Chapter 40: Backfiring

Chen Mingchuan efficiently cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks. When asked, he shook his head and refused.

“No need, I gave my eldest brother’s wife ten pounds of grain tickets, two pounds of oil tickets, and ten yuan.”

“Tomorrow, I’ll go catch some fish from the river and make some fish soup for you.”

Fish to eat tomorrow?

This treatment… is quite good!

Li Xinyue, who loved eating fish, couldn’t resist the temptation.

With a “gulp,” she swallowed her saliva.

“I’ll go with you tomorrow, I can catch fish too.”

Seeing Li Xinyue’s small appetite, Chen Mingchuan knew her body was still weak and refused.

“No need, you need to rest for a few more days, otherwise, you’ll relapse.”

Rest means sleep?

Alright, then sleep.

Li Xinyue didn’t insist.

Although she slept today, she was almost dreaming the whole time.

In her dreams, there were all the memories of the original owner.

She guessed that this was her soul integrating with the original owner’s body.

Speaking of which, after Chen Lifang and Ye Juan took the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, she finally couldn’t help but ask.

“Fourth sister-in-law, what’s going on? Didn’t you say you delivered the food?”

Where would Ye Juan know?

“When I arrived, the food and bowls were gone, I really don’t know!”

“I thought the third brother took it to her, but I didn’t expect the third brother to bring the food back.”

Chen Lifang stomped her foot: “It’s so infuriating, she got away with it this time!”

“Tomorrow, don’t just put wash water and spit in it, pour some urine in, let her eat until she dies!”

Ye Juan nodded repeatedly: “Okay, I remember, I’ll definitely let her eat her fill!”

“Hee hee”

Chen Lifang seemed to see Li Xinyue eating pig urine and was in a good mood, but she didn’t notice Chen Mingchuan with a dark face outside the door…

“Third uncle.”

Baoqin entered the kitchen with a cloth and saw Chen Mingchuan standing at the door, so she called out.

This call scared the two people in the kitchen out of their wits…

Chen Lifang’s face turned pale: “Third brother… we were just kidding…”

Ye Juan wasn’t much better: “Third uncle, we we…”

Chen Mingchuan didn’t say anything, put down the bowl and went directly to the hall.

“Fourth sister-in-law, we’re doomed!”

Ye Juan’s face turned pale too, she didn’t expect their words to be heard by Chen Mingchuan.

In the living room, Old Man Chen was smoking, and Mrs. Chen was still sitting at the table drinking tea.

“Dad, I have something to tell you.”

Old Man Chen looked up: “Huh? Why did you go to your eldest brother’s house for dinner?”

“I was afraid of getting sick.”

What does that mean?

Old Man Chen was stunned, but before he could speak, Mrs. Chen snatched the words: “Old Three, what do you mean by that?”

“You went out, but at least you were fifteen years old when you went out, right?”

“You didn’t die from eating all those years, now that you’ve become an official, your temper has gotten bigger, haven’t you?”

“The food at home, did they poison you?”

Chen Mingchuan didn’t get excited.

All along, his mother had spoken to him in this manner.

“Poisoning is unlikely, but putting some wash water in, spitting a bit, that’s not difficult, that’s what they were doing just now!”

“But Xinyue didn’t eat this food, because I brought back some fresh rice that I cooked at my eldest brother’s house tonight.”

“As for who ate this food, I don’t know.”

What?

They put wash water and spit in the food?

“Ugh!”

Mrs. Chen vomited!

She understood!

That food wasn’t just some dropped pot lid water!

It was her daughter-in-law and daughter who put wash water and spit in it, and she ate a few bites…

Chen Mingchuan was expressionless.

However, he knew why his mother vomited.

That bowl of rice was the one he poured back!

And his mother must have been the one who served the first bowl, which was also the one he poured back.

Well, it was the rice his daughter and daughter-in-law offered to her, so let her suffer with it!

“Dad, I’m handling the paperwork for their military transfer. They will join me at the army base next month.”

“This month, she won’t be working, and we won’t be eating at home.”

“From now on, my money will go to supporting my wife and child, I won’t be giving you any more.”

“You dare!”

As soon as these words were spoken, Mrs. Chen, forgetting about her vomiting, immediately jumped up.

Chen Mingchuan remained calm: “Mom, there’s nothing I dare or don’t dare to do.”

“Since I was ten, I’ve basically been finding my own food.”

“Before the age of five, my grandparents raised me, you didn’t raise me a bit.”

“After joining the army, you made me send my allowance back, but I only had six yuan, how could I send it?”

“Later, I became a cadre, you knew I had a salary, and you started making a fuss.”

“At first, I only had eighteen yuan and eight cents a month.”

“You said I had to repay you for raising me, and made me send fifteen yuan back.”

“I sent it.”

“Five years ago, you said there was another mouth to feed at home, even if I didn’t want to, I had to send thirty yuan a month.”

“At that time, I only had thirty-six yuan and six cents a month, I sent you twenty-five.”

“All these years, I think you’ve been repaid for raising me.”

“This new house with five rooms, it wouldn’t have been built without the money I sent back.”

“I’ll say it again: the locket was my grandparents’ memory for me, you return it to me, and from now on I’ll send you ten yuan a month.”

“If you don’t return it, not a penny.”

“If you dare to cause trouble, I’ll tell everyone about how your eldest son faked his health to avoid military service!”

“As long as you don’t want him to go to jail, then do whatever you want!”

With that, Chen Mingchuan turned and left.

“Aaaaaah… Aaaaaah… You heartless, ungrateful creature!”

“May you be struck by lightning and meet a bad end!”

Looking at her third son’s tall figure, hatred filled Mrs. Chen’s eyes as she cried out loud.

Her voice was loud, and several neighbors could hear it clearly…

“What’s going on at the Niu family again? Who is she scolding?”

“Who knows what’s going on, but if she’s scolding, it must be her third son.”

“That Wang Aqiu is really strange, when she gave birth to twins, she didn’t like her son, she liked her daughter.”

“Yeah, who knows what’s wrong with her mind?”

“If it weren’t for Niu’s parents, that child would have been starved to death by her!”

They had been neighbors for decades, and everyone in the village knew about Mrs. Chen giving birth to twins.

When she started scolding, everyone guessed she was scolding Chen Mingchuan.

Outside the door, the eldest couple and the fourth couple, all four of them, looked like they had been wiped with a rag…

“Sister-in-law, it seems like the third brother is determined to make our lives miserable.”

Yeah.

Twenty-five yuan a month.

Although the new house has five rooms, but the children are almost grown up, with just these few rooms, how can they fit?

In the entire brigade, how many families can build a house with five rooms?

Liu Xiulan’s face had gone down some, but the bruises were still all over her face, so the anger radiated from her eyes.

“If he doesn’t want us to live well, he won’t live well either!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Ye Juan’s eyes lit up: “Sister-in-law, do you have another good idea?”

Liu Xiulan’s eyes flashed: “Let’s go, let’s talk outside!”