Chapter 439 crisis, is also an opportunity
"You’ve been with the Lian Family for thirty years, right?" Lian Yinsheng asked.
"Forty-one years," Old Madam Chen answered.
"How have we younger generations treated you?" Lian Yinsheng stared into the old lady’s eyes as he asked this, his tone casual as though making small talk, but his eyes flickered with a strong light.
"You treated me like I was half a mother to you," Old Madam Chen honestly replied.
"We’ve been like family for forty-one years, so why did you betray us? I’ve searched my heart and found nothing but kindness for you, but you’ve only seen the good side of the Shi family. Why then would you sing their praises in front of Mom and criticize me?"
"Yinsheng, I didn’t mean to..."
As Shi Lan had said, Old Madam Chen simply didn’t know how to defend herself. The elderly are simple and reasonable, but facing someone like Lian Yinsheng is like a scholar encountering soldiers; their ways of thinking are too different, and Old Madam Chen’s nature is too gentle. Thus, whenever Lian Yinsheng became assertive, she didn’t know how to counter.
"I’ve already heard you, are you still going to deny it?"
The old lady closed her eyes, then said, "Yinsheng, I know that your father passed away early, so you had to take over the family. But don’t you think that over the years, you’ve changed a lot? The Lian family has known hardship too. At first, you didn’t have such a noble status, but now you look down on people who are beneath you. Do you see that?"
"Aunt Chen!" Lian Yinsheng rebuked, "Don’t you try to take advantage of your age in front of me. The eldest brother is like the father. Everything I do is for the sake of the Lian family, and it’s not your place to lecture me."