Chapter 25 Li Mingyun Is The First To Waver
Li Mingqin embarrassedly defended her own husband, “Who doesn’t know your Maternal Uncle-in-law’s temper? He is an honest man, how would he dare to go against his mother?”
“Then, do you dare to go against Granma Zhou?” Mei Xiaoran thinks that Maternal Second Aunt has been bullied into a scare by her Mother-in-law these years, even her original courage and uprightness had gone.
Li Mingqin didn’t speak anymore. She actually wanted to go against her Mother-in-law, but she was afraid that it would make her husband upset. Her husband loves her, that’s why he is good to her. If she has a fall out with his mother, will her husband still love her? In her maternal family, she never got favored. Not until she got married and started her own family, did she enjoy the feeling of being favored. She didn’t want their husband-wife relationship to be destroyed because of her Mother-in-law.
“Maternal Second Aunt, you don’t dare to confront your Mother-in-law, is that because you are afraid that Maternal Uncle-in-law will not be happy?” Mei Xiaoran has seen through Maternal Second Aunt’s mind. Presumably, it is because of this thought in her mind, that Maternal Second Aunt dare not offend her Mother-in-law.
Li Mingqin has always been holding onto this idea, but it is also not her fault to think so. After all, she cherishes her small family so much.
Maternal Grandmother Li hated that the iron could not become steel*, looked at the second daughter and just sighed, “Forget it, you’d better go back, Yanzi’s classes is almost over too.”
(TN : regret that one’s offspring does not live up to one’s expectations)
Upon hearing this, Li Mingqin then went home with the feeling of relief.
Ugh!
Maternal Second Aunt is really inexplicable.
Mei Xiaoran is only their junior. Even her Maternal Grandmother and her mother can’t make the decision for Maternal Second Aunt, she’d better forget it.
Li Mingyun is also worried that Mei Xiaolei’s classes will soon be over too, so she asks Mei Xiaoran to go home first and cook the rice. She is still worried, wants to wait and see Li Mingye’s condition first. If the situation is not good, then she must be sent to the hospital.
Li Mingyun didn’t go home until midnight today, and it was still Mei Zhonghua who took her back.
Mei Xiaoran has not been asleep. When she heard her mother come back, she quickly got up and asked, “Mom, how is my Maternal Fourth Aunt?”
“It should be all right. It’s just that her spirit is not looking well, extremely weak.”
These are not superfluous words. After tossing around and being poured soapy water several times, no matter how strong the person was, they still won’t be able to stand it. Nevertheless, Li Mingye has only herself to blame. Mei Xiaoran will only worry, but won’t sympathize that much with her.
“You’d better go to sleep quickly. You didn’t even go to school this afternoon.”
Li Mingyun only urged once. She was too tired and fell asleep once she lay down.
The next day at dawn, Mei Xiaoran and her younger brother had just gone to the morning self-study, Cheng Bin already came knocking at the door.
“Eldest Sister, have you got up yet?”
Hearing Cheng Bin’s voice, Li Mingyun’s anger shot up. She really wanted to scold Cheng Bin severely! If it wasn’t for him, could Yezi make her suffer mentally and physically like this?
But when she saw Cheng Bin, she found that Cheng Bin’s eyes were full of red blood streaks. Apparently he didn’t sleep all night.
“What’s the matter with you?”
“Eldest sister, I beg you, please let me marry Yezi. Else, with her temperament, I’m really afraid something will happen to her!” When Cheng Bin said this, the rim of his eyes were red.
Mei Zhonghua was just about to go out at this time. Seeing Cheng Bin like this, he couldn’t help feeling soft, “Mingyun, it’s a freedom to choose one’s own spouse, who can control it? Maybe you are able to control it for a while, but can you control them for a lifetime? If something really happened to Yezi, it will be too late to regret it as an older sister. “
Li Mingyun glared at this pig teammate and urged him to leave quickly. “Don’t you still have to go out? Hurry up and go.”
Mei Zhonghua shook his head and pushed the bicycle out of the house.
Cheng Bin was still extremely pitifully guarding there, pleading, “Eldest Sister, I have heard about Yezi’s matter, she……How is she now? “
“She won’t die. Gave her soapy water yesterday, and she had vomited all out.”
