Everyone grew furious as they listened to Liu Cuiying's account. Someone said:
"It wasn't that Liu Cuiying did anything wrong. Her mother-in-law was deliberately finding fault!"
"Exactly! Going to the merchants to question them was humiliating enough.
Who would have thought Liu Cuiying was being tormented like this on top of that?
That mother-in-law isn't even human!"
"The Zhang family is utterly vile!"
"There really isn't a single decent person in the Zhang family!"
"This whole family is disgusting!"
Liu Cuiying wiped her tears and continued:
"I knew my mother-in-law disliked me and was deliberately tormenting me!
A while ago, there were too many leftovers to finish right away, and with the hot weather, they started to spoil. I wanted to throw them away, but my mother-in-law scolded me for not knowing how to manage a household. She said no matter how wealthy the family was, I would squander it all.
She forced me to eat that spoiled food.
That night, I started vomiting and having diarrhea. I spent the entire night running to the privy and only felt a little better the next day.
My mother-in-law still made me get up and cook for them.
I was dizzy and dazed, but I didn't dare defy her, so I got up and prepared the food.
Once I finished cooking, I went straight back to my room to sleep without eating.
Because I was unwell, when my little brother-in-law cried, I didn't manage to get up in time to soothe him.
My mother-in-law slapped me hard twice, knocking me straight to the floor.
I felt so wronged!
When my husband returned that evening, I tearfully told him what had happened. He impatiently said it was my fault for not taking good care of Xiao Ze, and if his mother scolded