I saw a thin old lady with wrinkles all over her face, deep-set eyes and a sour and mean look walking out of the main room with a cold face.
Behind her was a plump middle-aged woman.
"Third brother, third sister-in-law, did something happen to you? Why did you come back just now? Parents have been missing you these days!" The fat middle-aged woman walked quickly to Zhao Xiufen and asked with concern.
"Sister-in-law, we are fine." Zhao Xiufen only reported good news and not bad news, and had no intention of telling her family that she and her husband almost died.
After all, her and her husband's status in the Shen family is not even as high as that of the old hen that lays eggs.
If she tells her mother-in-law about her and her husband's hospitalization, she might be blamed by her mother-in-law, who will dislike them for spending money recklessly.
Although the money was paid by her own daughter, she still didn't want to cause any trouble.
"Since you're fine, and you've been hanging out for so long and not coming back, do you not have to earn work points? Do you not have to do housework?"
Old Mrs. Shen glared at Zhao Xiufen fiercely.
"It must be you, a jerk like you, who instigated Ming'an to go out and have fun. I think you're just a restless person, and all you do is go out and have fun all day. My Ming'an is so unlucky to marry you!"
"Mom, I didn't. Ming'an and I were delayed in coming back because of some things!" Zhao Xiufen hurriedly explained.
"What can you possibly do? It's just an excuse for you lazy bastard to avoid being lazy!"
Old Mrs. Shen glanced at Zhao Xiufen and said with disgust.
"You two have been gone for over a month. How many work points have you missed? When the grain is distributed during the autumn harvest this year, our family will get hundreds of pounds less than other families! These hundreds of pounds of grain will be saved from your third room's future rations!"
"Mom, I'm sorry, it's all our fault. I will eat less in the future..." Zhao Xiufen's face turned red and she lowered her head to apologize.
"Mom, if you want to deduct food rations, just deduct my food rations, but the children are growing up..." When Shen Mingan heard that the food rations were going to be deducted, he hurriedly spoke up to plead for the children.
"Third brother, third sister-in-law, don't blame our mother for cruelly withholding your food rations. You really have gone too far this time." Aunt Zhang Cuihong walked to Zhao Xiufen, showing a look of reluctance, and then sighed softly.
"You're deducting our food rations just like that? Why?" Shen Qingli curled up the corners of her mouth and smiled coldly at her aunt who was acting in front of her mom and dad.
"Why? Just because they go out and have fun, and go out and be lazy!" Old Mrs. Shen snorted coldly.
"My parents didn't come home late because they were lazy. It's because they were almost killed by Shen Yuning and stayed in the hospital for more than a month!" Shen Qingli glared at Old Lady Shen without showing any weakness.
"Third brother, third sister-in-law, are you in the hospital? Oh, why didn't you tell us earlier? Our mother misunderstood. Are you recovered now?" Aunt Zhang Cuihong pulled Zhao Xiufen and looked left and right with a concerned look on her face.
"I...I'm...okay!" Zhao Xiufen blushed at Zhang Cuihong's enthusiasm.
"What's good about it? Didn't the doctor tell you and my dad not to do heavy work in the next two months? Especially my dad, he has to be more careful, otherwise there will be sequelae!" Shen Qingli directly refuted her mother.
In fact, the doctor did not say these words when the patient was discharged from the hospital. He just asked the patient to observe the patient's condition more closely after returning home.
But Shen Qingli didn't want to work like a slave for the Shen family as soon as her father and mother came back.
Anyway, she was the only one there when the doctor gave her instructions, and her parents didn't know what the doctor said to her, so she could make up whatever she wanted.
"The doctor seems to have said so." Even if Shen Mingan didn't hear the doctor's advice, he couldn't ruin his daughter's plan.
"Can't do heavy work?"
Old Lady Shen’s eyes widened when she heard that Shen Ming’an and Zhao Xiufen couldn’t do heavy work.
"Don't you think you can just eat? We in the Shen family don't support idlers!"
"Mom, although Xiufen and I can't do heavy work, we can still do some light work. It's just that we earn fewer work points!" Shen Mingan hurriedly explained when he saw that his mother was unhappy.
"That's all? Those guys who have the easy job only get five or six work points at most. You have earned five or six work points in the past two months. How many work points have we lost?" Old Lady Shen said angrily, her hands on her hips.
"You can ask uncle and aunt to do more work and get ten work points!" Shen Qingli said with a smile.
She remembered that the book mentioned that the couple in the eldest branch of the old Shen family often cheated and acted cunningly, especially the aunt who was a hypocrite at heart. She found excuses not to go to work every few days, and she thought it was good if she could earn four work points a day.
My uncle Shen Mingguo never got full work points. The most he got was eight.
Normally it’s just five or six work points.
The work points earned are about the same as those of my second uncle’s cousins Sanni and Sini.
"Who are you? It's not the place for an outsider to interfere in the affairs of our Shen family!" Old Mrs. Shen asked Shen Qingli coldly, knowing the answer.
This evil-minded money-loser actually wanted her precious son to get ten work points. Did she want to tire him to death?
"Mom, she is Xiufen and I's biological daughter, your granddaughter Shen Qingli. The nurse took her away from Yuning by mistake..." Shen Ming'an hurriedly recounted the incident of the wrong child.
"It seems that the upbringing of people in this big city isn't much better!" Old Lady Shen looked at Shen Qingli, the anger in her eyes about to burst out, "The elders are talking, and you, a junior, dare to interrupt!"
"Grandma thinks it's too tiring for my uncle and aunt to get ten work points, and that my parents deserve ten work points, right?" Shen Qingli was not afraid of her. She stood beside her parents neither humble nor arrogant and looked directly at Grandma Shen.
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