The Abandoned Wife of a Military Family: Your disguise has been exposed again.

Chapter 49 What a big face!
After speaking, Madam Li's face unconsciously showed a hint of arrogance.

In her view, Yunwei must be overjoyed.

After all, no woman doesn't want to live a good life with her husband.

Furthermore, she promised that Yaoting would not be allowed to set foot in Chen Yuniang's house again. Yunwei would surely be moved by her support.

However, after waiting for a long time, she did not see the joy and emotion she had imagined on Yunwei's face. Instead, she saw Yunwei's face full of contempt and disgust.

Madam Li's expression stiffened for a moment, and she frowned as she asked, "You... are you still not satisfied?"

Yunwei was so angry she laughed.

Does this old hag think her son is some kind of hot commodity that everyone wants?

What a big face!

However, the old woman's attitude changed drastically today. Perhaps she felt there was no hope for the Chen family, but didn't want to lose the Pingning Marquis's mansion?

They were truly blinded by greed!
For profit, they'll do anything!
Thinking it over, she feigned displeasure and said, "Just not stepping into her room?"

Madam Li's expression darkened. She had already taken a big step back, yet this Yun was still pushing her luck. But in order to mend their relationship, she could only hold back for the time being. So, she asked, puzzled, "Then what else do you want?"

"What do I want? Naturally, I want to kick Chen Yuniang out," Yun Wei said, enunciating each word clearly.

Madam Li frowned, "This...this is impossible..."

“Then we have nothing to talk about. Anyway, in your Li family, it’s either her or me.” Yun Wei recalled what Chen Yuniang had said earlier, and said slowly with a slight smile.

Madam Li's expression darkened.

The Yun family really knows how to push their luck.

Yunwei glanced at the flowering tree not far away, and seeing the branches and leaves trembling, her smile widened. "Please think it over carefully, Madam." With that, she turned and left.

Madam Li frowned, clearly displeased, but inwardly she couldn't help but consider the possibility of kicking Chen Yuniang out.

After all, compared to the Marquis of Pingning's mansion, the Chen family, with no hope of recovery, is nothing.

Aside from giving birth to a son for the Li family, Chen Yuniang was of little use; she couldn't help the Li family in any other way.

But Yunwei is different.

She not only has a respectable family background, but she is also quite capable of managing a household.

Most importantly, ever since Chen Yuniang entered the family, the house has been in chaos, and her food, clothing, and daily necessities have not been as good as before.

Thinking of this, Madam Li made up her mind and said, "Someone, go and invite Aunt Chen!"

Behind the flowering tree, Chen Yuniang clenched her handkerchief tightly with a gloomy expression.

The Li family is already so poor and destitute, yet the old hag is still so cunning.

Want to kick her out? No way!
She won't let the Yun family have their way.

Chen Yuniang sneered as she left the Li residence.

……

In his dazed state, Li Yanting felt someone sitting beside his bed.

He initially thought it was the Shen family, but soon he remembered that something had happened at the Shen family's residence, and the Shen family had gone back and couldn't possibly be back so soon.

If it's not the Shen family, then who could it be?
"you're awake?"

Just then, a woman's voice slowly rang out.

Upon hearing the voice, Li Yanting suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the person who had entered.

"Sister-in-law?" Upon seeing the person who came in, Li Yanting stammered, thinking he was seeing things. He rubbed his eyes hard, but when he looked again, the person by the bed was still there. Now, he was a little panicked. "You, what are you doing here?"

The person who came was Yun Wei. She didn't answer, but asked gently, "How do you feel in your leg now?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yanting realized that the blanket covering him had been pulled off, his trouser legs had been rolled up, and his two thin, ugly legs were exposed.

Seeing this, he hurriedly got up and tried to cover his legs with the blanket.

Yunwei let him do as he pleased, without stopping him, waiting for his answer. "Ever since I stopped taking the medication, my leg has been aching, often... unbearably so," Li Yanting said sadly, having calmed down.

