Chapter 143 You've Gained Weight
Tian Xiuniang's sarcasm didn't surprise Su Jiuyue. But to be honest, what her second sister-in-law said was true. Considering this, Su Jiuyue kept silent.
Liu Cuihua, who was standing beside Su Jiuyue, interrupted her, "Ok, enough. Jiuyue's mother is sick. She didn't come back for shirking work. Would you accept it if something happens in your home but you couldn't come back? We should stand in others' shoes and don't quibble over how much work we've done respectively. Otherwise, our life will be messy."
Tian Xiuniang mumbled and fell into silence. Seeing her silence, Liu Cuihua continued, "lunar New Year will come in two days. Tell Ercheng not to work anymore and let him take the day off. Tomorrow, the town will have a fair. You two buy some firecrackers back."
Tian Xiuniang was so stingy that she wouldn't buy it with her money. Therefore, she answered, "Why do we need that such money-consuming stuff? We might as well buy some roasted seeds and nuts so that the children can serve as snacks in their spare time."
Liu Cuihua glared at her. "You know nothing! The rules handed down by our ancestors are reasonable. When bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, those bad things have to be bluffed. The next year, our family's luck won't be affected! You want to eat snacks all day long, you don't even look at yourself recently. You've gained weight."
Being fat was a symbol of wealth, and Tian Xiuniang didn't think it was a bad thing to be fat.
"It's our good meals that make me fat. It's nothing to do with snacking." Tian Xiuniang quibbled.
She didn't think the family was unlucky. Even in this disaster year, they didn't have to worry about the basic needs. Instead, they lived in a good life. How could there be some bad things that need to be bluffed? Tian Xiuniang believed her mother-in-law was a worrywart.
She pursed her lips without retorting her mother-in-law, considering she could buy fewer firecrackers back when they ran errands tomorrow.
The money left could be used to buy some snacks. The children could eat much at an early age. The eldest sister-in-law was pregnant, so she couldn't eat snacks. The youngest family didn't like to eat that, so in the end, Tian Xiuniang could take them all.
Tian Xiuniang made a good plan but she didn't expect that Liu Cuihua didn't send her to run errands the next day.
She stamped her foot angrily. "Why! Why let Jiuyue do this! She's been off for days, can't we let her work at home?"
Su Jiuyue herself was a little embarrassed and took the initiative to say, "Forget it, let the second sister-in-law do it. I will unpack and wash the bedding at home."
Liu Cuihua laughed and said to Tian Xiuniang, "It's not my decision. Your parents' home sent the messages and asked you to go back. I didn't know what's about. But if you don't want to go back, "then you go along with Jiuyue to the town."
Tian Xiuniang hesitated. In order to make her comfortable in her husband's house, her parents never sent a message to her. But since the message came, it must be something urgent to tell her.
Considering it, Tian Xiuniang finally gave up the chance to go to town together and said gloomily, "Let her go. I'll go back to my parents' home."
In the end, Su Jiuyue and Wu Xiyuan rode to Niutou Town, where the town was full of New year merchandise for sale at this time.
After buying what her mother-in-law told her, Su Jiuyue remember that the second sister-in-law had been thinking about eating snacks, so she spent her own money on some snacks.
Although her second sister-in-law said some harsh words to her, Su Jiuyue knew her second sister-in-law did work hard these days, but she slacked off to some extent.
Tian Xiuniang was a good person in nature expect her harsh words. She was too obsessed with haggling over some things.
When he saw Su Jiuyue buy so many snacks, Wu Xiyuan asked joyfully, "Honey, do you buy these for me?"
Su Jiuyue smiled at him. Without answering him directly, Su Jiuyue asked instead, "Could you eat these snacks all by yourself?"
Wu Xiyuan scratched the back of his head and thought seriously for a long time before nodding. "I think I can but I'm sure I couldn't take a meal after eating these, and mom will be angry."
Su Jiuyue took the snacks from the vendor and gave her thanks. She put them in the pack basket and said, "Let's take them back and share with everyone, so we won't get stuffed and don't have to worry about being scolded by our mom."
Wu Xiyuan's eyes lit up. He reacted excitedly, "Honey, you're so smart!"
The vendor felt sympathetic to Wu Xiuyuan's difference from others. He gave him two pieces of malt candy for free.
Wu Xiyuan did not take them for himself, but immediately shared one with Su Jiuyue, "Honey! Honey! It's delicious! I like to eat candy!"
The candy she was fed by Wu Xiyuan in the past two months was much more than she had in her parents' home since her childhood. Kids liked candy but her previous life was not so good. Even they were short of buying noodles, not to mention that they could have spare money for candy.
The only two times in her life when she ate candy, one was from sister Xi and the other was from brother Jiang.
She also liked to eat candy, but in the past time, she did not dare to tell others she liked it. However, it was different now. She could spend her own money on a packet of candy.
Wu Xiyuan carried a small basket, pulling Honghong with one hand and Su Jiuyue with the other and was ready to leave town.
But just as they passed the casino, Su Jiuyue saw a familiar figure.
The man, dressed in a long gray jacket with two patches on it, was thrown out of the casino by some people.
The people around him backed away hurriedly. He stood up and patted the dirt on himself, spat at the casino, and walked away swearing.
Su Jiuyue saw that he seemed to be coming towards her, and hurriedly turned back and pulled Wu Xiyuan hurriedly towards the direction of the city gate.
That man was none other than her uncle.
Her own uncle was too thick-skinned and if he looked at the new clothes she was wearing and the horse held by Wu Xiyuan, he might have come to her mother-in-law's house to borrow money.
He had dragged her parents' home down. She would not let the same thing happen again to the Wu family!
Zhang Wei was so unlucky today that he only played two rounds but lost all his money. The casino kicked him out when they saw that he had no money.
He was very upset. The Spring Festival would come soon. He thought he had to earn some money but now he even lost the initial capital. He wondered if his poor sister still had any money...
Lost in his mind, he saw a girl in the floral coat in the distance as soon as he looked up. He thought that girl looked like his eldest niece.
But when he saw the horse around that girl, he gave up the idea.
He believed it couldn't be his niece. Although the family that bought her was only a peasant household. How could such a family have a horse? Zhang Wei thought he mistook.
Su Jiuyue rushed home non-stop with Wu Xiyuan as if some beast was chasing behind them.
The moment she closed the door and dropped the latch, she felt reassured.