"Those who were deceived are truly stupid, believing this kind of thing. Is their brain filled with excrement?"
Tang Xiaomin, speaking indirectly, verbally thrashed Zhang Meiyu.
However, Zhang Meiyu was still immersed in the immense shock and hadn't recovered.
The immense blow caused her blood pressure to surge, her head to split with pain, and then she clutched her head in agony.
Tang Xiaomin watched Zhang Meiyu become so enraged without changing her expression.
Zhang Meiyu said, "Quick, quickly get me a glass of water."
Tang Xiaomin fetched a glass of ice water and placed it in front of Zhang Meiyu.
"Drink some ice water, it might help you sober up."
Afterward, Tang Xiaomin left, leaving Zhang Meiyu to flounder alone.
She refused to believe that the master she had believed in for years was a fraud, refusing to believe she had been deceived.
Zhang Meiyu even clung to a shred of hope, thinking it was someone slandering the master.
Another day passed, and the temple in Xiangshan was sealed.
All sorts of rumors about the master were circulating everywhere. Even in upper-class circles, previously devout wealthy wives admitted they had been foolish to believe a charlatan.
They had lost so much money and now sought to claim compensation.
Zhang Meiyu fell ill and was admitted to the hospital.
Aunt Xue followed to take care of her, saying by her side, "Madam, it seems someone has harmed that master's reputation, but what he said was true."
"He said before that Tang Xiaomin was the cause of your poor health, and now, just a few days later, you're in the hospital. Alas..."
Now, no one believed the master's words anymore. He was nothing more than a complete con artist, and he had been taken to the police station.
Even with all this, Aunt Xue still believed the master's words and continued to manipulate Zhang Meiyu.
She wasn't an idiot; when it was time to be clear-headed, she wouldn't deceive herself anymore.
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Zhang Meiyu believed nothing of what Aunt Xue said now.
"You can go back. Just let Yiyi come to take care of me."
"Yes, Madam."
Aunt Xue felt that Zhang Meiyu had been very distant from her lately. She couldn't say anything more, so she left the hospital.
When Aunt Xue returned to the Tang residence, she instructed the chef to prepare a few dishes and packed them into a thermos herself.
"Miss Yiyi, Madam is in the hospital. Please take her dinner."
Tang Xiaomin looked at the dishes in the thermos without saying a word.
Tang Yiyi was very understanding. She took the thermos and had the driver take her to the hospital.
Not long after, Tang Xiaomin also followed.
In the luxurious hospital room, Tang Yiyi arranged the dinner she brought on the dining table and kindly helped Zhang Meiyu to sit down.
"Mom, let me feed you some soup."
Zhang Meiyu looked at the considerate Tang Yiyi and felt a great sense of relief.
After dinner, seeing that it was getting late and Tang Yiyi had school the next day, Zhang Meiyu let her go home.
After Tang Yiyi left, Zhang Meiyu was about to rest when Tang Xiaomin walked in.
When Zhang Meiyu saw her, she felt an indescribable emotion.
She had wrongly believed the master's words, firmly convinced that Tang Xiaomin was a jinx, abandoned at birth.
With the truth laid bare, and having done what she did, Zhang Meiyu couldn't help but feel guilty towards Tang Xiaomin.
She averted her gaze, unable to look at Tang Xiaomin's cold eyes, even fearing them.
Those eyes held a deep resentment, as if constantly reminding her that she had abandoned Tang Xiaomin.
Her conscience ached uncontrollably.
"You... why did you come."
Zhang Meiyu's voice lost its former confidence.
She sounded like someone who had done wrong, speaking timidly.
Tang Xiaomin sat down on Zhang Meiyu's hospital bed, looking very relaxed.
"Let me guess what you had for dinner tonight."
"You ate squid, pork liver, and salted duck, didn't you?"
Zhang Meiyu was somewhat bewildered as to why Tang Xiaomin was discussing dinner with her.
"Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"
Tang Xiaomin smiled and said, "I just wanted to tell you that you have high blood pressure, yet you eat these foods that will trigger your condition every day."
"Since I stopped cooking, the Tang family's dining table has been filled with high-cholesterol foods every day."
"The cooking wine the chef uses isn't cooking wine, but white wine."
"In other words, what you eat every day is slowly worsening your high blood pressure."
Zhang Meiyu recalled and realized the problem at this moment.
She looked at Tang Xiaomin with surprise, "How did you notice these things?"
Tang Xiaomin had put a lot of effort into cooking to please the family.
She knew clearly who liked what and who couldn't eat what.
"Now you should know why you're in the hospital."
Tang Xiaomin said what she needed to say and left without looking back.
Zhang Meiyu was alone in the hospital room, thinking a lot.
About many things she had always overlooked, and about recent events.
After Tang Xiaomin stopped cooking, Aunt Xue arranged what the family ate every day, and the chef simply followed instructions.
If it were a coincidence, then the food she had been eating lately was indeed high in cholesterol; it couldn't be a coincidence.
The only explanation was that Aunt Xue had arranged it deliberately.
But why would she harm her like this?
Zhang Meiyu's mind was in a mess.
She thought and thought.
She was over fifty years old and didn't want her family to be torn apart because of Aunt Xue.
After much deliberation, Zhang Meiyu decided to find an excuse to expel Aunt Xue from the Tang family.
Zhang Meiyu stayed in the hospital for three days and then returned home.
As soon as she was discharged, the family was naturally overjoyed and prepared a grand feast to celebrate her recovery.
Zhang Meiyu looked at the hairy crabs placed before her and heavily put down her chopsticks.
"Aunt Xue, how could you be so careless!"
"As the housekeeper of the Tang family, don't you know I have high blood pressure and cannot eat crab!"
Zhang Meiyu's sudden outburst of anger truly startled the whole family.
Aunt Xue lowered her head and apologized meekly.
"Madam, I apologize. These hairy crabs are Miss Yiyi's and the master's favorites. I won't let the chef make them next time."
Zhang Meiyu recalled the high-cholesterol foods she had been eating every day and her face turned green with anger.
"Aunt Xue, as the housekeeper of the Tang family, you are extremely unprofessional. You made the chef cook high-cholesterol dishes for me every day, causing me to be hospitalized. What are your intentions!"
As soon as she said this, Aunt Xue fell to her knees and kept apologizing.
"Madam, it was my negligence, but I truly didn't know, Madam..."
With a single "I didn't know," she absolved herself completely.
Zhang Meiyu would not let her off so easily.
"As the housekeeper, your job is to take care of the health of everyone in the family. Since you are so unprofessional, what use are you? Pack your things and leave now. The Tang family will not keep someone as incompetent as you."