Ye Caiping stopped, looked at her, and smiled, "Who am I?"
Lady Pingguo hated Ye Caiping to the core. If it weren't for her, she wouldn't have lost so much face!
Why should I suffer such humiliation, and even offend the Shen family?
Lady Pingguo said coldly, "She is greedy for vanity and tries to curry favor with the powerful."
Ye Caiping said, "Are you referring to the time I saved you?"
"Isn't that right? The only reason you saved me back then was because you saw how luxurious my carriage was, guessed that I was rich and powerful, and wanted to curry favor with me."
Ye Caiping said calmly, "If you weren't powerful and influential, I would still save you. But you are powerful and influential, and I want to curry favor with you and hope you can become part of my network. What's wrong with that?"
"I'll only ask you one question: is it true that I saved you?"
"So what if it's true! I already paid it all back!"
"Yes, it was settled with 150 taels. Oh, that included 82 taels for a silk quilt, and more than ten taels for medical expenses and food. The lady only used a little over fifty taels to repay your life-saving grace."
The Duchess was furious: "That's because I know your true colors! Look at you now, my feeling back then was right, you just want to curry favor with me."
Ye Caiping was too lazy to waste words with her, so she simply nodded: "Yes."
Lady Pingguo seemed to have suddenly won a victory: "Hahaha, you yourself have admitted it!"
But the next second, Ye Caiping dropped a bombshell: "As you know, Madam, I was just a small-time rich farmer back then."
“But I have glassmaking skills. If no one protects me, I will be in trouble for possessing such a treasure. At the time, I thought that this lady must be rich and noble. If I save you, you will definitely be grateful to me. So I will cooperate with you to open a glass workshop.”
“We’ll each own half of the shares. I’ll provide the craftsmanship and manage the glass workshop, while you, my wife, just need to be my support.”
"I'm not trying to curry favor with you because I want anything in return. I just want to open a glass workshop with you and make money together!"
"But Madam's attitude..." Ye Caiping shook her head as she spoke, "Madam has always repaid kindness with enmity. I saved your life, but after you woke up, you spoke harshly to me."
The Duchess of Pingguo's eyes widened: "What did you say?"
Ye Caiping did not answer her, but sighed softly: "I, Ye Caiping, am not a lowly person. If Madam is not willing to make money with me, then so be it. I will not cling to her."
"Later I met Zhiyan, and I gave him half of the shares."
After saying that, Ye Caiping smiled and turned to leave.
The Duchess stood there, stunned, her eyes wide open, and she swayed, almost falling to the ground.
"Madam!" Granny Yu hurried over from a short distance away and helped her sit down on the ground.
She escorted Li Jiaojiao to the door, handed her over to Xiao Lü, and then quickly turned back.
Unexpectedly, when they found the Duchess of Pingguo, they overheard her heartbreaking conversation with Ye Caiping.
"A glass workshop..." The Duchess's mind went blank, her body trembled, and her heart pounded: "She said...she wanted to cooperate with me on a glass workshop..."
This is a glass workshop! And it's the only one of its kind!
If she had half of the shares in the glass workshop, wouldn't everything be solved for her family?
God knows how desperately she's for money! Her family has been losing money year after year.
She was so worried her hair turned white. If only she had a glass workshop...
The Duchess was filled with regret and resentment: "Why didn't she say so sooner... why didn't she say so sooner... she, she—"
Granny Yu was speechless, too exasperated to even try to persuade her.
What's the point of saying it?
Even if she had said it then, given her temperament, the lady would have scoffed and said, "What does a mere peasant woman know about business or glassmaking?" and then humiliated her.
Ye Yiren isn't some lowly person. With your attitude, even a dog wouldn't lick her boots.
The Duchess was so regretful she almost vomited blood.
But I felt mostly hatred inside!
I think it's all Ye Caiping's fault!
If Ye Caiping had said a few more words back then, she wouldn't have ended up like this...
The Duchess was sobbing there, unaware that there was a rockery in between.
Two young women were sitting there eating melon seeds when they heard these words, and their eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
The two exchanged a glance, spat out the sunflower seeds in their mouths, and hurried off to talk to someone.
The melon seeds in your hand can't compare to the sweetness of a melon fed to your mouth!
"I have something to tell you. Lady Ye is actually the savior of the Duchess of Pingguo!"
"What's going on? No way!"
"That's right! I just heard it. But Ye Yiren saved her life, and when she woke up, she spoke ill of her and even said that Ye Yiren was trying to curry favor with the powerful!"
"Later, she only gave me 150 taels of silver as a token of gratitude."
"No, no, it's not 150 taels. I heard that, there was money for other things included in it. I only actually gave a little over 50 taels!"
"Hiss... How can they be so stingy? Is her life only worth fifty-odd taels?"
"Forget about the money... It looks to me like I saved an enemy!"
"I saw something interesting at Jiuqin Tea House a while ago."
"When Ye Yiren came to the teahouse with her daughter, Li Jiaojiao rushed over, grabbed the table, and even made Ye Yiren kneel down in front of her."
"Later, the Duchess of Pingguo rushed in to protect her daughter and forced Lady Ye to kneel as well."
"I didn't think anything of it at the time... but now... this is supposed to be my savior? Not only do they not help their savior, but they're actually helping their cheating adopted daughter bully their savior!"
"Hiss, this is a classic case of ingratitude! Ye Yiren really saved a heartless ingrate!"
"And also... I also heard Ye Yiren say that when he saved her, he saw that she was dressed like a noble person and wanted to cooperate with her to open this glass workshop! But she spoke rudely to him... so he immediately backed down."
"Tsk tsk, that's hilarious! This is some incredible windfall, and she actually used an umbrella to avoid it!"
These words quickly spread throughout the entire Marquis of Dingguo's residence.
The Duke of Pingguo's mansion and others never expected that they would become famous again so soon after they had just become famous!
They were nothing but a den of snakes and rats, blind to the goodness of their own children, and they took in a morally corrupt adopted daughter.
Now they've been given even more titles: ungrateful and heartless!
Being blind to talent has reached a whole new level!
The Duke of Pingguo and his two sons were so angry that their faces turned pale, and they were ridiculed and mocked throughout the banquet!
Even if you try to hide, the guests and servants of the Shen family will drag you out and continue to mock you.
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