Fortunate Eighties: The Bewitching Female Rival Who Tamed Her Husband with Skill-Chapter 79 - not giving a single penny thats really
Chapter 79 -79 not giving a single penny, that’s really ruthless.
Chapter 79 -79 not giving a single penny, that’s really ruthless.
Jiang Nan stood with her hands on her hips, cursing, “Come on, if you dare to touch a single hair on my head, I’ll send you straight to jail.”
As Uncle Lu and his family skulked away dejectedly, Susu gave her elder sister-in-law a thumbs up, her face filled with sincerity.
“Elder sister-in-law, you’re awesome!!!”
Jiang Nan lifted her chin proudly and huffed, “They got away easy and still act cute, a whole family without shame.”
Brother Lu frowned, “What are you saying? Just now, I was lucky to react quickly; otherwise, you would have been hit by Second Uncle.”
Jiang Nan snorted, “I can’t stand their family. They’ve never missed any opportunity to benefit themselves, and now they want to come over and leech off us? Dream on.”
Brother Lu, feeling helpless, shook his head. Oh, the temper of his wife.
Mrs. Lu, upon recalling the humiliated look on Second Brother’s family, couldn’t help but smile, siding with her daughter-in-law.
“What your wife said isn’t wrong at all! Isn’t it all true?”
Jiang Nan widened her eyes. Her mother-in-law complimented her? And stood by her side?
Brother Lu looked at his wife and mother forming a united front, shook his head helplessly. This just made him more fearful.
Father Lu felt a thrill of satisfaction, but still maintained the solemnity needed as the head of the family and cleared his throat.
“Xiao Mei, are you all right? Second Brother is always like that.”
Lu Xiaogu shook her head, “I just don’t understand how our mother could have been so biased back then. It made big brother, his wife, and the nephews suffer so much.”
“Let’s just let bygones be bygones. Grandma is gone, no need to talk about it now.”
Mrs. Lu sighed, pulling Lu Xiaogu and a few of the younger family members to speak next door.
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The men started drinking, chatting with Little Aunt’s husband. Suddenly, the room with the sisters-in-law was left just to themselves, exchanging looks.
Susu was a bit curious, straightening up a bit, “Elder sister-in-law, do you know something?”
Bai Xiao was also extremely curious, “Yeah, elder sister-in-law, what’s really going on with Second Uncle and his family? I notice that our mother doesn’t seem to like them much.”
“Pah—”
Jiang Nan spat disdainfully and rolled her eyes, “Them being called Second Uncle and Auntie is an insult to those terms.”
Susu: “???”
Bai Xiao: “???”
“It’s normal for you not to know since you’ve married into the family recently; even I have seen them only once or twice over the many years, and every time it was unpleasant.”
Jiang Nan narrowed her eyes in reminiscence, “The first time was when I had just married into the family, grandma was biased, which enraged our parents. I can’t remember the specifics, but it was over something trivial. Grandma always sided with the second branch of the family.
Later, I heard from your big brother that grandma was so biased back then that when she split the family, she gave nothing to our parents except for a quilt, which they had to ask for.
Your big brother was only five or six years old, and the second and the third were just babies; grandma refused to look after the children. With no choice left, mom had to quit her job at the textile factory to look after them.
At that time, our family couldn’t even make ends meet, and it was only by borrowing food from our mother’s family and her colleagues at the factory that we got by. When they went back to ask grandma for help, they found her family enjoying millet porridge and steamed mixed-flour buns.
Mom cried all the way home with the children in her arms…”
Susu and Bai Xiao listened in dismay. Clearly, grandma could have helped, but she chose to provide for her youngest son separately and excluded the eldest branch without giving them anything.
Not a single penny—such a ruthless heart.
No wonder our parents dislike that couple, even though they aren’t any good themselves.
It just goes to show, whenever siblings are discordant, it’s the parents’ fault.
That afternoon, Little Aunt’s husband, Fu Chunsheng, went back, leaving Little Aunt to stay the night alone.
Fu Chunsheng mainly worried about the children back home and the chickens and pigs; he feared the kids might not feed the pigs properly and let them lose weight while the adults were away.
Little Aunt Lu Xiaomei was crammed into a room with Father Lu, Mrs. Lu, and Lu Xiaomei.
“Sss~”
During dinner, Susu suddenly clutched her stomach and hissed, startling everyone into looking her way.
“Honey, what’s wrong?”
After gathering herself, Susu was a bit embarrassed, “It’s nothing, the baby just kicked me and it hurt a bit.”
When it came to this topic, Mrs. Lu and Little Aunt had a lot to say.
“I remember when our family was close to giving birth later on, they would constantly punch and kick in the belly.
Little Aunt’s husband back then saw my belly bumping up and got scared, almost to the point of crying.”
Mrs. Lu slapped her thigh, laughing uncontrollably, “I remember, I remember, I was the same.
Especially the second child, always kicking and jumping in the belly, nearly popped out early.”
Susu elbowed her man, “Looks like your mom had too much movement in the womb, is that why you’re so quiet now?!”
Lu Xiaoting awkwardly touched his nose tip, looking at his wife’s frighteningly big belly.
“Mom, I heard twins are usually premature, so wouldn’t my wife with triplets also…”
Mrs. Lu nodded, “I reckon, next month Susu will likely give birth, after the fifth day of the month, we’ll see what the old traditional doctor says.”
“Right, mom, you alone won’t be able to manage three kids when the time comes, we’ll need to find someone else to help my wife with the babies.”
Before Mrs. Lu could speak, Little Aunt rolled her eyes at her nephew.
“Your Little Aunt is sitting right here. Why look for someone else? The village isn’t busy after the New Year. Little Aunt will come and help you.”
Before Mrs. Lu could speak, Susu spoke first, “Alright, then we’ll bother Little Aunt. We’ll give you a salary of $20 a month, and you stay and eat at our place.”
“You child, why pay your own family? That’s like belittling me,” scoffed Lu Xiaogu, shaking her head and waving her hand, refusing the money no matter what.
Mrs. Lu didn’t know whether to cry or laugh, “Little Aunt, just take it if Susu is giving it to you.”
“No, no, to help my own niece-in-law with the kids, how could I take money for that? What kind of person would I be then?”
“Little Aunt, if you don’t come, I’ll have to pay someone else the same. But no one else will care for the kids like family.”
Susu’s words left Lu Xiaogu speechless, her head spinning, and she eventually stopped arguing.
The elder sister-in-law figured it was best to simply let the niece-in-law’s words be, worst comes to worst, she’d just do a bit more work then, managing both inside and outside the house.
After seeing off the relatives and friends who came to exchange New Year’s greetings, and just like that, the first day of the new year was over.
The morning of the second day,
The whole family was up early, a routine that continued until the fifth day.
Little Aunt was sent back by her second nephew on a bicycle in the afternoon of the second day.
In those times, a bicycle was still a luxury that most households couldn’t afford.
As soon as the bicycle entered the village, it attracted a lot of children to chase and gather around.
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The Lu siblings each returned to the Provincial City.
The younger ones, not yet time for school to start, clamored to stay at grandma’s.
Thinking it was always good to have someone home, having three youngsters there was beneficial.
The youngsters were all very sensible, never shouting or screaming for fear of disturbing Aunt/Aunt, and if they were happy, they would just cover their tiny mouths and giggle softly.
