Chapter 179 No Borrowing Money
At the Lin family, Qin Shulan started busying herself cooking at 5:30 in the afternoon.
She went out to buy a fish and a pound of pork belly in the morning. The family had been feeling very low these days because her son and daughter-in-law did not get a house.
I'll make a delicious meal tonight to make everyone happy and ease the depressed atmosphere at home.
"Mom." Lin Siyu went into the kitchen as soon as she got home.
"Would you like to have braised fish and twice-cooked pork tonight?" Lin Siyu's eyes lit up when she saw the processed fish and sliced pork belly.
"Eat steamed fish. Your sister-in-law likes steamed fish."
The smile on Lin Siyu's face disappeared immediately. Seeing her expression change, Qin Shulan said, "Your sister-in-law is angry because she didn't get a house. Make her some of her favorite food to make her happy. If she's not angry anymore, the atmosphere in our family will be more relaxed."
Lin Siyu snorted coldly, she couldn't stand seeing her mother trying to please that shrew Wei Jingfen.
Seeing her like this, Qin Shulan didn't coax her to continue cutting the side dishes.
"Mom..." Lin Siyu bit her lower lip and shouted.
"Yeah." Qin Shulan responded.
"Can you give me some money?"
These days, she went out on dates with Lu Tianyou quite often. Both of them spent money on the dates, and she only had a few dollars on her.
Qin Shulan turned her head abruptly and asked, "You're out of money? Didn't Gu Huai let you take over a hundred dollars in savings with you during the divorce? Are you still receiving a monthly subsidy from the school?"
Qin Shulan's reaction made Lin Siyu feel irritated. She said impatiently, "Oh, how long can that hundred yuan last? You don't know how expensive it is in Chengdu. The subsidy I get from school is only enough for food."
Qin Shulan: "The subsidies are enough for you to eat, what else can you afford?"
This person only cares about food, clothing, housing and transportation. When she was with Gu Huai, she would buy two or three skirts a year, so she had no shortage of clothes.
She lives in school for free, and the school subsidizes her food. The only expense she has is a train ride home, which is only a few dollars.
Where did her money go?
Lin Siyu stamped her feet and said, "I don't need to buy clothes, shoes, facial oil, duck egg powder, eyebrow pencil, or lipstick?"
"You have so many clothes and shoes, do you still need to buy more?"
She had so many clothes that she couldn't wear them all. Her brother and sister-in-law picked up two coats and skirts that she didn't want anymore to wear, and also picked up two pairs of shoes.
Lin Siyu: "I can't always wear old clothes and old shoes, right?"
"It's just old, not rotten to the point of being unwearable. Why can't I wear it?" Qin Shulan asked back.
Nowadays, many people mend their torn clothes and worn shoes and then wear them again.
"Others can wear it, but I can't. When have I ever worn clothes that are more than two years old?"
Qin Shulan was stunned for a moment, then said, "How can it be the same now? When you were with Gu Huai, all his money was given to you. His salary was enough for you to buy one piece of clothing a month. Now, who gives you 80 or 90 yuan a month?"
"No one is paying you, and you're still living the same life as before. Is that okay?"
"Can you please stop mentioning him?" Lin Siyu stomped her feet in anger.
"Okay, I won't mention him. Anyway, you asked me for money, but I don't have any." Qin Shulan waved her hand.
"How could you possibly not have money?" Lin Siyu exclaimed. "When you were taking care of the children at the Gu family, I secured a salary of thirty yuan a month for you. You've been taking care of the children for five or six years. After deducting the expenses over the years, you should have at least half of that left. You must have a thousand or eight hundred yuan."
"How could I possibly have that much?" Qin Shulan rolled her eyes in denial. "Your father and I are both unemployed. We rely on the little money we earned from raising children for our retirement. If I give it to you, how will we survive in the future?"
Although Qin Shulan was on her daughter's side, when it came to money matters, that was a different story.
Anyway, it's impossible to get money from her.
