Chapter 3 Chapter 3 "Xiao Tan, what is this?" (Xiu...
Before, Ye Tan was deeply in love with Li Congjun. The more he ignored her, the more she cared about him and obeyed his orders.
But in fact, Li Congjun is a philandering scumbag who has been coveting Ye Tan's beauty for a long time.
The book says that although Li Congjun looked cold, he actually wanted to coax Ye Tan into bed, and he eventually succeeded.
As a result, on the day of paying the betrothal gifts, the Li family used the excuse that Ye Tan was already their son and refused to pay a penny of the betrothal gifts. When the neighbors found out, they laughed at them behind their backs.
But Ye Tan didn't care. She seemed to be drugged by Li Congjun and agreed to marry him.
This became an indelible flaw in her life after marriage, and the Li family disliked her for losing her virginity before marriage.
Thinking about it, Ye Tan's thoughts drifted away. Pulling back his thoughts, he said to his parents, "Li Congjun is a philandering scumbag. He has always been trying to coax me into being with him. I'm afraid that if he doesn't succeed, I won't be able to refuse the marriage."
Ye Jianguo's expression changed, and Xu Huiling also grabbed Ye Tan's hand. She wanted to ask something, but felt it was not appropriate to say it in front of a man.
She took Ye Tan into the house, and asked him seriously: "You just said that Li Congjun wanted to coax you into being with him, so do you..."
Xu Huiling looked as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. Ye Tan knew what she wanted to ask and shook her head directly: "No, Mom, don't worry, he and I just held hands. He wanted to hug me but I didn't let him. I always remember what you told me: girls can't hug men before marriage."
Xu Huiling heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and patted her chest in fear, saying, "That's good. My dear daughter, remember what I say in the future. No matter who it is, you can't let him hug you before you're married, let alone take off your clothes."
Ye Tan nodded obediently, "I understand, Mom."
Ye Jianguo, who was waiting outside, was also worried. He was afraid that his daughter was naive and would be deceived by a man. What would he do in the future?
Just when I was worrying, Xu Huiling came out holding Ye Tan's hand.
Seeing his wife's relaxed expression and smile, Ye Jianguo knew that things were not as serious as he had imagined, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry, Xiao Tan. I'll talk to you about cancelling the engagement. I'll just say it's not suitable. Even if the Li family doesn't want to, they can't force you to marry me."
"It might just affect your reputation a little bit, but it's temporary. After a year or two, everyone will forget about it."
"You're only eighteen this year. It's not too late to find a good partner after a year."
Ye Tan thought for a moment and said, "I suddenly remembered something."
Xu Huiling asked, "What's the matter?"
Ye Tan: "One time when I went to deliver food, I saw him making ambiguous eyes with a female comrade from his unit. He even gave her the shrimp I gave him. The female comrade smiled sweetly at Li Congjun."
"At the time, I didn't think much of it, thinking it was just a normal interaction between colleagues, but now I think there's something wrong."
After hearing her daughter's description, Xu Huiling slammed her hand on the table and angrily said, "What do you mean by 'getting along normally'? I'm surrounded by quite a few male colleagues at work, and I've never seen anyone pick up food for another woman. Let me tell you about your dad. If that woman dares to pick up food for your dad, I'll go up and smack her in the face, believe it or not!"
Ye Tan looked at Ms. Xu, who had always been gentle, and suddenly turned into a female demon. She believed it, she believed it especially.
Not to mention this conservative era, even in later generations, unless they are in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, which man would pick up food for another woman?
It's obvious that the relationship is not normal.
Before this, Ye Tan seemed to have no brains and thought that it was just a normal interaction between colleagues.
Ye Tan felt that it would not be easy to use this matter to get the Li family to cancel the engagement. After all, the parties involved would not admit it and they could not produce any evidence. But they could try another thing.
Ye Tan nodded his forehead and said hesitantly, "I also forgot where I heard that Li Congjun was having an affair with the widow next door. I also saw the widow going to Lao Pozi's house before."
When Xu Huiling suddenly heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and then she thought about who Lao Pozi was?
