Ever since Shu Wan joined the army, the job of cooking fell on her shoulders. Now that she has graduated from high school, Chen Meihua orders her around even more.
Chen Meihua's fierce expression eased a little and she waited for an answer.
"No more." Shu Xiaoya spread out her hands, empty.
Chen Meihua was even more angry. "She is such an ungrateful person. She didn't send anything to her parents' home when they needed it. She has been eating my food for so many years for nothing. She is such a traitor."
"And you, what's the point of reading so many books? You didn't even get into college. I'm going to find a matchmaker tomorrow and get married as soon as possible."
Shu Xiaoya's face changed, "Mom, I won't get married."
Chen Meihua glared at him, "If you don't want to get married, do you still want to eat white rice at home?"
Shu Xiaoya bit her lip. She knew all the unmarried men in the village, but there was a voice in her heart telling her that these men were not worthy of being her future husbands.
Shu Xiaoya trusts her intuition very much.
"Hurry up and cook. When your dad and his family come back and find out that the meal is not ready, they will make you suffer."
Shu Xiaoya left with a dark face.
Chen Meihua looked at her daughter's back, rolled her eyes, and ran to the matchmaker's house in the village to ask someone to look for Shu Xiaoya.
When the matchmaker found out that the matchmaker was Shu Xiaoya, she smiled from ear to ear. Shu Xiaoya was a high school graduate and was pretty, which was quite good for someone in the village.
"Leave it to me," the matchmaker promised.
"By the way, let Shu Xiaoguang take a look too." Chen Meihua suddenly thought of her youngest son.
The matchmaker's face froze for a moment, then she nodded in agreement. Shu Xiaoguang was like a gangster, doing nothing serious all day, and girls from decent families looked down on him, but she couldn't say that to Chen Meihua.
The matchmaker nodded, looking as if the matter was all hers.
Chen Meihua left contentedly. When she returned home, Shu Xiaoya had already prepared dinner.
Dinner was corn grits porridge, whole grain steamed buns, and some pickled radish.
"Pickled vegetables again! I want to eat meat!" Shu Xiaoguang was dissatisfied.
Shu Xiaoya glanced at Shu Xiaoguang and said, "Before my second sister sends money back, we have something to eat!"
"This damn girl, has she become wild at heart? It's been such a long time since she sent money back. Look at Xiaoguang, he has become so thin due to hunger." Chen Meihua had a distressed look on her face. Shu Zhiguo, who was silently chewing a steamed bun beside her, obviously agreed.
Before, Shu Wan would send money home every month, usually around ten or twenty yuan, sometimes more. Although she couldn't eat meat for every meal, she could have an egg.
Now without Shu Wan's subsidy, the Shu family lived a tight life. Logically, if the fields had harvested, they wouldn't have lived so miserably, but the eldest son Shu Jianyong came back to visit from time to time, and the money in Chen Meihua's hands disappeared visibly.
"Let's go to the post office tomorrow. If it doesn't work this time, let's just call the kid from the Huo family." Chen Meihua made the decision.
Shu Xiaoya breathed a sigh of relief. Life without money was too hard.
During this period, her classmates asked her to go shopping, but she had no money to go, so she had to find excuses to refuse. Especially since there was a good job in the city some time ago, and she finally asked someone to get a spot, but she missed out because she had no money.
Shu Xiaoya took a big bite of the steamed bun. Tomorrow she would follow Chen Meihua and have a good talk with Shu Wan.
Thinking of this, Shu Xiaoya drank up the porridge, then took the half-eaten whole grain steamed bun and prepared to leave.
"I'm almost done eating. I'm going to go play with Xiao Hong."
"What are you doing with the steamed bun? Put it down if you can't eat it." Chen Meihua frowned and looked at the steamed bun in Shu Xiaoya's hand.
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