Chapter 54 The Greedy Cui Family
As soon as Ye Yang came out, he knew what was going on between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Bai Wei's living habits had never been integrated with the Ye family, and it was probably just a minor friction.
"Stop arguing, Xiaowei, your mother scolded you just now, and you scolded her too. You two are even now. It's cold outside, so go back to the house first." This time Ye Yang did not favor Bai Wei or anyone else.
"Ye Yang! Why don't you help me!"
Bai Wei stared at Ye Yang in a daze. She didn't expect that Ye Yang didn't help her educate her mother-in-law this time.
Zhao Zhaodi was very happy. Ever since Bai Wei came into the family, her son had forgotten his mother and had been taking sides every day. But today he actually showed some love for his mother.
Smiling, she went back to the kitchen to cook. "It's cold outside, son. Come in quickly. I'll heat up some food for you."
Zhao Zhaodi was in a good mood tonight, and even liked Ye Xiulan in the room. She was generous enough to make sugar water for everyone in the room, except Bai Wei.
"Wife, what's wrong with you tonight? Are you possessed?"
Ye Dajun looked at the sugar water in his hand, wanting to drink it but not daring to. Why did his wife give them sugar water? Did she put rat poison in it? Ye Dajun looked at Zhao Zhaodi suspiciously.
As soon as Zhao Zhaodi saw his thieving eyes, she knew this idiot was up to no good. "You foolish dog doesn't know how to appreciate kindness! If you don't want to drink, forget it!"
"Hey, I'll drink!"
"You drink a dung beetle!"
Zhao Zhaodi didn't give him a chance to regret. She snatched Ye Dajun's bowl, gulped down the whole thing, and gave Ye Dajun an empty bowl.
Ye Xiulan, who was standing by, watched her aunt drink it before she dared to pick up her own bowl and take a sip. It was really sweet.
Back at the Cui family, when Old Mrs. Cui heard that Ye Xiuhong's second uncle was coming back and was a Hong Konger, she suddenly felt itchy again.
"People in Hong Kong are very wealthy, and the crackdown is not strict now. The second uncle of that vixen might be a wealthy man." Old Mrs. Cui told Old Man Cui the news she had heard.
Old man Cui sat on the doorstep, his head down, sharpening his knife, and whispered to his wife, "Xiuhong is a good girl, but you are too troublesome and insisted on sending her back."
"Bah, a vixen who doesn't lay eggs, what's the use of her if you don't have money!" Old Mrs. Cui retorted to her husband forcefully.
"How can a fox lay eggs? Foxes give birth to cubs." Old man Cui said casually, which made Old lady Cui so angry that she kicked over his grindstone and went back to the house.
Old Mrs. Cui wanted to have a grandson, but also wanted to find a rich man. She was so anxious that she couldn't sleep all night.
But I have to marry Xinghua tomorrow, and my mouth is so anxious that it's burning with blisters.
Cui Xiaoya watched her mother spinning around like a top and put down her insole in frustration. "Mom, can you stop? It makes me dizzy."
Old Mrs. Cui sat on the stool with her buttocks. "What do you know, little girl? I'm just worried about your brother!"
Cui Xiaoya looked at her mother in confusion. "Isn't my brother getting married tomorrow? Mom, why are you so anxious to stay in the house instead of going to prepare the banquet?"
"Ouch! You have a barrel head!"
Old Mrs. Cui slapped her thigh and said, "It's that vixen again. Her second uncle who died a long time ago was found these days. I heard he's from Hong Kong."
Ever since Cui Xiaoya was beaten up by Ye Xiulan, she hasn't dared to go out and doesn't know anything about the Ye family.
"How could that vixen and her family of shrews have any relatives in Hong Kong?" Cui Xiaoya couldn't believe that such a good thing would happen to the Ye family.
"Of course not. The news has spread throughout the surrounding villages. The provincial leaders came to visit them specifically."
Cui Xiaoya's eyes flashed with calculation, "How about we call that vixen back?"
"What if your brother doesn't have a son? Why can't that vixen give birth? Oh, I'm really worried to death."
Cui Xiaoya gave her mother some advice, saying, "Mom, how about this? Let's put Xinghua's divorce on hold first, and then we'll see if the vixen's second uncle is actually a rich man."
"That makes sense, let's do it!"
Old Mrs. Cui looked at her daughter with shining eyes, and the two of them hit it off immediately.
