In the fitting room, Qiao Ruoxi took off the gourd from her waist and hung it on a hook, then hung clothes on it to block the view.
"You were arguing so much before, but why are you so quiet now?" Qiao Ruoxi chatted while changing clothes.
Pei Yaori sighed, "I just feel a little sad. How come the descendants of our Pei family have all become like this? Ayan is irresponsible, and even Mengmeng is overbearing and unreasonable. I often think that if Yaolin were still alive, perhaps this wouldn't have happened..."
"Yao Lin?" Qiao Ruoxi asked.
"Pei Yaolin is my biological sister. My mother particularly likes girls, so Yaolin has been doted on since she was born. Even though I am the eldest son, I am not treated as well as my sister. But it was this unconditional doting that indirectly cost Yaolin her life."
Qiao Ruoxi raised her eyebrows and became interested.
Most of the families she knew valued boys over girls, such as their Qiao family. Girls' lives were worthless and could be sent to the mountains to suffer for the sake of the family, or married to terminally ill old men for the sake of the family's interests.
It is rare to favor girls over boys.
"Since my sister was little, my mother would do her best to satisfy whatever she wanted. If she asked for the moon, my mother would never give her the stars. She was very smart but didn't want to study. She dropped out of middle school, but my mother didn't care. She thought that the Pei family was wealthy and would definitely support Yaolin. So she agreed and let her do what she liked."
Qiao Ruoxi frowned: "Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles is a good way to learn. Why do you allow her not to study?"
Her master taught her since she was young that those who advocate that women’s virtue lies in their lack of talent are people with extremely bad intentions. Girls must read books thoroughly in order to know what the outside world is like and to change their own destiny.
Pei Yaori chuckled: "Yes, how could we not study? But we didn't realize this problem at the time, until one day, Yaolin told us that she fell in love with a man, and she wanted to marry him and have children with him."
"After my mother found out, she investigated this man. His name was Ning Sheng. He was the only college graduate in the village. After graduation, he worked in engineering. My mother wasn't someone who looked down on the poor. As long as the man was good and her daughter liked him, she had no objection. So she investigated the man's character. Some people said he was honest, while a small number said he smoked and drank alcohol privately."
"Obviously this person is a two-faced person. Now that it has been discovered that he has bad character, given Madam Pei's personality, she should stop him." Qiao Ruoxi guessed.
"Yeah, how could I not stop it? But what I got in return was Yaolin's fiercer resistance. In the end, she even learned from me to steal the household registration book, secretly got married to that man, and went back to live with him in his hometown." Pei Yaori's voice was full of guilt. He did not set a good example.
Qiao Ruoxi twitched her lips. Was it the Pei family's ancestral tradition to have secret marriages, the kind that even their mother kept secret?
"What happened next?" Qiao Ruoxi asked.
"Yao Lin was spoiled and brought up without any formalities. My mom thought she couldn't handle the hardship and would come back in a few days. But she didn't expect that two years later, not only did she not come back, but even communication with her stopped. It's as if she had vanished without a trace."
Qiao Ruoxi raised an eyebrow: "Something happened?"
Pei Yaori shook his head. "No, my mother mobilized the Pei family's power and finally found Yaolin again. After trekking through mountains and rivers, we discovered that it was a small village so poor that there was no internet signal. The roads were muddy everywhere, and my sister was so skinny that she carried our daughter on her back and washed clothes for the whole family by hand at the well!"
"Your sister should finally understand that what Madam Pei said is right now, and go home obediently, right?" Qiao Ruoxi asked.
Pei Yaori continued to shake his head: "We all thought so, but my sister refused to go back and insisted on staying here."
Qiao Ruoxi frowned: "Why? This doesn't make sense."
Pei Yaori gritted his teeth and said, "Do you know what PUA is? We later found out that this family is not human. They control my sister's mind by constantly belittling her, making her feel worthless. If she leaves this family, she and her children will be pointed at and called scumbags, and they will lose their way. My mother and I didn't realize this at the time and didn't intervene in time. We just thought Yaolin was deeply in love with this man and didn't want to go back."
Qiao Ruoxi's eyes darkened.
"My mother loves her daughter so much that she built roads and internet for that mountain village, built a villa for her family, and gave that family a large sum of money. She just hopes that they can treat Yaolin better and take good care of her health."
"In the end, not only did they not treat Yaolin well, they also boasted to everyone about their son's promising future. Not only did he get married without spending a penny, he saved twenty years of hard work. The most hateful thing is that they actually forced my sister, despite her frail body, to have a son through IVF. As a result, my sister died of amniotic fluid embolism in the village clinic!"
Qiao Ruoxi: ...
"My mother was furious and wanted to take Mengmeng back home to raise her. That family knew they couldn't beat the Pei family, so they instigated Mengmeng to cry and make a scene. My mother felt sorry for Mengmeng and had to let her return to her biological father. She also gave them some money. But not only did his family not treat Mengmeng well, they used the money to help their son remarry."
"After the man gave birth to a son, Mengmeng's life was completely ruined. She couldn't afford to leave the village. They even stopped her from studying and forced her to work to earn money for her brother."
"By going out to work, she got in touch with Old Lady Pei?" Qiao Ruoxi asked.
Pei Yaori sighed, "Yes, my mother was heartbroken. She insisted that Mengmeng continue her studies. She couldn't let her follow my sister's path. She also cut off contact with her biological father."
"Have you ever thought that maybe Ning Yimeng's appearance was not to ask for help, but another way for that family to make money." Qiao Ruoxi adjusted her skirt and spoke lightly.
Pei Yaori was stunned. "How is this possible! That beast killed Mengmeng's mother and abused her since she was a child. How could she lie to my mother for them?"
Qiao Ruoxi smiled and said, "Don't underestimate the influence of one's family of origin on a person. The more one can't get something, the more one desires it, such as family affection."
Ning Yimeng's cursing and mocking voices could still be heard intermittently from outside the door.
"Who does she think she is? She's just a slut selling her body for money. Pry the door open!"
"Ms. Ning, this is illegal and we have no right to do this!" Guo Anya stopped her.
Qiao Ruoxi smoothed her long, cascading hair. "For example, the words her father used to insult her and her mother, even if she was the victim, would subtly become her own language, and then become words that hurt others."
Pei Yaori:......
"All they do is be a mistress and destroy other people's families. This is the kind of person I despise the most!" Ning Yimeng's voice was choked with sobs.
"Also, her miserable life experience is not a reason for her to speak without thinking and do whatever she wants." Qiao Ruoxi said, reaching out to open the door of the locker room.
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