Li Jiaojiao stared coldly at Zhang Fuhu.
My maternal grandfather's family is the most cold-blooded and selfish.
When the Sun family was wealthy, he always called her his beloved daughter, but when the family fell from grace, he immediately turned his back on them. He watched them suffer without lifting a finger.
If he had been willing to help them back then, they wouldn't have had such a miserable life in the Sun family.
Li Jiaojiao said coldly, "Now that Grandpa knows, he also knows what kind of humiliation my mother suffered. That old woman Zhao actually said that my mother was a rich young lady who earned fifty taels of silver. Her family is too weak; they can't compare to that lowly woman."
Zhang Fu was furious.
He had been a wealthy household for so many years, earning fifty taels a month, which was a very small number, easily counted on one hand, even in the surrounding villages.
Now he's being told he's inferior to a woman, and that woman is his daughter's rival, so naturally she's his rival too.
Zhang Fu was extremely unhappy.
But what can he do?
Thinking about it, Zhang Fuhu vented his anger on Zhang Shuiniang: "What, you're complaining that I, as your father, am not rich enough?"
"Speaking of which, Ye Caiping's parents are the poor ones. Does she complain about her parents being poor? She's a few years younger than you! She's capable of making money and bringing honor to her parents. Why don't you make a lot of money and bring us honor?"
Zhang Shuiniang and Li Jiaojiao's faces turned a deep shade of liver color, only then realizing that Ye Caiping was of the same generation as Zhang Shuiniang, and a few years younger.
"You wretched thing!" Zhang Fuhu roared. "She just caused the death of her ex-husband in the Sun family, and now that she's finally found a scholar, he's still restless every day. Instead of serving her husband's family properly, she's too lazy to let her mother-in-law serve her!"
"Now that you can't compete with them, you're blaming us? I'm ashamed of you for all of this! Get back here, or I'll disown you!"
Zhang Shuiniang's face turned deathly pale: "No, Father..."
Li Jiaojiao was very indignant: "What do you mean by being too lazy to ask my mother-in-law to serve me... Doesn't that prove that my mother is my father's darling?"
“She doesn’t do housework because her father wants her to; he spoils her! Your daughter is loved by her husband; you should be grateful, not criticize her. Besides, that matter is long gone, and there are servants to do the housework.”
"As for now... my mother is back only to maintain a respectable position in the Li family! Grandfather, don't forget that the Zhang family's thirty acres of land are still registered under my father's name! If my mother hadn't found a good husband, how much more grain tax would you have to pay every year?"
Zhang Fuhu's expression changed slightly.
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