I'm incredibly ambitious after being reborn.

Chapter 36 Mother and Daughter's Night Talk
After arranging for Sang Yuke's family to stay, Li Laidi and her daughter also closed the door to discuss matters. They talked from the first half of the night until the second half, but they couldn't come to a conclusion.

As Li Gensheng, Sang Yuke's uncle, mentioned, the question of who will lead the Sang family has not yet been decided.

Previously, Li Laidi was so flustered that she even considered dying along with her daughter. So, to say that she had any hope for her husband's family was pure nonsense.

Now that things have calmed down, Li Laidi is thinking about whether to send a man from the Sang family to support them. It can't be that Sang Shouyi, a distant cousin, sits in the main seat, can it?
That's ridiculous.

"Mom, I'd say you shouldn't think so much. We've already discussed it before, and it's just you. Xiang-ge'er is a straightforward person; he's as clear-headed as a mirror. What good are those fancy, pretentious tricks to him? I'll just live a good life with him and not worry about anything else."

"I just feel like it would make people feel ashamed..."

Li Laidi was indecisive, but after her younger brother mentioned it to her, she started to have ideas.

Humans are social animals, and even saints may not be able to avoid the issue of face, let alone someone like her.

"What dignity could we possibly lose?"

Holding her mother's hand, Sang Yuke sat on the edge of the bed, looking into Li Laidi's eyes and said, "Mom, legally speaking, what if Xiang-ge finds another woman in the future? Are you going to advise me to divorce Xiang-ge if my uncle says, 'Sang Yuke, how come your man has found another woman?'"

"That won't work!"

“Isn’t that it? Mom, we are an orphan and a widow, with no one to rely on. Have you forgotten what kind of faces those creditors had before, and how they behaved after Xiang-ge’er took charge? They addressed him as ‘sister-in-law’ this way and that, without the slightest disrespect. Those people outside don’t care about what Xiang-ge’er eats or wears; he’s a man who’s rooted to the ground. But what about us?”

Sang Yuke retorted, tightening her grip on her mother's hand. "Only when we wear gold and silver, live in luxury, will those outsiders give us face. They don't care about our reputation at all; they only care about Xiang-ge'er. In this family, Xiang-ge'er is the head of the household. With him around, anyone who gossips... gets slapped!"

"..."

Stunned by her daughter's words, Li Laidi now had a plan in mind. She had never had any ideas before, always following orders since childhood. Now that she had a sudden break in her life, she began to think about how to gain some face among her siblings.

The daughter's reasoning was now extremely insightful, and she suddenly realized that it was indeed foolish of her to have always obeyed her parents, and that it seemed inappropriate to protect her only brother as much as she would her own son.

"Your uncle was just trying to be helpful..."

Li Laidi was still afraid that her daughter would harbor resentment, so she mentioned it briefly.

“Mom, I’m living with Xiang’er. He’s going to inherit the twelfth family in the future. If he continues to look for other women after he’s filled the twelfth family, then he’ll be the one who wrongs me.”

"..."

Hearing this absurd and outrageous truth, Li Laidi sighed and hugged her daughter, saying, "I'm still useless. I'm sorry."

“Let’s not talk about these trivial things. We’ll go back to our hometown less often in the future, unless it’s for important business. Xiang’er also told me that we’ll buy a house near ‘Zhang’s Canteen’ later. If you want to work, you can live closer to it; if you don’t want to work, you can come and live in the apartment building in Nanxingtou in the countryside. Let’s live more freely in the future and not think about those petty calculations.”

“My son-in-law is perfect in every way. If only his grandfather weren’t so prone to wild ideas, I’d never heard of any ‘one person, twelve incense offerings’…”

"Mom, there are always endless opportunities to take advantage of things in the world."

Sang Yuke shook her head, looking at her mother's unwilling eyes, and laughed generously, "Think about it, if it weren't for this 'one person, twelve incense offerings' tradition, would your daughter have had the chance to marry into Xiang-ge'er's household? She probably wouldn't even have the right to warm his bed for one night." "My daughter is still very likable, who in the Zhang family doesn't speak well of her?"

Li Laidi was really proud when she talked about this, because the old ladies in the Zhang family were also very satisfied with Sang Yuke.

For the Zhang family, whose members were mostly peasants, Sang Yuke, who was good at managing the household, was a typical virtuous wife.

Other factors such as cultural background, height, weight, and appearance are not really a concern for generations.

If a man is incompetent, how can he expect a woman to help him achieve great success?
This is why the old man Zhang Qihui was unwilling to accept it; he truly wished that Sang Yuke was the mother of his great-grandson, not his brother Zhang Qiheng's great-grandson.

The kind of resentment that makes you regret it to the core.

"Mom, whether others praise or criticize is their business, we can't control what they say. But in the future, please don't take advantage of how good Xiang-ge'er is to me and put on airs. You might be thinking that Xiang-ge'er isn't someone who went to university, and you can take Auntie's smugness at Grandpa's house to heart, but don't let it bother you anymore."

"I didn't take it to heart at all. So what if Lulu went to college? What's the big deal?"

“Mom, your daughter can’t go to university because she’s not smart enough. But Xiang’er doesn’t go to university because he doesn’t want to, it’s not the same thing. If Auntie says that my education level is good enough for Xiang’er, don’t take it seriously, and don’t really think that we are the same.”

"I understand, don't worry."

Li Laidi, who was still quite clear-headed, patted her daughter's hand. "I inquired about my son-in-law's situation at school before. Goodness, I thought he was just a tall and strong guy... but I was worried he wouldn't be very good at studying. Turns out, he's even better than Zhang Miao. And that old Uncle Ding from the ancestral hall... he's the principal of the No. 2 Middle School here. He curses about it, and he says some really nasty things, he's cursing my son-in-law's own grandfather."

"..."

"Hey, how about we let the son-in-law go to university again in the future?"

"There are plenty of good girls in college, I'm not stupid."

"That's true... Mom, I was just saying that. We can't really get our son-in-law interested in going to university."

Li Laidi couldn't find any fault with her son-in-law, Zhang Daxiang. He was both scholarly and martial, extremely handsome, and would definitely play a positive character in any movie.

If it weren't for the son-in-law's grandfather's eccentric ideas, it would be perfect.

It's all the old man's weird ideas.

One person, twelve incense sticks...

How did you come up with that idea?
The mother and daughter chatted until late into the night, and only when dawn broke did they manage to catch up on some sleep.

Since it was the engagement party today, there was no need to help out at "Shizipo". So she took the rare opportunity to sleep in. When Zhang Daxiang came over and saw that she was still sleeping, he didn't wake her up. It wasn't until lunchtime that he let Sang Yuke change her clothes in the car.

This action left Sang Yuke's maternal grandparents speechless, except for Li Laidi, who smiled smugly and said that her son-in-law was always like this...

(End of this chapter)