Chapter 5: This Whole Family is Like Bitter Gourd in August

Every time she leveled up, it was related to beating up scum.

She had good reason to suspect this.

She remembered the first time her X-ray vision got enhanced. It was during the war in the south, when Minister Bai sent her to assist.

The enemy was cunning and would disguise themselves as various roles, even as civilians, to approach our side. There were also people from other countries who were stirring up trouble. No matter how they disguised themselves, they would definitely carry weapons or surveillance equipment.

But! As long as she wanted to see, everyone in front of her was naked!

Even if the enemy buried their signaling equipment under the skin of their toes, she could still see it.

After helping the military catch enemy spies for a few days, she found that she could see through thick iron doors, whereas before she could only penetrate the human body. After catching spies for a few more days, she could see through two-thirds of the wall.

And today, after beating up Ye Lao Da and the others, she could see through the remaining one-third tonight!

She didn’t know what the standard and parameters for enhancement were, and she wasn’t sure how many bad guys she needed to beat up to enhance her abilities, nor whether she could beat up the same person twice.

Thinking about it, she might as well try it on the Ye family.

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In the big cattle village on the outskirts of Lingcheng, Old Lady Ye, her daughter, and her eldest son’s family all lived there, and they hadn’t split up, they all lived together.

After Ye Lao Da and the others were chased out by Ye Qinglan during the day, because Old Lady Ye was unwilling to spend money for them to see a doctor in the city, they went back to the village to find a village doctor. As for going to the police, they didn’t bother, nor did they want to. They were still used to settling things privately.

At night, Ye Lao Da lay in bed groaning constantly:

“Ouch, it hurts, it hurts to death—”

Every part of his body ached, and no matter what position he kept, it hurt, and the medicine didn’t work.

Thinking about the bruises all over his body, he groaned and cursed:

“That damn stinky girl, I was good to her, I’m going to find someone to sell her. Ouch…”

He was missing a tooth, and his rural dialect made him sound strange.

After cursing Ye Qinglan, he started cursing Old Lady Ye: “You old hag, you biased old hag, you old hag who saves money to buy your own coffin, you’re not even willing to let us go to the hospital. One day I’ll sell your damn daughter too…”

If his wife had been willing to send them to the city hospital, it wouldn’t have hurt so much.

Ye Song sat on a chair by the side. He wasn’t hurting, but his face was burning. Recalling the events of the day, his eyes grew increasingly vicious, and his voice was sinister: “We can’t let this go!”

“We can’t let it go.” Ye Lao Da turned his head to look at him and asked, “Do you have any good ideas?”

His son was actually quite clever, but unfortunately he had a rural hukou, otherwise he would definitely have a bright future.

Before talking about the plan, Ye Song first mentioned something else: “Dad, are you really going to give the job to my aunt after it comes?”

Ye Lao Da: “I definitely don’t want to give it to her. But the old hag is crazy, she insists on giving it to her, and she wants to find a husband for her in the city. She doesn’t even look at whether she’s worthy. Her face is bigger than a yellow basin, her eyes are smaller than green beans, she’s lazy and cunning, even people in the village can’t stand her, how can people in the city stand her? Ouch, ouch—”

He didn’t hold back at all when talking about his sister.

Ye Song’s eyes flashed: “I have a friend whose hometown is Hongshan Town, and the director of their town’s supply and marketing cooperative is looking for a wife for his son, the dowry is five hundred yuan.”

“That’s a lot!” Ye Lao Da suddenly sat up, pulling at his wound, he couldn’t help but groan again: “Five hundred yuan? Really or not?”

“Really. I originally wanted to grab Ye Jiao and send her to be a child bride for them. Now I think about it, Ye Jiao is too young, they definitely won’t agree, my aunt is more suitable. Doesn’t my grandma want to find a good family for her? The supply and marketing cooperative director’s family is so good! First, I’ll marry my aunt off, then I’ll go after my second aunt and the others to settle the score.”

This time they miscalculated. They didn’t expect that Ye Qinglan would suddenly come back, and she was so powerful.

Next time! Next time he would grab Ye Jiao first, and then trick Ye Qinglan into coming over, then he would find ten or twenty brothers waiting, and he didn’t believe that the dead girl could beat so many people by herself!

Ye Song continued, “Even if the job comes, it’s still for my aunt. She’s a girl who’s about to get married, and she wants to compete with me for the job, is she shameless? If I have a job, then I can properly find a girl from the city, and then I can take you and my mom to the city to enjoy life. Otherwise, it’s useless to have a house, without a permanent job, it’s no good.”

Old Lady Ye said that his wife had agreed, but it was actually a lie to get the house. In fact, people in Big Cow Village and nearby villages knew that the two Ye men weren’t very diligent, and they didn’t have much money, so they weren’t very willing to marry into their family.

Ye Lao Da understood after listening to his son’s words, the family at the supply and marketing cooperative was definitely not a good family.

He cursed: “You little rascal! That dead aunt of yours!”

But he only said that, and he tacitly accepted Ye Song’s plan, and even urged him: “You move quickly, don’t let your wife find out.”

Ye Song nodded and decided to go out to take care of this matter tomorrow.

Ye Lao Da’s wife listened silently to their plan, but she didn’t say anything, and she was even happy. She only had one son and one daughter in her life, but the old hag, for a little money, married her daughter off to be a fill-in wife, now it was time for the old hag’s daughter to suffer.

