Chapter 499: Chapter 499: Vicious Mother-in-Law 45
Ma Xiangmei was stunned.
She knew her mother had changed, but didn’t expect her personality had completely transformed.
It’s simply a complete turnaround.
The son she previously adored, now she couldn’t wait to drive him to desperation.
The son she previously couldn’t wait to drive to desperation, now she’s doting on.
Ma Xiangmei wanted to laugh, she was happy for her big brother and sister-in-law, but she had no sympathy for Laosan. When Laosan was favored, he leveraged his mother’s bias to bully the other siblings.
Because she was close in age with him, Ma Xiangmei was bullied by him from childhood to adulthood. Even in school, she had to act like a servant, following behind him, carrying his backpack, doing homework, and doing chores.
Ma Xiangmei dropped out after graduating from primary school because Ma Laosan said she was a worthless investment, and even her mother agreed that schooling was a waste of money.
As for Ma Laosan, Ma Xiangmei didn’t sympathize with him at all and even hoped for their mother to teach him a harsh lesson a few times.
With children, Ma Xiangmei and her husband needed to leave in the late afternoon.
Yuan Chun had just awoken from a nap, and knowing they were about to leave, she didn’t ask them to stay. She only let Ma Xiangmei take three dried rabbits that were hanging in her room.
There was also a large cart of bamboo furniture that Wang Jian Country took away.
On the way back, Wang Jian Country looked back at the dried rabbits and then the bamboo furniture, and happily said, "Meizi, your mother’s gaze at you is no longer the same as before. She’s waking up, realizing that among her children, only you and your big brother truly show her filial piety. See, she even gave us the dried rabbits and a whole set of new furniture."
Ma Xiangmei nodded with a smile, "In the past, not to mention dried rabbit and new furniture, if we could eat a meal of sweet potato before leaving, that would be considered good."
When Ma Xiangmei got married, the Wang Family came to fetch the bride, but the original owner didn’t even allow them a sip of water and pushed Ma Xiangmei out the door, driving the wedding procession out of the Ma family.
Wang Jian Country gave two hundred yuan in bride price, which the original owner kept, leaving Ma Xiangmei empty-handed when joining the Wang family.
Later, the couple followed the army to the department, and Ma Xiangdong gave all of his saved private hundred and twenty yuan to his sister as a dowry, but Ma Xiangmei felt for her brother and couldn’t bring herself to take his money.
They debated back and forth until reaching a compromise, where Ma Xiangmei accepted sixty yuan and left Ma Xiangdong sixty yuan.
This is why, when Ma Xiangmei returned for the New Year, Ma Xiangdong insisted on making a whole set of bamboo furniture for her as compensation for her dowry.
"Meizi, in the future, let’s regularly buy some nutritious items to send back to your mother." Wang Jian Country thought, having accepted so many good things from the mother-in-law, he as the son-in-law should also show more filial respect to her.
Ma Xiangmei nodded with a smile, "I’ll follow your lead."
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The next day, on the twenty-fourth of the lunar month, Xiao Nian (Minor New Year), Han Conghui came to Qinghe Village by bicycle, wanting to trade money notes for some meat.
Yuan Chun made money, she certainly wouldn’t let the opportunity slip.
She went up the mountain and brought back a big wild boar, keeping half for herself and selling the other half to Han Conghui.
All was calculated at market price.
Han Conghui brought back half a pig to the Han Family. First Madam Han and Han Laosan’s wife saw so much meat and wanted to cut off a piece to send to their maternal family.
However, this half of the pig was bought with Han Conghui’s own money, and as the two sisters-in-law thickened their skin to beg for meat, Ma Xiangling coincidentally heard them and reached out to ask them for money.
"This meat was bought with money from me and my spouse, my maternal family didn’t even get a piece of meat, so there’s no reason it should be free for you. If you want meat, it’s not that I won’t give it, but you can’t expect to get it for nothing. You both have jobs and aren’t short of money; it would be shameless to want to eat for free."
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