Chapter 128 Apology
Chapter 128 Apology
After a while, it was Granny Long who said, "Child, Granny didn’t receive much education and has limited vision. I was threatened by a villain and did something to wrong you. Please be magnanimous and forgive me."
Mengyu was actually quite surprised. Was this an apology? And it was sincere, too.
Jiang Xiuying quickly followed: "Yes, yes, Xiao Jiang, I wronged you. Before, they threatened me, saying if I didn’t help them, I wouldn’t be able to see my son, so... sorry."
"Yes, yes, sorry Xiao Jiang!"
"Sorry Xiao Jiang, I am too incompetent, succumbed to evil forces, and did something to wrong you. Please forgive me."
"Xiao Jiang..."
Seeing these apologetic neighbors, Mengyu suddenly felt that these people weren’t all that bad.
They were only coerced under the tyranny of Ma Dana and the shrew-like entanglements of Ma Dapan, trying to persuade her to give up the courtyard to Ma Dapan.
In the end, Mengyu forgave these neighbors. She even bought some groceries and invited them for a meal, accepting the gifts the neighbors had brought as well.
But having accepted their gifts, she took it further by passing house A’s gift to house B, house B’s gift to house C, house C’s gift to house D, and then house D’s gift back to house A. It all ended happily.
While they were eating, Cheng Jiuhe drove over.
Mengyu hurriedly greeted him, "Brother, you’re here. Come in and join us for a bit. Oh, these are the neighbors, they came to help me clean the pot."
Cheng Jiuhe felt puzzled, as just yesterday his sister was still unhappy about these neighbors, so how come they were here helping today?
However, upon hearing Mengyu say she intended to apply for the Chinese Medicine College next year, since it’s close by and she might stay here, he thought about how to intimidate these neighbors but now they’ve already taken the initiative, saving him the trouble.
When the neighbors saw Cheng Jiuhe, they were already drumming up courage in their hearts: the aura of this man was just too intimidating, wasn’t it?
Had they known that the new neighbor had such a brother, even with several doses of courage, they wouldn’t dare persuade Mengyu under the pressure of siblings Ma Dana and Ma Dapan to give up her house, nor morally blackmail her!
Accompanying Cheng Jiuhe was Xiao He, who was in high spirits—his brother had awakened and was looking better.
Upon seeing Mengyu, Xiao He knelt down impulsively: "I, on behalf of myself and my brother, thank the Sister Jiang for saving our lives!"
Mengyu was startled and hurriedly stepped aside, "Xiao He, you don’t need to be so formal, I can’t accept it. You might even be older than me."
"I can accept it, I can. Brother Cheng told me, yesterday, to save my brother and me, you almost lost your life due to backlash. My brother said, from now on, our lives belong to Sister Jiang."
Cheng Jiuhe watched the scene unfold.
Mengyu looked at Cheng Jiuhe: "Brother, you told them?"
Cheng Jiuhe nodded faintly: "You spent three Yuan Nourishing Pills and almost lost your life to save them, it can’t be kept secret."
Mengyu felt somewhat embarrassed: "It’s just my lack of skill."
Cheng Jiuhe snorted: "It was being overconfident!"
The neighbors listened to the conversation between these few, puzzled.
Cheng Jiuhe raised his glass to the neighbors: "Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. As a brother in the army, I can’t often accompany my sister here, so I hope you will continue to look after my younger sister!"
Ma Dana might be formidable, but still a bandit, daring to oppose a soldier.
The neighbors were quite terrified, fortunately, they had come to apologize today.