"We are here to give her something, not to ask for money from poor relatives!" Yang Xiucai frowned.
Li Qiumei tried to persuade us kindly at first, "We are all relatives, and my sister would be happy if we could stay. Besides, she now uses silk for her quilt cover, and any little she throws out would be enough for us to live well. Husband, I think you just ask her, she won't disagree."
But Mr. Yang was pedantic and just shook his head.
Li Qiumei got angry when she saw that she couldn't make sense after a few words. "Why does she deserve to have a satin quilt, rosewood tables and chairs, and sleep on a high bed with soft pillows, while I don't deserve anything! Yang Zhengwen! Check your conscience. I have been married to you for all these years and even gave birth to two sons for you. When have I ever been unfaithful to you, and when have you ever been worthy of me!"
"Before I got married, my father was a scholar. More than ten years ago, Mr. Zhou proposed marriage to my family. If I had married Mr. Zhou at that time, I would have been an official's wife now!" She did not mention that more than ten years ago, Mr. Zhou's family was penniless and he did not even have the title of scholar.
"I shouldn't have married a loser like you. What's your sister's background? Her parents are just country folk, and they even joined an opera troupe and became low-class people! I come from a respectable scholarly family, but I have to live a life like this with you!" Li Qiumei was used to being a country woman, and her loud voice could be heard from far away.
Yang Xiucai shrank his head as she scolded him, and seeing that she seemed determined to achieve her goal, he coaxed her and said, "Okay, okay, I'll discuss it with her after dinner tonight."
Only then did Li Qiumei stop arguing.
She took out her powder box from her bag and started to apply it on her face. Since she was going to the Shen family, she was wearing her new clothes. She just brushed off the dirt on her shoes when she stood up.
Yang Xiucai saw her like this and asked, "Are you going out?"
Li Qiumei hummed as an answer to her husband, and then she pulled the door and went out. Yang Xiucai asked hurriedly, "Who are you going to see?" You know, they don't have many familiar friends here. Li Qiumei then explained, "I was a close friend before I got married, and I haven't seen her for more than ten years."
Yang Xiucai said "oh" and didn't stop her anymore.
Li Qiumei didn't come back for a long time after she went out. As it was getting dark, Liu sent someone to invite her back.
Only then did Yang Xiucai go over.
Liu cooked a few hard dishes herself, and asked Chen Mama to buy several delicious dishes from the restaurant outside as a bonus, so the table was full. Shen Qingqiu endured the roundworms in his stomach and only ate the fruits and vegetables handed to him by his mother, finally waiting for his cousin to come.
"Where is my sister-in-law? Why isn't she here?" Liu looked behind him.
Yang Xiucai said embarrassedly, "She said she went out to meet a friend who was not married before at noon, and she hasn't come back yet." He felt even more embarrassed when he looked at the large table of dishes prepared by Liu.
Liu knew what her brother was thinking. "Don't think too much, cousin. The friendship before marriage must be different from that of ordinary people. It doesn't matter if we waste more time. We are all family." She called the maid in the room out and asked Yang Xiucai to sit down and eat. She said, "Mother Chen, close the door and sit together."
Mother Chen smiled and thanked her aunt, then sat down next to Shen Qingqiu.
“You are a grown-up girl, how can you spill food while eating!” She snatched the snack from Shen Qingqiu’s mouth, and Shen Qingqiu glared at her angrily. But now the old woman was not afraid of this little devil anymore.
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