She was a famous midwife in the neighborhood, and she also performed abortions privately.
The widow and the others also knew about it. Everyone lived not far from the river. Even if they had not seen him, they had heard of him.
The widow had been widowed in the second year of her marriage, and now her husband had been dead for two or three years. It couldn't be that she was looking for Lao Po to have a child? It couldn't even be a visit. So, one of the two families, one in the south and one in the north, would travel all the way to visit Lao Po.
None of these, that is...
Xu Huiling thought for a moment, then looked at Ye Jianguo, and then she felt relieved.
The young daughter-in-law is unable to keep her promise, and there is a philandering man living next door. It is not impossible that they will have an affair.
Ye Jianguo also felt that there was no smoke without fire, and that someone must have seen something to spread the rumor.
He snorted coldly and said, "This Li Congjun is really not a good guy. This marriage must be cancelled!"
Ye Tan said everything she could say, thinking that her father was not a fool and would know what to do so as not to affect her cancellation of the engagement. Then she just had to wait for news.
Xu Huiling looked at the sky and said, "It's getting late today. Tomorrow is a day off. I'll go find Aunt Sun."
"She was the matchmaker when we got engaged, so she should be present when we break off the engagement. If we want to break off the engagement, we should do it openly. Otherwise, people will think we did it secretly because we did something wrong."
After saying this, Xu Huiling went to the kitchen.
Ye Tan rolled himself in an egg to reduce the swelling, wrinkling his nose and asking, "What smells so good?"
Ye Jianguo then remembered something and took out an oil-paper bag from the bag beside him. Before he opened it, Ye Tan could smell the scent of donkey meat hotpot.
Ye Jianguo handed the paper bag to Ye Tan and said with a loving smile, "Are you hungry? It's still hot. Eat it quickly. It will taste better when it's cold."
Ye Tan was moved again while holding the donkey meat hot pot. He was even more moved after taking a bite. He hadn't eaten such authentic donkey meat hot pot for many years.
This cook must be from Baoding.
When Xu Huiling came out with the vegetables, she saw the donkey meat hotpot in Ye Tan's hand and asked, "Why are they selling out so quickly in the middle of the month?"
Ye Jianguo came over and sat beside him to help pick the vegetables. As he worked, he said, "It is said that there was an old donkey that broke its leg and was killed."
Xu Huiling immediately thought of the supply and marketing cooperative: "That supply and marketing cooperative should sell donkey meat. Why didn't I see it when I went there this afternoon?"
"Donkey meat is rare, so it must have been snapped up by insiders long ago."
Xu Huiling thought about it and realized that the good things would definitely be known to the people with connections within the supply and marketing cooperative first, and it would not be their turn.
Xu Huiling looked down at the man who had finished picking a handful of vegetables, then immediately went to the kitchen and got him a fish to kill by the well.
Xu Huiling can cook, but she is afraid of killing fish and chickens, as these things are usually done by men.
Ye Jianguo took the fish to the well to kill it, and Ye Tan squatted on the side, eating while watching Ye Jianguo skillfully remove the gills, scrape the scales and open the belly... His movements were smooth and flowing, and it was obvious that he did this work many times.
Men who do housework are the most handsome. At this moment, Ye Tan thought that Comrade Ye Jianguo’s face was so handsome when he was seriously killing fish.
His parents are both good-looking, a combination of a handsome man and a beautiful woman, and their son and daughter are both very good-looking.
Ye Tan's daughter has carried forward the strengths of her parents and elevated them to a higher level, becoming dazzlingly beautiful.
It’s just that although Ye Tan was beautiful in the past, her beauty was weak and not aggressive at all, so Li Congjun thought she was easy to deceive and coax, and could be taken home as a qualified vase for him to play with.
The fire was not big and was soon eaten up by Ye Tan following the fish-killing tutorial.
She mistook the fish for Li Congjun and felt refreshed after seeing it.
After eating, wipe your mouth and think about it again. Is the first step in killing a fish to scrape off the scales or remove the gills?
