Chapter 63 The feeling of being spoiled by mother-in-law
Ye Xiaomei suddenly raised her head to meet Liang Huihui's gaze, and found that she looked very serious and was not joking. Ye Xiaomei opened her mouth and finally just said: "Yeah."
Liang Huihui got anxious immediately: "You are stupid, if Ye Xiaolin interferes with you like this, you won't even be able to produce legal proof that you are Ma Qijun's wife."
Ye Xiaomei was shocked. Huihui had never been so cruel to her before. "Then... Uncle, my grandfather's land can only be divided after my parents get the marriage certificate, right?"
Seeing that she changed the subject, Liang Huihui turned away angrily.
Liang Kaifang didn't think much about it. Having been the village party secretary for decades, he had already thought that a wedding banquet was considered a marriage.
Today, the times are progressing. Since the opening of the college entrance examination, there are more and more intellectuals, and some substantive policies are slowly being implemented in major remote towns.
Liang Kaifang tapped his cigarette against his shoe heel a few times and said, "Not bad."
On the way back, Liang Huihui gave her a ride just for the purpose of talking:
"Xiao Mei, I was a little loud just now, but I was also doing it for your own good. Our village is relatively backward. Do you know how many couples in the city have gone to court because of some disputes? There are too many. You are just stupid. I don't understand it either. Ma Qijun is an educated person. Don't you know that he doesn't understand it?"
Ye Xiaomei lowered her head. She was uneducated and had never seen the outside world. She thought that holding a wedding banquet meant they were husband and wife. Even in the entire Ye family, the person with the highest education was Ye Xiaolin, a junior high school graduate.
Ye Xiaomei nodded: "I will tell him about this when I get back."
"I really suspect that Ma Qijun did it on purpose. He is an intellectual. You also gave me a fright." Liang Huihui shook her ponytail and said with a face that was not a face and a nose that was not a nose:
"The college entrance examination was only resumed last year, and I went to my alma mater to fight for a place to repeat my studies. But you got married suddenly at home."
Ye Xiaomei nodded. She had never thought that she would suddenly become weak when seeing Ma Qijun, so she didn't dare to say anything about it.
Liang Huihui seemed to think that she had to go back to the city to study, so she took this opportunity to talk a lot more:
"Also, you have to learn to protect yourself and use legal means, okay?" Liang Huihui's expression darkened again:
"But I don't know when this custom in our village can be changed. If it is not changed, we will not be able to keep up with the pace of socialist development."
Ye Xiaomei sighed, said goodbye to Liang Huihui, and stood at the entrance of the village, not knowing where to go.
Should I go back to the Ma family or my mother’s family?
Ye Xiaomei squatted in a corner of the intersection in confusion, picked up a branch and scratched it on the ground.
After paddling for an unknown amount of time, a bicycle suddenly appeared right under my nose.
"Xiao Mei?"
Ye Xiaomei looked up in the dazzling sunlight and saw that it was Wang Lan. There was a piece of meat hanging on the handlebar and a dozen peaches in the basket.
"Why are you here? Aren't you going to visit your parents?" Wang Lan looked puzzled.
Ye Xiaomei also quickly stood up and straightened her wrinkled clothes: "Auntie, um, I'm going to go to Village Chief Liang's house to inquire about the situation."
"It's already noon. Why are you going to the village chief's place instead of having a meal at your mother's house? What are Qijun doing there?"
Wang Lan thought something was wrong as soon as she saw it. What girl who came back to her parents' home wouldn't have a good meal at her parents' home and then wait for her husband to pick her up?
Seeing that Ye Xiaomei was silent, he pulled her towards Ye's house:
"You must have encountered something. With your soft temper, you will be bullied in the future."
Ye Xiaomei was pulled and stumbled. She watched her mother-in-law trying to push the bike with one hand, while using the other hand to pull her with great force, causing the strip of flesh hanging on the handlebars of the bike to sway and almost fly off.
Ye Xiaomei couldn't bear it, so she told him what happened today.