Yunwei glanced at him and said, "The fact that you feel pain means that your leg can be treated and there is hope that you can stand up again."

Upon hearing this, Li Yanting's face lit up with joy, but he immediately shook his head in frustration. "It's impossible. My legs have been paralyzed for so many years. If it weren't for the doctor from Qianjin Pavilion who treated me and gave me medicine three years ago, I wouldn't be alive today."

"So you think these three years of medication were wasted?" Yun Wei said calmly.

Li Yanting was taken aback and looked at her uncertainly. "Three years ago, the doctor from Qianjin Pavilion suddenly came to my door to treat me for free. It wasn't because the doctor took pity on me, but because you helped find him?"

Yunwei neither admitted nor denied it, only saying, "Your leg has been paralyzed for many years and has long lost sensation. Only through continuous stimulation with medication can you hope to regain sensation."

We stopped your medication a while ago to see if your legs could regain sensation. Now it seems that the medication we took over the past three years wasn't a waste of time.

Now that you have regained feeling in your legs, we can begin acupuncture today.

As she spoke, she took out silver needles from her needle pouch.

Li Yanting stared wide-eyed at her practiced movements.

My sister-in-law actually knows medicine?
"It will hurt a lot when the acupuncture is performed later, please bear with it," Yunwei reminded her.

Li Yanting suppressed his doubts, pursed his lips, and nodded, "I can endure it."

During this period, he suffered from leg pain every day.

He believed that no pain could compare to that.

Upon hearing this, Yun Wei paused for a moment, then asked, "Aren't you afraid?"

At first, Li Yanting thought she was asking if he wasn't afraid of pain, but when he met her cool gaze, he realized she was asking about something else.

"Of all the people in the Li family, only my sister-in-law has been good to me. Tingyan understands this in his heart and believes that she would never harm me," Li Yanting said with a smile, though his smile was somewhat sorrowful.

From childhood to adulthood, he was never favored, and no matter how hard he tried, he could never match his older brother's status in their parents' eyes.

Later, after he accidentally fell off his horse and broke his leg, he was even less favored. When his mother learned that he would never be able to stand up again, she simply abandoned him and left him to fend for himself in the yard.

Before his sister-in-law married into the Li family, his world was bleak. It wasn't until his sister-in-law sent people to take care of him and inquired about her situation that a sliver of warmth appeared in his gloomy heart.

Later, his sister-in-law took it upon herself to arrange for him to marry a woman surnamed Shen.

Although Shen was vain and sometimes snobbish, she was quite devoted to taking care of him.

Yunwei didn't ask any more questions and began to apply acupuncture to his leg.

Li Yanting was prepared to endure the pain, but when the silver needles pierced his legs, he only felt a slight pain.

He looked at Yun Wei in surprise, his lips parted as if he wanted to ask, but he was too embarrassed to.

Yunwei immediately saw his confusion and said calmly, "The real pain is yet to come."

Li Yanting didn't understand what she meant until A Zheng brought over several buckets of boiled medicine and poured them into the bathtub.

"Ah Zheng, let him soak for half an hour," Yun Wei instructed as she removed the silver needles from his leg.

"Yes," Ah Zheng replied.

After Yunwei left the house, Azheng carried Li Yanting into the bathtub.

Before Li Yanting could ask any more questions, a sharp, excruciating pain shot through his legs, almost knocking him out.

"It hurts..."

He was in so much pain that he was covered in sweat and unconsciously let out a sound. When he realized it, his face turned red and he bit his lip hard.

"After you get through this pain, everything will be alright, Second Master," Ah Zheng reassured him.

Upon hearing this, Li Yanting's spirits lifted, and the pain in his leg seemed to lessen.

Ah Zheng smiled and wanted to tell him that this medicinal bath required three sessions in total, but he didn't say it in the end, because the pain involved was really unbearable.

As soon as Yunwei reached the gate of Yilan Courtyard, she was stopped by Zhang Mama, who rushed over in a hurry. "Madam, the old lady requests your presence at Qiutong Courtyard."