“That’s good then……” While saying so, Cheng Bin took out one bill of ten Yuan from his pocket and handed it over, “Eldest Sister, I originally wanted to go over and have a look at Yezi, but with Uncle’s temperament, he would drive me out once he saw me. I didn’t want to make Uncle angry. Please help me. Pass this money to Yezi and buy her something good for supplements. She has suffered so much for my sake. Thinking about it really pained my heart. “
How would Li Mingyun have the nerve to accept it. This is ten Yuan, comparable to an ordinary worker’s half a month’s salary. She also doesn’t know where Cheng Bin got this money from. She dare not take it.
“Eldest Sister, please help me. I beg you.”
Cheng Bin left this ten Yuan and went away without even giving Li Mingyun a chance.
Li Mingyun took the ten Yuan bill and did not know whether to cry or to laugh, but Cheng Bin’s attitude really let her become somewhat soft-hearted.
What to do now? She was even somewhat wavering.
On August 12th, Li Mingyun finally got the mooncake, went back to her maternal family’s home and brought together the Four Colored Gift*.
(TN : Although only four gifts, but its implication is very good, expressed the man’s blessing to the woman’s relatives. In many places, due to different local conditions and customs, the contents of the Four Colored Gift were also different. For example, in Shandong, China, the four-color ceremony includes four items: noodles, meat, wine, chicken or fish, which means good luck.)
Li Mingye has eased her strength, but she is closely watched by her family and they won’t give her even the slightest chance, let alone let her see Cheng Bin.
“Yezi, I want to ask you. You do not plan to really spend a lifetime with Cheng Bin, right?”
As soon as Li Mingyun’s question was out, Li Mingye’s tears welled up. “If I don’t want to spend my life with him, why would I drink pesticide?”
“Then, do you know why our family is against you marrying him?”
Li Mingye wiped her tears and said with some embarrassment, “I know that Cheng Bin’s reputation is not good. He is an idler and a delinquent in Dongguan, but he is good to me.”
“Even though he is good to you, it can’t be used as something to feed you. Just think about it. Neither of you have a job. Do you two want to live by farming after you got married? What we worry about is, how will you two live after you got married? Can you guarantee that you transform Cheng Bin well and progress forward as one?”
Li Mingye thought for a while and said, “Eldest Sister, I don’t have 100% ability to transform Cheng Bin, but he always listens to me. If I talk to him nicely, he also won’t turn a deaf ear to it.”
“My dear sister, they all say that the pot is made of iron. You should understand this principle, right?” Li Mingyun saw that she was determined to marry Cheng Bin. She had even drunk the pesticide, so if she(LMYun) is only dead set on using persuasion, it won’t succeed now.
“Eldest Sister, I know you are all doing it for my sake, but I want to marry Cheng Bin now. If you all are truly good to me, please let me marry him, or I really can’t live anymore.” Li Mingye began to shed tears again, which looked pitiful in other’s eyes.
Li Mingyun sighed.
When she was going to marry Mei Zhonghua, her father was also very much against it. It was because of her perseverance that she was able to get married to Mei Zhonghua. Getting married and having a family, who doesn’t want to find a person who loves themselves and they also happen to love that person too. What Yezi was thinking about is not wrong, but the method used was too extreme.
With this unyielding temper of Yezi, if they really do not promise her, she will still dare to harm herself. What to do if she really hurt herself?
“Yezi, for these couple of days, don’t go against our parents. Take a good rest. I saw that you now wholeheartedly want to marry Cheng Bin. Everyone advises you, but you still won’t listen to it. Or I’ll try to find out about our parents’ opinion first and see if they have loosen up or not. But I also cannot guarantee that they will listen to me.”
Li Mingye couldn’t help but happily said, “Eldest Sister, are you really willing to help me?”
“You are wrong. I basically do not want to help you at all, nor do I want to let you marry Cheng Bin. But……I can’t helplessly watch you die. I don’t want to make our parents sad.” Li Mingyun thinks that she is so ridiculous. In the first place, she was the one who was most opposed towards Yezi getting married to Cheng bin. But now, she is the first that runs out to persuade her parents. It’s really a bit of a slap in the face!
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