Wang Lan was stunned: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? My Ma family's ancestral home has plenty of land, how could it be missing those two rooms?"
Ye Xiaomei was stunned, opened her mouth, and almost called out the word "mother": "Auntie, isn't it said that after a daughter gets married, she can't take things from her husband's family to take care of her own family?"
Wang Lan waved her hand carelessly, "Bullshit, who made the rules? The rules made by people are meant to be broken, otherwise what is the meaning of their existence? Let's not talk about others, just take me for example, I don't have any brothers in my family, and my sister married far away. Can I just watch my parents starve to death and do nothing about it? Am I still a human being?"
Ye Xiaomei suddenly froze on the spot, staring at Wang Lan without any control over her body.
Are rules meant to be broken? My mother-in-law is right. If there is no son in the family, does it mean that after a hundred years, when the parents die, the daughters cannot take care of them?
She suddenly felt that this fat mother-in-law was very open-minded.
Ye family.
Zhao Mei hid in the west room but her ears were never clean from beginning to end.
"You still have the nerve to stay here."
"If I were that person, I would have been too ashamed to stay here and would have to get out with my tail between my legs."
After hearing the whole story, Wang Minzhi ate the pig's trotters that Ye Xiaolin brought from the county with a happy look on her face. She was afraid of disturbing the old lady and causing her to scold people, so she whispered:
"Did Chang Jiang buy this?"
Ye Xiaolin picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and stuffed it into her mouth, then took a bite of the steamed bun: "Yes, he specially asked me to bring it back for you and grandma."
"Ouch!" Wang Minzhi kissed her daughter hard: "I am enjoying your blessing."
The old lady was so angry that she couldn't eat. Her eyes lit up when she looked at the halved pig's trotters: "Eat less, leave a piece for me."
"Grandma." Ye Xiaolin hooked her arm around hers and murmured, "This was originally meant for you and mom. It's a token of Changjiang's love."
"That's right, Mom. You should eat more. You are enjoying yourself now, so you must not lack for food in the future." Wang Minzhi smiled widely.
As he said this, he picked up the fattest pig's trotter in the bowl and gave it to Li Cuilan.
Just as Li Cuilan put it into her mouth, the door was kicked open with a bang.
In an instant, the three of them completely lost their appetite, and the old lady stood up reflexively and squinted her eyes.
"You guys are eating so deliciously, leaving my daughter-in-law outside?"
Oh no, it's Wang Lan. The old lady is a little bit afraid of her when she sees her, but if you think about it carefully, she is afraid of her own son and daughter-in-law, so it is not the turn of Xiaomei's in-laws to intervene.
Ye Xiaomei raised her head suddenly: "Grandma, don't go out to greet me. I will take my mother away today, and Xiaoya will live with me too."
Wang Lan patted her daughter-in-law on the back and looked at Li Cuilan and the other two. Especially when she saw Ye Xiaolin, she became furious:
"My daughter-in-law is right. My Ma family has plenty of land. We don't need your little idiot. If you want to bully my Ma family, you have to get past me first."
Li Cuilan, who had just stood up to greet him, shuddered with fear: "My dear, there must be a misunderstanding here. Besides, this is my family's business."
"Are you kidding me, is this a misunderstanding?" Wang Lan waved her hand.
Ye Xiaomei saw this scene and subconsciously wanted to imitate her mother-in-law. When would she have such a strong aura? Didn't it mean that no one could bully them?
"I think you guys are crazy about money." Wang Lan turned sideways, took out a passbook from her arms, and slapped it directly into Ye Xiaomei's arms:
"My dear, there is 2,300 yuan in this passbook. You will be the one holding it from now on. I don't want to see what can happen to you. Ha! He was kicked out when I got home. He is still calculating the money. I, Wang Lan, have even prepared a big red envelope for my grandson next year. I don't want to see who dares to take it."
Wang Minzhi's eyes widened. If Ye Xiaolin hadn't pulled her, she would have fainted on the spot. With the living standard in 1984, this amount was several thousand yuan, which meant that one had to live in a thousand-yuan household.
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