Chapter 236 Forcibly Seizing Food 4

Ma Xiulian slammed her chopsticks on the table and said gruffly, "There's no food on the table for you, and we won't lend you any grain."

Even if she did have some food at home, she would rather feed it to Little White Ball than feed it to Old Li's family in front of her.

Dogs at least get food and wag their tails, but the Li family only thinks about how to skin them alive and bleed them dry.

Old Mrs. Li cursed her inwardly for being stingy and miserly, but on the surface, she wiped away her tears and cried pitifully, "My dear in-law, our commune's grain yield this year is not even half of last year's. If we don't find some grain to take back, our whole family will really starve to death. Your commune has such a good harvest, you can definitely share some with us! Don't worry, as long as you lend us grain, we will definitely pay you back when our harvest is good next year!"

She knew that the Chen family had rushed over to borrow grain this morning after the grain distribution.

"No way!"

Ma Xiulian listened to her words as if they were nonsense. She thought that with the Li family's character, it was a wonder they would ever pay back the grain they borrowed!

Old Mrs. Li was speechless, her old face wrinkled like a bitter gourd: "We've had this connection for hundreds of years, and we're only becoming in-laws this time. There's really no other way, so I came to your house to ask for your help."

Ma Xiulian looked disgusted, as if she had swallowed a fly: "This is truly an unlucky fate. To be related to someone like you by marriage is the worst thing that has ever happened to me."

Ma Xiulian spoke without any politeness, leaving Old Lady Li speechless and her face turning black. She couldn't help but raise her voice and say, "You can't be like this! You'll get your comeuppance sooner or later if you just stand by and watch someone die. Anyway, we're definitely borrowing this grain today!"

Old Mrs. Li spewed curses without warning, and Ma Xiulian sneered, glancing at her four fierce-looking sons beside her: "Those who know you would think you came here to beg for grain, but those who don't would think you came to rob us."

"Don't think you can bully the Chen family. The tricks you used on those girls won't work in our Chen family," Ma Xiulian said harshly, throwing out a threat.

Everyone in the surrounding villages knows how much money Old Mrs. Li has squeezed from her daughters' husbands' families, especially those with fewer brothers.

If crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide don't work, then she'll take all her sons to someone else's house and let them freeload, refusing to leave until she pays them a fine.

Old Mrs. Li was furious. She had already swallowed her pride and begged this much, but this tigress still wouldn't budge.

Unfortunately, the Chen family's workforce is no less capable than the Li family's, so if a fight were to break out, they might very well be the ones who suffer.

Then her eyes darted around and landed on Chen Jianye, and she started wailing again: "Jianye, please help your mother, please persuade your own mother. If we can't borrow this grain, our whole family will starve to death. I'm begging you, as her mother-in-law."

Chen Jianye's face immediately showed a troubled expression. After all, she was his mother-in-law, and it would be too disrespectful to refuse her directly.

But his mother would never lend him the grain.

Seeing this, Old Lady Li wiped away her fake tears and continued to plead, "I really had no other choice but to come here. Please, as your mother-in-law, help our whole family."

Seeing that he still wouldn't speak, Old Mrs. Li cursed inwardly, but on the surface she pretended to kneel down: "Mom will kneel down for you!"

(End of this chapter)