Chapter 53 Bai Wei
"No one's ever had a wedding like yours. Everyone's like they're welcoming Karl Lagerfeld. Tsk! You're just a Hong Konger."
Seeing that Ye Dajun started to replace the door panels again, Zhao Zhaodi simply turned a blind eye and went back to her room to sleep.
When Old Lady Ye saw the unconvinced look in her eldest daughter-in-law's eyes, she knew what Zhao Zhaodi was thinking without having to guess.
"My waiter is precious."
Old Mrs. Ye snorted. She was in a very good mood today and was too lazy to argue with this woman. No one should think of competing with her second son.
He shouted to Ye Dajun, "Dajun, go find some clean newspapers and cover your brother's wall with them. It's so dusty that he won't get any dust when he sleeps."
"Okay, Mom."
Ye Dajun, who was repairing the door panel, threw down the hammer and hurried to the room where his son lived to find a newspaper. In a short while, the west wing was completely new.
Old Mrs. Ye stood at the door, looking at the west wing, thinking about what her son would look like lying in it. As she looked, she began to cry again. She felt that she could see her son before she died, and she had no regrets in her life.
"Xiao Er Niang is finally waiting for you. I don't mind dying."
"Mom, what are you talking about? You have to live a few more years to accompany your second son." Ye Dajun couldn't stand his mother talking about death all the time. It was so unlucky.
"Yes, yes, you have to love Xiao Er for a few more years, and I have to live a few more years."
Old Mrs. Ye felt that what her eldest son said made sense. She went into the kitchen in the evening and was generous to herself for once. She made a bowl of egg soup and drank it all herself.
Repulse Bay, Hong Kong
Ye Lin started packing gifts for the Ye family. When Mrs. Rebecca saw it, she kept saying it was too little and insisted on stuffing more than a dozen sets of jewelry and antiques in.
"You really can't bring these gems, Zia. They're not allowed there."
Ye Lin took out Rebecca's collection of jewelry from the box one by one and told Xiaoyue to put them back into the warehouse.
"Are there so many rules? How about this small one?" Rebecca showed Ye Lin a set of pink diamond brooches the size of a fingernail. These were antique jewelry she had bought from Country F a few days ago.
"Small ones won't do either, but those new shawls you bought, Zia, will do."
"Great, then take this set of porcelain with you!" Rebecca happily asked the bodyguard to take out the Heron porcelain that she bought yesterday together with the shawl.
"Forget about this porcelain. Just put it in."
It's just a set of porcelain, which looks like some pretty plates on the surface, but jewelry is terrible. The Ye family should be taken away for investigation.
While Rebecca and the bodyguard were packing their boxes, Ye Lin went to the kitchen to find Ah Hui to ask about the mainland bank account. He had asked him to open an account connected to a mainland bank a few days ago.
Sure enough, this guy was in the kitchen, pestering David for a hot dog.
"Has Ah Hui's account been opened?"
"It's all done, young master. Here's the remittance slip." Ah Hui wiped the oil off his hands and took out the remittance slip from his wallet.
"Well, put the remittance slip and this letter in the box together." After Ye Lin confirmed, he handed the letter to Ah Hui to seal it.
The average salary per capita in Hong Kong is now about HK$1,000. Ye Lin remitted HK$2,000 to the Ye family, which is equivalent to about HK$1,000.
A few days ago, after the Li brothers bought the gifts, they believed that Tengou Company could be what it is today thanks to Ye Lin's investment, so they forcibly gave Ye Lin 10% of the shares of Tengou Press. This allowed Ye Lin to take out 2,000 Hong Kong dollars and remit it to the Ye family.
Neixiahe Village
The most discussed family in Xiahe Village recently is the Ye family. First, the eldest daughter of the third room was driven out by her in-laws, and then the eldest daughter's in-laws actually drove the daughter-in-law away just two days before they started arranging to marry a new wife.
Then Ye Laoer, who had disappeared for more than 40 years, was found and turned into a Hong Konger. This was very strange. The villagers of Xiahe Village had only seen people from Luzhou and Beijing when the educated youth came, but they had never seen a Hong Konger.
"What do you think of these Hong Kong people?" The intelligence department at the village entrance held another meeting.
"Just look at the Ye family and you'll know. They don't look like farmers at all." Aunt Zhang muttered softly while chewing on a radish.
"That's quite true. Look at his family, whether boys or girls, they are all very fair and clean-looking. Even working in the fields in the hot summer, they don't get any tan."
"That's right. This kid from the Ye family looks even more Westernized than those educated youth from Beijing."
"I heard that people in Hong Kong are getting richer."
"Hmph, if it's related to capitalism, then the second son of the Ye family is nothing good!" Aunt Zhuang, who was twisting the hemp rope, said unconvinced.
Aunt Zhuang and Jin Fenglian were rivals when they were girls. Jin Fenglian finally suffered a big setback because of her daughter's marriage. She was just proud for two days, and then the Ye family got a rich second wife from Hong Kong. How could Jin Fenglian be so lucky!
Aunt Miao couldn't stand her and spoke a fair word on behalf of the old Ye family, "Aunt Zhuang, you can't say that. Captain Qin and the commune director have said that the people of Xiangjiang are also our brothers. We must unite."
"You are the only one who knows the most, and you still call us brothers? We are brothers with the Ye family, what does it have to do with your Miao family?"
Aunt Zhuang took the hemp rope home unconvinced and said that the Ye family was the nest of capitalism!
At the entrance of the commune primary school
Ye Dajun's son, Ye Yang, and his wife Bai Wei were about to return to Xiahe Village.
