"you do not say,"
Seeing that her mother-in-law's attitude had changed, Ye Xiaoxiao quickly pressed her advantage.
"Look how great this stove is! You can put things on it, eat on it, and the kids won't get cold when they change clothes inside."
It's convenient for washing the kids when I'm not busy. Oh, and the New Year is coming soon, isn't it?
Then my younger siblings can all come here to bathe, and we won't have to go to the bathhouse in town anymore.
It can save you some money.
In rural areas, people rarely bathe in winter, except before the Lunar New Year. This privilege is only available now that someone in town has opened a bathhouse.
It costs two cents to take a bath.
Liu Juan touched the iron tabletop and looked at the furnace below. She had to admit that the furnace was indeed quite practical.
"That...that's too expensive," Liu Juan still insisted, but her tone had softened to the point of being as soft as cotton. "Don't you guys know how to be more frugal?"
"Mom, don't worry,"
Ye Xiaoxiao poured Liu Juan a glass of water.
"This stove can last for eight to ten years, so it only costs about ten yuan a year on average."
Li Chenyang didn't dare to interrupt. "Wife, you didn't even calculate that you spent more than thirty yuan on charcoal this year."
To be honest, Li Chenyang couldn't believe where his family got so much money.
He felt that his wife had probably spent almost all the money in the house, and he was worried about what they would do for the New Year.
We'll also need to prepare New Year's gifts for our three maternal uncles, Xiaoxiao's aunt, and our own teacher.
Adding my second uncle's family, that makes six families. If each family spends two yuan, that's 12 yuan.
Liu Juan held her water glass and looked at her sleeping grandson. Her anger finally subsided considerably.
"Alright, alright."
Liu Juan seemed to have given up entirely, saying, "Do whatever you want, it's your own money anyway."
[Task completion: 15%, Reward: Five bolts of corduroy fabric.]
Ye Xiaoxiao was surprised to hear that they had actually given her some decent fabric this time. Although this kind of thing wouldn't be anything special in later generations,
These days, they're really high-end items. I checked the system space and found they even come in black, brown, and bright red.
Not bad, not bad. I'll go find Lei Yueying tomorrow and make another set of clothes for Xiao Yanni.
Ye Xiaoxiao was overjoyed when she heard the system notification.
The old woman was finally fooled, but she wasn't about to give up.
"Mom, if you like it, how about we have one made for our third son's family when he gets married?" Ye Xiaoxiao said with a smile.
"Go! Go! Go,"
Liu Juan rolled her eyes at Ye Xiaoxiao.
"Don't you dare harm your brother."
Liu Juan thought to herself, "If it's for the third son, they'll have to pay for it. How could the Sun family possibly have nothing better to do than spend so much money on his daughter?"
Don't expect your third son's wife to bring him into your own home; you'll be lucky if that happens.
Li Chenyang watched in stunned silence.
His wife has a silver tongue. She managed to win his mother over with just a few words.
If it were him, he'd probably be beaten to a pulp by his mother by now.
But then he suddenly felt a little guilty.
He had just been scolded by his wife a few days ago, and now that he saw she had even managed to smooth things over with his mother, he felt even more uncertain.
This isn't just marrying a wife, it's like marrying a female general.
When Liu Juan left, she mentioned that during the Spring Festival, she asked her younger siblings to come over and take a bath.
Ye Xiaoxiao smiled as she saw her mother-in-law off, and when she turned around, she saw Li Chenyang looking at her with admiration.
"What are you looking at?" Ye Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him. "Go wash your stinky feet!"
Li Chenyang quickly and eagerly took the basin his wife had used to soak her feet and added hot water. It seemed that no one in the family could control his wife, so he would better behave himself from now on.
Ye Xiaoxiao watched Li Chenyang's busy figure and felt secretly happy.
This 150-yuan stove was a worthwhile purchase. Not only can it be used for cooking, but it can also keep my mother-in-law in check. It's a win-win situation.
Just then, the system popped up again, adding to the chaos: [New Task: Suppress the gossip in the village.]
Ye Xiaoxiao: ......
[System, you're really bored out of your mind. People can say whatever they want, I don't care. And yet you give me this kind of task. Will refusing to do it have any consequences?]
Ye Xiaoxiao didn't care what others said. This mission was a joke.
[This is just a side quest; the host can choose not to do it.]
【That's good.】
"That eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family, she really knows how to cause trouble..."
Chen Lixia sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) at Aunt Wang's house, peeling peanuts while sighing.
"Isn't it a mixed bag?"
Aunt Wang poured Chen Lixia a glass of water. Chen Lixia was Ma Yanling's sister-in-law and also Wang Ailing's sister-in-law.
They are all not far apart.
"You mean Ye Xiaoxiao? She's only been separated from her family for less than two months, and she's already bought a stove that costs 150 yuan."
Chen Lixia pouted as she spoke.
"One hundred and fifty! That's enough to buy so many nice things! If this were a few days ago, people would have definitely tried to steal his money!"
"That's right," Aunt Wang said, shaking her head. "That Li family's daughter-in-law really knows how to squander money."
Ma Yanling happened to be there too, and she chimed in, holding her own daughter:
"You bet she is! I went to her house the other day, and she was acting all high and mighty, saying she wanted to pave the yard with bricks and replace the stove. I think she's going to squander all the money from the Li family's eldest son's branch!"
Ye Xiaoxiao happened to be pushing her child here, and she could hear the sounds coming from inside the house clearly from the doorway.
"Host, aren't you angry?" the system asked curiously.
[Why are you angry? Say whatever you want. I'm the one enjoying this, and I can't even let people be a little jealous.]
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