Chapter 4: Ruining the Marriage
Ye Wen came back humming a song. As soon as she entered the room, she smelled a faint fragrance. Her face suddenly changed, "Ye Rou, you stole my ointment!"
Ye Rou was speechless, "I'm useless."
Ye Wen hurriedly went to look for the ointment. This was the most fashionable ointment in town that her aunt had specially brought her. If Ye Rou dared to use it secretly, she would never let her go!
She opened the ointment and checked it carefully to make sure that no amount of ointment was missing, but her brows furrowed even more.
Without her ointment, what does this smell like?
Ye Rou crawled into the quilt, wrapped her whole body, and concealed the fragrance on her body.
Ye Wen couldn't find any evidence against Ye Rou, so she snorted coldly. Thinking that she had to meet Brother Wen tomorrow, she took off her clothes, got on the earthen kang, and prepared to go to bed early.
Ye Rou suddenly started coughing, a cough that was heart-wrenching.
"Cough cough cough"
She kept coughing. Ye Wen lifted the quilt and sat up, glaring at him angrily, "How can I sleep like this?"
Ye Rou coughed and apologized, "I might have fallen into the water and caught a cold."
Ye Wen moved the quilt close to the head of the kang, eight hundred meters away from her, "Cover your cough, don't pass it on to me."
"I understand." Ye Rou continued coughing with her back to Ye Wen.
Ye Wen covered her ears and huddled under the quilt. Ye Rou coughed until midnight, which kept her awake. She woke up the next day yawning.
Zhang Lan grabbed her and saw the dark circles under her daughter's eyes. She asked her distressedly, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Ye Wen got angry when he thought about last night, "It's all because of Ye Rou, she kept coughing and making so much noise."
Zhang Lan was shocked. Someone from the Li family is coming today, so Ye Rou must not get into any trouble.
"Why are you coughing?"
Ye Wen said with disdain, "She fell into the water while going up the mountain yesterday, and her clothes were all wet when she came back."
Zhang Lan walked into the kitchen and saw Ye Rou coughing while making a fire. She frowned even more.
Ye Rou kept coughing while eating, and everyone looked at her, afraid that she would suffocate and die.
Except for Ye Rou, no one in the family had a good breakfast.
After dinner, Zhang Lan felt uneasy and said to her mother-in-law, "Why don't we do it another day? If the Li family sees it, will they think too much?"
Zhao Xiulan glared at Zhang Lan and said, "It's too late."
As soon as she finished speaking, a family came into the yard making a lot of noise.
“People are coming!”
Ye Rou followed Ye Wen into the main room.
The Li family came in. The man walking at the back was short. Ye Hai said that his limp was not serious, but in fact his entire right foot was deformed. He was born with a bound foot and could not wear shoes. He came in with a cane and hunched legs.
Seeing Ye Rou, Li He looked her up and down, with a look of disgust on his face, staring at Ye Wen without moving his eyes.
Li Hema sat on a chair and looked at Ye Rou. She was sitting next to Ye Wen. She was skinny, with a sallow complexion and a shriveled body. She looked even uglier compared to the fair and tender Ye Rou.
Thinking of her son's small feet, she wasn't too picky, but she could bargain for the price: "Our family only gives 150 yuan as a betrothal gift."
Zhang Lan was anxious: "Auntie, didn't we agree on two hundred yuan?"
Li Hema sneered: "Your girl is so ugly, and you want two hundred yuan, do you think your family can afford it?"
"I'm ugly?" Ye Rou stood up and pointed at Li He: "Your son is like this, and you still despise me?"
She coughed twice after she finished speaking.
"How can you talk like that?" Li Hema slammed the table anxiously.
"I'm telling the truth." Ye Rou was not afraid and retorted directly: "If you don't want to listen, then go away."
Li Hema sneered and looked at Zhao Xiulan: "Sister, this is your good granddaughter."
Zhao Xiulan glared at Ye Rou and said, "Don't interrupt when the adults are talking."
Ye Rou stared at Zhao Xiulan and continued to exert force: "Ahem, did you ask me for my opinion on letting me get married?"
Zhang Lan smiled at the Li family and said, "This child always says silly things."
He turned to look at Ye Rou again and said with a smile, but there was no smile in his eyes, "You are so old now. If you don't get married, your family can't support you forever!"
Ye Rou pointed at Ye Wen with a sneer and said, "Will you let Ye Wen marry a cripple?"
"Shut up!" Ye Hai slammed the table and shouted.
Ye Rou coughed heavily again and looked at Ye Hai, "Are you going to marry me to this cripple too?"
Ye Hai said nothing and avoided Ye Rou's gaze.