It’s fair to say that this whole family is like bitter gourd in August, black-hearted.

In another room, Old Lady Ye and her daughter looked at Ye Shujuan’s swollen knees, and they were both angry and furious, and they cursed Ye Qinglan from head to toe.

After the scolding, they started to discuss how to get revenge.

Ye Shujuan’s voice was like a ghost: “I want to chop off Ye Qinglan’s hands! And gouge out Ye Jiao’s eyes!”

Old Lady Ye, with her witch-like face: “It’s better to find a family willing to pay a high dowry and marry them off, and then use the money to give you as a dowry, that’s more worthwhile.”

Although it was her granddaughter, she didn’t care about her. Because she had long realized that raising sons doesn’t guarantee old-age care. There were so many people in the village who raised sons, who didn’t work their butts off for their children and grandchildren when they were young? But when they got old, they had to look at their sons and daughters-in-law’s faces to live, the better ones could still have food to eat, the worse ones were directly sent to sleep in the pigsty.

Other people’s sons were like this, her two sons were no better. Her sons were useless, her grandchildren were even more useless, she could only rely on her daughter.

Thinking about this, she said, “Mom has an idea, you just wait.”

“Mom, you have to hurry up, I want to make her kneel on broken tiles for a day.”

Old Lady Ye nodded. After Ye Shujuan lay down to rest, she went out to find Ye Song and asked him to find a few people tomorrow.

Ye Song knew at once that she was looking for people to deal with Ye Qinglan, so he took the opportunity to ask Old Lady Ye for fifty yuan. But after he got the money, he didn’t go to find anyone, and he didn’t care that his face was swollen and embarrassing, he went directly to his friend to discuss the matter of the supply and marketing cooperative director’s son getting married.

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The next day, the rain stopped, and although the ground was still wet, it didn’t hinder Ye Qinglan’s morning exercise.

She ran forward along the apartment building, observing the ground as she ran, and she found that she could see through the ground as well, the thickness of penetration was about the same as the wall.

When she went home after her workout, she passed by the vegetable market and bought some vegetables and breakfast to take back.

At the entrance of the stairs on the fourth floor, she happened to meet Yang Wenying and Aunt Wang going to the vegetable market together.

“Mom, Auntie.”

Aunt Wang smiled: “My daughter is so considerate, she bought all the vegetables back early in the morning, unlike my son, he’s still sleeping in bed like a dead pig.”

She didn’t look at the girl carefully yesterday, but looking at her closely today, she was really bright and beautiful, there was no one like her in the entire cotton mill. It’s just that her skin wasn’t very white, and she looked thin, she must have suffered a lot outside these past few years.

Ye Qinglan also smiled: “Auntie, keep your voice down, your son can hear you.”

“He’s not awake yet, he can’t hear.”

Life seemed to be playing tricks on her. As soon as Aunt Wang finished speaking, her son shouted from behind the door: “Who said I can’t hear? Don’t you think about who the dead pig was born from? If you didn’t give birth, would there be a dead pig? Really, you’ve fed me to death, and you still dare to say that, I don’t know how you became a mother…”

Blah blah blah, a whole bunch of nonsense.

Aunt Wang gritted her teeth: “This little bastard!”

She didn’t go to buy vegetables anymore, and she went home while taking off her shoes. Soon, her son’s begging voice came from inside the house.

Yang Wenying and her daughter held back their laughter and went back to their own house.

Ye Jiao had already gotten up by this time, and she rushed over to take the things from Ye Qinglan’s hands, and she even laughed and said: “From tomorrow on, can I go for morning exercise with you?”

When Ye Qinglan got up, Ye Jiao just got up to pee, it wasn’t even dawn yet.

This girl thought that Ye Qinglan was going to leave, and she was so anxious that she hugged Ye Qinglan, and she didn’t let go until Ye Qinglan said she was going for a run.

“Okay.”

“Great!”

Ye Jiao secretly gave herself a high five.

When she was making the list last night, she had already figured it out, her sister was definitely a martial artist, and she also wanted to be a martial artist! But her sister didn’t know her well, and the possibility of her teaching her was almost zero! So she decided to be her sister’s dog leg. What if her sister saw that she was a good dog leg and taught her?

The first step of being a dog leg started with peeling shrimp, and the second step started with sparring!

Ye Qinglan looked at her little movements and smiled.

After breakfast, Yang Wenying went to work and Ye Jiao went to school.

Ye Qinglan had nothing to do, so she took out the list Ye Jiao had written last night and looked at it. The list was very detailed, even the color and style of the leather shoes Ye Shujuan had borrowed were written down.

She looked at it for a while and put away the list, and went to the Lingcheng Transportation Management Bureau to borrow a car.

When Yang Wenying came back at night, she took out the list Ye Jiao had made and asked her to confirm whether the items and amounts on it were correct.

Yang Wenying understood her intentions at a glance, and she didn’t want her to go. Almost everyone in Big Cow Village was surnamed Ye, and if her daughter went to ask for money, it would definitely lead to an argument, and ten out of ten times the villagers would side with the old hag. They didn’t care how much money the old hag took from her, they would only talk about “filial piety” and “we’re all family.”

Once they started arguing, her daughter would definitely suffer.

But she couldn’t control Ye Qinglan’s mind.

After dinner, Ye Qinglan took out her gloves from her bag and put them on, then she picked up her leather whip