Wen Wan hid the chamber pot behind her back and explained to Chen Xiumin.
"Mom, this is an antique. It’s going to be worth a lot of money in the future. You don’t understand."
’Even though it’s a chamber pot, it’s still valuable.’
Wen Wan carefully placed the chamber pot in the cabinet next to her, even putting a sweater underneath it, terrified of breaking it!
Chen Xiumin didn’t care if it was an antique or not. All she knew was that this thing was a chamber pot.
The thought of Wen Wan cradling the chamber pot like a precious treasure monts earlier made her feel ill.
’Ever since this daughter ca back, she’s not only ruined the Xu Family’s reputation, but now her hobbies are bizarre, too. It’s simply unbearable.’
"Are you going to throw it out or not?"
Wen Wan was growing impatient.
Still, she offered another explanation.
"Mom, this is a Ming Dynasty antique! Do you have any idea how much it will be worth? When the ti cos, we could sell it for hundreds of thousands, maybe even over a million."
Chen Xiumin thought her daughter had gone mad.
’She’s gone crazy over money.’
’What kind of respectable person would spend hundreds of thousands on a chamber pot?’
’Can you eat it? Can you drink it?’
’Even if this thing really were valuable, what are the odds it would fall into Wen Wan’s lap?’
’She’d seen enough in her life to know there was no such thing as a free lunch.’
’This thing... it probably ca from a shady source.’
She rembered that Wen Wan had asked her for two yuan for her trip to the County Town, and she couldn’t help but ask.
"Don’t tell you spent money to bring ho a useless old chamber pot!"
Wen Wan frowned. "Mom, it’s a real antique, and it only cost two yuan. I got an incredible deal."
Chen Xiumin felt that if she didn’t teach this daughter of hers a lesson, she would be a lost cause. She walked outside, grabbed a broom leaning against the wall, and marched into Wen Wan’s room.
Chen Xiaoli, who had been inside nding clothes, saw her mother-in-law go into the room with a broom and imdiately carried a small stool outside to sit.
Yu Fangfang also decided that with her big belly, she needed to go outside and get so sun, so she ca out too.
When Chen Xiaoli saw Yu Fangfang co out, she turned around, went back inside, and brought out another stool.
"Your belly is so big, you should sit."
Yu Fangfang didn’t refuse.
The two of them were sisters-in-law, but they got along very well. Neither was the type to take advantage of others or gossip behind their backs, so they were quite close.
Inside the room, Wen Wan’s shouts rang out.
"Mom, what are you doing? This is completely unreasonable! It’s an antique! How can you be so ignorant?"
Chen Xiaoli and Yu Fangfang both pricked up their ears.
Chen Xiumin’s voice drifted out from the room.
"I may be ignorant, but I know how to discipline my own daughter."
The room wasn’t soundproof.
Chen Xiaoli and Yu Fangfang could both hear their sister-in-law getting hit.
But neither of them went to intervene.
Yu Fangfang was completely disheartened by the incident with her child.
Besides, she was nine months pregnant and due any day, so she was in no condition to break up a fight.
Chen Xiaoli simply didn’t like her sister-in-law. She was lazy, greedy, and always demanding the best food. If not for the fact that Wen Wan had just returned, Chen Xiaoli wouldn’t have been able to stand it. In her opinion, a beating was exactly what she deserved.
In fact, afraid she might not hear everything clearly, Chen Xiaoli scooted her stool closer to Wen Wan’s room.
’Ever since her sister-in-law ca back, she’d taken over her daughter’s room.’
’On top of that, Wen Wan was so high-maintenance—demanding a new quilt and even making her go buy the fabric.’
’It was infuriating just thinking about it.’
’Now, listening to her sister-in-law getting hit... she had to admit, the sound was music to her ears.’
Yu Fangfang wasn’t as obvious as Chen Xiaoli, but she was also listening intently.
Inside, Wen Wan was beaten back against the window.
Through the glass, she saw her two sisters-in-law sitting outside, enjoying the show.
A vicious glint appeared in her eyes.
’She knew her two sisters-in-law couldn’t stand her, but to hear her getting beaten and not even try to intervene... Just you wait,’ she thought. ’I’ll make them regret this.’
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