Today should be the day that Ye Xiuhong and Cui Erzhu go to get their divorce certificate. Ye Laosan and his family waited at the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau for a long time but did not see any sign of Cui's family.
"What is Cui Erzhu doing!" Ye Xiulan stomped her feet and stared at the intersection angrily.
Jin Fenglian frowned and said suspiciously, "What a shameless thing Old Lady Cui is! Could it be that she wants to marry Xinghua while dragging Xiuhong along?"
"It's okay, Mom. Even if he doesn't come today, he will come sooner or later. He can't escape." Ye Xiuhong has completely come to terms with it recently. She will stay at home to take care of her parents in their old age and see them to the end of their lives. It won't be a waste of her life.
"Hey, my daughter is right. Let's see who can outlast the other."
In the end, the Ye family didn't wait for Cui Erzhu and went home angrily.
"Cui Erzhu is such a coward! Could it be that the Cui family heard about what happened to my second uncle, so they don't want to divorce my sister?" Ye Xiulan accidentally guessed the truth.
Jin Fenglian thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's true. This family is really not a good family."
Ye Xiulan thought about it, pulled her mother over and said, "How about we let him think that Second Uncle is very poor? Then he will probably beg for a divorce."
Jin Fenglian gave her little girl an affirmative look. She was indeed her daughter, as smart as she was.
"That's a good idea, let's do as you say!"
Ye Xiulan trotted all the way to her uncle's house to make a statement and gained unanimous agreement.
Except for Bai Wei, she has not been on the same page with the Ye family since she got married. She has always been too lazy to get involved in the affairs of the rural people. Few people in the Ye family truly accept her. Her popularity in the Ye family is not as good as her mother-in-law Zhao Zhaodi. Only Ye Yang has an opinion if he ignores her on weekdays. This time, even Ye Yang does not speak for her. Bai Wei has completely left the Ye family's intelligence center.
In the main room, Ye Xiulan was telling her grandparents about her plan to pretend to be poor for her second uncle. Everyone except Zhao Zhaodi was listening with great interest.
Zhao Zhaodi sat on the side, shelling peanuts, and rolled her eyes. "Still pretending to be poor. Maybe he's just too broke to come back, otherwise he wouldn't have said a word for over forty years."
I have to tell the truth about Zhao Zhaodi. It’s not that she is too poor to come back, but that she is too rich to come back.
In the afternoon, Jin Fenglian started to go to the fields to earn work points again. She had not been to the fields for several days because she was busy with her eldest daughter's affairs. She had to work harder today to earn back the work points.
When the aunts working in the fields nearby saw Jin Fenglian coming, they quickly surrounded her to work, wanting to find out about the second son of the Ye family.
"Fenglian, we have rich relatives in Hong Kong, why are you still working in the fields?" Aunt Zhang began to tease Jin Fenglian in a sarcastic tone again.
This time Jin Fenglian was not angry. She was just waiting for someone to give her the first start.
"Oh, don't mention it." He continued to bend over and turn the soil.
This statement was neither right nor wrong, and it made the people around him feel itchy.
"What's going on? Isn't it said that the second son of the Ye family has made a fortune in Hong Kong?" The aunt next to her saw Jin Fenglian shaking her head and sighing, and asked quickly.
"Sisters, you don't know why the second brother hasn't come back all these years?" Jin Fenglian wiped away her non-existent tears and acted as if it were real.
"Why?"
"How would I know that? Tell me quickly."
Jin Fenglian sniffed her nose. "This second brother was so poor outside that he couldn't even afford to eat. He was too embarrassed to come back. Now, he can't make it any further, so he's embarrassed to come back."
He took a breath, wiped his dry eyes and continued, "We understand that his parents are old and miss their son, but now there is suddenly an extra mouth to feed, and maybe he has to bring a family with him. How are we going to support him when he comes back?"
After saying this, Jin Fenglian left the crowd, found a quiet place, and went to turn the soil sadly.
There are few people in this area, which is good, so I can be lazy.
Everyone looked at her sad back and said, "Feng Lian has such a hard life. Not only do she have to raise a daughter, but now she has to raise a second child. Oh my god, it's so depressing to hear about it."
"That's right. There's no such good thing. A rich man rushes to find his poor relatives, but in the end he's not as good as our poor relatives."
"That's not true. When has pie ever fallen from the sky?"
Suddenly, a discussion broke out in the field. The scorekeeper urged them to go back to their own fields and work hard, but no one paid any attention to him. They were so excited about the discussion that no one had time to pay attention to him.
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