Li Ke didn't have time to pay attention to their little actions. She simply asked He Ru, "What brings you here? I remember we have nothing to do with each other anymore. I can't help you with anything, big or small."
He Ru came to see Li Ke today not with the intention of making things difficult for her, but simply to ask Li Ke for help in getting her some purified water.
If Li Ke had the means, she would be even more grateful if she could help them improve their accommodations at the shelter.
She knew very well that, given the bond between them for raising Li Ke since he was a child, Li Ke would definitely not refuse.
She never imagined that Li Ke would become so ruthless, which reminded her of the trouble Li Zhenzhen had caused the Li family over the years. They were indeed mother and daughter, both ingrates.
He Ru's son is a disappointment, and her daughter-in-law is too formidable. In the two years since her daughter got married, she has been living with her daughter and son-in-law, and also helping to take care of her grandson. Compared to her previous bad temper, she has changed a lot now that she is older.
But now, listening to Li Ke's cold words, her anger surged again, and she felt as if all the food she had eaten back then had been wasted!
No matter what, she was Li Ke's aunt, and her husband was her uncle. He had treated her quite well when he was alive. Now that she was so cold-hearted, no wonder she was asking for an exorbitant amount.
"What do you mean 'unable to help'? You're heartless and have completely forgotten the kindness we showed you when we raised you. Now that our family is down on its luck, we have no other choice but to come to you. Since you say this now, then we have to settle old scores. If we hadn't taken you in back then, it's uncertain whether you would still be alive today. If you want to have nothing to do with us, then you'd better pay off the debts you owe the Li family first!" He Ru's words began to become increasingly sharp.
Looking at He Ru like this, Li Ke felt a sense of familiarity. She sneered slightly, "What do you mean you adopted me? I've lived with my maternal grandparents since birth. They gave me the surname Li and told me to call them Grandpa and Grandma. Everything I eat, wear, spend, and use was given to me by my grandparents. What does it have to do with you?"
"Hmph! You make it sound so easy, how can it not have anything to do with our family? Back then, your slutty mother, Li Zhenzhen, was pregnant out of wedlock and ran back home with her big belly. How awful were the things the neighbors said? Your uncle and I suffered countless scornful looks because of you, this disgraceful mother!"
Her family wants her to have an abortion, but she absolutely refuses. To find you a cheap father, your grandmother begged and pleaded with everyone, searching everywhere for matchmakers. She even asked your uncle and me to keep an eye out for a husband to take over for your mother as soon as possible.
I only found a good, honest man for your grandmother because I felt sorry for her, and because your mother is my aunt whom I couldn't sever ties with.
So, do you know what your mother did? She accepted over 200,000 yuan in betrothal gifts and gold bracelets and necklaces that the man bought for her, and then ran away while heavily pregnant!
"Not only is she shameful, she's utterly depraved! Over two hundred thousand yuan, plus all that gold jewelry—do you know how huge a debt that is for us in a small county? In the end, it was your uncle who paid off all that debt!" He Ru began to righteously reveal some old stories.
Her face showed genuine hatred for Li Zhenzhen. She didn't consider herself a bad person. The reason she was so critical and disdainful of Li Ke was because Li Zhenzhen was such a wicked person. The person she hated most in her life was Li Zhenzhen.
Li Ke frowned as she listened. She really didn't know about these things, but whether they were true or false, she wouldn't take on these old grievances.
“Since it was Li Zhenzhen who did this, you should hold her accountable. It has nothing to do with me,” Li Ke replied without the slightest hint of shame or remorse.
"You're just like your heartless mother! Fine! Since you say Li Zhenzhen's matter has nothing to do with you, then let's talk about your matter!"
Hearing Li Ke's words, He Ru sneered and continued, "Your mother was originally a pregnant slut. I kindly helped her find an honest man to take her in, but she cheated him out of his dowry and gold jewelry and ran away while heavily pregnant."
She ran away, so be it, but she left our Li family with a mess of debts. We, the Li family, will accept our fate and pretend that such a shameless nun never existed.
Less than six months later, this woman ran home in the middle of the night, threw you, still an infant, into the Li family's living room, and ran away.
She's so heartless. Before leaving, she said, "Whether to raise the child or sell it is up to her parents; she doesn't want this child anymore."
Upon hearing these words, Li Ke's fingers trembled slightly, but she quickly calmed down. For a second or two, she might still be somewhat moved by these past events, but that was all.
Xiao Yi suddenly spoke up and instructed Jian Ye, "Go and pour some tea."
Jian Ye was listening attentively when she was suddenly assigned a task. She immediately got up and went to the kitchen counter to get a kettle, tea leaves, and cups.
Then he realized the table was gone, and he had been inexplicably assigned tasks by Xiao Yi, that old fox, in front of Li Ke.
He had no choice but to pour tea on the nearby counter and then serve it to Li Ke and He Ru one cup at a time on a tray.
Xiao Yi didn't have it, and neither did he. Jian Ye knew that with Xiao Yi's shamelessness, if he sold his own things instead of Xiao Yi's, Xiao Yi would definitely take them away.
Therefore, Jian Ye felt uncomfortable and didn't want Xiao Yi to feel too comfortable, so she even ignored her own tea.
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