Rebirth: Pampered by Chapter 186 - 186 186 The Wife

??Chapter 186: Chapter 186: The Wife

Chapter 186: Chapter 186: The Wife

“Big Sister is just an. Mother is an elder too, why did you snatch her things to give to others? If you wanted to honor soone, couldn’t you have used your own silver to buy sothing? Why did you need to grab stuff from our ho?” Chuner pouted, clearly unhappy. Ever since Big Sister had appeared, she had been helping the Mo family seize their belongings.

Mo Yaner: “You…”

With a turn of her face and a pout of her lips, Chuner said, “Hmph! It’s the truth.”

Xuexue put down the sweet potato she was holding and turned to the puffed-up Chuner, “All right, Chuner, don’t be angry. Let’s eat!”

“Huh? Why sweet potatoes?” The anger that had been puffing up Chuner deflated imdiately upon glancing at them. After all, isn’t braised loach supposed to go with white rice to be fragrant?

“Almost everything in our house has been plundered by others; we’re lucky to have sweet potatoes to eat.” Xuexue glanced aningfully at Mo Yaner as she picked up a sweet potato and sat down.

Madam Xie: “There is still rice in the rice bin, isn’t there?”

As Xuexue peeled the sweet potato skin, she said, “Not much left, we need to save it. Otherwise, we won’t make it to spring without starving.”

“We can still catch river snails to sell.” Madam Xie was honest, and besides, she wouldn’t suspect her eldest daughter.

Xuexue: “There’s almost no river snails left in Xiao Xi either.”

Madam Xie beca sad: “It’s all my fault for being incompetent, forcing Xuexue to shoulder the burden of earning money by catching river snails to support us.”

“You aren’t pretending to be poor because I am here, are you?” Mo Yaner stared at Xuexue and Madam Xie, confused.

Of course, that was the case, but Xuexue would never tell her that many things from the house were hidden in her space, no matter how hard they searched, they wouldn’t find them.

Madam Xie: “Yaner, you don’t know, ever since Mother was divorced by your father, we have relied on Xuexue’s sensible ways to earn money by catching river snails; that’s how the three of us have survived until today.”

“If Big Sister doesn’t believe it, feel free to search around!” Xuexue elegantly took a bite of sweet potato and picked up a piece of loach to eat. While eating, she nodded to herself and murmured, “Hmm! This loach is done well, crispy and fragrant.”

Chuner, with her mouth greasy from eating, nodded vigorously in agreent, “Right, right, it’s so delicious.”

At that mont, she didn’t mind the absence of rice. She alternated between bites of sweet potato and loach, eating with great enjoynt. After all, they had endured much tougher tis in the Mo family, so a single al was nothing to fuss over.

“Yaner, go ahead and eat, Xuexue’s cooking is delicious!” After trying a bit, Madam Xie’s face lit up with surprise, and she eagerly placed so loach with her chopsticks into Mo Yaner’s bowl.

“Hmm!”

Mo Yaner found the food indeed very delicious and wanted to ask Xuexue how she made it but couldn’t quite bring herself to lower her pride, so the al concluded in silence.

After eating, Xuexue went to clean loaches. Having recovered from his earlier fright, Big Bull boldly volunteered to help.

They placed the loaches in a large iron pot, drying them batch by batch, and stored them in a clean wooden bucket. To Xuexue’s delight, they accumulated more than half a bucket of dried loaches. She thought to herself that if they could turn the whole stream inside out, it would surely yield a considerable inco.

By the ti everything was sorted out, it was already deep into the night.

“Yawn!” Xuexue, untying her apron while yawning, called out to Big Bull, who was dozing off by the stove, “Big Bull, it’s late, go to bed.”

“Uh!”

Big Bull stood up and followed Xuexue, “My lady, may I sleep in your room?”

“No.”

“Why not? I’ll just sleep on the floor.”

“It’s too cold. I’m afraid you’ll catch a cold.”

“Then I’ll sleep on the bed.”

“If you take my bed, where would I sleep?”

“We could sleep together; it would be much warr.”

“Go to hell.” After Xuexue roared, she turned and entered her room, slamming the door shut with all her might, followed by two more thuds as she evidently bolted the windows as well.