A family of selfish people.
Ye Rou sneered and stuffed the pill into her mouth while coughing.
She shut up and sat back in her chair.
Zhang Lan was afraid of further mishaps, so she said, "One hundred and fifty is one hundred and fifty."
Li and his mother acted as if their family had suffered a loss and slammed the hundred and fifty yuan on the table.
Zhang Lan smiled happily, Ye Hai's expression relaxed, and even Zhao Xiulan, who was usually serious, curled up the corners of her mouth.
Ye Yaozu smiled the most charmingly.
When the whole room was filled with joy, Ye Rou suddenly started coughing. At first she just coughed softly, but later she seemed unable to suppress it and her cough became louder and louder.
Li and his mother didn't care at first, but then they shut up and stopped chatting, staring at Ye Rou.
Zhang Lan quickly explained, "Ye Rou fell into the water while climbing the mountain yesterday and caught a cold. She's usually in good health!"
After saying that, she gave Ye Wen a look, and Ye Wen stood up and ran out of the house.
Ye Rou continued to cough, her whole body shaking.
Li Hema's brows furrowed even more. Could he be coughing like this just because he caught a cold? Could he be sick?
Ye Wen came in with some warm water, stuffed it into Ye Rou's hand, and said with a fake smile, "Sister, drink some water."
Ye Rou took the water and took a big gulp, and stopped coughing.
Zhang Lan smiled and said, "It's just a cold, all children are like that."
Li Hema's brows relaxed slightly and they continued to discuss the date of engagement. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ye Rou cough again, covering her mouth with her hand, with her fingers slightly red!
She stood up suddenly, walked to Ye Rou, and said sternly: "Spread your hands!"
Zhang Lan saw that something unexpected had happened again and stepped forward to pull her back. "Auntie, what's wrong? If you have something to say, talk to her nicely. Don't be mean to the child."
Li Hema shook off Zhang Lan's hand, glared at Ye Rou with a cold face, and said again, "Spread your hands!"
Ye Rou shook her head in panic and looked at Zhang Lan for help.
Zhang Lan didn't know what was wrong with her. The 150 yuan was about to be in her hands, and there must be no problem.
"Auntie, you scared Xiaorou."
Li Hema took immediate action and forcefully pried Ye Rou's hands apart. Seeing her hands covered in blood, he shouted, "What is this?!"
Zhang Lan was closest to them and her expression changed.
Just as she was about to open her mouth to make amends, Ye Rou spat out a mouthful of blood!
"Consumptive patient!" Li Hema's face changed drastically and she left with her son.
This disease can be transmitted to humans, and I can’t stay in the Ye family anymore.
She cursed as she walked.
"What a bastard! He dared to promise our son a marriage when his daughter has tuberculosis!"
"Bah! What a heartless bunch of bastards!"
"Zhao Xiulan, our family is not done with today's affairs!"
Li He staggered as he was dragged by his mother, and kept looking back at Ye Wen.
Zhang Lan had no time to stop the Li family. She took three steps back and desperately wiped the clothes that were splashed with Ye Rou's blood.
The Ye family scattered in an instant.
Ye Rou kept vomiting blood, and inexplicably thought of the blood-spitting master in Stephen Chow's movie.
——
Ye Wen ran out in one breath. Thinking of Ye Rou vomiting blood, he was afraid that he would also be infected with the disease, so he hurried to the health center.
"Ye Wen."
Hearing someone calling her, Ye Wen turned around.
Zhao Wan forced a smile and stuffed the White Rabbit milk candy into Ye Wen's arms.
"My aunt brought it to me when she came back from town. I'll give it to you to try."
Ye Wen widened his eyes and stared at the candy, swallowing his saliva.
It was already unusual that Zhao Wan suddenly came to play with her yesterday, and today she even gave her milk candy?
She asked uncertainly, "Really give it to me?"
"Here you go." Zhao Wan nodded.
"How can this be so embarrassing."
She spoke politely, but couldn't hide the smile on her face.
Zhao Wan smiled again and said, "Do you want to come to my house and listen to the radio?"
Ye Wen was about to agree, but then he changed his mind when he remembered he still had to go to the clinic and said, "I'll go to your house tomorrow."
After saying that, she left in a hurry.
Zhao Wan looked at her back, unable to hide the jealousy in her eyes.
Ye Wen, a country girl, turned out to be the commander's lost daughter. Three years later, she was picked up by her biological father. She never had to worry about food and clothing for the rest of her life and lived a happy life.
If she were to live her life over again, she would marry Jiang Chen, befriend Ye Wen, and would never go back to the old path of her previous life.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
