Silly Bride

Chapter 326

in her tracks when she heard her grandmother’s words. A few seconds later, she placed her spoon down and began, “Granny, someone told me a story today. There was once a pitiful young lady who had been manipulated by her greedy parents who made her give birth to a rich man’s child. When the child was born, the lady’s parents sold the child in exchange for money and made the lady marry an abusive man. The lady lived a terrible life, but she soon remarried. She had an adoptive daughter and granddaughter. However, unfortunately, her adoptive daughter met a horrible man and was killed. Left with no other choice, the lady could only live with her granddaughter. As days passed, their lives slowly got better. Yet one day, everything changed. The lady found her biological son and grandchild. However, her biological son and grandchild were not treated fairly in a wealthy family, so she did some bad things. She seemed to harbor some hatred for that rich man, and she hated everyone in that man’s family. So, she burned down the rich man’s house and let her biological grandchild, who had committed a crime, get away scot-free. Granny, I heard this story from someone else. Do you think that the lady had made the right choice?”When Winnie was talking, she observed Jacinta’s expression.Initially, she assumed that Jacinta would express shock or even get angry.However, the older woman was merely briefly stupefied before her expression turned frigid.“Winnie, where did you hear this story from? It’s all over the place. Furthermore, this is someone else’s problem. We don’t know what she has experienced, so how can we possibly judge if she has made the right choice or not?”Winnie stared at Jacinta and said, “We can’t? Is it right to set a house on fire? Is it right to help an evil man get away scot-free?”Jacinta was rendered speechless by Winnie’s questions. She stared at Winnie with mixed feelings for a long while before saying annoyedly, “It’s wrong. It’s all wrong. What’s wrong with you today? Why are you behaving like this just because of a story? Are you still going to eat? If not, I’ll go and do the dishes. Oh, forget it, you should stop eating. The food has gone cold. You’ll get a stomach ache.”Jacinta then grabbed the plate and utensils Winnie was using before heading to the kitchen.Turning the tap on to the maximum, she allowed the loud noise of running water to fill the entire house. It was as if she was trying to isolate herself from the rest of the world.Winnie was upset as well, thinking that the tentative questions she had asked ended up making the atmosphere tense.Wanting to get some fresh air, she walked out to the balcony.The lights on the balcony were switched on. As she stood by the window, she noticed a scratch mark on the window sill.Since she had never seen that mark before, she found it peculiar.This mark could only be caused by a heavy object. Who would place a heavy object on the windowsill?For some reason, she was suddenly reminded of the day when Xavier had almost been hit by a falling flowerpot that came out of nowhere.As she thought about it, her heart sank.She examined the mark and found some traces of soil in a corner.There aren’t any flowers. Why would there be soil?After standing on the balcony for a few minutes in a daze, she rushed into Jacinta’s room and inspected every corner of the room carefully.In the end, she found traces of soil in Jacinta’s