Chapter 19 Unexpected Disaster
Therefore, when he and Zhao Niang realized that the family in the dilapidated temple had something wrong with them and were deliberately trying to get closer to Li Xiujuan, he did not stop them.
My mother-in-law escaped the disaster and gave me a long lecture, but what others say is never as real as firsthand experience. Rather than suffer such a disaster later, it's better to learn a lesson and completely give up on this idea. I just didn't expect that pulling up a radish would bring up the mud, causing such a big mess.
"Where did I not listen to advice?" Li Xiujuan still retorted, but her momentum was obviously not as strong as before. Lin Fusheng knew his wife's temperament well, so he gave her a way out, "It's my fault for not advising her properly."
Seeing that Li Xiujuan had calmed down, Old Lady Li breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw her daughter-in-law looking at the bamboo tube with a worried expression, her heart started to pound again.
Feeling guilty that the Li family had been implicated and suffered an undeserved misfortune, Old Lady Lin took out a bamboo tube from her own family and gave the water to the Lin family, saying, "Did you lose a lot of things? Pack them up, and I, this old woman, will make the decision to compensate you with grain or silver."
"They're all worthless. If it weren't for Zhaozhao's quick thinking in making sure the younger generation was prepared, who knows what the consequences would have been. Besides, we can't entirely blame Fusheng. We stayed in the dilapidated temple and ran into that group. Even if Juanniang hadn't paid any attention, she would probably have been targeted." There's only one main road in Fu'an County, so it's unavoidable. In the end, we were bound to run into them.
"No way, my pot is a good one, specially made by a blacksmith, and I also have several bowls..." Zhang Dandan was the type who only listened to what she wanted to hear. Seeing that Old Lady Li was about to finish making excuses, she couldn't hold back any longer and quickly spoke up, claiming that she was the victim.
But Old Lady Li glared at her angrily. This clueless woman couldn't see the situation at all. She wanted to slap that foul mouth of hers a few times. Now, all the groundwork she had laid had gone down the drain.
Grandma Lin gave Zhang Dandan some loose silver and some pancakes. She accepted the silver but had Grandma Li return the pancakes. Although Zhang Dandan didn't understand why, she didn't dare to make a fuss anymore because she noticed that her mother-in-law's eyes looked like she wanted to gouge her out.
Li Yunyun covered her face in disbelief and pulled her mother over, whispering, "Mom, can you please not interrupt Grandma?"
"What, am I not allowed to speak? Your grandma dislikes me, so you're disliking me too?" Zhang Dandan said, feeling annoyed. "Besides, this whole thing started because of your aunt, I'm just telling the truth."
“Mother, why do you only look at the surface of the problem? It’s obvious that the family in the dilapidated temple was prepared in advance. As long as we stayed in the dilapidated temple, this matter was unavoidable. And have you forgotten that we were able to escape because Lin Zhaozhao threw pancakes and vegetable dumplings to Lin Yangyang?”
"You don't know how scarce water is right now, do you? As soon as we rested, Grandma Lin came with bamboo tubes to distribute water to us. How much water do they have left in total? Giving us so much is worth more than your pots and pans, isn't it?" After all, you can manage if you're frugal with food, but you can't do without water.
Zhang Dandan was persuaded, but her face was pale. She clutched the loose silver in her hand, unsure whether to take it or not. "So what do we do now?"
"What else can we do? You've already accepted it, you can't just give it back."
"Why can't we return it?" Zhang Dandan was about to return it when Li Yunyun stopped her. Her mother was really fierce. "There's still a long way to go. You can return it with something else."
Zhang Dandan nodded, and Li Yunyun added, "From now on, you should think more carefully about what Grandma says, so that you don't do what you did today."
"Mind your own business."
Li Yunyun: ...
Well, it turns out I was just rambling this time.
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