"It's just that your second uncle who has been dead for decades has shown up again, asking us to go back so late. It's so annoying." Bai Wei patted the dirt off her cloth shoes. She hated walking on these dirt roads the most.
Ye Yang carried the luggage in one hand and held his daughter in the other, and he advised his wife in a good-tempered manner, "You know how much grandpa and grandma miss Second Uncle. Besides, Second Uncle is the elder, isn't it right for him to go back?"
"Who knows who the second uncle might be in the future, so go and recognize him yourself."
"Xiao Wei, can we not mention this in front of the child?" Ye Yang took his daughter to take a few quick steps so that she would not hear the conflict between them.
Bai Wei is an educated youth from Shanghai who went to the countryside. She has been married to Ye Yang for more than ten years. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, the two have been in conflict. Bai Wei wants to take the college entrance examination and return to Luzhou, but Ye Yang does not want to leave Xiahe Village. He neither opposes nor supports Bai Wei's college entrance examination.
Bai Wei has already made up her mind that if Ye Yang doesn't take the college entrance exam, she will not live with him. Xiahe Village has already delayed her for ten years, and he wants to delay the rest of her life.
When the two of them walked home awkwardly, it was already dark. Looking at the noisy laughter in the main room and the group of people who looked like they were drunk, Bai Wei felt annoyed.
"You go in by yourself, I'll take the child back to the house." In Bai Wei's opinion, these rural people were too rude for always talking at the top of their voices.
"Squeak" opened the door
Bai Wei discovered that the house had been ransacked. Ye Dajun turned over Ye Yang's desk when he was looking for a newspaper.
"This is a family of uncultured people. Who let them turn the house over?"
Bai Wei was so angry that she sat on the bed and pounded the quilt. Her daughter Ye Ling asked curiously, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Thinking of her daughter still beside her, Bai Wei controlled her temper. "It's okay. Mom will dust off the quilt. Are you hungry? Mom will go to the kitchen to find you something to eat."
"Yeah, Xiaoling is hungry." Ye Ling nodded obediently.
After closing the door, Bai Wei went to the kitchen to find something to eat. She thought that the country people were too rude. She had to go back to Shanghai and leave this country place forever.
In the main hall, Old Lady Ye saw her eldest grandson coming back and quickly asked, "Yang, have you eaten?"
Ye Yang stood outside the doorway, shaking off the snow on his shoes. He turned around and said to his grandma, "Grandma, you haven't eaten yet."
When Zhao Zhaodi heard that her son had not eaten yet, she quickly got up and went to the kitchen to heat up food for her son. As soon as she entered the kitchen, she saw her daughter-in-law from the city breaking two eggs into the pot.
She curled her lips and said unhappily, "You only know how to eat well every day, and let your man go hungry, and you are not afraid of diarrhea."
Zhao Zhaodi got angry when she looked at her daughter-in-law. She was not as pretty as Ye Xiuhong, but she was more pretentious than her.
"Mom, Xiaoling is growing up, what's wrong with me breaking an egg for her?" Bai Wei became annoyed when she heard her mother-in-law talking. She stared at an egg as if it were her life, which was petty.
"Xiaoling ate one, so why did you make two? You are greedy and you are making excuses. Who taught you that? How can you eat eggs if you don't work or go to the fields!" Zhao Zhaodi counted with the cooking spatula. There were indeed two eggs in the pot.
Bai Wei didn't notice at a glance, and Zhao Zhaodi's spatula was already reaching into the pot of noodles to stir it. Bai Wei quickly put down the firewood in her hand, took out the spatula and put it aside.
"Mom, this is unhygienic. The spatula isn't washed, so putting it in there will be bacteria."
"What's the point of being thin? I've been feeding them like this since they were young, and both my son and my daughter are incredibly fat. Only you're the one who's always causing trouble and acting like you're a lady!"
Bai Wei felt a tightness in her chest due to Zhao Zhaodi's righteous words. After ten years, she still couldn't adapt to this rude mother-in-law.
"Mom, you make the meal. I'll go back and feed Xiaoling."
Bai Wei suppressed her temper and ignored Zhao Zhaodi, then returned to the house with the cooked egg noodles.
Zhao Zhaodi was left alone to stare at the mess in the kitchen made by Bai Wei.
"This woman doesn't even wash a bowl, she only knows how to coax a man, what a sin! Why is my life so miserable!"
While Zhao Zhaodi was cleaning up the mess Bai Wei had made in the kitchen, she leaned over to Bai Wei's room and muttered loudly, "I married into the Ye family and met a family full of spoiled girls. It's okay for Ye Xiuhong and her sister, because their surname is Ye, I can't compete with them. But you, on the other hand! A Bai came to the Ye family and became the king!"
In the room, Bai Wei was so angry that she broke her chopsticks. Unable to bear it any longer, she opened the door and said, "Mom, if you want to scold me, just come in and point your finger at me and scold me. You keep scolding people under the wall all day long. What's your habit?"
Zhao Zhaodi wasn't afraid of her, and shouted through the window, "I'm scolding you. What else can you do besides being able to read a few broken words? You don't cook or wash dishes, and you even gave birth to a girl. You might as well not have given birth at all!"
The noise in the yard reached the main room, and Ye Yang came out to mediate between his wife and mother.
"Xiao Wei, Mom, what are you two arguing about again?"
"You, you street shrew, you scoundrel! Ye Yang, why don't you go and look at your mother!"
In the past, when Bai Wei couldn't win an argument with Zhao Zhaodi, she would go to Ye Yang. This trick always worked. However, ever since she insisted on returning to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination and planned to divorce Ye Yang, Ye Yang's attitude towards her changed.
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