Lijia Village —

Li Zhiyuan and his wife were eating, with a large bowl of stewed pork bones and boiled eggs on the table.

These meat and eggs weren't bought with money; they were gifts from the villagers after Li Zhiyuan passed the imperial examination and became a scholar.

The mother and son were enjoying their meal.

"Uncle Zhiyuan! Uncle Zhiyuan!" A little boy of seven or eight years old ran in. "Aunt Ye is back, and she brought her family from Qinghe Village with her."

Granny Li slammed her chopsticks down on the table: "Hmph, I knew she was unhappy. Who wouldn't want to be a scholar's wife! Gouwa, go and inform the village head."

"I already called."

"Gouwa is so smart. When your Uncle Zhiyuan becomes a high-ranking official in the capital, he will definitely take you with him. Quick, get my walking stick."

Granny Li broke her leg solidly.

Originally, she planned to drug Ye Caiping and then lure the village thugs over to sleep with Ye Caiping.

At that time, we can easily crush Ye Caiping and drag her to be drowned in a pig cage. The Ye family won't even be able to jump up and down.

Little did she expect that just as she was about to pick up the soup with the medicine, Ye Caiping, busy going out to show off to her relatives that she was a scholar's wife, knocked the soup over.

That pot of soup cost forty coins for the chicken and two hundred coins for the medicine!

Old Lady Li was heartbroken!

It just so happened that she broke her leg that afternoon. When Ye Caiping came to help her, she had a sudden idea. She grabbed Ye Caiping and said that the other party had beaten her mother-in-law. Finally, she found a reason to divorce Ye Caiping.

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The Ye family had arrived at the Li family's door.

Ye Caiping got off the oxcart and looked up at the Li family's large brick and tile house, which stood out like a crane among chickens in a village where almost all the houses were made of adobe.

She curled her lips in a mocking smile.

This house was built after the original owner married into the family, using money she had extorted from her family.

Granny Li and Li Zhiyuan have come out.

Granny Li was short with a round face, but she wasn't kind at all. She was leaning on a cane at the moment.

Li Zhiyuan, dressed in a gray-white long gown, was still handsome and refined despite being over thirty years old. Standing among the villagers, all dressed in gray, he stood out even more.

No wonder the original owner was so infatuated with him.

"Li Zhiyuan, you heartless bastard!"

When Grandma Ye saw Li Zhiyuan, she was so angry that tears streamed down her face.

Yesterday, when he was arguing about divorcing his wife, Old Mrs. Ye happened to be visiting relatives. This was the first time Old Mrs. Ye had seen Li Zhiyuan since then, and she was so angry that she kept cursing him:

"We emptied our savings to support your education. My grandson even had to drop out of school. All the money we saved went to you, and yet you, a mere scholar, divorced my daughter? Li Zhiyuan, you're worse than an animal!"

Granny Li stepped forward, leaning on her cane: "Damn the Ye family, don't try to frame me. I haven't settled accounts with you yet!"

"The daughter you raised is lazy and greedy, and all she thinks about is how to squander our Li family's money! If we don't give her money, she goes back to her parents' house and steals from them, all under the guise of supporting my son's education!"

"It's your daughter who emptied your coffers! It's your daughter who spent all your money! The whole village knows this!"

"Everyone, come and judge for yourselves, has my Zhiyuan's education cost the Ye family a single penny?"

Granny Li talked and called out as she went.

The courtyard was already surrounded by people from Lijia Village, all talking at once: "Who doesn't know that Ye went back to her parents' home to get money because she's greedy?"

"That's what she said herself, we didn't wrong her."

Grandma Ye was so angry that her face turned white. Ye Caiping was speechless at the original owner's stupidity once again.

When the original owner went back to her parents' home to ask for money and food, she was afraid that Li Zhiyuan would get a reputation for being a freeloader. So she didn't hesitate to smear herself and tell others that her parents loved her and that the money was for her to buy food.

Therefore, the original owner earned a bad reputation for being cunning, lazy, greedy, and sly, who ate her husband's family into poverty and emptied her own family's coffers.

The original owner was even smug, thinking it was all for Li Zhiyuan, and that it was worth it!

Now karma has come back to bite them. The villagers all have their reasons and evidence to accuse the original owner of squandering his wealth and being greedy. The Ye family was left speechless and unable to fight back.

Ye Caiping stepped forward and pulled Old Lady Ye behind her: "Stop arguing. I didn't come here today to quarrel. I came to take Zhaodi and the others away!"

"What did you say?" Granny Li thought she had misheard.

She thought Ye Caiping had brought her family back because she wanted to go back to the Li family!

Not only her, but the people of Lijia Village thought so too. Who would have thought that she would come back to ask for those two girls?

Granny Li laughed angrily: "You wish! These two good-for-nothings are still blood relatives of the Li family!"

With those two money-losing girls gone, who's going to do the housework?

Besides, those two good-for-nothings are thirteen and eleven years old respectively, and they can get married in another year or two.

Then we can find some women who are hard to marry, or send them directly to the wealthy man's house in the county to be his concubines. One of them can be exchanged for twenty or thirty taels of silver!

Ye Caiping wasn't asking her for money; she was practically robbing her!

"Mother!" At this moment, two girls ran out of the house.

It was Ye Caiping's daughters, Li Zhaodi and Li Laidi. The two girls were as thin as monkeys, but their faces resembled Ye Caiping's, with delicate features.

"You two good-for-nothings, get back here!" Granny Li glared at them, then turned to Ye Caiping and said, "This is our Li family's child. You, a divorced woman, actually come here to ask for the child? That's laughable."

The villagers of Lijia Village also started cursing all at once. Village head Li arrived, and said aggressively:

"Absurd! Absurd! We've already been merciful by letting you leave unharmed, a wicked woman who beats her mother-in-law. And you still dare to dream of taking your husband's children with you! Even if you take this to the authorities, there's no such rule."

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