After dinner, the men sat in the living room and chatted, with the TV volume turned up loud and their voices even louder.
Ye Zhao picked up a book at random and sat at the desk to read it. In fact, she couldn't concentrate on reading it and was just pretending.
If all goes well, she will be on the train by this time tomorrow.
The system kept nagging at her. During the time Ye Zhao had been with the system, he had already figured out its temperament. It was just a robot that made a lot of noise but did little. Besides, it was young and could be coaxed into submission.
There was a noise at the door. Ye Zhao turned around and saw Bai Yunlian coming in with a piece of watermelon.
"Xiao Zhao, why are you alone in the room?"
Bai Yunlian had semi-long curly hair and a faint scent of perfume. She walked over and handed the watermelon to Ye Zhao, "Eat watermelon, it's very sweet."
Ye Zhao knew that this was a sugar-coated bullet. In the original book, Bai Yunlian was a white lotus and a green tea. Her tactics were much better than those of the second aunt. She never found fault with Ye Zhao in front of Ye Dingguo, but she would secretly fan the flames and let Ye Dingguo find fault with his daughter.
The original owner was a premature baby, not smart enough, with low emotional intelligence, and easily provoked. After Ye Dingguo left most of the family property to his stepdaughter Bai Lu, who was not related by blood, the original owner completely turned evil and went down a path of no return...
Ye Zhao closed the book and curled his lips politely.
She had better reluctantly eat the sugar coating first. Taking the watermelon, Ye Zhao said softly, "Thank you, Aunt Bai."
Seeing Ye Zhao accept her kindness, Bai Yunlian smiled and said, "Eat quickly. I found that you have grown a lot taller this time. Bai Lu looks shorter than you."
"I'm 166."
"She is 160cm tall and as thin as you. She stays at home reading a book every day. She ignores me when I talk to her." Bai Yunlian's face was full of tenderness when she talked about her daughter.
"Aunt Bai, your perfume smells so good." Ye Zhao also offered his own sugar-coated bullet out of the blue, "It's sweet and fruity, and it smells so good."
"Really?" Bai Yunlian smiled a little embarrassedly, "It's a foreign product that a friend brought back from the Hong Kong government. If you like it, Auntie will give you a bottle next time."
Ye Zhao ate the watermelon in big mouthfuls without saying anything.
Seeing that Ye Zhao didn't seem to have any intention of resisting her, Bai Yunlian felt much more relaxed. She said softly, "Your father asked me to ask you, what are your plans next?"
"Why doesn't he come and ask himself?"
"Your father is just like that, not good at expressing himself. You can tell Aunt Bai whatever you think."
This paragraph is not written in the original book, but based on the original author's experience, before going to Shencheng, she worked as a female worker in a knitting factory for two years. As expected, they wanted to force her into the factory.
Ye Zhao did not answer directly: "Auntie, what do you think I should do?"
"That depends on you."
"I'm still young and have no idea."
"Does your dad want to use his connections to find you a job?" Seeing Ye Zhao thoughtful, Bai Yunlian thought she was tempted, so she said, "Your dad's classmate is the deputy director of a knitting factory. He can arrange for you to get a job."
Ye Zhao put the watermelon rind on the table and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief. She knew, of course, that Ye Dingguo didn't want to give her living expenses anymore. Although he was not short of money, he just didn't want to support her anymore.
The Wancheng Knitting Factory is small and shabby, and the wages are incredibly low. The families of workers in the surrounding area are all trying to get their children into public institutions. Who would want to work in such a shabby factory
"I want to study."
"You want to repeat a grade?" Bai Yunlian was very surprised. She knew that Ye Zhao was not smart and had poor academic performance. He had finally graduated from high school. Why did he suddenly want to go back to school
"May I?"
Bai Yunlian was speechless for a moment. She didn't believe that Ye Zhao really wanted to go back to school. He must have been too lazy at home and didn't want to work in the factory. He also wanted his father to support him.
