CHAPTER 29: CHAPTER 29: ASKING FOR MONEY

At once, Yang Chuxia was irritated, especially seeing Ms. Luo feeding that three or four-year-old brat from the fourth branch of the family, who spat out every mouthful of porridge that he took in. Didn’t this seem intentional? The third branch had no porridge to eat, yet the fourth branch was wasting it!

Yang Chuxia threw her washcloth into the basin and charged straight over to Ms. Luo. She walked right up to her and, without saying a word, snatched her bowl. "I don’t think little sister Dong Xue is hungry, but Auntie Luo filled such a big bowl of porridge, just feeding on one side and wasting on the other. Do you think our family’s food comes from flooding? If you don’t want to eat, fine! My little sister is starving. Auntie Luo must be blind, not even able to count how many people are in the house. Even when cooking rice, she manages to shortchange some and leave others out. This time, fine, but if I see it happen again, whoever cooked, their whole branch won’t eat."

"Hey, what are you doing, that’s my bowl? I, I haven’t cooked that many times, how would I know how much to cook? If only the third sister-in-law had come to cook, none of this would’ve happened." Ms. Luo’s face was full of resentment, but she did look a bit guilty. It was true: that morning, she deliberately didn’t cook for the third family branch. Now that Yang Chuxia openly mentioned it, she felt somewhat humiliated.

"How come little sister Luo’s eyes got so bad so young? This morning the third branch was shortchanged, are you planning to leave out our first branch by dinner?" In the past few days, Ms.Liu had constantly been targeted by Yang Chuxia, leaving her extremely miserable. Now, seeing someone else finally being called out too, she couldn’t help but gloat.

"Shut your mouth; can’t you even eat without talking?"

Ms. Liu was only concerned about showing off, forgetting about Old Lady Hua. Old Lady Hua wholeheartedly agreed with Ms. Luo’s behavior; she wished that whole family would starve to death. So when compared, she obviously preferred Ms. Luo, who shared her hatred, over the noisy and indiscriminate Ms. Liu.

Yang Chuxia brought over Ms. Luo’s full bowl of porridge and scooped out a little more for each of her siblings with a few more bowls. Hearing Ms. Luo’s shameless words, she couldn’t help but laugh. Damn, these sons and daughters-in-law of Old Lady Hua had been raised to be useless.

"Auntie Luo, do you think you’re made of gold and jade? You’re nothing but an ordinary countrywoman, and you’re even acting like you can’t cook. We’ve never seen you serve rice before, so how did you know to give yourself such a big bowl today?"

Ms. Luo was instantly speechless, choking on Yang Chuxia’s words. Yang Xiaochuan, who was beside them, looked angrily at his wife being wronged and glared daggers at Yang Chuxia.

But Yang Chuxia acted as if she didn’t see his ferocious glare. After serving porridge to her siblings, she came up to Old Lady Hua and reached out her hand.

Old Lady Hua’s eyelids twitched, and her heart was drumming – what was this damned girl up to now?

"Grandma, I haven’t had breakfast yet. Today is the Sea God Festival, and I want to join in the lively atmosphere as well. But I’m so poor I can’t even afford to buy a string of cotton candy in town, so won’t you, who hold the financial power in our family, support your granddaughter a little?"

Money? Old Lady Hua instantly got furious. Money was like her life, and she was usually too stingy to spend even a little bit. Did this cheap girl dare ask her for money? She reflexively refused, saying, "No, go ask your father for money! I don’t have any!"

Upon hearing that, Yang Chuxia raised her voice, "No money? If there’s no money, why is my good uncle still reading? If there’s no money, why is my auntie living in town? If there’s no money, why does my cousin Li Chun wear new clothes every day? Is it because like father, like daughter, they all spend their own money?"