Chapter 023 No way
"You should ask whoever ate it for money."
Li Banxia frowned and directly refused, calling out to Su Hongmei, "Do you think you can get away with not apologizing just because you brought your older sister here?"
Su Hongmei pouted, still stubbornly refusing to back down.
"Su Hongmei, have you thought this through? I'll say it again: if you don't apologize, you'll go hungry! You'll only get to eat when you've come to your senses and sincerely apologize."
Li Banxia's face darkened. She really spoiled them rotten!
Asking them to apologize after she did something wrong is like taking her life!
"...I won't raise a treacherous ingrate who only bullies his own kind! Your older brother and sister-in-law worked hard to earn their money, why should they spend it on an ungrateful ingrate like you?"
Su Hongmei was both aggrieved and angry, her eyes red and choked as she called out, "Big Sister..."
"What are you apologizing for?!"
Su Hongying frowned, looking at Li Banxia disapprovingly, "As someone's wife, Yao Jianshu can't even be criticized for cooking late? Mom, you spoil her too much!"
"How dare you call Yao Jianshu?!"
Su Hongying pouted, "Alright, alright, sister-in-law, is that enough? It's just twins, any woman can get pregnant... Mom, you really take her seriously."
In the end, I couldn't help but complain about the eldest son's wife.
Li Banxia glared at her and said, "Shut up. Mind your own family's business. Now that the person has been sent back, you should hurry back to your husband's family if you have nothing else to do."
"As if nobody wants to interfere."
Su Hongying rolled her eyes, then, remembering her purpose, rolled her eyes and grinned as she moved closer to Li Banxia, "Mom, can I borrow your bicycle for a while?"
"No, I won't lend it to you." Li Banxia refused decisively.
Su Hongying was surprised for a moment, then raised her voice, "...Mom?!"
"What are you yelling about! I'm not dead yet." Li Banxia looked at her eldest daughter with displeasure.
She forcibly took the job from her eldest daughter-in-law in her past life and gave it to her second daughter-in-law. When her eldest daughter wanted a bicycle, she agreed without even asking her eldest son and his wife's opinion.
That bicycle was a dowry for her eldest son's marriage. Su Hongying borrowed it to her husband's family and never returned it.
The eldest daughter's mother-in-law is sweet on the outside but wicked on the inside; she is good at coaxing her to move her family's belongings to her husband's house.
That Zhang family was like a bottomless pit in their past life; it could never be filled.
She was like she was under a spell, giving her eldest daughter whatever she wanted.
Without giving any thought to the reasons behind these things...
"Mom! I already promised my mother-in-law, and she even asked me to thank you on her behalf. But you won't agree... Do you know that this will make me lose face in front of my mother-in-law?"
Su Hongying was furious, but her mind was clear; she knew what she could use to blackmail her own mother.
Her eyes flickered, and she put on a pitiful look. "What if my in-laws think I don't have a high status in my own family, that my father doesn't love me and my mother doesn't care for me, and they bully me in the future? Mom, do you want to see me live a miserable life?"
Li Banxia, "..."
She didn't realize that her expression had softened for a moment.
She suffered a lot as a daughter-in-law with Old Man Su's biological mother. She couldn't explain those grievances and hardships to outsiders. That's probably why she was so accommodating to her eldest daughter in her past life.
Because she was afraid that she would have the same experience as her.
Li Banxia sighed softly.
Su Hongying thought she had agreed, and smiled as she hugged her arm. "I knew Mom was the best to me. I'll ride away right after I finish eating. Mom, don't forget to ask my older brother Yao Jian and sister-in-law for the keys."
"If I lend you the bicycle, how will your older brother and sister-in-law get to work?"
Su Hongying waved her hand and said matter-of-factly, "Let's take a ride."
"The ride is free? Who pays for it?"
Li Banxia frowned as she looked at her eldest daughter, wondering if she knew that her mother-in-law was using the guise of borrowing money but never actually intended to pay it back.
Or perhaps it's Su Hongying who doesn't want to repay the debt.
"Mom, why are you so stingy? My older brother and his wife earn a combined total of over 160 yuan a month. They give 40 yuan to the family and still have 140 yuan left. How much does it cost to take a bus?"
Su Hongying pouted and complained to Li Banxia, "I don't know what you're thinking? You just throw away money like that. With your meager monthly salary, when will you ever be able to save enough for the dowry your second and third brothers' girlfriends are asking for?"
Li Banxia glanced at Su Hongmei.
Su Hongmei stood not far from the two, her neck stiff.
"Alright, no bicycles. Go back and tell your mother-in-law that we only have two bicycles, not enough for our own use, and we don't have any extra bicycles to lend out."
"mom!"
Li Banxia was too lazy to waste any more words with her and urged her to leave, "Take advantage of the remaining buses and hurry back."
Pregnant women get hungry quickly. When she first came back, she saw her eldest daughter-in-law eating dry steamed buns. She must have been starving.
Su Hongying stomped her foot, "I don't care, I'm going to ride away!"
She glanced at the braised pork, her mouth watering, but compared to the bicycle her mother-in-law wanted, she decisively gave up the braised pork, turned around and walked out of the kitchen to find Boss Su to ask for the car keys.
Su Laoda, not understanding why, handed her the bicycle keys.
Su Hongying triumphantly gripped the key, unlocked the car, and pushed her bicycle out.
Li Banxia brought the food to the small square table and called out to her, "Su Hongying, if you dare to ride away on the family bicycle, I dare to go to your mother-in-law's workplace to ask for it back. Why don't you go back and ask your mother-in-law if she can afford to lose face?"
"Mom! Are you crazy?!"
Su Hongying had one foot on the pedal when she heard Li Banxia suddenly say that, and when she turned her head, she almost fell to the ground.
Old Su stood beside the hand pump well, taking the opportunity to add fuel to the fire.
He said, "Li Banxia, are you trying to offend all your children? You refuse this and that, and you're unwilling to give them anything. With you acting like this, which of your children will take care of you in your old age?"
Su Hongying nodded, "Dad is right! Mom, do you know what my husband and mother-in-law said to me?"
Li Banxia glanced at her.
Su Hongying looked her up and down with disdain. "They said that your mother has had a hard life, and that we two will take care of you and support you in your old age. Look at what you're doing now! It's just a bicycle. If you're so stingy, you'll make your son-in-law, my in-laws, and me look down on you!"
Li Banxia listened without showing the slightest emotional fluctuation.
She felt that her eldest daughter's words were not at all on her mother's side.
People say that daughters are their mothers' little cotton-padded jackets, but she's raised a heartless little cotton-padded jacket that's leaking all the wind from the east, west, south, and north.
"If that's what you think, there's nothing I can do about it."
Li Banxia looked at Su Hongying and said, "Push the bicycle back."
Su Hongying, "..."
"Mom! If you don't let me take my bicycle, I... I'll never come back to my parents' house again!"
After he said that, the courtyard was silent for a few seconds.
Su Hongmei stared at Su Hongying for a long while, opened her mouth as if to say something, but then caught sight of Li Banxia out of the corner of her eye and swallowed the words back.
Forget it, Mom has always doted on my eldest sister. What if... my eldest sister's words can blackmail her mother, and her mother softens and agrees?
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