Ye Zhao guessed what the other party was thinking. She pouted her lips with a smile, "Dad is reluctant to spend money to let me repeat the year?"
"No, of course not. I'll go tell him that as long as you want to study, your aunt will support you." Bai Yunlian patted Ye Zhao's shoulder gently and chatted with him for a few more words. When the guests outside were about to leave, Bai Yunlian hurried out.
Ye Zhao opened the book again and was in a daze for a while. When it became quiet outside, she got up and took the watermelon rind out and threw it away.
Ye Dingguo's face turned red from drinking. He sat on the sofa with his face and neck red. He closed his eyes slightly and listened to Bai Yunlian mumbling something.
Ye Zhao threw the watermelon rind into the trash can, only to hear her father scolding her in disgust: "Stop embarrassing me! Don't you know what kind of person you are?"
What kind of person is Ye Zhao? She grew up in an orphanage, won the provincial Mathematical Olympiad, and studied for both a bachelor's and a master's degree at a top university. Unfortunately, during her postgraduate studies, she had a car accident on her way to a part-time job and unfortunately became a vegetable.
So this time travel is her chance to be reborn.
Ye Dingguo closed his eyes again and snorted through his nose: "Waste!"
Ye Zhao responded reflexively: "If I am a waste, it is because you have bad genes. You gave birth to a waste."
The whole family was stunned. In the past, when Ye Zhao saw Ye Dingguo, he was like a mouse seeing a cat. He had never dared to talk back like that.
Ye Dingguo had always been the one who had the final say in recent years. How could he have been openly contradicted? He was so angry that his hands were shaking. He picked up the purple clay teapot on the table and threw it fiercely!
Ye Zhao dodged to the side.
Snapped!
The purple clay teapot was broken into pieces!
That was my second uncle’s beloved purple clay teapot. He almost had a myocardial infarction standing next to it.
"Do you think I don't dare to hit you?!" Ye Dingguo stood up shakily and was about to rush over to hit her.
Bai Yunlian quickly held him back. Ye Dingguo was usually a very steady person, but for some reason, he became very angry when he mentioned his daughter.
They still have to go to register their marriage tomorrow. Bai Yunlian is afraid of complications, so she hurriedly advised: "Old Ye, you've drunk too much, calm down!"
The book did not mention what kind of person the original owner's biological mother was, but Ye Zhao did see what kind of person his biological father was like. No wonder the original owner died with regrets. Ye Zhao smiled coldly.
Ye Dingguo looked up and saw Ye Zhao was actually laughing. He was immediately furious, "What are you laughing at?!"
"Is it because my mother abandoned you that you hate me so much?"
As soon as these words came out, the veins on Ye Dingguo's forehead throbbed upwards. He wanted to rush over to hit her, but Ye Zhao was very agile. She hid behind her second uncle and said, "Second uncle, save me."
The second uncle had never disciplined Ye Zhao, let alone loved him, but when Ye Zhao hid behind him and pushed him out, it seemed that he had a natural mission, that he, the second uncle, should be the head of the family.
"How old is the child? Are you really going to hit him? Okay, you've drunk too much. If you have anything to say, talk to me tomorrow when you sober up." The second uncle stopped Ye Dingguo and stepped on the broken pieces of the purple clay teapot. He added distressedly, "You have to compensate me with a purple clay teapot."
Bai Yunlian also pulled Ye Dingguo aside and persuaded him in a gentle voice.
Second Aunt took off her apron and hung it in her hand. She was not satisfied that Bai Yunlian went past her and went directly to talk to Ye Zhao about work. "You said she is grown up, but she is still a child. Should she continue to study or work? Third Uncle, you have to discuss it with us. Your second brother and I have low salaries and a heavy burden..."
The implication of the words is very clear: whether you study or work, you have to pay!
Ye Dingguo slumped down on the sofa and snorted coldly: "You're talking to me about money? Didn't I pay you?"
"Old Ye, let's talk about it tomorrow, okay?"
