Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 470 - 452: Ye’s Father Shows His Might

Chapter 470: Chapter 452: Ye’s Father Shows His Might

Grandma Ye’s face changed, but before she could say anything more, Ye Man immediately followed up: "Moreover, Grandma, although I don’t have my own younger brothers or cousins, I have more than one male cousin from my uncles and aunts. If I count them all up, I have a good five or six."

"How can that be the same? Your brother Maomao is from your aunt’s family, and naturally he’s a hundred times closer to you than a few cousins from your uncles’ and aunts’ families," Grandma Ye blurted anxiously.

As soon as these words came out, Ye Man’s mother’s face turned extraordinarily unsightly. Just as she was about to retort, Ye Man pulled her back and looked at Grandma Ye with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile: "Aren’t they all cousins? I’ve never felt that cousins from my aunt’s family were closer to me than those from my uncles’ and aunts’ families. In contrast, when I was little and I visited my uncles’ and aunts’ houses, their sons always saved nice things for me, while my cousin from my aunt’s family always tried to snatch things from me."

Ye Man scoffed coldly, "If that’s what you call closeness, then I really prefer to be more distant from him."

"Wow—Elder brother, your daughter is influenced by your wife now; does she have issues with our Ye Family? You have only one dear sister, and can you just watch your nephew unable to get a wife?"

Upon hearing this, Grandma Ye immediately burst into tears, her face smeared with snot and tears.

"Mom, what Xiaoman said is also true. She’s grown up now, not a three-year-old child. Who can fool her? How can it be because of teaching?"

Actually, talking like this also gave Ye father a headache: "Moreover, why would Maomao not have a house? I remember when the area was demolished, you said that both sons and daughters should have their share of the property. In the end, your share didn’t touch me, the son, at all.

Back then, apart from the house you currently live in, didn’t you give the other flat to my sister’s family? Counting that, my sister’s family already has two apartments. If you include the one you’re living in now, that’s three. Where did it come to not having a place for Maomao to get married? Why must you keep eyeing my side?"

When bringing up the past, Father Ye was actually quite angry. While other families favor sons by giving them property, their family was different. Because he didn’t have a son, his parents would openly criticize his relationship with his daughter-in-law, intending to give all the property to their daughter. At that time, they even made a written agreement stipulating that once the daughter received the property, she would take care of them in their old age.

Ye father also felt fortunate that when he got married, Ye Man’s mother insisted on pulling strings to get land for them to build a house. It was because of this that they ended up with their current two flats after the demolition.

If it had been up to his parents’ callousness, his family of three might have ended up living outdoors.

"Wasn’t it that the flat given to your sister was eventually sold to fund her business, and then she lost money?"

Grandma Ye’s face became somewhat uncomfortable, "It’s all because Maomao’s girlfriend’s family wouldn’t agree to live with her in-laws. Now where does your sister have an empty house in her home?"

"If it doesn’t work out, you two can live with my sister and her husband in one flat, isn’t that making room for them?" Ye father frowned. Such a big matter as his sister selling a house, and he, as her brother, didn’t catch even a whisper of it, as if he was an outsider. Yet now, they wanted to use him like this.

"That won’t do. I’m not comfortable living with them. We’ve grown accustomed to living on our own."

Grandma Ye quickly shook her head, her son-in-law was bad-tempered. They lived with them for half a month before, and the son-in-law pushed and shoved them once, almost landing them in the hospital, and they didn’t dare to tell their son. Actually, the older they got, the more they wanted to live with their son, but they were reluctant to bring up the incident that had hurt their son’s feelings in the past.

"If this won’t do and that won’t do, then I really can’t help it. He’s not my son, doesn’t carry the Ye surname, and isn’t my nephew. He has his own parents. What kind of matter is it for me to provide a house for his marriage?" Father Ye spread his hands, indicating he was powerless.

"How can you not care? He is your only sister—" Grandma Ye accused Father Ye, tears falling from her eyes.

"It’s true I have only one sister, but Xiaoman’s mother’s siblings aren’t limited to one. If every family came to me when their child was getting married without a house, even selling myself wouldn’t be enough," Father Ye retorted briskly.

"Why should Xiaoman’s mother’s siblings come to you?" Grandma Ye seeing that tears were useless, got angry, pointing at Mother Ye, "She married into our family and still wants to bring money from her maiden home?"

"Speaking of which, Xiaoman’s mother’s siblings do have more right to come to me than my sister’s family. Mom, have you forgotten how our house was built back in the day? Without Xiaoman’s mother’s family chipping in, both financially and physically, would I even have a house to live in now?"

Father Ye chuckled, "Back then, my sister’s family was better off than any of us. I thickened my skin and asked them, but they simply refused to lend us a penny, still afraid we wouldn’t be able to pay them back, right?"

"She, she was tight on funds at that time too," Mother Ye stumbled, feeling uncomfortable, then stiffened her neck and exclaimed, "Why do you still remember all these old sesame and rotten millet issues so clearly? Shouldn’t you, as a brother, be a bit more generous?"

"Mom, if I really weren’t generous enough, our two families would have cut ties long ago. I’m not holding on to past issues with them, but it doesn’t mean I should just hand over my own property. I’m not without sons and daughters, and even if I were, I wouldn’t be foolish. Keeping the house for the monthly rent is still an income; what good would giving it away for free do me? And still be laughed at as a fool behind my back?"

"I may well eat some losses as a brother usually, but I’m also not rich enough to casually give away houses. So, don’t even think about it, and besides, I’ve already transferred that apartment to Xiaoman’s name a long time ago," Father Ye was firm in his attitude.

"She’s just a girl," Grandma Ye said in frustration.

"Isn’t my sister a girl too?" Father Ye responded with displeasure, his face turning stern.

"Forget it, forget it, I’ve said before that this is not going to work." Grandpa Ye pulled Grandma Ye back, actually feeling a bit regretful that they had given that apartment to their daughter too early; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been sold.

"What about Maomao?" Grandma Ye was genuinely fond of the grandson she had raised herself.

"What can we do? Each child has their own fortune. Besides, it’s already the next generation; moreover, he’s not our own grandson, just a grandchild-in-law," Grandpa Ye answered bluntly, which was actually how he felt. If not his own grandson, he couldn’t invest too much care.

Ye Man and Gu Feng just watched as Father Ye asserted himself, staying as quiet as possible without rolling up their sleeves to intercede.