Chapter 239 Episode 3

Xu Shanshan frowned in pain and said, "No," before forcefully breaking free.

In a short time, several red finger marks appeared on the back of her fair hand.

"Cough cough..." Xu's mother coughed violently again.

Xu Shanshan could only rub her hands and say, "He's sick today, so he can't come."

"Are you sick? What kind of sickness?"

"It seems he got sick because he took several cold showers at night to cool off."

Hearing this, Xu's mother understood, "You young people are like this, you don't take your health seriously. If you really get sick, you're the ones who will suffer."

Xu Shanshan didn't know what to say, but she frowned and said, "You lie down first, I'll go make your medicine!"

"How much did it cost to get the medicine today?"

"Same as before."

"Cough cough, if it weren't for waiting for your father to come out, I wouldn't want to live anymore. I'm just a burden to you two sisters every day, cough cough..."

Xu Shanshan pulled the curtain closed for her and stopped talking.

Because her mother always said this, she got tired of hearing it so often that she didn't want to talk anymore.

I feel like nothing I say is right.

Having just been reborn, even with her memories intact, Xu Shanshan wasn't exactly efficient at her work. After decocting a dose of medicine, she only managed to pour out half a bowl of dark, murky liquid.

Looking at the dark, murky liquid, Xu's mother coughed violently. "How did this medicine turn out like this?"

"Is this still effective?"

"Aren't all medicines the same?"

"Besides, isn't concentrated essence?" Xu Shanshan was also a little unhappy.

The medicine pot was too hot, and she hadn't done this kind of service work in a long time. Her fingers were even blistered from the burns, but she didn't say anything.

Mother Xu was displeased upon hearing this. "Ahem, how can they be the same?"

"The doctor instructed us to boil three bowls of water down to one bowl, but you only boiled half a bowl. How can that be the same?"

"You..." Seeing half a bowl of medicine spilled, Xu's mother was so angry that she almost fainted.

Her fingers were burning with pain, and Xu Shanshan couldn't hold back any longer. Her temper flared up, and she simply splashed the medicine on them.

"Cough cough..."

Seeing her mother coughing as if her lungs were about to come out, Xu Shanshan said somewhat angrily, "If you think it's ruined, I'll just re-fry it. Why do you have to say so much nonsense?"

"you……"

"Cough cough..."

Xu's mother was so angry that she couldn't speak. Xu Shanshan didn't say anything either. She just poured out the medicine from the pot, poured in a new dose, added water, and continued to decoct it.

The small room was filled with the smell of Chinese medicine, and even the entire family dormitory was permeated with a faint smell of Chinese medicine.

Smelling the strong smell of Chinese medicine, some family members of workers sitting at the door picking vegetables were gossiping, "Is the Xu family brewing medicine again?"

"Yes, yes, it's not her house. They're the only ones in this whole yard with a medicine pot."

"Tsk tsk, it's really tragic. Just two daughters, plus a sick old woman. Tsk tsk, anyone who marries those two sisters is really unlucky."

"That's not how it works."

The sounds of casual conversation in the courtyard drifted into Xu Shanshan's ears.

She sat by the door brewing medicine, her face expressionless, seemingly used to these words.

In her previous life, hearing these words would have made her very angry, but given this chance...

"No need, really no need," Xu Shanshan said with a disdainful smile on her pretty, youthful face.

The people here will never appear in her life again.

She will be better off than all of them.

Xu Shanshan is stubborn, and so is her mother.

So Xu Shanshan, unwilling to endure her mother's nagging, raised her hand and splashed the half-bowl of medicine.

Xu's mother didn't even open her mouth when faced with the freshly brewed medicine, until Xu Junjun rushed back from the factory for lunch.

The factory also has a canteen, but you need meal tickets. One meal can be almost enough for a whole family, so most people who want to save money don't eat in the canteen.

In addition, Xu Junjun also has Xu's mother who is ill, so she always comes back for lunch and takes care of her mother at the same time.

When Xu Junjun arrived home, she saw the mother and daughter locked in a stalemate, along with the medicine that had cooled down.

"Is Mother throwing a tantrum again?" Xu Junjun asked Xu Shanshan in a low voice.

Xu Shanshan looked at Xu Junjun, who was only twenty years old and young and thin, and nodded.

Xu Junjun pulled off her arm sleeves, patted Xu Shanshan's arm, and said, "I'll go and comfort her."

Xu Shanshan didn't like hearing this. "We can't keep indulging her like this!"

Perhaps because she had lived to be several decades old in her previous life and had passed the age where she needed maternal love, Xu Shanshan, who was reborn, felt very distant from her mother.

Her only thought now is to marry Wen Changyu and then take revenge on Wang Jinghui.

As for her mother, she remembered that her mother passed away not long after her father.

Before her father left, when she was still in labor camp, her mother often caused trouble for her and Xu Junjun.

He coughs all day and doesn't want to go to the hospital. The whole house smells of Chinese medicine. He's a nuisance day and night.

Even in the sweltering summer, they still have to draw a curtain and hide in bed, saying they can't be exposed to the wind.

She cried and wailed again that night, saying she dreamt that her man died...

Eighteen-year-old Xu Shanshan's family suffered a huge change. She was very attached to her mother, who depended on her for survival, and felt sorry for her. She felt that her mother had lost her pillar of support and could not bear the blow, which was why she was like this.

But Xu Shanshan, now fifty, has a different perspective on things.

Her mother was only thirty-seven years old at this time, much younger than when she divorced in her previous life, so why couldn't she live?

If you're sick, go to the hospital instead of staying in bed all day.

She was speechless.

"Cough cough..." After Xu Shanshan said, "We can't keep indulging her like this," there was another violent coughing sound coming from behind the curtain.

Xu Junjun quickly gestured to Xu Shanshan to stop talking.

She walked to the bedside and said, "Mother, I'm back."

"Cough cough..."

"Jun... Little Jun, are you tired from working?" Xu's mother asked as soon as the curtain was lifted.

Instead of complaining about Xu Shanshan's disobedience and lack of filial piety, or talking about himself, he showed concern for Xu Junjun.

Xu Junjun immediately smiled and said, "It's not tiring. Dad asked someone to find us this job, which is very easy and suitable for my sister and me."

It was at this moment that Xu's mother started to shed tears. "You are still your father's biological daughters. Even on his deathbed, he was thinking of you. Cough cough..."

Xu Junjun quickly raised her hand to pat her back and help her catch her breath. "Mom, don't be sad. Dad will definitely come back, and then our family will be reunited."

As Xu Junjun spoke, tears also welled up in her eyes.

She was such a soft-hearted person, easily moved to tears. Whenever Xu's mother cried and talked about Xu's father, she would always cry along with her.

Xu's mother immediately buried her face in her daughter's arms and burst into tears, so loud that people standing outside could hear her.

It was lunchtime, and there were quite a few people in the residential compound, so many people were peeking and looking in this direction.

Sister-in-law Chen Hua, who lived next door, picked up some unpolished rice from the winnowing basket and asked Xu Shanshan, "Shanshan, what's wrong with your mother?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Hua sighed, "Shanshan, your mother has had a tough time!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the busybodies who had come to peek immediately started criticizing Xu Shanshan, one after another, "Yes, look how hard your mother has worked, raising you and your sister all by herself!"