“Me too. I also accepted one hundred yuan.”
“I took it, too…”
Voices sounded one after another.
Ye Tianxin looked at the faces of the people who admitted to taking bribes. She couldn’t help but feel cold in her heart. How evil some people could be?
She really couldn’t imagine how these people could, for a hundred yuan, lie that greatly affected their lives.
Ye Tianxin suddenly realized that her thoughts, as a reborn, were really ridiculous. She actually thought that the people here were good.
She wanted to use her power to change everything here.
She would make Jiameng Town an ancient tourist town and help the townspeople get rich.
It was a pity that she just found out that there were so many inhabitants in this town, but nearly 30 people lied back then for a hundred yuan.
In that instant, a realization occurred to her: Poor places yield terrible people.
These people didn’t have any conscience at all.
If they had the slightest conscience, how could they say and do such things?
Grandmother didn’t expect this at all. She thought that the worst was Zhu Dongmei’s family doing such a thing for money.
She thought that the worst outcome was Wu Cailan doing such a thing because of her jealousy. These were the worst outcomes she could think of.
But now, she knew she was wrong.
Grandmother burst into tears and sadly questioned the people who admitted fault, “Big Brother Liu, when your wife was sick back then, it was my daughter who got her medicine while she herself was pregnant…”
“And you, Cuihua, when you were young, you almost starved to death. I fed you.”
“You, Du Erwa, when you were young, hadn’t Linlang tutored you many times?”
“You… Why are all your hearts so dark? How could you all do such a thing? You…”
Grandmother was sobbing. She covered her face, squatted to the ground, and kept calling, “Linlang!”
“Linlang!”
It was her fault.
All of this was her fault.
She shouldn’t have told Linlang to be kind when she was young.
Why did she have to be kind?
Being kind was a curse. Wicked people abuse those who were kind.
“Linlang, Linlang! My daughter…”
When she heard about the things that Ye Guoliang’s family and Wu Cailan did, Grandmother could still handle it.
However, this time, she broke down.
She had been teaching her daughter to be kind to others and to be magnanimous. In the end, what did she get in return? How did they treat her?
Her daughter was a kind person, and she had helped so many people.
Those people betrayed her.
“Grandmother, don’t cry.”
Ye Tianxin was also very sad and angry. Had she known that the people here were capable of such evil, she wouldn’t have rebuilt this courtyard.
There was no need to fix it!
She wouldn’t have returned to her hometown.
Grandmother shook her head. Ye Tianxin didn’t understand. She didn’t understand how Grandmother had been blaming herself all this time. She regretted encouraging Ye Linlang to be kind.
‘My daughter, my daughter Linlang, it’s your mother’s fault. Mom shouldn’t have taught you to be a kind person.’
Xie Xuning helped Grandmother up, and he whispered, “Mom, today is a festive day for our family. We have been reunited.”
Xie Xuning’s cold eyes swept across the people in front of him. They didn’t dare meet his gaze. All these people, for just a hundred yuan, changed his life, changed Linlang’s life, and forced his daughter to live in this town.