When the eldest brother accompanied the eldest sister-in-law to visit her parents-in-law, Ye Lian prepared two bags of fruit candies, two bags of peanuts, and two bags of melon seeds.

They are all in large packages.

There was also a pig's hind leg that was cut off with the butt, it was quite big.

With so many gifts, the bride is given enough face.

The two of them went back home happily.

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But when they came back, both of them looked unhappy.

"Lin Gang, your father-in-law..."

Before he could finish his words, Lin Gang snorted coldly, threw the basket on his back heavily to the ground, and then went into the house without saying a word.

Ye Lian's smile froze and she looked at her daughter-in-law.

Her face turned pale and she was rubbing her fingers nervously.

He didn't even dare to look Ye Lian in the eye. He lowered his head, looking uneasy.

"Kid, what's wrong?"

"No, nothing."

She looked down at the basket.

Ye Lian looked at the basket in surprise and opened the snakeskin bag covering the basket. She saw two large cabbages lying quietly inside, and a mixed package of melon seeds, peanuts and fruit candies. However, they were not big, probably only as big as half a bag of melon seeds that they had brought with them.

So, this is the return gift from the in-laws?

Ye Lian's face didn't look very good either.

I wondered what this relative meant.

Is it intentional, or do you look down on others?

Generally speaking, the things you bring back to your parents' home don't have to be the same as what your husband's family prepared, but they can't be too different.

Giving such a small amount of things is not only looking down on people, it is simply insulting them.

"Mom, my parents..." She didn't know what to say, and could only whisper uncomfortably, "They are relatively poor."

Poor? Who isn’t poor these days?

Before the marriage, the lion asked for a lot of things, and they gave a lot of things. Now...

Thinking of something, Ye Lian sighed again.

That family favored sons over daughters and exploited their daughter desperately, all for the sake of their precious son.

The daughter-in-law has a hard time herself, and there's no point in them making things difficult for her.

Ye Lian forced a smile and said to Chen Xia, "Your family's cabbage is grown very well. Your parents are amazing. I can't grow it that well."

Chen Xia curled her lips in embarrassment, thinking, how could these cabbages be grown by them? They were clearly grown by herself.

Her mother stuffed two cabbages into their baskets and said to her, "You worked hard to grow a crop, take two cabbages and give them to your father-in-law and mother-in-law to taste."

Afterwards, I poured all the remaining melon seeds, peanuts and fruit candies on everyone's plates into a bag and asked her to take it back.

All the big ones had been picked, leaving only some crooked and cracked melons, which had been touched here and there, and even had some melon seed shells inside.

well!

Her newlywed husband saw this and his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

If she hadn't stopped him, looked at him with pleading eyes, and shook her head at him, he would have thrown the two cabbages away on the spot.

"These melon seeds..." Ye Lian originally wanted to say something nice to smooth things over.

As soon as I saw this bag of melon seeds and peanuts, my face turned completely black.

That being said, if you are really poor and have no gift in return, you can just package the fruit candies they brought back in small packages.

You got a bag of other people's leftovers, even the shells are still there, what's going on?

If you don't pay attention to your daughter-in-law, you should at least have some dignity and try to save your face.

How could this relative be so outrageous that he didn't even try to save face?

Ye Lian wanted to complain, but looking at the ugly face of the new daughter-in-law, she finally didn't have the heart to say anything unpleasant.

"It's okay. You're married into our family, so you're one of us. You must be tired after a long day's journey. Come inside and rest for a while."

Chen Xia shook her head and said, "I won't rest. Let me cook dinner with my mother."

"Cooking is not a big deal. Your younger sister will come back and help me. You should go and have a rest. It's a dozen miles of mountain road. I'm afraid your legs must be sore after walking thirty miles back and forth."

Thinking of her newlywed husband's ugly face, Chen Xia did not dare to go back to the house, but followed her mother-in-law to the kitchen.

Ye Lian tried to persuade her as much as she could, but there was nothing she could do but let her be.

I arranged for her to sit in the kitchen and light a fire, and finally she could sit down and rest, feeling more relaxed.

After the rice was cooked, Ye Lian thought about it and felt something was wrong.

He told his daughter-in-law to keep burning the food while he went into the house to look for his eldest son.

The eldest son was sitting in the house sulking. When he saw Ye Lian coming over, he glanced at her indifferently.

Ye Lian smiled, pulled a stool and sat down, "Lin Gang, why are you angry about a relative leaving?"

"Humph." Lin Gang snorted coldly, "What kind of relative is that? He dragged me to work as soon as I arrived. I carried dozens of kilograms of things and walked more than ten miles on the mountain road. Before I even landed on the stool, he dragged me to dig out his family's penis. What kind of person is this, huh? What kind of person is this?"

"Ah? So you paid for it?"

"What else? It was my first time going to my father-in-law's house after marriage, and he assigned me some work. What's wrong with that? I thought they were testing me, so of course I had to do it well."

Ye Lian breathed a sigh of relief, "That's it."

"But when I came back, I saw that the whole family was eating the food I brought. My wife was busy in the kitchen alone. She wanted to take a piece of bacon to eat, but her mother stopped her and scolded her."

Ye Lian: “…”

"Her parents disliked several concubines and were eager to suck the blood of the concubines to support their family. Didn't the matchmaker say that? You know that. Just deal with it and forget it. Why are you still angry?"

"Mom, we want to save face, but they don't. During the meal, they kept ordering my wife to do this and that. I tried to pull her to sit down and eat, but she wouldn't stop. I just feel so sorry for her. If she had been a little tougher, she wouldn't have been bullied like this by her parents.

And her brother never called her sister or me brother-in-law. He just called her by her name, like a maid. He just called me “Hey”. Hey, do I have no name or what? He called me “Hey” and I had to answer.

Ye Lian's mouth twitched when she heard this. She thought that they doted on their son so much that the child had become spoiled. They would suffer in the future.

"Forget it, let's forget about it. Since they are not nice, don't have any more contact with them in the future. After all, you are marrying a wife, not living with them. Forget about being angry with them, but don't be angry with your wife. It's pitiful enough for her to have such parents. If you treat her badly again, how are you going to let her live in the future?"

"I...I didn't do anything bad to her. I just endured it for her sake."

"Then why are you making such a sullen face?"

"I've been angry all day, and I can't be so sullen anymore?"

"Of course not. If you are upset, your wife will think you are angry with her. You are making her angry at both ends."

Lin Gang: “…”

"Your wife is cooking, go and comfort her. You just got married, so you must not let any grudges arise. If a person's heart gets cold, it will be hard to warm it up."