She could still hear the movement from the main hall inside the room anyway.
She decided to wait and see, and if her grandparents were truly at a disadvantage, then she would come out.
She wanted to see how her grandparents would deal with the people from the Old Chiang Family now. She couldn’t leave this place so soon, at least not during her three years of junior high school. Her grandparents still had to face these people, and she had to attend school; she couldn’t always stand in front of them to protect them.
What Chiang Xiao hoped for most was that her grandparents could see the true colors of the Old Chiang Family and stand up to them firmly.
So when Chiang Songhai insisted she go inside, she did.
After she went in, Chiang Songhai went out to open the door. As soon as he pulled the latch, the door was forcefully pushed open, almost hitting him in the face with great force.
Ho Laidi didn’t come alone.
Following her were Chiang Baohe, Song Xiyun, Chiang Caijiao, and Chiang Lidong.
As soon as Chiang Baohe entered, he marched straight to the main hall with a gloomy expression.
"Where’s Chiang Xiao?"
Ge Liutao hurriedly blocked him, "Baohe, let’s talk things out nicely... "
"Talk things out nicely, my ass! Ge Liutao," Ho Laidi pointed a finger right in her face, said angrily, "I think it’s you who’s been instigating Second against his older brother, right? Second used to think of his brother and sister-in-law in everything, and now he wants to draw a clear line with us?"
"Sister-in-law, I didn’t..." Ge Liutao said with teary eyes, defending herself in a low voice.
"You dare to talk back? You didn’t? How come I heard Second bought a lot of stuff back? Such a big piece of meat!" Ho Laidi said as she stretched out her hand to gesture, drawing a big circle.
"It wasn’t that much, it was Little..."
"Pshaw! Don’t tell me you’re going to say that it was Chiang Xiao who bought it? What can that damned girl do? Isn’t it all the money Second worked hard to earn?" Ho Laidi turned to Chiang Songhai, her eyes slanted, "Second, when your elder brother saved your life back then, what did you say? Didn’t you say that if there was a piece of meat, you would share half with your brother? Didn’t you say that this bond you would remember for a lifetime, that treating your elder brother as a father and showing him filial piety was only right?"
"Sister-in-law, I did say those things."
Chiang Songhai truly believed before opening the door that he could handle it.
He also thought he would firmly remember that these things were bought with the money Little earned, and that he should protect them for her.
But with Ho Laidi coming at him full force, bringing up the life-saving grace of Chiang Songtao from those years ago, he was puzzled again.
Indeed, he had said those words back then, but Chiang Songtao had also said that they were brothers, and saving him was his duty; he didn’t need his gratitude.
And hadn’t he done enough over the years?
Even Chiang Songtao’s youngest son Chiang Yuequn was able to go to high school in the provincial city because he had thickened his face and used up the remaining connections he had from those years...
However, these words were something Chiang Songhai just couldn’t say out loud.
He was naturally reserved and spoke little, preferring to do what needed to be done, but not used to talking about it.
Ho Laidi didn’t care what he was thinking inside.
Hearing him acknowledge those words he had said, Ho Laidi snorted coldly, pressing on, "Then how come I heard that when you bought meat, you went so far as to close your doors and sneakily eat it? Tell me, Second, that’s a pretty ugly way to eat, isn’t it? Are you planning to cut off ties with your brother and sister-in-law?"
In the countryside, cutting off ties was a very serious matter.
At this point, Chiang Xiao really wanted to shout loudly, Yes!
She had wanted to cut off ties with the Old Chiang Family and have nothing to do with them anyway.
But when Chiang Songhai heard this, his heart jolted, "Sister-in-law, how could that be possible? There are only my brother and me left in the Chiang Family. We are the closest of kin. If we cut off ties, wouldn’t it make the relatives in the clan laugh at us?"