"This can’t go on. In a few months, the baby will be born. This matter can’t be delayed any longer. Mother will go to the Village Chief’s House tonight to bring it up, and get your lifelong issue settled early so I can finally sleep peacefully."
After a pause, Madam Ruan sighed and said, "Sigh! Our family has ended up like this because of your grandmother’s greed. Jianjian’s future is ruined, and Mother is truly worried sick for you siblings."
Mo Xiuzhi remained silent, having her own mountain of worries and no mind to bother about her mother’s issues.
After a while, Madam Ruan turned and left.
Just as she was about to return to her room, Old Master Mo called her, "Madam Ruan."
"What is it?"
"Go and attend to your mother-in-law." Old Master Mo’s face was sullen. That old woman was becoming more and more unreasonable, frequently losing her temper. She was already ugly with age, and after burning all her hair a few days ago, when Old Lady Mo flew into a rage, she looked like a shrew, even uglier. Old Master couldn’t bear to look at her.
The doctor said that Old Lady Mo would never grow hair again in this lifeti because the boiling water was too hot at the ti, burning her scalp completely where the cells died, and new hair could never grow again.
Madam Ruan was unwilling in every possible way, thinking, why is this old woman still causing trouble with the family in this state?
"Father, this daughter-in-law has no ti, there’s a whole pile of work at ho not done yet!" The n in the house hadn’t lifted a finger, with three won, one injured, one pregnant, all the burdens fell onto Madam Ruan, and she couldn’t take it anymore.
Indeed, when Madam Xie was here, she did all the housework. Madam Ruan, enjoying a life of privilege as a young mistress for more than a decade, was now suddenly faced with family upheaval. Naturally, she found it unbearably hard to bear all the burdens of the housework.
She was not as soft as Madam Xie used to be, letting the two old folks at ho call the shots.
Old Master Mo glared and reprimanded harshly, "What’s wrong with attending to your mother-in-law? Learn from Madam Xie, who was filial and did whatever she was told! How are you behaving as a daughter-in-law with no sense of rules?"
Madam Ruan was no pushover and retorted imdiately, "Yes, Madam Xie was severely oppressed by you. Yesterday, she exploded and took a knife chasing you around the village, I heard."
Old Master’s face turned black imdiately. Being chased around the village by a daughter-in-law with a knife was a great humiliation in life, and damn Madam Ruan dared to bring it up.
"She wasn’t just chasing , she was chasing your husband too!"
"That’s because you dragged him into it," Madam Ruan responded bluntly.
"You... you... you’re such a shrew. Ah! An ill-fated family! Why does our family keep producing shrews?" Old Master Mo turned and stord off in anger.
"Bah! Your family traditions are wrong, letting that old woman stir things up all day long, squandering the money, and that’s why we’re in this state today, deservedly so!" Madam Ruan murmured to Old Master’s retreating figure, seemingly forgetting she was also part of this family.
"Wife, what are you saying?"
At that mont, Mo Daoyan ca in from outside, holding a small piece of at, face full of jubilation.
"Nothing."
Of course, you can’t let soone’s son know you were cursing their father. Madam Ruan was a shrewd woman and naturally understood this principle.
"Wife, look, what’s this?"
"Oh wow! It’s at, where did it co from?"
Madam Ruan’s eyes lit up, feeling her stomach rumble.
After all, living on wild vegetables and coarse grains every day, without even a drop of oil, naturally left one unbearably hungry.
No matter how stingy Old Lady Mo was before, there was still so oil in the dishes. Now, with even the oil gone, the wild vegetables were bitter themselves, and without oil, they tasted even more astringent, making their mouths water as they ate.
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