Zhao Youcai felt that his family was noisy from morning till night and there was no quiet time. Moreover, whenever he talked about it recently, all he had were troubles, so he wanted to come to Li Shulan to find some comfort.
But as soon as he entered the room, he saw Li Shulan sitting on the bed with a ferocious look on her face, as if she was cursing. His heart skipped a beat:
"Shulan, what's wrong with you? Who are you scolding?"
Li Shulan was cursing Zhao Youcai, calling him a fool, a born idiot, and a jinx, otherwise how could he have harmed her to this extent, when she heard Zhao Youcai's voice, looked up, and was shocked.
He quickly lowered his head, raised his arms to cover his face, and quickly adjusted his mood. When he looked up again, his eyes were already filled with tears.
"What's wrong? Ma Xiulan lives in a big house with five rooms and a private courtyard, all with plenty of sunshine. And I live in a house with rats. I'm scolding the rats, but who else can I scold? Anyway, I don't want to live here. I want to live in a house like Ma Xiulan's."
Zhao Youcai was puzzled as to how Shulan knew where Ma Xiulan lived.
"Listen to me, Ma Xiulan's house is a haunted house. It will bring disaster to our descendants. We should not be like her, a heartless and selfish person who only cares about her own pleasure."
Li Shulan didn't believe that. She just felt extremely upset.
"I don't care. Why can Ma Xiulan live so well? Don't you love me anymore? You make me live worse than Ma Xiulan?"
"How could I not love you? I gave you all my money."
Zhao Youcai also felt aggrieved.
"How can you live worse than Ma Xiulan? She just lives in a big house that kills her children and grandchildren, but you got me."
Li Shulan felt like vomiting after hearing this. She wanted to live in a good house and live a good life. Was it an honor to marry Zhao Youcai, a poor and ugly old man?
Seeing that Li Shulan was still lowering her head and looked unhappy, Zhao Youcai went over to hug her. As she got closer, Li Shulan smelled the sour odor on Zhao Youcai's body and could not bear it any longer, so she pushed Zhao Youcai away.
"Youcai, you should also take care of yourself and wash when you need to."
Zhao Youcai looked a little embarrassed. It was good enough to have hot water to drink at home, not to mention water to wash himself. "Then I'll go to the bathhouse to wash tomorrow."
After taking a shower, Shulan won’t dislike me anymore. This is a good opportunity for me to get closer to Shulan.
Li Shulan was annoyed that she was too talkative. Going to the bathhouse would cost another two cents. The more Zhao Youcai spent, the less was left for her.
We have to let Zhao Youcai get the important things done quickly, otherwise the longer it takes, the greater the variables will be.
"By the way, Jindong's brother-in-law's job can't be delayed any longer, otherwise how will Jindong go out for further studies? Look at how you got Zhao Xingmin's job for Jindong's brother-in-law."
A trace of fear flashed across Zhao Youcai's face:
"Hey, can you please not touch Xingmin's work? You don't know how fierce Ma Xiulan was today. She rushed into my factory and slapped me twice. But I couldn't do anything to her because she had the leverage over me. If I touch Xingmin's work and anger Ma Xiulan again, it will probably not just be a broken bracelet."
Li Shulan's eyes flashed with a gleam of light: "What broken bracelet? Tell me the story."
Zhao Youcai recounted everything that happened during the day in detail. Li Shulan grabbed his arm and said,
"Ma Xiulan would rather have a broken bracelet than 500 yuan. Is it because she has taken care of your mother for so many years and knows that the bracelet is valuable? That's why she wants it."
Zhao Youcai said disdainfully: "What's the value of something made of wood?"
Li Shulan had been in school for so many years and had seen more than him:
"You don't know, woods like huanghuali and red sandalwood are very expensive. If the bracelet was made of agarwood, it would be even more expensive. Agarwood not only has an elegant fragrance, but it's also good for your health."
Zhao Youcai scoffed: "Impossible, that bracelet doesn't even have a scent, my mom has worn it so much that it's almost smelly."
Li Shulan knew that Old Lady Wang always had a smell on her body, and perhaps the smell on Old Lady Wang's body covered up the smell of the bracelet.
But on second thought, Old Lady Wang looks ordinary, with a sarcastic look on her face. From this, one can imagine how beautiful Old Lady Wang's mother could be. It would definitely not be agarwood that would be worth a rich family spending a fortune to make a wooden bracelet for Old Lady Wang's mother.
It should be made of ordinary wood, and they deceived Wang Laotai's mother into thinking it was a good thing.
Li Shulan thinks this is the most likely possibility.
After she figured it out, she stopped thinking about the wooden bracelet and continued working hard for Jindong's brother-in-law: "If you don't touch Xingmin's work, what about Zhao Youfu's?"
She originally wanted to move on Zhao Youfu. If she did, Old Lady Wang would be furious. If she married him again, no one would look at her badly every day.
Zhao Youcai thought about it and shook his head: "What if I mess with Youfu's work and my mother gets angry and stops doing housework? What should I do?"
Then the quarrels at home will only get worse.
"I'll do it. I'll definitely take care of you comfortably."
Li Shulan promised Zhao Youcai a lot without thinking. After all, she was married into the family, so she just had to order her two daughters-in-law to do the work.
Zhao Youcai was indeed touched, but then he felt very guilty. Shulan only wanted to live a good life with him, but he didn't even dare to tell her that he couldn't marry her.
He is so bad.
He is not worthy of Shulan's kindness to him.
"Shulan, I have to tell you something. I can't marry you anytime soon because I spent money on you while I was married to Ma Xiulan, and there were a lot of crazy rumors about me and your ex-husband fighting."
"A lot of people are watching me now. If I marry you now, it will prove that we had an improper relationship. My boss said the factory doesn't want me anymore."
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