"Aunt, if you want to show off here, there's no need.

I'm now married to the peasant you despise the most. I've lived in the village for over a decade, and my life has nothing to do with yours. I might not even understand the foreign goods you're talking about."

Ye Zhen was choked by her indifference and didn't bother to be polite with her, "Yes, Shu Yu has lived a hard life for several years and has even lost her previous manners.

Look at what you've said since I walked in. How could you say that to an elder? It's because I have a good temper. If it were your father, he would have hit you with a ruler long ago."

Pan Shuyu responded with a forced smile, "If my father were still alive, I'm afraid my aunt would hide as far away as possible and would never dare to come to my house.

Thank you for your concern, otherwise I would have just thought of myself as an orphan with no one to support me at home."

Even Pan Shuhua, who was a bit thick-skinned, could hear the sharp confrontation between the two people and quickly stepped in between to smooth things over.

"Sister, my mom doesn't know how to express herself, so please bear with me. After she heard that I found you, she was so happy all night. Didn't you just have surgery? Go back and rest, don't be exposed to the wind outside."

She turned her head again and said, "Mom, it's only natural for Shu Yu to blame us. Put yourself in her shoes. If you were in her shoes, how would you feel? It's good that she didn't kick us out. Please stop talking."

Ye Zhen didn't take it seriously. It was a joke. She had never suffered any loss in her life.

How could he be like Pan Shuyu and his brothers, stupid and weak.

I was drooling in my sleep even though my house was emptied, and I only realized it in the morning when I had no food to eat.

But she wanted to give her son face and took the initiative to call a truce, "Okay, let's go inside and talk."

Pan Shuyu invited them into the main room, turned around and picked up the iron thermos to pour tea.

Ye Zhen sat upright and glanced at the decoration of the room. She was surprised to find that it was quite trendy and stylish, not inferior to the decoration of the small Western-style house she had seen when she visited friends.

The coffee table is covered with a white plastic tablecloth with hidden patterns, and the cups used to serve tea are a set of plain underglaze colored cups.

Although the floor is not made of tiles or mahogany, it is smoothed with cement and is swept spotlessly clean, which shows that the person who lives there has style.

"This is your sister-in-law's home, right? Tsk tsk, she's well decorated. You really can't tell she's from the countryside."

"I'm from the countryside too, so why do your friends look down on you?"

Pan Shuyu placed the water in front of her and took out some tea leaves from the cabinet next to her.

Tea is a rare commodity nowadays and is classified as a second-class national commodity. Most of it is exported or supplied to senior officials.

The only tea you can buy on the market is high foam, also known as high broken tea, which is actually the tea leaves sifted out when the tea shop is sifting tea.

The appearance is not good, but the taste is not much different. Each family has about three taels of tea leaves supplied per year.

The complete Maojian tea that Pan Shuyu took out has a fragrance that can be smelled from a distance, so it is not cheap.

This was brought back from Shanghai by He Ruixue and placed under the chest of drawers in the living room, specifically for entertaining guests.

Of course, in Zhao Meiya's eyes, only distinguished guests are worthy of drinking it, and pouring a cup of brown sugar water to an acquaintance is the greatest respect.

Pan Shuyu brought out tea to entertain guests today, perhaps with the intention of showing off.

There was indeed some surprise in Ye Zhen's eyes, but she didn't show it.

Pan Shuhua, who was sitting next to her, was more honest. He couldn't wait to reach out his hand, picked up the teacup and sniffed it carefully, sighing, "This is the tea from before the Qingming Festival. I haven't had it for a long time. Your sister-in-law will definitely drink it. I'll give her a set of tea sets someday."

"How can she drink tea? This is for guests."

He Ruixue prefers sweet drinks to tea, especially soda, and she brought back a box of it last time.

"Other places use Pu'er tea when entertaining guests, which can be brewed many times. She can bring out Longjing tea, which shows that we are still honored guests."

Ye Zhen suddenly asked, "Your sister-in-law lives alone in such a big yard. She must have spent a lot of money on it. It's not easy for you to earn money in the countryside, but she's still extravagant and only wants to buy a few rooms to live in. She has no consideration for my parents at all."

"Don't worry, auntie. Dongbao did borrow money back then, but the bulk of it was paid by my second sister, and she's already paid it back last time."

"Has it been paid off?"

Ye Zhen's face was filled with disbelief. "She just started working. How much can she earn a month? If she saves for a year without eating or drinking, can she buy three houses?"

"Mom, I haven't told you yet, Sister Shu Yu's sister-in-law is very capable. She joined the second department store in the city right after graduating from high school.

"She's been promoted several times in just one year. She's a legitimate cadre, earning forty or fifty a month. You think she's so capable, can't she buy a bigger yard?"

Ye Zhen turned his head in surprise and asked, "You didn't help Shu Yu coax me, did you? Is her sister-in-law really that powerful?"

She has been in the city for a long time and is familiar with the operating rules of various factories and units, so she can be considered a half-insider.

The villagers didn’t understand much and were more concerned about He Ruixue’s salary, and then exclaimed in admiration, “It’s amazing.”

But Ye Zhen clearly understood how difficult it was for He Ruixue to achieve her current success.

Merit, ability, reputation, and appreciation from superiors are all indispensable, otherwise the promotion would never have been so smooth.

After all, she is too young and it is easy for people to have the impression that she is unreliable.

Pan Shuhua nodded vigorously. "Of course not, Mom. You know Jiang Ying's nephew. He was a classmate of He Ruixue. He was always chasing after her back then, and he was so attentive... but she didn't even like him."

"It's her."

Ye Zhen's face looked a little strange.

Marrying into the Jiang family would be considered marrying up for their family. If it weren't for Pan Shuhua's leader's help in the introduction and her always being open-minded and kind, the Jiang family might not have agreed to let Jiang Ying marry down.

Since her son needed help from the Jiang family, she treated Jiang Ying with all her heart and took great care of her.

Even after they got married and didn't have children for several years, no one ever urged them to have children, and they didn't complain at all when they had a daughter.

She only cares about interests and does not consider personal relationships.

If a daughter-in-law is useful to the family, she can be the best mother-in-law in the world.

If the daughter-in-law is useless to the family, I'm sorry, even if people treat her as their own mother and respect her, she can still find fault with her.

So even Jiang Ying was someone she wanted to please, not to mention Jiang Mengheng, the only son of the Jiang family for three generations.

Every time she went to the Jiang family for dinner, she would hide her feelings carefully, act as a qualified foil, and flatter him with words.

Jiang Mengheng used to have a very bad temper, but he became more restrained after entering high school. At home, he would mention his female classmate named He in his conversations, and he was very happy.

If she finds a dish she likes, she asks her family to make another one and pack it in a lunch box for her tomorrow;

Someone made a big cake for her birthday, and he was thinking of her, so he asked someone to cut a whole piece with lots of flowers on it in advance and brought it to her, fearing that she wouldn't have enough to eat.

Ye Zhen felt that the posture was even more humble than when Pan Shuhua pursued Jiang Ying.

But given the disparity in status between their two families, it's normal for Jiang Ying to be a little spoiled and willful, and it's understandable for Shu Hua to give in a little.

But what was Jiang Mengheng trying to achieve?