Chapter 63 There is nothing good in your Ye family
Yipinxian is a very famous restaurant in the city.
In the private room, Gu Ruanci sat there, looking at the man opposite her, her expression seeming a little surprised.
The man didn't feel uncomfortable and said directly, "I know you no longer use the name Zhou Qingran, but that doesn't matter. After all, my sister entrusted you to the Shouguo Mansion before she died. You were included in their family tree, which gave you your current status. We haven't seen each other for ten years, so we don't know what you and your daughter have experienced outside."
The man's words seemed to say a lot, but to Gu Ruanci it was equivalent to saying nothing.
"Minister, when you were reporting to the Emperor in the court, did you also use so much nonsense as a prelude?"
Gu Ruanci asked directly. In her heart, the Ye family was also her enemy.
On the other side, Ye Lingyue wanted to say something, but was stopped by the man.
The man chuckled self-deprecatingly. "After all these years, you're still as stubborn as you were when you were little. I know you definitely don't want to see your second uncle, let alone recognize him. But if we go directly to the Gu family, we probably won't be able to get in. That's why I came up with this idea. Let your cousin invite you. This way, it won't tarnish your reputation."
When Gu Ruanci heard that he finally got to the point, she leaned back and gave him a chance to continue.
"You were still young before, and perhaps you didn't have the concept of family, so no matter what I told you, you thought we were just making excuses to protect your aunt. But have you ever thought that since that incident happened, for our two families, we must all prosper and suffer together."
"Unfortunately, your mother forgot this principle in order to gain respect."
When Gu Ruanci heard this, his expression became even more intriguing.
She looked directly at the man in front of her without any hesitation. He was Ye Lanxin's second brother Ye Chi, now the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
"Cousin, we are a family connected by blood after all. If we keep making trouble like this, won't it make people laugh at us?"
Ye Lingyue also started to assist. She is the daughter of Ye Lanxin's other brother Ye Cheng, who is now the Marquis of Yunyang.
"Aren't your Yunyang Marquisate and Jing'an Marquisate a joke to begin with? You think that now that I'm back and have status and position, I should cherish the glory I have and be careful not to lose everything if I lose it. So, in order to maintain my current status, I must forget everything that happened in the past, shake hands with your Ye family and make peace, and give up hatred for the sake of profit, right?"
Gu Ruanci directly summarized what the two people wanted to convey to her in the most straightforward words.
Ye Chi was a little embarrassed, but quickly adjusted himself.
"If you insist on expressing yourself in this way, I certainly can't argue. After all, our ultimate goal is to become your family. The Duke of Shou has no brothers or sisters, and his wife also has no family from her mother's side. So, in the future, the Zhou and Ye families will be the ones who can look after you in Dizhou City, especially your three biological brothers. They are the ones who were born to the same mother as you. I don't believe your mother hasn't thought about them all these years."
Ye Chi's words were quite contagious.
Gu Ruanci remained sober. After all, if she let go of all expectations, there would be no more hurt.
"Of course I have. I was bitten by three ungrateful children I gave birth to. How could I not remember the pain? But every time my mother thought of them, she regretted giving birth to them. Now that my mother is dead, they are even more insignificant to me. So Minister Ye wants to use these words to move me. Thinking about the past will only make me more disgusted."
Ye Lingyue's heart trembled. It seemed that Gu Ruanci was really determined to go against their two families.
"What about your grandmother? Aren't you worried about that?" Ye Chi changed the topic.
Ye Lingyue was a little slow to catch up. She thought her second uncle would emphasize again that the three brothers of the Zhou family also lost their biological mother at a young age and were equally pitiful.
"Minister Ye mentioned my grandmother directly because he knew that mentioning Ye Keguan would only make me more annoyed, right? But my grandmother seems to have nothing to do with you. After all, none of you in the Ye family today are her descendants."
My grandmother had only one daughter, my mother, and she died later.
Ye Chi narrowed his eyes and said, "I heard that you specially enshrined a tablet for your mother at the Xuan Di Temple. We haven't forgotten to burn incense for your grandmother over the years. Let's put other things aside for now. If you have time, go and pay your respects to your grandmother. After all, you are her bloodline..."
Gu Ruanci asked jokingly, "So you're not her descendants. Why are you worshipping her? Aren't you afraid of nightmares? Or is Ye Keguan guilty and worried that his late wife will come after him and take him away to make amends to my mother? I'm even more curious: is the current Madam of the Marquis of Yunyang, your mother, really willing to allow her children to offer incense and kowtow to her husband's first wife?"
Before Ye Chi could answer, Gu Ruanci said, "Based on her personality, she shouldn't feel guilty about her daughter doing something shameless. She should be very proud. My grandmother passed away, and she became the wife of the Marquis of Yunyang and enjoyed the benefits directly. As a result, her daughter can also take over the man of my grandmother's daughter."
"They, mother and daughter, have taken over the blessings of my grandmother and her daughter. They placed my grandmother's tablet in the Ye family. Are they going to show it off when they have nothing to do?"
Ye Lingyue felt a little suffocated. Gu Ruanci's words were as direct as a knife.
"I've heard that if a family is too immoral, their descendants will suffer the consequences. Minister Ye, haven't you warned your mother and sister?"
Ye Chi knew that Gu Ruanci was deliberately provoking him.
But he remembered what he came here for, and he didn't want to give up this line unless there was really no other way.
Before, they tried various ways to get in touch with the Shouguo Mansion, and even wanted Ye Lingyue to marry the eldest son of the Gu family, but unfortunately the Gu family never paid any attention.
Now that we have Gu Ruanci as a medium, no matter how bad the relationship was before, it is better than having nothing.
He sighed and said, "From what you said, you still feel resentment towards your grandfather. That means you had expectations of him, but he didn't live up to them. He's old now, and we've all seen how much he's missed you all these years. You just said that your mother and I are not born of the same mother, so it's understandable that you doubt our relationship, but you shouldn't doubt your grandfather."
Gu Ruanci said, "Of course I have no doubt. I am absolutely certain that he is just as much of a jerk as Zhou Zhili."
Ye Chi was choked and speechless.
Gu Ruanci stood up and said, "Do you really think that when my mother left, she would leave my grandmother in such a filthy place? Minister Ye, you've made a wrong calculation. I will not set foot in the Ye family peacefully, unless the Ye family is in trouble and I go to watch the joke. Don't meet me in this way in the future. It's easy to lose face."
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