Chapter 4: Telling you what is a money-losing product
Lijia Village——
Li Zhiyuan and Mrs. Li were having dinner. There was a big bowl of stewed bones and boiled eggs on the table.
These meats and eggs were not bought with money, but were given to Li Zhiyuan by the villagers after he passed the imperial examination.
The mother and son were eating with gusto.
"Uncle Zhiyuan! Uncle Zhiyuan!" A little boy of about seven or eight years old ran in. "Aunt Ye is back, and she brought her family from Qinghe Village with her."
Mrs. Li put her chopsticks heavily on the table and said, "Humph, I guessed she was unwilling to accept this. Who wouldn't want to be the wife of a scholar? Gou Wa, go inform the head of the village."
"I just called."
"Gou Wa is really smart. When your uncle Zhiyuan becomes a high-ranking official in the capital, I will definitely take you with me. Come on, bring me my walking stick."
Mrs. Li broke her leg badly.
Originally, she planned to drug Ye Caiping, and then lure the village thugs over to hang out with Ye Caiping.
By then, Ye Caiping will be crushed to death in one go and dragged directly into the pig cage, and the Ye family won’t even be able to jump up.
Little did she expect that when she had just picked up the soup with the medicine in it, Ye Caiping was busy going out to visit relatives to show off that she was the wife of a scholar, and she knocked the soup over.
I spent forty cents on the chicken for that pot of soup, and two hundred cents on the medicine!
Mrs. Li is so heartbroken!
It happened that she broke her leg in the afternoon. When Ye Caiping came to help her, she suddenly had an idea. She simply grabbed Ye Caiping and accused her of beating her mother-in-law. She finally found a reason to divorce Ye Caiping.
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The Ye family and their group have arrived at the door of the Li family.
Ye Caiping got off the ox cart. She looked up at the Li family's large blue brick and tile house, which stood out in the village where almost all the houses were made of adobe.
She curled her lips sarcastically.
This house was built after the original owner got married, and all the money was extorted from her natal family.
Mrs. Li and Li Zhiyuan have already come out.
Mrs. Li is short, with a big round face, but she is not kind at all. He is using a cane at the moment.
Li Zhiyuan was dressed in a gray and white gown. Although he was already in his thirties, he was still handsome and refined. Standing among the villagers who all looked gray, he stood out even more.
No wonder the original owner was so bewitched by him.
"Li Zhiyuan, you are a conscienceless bastard!"
As soon as Old Mrs. Ye saw Li Zhiyuan, she became so angry that tears burst out of her eyes.
When the divorce was going on yesterday, Mrs. Ye happened to be visiting relatives. This was the first time Old Lady Ye saw Li Zhiyuan after the incident. She was so angry that she kept cursing:
"In order to support your studies, we emptied our family's savings. My grandson even had to stop studying. All the money we saved was given to you. In the end, you, a scholar, divorced my daughter? Li Zhiyuan, you are worse than an animal!"
Mrs. Li stepped forward with her cane: "Damn Ye family, please don't accuse me. I haven't settled the score with you yet!"
"The daughter you raised is lazy and greedy. She spends her days thinking about how to squander our Li family's money! If we don't give her money to spend, she'll go back to her parents' house and borrow money under the pretext of paying for my son's education!"
"It's your daughter who emptied your money and rations! It's also your daughter who spent all your money. The whole village knows this!"
"Everyone, come and judge for yourself. Did my Zhiyuan spend a penny of the Ye family's money on his studies?"
Mrs. Li said as she shouted.
The people from Lijia Village were already gathered outside the yard, and they were talking at once: "Everyone knows that Ye went back to her parents' home to get money because she was greedy."
"That's what she said herself. We didn't wrongly accuse her."
Old Mrs. Ye was so angry that her face turned pale. Ye Caiping was once again made speechless by the original owner.
The original owner used to go back to her parents' home to ask for money and food. She was afraid that Li Zhiyuan would get a reputation as a gigolo, so she did not hesitate to discredit herself and told others that her parents loved her and the money was for her to buy food.
Therefore, the original owner gained a bad reputation for being lazy, greedy, and cunning, eating up her husband's family and draining her mother's family.
The original owner was still complacent, thinking that it was all for Li Zhiyuan and it was worth it!
