Without saying anything, the grandmother sat straight down on the floor and wailed:
-You’re my granddaughter, how can you say that and not treat us like family, I’m so miserable…..
Her grandmother did this startled Albina. When she reacted, she laughed in her heart, this old woman was really so shameless.
Looking at the passersby slowly gathering around her, the grandmother cried even more, and even stood up, pulling the hand of an old woman who was gathered around, saying towards her.
Every word was a lie, saying it was Albina’s fault. The people gathered around her also began to think that it was Albina who had acted badly.
Albina respected the elders, but being reprimanded and pointed at by unfamiliar people like this, she was also a bit angry.
-This old woman is always talking nonsense, do you believe everything she says? -Albina said to the others.
-My father was her youngest son, but she didn’t like him. My father was kicked out of the family just after he came of age and didn’t take any of the family property. After he married my mother and had me, my grandmother did not come to our house once in many years. Whenever we visited her, she would take the gifts but would not let us in.
But when her father had the accident, they were the first to arrive. At first, both her mother and Albina thought they finally cared about her father.
But it turned out that they had thought wrong. They came just for the inheritance, the house and all kinds of property.
Their mother is too gentle to fight them. They were not even allowed to enter the house. It was so snowed in that they didn’t even have a few clothes left, their grandmother wanted to let them both freeze to death outside.
From that day on, in Albina’s heart, there was no longer any half-hearted affection for them.
After she married Umberto, she learned that her house had been taken over by her uncle. She wanted the house back, but she was afraid of causing Umberto trouble, so she never bothered to do so.
But now that they were here, he could take care of the matter.
After Albina told the whole story, the group of onlookers looked at the old woman with a different look from before, full of contempt. How dare they do this.
-And it’s not over yet, after my mother and I moved out, but they came to my mother and bullied her, and my mother died in the hospital from a brain hemorrhage.
-You killed my mother.
Albina looked at them with great anger.
The others were shocked:
-Then you are murderers and should be imprisoned!
When the uncle heard this, he looked at the old woman, blaming her actions for the current situation.
Although the old woman did not notice her son’s look, she knew that the situation was not in her favor now and shooed away all those people who had gathered around her.
Then she said to Albina in a voice full of cruelty:
-Now that you have sullied our reputation, are you satisfied?
-I’m just telling the truth, as far as reputation is concerned, do you care about that? -Albina snorted coldly.
-Albina, watch your mouth,” Alex shouted fiercely as if he was about to come up and hit her.
-Do you want to hit me? If you do, I’ll call the police. You are all responsible for my mother’s death! -Albina looked at him slightly.
Alex gritted his teeth but didn’t dare make a move, being accused of murder, he would have no way out in his life.
-I’ve been too busy these days, and now that I’m free we should talk about it.
-What do you want to do? -his uncle became nervous and asked.
-I just want my father’s house and those possessions back, it’s what I deserve.
How could she and her parents’ house fall into the hands of these wolves.
-No way! -Grandmother was the first to say no, with an ugly expression.
The family was not very rich, her eldest uncle was only a small civil servant, and with not very high income.
But his cousin Alex was the prodigal son, so they didn’t have a very good life.
But his father was very capable and had set up a small company. It was not great wealth, but it was well clothed and well fed. When her father died, his company was sold by her uncle and her whole family moved into Albina’s former home treating her father’s property and house as their own.
-It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree. It’s been four years since my dad died, if you don’t agree to settle this privately, I’ll go straight to court,” Albina said indifferently.
Grandma felt a little scared, she didn’t know why her granddaughter had become so domineering. But the house and possessions were her life to her and there was no way she would give them up so easily.
-He is also my son and that’s why I have a share of the property.
-You’re right,” Albina nodded.
Grandmother thought she was going to give up the fight for the property, but Albina went on to say:
-One part is yours and the rest is my mother’s, but I don’t get a penny, and this lawsuit still has to go on.
Her grandmother was about to speak when the uncle suddenly stopped her:
-Now is not good for us, let’s go first.
When he said this, the old woman did not bother her any more and the four of them prepared to leave.
-Wait! -Albina looked at the four of them and asked seriously. I would like to ask why you are suddenly approaching me after many years of no contact, it’s not just to see me, is it?