Chapter 548: How Could You Embarrass Our Family Like That?

"Ziyan, if you wish to marry a good man, you still have to work hard on yourself. Look at me; just because I do not have a high position at my workplace, your father is treating me so casually. If I had money today, then he would have thought twice before making me upset. You are working in the warehouse, but this job is not respectable... You still need to climb higher if you want to..." There were many women who were in a better position than Han Ruochen. It was no longer the issue of beauty alone; men nowadays liked women who could earn a good amount as well. If there were other women who were better than Han Ziyan, who would be willing to pick her up?

She paused and added, "And marriage is not just a matter of a man’s liking. If you want to get married, then you also need to convince the parents of your partner. You already have enough trouble as it is. Ziyan, listen to me; you need to work hard and make sure that you are well respected in the village, such that no one would tell about you to anyone anything."

"Let me think about it..." When Han Ziyan heard her mother mention the matter of getting married to a rich man, she could not help but get worried. Her stance also started to waver. Her mother was right. What if the family of the man she was getting close to these days thought that she was working in a much lower position than he was? What would she do then?

Anyway, it wasn’t that she could not be promoted. It was just that she did not want to work hard.

Han Ruochen, who was in the bedroom, did not know what Han Ziyan and Meng Yunhan were chatting about. When she came out of the room, Meng Yunhan and Han Ziyan had tidied up most of the house. It was much cleaner than before. When she saw the cleanliness in the house, she could not help but arch her brow. She had to admit that when the two of them were scheming something, they were quite hard-working.

She walked to the dining room and did not go to the kitchen; instead, she sat down at the dining table. Her mother was supposed to start cooking from today onwards as a punishment for causing trouble. Her mother was not a good cook, and at the dining table there was nothing but a simple dish of scrambled eggs and green chives. When she looked at the small bowl of eggs and noticed the people around the dining table, she could not help but curl her lips. 𝖿𝖗ⅇℴ𝑚

Was her mother trying a new strategy? Cooking so little that no one would be able to eat their fill? Knowing Meng Yunhan, this was something she could do.

"Where is the rest of the breakfast?" In the past, Han Yong would never have gone against his mother, but after finding out that she had cheated on their father, he was no longer as respectful toward his mother as he used to be in the past. "Why did you cook so little? How are we supposed to fill our stomachs with so little scrambled eggs and porridge?"

"What do you know? Do you think it is easy for me?" Meng Yunhan’s face turned red, and she could not help but glare at Han Yong. In the past, she used to cook some meat dishes for Han Ziyan. But back then, Han Ruochen was the one who was doing the cooking and taking care of the rest of the family’s meals. But now that Han Yichen was back home, she was not cooking a thing. While it was alright for her to cook a few dishes for Han Ziyan, the entire family—it was simply impossible!

Her salary was way too little to feed the entire family.

Even Han Ziyan was upset when she saw that there was no chicken or meat on the table and that she was missing most of her protein. She turned and glared at her mother before saying to her angrily, "Mom, I am carrying a child now. Is this how I am supposed to eat?"

"You speak of your pregnancy as if it is a glorious thing," said Han Yong, who seemed to have eaten pepper since the moment he woke up. He glared at Han Ziyan and snapped at her. "Why don’t you go outside and yell that you are pregnant, since you are so eager to tell everyone that you are pregnant?"

Han Ziyan’s face turned pale while Meng Yunhan slammed down the porcelain in her hands onto the table, cracking it and was about to lose her temper, but then the front gate was kicked open with a violent Crack.

In marched Old Madam Han. Her hair was pinned in a tight bun, and her eyes were just as sharp as a flint. She had just returned to the village after she finished her work at the village next door, only to hear the wild rumours that were spreading all over the small fishing village.

"Meng Yunhan! You brainless, shameless shrew!" Old Madam Han shouted as soon as she entered the courtyard.

Before Meng Yunhan could even react, the old woman dropped the basket she was carrying onto the floor and stormed across the courtyard with a fierce momentum.

SLAP!

The thick broom bristles that Old Madam Han was carrying slammed right across Meng Yunhan’s back.

"Aah!" Meng Yunhan screamed in pain and dropped the chopsticks that she was carrying. "Mom, what are you doing? Have you gone mad?" She then turned to look at her husband and cried, "What is going on with your mother? Why is she beating me up for no reason?"

"No reason? No reason?!" Old Madam Han raised the broom again and cracked it right across Meng Yunhan’s thighs. "I just went out of the village for a few days, and then I heard that my two daughters-in-law had made quite a mess of our family. What were you thinking, Meng Yunhan? How could you embarrass our family in front of the magistrate like that?"