I can’t remember, so I just don’t think about it.
The next day, Ye Jianguo got up early, dressed himself, and shaved. Xu Huiling also went to see Aunt Sun.
Ye Jianguo was planning to find his eldest cousin from the next room to go to the Li family to break off the engagement. Unfortunately, just before he left, there was a problem with a batch of goods at the steel plant, and the factory urgently transferred him over to check it out.
Ye Jianguo was tripped.
The people at the factory were very anxious, and Ye Jianguo couldn't refuse. Finally, Xu Huiling brought Aunt Sun over. After hearing what Ye Jianguo said, she had no choice but to send Aunt Sun back and said she would go again in the afternoon.
Ye Jianguo hurried to the factory, and Ye Tan slept until the sun was halfway up the sky before opening his eyes.
I got up and stretched. It had been a long time since I had such a comfortable sleep.
Ye Tan used to be under a lot of pressure. He suffered from insomnia when he was not working overtime. The work was very intense and he did not get enough rest. No wonder he died suddenly of a heart attack in the end.
Be nice to yourself in this life.
Ye Tan thought it was good to be a salted fish, as salted fish have a long life.
After breakfast, Ye Xianyu sat at the door of his house to enjoy the cool air.
After a while, the old woman on the west side suddenly started cursing because some of the green onions planted at the foot of the wall in her house were pulled out. She cursed so vigorously that even the scorching hot weather could not dampen her momentum.
Ye Tan had never heard this kind of shrew scolding in the street before, but now he found it quite interesting. The art of language involved was worth further study.
However, no matter how interesting it was, his ears started buzzing after a while. Ye Tan turned over and covered his face with the palm-leaf fan to block out the sound.
"Xiao Tan, are you enjoying the cool air at the door?" a woman's voice came.
Ye Tan, who had closed his eyes, opened them a little, took away the large palm-leaf fan from his face, and looked at the person who came.
It was discovered that the woman was about the same age as Ms. Xu, but she had more fine lines around her eyes than Xu Huiling.
Ye Tan took a few glances and asked, "Auntie, what's wrong?"
The smile on Jin Guihua's face froze. "What auntie are you talking about, kid? You haven't seen Second Auntie for a few days and you can't even call her that?"
Jinguihua dragged a small stool over and sat down next to Ye Tan. Then she raised her hand, shook her shirt, and said, "Look, what good things did your second aunt bring you? New clothes."
Ye Tan took a look at the good stuff and said to the second aunt with a smile: "It turns out to be new clothes. If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was rags picked up from you."
Jin Guihua's smile faded upon hearing this. "What rags are you talking about, kid? This is a new dress. I originally made it for your cousin, but it's a little too tight for Erfeng, and it would be too much trouble to alter it, so I thought I'd give it to you."
"Don't be fooled by the ugly color of this dress. The fabric is very strong and durable. It won't tear even if you wear it for three to five years."
"Stand up quickly and try it on."
Jin Guihua diligently pulled her up.
Ye Tan didn't move at all. She didn't want to wear anything, nor did she want to pick up rags.
This second aunt is not mentioned much in the book, but judging from her current actions, she is also a laughing Bodhisattva.
"Second aunt, I don't lack clothes. You should take this back. My cousin looks thin when she wears it. Second aunt, you are quite thin. Keep it for yourself."
"How can that be? I'm old, and this dress is made in the style you young girls wear. How can I wear it?"
Ye Tan was speechless at her nonsense. The dress was so gray, how could it be considered a young style? It would make an old lady look old.
Ye Tan simply waved his hand, not wanting to chat with her, "Second aunt, take it back. I don't want it."
Golden Osmanthus...
Ye Tan was not like this before. She was very easy to talk to and would generally not refuse if you gave her something.
What happened today? He looks like a different person.
Jin Guihua was confused, but when she looked at her lazy niece in front of her, her face was still the same, unchanged, except for a bruise.
Is your brain damaged?
Jinguihua remained silent and held up two fingers to Ye Tan: "Xiao Tan, what's this?"
Ye Tan...
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