Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 51 Famous for his looks
"Why don't we have to be afraid of big brother when sister-in-law is around?" Xiao Lichun asked Xiao Lidong in confusion.

"Didn't you see that after Big Brother killed the fat woman, he looked at Big Sister-in-law eagerly like a child who had done something wrong?"

"Lidong, you are so awesome. You actually dared to look at Big Brother. I was so scared at the time that I didn't even dare to look at him."

"Oh, I dare not look either. My mind goes blank when I see blood." Xiao Liqiu said fearfully, patting his chest.

"I was scared too, but when I stood next to Sister Sixteen and saw her peeing in fear, I wasn't so scared anymore."

The four eight-year-old children whispered, and after talking so much, they were not so scared anymore.

Xiao Litao sent his fifteen-year-old sister back to her yard, "Yier, were you scared by your elder brother today?"

"Third brother, I'm not afraid of eldest brother. It was that fat woman who forced dad and was so arrogant. She deserves to die." Xiao Yi said in a light tone.

"Yier, are you... not having a good life at your grandparents' house?" Xiao Litao asked uncertainly. He really wanted to ask his sister why she became so cruel.

"Third brother, do you want to hear the truth?" Xiao Yi raised her watery eyes and looked at her brother.

"Are all the things Yier tells Third Brother lies?" Xiao Litao was so perceptive that he could hear the hidden meaning behind his sister's words in just a few words.

"Third brother, do you think that besides grandpa and grandma, who else in the Yin family would treat my sister well?"

"..."

Xiao Litao quietly looked at his graceful younger sister, who would be 15 years old next year but had not yet been betrothed.

When his biological mother died, his younger sister was less than two years old and was taken to the Yin family by her grandmother.

The Yin family was a family of farmers and scholars. After my grandfather passed the imperial examination and became a juren, the nearby villages all registered their land under the Yin family's name to avoid taxes.

Therefore, his grandfather's father earned a lot of money from the villagers and supported his grandfather's studies. When his grandfather became the top scholar, he became an official in the court.

Their grandfather was also very capable and became the prince's teacher based on his own abilities. The prince at that time is now the emperor.

His maternal grandfather was a tutor. Although he had no real power and his salary was not high, he was well-known and many children from noble families wanted to become his disciples.

The first thing to do when becoming a disciple is to give gifts, and gradually the Yin family accumulated a lot of money.

His grandmother used the money to buy some land and a few shops outside the capital.

The annual revenue of those shops was about several thousand taels of silver, and most of it was used by my two uncles to smooth their careers in the government.

The remaining silver was barely enough to afford the Yin family a life of luxury.

But their only daughter (sister) fell in love with Cheng'en Hou, a poor man, and not only did she not help the Yin family at all, but she also paid for him.

Xiao Litao should have thought that his sister was not having a good time in the Yin Mansion, but Yier always said that she was fine!
Xiao Litao felt that their Marquis' Mansion was poor, but the Grand Tutor's Mansion should not be poor since his mother died!
So he thought his sister was living a good life in the Yin family, at least better than himself. He couldn't even afford to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone for studying!

"Third brother, Yi'er doesn't blame anyone. She has always wanted to go home. Even if she has to eat coarse food, it's still her own home. Besides, now that the eldest sister-in-law is in charge of the household, she eats meat for every meal."

Xiao Yi was standing in her own yard. She was the eldest daughter of the Cheng'en Marquisate, the eleventh in birth, and was named Yi.

Although the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion was dilapidated, the eldest daughter's yard was still very large, even larger than the yard of the eldest cousin in the Yin Mansion, but there was not a single decent decoration.

The previous concubines have all married, but none of them married into a good family because the reputation of the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion was too bad.

The wealthy and powerful families were all afraid that the brothers would go and ask for money, so only merchants dared to marry the daughter of Marquis Cheng'en.

The merchants have no status and want to curry favor with the Marquis' Mansion, but the Marquis' Mansion itself is despised by the noble families. What can they use to curry favor with?
So her half-sisters all had a hard life, and they didn't want to go back when their eldest brother came back for his wedding.

Several concubines should be living well in their maternal grandparents' home. We can tell from the fact that they did not return home this time. "Yier, Third Brother thinks that having good food and clothes is for your own good. Since you don't want to go to the Yin family, you can stay. It's just..."

"Third brother, Yi'er doesn't want luxurious furnishings, just a bed and a quilt will do."

"Yier...are you having such a hard time in the Yin family?" Xiao Litao's eyes turned red.

"Except for having enough food and good clothes, I really feel more comfortable than at home. Yier's yard is very big. My sister-in-law said that if I am willing to stay, she will help me buy some necessary supplies."

"Sister-in-law still cares about these little things?"

"Yes, she takes care of our food, clothing and other expenses. Didn't the eldest sister-in-law also ask someone to make new clothes for the third brother and buy him pens, ink, paper and inkstone?"

"Yier, tell your third brother about your grandparents' home. Your third brother always thought you were living a happy life."

Xiao Litao walked into Xiao Yi's yard. The small garden in the yard was planted with forsythia. He sat on a stone bench in the garden.

Xiao Yi sat opposite him and slowly told him about her life in the Yin family.

She frowned and said, "Although our mansion is poor, we only hope to have enough food three times a day, but we don't want to pretend to be rich and hold a flower-viewing banquet."

"........."

Xiao Litao really wanted to tell his sister that even if the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion wanted to hold a flower-viewing banquet, no one would come.

“The Yin family is a poor family. They haven’t even washed the mud off their legs yet, but they are learning from the aristocratic families in the capital to plant flowers and hold flower viewing banquets every season.

Changing orchids in spring and chrysanthemums in autumn every year seems like a simple thing, but it costs a lot of money to do it.

The ladies in the capital all love flowers. Every spring, various mansions compete to hold flower-viewing banquets, and the Yin family is not willing to lag behind..."

The reason why Xiao Yi said all this to her third brother was not because she was an ungrateful person and deliberately belittled the Yin family.

After her eldest brother became famous and before he became disabled, she really lived a comfortable life in the Yin family for several years.

All her cousins ​​tried to curry favor with her and wanted to marry her eldest brother. Unfortunately, after her eldest brother became disabled, her cousins ​​suddenly changed their attitude and became full of hostility towards her.

Her two aunts were even more evil. They actually wanted to give her to an old man to help their cousins ​​improve their careers.

If she hadn't been smart enough to instigate a quarrel between her two aunts, she would have been sent to some old man's house as a concubine!
Although her father is a gigolo, he never forces anyone and always believes in mutual consent.

But her aunt and cousins ​​forced her to do so. They didn't allow her to attend the flower-viewing party, saying that she was embarrassing.

But behind the scenes, she was dressed up beautifully and asked to seduce those young men from wealthy families.

After the young man from a noble family fell in love with her at first sight, her cousin deliberately fell into the water in front of the young man wearing the same clothes as her.

Then either the young master from the noble family married her cousin, or those young masters from the noble families resented her for breaking up with the Yin family.

The two aunts would jump up and down and accuse each other, saying that the blood of the Marquis Cheng'en was dirty and that her eldest brother was cruel and vicious...

What did she do wrong! What did her elder brother do wrong!

Isn't it just a little poor?
She grew up eating the Yin family's rice, but her elder brother never drank a sip of the Yin family's water.

In fact, she knew that her aunt and the others were jealous of her beauty. After all, her father was famous for his good looks.

"Yier is right. That woman deserved to die today. We shouldn't be afraid of big brother." Xiao Litao said with red eyes.

(End of this chapter)