Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies - Chapter 170

Chapter 170: Straighten your back!
Bai Meiyue listened to the complaints of her brother and the praises of her mother. She fell silent and had no idea what to say. In fact, Bai Meiyue also understood why Mother Bai was so adamant about Lei Qian. When she was young, she was taken advantage of by Bai Qingshi, who married her but didn’t take her to get the certificate.

In this way, even though Mother Bai was the one who married Bai Qingshi first, she was never called his wife. Instead, Chu Xia was given that position. Because of this, Mother Bai suffered a lot. People looked down on her and even called her a fool.

These experiences left scars on her mother’s tender heart and she didn’t want the same to happen to her daughter. She didn’t want her daughter to go through the same pain as she did, where she was abandoned by the man who used her for her body and then dumped her later on.

It wasn’t that her mother didn’t know that Bai Meiyue could find another man if she wanted; she was just worried that Bai Meiyue’s confidence and self-esteem would hurt if Lei Qian abandoned her like how Bai Qingshi did to Mother Bai.

Of course, there was also the old stigma that a woman should only stay with one man.

It was just that Bai Meiyue had no idea how to tell her mother that she didn’t plan on staying with Lei Qian. Now that he had awakened, he would only get more and more powerful; with his rising strength, many women would want to stay with him.

Even if Lei Qian didn’t want to stay with them, Bai Meiyue was well aware of the schemes those women would pull to get close to him. What if she or Bai Cai were caught in the middle? She didn’t want that to happen.

And she didn’t even know anything about Lei Qian. Other than the fact that the two of them slept together in the same bed and had a child together, Bai Meiyue had no close contact with Lei Qian.

But as she watched Lei Qian play along with her mother, even though she was nagging him quite a lot, Bai Meiyue felt a bit touched. Mother Bai was a bit childish, and once she started speaking, she wouldn’t stay quiet until she had spoken enough.

Sure enough, once she had spoken enough, she clapped her hands and said, “Qian Qian, do you want to have lunch together with us?”

“No!”

Before Lei Qian could speak, Bai Jixuan, who had finally had enough, spoke up. He got to his feet and suppressed the tone of his voice because his nephews were in the room as well. He said to his mother, “Mom, we do not have enough supplies. Master Lei is so rich and skilled; I think that he will hunt supplies enough to fill his belly instead of relying on us poor peasants.”

Don’t think that he didn’t know. This man must have looked down on his sister; if not, he had so many opportunities to marry her; why didn’t he do it?

Lei Qian was helpless. He didn’t understand what he had done but for some reason, he felt that Bai Jixuan was against him and Bai Meiyue as much as he was willing in the start.

“Brother —”

“I am not your brother,” snapped Bai Jixuan as he shooed Lei Qian. He half pulled and half dragged Lei Qian and then kicked him out of the house. “Don’t come near my sister again!” He warned with his fist raised as he banged the door closed.

“Jixuan!”

Mother Bai was shocked; she didn’t even get a chance to say a word and Lei Qian was kicked out.

“What did you do?”

“What did I do?” Bai Jixuan rolled his eyes. He said to his mother, “Mom, we are no longer in the same position as we were before. It’s fine if that man doesn’t want to be with Yueyue. Anyway, he was the one who did something wrong and he should be the one to make up for it.”

Bai Jixuan didn’t like the Lei family and Lei Qian to begin with but he stayed quiet because he was worried that his sister would be bullied. But now he no longer needs to lower his head in front of Lei Qian.

When he saw that his mother didn’t look too willing, he rolled his eyes and stated, “Mom, think like this. Master Lei is someone who grew up with a silver and golden spoon in his mouth. He has seen a lot of things and a lot of women must have chased after him. If we don’t put our foot down, what if Master Lei bullies our Yueyue? We shouldn’t lower our heads like this.”

“What if that man thinks that he can bully Yueyue?”

“But what if he gets angry?” Mother Bai asked nervously.

“Then let him get angry.” Bai Zhan wiped the lips of his two sons and took them down from the high chair in which they were sitting. He turned to look at his mother and stated in a calm voice, “We can take care of Yueyue and if something like this can make Master Lei angry, then I believe it’s only a good thing that our sister didn’t marry him.”

“Jixuan is right. He was the one who took advantage of our Yueyue and he should be making it up to our family. If he can’t even prove that he is worthy of our sister, then what’s the point of letting Yueyue stay with him?”

Mother Bai was confused by what her sons said because she had never seen or heard such a thing. Her mother often scolded her for being a money-losing thing, and once Bai Qingshi abandoned her, her old mother cursed and spat on her.

Telling her that it was her, that she was so useless that she couldn’t even keep her husband.

So of course she couldn’t understand the thing that her sons wanted to tell her.

In her mind, a man wouldn’t ever chase after a woman.