Yunqi also shared her thoughts: "Liu Qingying has always been like this, rarely considering other people's feelings. I also suffered a lot of mistreatment when I was a child."
"Why haven't you mentioned her?" Mother Yun immediately exploded upon hearing this. "What happened to her?"
Yunqi noticed that Lian Junjun and Lele were also staring at her, and chuckled as she patted their heads.
"Actually, it was all just minor squabbles. Back then, you were working in the city, and every time you came back, you would bring me some new and cute things. Whenever she found out, she would always make a fuss, and a few times she even deliberately broke my things."
Why didn't you say so before?
"I told my grandparents when I got back. My grandma even took me to their house to demand an explanation, but we came back feeling very angry." Yunqi still vividly remembered this, as it was the first time she had ever seen her grandmother so angry.
Upon hearing that his own mother had also suffered mistreatment before her death, Yun Zhiming wanted to know the details. He looked at Yun Qi and asked, "How did you suffer mistreatment?"
"It wasn't Aunt Wu. When we first arrived, she was very hospitable, serving tea and water. But after Grandma told us what happened, she called Liu Qingying over to us and started asking her over and over if she had broken my things. But Liu Qingying didn't say anything. She just kept asking and over, implying that she doubted what I told Grandma."
"Grandma was a little angry at the time, but she still asked Liu Qingying in a low voice why she broke my things. Who knew that Liu Qingying would answer that it wasn't her and that she didn't. I was furious at the time, and I even named several people who were present at the time and asked them to testify for me. Only then did Liu Qingying stop talking."
"The matter was already clear, but Aunt Wu just stood there with Liu Qingying without saying a word. Seeing them like this, Grandma could only take me home. Who knew that just as we were about to leave, Aunt Wu actually spoke up, implying that I shouldn't have brought so many things that others didn't have and shown them off in front of others, and that children don't know their own strength and are bound to get bumped and bruised."
"Grandma was so angry that as soon as she got home she said, 'It's ruined, it's ruined. This child has been ruined by her own mother.' At the time, I didn't quite understand what Grandma meant, but now I do."
"No wonder you always hang out with Yun Liping and never with Liu Qingying."
"Although Yun Liping can be a bit sharp-tongued at times, that's just her personality. Most importantly, she has strong moral values, which makes her much easier to get along with," Yun Qi said matter-of-factly.
“I’ll go see your seventh grandfather tomorrow. We can’t let them set a bad example for our village. Otherwise, people will follow suit. Nowadays, everyone holds weddings in a very simple way. Who would make so many demands?”
Yun Zhiming initially thought this matter had little to do with him and that they should handle it internally. However, thinking about the humiliation his mother had suffered, he felt he should give them a piece of his mind.
"Grandpa Qi needs to step in. This morning when everyone was training in the square, many of the girls were complaining."
"What are you complaining about?" Mother Yun placed the peeled melon seeds in front of Junjun and Lele.
“These past few days, their elders at home have been nagging them constantly, and now they've laid out the conditions for their future marriages. In short, it's impossible for them to take anything with them when they go out.”
"It's important to agree on this beforehand, otherwise everyone might follow suit, and then the girls in our village would become highly sought-after."
"The problem is that no one had that intention at all. Now that Liu Qingying has led them astray, they all feel like they're being guarded against like thieves at home." Yun Qi didn't expect the impact to be so significant.
“That’s really harmful. There have been so many weddings in our village before, but none of them have been like this.” Mother Yun thought of another problem, “What if those who want to get married make such demands? The whole village will be in chaos.”
"Don't worry, that won't happen." Si Cheng was quite satisfied with the character of most people in Pinghe Village. "Seventh Grandfather will definitely get involved, and Uncle Wu won't set a precedent. He's just angry right now, but he'll handle it once he calms down."
"By the way, how are those sugarcane seedlings we planted doing?" Si Cheng thought that he had only been responsible for planting the sugarcane seedlings and had been busy ever since, so he didn't know how well they survived, since none of them had any experience growing sugarcane.
"I went to the field today to check, and not every seedling has sprouted. Some of them have rotted for some reason." Yun Zhiming felt a little sorry when he thought of the rotten sugarcane seedlings. "I don't know if something went wrong. Some people's sugarcane seedlings are growing quite well, and some have even grown taller."
"I'll go to the field tomorrow and take a look, and maybe ask others how they plant it."
"We've almost finished all the work around the house. You've been running around outside all this time, so take a rest now that you're home. I've already had someone take care of those sugarcane seedlings for us again." Yun Zhiming and Yun Qi have been busy in the fields these days, so there really isn't much left to do there.
The atmosphere in their family was very harmonious, but the atmosphere at Grandpa Qi's place was a bit tense.
"Li Rongrong, when you married into this family, we had a prior agreement. But look at what you're doing now, do you really think we old folks have forgotten all that?"
“Dad, I haven’t done anything lately. The child is being unreasonable, and I’ve already talked to her. Besides, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with giving Yingying more things. This way, she can better gain a foothold in her husband’s family.” Li Rongrong said, wiping away tears from the corners of her eyes, feeling that she had suffered a great injustice.
"Are you giving more than you should be giving? You're practically giving away half of the whole family's wealth!" Grandpa Qi was so angry at her words that he banged on the table. At this point, the whole family had become the laughingstock of the village.
"But you said back then that you would treat the child as your own. Now it's just a matter of bringing some more things over, and we will continue to help Xiaoyang get by in the future."
“Don’t we consider our A-Wu his own son? Look around our village, which biological daughter would ask to bring so many people to her husband’s family? I think this is not bringing a daughter, but an ancestor.”
When Grandpa Qi saw that she was still being stubborn at this point, he became a little rude in his speech.
Grandpa Qi knew that Yun Mingwu was still in charge of the family, so he simply asked his youngest son directly.
"Awu, what do you mean? Are you going along with what they, mother and daughter, want, or do you have some other plan?"
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