Chapter 127
Yao Hong still didn't want to.
Although he didn't spend all his monthly allowance and saved the rest, not spending it all and having his allowance halved were two different things, and there was no way he could accept that all at once.
"If you don't want to, you must give me a detailed list every month, just like I keep accounts, recording every item clearly to show how you spent the five dollars." Zhong Lan said.
After a pause, Zhong Lan continued, "Don't try to fool me by just keeping accounts. I'll ask you clearly what you bought and what you ate. If I find out that you're fooling me, I won't keep accounts anymore."
Yao Hong struggled internally, but finally gave in: "Okay, you have two yuan for pocket money, and I have three yuan, but you can't control how I use my pocket money."
"Okay. As long as you don't care how I use my pocket money, I won't care about yours." Zhong Lan said.
Yao Hong quickly added, "But you have to save the money you earn from making matchboxes, as well as the money I give you every month, and keep good records."
"Okay." Zhong Lan agreed readily.
Matchbox pasting wasn't a monthly job. To her, Yao Hong's request was the same as before, nothing had changed. On the contrary, she now had two yuan in pocket money to spend.
Aunt Xie knew nothing about the "negotiation" between Yao Hong and Zhong Lan. If she knew, she would probably be furious.
Aunt Xie is worried about Yao Yi now.
Aunt Xie hadn't seen Yao Yi since she was discharged from the hospital after a miscarriage. She didn't know if Yao Yi was doing well or if the Lei family treated her well.
Aunt Xie couldn't go directly to the Lei family to find Yao Yi, so she went to the primary school where Yao Yi worked.
The school guard helped her call Yao Yi out. Seeing that Yao Yi had lost a lot of weight, Aunt Xie felt very distressed.
"Why have you lost so much weight? Don't the Lei family make sure you have good food and drink?"
Yao Yi glanced at the guard who was eavesdropping on their conversation, and pulled Aunt Xie away before saying, "Mom, don't talk nonsense outside. The Lei family treats me very well."
"If I were good to you, you would still lose so much weight!" Aunt Xie didn't believe it.
"I just had a miscarriage, so it's normal for me to be thin! What do you want to do if the Lei family really treats me badly?"
"Then I will go to the Lei family and ask for an explanation! How can you treat my daughter so badly!" Aunt Xie yelled.
"Then what? After you ask for an explanation, the Lei family will listen to you and treat me well?" Yao Yi said.
Aunt Xie looked at Yao Yi in a daze, and then she noticed that there was something different about Yao Yi, but she couldn't tell what was different about Yao Yi.
"Yiyi, tell your mother, are the Lei family good to you?" Aunt Xie took Yao Yi's hand and said earnestly.
"The Lei family treats me very well." Yao Yi said with certainty.
"Then why are you..." Aunt Xie didn't know how to express the strange feeling Yao Yi gave her.
"Mom, you're just thinking too much. I'm the daughter-in-law of the Lei family. How could the Lei family treat me badly? Even when my child was gone, the Lei family didn't try to kick me out. Tell me, are the Lei family good to me?" Yao Yi said.
"The child is gone, it's not your fault, it's all because of the Lei family..."
Yao Yi interrupted Aunt Xie. She knew what Aunt Xie was going to say, and she really didn't want to hear it anymore.
"The child is gone. It's my fault. It has nothing to do with anyone in the Lei family. When I was pregnant, my mother-in-law didn't let me do anything. It was me who was picky. When Zhong Lan was pregnant, you asked her to do this and that, which led to her miscarriage. Compared to Zhong Lan, my mother-in-law was really good to me."
Aunt Xie looked at Yao Yi in disbelief. She couldn't believe that these words were said by Yao Yi.
"Mom, do you have anything else to talk to me about? If not, I'll go in." Yao Yi said.
"I..." Aunt Xie didn't know what to say. Yao Yi was so different from before that she couldn't say the words she used to say easily.
Aunt Xie could only say: "If you are wronged in the Lei family, go back, and Mom will support you."
"I know." Yao Yi responded, but obviously didn't take Aunt Xie's words to heart and went into the school.
As soon as it was time to get out of school at noon, Yao Yi hurried back to the Lei family with the vegetables - she had sneaked out of school to buy some vegetables in the morning when she had no classes.
Yao Yi was the first one to return home; the others had not returned yet.
As soon as she got home, Yao Yi went into the kitchen and started making lunch.
While she was washing and cutting vegetables, Lei's mother came back.
Hearing the noise, Yao Yi poked her head out of the kitchen and greeted Lei's mother with a smile: "Mom, you're back."
Lei's mother was already used to Yao Yi's pleasant demeanor. She smiled faintly and nodded: "Okay. I'll go change my clothes first, and then I'll cook with you."
"Mom, you take a rest. I can handle it by myself." Yao Yi said.
"Two people will be faster." Lei's mother said, "Your father, Lei Xiao, and your sister will be back soon, and it will be time for dinner."
Yao Yi didn't refuse: "Okay."
After Yao Yi and Lei's mother prepared the meal, all the members of the Lei family came back and the whole family started eating together.
Yao Yi picked up a piece of stir-fried cabbage with vermicelli and gave it to Lei Ying with chopsticks: "Lei Ying, you like stir-fried cabbage with vermicelli, eat more."
Lei Ying was still a little unaccustomed to Yao Yi's sudden approachability, but she still said politely, "Thank you, sister-in-law."
Yao Yi smiled and offered Lei Xiao another portion of stir-fried cabbage and vermicelli noodles with her chopsticks: "Eat more too."
Lei Xiao smiled at her lightly: "Yeah, you too."
"Yiyi, you should eat quickly. You've been busy since you got home from work. You must be hungry." Lei's mother said.
"Mom, you are the same, you eat too."
"Yeah." Lei's mother looked at Yao Yi like this, smiled with satisfaction, and started to pick up her chopsticks.
After Yao Yi returned from the hospital last time, she took the initiative to apologize to Lei's mother and Lei Xiao, saying that she had never intended to lose the child and that she was very sad after losing the child. She also promised that she would never do that again and would do whatever Lei's mother asked her to do.
Yao Yi was crying her heart out at the time, but Lei's mother didn't take her words seriously. She thought Yao Yi was just retreating to advance, and her old ways would return after a while.
However, what neither Lei's mother nor Lei Xiao expected was that Yao Yi really seemed like a different person.
The next morning, Yao Yi had already prepared breakfast as soon as everyone woke up. She also washed the clothes.
Yao Yi took the initiative to take on all the housework at home. Even when Lei's mother wanted to help, Yao Yi refused at first and rushed to do it.
Moreover, she no longer argued with her family like before. Every time she spoke, she was in a gentle voice. There were even a few times when Lei Ying spoke to her in a hurry, but Yao Yi was not as annoyed as before and was still in a good temper.
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