Now the retribution has come. The villagers all have reasons to accuse the original owner of being a spendthrift and greedy, and the Ye family is left powerless to fight back.
Ye Caiping stepped forward and pulled Old Lady Ye behind her: "Stop arguing. I'm not here to quarrel today. I'm here to take Zhaodi and the others away!"
"What did you say?" Mrs. Li thought there was something wrong with her ears.
She thought Ye Caiping brought her family back with her because she wanted to go back to the Li family!
Not only her, but even the people in Lijia Village thought so. Who would have thought that she would come back to ask for those two girls?
Mrs. Li laughed angrily: "What the hell are you thinking! These two money-losing guys are the bloodline of my Li family!"
Now that the two money-losing guys are gone, who will do the housework?
Moreover, those two money-losing girls are 13 and 9 years old respectively. They can get married after a few more years of raising them.
At that time, I will find some people who are difficult to find wives, or send them directly to the county official’s house as concubines. Each one can be exchanged for twenty or thirty taels!
Ye Caiping wasn't asking her for compensation at all; she was simply robbing her money!
"Mom!" At this time, two girls ran out of the house.
They were Ye Caiping's daughters, Li Zhaodi and Li Laidi. The two girls were as thin as monkeys, but their faces were like Ye Caiping's, with delicate features.
"You two losers, get out of here!" Mrs. Li glared at them, then turned back to Ye Caiping and said, "This is our Li family's offspring, and you, a divorced abandoned woman, are here to ask for a child? This is really ridiculous."
The people in Lijia Village also started cursing. Li Lizheng also came and said angrily:
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous! You are a wicked woman who beats your mother-in-law. We are already merciful by letting you leave in one piece. Yet you even dream of taking your husband's child away! Even if you bring the case to the government, there is no such rule."
Although Old Man Ye, Ye Lizheng and others were angry, they felt insecure after being told off. After all, they were not in the right when it came to having a child.
I thought Ye Caiping was going to make a scene, but unexpectedly, she spread her hands and said, "Since you won't let me take it away, then I don't want it!"
Li Zhaodi and Li Laidi were so disappointed that they almost cried.
Although their mother often scolded them for being silly girls and looked down on them for not having penises, at least she would not beat them. They ate whatever their mother ate.
But Mrs. Li and Li Zhiyuan treated them like animals.
They want to go with their mother. But my mother actually said she didn't want them anymore.
Mrs. Li was surprised: "You are sensible. If that's the case, why are you still hanging around here? Hurry up and leave!"
Ye Caiping said, "I want to ask you a few questions. Now that Li Zhiyuan has passed the imperial examination, he has become the most famous person in our area, right?"
Mrs. Li thought she was a little weird, but she couldn't help but be proud: "Of course!"
"Then your Li family can be considered a wealthy family, right?"
A wealthy family? ! Mrs. Li was elated:
"Of course! In the whole Dashu Town, there are no more than ten scholars! Who wouldn't call a scholar "Master"? And look at our big blue brick and tile house. There are only a handful of houses in the nearby villages that are better than ours."
They are wealthy and powerful! Yes, it’s a wealthy family!
Even Li Zhiyuan thought so. Now that he has become a scholar, his family status has changed!
Ye Caiping's eyes gleamed slightly, and she smiled and said, "In that case, do you know what a money-losing product is?"
"What? Can't the rich and powerful ask them to pay for their goods?"
"Yes! Of course! It was the wealthy families who first called for this." Ye Caiping nodded, "Because marrying off their daughters is really expensive!"
"As a wealthy family, for the sake of face, they marry off their daughters with a large sum. The man's gift money is ten taels, and the woman's dowry is twenty taels. The man's family pays twenty taels, and the woman's dowry is forty taels. That's why they call their daughters losing money."
"Only illiterate people like us who work in the dirt would misunderstand others' intentions and exchange our daughters for money."
Li Pozi and Li Zhiyuan's faces have changed.
What? Not only can’t these two money-losing items be sold, but they even have to be paid for?
Mrs. Li was about to retort: "You..."
"No way, no way?" Ye Caiping raised her eyebrows and stared at Li Zhiyuan mockingly, "The most promising scholar in our area, do you think you want to sell your daughter for money?"
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