What displeased Song Yaoyao most was that Jiang Yunxin's ability to commit such a capital offense was inseparable from Madam Li's indulgence.
Madam Li was the first to ask:
"What happened here?"
Before Li Fengyang could answer, Madam Li looked at Jiang Yunxin kneeling on the floor and immediately said:
"Feng'er, have you been bullying Xinxin again?
Youran, hurry and help your mother up."
Li Fengyang immediately snapped:
"Don't help her up.
Mother, do you know what she's done?"
"Whatever she's done, you can't make her kneel.
Can't you talk things through properly?"
"Mother, Jiang Yunxin has committed a crime punishable by beheading!"
"How could that be? What exactly happened? Tell me everything from the beginning."
"Yes..."
Li Fengyang repeated everything Song Yaoyao had told him to Madam Li.
Madam Li stared at Jiang Yunxin in disbelief:
"Xinxin, did you really do those things?"
Jiang Yunxin raised her head and looked at Madam Li with tear-filled eyes:
"Mother, I was only thinking of this family.
My husband's monthly salary simply isn't enough to cover the entire household's expenses. I..."
Song Yaoyao raised her eyebrows, marveling at just how favored Concubine Jiang was in this household.
A mere concubine could actually address Madam Li directly as Mother. A woman of her status had no right to address her mother-in-law that way.
Only the principal wife could call her mother-in-law Mother.
Judging by the Li family's reactions, Jiang Yunxin apparently addressed her this way regularly, and everyone was already accustomed to it.
Li Fengyang frowned and said:
"As I recall, doesn't the household still have several shops?
Isn't the money those shops earn enough to cover the household's expenses?"
"You said long ago that those shops were left behind by your wife and belonged to the young master. No one else was