章 36: 035 has a persecution complex

"Don't worry yourself sick, Dania and Ernia are her granddaughters, would she really harm them? Wife, listen to me, Mother has truly changed from before." Xu Qinglin took Liang's hand, comforting her, "What's in the past is in the past, let's not bring it up again."

"But I'm still uneasy."

"Can you trust me just this once, please?"

After thinking it over, Xu Qinglin told Liang about what Zhang Xiaoying had said by the river that day.

Liang was astonished.

It took a while for her to come to her senses, "Is this true? Qinglin, why do I find this so frightening? Is Mother trying to hoodwink you?"

"Mother doesn't want us to hire a doctor for him because she plans to treat the fourth child herself. If the fourth child's leg gets better, that will prove Mother didn't deceive me. Wife, I know you have suffered these past years, but my mother hasn't had it easy either."

The 'not having it easy' Zhang Xiaoying: "..."