As Ye Caiping's memories ended, she couldn't help but curse the original owner of this body as utterly despicable and reaping what she sowed.
At that moment, the arguing outside continued, and Du's indignant voice rang out again:
"Whether she goes back to the Li family or goes anywhere else, she cannot stay in the Ye family!"
Silence.
After a long while, the eldest brother, Ye Daquan, finally spoke in a deep voice:
“Honey, I know you’re upset. But ultimately, we’re the ones in charge of this family, and we’re the ones who made Xuan’er drop out of school. What does it have to do with Xiaomei? If you want to blame someone, blame me!”
The second brother, Ye Erquan, quickly chimed in, "I'm partly to blame too. Sister-in-law, you may hate me, but don't blame your younger sister."
Du's face was deathly pale, her thin body swayed, and she pointed at them, laughing loudly:
"Even now, you're still protecting her! She's just a married sister-in-law, and she gets all the good food and fun things in our house first!"
"To support her husband's education, she actually cut off her own children's and grandchildren's schooling! Ye, how can you be so human? Our whole family has to revolve around her, why? Why? Aren't my children and I human? Aren't we human?"
Upon hearing this, the Ye family members all fell silent.
Ye Caiping, who was just a wall away, was also furious and wished she could grab Ye Daquan and his brother and beat them a few times.
Yeah, why should we?
The original owner must have been the so-called "family darling"! Her parents doted on her, and would fulfill even the most unreasonable demands of their daughter.
The two older brothers were even more obsessed with their sister, to the point of being brain-dead and banging their heads against the wall for her!
From the original owner's perspective, it was a life of being pampered and cherished in a blissful home, but from the perspective of the sister-in-law and nephew, it was like being stuck with a bunch of lunatics and awful people.
Ye Caiping sighed softly; she had died in the modern world and could never go back.
From then on, she became Ye Caiping here.
She has to clean up this mess.
Ye Caiping endured the dizziness in her head and got out of bed. She lifted the curtain and saw that the room was full of people.
Old man Ye and old woman Ye with gray hair; eldest brother Ye Daquan, second brother Ye Erquan;
The eldest sister-in-law, Du, who was filled with grief and indignation, the second sister-in-law, Wei, who shrank back and dared not utter a sound, and several nephews and nieces were all present.
The Ye family members were all dressed in drab clothes, patched upon patched, and each of them was as thin as a stick, with a sallow complexion.
"Caiping is awake!" Grandma Ye exclaimed first, stepping forward to support her. "Why did you come out? Go back and get some rest."
"I'm fine." Ye Caiping shook her head.
Ye Daquan breathed a sigh of relief, then glared fiercely at Du Shi: "You silly woman, you made my little sister so angry that she had to get out of bed! If you can't stand her, then go back to your parents' home! You're an outsider, you have no right to kick her out!"
"you--"
Ye Caiping was completely flustered. She wasn't so angry at Du Shi that she got up, but rather at Ye Daquan's extraordinary intelligence! She stared at Ye Daquan:
"Brother, apologize to your wife. She married you, so she's a member of the Ye family. How can you call her an outsider?"
Ye Daquan was completely bewildered: "Little sister, what's wrong with you? She's an outsider! Didn't you tell me that?"
Not only Ye Daquan, but also Ye Erquan and others stared at her in shock.
Ye Caiping choked for a moment, as memories flooded her mind.
In the past, when the original owner went back to her parents' home to ask for money and food, and Du Shi argued with her, she would always refer to Du Shi as an outsider.
He would often pull his two older brothers aside and lecture them, saying that he and they were the closest blood relatives born of the same mother, and that his two sisters-in-law were from different families and that he couldn't treat them sincerely.
Ye Daquan had already been subjected to the full range of PUA tactics by the original owner, which is why he so smoothly referred to his wife as an outsider.
Ye Caiping said, "I was ignorant before. I shouldn't have said that my eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law were outsiders, and I shouldn't have emptied my family's savings to subsidize that beast Li Zhiyuan. I shouldn't have caused Xuan'er to drop out of school. I'm sorry."
She actually apologized?
Everyone looked out the window at the same time. Could it be that the sun rose in the west today?
And what did they all hear?
Everyone knows that Ye Caiping has always regarded Li Zhiyuan as her heaven and earth, and she always says "my husband, my husband" all the time. Now she actually dares to call him a beast.
Could it be that he damaged his brain?
After her initial shock, Du was filled with anger.
She didn't care what Ye Caiping was up to: "What's the use of your apology? You've already spent all the money on Li Zhiyuan, and Xuan'er's life is ruined!"
Ye Xuan is already sixteen years old, but he has only studied at the town's elementary school for three years. Now that he is older, the elementary school will not accept him anymore.
I want to get into the academy, but I've fallen so far behind in my studies that I simply won't pass the entrance exam.
Originally, they had planned to recommend Li Zhiyuan to the academy after he passed the county-level imperial examination, but that plan is no longer viable.
Ye Caiping had already come up with a solution: "I will return the money and grain that I took over the years. Once I earn money, I will hire a tutor for Xuan'er to catch up on his missed lessons. If I fail to do so within three months, you can do whatever you want with me."
Madam Du didn't believe a word of it, and said angrily, "Hire a tutor? Do you know how much that costs? Two taels of silver a month! I'm sick of your empty promises!"
This awful aunt of mine has always been very talkative, always saying things like, "After my husband passes the imperial examination, this and that will happen." The current version of the story is just a different kind of story.
Ye Caiping remained silent.
Given the original owner's past habit of making empty promises to everyone she met, she didn't expect others to believe her, but she would deliver.
The Ye brothers, however, were quite pleased with Ye Caiping's attitude.
Although the two brothers were also stuffed from eating their sister's pancakes, their sister had already apologized, so what more could they ask for?
"Stop arguing, everyone." At this moment, Old Man Ye, who had been silent all along, put his pipe down on the table, looked at Madam Du, and sighed softly.
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