Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 551

Chapter 551: Lending Money ( 2 )
After hearing what her daughters-in-law said, Mother Lu smiled and said, “It’s my fortune to have such a good daughter-in-law like both of you.”

After a brief conversation, Mother Lu left home carrying a bamboo basket and putting the money in her clothes. When she was on her way to her eldest brother’s house, she saw her nephew’s wife talking to a woman. She looked at their expressions and realized they were probably arguing.

When she walked up to them, Mother Lu heard her nephew’s wife say, “Sister-in-law, I promise you, I will definitely pay back the food I borrowed before. Can you not go to my husband?”

“If I don’t go to your husband, will I have to wait for several years before you want to return the borrowed food to me? Do you think only your family members need to eat?” the villager asked angrily.

“Sister-in-law, I have already said on the day I borrow your food that I will return the food to you after the distribution day, and you agreed. Why did you suddenly change your mind now?”

After hearing her words, the villager snorted and said, “Who doesn’t know that your family is frantically borrowing money from everywhere? With this situation, I doubt you have food to repay me. I just want to get my food back, why do I become the unreasonable person in your mouth?”

After hearing this, Mother Lu finally came over and called her, “Niece-in-law.”

Hearing her voice, Zhao Ya looked back and found her husband’s paternal aunt looking at her with a frown.

“Paternal aunt, why are you here?” she asked with a trace of guilt and embarrassment in her eyes.

Mother Lu glanced at her and the villager before she asked, “Niece-in-law, what are you doing here instead of taking care of your son?”

Before Zhao Ya could answer, the villager interrupted her, “Aunt Lu, do you know that your niece-in-law borrows food from everywhere?”

She glanced at the bamboo basket in Mother Lu’s hand and added, “I heard that you have a good son-in-law and eat meat every few days. Since you live a good life, shouldn’t you help your brother’s family? While you are eating meat and fish, they are borrowing money and food just to fill the gap in their stomachs.”

After hearing what she said, Mother Lu smiled coldly and said, “I do have a good son-in-law, but my family has never relied on him. As for the food borrowed from my brother’s family, I will return it to you. So, you can stop embarrassing my niece-in-law. Also, whether my family eats meat or not is none of your business. So, keep your jealousy to yourself.”

After saying this, she looked at Zhao Ya and said, “Niece-in-law, let’s go back.”

The villager was speechless after hearing what Mother Lu said. She wanted to stab Mother Lu with words, but she didn’t expect that it would have no effect on her. It was as if she had used all her strength to punch, but in the end, it just hit a piece of cotton.

Before leaving the yard, Mother Lu turned around and added, “By the way, niece, instead of using your time to vent your temper and gossip about others, you should clean up your house. Otherwise, when your mother-in-law comes back, you might be scolded again.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Mother Lu took a look at the messy yard and smiled knowingly.

Seeing her smile, the villager felt embarrassed and felt that she was being looked down upon. But before she could refute, Mother Lu had already left with Zhao Ya, leaving her fuming mad but nowhere to vent.

The villager patted her chest and said angrily, “Damn old woman, now I know why you agreed to let Wang Muxiao marry your son. You are as poisonous as your second daughter-in-law!”

Along the way to her eldest brother’s house, Mother Lu was silent. She didn’t ask or scold Zhao Ya, which made her feel a little uneasy.

Her husband is the son born to her father-in-law when he was in his thirties. There is an age difference of eleven years between her and her husband which makes her much younger than her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law.

She married her husband at the age of 17 and gave birth to her eldest son at the age of 19. Perhaps due to overwork, she did not become pregnant with her youngest son until she was 24 years old and has been unable to get pregnant ever since.

Her natal family was a poor family in the other brigade and lived far from Xie village. She was often secretly bullied by her sister-in-law because of this. Therefore, even at the age of 31, she still silently endured their beatings and scoldings as she did when she first got married.

Logically speaking, although the quality of life of the Song family is not as good as that of the Lu family, they do not need to borrow food from their neighbors. But, because her sisters-in-law would take some food back to their parents’ houses, there was not enough food for the Song family to last until the next distribution day.

Since Zhao Ya was responsible for cooking, she had no choice but to thicken her skin and went to borrow food from the neighbors. Many times, she had to repay the debt with food sent by her parents. She wanted to tell her husband, but whenever she saw him looking so tired, she changed her mind and endured it alone.

Now, she’s been caught in the act by her husband’s paternal aunt. If her aunt told her father-in-law and husband about this matter, she would not know how to explain it to them.

When she was approaching Song’s house, Mother Lu stopped and turned to look at her niece-in-law. Seeing her walking with her head down, she sighed and said, “Niece-in-law, aren’t you afraid of bumping into someone when you walk with your head down?”