Ye Changhui's words became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and she ran out of the house crying.

Her brother is a complete idiot with terrible grades. He was lucky to graduate from junior high school. But just because he is a boy, his family favors him unconditionally and even deprives her of the school she got into with her own ability. How can she tolerate this?

But she was only a sixteen-year-old girl after all, and she did not have the courage to escape from this home. But this time she wanted to fight back, so she hid in the dilapidated ancestral hall, hoping that her parents would have a change of heart and come to her, promising to let her continue her studies. As long as her parents agreed, she would find a way to earn the tuition herself. But in the end, she was disappointed.

After night fell, smoke rose from every household and the aroma of food spread in all directions. Ye Changan was so hungry that her stomach was sticking to her back, but she gritted her teeth and endured it. She thought that her family would notice that she didn't go home when they had dinner, and would come to look for her.

But she waited until the moon was at its zenith, but her family still didn't come to look for her, and the villagers didn't know she had run away from home. She was so hungry that she slowly returned home.

Seeing that the lights in the house were on, she comforted herself that her family was worried about her and left the lights on for her. Just as she walked under the eaves of her house, she heard her parents' conversation.

"That damned girl Chang'an thought she had grown strong after studying for two years, and she actually dared to run away. I want to see how far she can run. She will come back obediently after being hungry for two days."

"Okay, it's hard to raise her, why are you kicking her out now? I think her heart has become wild because of her studies.

I'll bring her back tomorrow and lock her up for a few days. You can find a matchmaker to find her a partner. After the marriage, it's her business if she makes a fuss. Her mother-in-law will take care of it. Everything will be fine once they have a child."

This is a man's voice.

Ye Changan's heart sank completely after hearing this. These were her parents. They didn't want her to study hard and make progress. They said that her mother-in-law would take care of her after she got married, but anyone who was not a fool would know that they were just trying to use her to exchange for a dowry.

Ye Changan returned to the ancestral hall with tears in her eyes. She no longer felt hungry. She just wanted to die, at least she wouldn't live such a miserable life.

Looking at the dusty ancestral tablets, Ye Changan knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying as he kowtowed:

"Ancestors of the Ye family, if you really want to protect the younger generation, please show your power! I don't want to live such a miserable life. I would give anything in exchange. I want to leave Yejia Village, leave that biased family, and live like a human being."

Ye Changan didn’t know how long she had been crying or kowtowed until she completely fainted.

When she wasn't paying attention, the blood from her broken head seeped into the gap under the altar, flowed into the space under the altar, and stained a dark red stone.

The next day, when Ye Changan woke up, she found that she was holding a dark red stone the size of a baby's fist in her hand. Her forehead was intact and there was no trace of blood on the ground.

She was both surprised and happy. She was surprised because she almost died last night, but she was happy because if the dream was true, then she could really leave that home and go to study.

Looking at the red stone in her hand, she decided to give it a try according to the hint in her dream. Whether it was true or false, she had nothing to lose.

Then she got up from the ground and ran home quickly. While everyone in the family was eating in the main house, she placed the dark red stone in the rooms of her brothers and casually placed it in the corner of the wall. Then she took the hoe standing in the corner and returned to the dilapidated ancestral hall.

Following the hint in her dream, she found the movable stone slab under the altar. She took great pains to pry it open with a hoe, and then dug up the gold ingots underneath.

Ye Changan was not greedy. She only took two gold ingots, covered the stone slab back to its original state, restored the altar to its original state, and knelt on the ground to thank the ancestors. After doing all this, she left Yejia Village with the gold ingots. She went to the town with her family and knew that the value of these two ingots could support her to graduate from high school. As long as she worked hard enough, she might even be able to get into college. In this way, her future would be bright and she could completely get rid of the family that favored boys over girls.

Ye Chang'an was hungry, so she took her gold ingots to the county bank to exchange them for cash. She then deposited the money in the bank, took out enough money to cover her tuition and living expenses for her first year of high school, and returned to the town. She reported to the school in advance, paid the tuition, food and accommodation fees, and applied for living on campus. Only then did she return to Yejia Village.

After returning home, she was scolded by her parents and brothers, who mocked her for being incompetent, and finally she had no choice but to go home obediently.

Ye Changan was not angry either, he just said to his parents:

"I went to the town school and asked the principal if I could let my brother take my place if I didn't go to school. The principal said no, whoever passed the exam would go. If I didn't go to school, the school could enroll other students. It was absolutely impossible for a relative to take my place. If they were found out, they would be held accountable."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Ye family fell silent, and then Ye Changhui said arrogantly:
"If you don't want to study, then don't study. I don't care! If I can't finish my studies, my family won't support you to study. Just wait and get married!"

Ye Changan took a deep look at the other person, and just when the other person was about to get angry, he spoke:
"I don't want to read it anymore."

Then, amid everyone's puzzled looks, he returned to the sisters' room.

The younger sister looked at Ye Changan and whispered:
"Sister, they have already found a husband for you. I overheard when the matchmaker came that day. They asked for a very high gift. They wanted to use the gift to find a wife for my second brother."

Ye Changan touched his sister's hair and said calmly:
"I understand. Don't eavesdrop on their conversations next time, lest they find out and beat you up."

Changping nodded obediently, and then continued:

"Sister, you're getting married, and I'm the only one left at home. Do they also want to marry me off in exchange for the bride price?"

Ye Changan felt bitter after hearing this, and could only comfort his sister:
"No, as long as you study hard, you can leave this home and do whatever you want."

The younger sister looked at Changan with a pair of ignorant eyes and said:
"Sister, are you telling the truth? Then why are you forced to get married? You have such good grades and have been admitted to the school in town, why are you still..."

Changping didn't dare to say the rest of the words, because her sister was surrounded by a low pressure at this moment, so she swallowed the rest of the words sensibly.

"As long as you don't give up, there will always be a chance."

Ye Changan muttered to himself.

Starting from the next day, accidents occurred one after another among the adult children of the Ye family. Some were killed by stones, some rolled into traps and were stabbed to death by sharp bamboos. In short, their family seemed to be unlucky for the next month, and everything went wrong. In the end, four children died in such a good family, leaving only the two youngest daughters.

While the Ye family couple wept and cried, they also cursed their two daughters, saying why they didn't just die, but let the four sons meet with accidents. As a result, when they were buried the next day, they also met with accidents. (End of this chapter)

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