Her money was to be left to her son and eldest grandson.
Lin Siyu was speechless. "I didn't ask you to give me all of it. Just give me a hundred yuan. Can't I just borrow it from you? I'll pay you back when I graduate and get a job."
Qin Shulan did the math in her mind. She had only been studying for half a year and had already spent more than a hundred yuan.
So next year or the year after, if she runs out of money, will she have to borrow again?
It’s still a long time before she graduates. When will she be able to return to school?
"Siyu, when you were married to Gu Huai, he was the one who supported you. Now you have a partner, so he should be the one supporting you. He should pay for clothes, shoes, and facial cleansing."
Lin Siyu took a deep breath and said, "Tianyou and I haven't even gotten married yet, how can I ask him to support me?"
"But you slept with him, didn't you? What's the difference between you and a married couple? You can't let him sleep with you for nothing. He is a man, and if he sleeps with you, he has to support you." Qin Shulan said as a matter of course.
Lin Siyu was so angry that the muscles on her face were twitching. She felt that both she and her love were insulted.
"Mom, what do you take me for?"
"My relationship with Tianyou is different from Gu Huai's. We are in a free love relationship and we are equal to each other!"
"Do you understand what equality is?" Lin Siyu asked gritting her teeth.
Qin Shulan shook her head and said, "I don't understand what equality means. I only know that men should support their women."
Lin Siyu closed her eyes and shook her head.
If you tell these things to poor women who have no education and don’t even know what love is, they won’t understand.
She gave up arguing with her mother and said, "Mom, just tell me whether you will lend it to her or not."
"No," Qin Shulan refused bluntly. "You swore to us that you would not spend a penny of our money when you went to college."
"..." Lin Siyu choked. She had indeed made such an oath very bravely at the time.
Unexpectedly, the oath she made at the beginning turned out to be a boomerang that stabbed her.
"If you don't want to lend it, then don't lend it."
Lin Siyu turned around angrily and wanted to walk out of the house directly, but when she thought of the fish and meat she was going to eat in the evening, she turned back and sat on the chair sulking.
"Auntie, play..." Lin Chenglong walked up to his aunt with a runny nose and raised the toy car in his hand.
Lin Siyu glared at him unhappily, "Go play with your sister."
Lin Chenglong pouted and went to find Lin Chengfeng, who was sitting in the corner playing with the windmill he didn't want anymore.
He walked over and hit Lin Chengfeng on the head with his toy car in a mean manner.
Lin Chengfeng's mouth pursed in pain, and he wanted to cry but stopped himself. He remembered the way his sister grabbed the hair of the annoying Lin Chenglong and slapped him in the face.
So, he stretched out his little hand, grabbed his brother's hair, and used his other little hand to hit and scratch his face.
"Ouch..." Lin Chenglong cried loudly after being beaten.
Qin Shulan heard the crying and ran out of the kitchen.
Seeing Lin Chengfeng actually beating her precious grandson, she immediately started cursing, "You little bitch, are you going to die? How dare you hit your brother?"
She cursed and hit the back of Lin Chengfeng's hand.
Lin Chengfeng let go of her hand in pain, and Qin Shulan patted her on the back twice again.
Lin Chengfeng discovered that the beatings from her grandmother were not as painful as those from her younger brother.
Her younger brother would pull her hair, scratch her face, and hit her with toys. It was so painful.
Grandma just slapped her hands and back, which didn't hurt that much.
At such a young age, a thought suddenly popped into her mind: instead of not fighting back and letting her brother hit her, it would be better to fight back and let her grandmother hit her.
"Oh, my poor grandson, look at his little face being scratched... Siyu, why didn't you stop him?" Qin Shulan felt so distressed when she saw the bloody scratches on her grandson's face. She turned around and said to her daughter who was sitting on the chair.
She was sitting outside, so we should have stopped her.
Lin Siyu rolled her eyes. What the hell does it have to do with her? It's not her child.
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