Chapter 171 Perhaps we shouldn’t have exchanged marriages

Lin Jiayi said sarcastically, “What can your brother bring back to you at night? This is something my parents gave me. Sister-in-law, you are not thinking about the things my parents gave me, are you?”

Li Hongmei also saw clearly what was inside. It was late at night and her brother really wouldn’t go to buy cooked food.

Lin Jiayi finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Li Hongmei’s reaction.

During the day, her sister-in-law was sarcastic and mocking, saying that when her married aunt came back to her parents’ home, the family didn’t even prepare any delicious food to entertain her.

During the Chinese New Year, their brother and sister-in-law did not prepare any New Year goods, leaving the whole family to live a hard life.

Of course she knew what her sister-in-law meant. Wasn’t she coming back to her parents’ home just to take advantage of her?
She didn’t want her sister-in-law to take advantage of her, nor did she want her to speak out, so she thought of the Qin family’s delicatessen.

She wanted to get something back from her mother’s house just to slap Li Hongmei in the face.

It’s not that they, the brother and sister-in-law, make them live a poor life, but that your Li family is poor to begin with.

If it weren’t for her, Lin Jiayi, they wouldn’t know what life would be like.

But who knew that Lin Jiadong was so useless. He only brought back such a small amount of things after the trip and was even bribed by Lin Chuxia.

But this little bit of stuff was enough to make her angry with her sister-in-law.

As a result, Li Hongmei just paused for a moment and sneered, “What’s so great about taking a few things? If you have the ability, you can also open a steamed bun shop. Maybe if you didn’t exchange marriages, it would be Li’s Steamed Bun Shop. What are you so proud of here?”

Although Li Hongmei didn’t know what happened at the time, it didn’t stop her from being angry.

Sure enough, Lin Jiayi was hit hard in the sore spot and screamed, “Li Guangyuan, are you still going to care about her?”

Li Guangyuan also felt that it was not a good idea for his sister to bring up the idea of ​​a marriage exchange when so much time had passed.

Moreover, it was said at the beginning that it was the second son of the Lin family who wanted to marry. If Lin Jiayi did not agree to the marriage or directly canceled the marriage, he might still be a bachelor now.

“Hongmei, what nonsense are you talking about?”

Li Hongmei didn’t want to let her go. She was having a hard time now because of her sister-in-law.

She said she wanted to find a city guy, but they said he was a self-employed person over there, raising a lot of pigs, and that he wouldn’t have to worry about food and drink there, and he wouldn’t have parents-in-law to take care of him.

But things turned out not to be as they thought after getting married. Apart from the fact that the man was really honest, his family was so poor that they could barely make ends meet.

The money from raising pigs never reaches them, and they get little pay for the work they do in the fields.

It was all Lin Jiayi’s fault that she was in this state now, how could she let her have an easy time?
“Am I talking nonsense? Brother, don’t you think about it? Daqingshan Village is right next to our village. You can find out whether the Lin family favors the eldest or the second son by asking around. They say that Lin Chuxia wanted to marry Qin Yang, so they exchanged the marriage. I think the Qin family didn’t like her, so they exchanged the marriage. When Lin Chuxia was in school, she was a good student praised by teachers. If she had married you, maybe we would have lived a good life a long time ago. Now, she is afraid that she won’t be able to get married, so she exchanged the marriage with Lin Chuxia, and you picked up someone that others don’t want…”

“shut up!”

No matter how good-tempered and smooth-talking Li Guangyuan usually was, he got angry at this moment.

Lin Jiayi’s face turned even darker.

“Li Guangyuan, if you don’t give me an explanation today, this matter is not over yet. Do you really think that your Li family is popular? Don’t you have any sense of self-awareness? If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be able to sell vegetables, and you wouldn’t be able to pay off your famine, right?”

“Is it over yet?”

Old Mrs. Li came out of the room with a gloomy face.

“Why are you howling so late at night? Isn’t it shameful? Go back to your room.” She gave Lin Jiayi a deep look and said indifferently, “Don’t blame your sister-in-law for saying this. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being incompetent. We are sisters. Everyone knows what your sister is like now. If you don’t want to be gossiped about, live a good life. When you live better than them, naturally no one will say anything to you.”

“Our Li family is poor, but we Guangyuan know how to live and love our sister. We are not like those black-hearted people. What good will it do for you to marry your sister-in-law far away? You should live a good life and support your aunt. That’s what you should do as a brother and sister-in-law. With such a dirty mind, it’s no wonder that the Qin family doesn’t want you…”

Lin Jiayi was so angry that she was fuming. She wanted to go up to argue, but Mrs. Li had already pulled her daughter into the room.

She looked at Li Guangyuan with a pair of angry eyes, “Do you think so too?”

Li Guangyuan pulled her arm and said, “It’s cold outside, let’s go back to the house.”

“Li Guangyuan, I’m pregnant with your son now, and you let them bully me like this? Are you still a man? I told you clearly about the marriage exchange. What kind of person is Lin Chuxia? She doesn’t like you at all. You have seen what Qin Yang is like. How do you think you can compare with Qin Yang?”

She spoke hurtful words viciously, as if this could cover up the panic in her heart.

For a moment, Lin Jiayi almost believed that all of Li Guangyuan’s achievements in his previous life came from Lin Chuxia.

But she denied it in just a moment.

Lin Chuxia and she grew up together, so she dared not go back on her words. Even if she was a good student, so what? Before she finished junior high school, she found excuses for her mother not to pay her tuition.

What abilities can a person who works at home all day have?
She knew best what Lin Chuxia was like.

Li Guangyuan pulled her into the house without saying a word during the whole process, but Lin Jiayi felt suffocated.

“You don’t really believe what your mother said, do you? They did it on purpose. Li Hongmei’s life is not going well because she is incompetent. They deliberately tried to sow discord between us. What good is that for her? Are you really going to be estranged from me because of them?”

Li Guangyuan finally spoke, “No, Jiayi, we really misjudged the Ma family. Don’t take Hongmei’s words to heart. My mother also loves her daughter…”

With the help of the oil lamp in the room, Li Guangyuan saw Lin Jiayi’s appearance clearly, but for some reason, this face overlapped with another face.

He retracted his gaze and said, “I’ll go talk to them.”

Without waiting for Lin Jiayi to speak, he turned around and left the house.

But after leaving the house, he did not go to his mother and sister. Looking at the night sky, he felt very confused.

He never said that he had gone to the county town twice these days because Lin Jiayi forced him to find business, and every time he passed by Qin’s Baozi Shop, he couldn’t help but look at it for a while.

He also secretly inquired about it. Qin’s Baozi Shop was said to belong to the Qin family, but in fact the owner’s surname was Lin.

Li Guangyuan pulled out a small purse from his waist, took out cigarette paper and tobacco, and rolled a cigarette.

He also knew that he was poor and did not have the ability of the Qin family. The more this was the case, the more he couldn’t understand why his wife would give up the Qin family and marry him instead.

If someone said that his sister-in-law wanted to marry into the Qin family in exchange for marriage, he would have believed it at first.

Now looking at the Yue family’s attitude towards their two daughters and how the two sisters get along, it is obvious that my wife is the one who is picky.

He couldn’t understand why his wife insisted on marrying him. Maybe she really liked him, but he also wondered, if he married his sister-in-law, would the result be different?

After Li Guangyuan left, Lin Jiayi lay on the windowsill and looked out through the glass. She did not see Li Guangyuan go to her mother-in-law’s room, but instead saw a light spot in the yard that flickered.

My fingers clenched into fists…

(End of this chapter)