Ye Zhao slipped back into the room while no one was paying attention.
Xiaoqin was squatting beside the wardrobe in the corner, secretly hiding something. When she heard someone coming in at the door, she shivered with fear. She looked up and saw it was Ye Zhao. She felt relieved and quickly took out two pieces of nougat that she had secretly hidden and gave them to her sister.
Ye Zhao waved his hand: "Keep it for yourself."
The wound on Xiaoqin's forehead seemed to have split open again. She wrinkled her nose and said, "Mom is going to hit me because I accidentally bumped into the corner of the wall."
"Just wait." Ye Zhao went out to get some iodine to disinfect her.
Bai Yunlian's parents' home was nearby, so she went back there to live at night. Ye Dingguo slept in his younger brother's room, and his younger brother slept with his parents.
After nightfall, the room gradually became cooler. Ye Zhao lay on the outside, Xiaoqin slept next to her, and Ye Xiaozhen lay on the inside.
The windows of their room were open and the street was quiet.
In the three rooms of the Ye family, everyone slept with their doors open on a hot day. The snoring of the second uncle and his wife was heard one after another.
The clock on the wall in the hall struck three times. Ye Zhao quietly got up and tiptoed into her younger brother's room. The moonlight filtered in from the window. She was used to the darkness at night and could clearly see that her father was lying on the bed, with one hand resting on his head, and there was almost no snoring.
Ye Dingguo's travel bag was placed at the end of the bed, within her easy reach. The more troublesome thing was that her father's foot was on the travel bag.
It was quite difficult to get the travel bag out without alerting her father.
The system woke up from its sleep: "What are you going to do? You can't do anything illegal!"
Ye Zhao ignored him. She stood at the end of the bed for a while. Her father didn't move at all, and seemed to be sleeping until dawn.
She couldn't wait like this, so Ye Zhao went to the living room and poured a large glass of cold boiled water, then returned to her younger brother's room. Ye Dingguo was still in the same posture as before, not moving at all.
Ye Zhao reached out and turned on the light, walked forward bravely and pushed her father.
"Dad, do you want some water?"
Ye Dingguo was half asleep. When he was woken up, he found his daughter squatting in front of the bed. He didn't know what was going on. He just heard Ye Zhao say, "You said you were thirsty just now, so I poured you some water."
Ye Dingguo drank a lot of wine and was indeed thirsty. He thought that Ye Zhao heard him talking in his sleep and asking for water.
He sat up and glanced at his daughter. He didn't know why, but even though Ye Zhao had talked back to him this time, he wasn't as annoying as before.
It's better to be able to talk back than to be a wooden fool. In Ye Dingguo's world, not being smart is the original sin. He gulped down the cup of boiled water that Ye Zhao handed to him.
"Where's your Aunt Bai?"
It seems that she was really confused after sleeping. Ye Zhao replied: "She went back to her brother's house."
Ye Dingguo seemed to remember something. He picked up the watch on the bedside table and looked at the time. It was past three o'clock.
Ye Zhao was just about to remind him whether he wanted to go to the bathroom, but Ye Dingguo had already stood up and walked out slightly unsteadily.
The moment he heard the bathroom door close, Ye Zhao opened the travel bag at the end of the bed as quickly as a rabbit.
The system screams: "You stole again!"
Ye Zhao turned a deaf ear to him. She quickly rummaged through Ye Dingguo's travel bag. In addition to a few sets of clothes, there was also a document bag. She opened the bag and found something called "Factory Transfer Agreement" inside. She didn't have time to read it carefully and put the bag back.
She searched inside and out and finally found the wallet in the compartment. She unzipped the wallet and finally saw the red, palm-sized household registration booklet.
The sound of flushing came from the bathroom, and Ye Zhao quickly took out the household registration book. Without the household registration book, she wanted to know how they would get the certificate tomorrow.
Want to remarry and raise someone else's cheap daughter, but don't want to raise your own daughter? No way.
(End of this chapter)