She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Chapter 365

Zheng Qianlan wiped away her tears. "If I divorce him, they will never give you to me. If I go to get a divorce, those people will definitely side with your father. They'll write some nonsense about how it's good for a daughter to stay with her father. Little do they know that they'll be pushing you into a fire pit."

Yu Yan said viciously, "If you push me into the fire pit, I'll make their whole family perish in the flames and see who's tougher. After they're all dead, I'll go to those families who said they were on good terms with my father and curse them, saying that I'll haunt them even as a ghost, and that their foul mouths ruined my life."

Zheng Qianlan slapped her hard, "So all the hard work I put into raising you all these years was just to send you to your death? I just want to see you find a good man, get married, and start a family. That way, my life won't have been in vain."

"Mom, they've ruined our reputation all these years, how am I supposed to find a good man? Besides, you've already met a man like Dad, and you still want me to get married? Are you trying to push me into a fire pit?"

Yu Yan really couldn't understand why everyone was so insistent on her getting married. She had grown up and had a job, albeit a temporary one, but she was hopeful for the future and was certain she would become a permanent employee.

She has a salary to support herself, and her mother also has a job, which is even better than hers. Why can't the two of them live together happily?

Zheng Qianlan: "Who doesn't get married? People would laugh at you if they told others."

Yu Yan: "This isn't the only thing that makes me a laughingstock. Besides, no one leaves home without getting a divorce. You're the first one, and you're always arguing with my dad at the factory. In the end, the factory manager had to assign us here. People laugh at you too, but I'm used to it."

Zheng Qianlan: "You're blaming me now? If I hadn't made such a fuss, you would have been killed by your heartless grandmother and father as soon as you were born."

Yu Yan: "I'm not blaming you. Don't use this to threaten me every time I disagree with getting married. Getting married is more troublesome than not getting married. What will happen after marriage? Will I have to acknowledge them? Will they come to my husband's house to make trouble about the bride price? Will they come to my house every few days after the wedding to cause trouble? Should I beat them up in front of my in-laws? Even if my in-laws are kind, isn't this even more harmful and make my life miserable?"

Thinking of Yu Yan's future life, Zheng Qianlan started to cry again, "Those damned bastards, they've ruined your life. Otherwise, I would have just killed them all, so you wouldn't have to worry about the future."

Yu Yan often felt that her mother was sometimes strong and sometimes weak. For example, right now, she could cry and say such rebellious things. Her mother was really not joking. If Yu Yan just nodded and said that she would walk the normal path from now on, her mother would pick up a knife and rush out to kill her.

"Mom, do you really want me to be known as the daughter of a murderer in the future?" Yu Yan said helplessly.

Zheng Qianlan: "That old bastard killed so many of your sisters, and it didn't affect the family's reputation. Why should those idle people talk about you?"

Yu Yan: "That's because we didn't have solid evidence to arrest her. By the time you reported it, my sisters' bodies were all gone. Who knows where that old hag was? Besides, who says it didn't have an impact? Any normal person knows she was so heartless as to kill four of her granddaughters. Let's see how her grandsons will get married in the future. Unless they marry someone from the countryside with a high dowry, who will enter her family?"

Zheng Qianlan had finished crying by now. After sniffling, she started scolding Yu Yan: "How can a girl like you say such things? What about your husband's family? Aren't you ashamed?"

Yu Yan was speechless. All her mother heard was this. Why didn't she say that she was going to kill the whole family? Why didn't she say that she cursed the Yu family to die every day? All she did was find her a boyfriend. She couldn't understand anything else.

Yu Yan felt powerless, realizing she had just said something in vain.

Zheng Qianlan got up, washed her face, and then started making pancakes. Making these pancakes was her specialty, and even the most picky old woman from the Yu family couldn't find a single fault with them.

A moment later, she pointed to a plate of steaming hot pancakes and said to Yu Yan, "The comrade who recently moved in over there helped us today. Why don't you send her a plate of these? It's better than people thinking we're heartless. Even though our reputation is so bad, it's good to make a good connection."

Yu Yan was very unhappy. The same thing happened with the other two families before. They would go out of their way to deliver cakes to them, only to be lectured by them, who would say things like a young girl should be more gentle, otherwise no man would like her.

But they didn't consider that if Yu Yan were too soft-hearted, she would be bullied to death just like her mother.

Anyway, she felt that the less capable a man was, the more he liked women who looked easy to bully. Those men were not only incompetent but also petty, and they couldn't stand their wives being more capable than them, which is why they said that as long as a woman was gentler and more delicate, she would be more agreeable.

Bah! Yu Yan isn't the kind of woman men define. Even with a bad reputation, she looks down on those arrogant good-for-nothings.

Although she was reluctant, Yu Yan still delivered it. In fact, because Grandma Xia had just helped her and her daughter, she even had a smile on her face and silently decided that even if Grandma Xia scolded her, she would hold back and not scold her.

Yes, when the two families moved in before, Yu Yan got into a fight with them on the spot after being reprimanded for delivering pancakes, and she didn't tolerate them at all.

She walked to the front of Old Lady Xia's house. The door was open, but she didn't just go in. Instead, she called out from the doorway, "Comrade, is anyone home?"

Qiao Shan came out through the back door. He was working for his newly recognized master, moving a small table to the area near the back door. As soon as the door opened, he could see the river, and the scenery was particularly beautiful.

"My master will be out soon." Qiao Shan was a little shy. He rarely interacted with girls, and he blushed as soon as he spoke.