Siheyuan: I am the Smart Pillar

Yan Fugui's old face darkened, and he looked at Yu Li fiercely and said, "Yu Li, don't you understand that family disgrace should not be made public? If there is anything, we can sit together as a family and talk. There is no need to waste the time of the neighbors in the courtyard." Yan Jiecheng also persuaded, "Yes, Lili, there is no need to make our family affairs known to the whole courtyard. I beg you."

Yu Li showed a hint of sarcasm on her face. She was not a materialistic woman, but she was becoming more and more disdainful of her husband. Her husband did not even have the courage to resist his father-in-law, and she even thought that using the four words "submissive" to describe him was a compliment.

He is simply a useless coward. She must fight back. Since her husband is unwilling to fight, she, as a wife, must have a good fight with her father-in-law. Yu Li snorted coldly and said, "I, Yu Li, have never been a person who accepts things passively. I must have a good fight with you."

"Yan Jiecheng, I was really blind to marry you. Do you remember what you promised me before we got married? I remember your family promised to find you a formal job, but does your family have a formal job now? A family of eight, squeezed into two rooms. If my parents hadn't seen that I was having a hard time and paid for this back house, I would still be living in the same room with you and your parents."

"Shut up! Do you want to disgrace our Yan family? Yu Li, I'm going to ask your Yu family tomorrow. I'm going to ask your parents, is this how they raised you?" Yan Fugui shouted angrily. He really lost face tonight.

Yu Li snorted coldly and said, "Well, now that it has come to this, I am not afraid of exposing my family's shame. All the neighbors in the courtyard can listen to it and let everyone know how powerful my father-in-law is. Have you ever heard of any children who have to pay accommodation fees to their parents when they stay at home? Father-in-law and mother-in-law, do you have the nerve to take this accommodation fee?"

Naturally, most families in the courtyard knew that the Yan family had this tradition. If this matter had not been exposed, the neighbors would naturally pretend that they knew nothing. But unexpectedly, Yu Li directly told it now, and the neighbors in the courtyard all laughed.

"What are you making a fuss about? Go home and eat and sleep. Don't you know it's already late?" Yi Zhonghai came over with a big teacup and said to the people in the yard without mercy. But the people in the yard didn't care about him at all. This was a rare big scene! Of course, there were still people in the courtyard who were afraid of Yi Zhonghai, but most of them stayed, and that small group of people didn't want to leave either.

Yi Zhonghai's face was so dark, these people in the courtyard simply didn't give him face. Just when he wanted to scold them, their eyes were on Yu Li. Xu Damao smiled and said, "Uncle Yi, if you want to watch the fun, just stand by and watch. Why can't we working people stay in the front yard?"

Liu Guangtian chuckled and echoed Xu Damao's words. In his heart, Liu Guangtian was still jealous of Yan Jiecheng. He and Yan Jiecheng were about the same age, but Yan Jiecheng had been married for half a year, while he was still a bachelor. Naturally, he was very envious and jealous.

He always felt that it was God's fault that Yan Jiecheng could marry a beauty like Yu Li when he was so listless. Coupled with his experiences in the Liu family for so many years, he felt extremely unbalanced. This made Yan Jiecheng very angry, and he wanted to curse at the Liu brothers as soon as he opened his mouth. After all, he looked down on the Liu brothers in his heart.

The Liu brothers often beat up Liu Haizhong, and Yan Jiecheng often mocked the two brothers in private. Yan Jiecheng's face turned black and he cursed directly, "Fuck you, Liu Guangtian, who do you think you are? How dare you meddle in my business? I, I, I, will fight you."

Yan Jiecheng clenched his fist and wanted to compete with Liu Guangtian, but was stopped by Yi Zhonghai. Liu Haizhong, who came late, also glared at his two sons fiercely and decided to teach them a lesson tonight. They dared to make trouble in the yard. Isn't this clearly undermining his second uncle?

Yi Zhonghai looked at Yu Li and said, "Yu Li, tell me, are you being decent? You are an educated person, how can you go against your father-in-law's wishes? Apologize to your father-in-law immediately. I believe that Old Yan will not bother with a young person like you."

Yi Zhonghai spoke with such righteousness, while Yang Ruihua and Yan Jiecheng beside him tried to persuade him. Seeing her husband's cowardly appearance, Yu Li's pretty face was filled with frost. She recalled the farce in the courtyard when she got married and the deception of the old Yan family, and she burst into tears.

Everyone in the courtyard was confused, wondering what Yu Li was up to. Yu Li said with a sad face, "You guys in the courtyard are bullying the dead, and you only bully a little woman like me. What the old Yan family said before the wedding was all lies. I must, I must, I must give an explanation, you must give me an explanation."

Yu Li wiped her tears with her sleeve and said with a painful look on her face, "As you know, my family of Yu can be considered as old people from the city. Although I am a girl, my parents loved me very much when I was at my parents' home. But I married into the Yan family, into your courtyard house, and I have been here for nearly half a year. My life here can be said to be a hundred or a thousand times worse than that at my parents' home."

Yu Li cried and said, "Before we got married, my parents-in-law said they would find a formal job for my husband, but in the end, he was just a temporary worker in a small factory. The monthly salary was only a dozen yuan, and he had to pay a large sum of accommodation fees to my father-in-law, plus repayments and so on. My husband and I worked hard for a month and didn't have much money left. I, Yu Li, also did odd jobs on the street, but my father-in-law took away my monthly income. Why did he do that?"

"My mother came to visit my husband and me a while ago. My husband and I lived in a room with my parents-in-law. My parents felt sorry for me as a daughter, so they bought a back house in the yard to improve our lives. I thought my parents had already bought a room for my husband and me, but I didn't expect that my father-in-law would want us to pay for the accommodation. How can this be justified?"