Zhou He’s mom felt exposed and a bit uncomfortable. She said unhappily, "What, can’t I co see you? On the day you visited after the wedding, you left in such a hurry after the al, we barely had a few words."
"Mom, wasn’t I busy with things?" Zhou He explained.
"So, how much money can you guys exactly make?" Zhou He’s mom asked again.
"Not much." Zhou He was vague, reluctant to disclose how much money they made to anyone, even her own mother.
Besides, if her mother knew, her father would know too.
If her father found out, would there ever be a peaceful day again?
Zhou He had always harbored hard feelings about her father trying to marry her off to Old Luo, feeling utterly cold-hearted regarding the matter.
"Not much is how much, you ungrateful girl, I’m your mother." Zhou He’s mom, who initially felt a bit embarrassed to ask, got angry seeing Zhou He’s attitude and scolded as she tapped her on the head, "Can’t I just ask?"
"Mom, although Nianji is selling bean sprouts, he doesn’t make much in a month, about the sa as soone in the brick factory, but it’s a bit easier," Zhou He wasn’t telling the truth.
Zhou He’s mom kept probing, and Zhou He continued to dodge the questions. As for the matter of asking her mother-in-law, Zhou He directly rebutted, "Mom, she’s my mother-in-law, how would I know how much money? "
"Then how much money do you have?" Zhou He’s mom asked again.
Zhou He paused, then said, "Twenty dollars."
Twenty dollars was not eye-catching.
Her mother was so angry she was hopping mad, saying, "Your mother-in-law is taking advantage of you. The factory looks good; how could you possibly only earn twenty dollars? Did your mother-in-law hold back your money?"
"Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? It’s normal for a daughter-in-law to help out her mother-in-law. I’m quite satisfied with the twenty dollars she gave ," Zhou He truly regarded Ji Ying as even closer than her own mother and naturally didn’t want to hear others speak ill of her.
"Zhou He, whose side are you on?"
Seeing Zhou He defend her mother-in-law like this, her mother was so upset it hurt.
"Mom, you’re my mother, but so is my mother-in-law." Zhou He tried to explain, "Mom, here’s five dollars, take it ho and buy sothing nice to eat."
"Are you shooing away like a beggar?" Zhou He’s mom, though disdainful in her words, still took the money and said, "Xiaohe, listen to , how can a mother-in-law compare with your own mother? The Xu Family wasn’t even willing to give three hundred dollars before, but now they’re doing business and making money. From what I see, the Xu Family doesn’t really care about you."
"If it weren’t for your love for Xu Nianji, I wouldn’t have been willing to marry you into the Xu Family." Zhou He’s mom sighed, seemingly concerned for Zhou He, "Xiaohe, your brother is about to get married, and the girl’s side wants a bicycle. See if you can borrow so money?"
Even though it was clear that in her parents’ eyes she would never match up to her brother, her mother’s actions still hurt Zhou He to the core.
She hadn’t received a single yuan of the two hundred dollars from the Xu Family. Apart from her bedding and so small household items as her dowry, she didn’t get any money.
It was all for her brother’s marriage. While she could understand her parents raising her, she had just married into the Xu Family and had no money to buy a bicycle to help her parents out.
Zhou He was silent, thinking to herself that Ji Ying, her mother-in-law, was in her heart a real mother too.
Whether her mother-in-law’s kindness was genuine or fake, she knew it well, and she said, "Mom, we’ve just got married, and we’re still in debt at ho. Didn’t the Hu Family previously agree on two hundred dollars? Why do they want to add a bicycle now?"
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