So she got to thinking how she could establish a connection with the Ye Family, how she could legitly enter the Ye Familyâs household, to bask in some of that sky-high wealth. Alright, Ms. Liu Juniorâs family was poor, and Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law was also frightened by poverty, always looking to ingratiate herself with anyone who seemed slightly attainable.
But after pondering for two days, she couldnât come up with any schemes, and she became utterly obsessed like a person possessed by a demon.
She even neglected the nursing child at home, infuriating Ms. Liu Juniorâs mother to the point of cursing.
But she didnât care about that. Let her curse if thatâs what she wanted.
One morning, Ms. Liu Juniorâs mother said she was going back to her parental home and asked Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law to look after the child for a while.
Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law couldnât help but ask, "What are you going back home for?" Ms. Liu Juniorâs mother just curled her lip and said a nephew back home was going to be betrothed.
At that moment, Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law was flabbergasted, wondering how old her mother-in-lawâs grandnephew could be that year; wasnât he just three years old? How was he already getting betrothed? Only after more probing did she learn it was a child betrothal.
Initially, Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law didnât think much of it, until the evening when her daughter, wailing from hunger, made her suddenly realize and understand.
Excited, she ran to warm up the cooled rice soup in some hot water. Without even adding sugar, she fed it to the child as it was.
Her little girl was even two months older than Lele and Yangyang, yet she was only feeding her that bit of rice soup.
Seeing the child had had nearly enough, she brought her back to the kang bed, gently patting and lulling her to sleep.
But now that the child was asleep, she couldnât sleep at all. She was too excited to sleep after finally figuring out how to ingratiate herself with the Ye Family.
She glanced at her husband next to her, sleeping like a pig and snoring away. After thinking it over, she started poking her own man. One poke didnât stir him, so she poked again, and after several pokes finally roused the deeply sleeping man.
"Itâs the middle of the night, why arenât you sleeping? Why do you keep poking me?" Ms. Liu Juniorâs brother grumbled, rubbing his eyes, deeply dissatisfied.
"Youâre really a dead weight, only good for sleeping." Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law couldnât help but say, seeing his clueless face, and thought to herself how she had managed to marry such a useless man.
"Why arenât you sleeping in the middle of the night?" Ms. Liu Juniorâs brother yawned, noticing his wife was still clothed and not planning to sleep, his thoughts drifted off-track, and he wrapped his arms around her with a lewd smile, "Iâd forgotten, besides sleeping, we can also make love in the dark of night. Are you itching for it, unable to sleep, and wanting me to scratch that itch for you?"
"Bah, you think that little hoe of yours is any good? Useless." Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law glared at him, unimpressed, and seeing that he was about to try and go back to sleep, she quickly tugged at him, "Get up, I have something serious to discuss with you!"
Ms. Liu Juniorâs brother mumbled discontentedly, "Oh, what could be so serious in the middle of the night? In my book, besides sleeping and making love on the kang at this hour, nothing else is serious."
Listening to his earnestly lewd talk, Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law couldnât help but laugh.
"You dead weight, I really do have something serious to talk about, sit up now."
Seeing that she seemed to actually have something to say, Ms. Liu Juniorâs brother opened his feigning eyes.
"Spill it, whatâs it about? If itâs not serious, just wait and see how Iâll deal with you afterward."
Ms. Liu Juniorâs sister-in-law thought over her words, then said, "Youâre aware of the Yangshu Villageâs Ye Family, the one with the second place scholar?"
"Nonsense, arenât they from the same village as my younger sister? Heard heâs even my sisterâs husbandâs nephew by marriage, how could I not know?" She really doesnât have a brain, asking such a question.
"Do you know that the Ye Family now has two sons?"