The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 610 - 621 Cuiya’s Outburst

Chapter 610: Chapter 621 Cuiya’s Outburst

Cuiya was truly crying, her eyes red and swollen, her throat hoarse from sobbing. Next to the feigned tears of Du Concubine, the effect was immediate and striking.

Cuiya looked much more convincing—anyone with eyes would be more inclined to believe her.

Master Jie sighed softly, "Don’t be too sad, don’t be afraid, just tell us everything that happened today exactly as it happened."

Cuiya kowtowed and then said with a hoarse voice, "This servant and the young lady were in the courtyard today when Du Concubine came to see her. She dismissed the maids right away, saying she had private words for my mistress. I was taken outside the courtyard by Du Concubine’s maids, and truly, I didn’t know what they discussed. Not long after, the young lady and Du Concubine came out with a shovel."

"I followed them, all the way to the edge of the lotus pond, then, Du Concubine’s maids pulled me away to another place. They said that the two young ladies were to make amends today, and told me not to disturb them. However, it wasn’t long before I... I heard Du Concubine’s cries for help. When I ran back to the lotus pond, I saw my young lady already in the water, and it was at that time Du Concubine jumped in as well."

"The servants who went into the water to rescue pulled Du Concubine out first, even though they saw that our young lady was barely hanging on and didn’t save her first. By the time they went to rescue my mistress after saving Du Concubine, it was... it was already too late..."

Master Jie was furious and pointed at Du Concubine, demanding, "Why did you jump in after seeing that people were already rescuing?"

"I... I was worried about my sister, I didn’t think it through," Du Concubine replied in terror.

Master Jie’s second son was deeply grieved, yet when he saw the dying girl lying on the bed, he wanted to speak up for Du Concubine but ended up swallowing his words.

"Why did everyone save you first, and not Xintong who obviously fell into the water before you?"

Cuiya cried out, "That’s because, in this Jie Residence, there’s only one mistress in their eyes, and that is Du Concubine. What is our young lady? Despised by the second young master, she’s less than a servant. At least I get to wear the uniforms distributed by the residence, but what about my young lady? She wears clothes brought from the Du family. If those clothes are too small, she adds some fabric to alter them herself. Too old, and she wouldn’t dare throw them away, as though fearing that without them, she would have no clothes to cover her body even in death.

"We eat the leftovers from the kitchen, the leftovers from what Du Concubine has eaten. When has my young mistress ever suffered such humiliation in the Du family? Yet, here in the Jie family, she lives a life worse than that of pigs and dogs."

Somehow this maid summoned a surge of primal strength, perhaps from being repressed for so long. She used her raspy voice to accuse them of the suffering they’d endured these years while pointing at the dilapidated room and crying, "Look at this house. When it rains, we have to catch the water with a basin, or else the room would flood. And this oil lamp, when the third young lady asked me why we didn’t light it brighter, my mistress didn’t let me explain then, but I will tell you now—it’s because we don’t have oil. Du Concubine controls the distribution in the house, giving us just a small bottle of oil every two months. If we burn the lamp too brightly, how would it last..."

Du Concubine was already scared out of her wits, but she still instinctively defended herself, "No... it wasn’t like that, you did this on purpose, lived so miserably on purpose, just to gain everyone’s sympathy. This courtyard is in ruins—I had sent for people to repair it, but everyone I sent was chased away by you, saying no one is allowed to step half a foot into this courtyard. My husband, I have told you about this before, you knew it, and you said to let it be, didn’t you?"