Ever since Hongji had become wealthy, his apprentices and some of the village youths no longer believed that choosing a wife had to be like Mrs. Li, a woman who could bring prosperity to her husband and was capable.
Such a woman who could bring prosperity and was capable, and treated people with kindness, naturally exuded a gentle demeanor.
While her husband was receiving guests, Mrs. Li was also busy. Apart from when her son was sleeping and watched by the maid, she would hold her son and accompany her husband in receiving guests.
A beautiful smile always graced Mrs. Li’s face. Although she spoke little, her warmth made many people fond of her.
Mrs. Li was still unaware that she had become the standard for some young men’s choice in a spouse.
In the evening when they set off fireworks, Hongji, Mrs. Li, and the visiting guests all watched.
They all smiled as they watched the daughters set off the fireworks with beaming smiles and looked at the fireworks soaring into the sky, which was also a special kind of wish!
Amid the noisy sound of fireworks, a discordant voice emerged.
"Oh, such a lot of money was wasted on last night’s fireworks, and more is being wasted tonight. There’s too much wasteful spending!" Mrs. Lai sat in her chair, pained as she looked at box after box of fireworks.
She estimated how much money was being spent here.
The people who were playing and watching seemed not to hear Mrs. Lai’s voice.
Hongji’s father saw that there were many guests around, and Mrs. Lai’s grumbling put a damper on the mood.
In fact, he too felt that setting off so many fireworks was a waste of money.
But hearing the flattering words of the guests, he thought that with wealth came luxury, and one shouldn’t be as tight-fisted as before.
Their family had bought one estate after another. Whether they had really made money or not, with the land deeds in hand, it represented that their days as a rich family were not far off.
The family’s blue-brick, large-tiled house was a bit larger and more luxurious than ordinary homes. Just by looking at the houses of the village’s rich men, one could imagine that their level of wealth was still not enough.
Mrs. Lai kept talking, but nobody paid her any attention. She couldn’t make a scene on this special day and had no choice but to hold herself back, but she had already thought of a strategy to deal with her son’s extravagant spending.
Mrs. Li wasn’t managing the money well, so Mrs. Lai thought to bring someone in to help manage the finances as their family had become so wealthy.
Given Mrs. Li’s condition, it was unlikely she wouldn’t have more children. How could that be?
Mrs. Lai was planning in her heart to find a woman she could control to bring into the family.
Standing not far from Mrs. Lai, Mrs. Li was currently not paying attention to her mother-in-law and did not know that the latter was plotting against her for the second time.
The first time, when she had gone to be a wet nurse without knowing, neither her husband nor her daughters had mentioned it, and it was kept from her until now.
If she knew about that time, would she feel even colder? Would she reject her mother-in-law’s opinions and would she approve?
Ye Shiqi looked at the sparkling fireworks in her hand, watching intently as time passed by, and she no longer missed her father or friends from her previous life so much.
At the moment, she wondered whether, on this first night of the new year, her relatives and friends in another world were also celebrating the new year?
She sighed in her heart, unfortunately unable to personally punish that mother and daughter. Over these two or three years, she finally understood one thing.
The car she was driving definitely had a problem. It was unreasonable that a newly purchased sports car would be such poor quality. Being a novice driver wasn’t her fault.
It was possible that the family fortune went to that mother and daughter.
Ye Shiqi looked up at the sky and made a wish, hoping her life would become even more spectacular.
In a certain part of the world, a Chinese person stood at the window of his home, looking at the sky.
His expression was lonely and sad. By then, he had already avenged his beloved woman, punishing the mother and daughter who had harmed her.
The father of the beloved woman confronted him, asking why they had to do this when there was no previous grievance.
Taking over their family company and finding evidence led to the daughter and the Second Lady being sentenced to prison, for decades.
Decades, after decades, would he ever see the Second Lady and the daughter again?
The daughter, so young and sentenced to so many decades, would see her youth and lifetime ruined.
This is how he answered the father, "Did you never suspect how your daughter died? They have received the punishment they deserved. As for your company, since you wanted to hand it over to someone else, I bought it to let you enjoy your retirement. As for that woman and her mother, spending decades in prison is already letting them off lightly."