Ruan Zhaotian held Old Madam Ruan away from Ruan Mengmeng, but his words hurt her even more than Old Madam Ruan’s slaps had.
Did that mean that her father now thought of her as a daughter who was crazy enough to push a pregnant woman down the stairs in the heat of the moment?
“Dad, Ruan Jiaojiao’s lying. I never…”
“Smack—” Before Ruan Jiaojiao could finish her sentence, a black leather bag smashed into her head forcefully.
“Ruan Mengmeng, your mom didn’t teach you squat! You animal! Give me back my daughter, give me back my daughter!” Ruan Zhaotian stopped Old Madam Ruan, but he did not hold back his mother-in-law next to them.
Madam Qin was holding a branded black bag made of cow leader. All of the latches on it were made of solid copper.
The bag was heavy too, filled with many things.
She swung the bag again and again, using all of her strength to smash it onto Ruan Mengmeng’s head.
The blood had barely stained the white bandage earlier, but now it was flowing freely down Ruan Mengmeng’s forehead.
“Don’t hit her, Grandma, stop hitting her… Mengmeng just lost it in the heat of the moment, she isn’t really that bad! Don’t hit her…” Ruan Jiaojiao was even crying as she pleaded for Ruan Mengmeng.
However, her uncle and aunt were holding her back, so she could not ‘break free’ at all.
Next to them, Ruan Zhaotian wanted to stop the beating too, but his mother and younger sister held him back tightly.
The pain on her face grew sharper and sharper. Ruan Mengmeng guessed that her face was probably swollen by now.
Finally, she had enough. After another grimace, she abruptly pushed Madam Qin away.
Everyone saw that Ruan Mengmeng had only pushed Madam Qin ever so lightly.
However, the old woman fell on her butt as though she had completely lost her balance, landing with a smack.
“Oh, my butt! I’m dying…!!!”
As soon as the pain hit, Madam Qin screamed at the top of her lungs without even thinking about it.
“Grandma, Grandma! Are you alright…?” Ruan Jiaojiao, who could not break free earlier, instantly rushed to her grandmother and helped her up.
“You’re too much, Ruan Mengmeng! How could you do that to my grandmother, she’s almost sixty now… You tried to kill my mother and my younger brother, and now you wanna kill my grandmother too? Are you trying to kill our entire family…?”
As she said that, Ruan Jiaojiao burst into tears.
She made a right sight of herself, her tears flowing like a waterfall.
The way she wept as she hugged Madam Qin made it look like the latter had already breathed her last.