Chapter 55 – She’s Not Worth That Much Money
Liu Yuzhi had been watching Yun Qinghuan’s direction, and when she approached, Liu Yuzhi put down her lunchbox and asked with concern, “What did you talk about?”
Yun Qinghuan smiled, “Nothing much, just some things. They think there’s something between me and Naihan. Mom, it’s all nonsense. I was pushed by someone at noon, and accidentally fell into his arms. As for the shoe incident, you already know about it.”
She said so feeling it was necessary to explain to Liu Yuzhi to prevent her from worrying about what others said.
Liu Yuzhi listened, and her eyelashes trembled, “Mom knows. Mom doesn’t believe what they say.”
“Mom, I heard that Xia Yuhua came to you at noon. Did she bully you?”
Still a bit concerned, Yun Qinghuan asked again.
When it came to Xia Yuhua, Liu Yuzhi’s smile faded, revealing a look of disdain. “It was my misjudgment before, forcing Naihan to try dating her. Now, I’m just glad they haven’t married yet. Otherwise, our family would be even more chaotic. Rest assured, she can’t bully me. Although I seem to have a good temper, I don’t need to be polite to those who aren’t kind to us.”
She lowered her voice a bit, glanced around, and whispered, “I even scolded her harshly. She left in a huff, completely disgraced.”
Yun Qinghuan also whispered, giving her a thumbs-up, “Mom, you’re amazing!”
Liu Yuzhi proudly said, “Of course. When I was raising two kids alone before, if I wasn’t tough, I would have been bullied to death.”
In the countryside, if there isn’t an adult male in the family, they will be looked down upon and might even be bullied.
Now, Liu Yuzhi seemed to have a good temper, but in reality, she could be fierce. If provoked, she could stand at someone’s door and scold for an hour non-stop.
“I didn’t expect this Xia Yuhua to really give no face to our Bai family. Coming to find me at noon is one thing, but she also brought her so-called lover. That lover of hers stood far away, watching from a distance, really infuriating me.”
Liu Yuzhi found it a bit amusing thinking about how Xia Yuhua come over aggressively at noon to complain.
She mentioned that Xia Yuhua insinuated that Bai Naihan had a relationship with Yun Qinghuan. Doesn’t she, as a mother-in-law and a biological mother, know if there’s any relationship between them?
It was obvious that she wanted to splash dirty water on the Bai family and ruin the marriage. She even mentioned that her son Bai Naihan didn’t buy shoes for her when they were together, but bought for Yun Qinghuan. Liu Yuzhi directly asked her if she had any shame.
Yes, her son indeed never bought anything for Xia Yuhua, after all, he was a bit clueless. But Liu Yuzhi had bought quite a few things, and she even worried about not treating Xia Yuhua well enough. Now that the marriage between the two families might not happen, she did feel a bit regretful about those things she gave away, but she never thought of taking them back.
However, Xia Yuhua’s act of taking advantage and acting coquettish irritated Liu Yuzhi. She scolded her on the spot, listing all the things she had given to Xia’s family over the years. She let everyone in the village know what kind of people Xia’s family was. In an era where everyone was poor, some families were so poor that they could marry off their daughters for just twenty or thirty yuan. Xia Yuhua hadn’t married into the Bai family yet, but she had already spent more than a hundred on her. If that was considered little, was Xia Yuhua a celestial being? She was not worth that much money.
Anyway, Liu Yuzhi was not gentle when scolding people. Even someone like Xia Yuhua, who was a bit cunning, couldn’t argue with her. In the end, Xia Yuhua was scolded to tears and left.
Liu Yuzhi also told Yun Qinghuan, “In the future, if you remarry, don’t find someone like Gu Mingliang. Having just a good-looking face but being unreliable. I scolded Xia Yuhua so miserably, yet he, a big man, stood so far away and didn’t even come over to check or speak up for Xia Yuhua. A man who doesn’t know how to protect his woman, even if I don’t marry for the rest of my life, I won’t find such a man.”
Liu Yuzhi really looked down on men like Gu Mingliang. But if Xia Yuhua found someone like him, it was her own fault.
Yun Qinghuan listened and laughed.
“Oh, by the way, how was it when you were cutting pigweed this morning? Tiring or not?” Liu Yuzhi suddenly remembered something and asked her.
She even checked Yun Qinghuan’s hands, “Your skin is tender, don’t get blisters from cutting grass, it will hurt a lot. If it’s really too hard, don’t force yourself. Tell Mom, we won’t do this work anymore.”
Yun Qinghuan opened her palm to show her, “Mom, don’t worry. I didn’t get tired. It’s your son and grandson doing most of the work. I didn’t cut much, and my hands didn’t blister.”
Liu Yuzhi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yun Qinghuan really wasn’t tired.
“It’s only right for Naihan, a grown man, to do more.”
After saying a few more words, Liu Yuzhi wanted her to go back and rest. Knowing that she would still have to cut grass in the afternoon, she felt a bit distressed and said, “Are those pigs really that voracious? Wasn’t the grass you cut in the morning enough for them?”
Only then did Yun Qinghuan remember that she hadn’t told her about Wang Shufeng stealing pigweed. She directly took out the five yuan from her pocket and showed it to her.
Liu Yuzhi widened her eyes, quickly pressed down Yun Qinghuan’s hand holding the money, looked around, and sighed in relief when she saw that no one noticed here. “Silly girl, wealth should not be exposed. If someone with ill intentions sees it, who knows what they might think.”
Then she remembered to ask, “Why do you suddenly have so much money?”
Last time, she gave her daughter-in-law only small change, not a whole five yuan bill like this.
Yun Qinghuan smiled and happily explained the situation with Wang Shufeng, “Mom, do you think what I did was right?”
With a lifted eyebrow, clearly quite proud.
Liu Yuzhi also smiled, praising her, “You did the right thing. If this matter had escalated with Wang Shufeng, she might not have faced severe consequences, but having her linger around here would be like having an enemy behind us. Plus, by taking the money from her, not only did we gain financially, but she won’t likely steal the grass in the pigsty anymore. And if anyone else tries, she’ll probably stop them.”
After all, with this incident, if there was any more grass missing from the pigsty, the first person suspected would be her.
“Moreover, now that you have this leverage over her, she’ll think twice before targeting you again.”
“Wow, Mom, you’re really amazing. I just thought it would be better to do this, but I didn’t think about it on such a deep level.” Yun Qinghuan felt that her nominally mother-in-law was truly formidable.
No wonder she managed to raise two sons so well on her own in the village, and they turned out to be such good sons.
Praised by Yun Qinghuan, Liu Yuzhi’s eyes narrowed into a slit.
Liu Yuzhi didn’t want the five yuan, telling Yun Qinghuan to keep it for herself. She also advised her to always keep some money as a woman, just for the sense of security, and not to tell anyone about it.
Yun Qinghuan felt her heart warm, thinking that Liu Yuzhi was such an open-minded and wonderful mother-in-law.
If she had encountered such a mother-in-law in her past life, even if the man wasn’t perfect, she might have considered marrying him after some hesitation.
Liu Yuzhi was truly an exceptionally good mother-in-law.
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