Chapter 271: Such a Failure in Life! (1/2)

Chapter 271: Such a Failure in Life!

Translator: LonelytreeEditor: Millman97

Mrs. Ye reacted like she was looking at something dirty. She frowned as she ordered Auntie Ding, ”Go get the pot of fire. Don't let her into the house if she doesn't step over the pot 1, such a jinx, this one!”

The eldest daughter-in-law returned home after a long illness and the first thing to greet her was not concern but repugnance.

Xinghe was all the more certain Xia Meng did not have a good life.

Auntie Ding quickly returned with the pot of fire.

The pot was large and inside the pot were sagebrush and paper talismans…

They really treated Xia Meng like some kind of evil spirit.

”Light it up!” Ye Qin ordered excitedly. Auntie Ding gladly obliged and the things inside the pot combusted with a 'whoosh'.

The flames leaped up instantly, almost the height of half a grown man.

”Quick step over it,” Ye Qin demanded like willful child that had been given too much leeway.

Step over it?

Xinghe smirked. The bursting flame aside, the size of the pot alone would give a normal person difficulty to step over it, much less one with a disability like her.

This was a set-up done on purpose to humiliate her.

”Xia Meng, what are you doing standing frozen there? Quick step over it or you're not allowed into this house!” Ye Qi ordered her rudely.

Mrs. Ye also added unkindly, ”What? You want to bring the misfortune into my house?”

”From the way I see it, it is the Ye family that bears the misfortune,” Xinghe's voice rang clearly across the living room, ”If not, would I have attempted suicide inside the house?”

Ye Qin and Mrs. Xi widened their eyes in shock. Xia Meng would not normally say a word no matter how hard they came down on her, but today, she dared to openly defy them…