Old Mrs. Ruan didn't say anything and pulled her son straight into the house.
Ruan Jinlan hurriedly followed and put the key and basket on the cabinet at the door. She closed the door again and asked again, "Mom, what are you doing here?"
Ruan Jinlan was worried, wondering if her mother was coming to ask her for money for medical treatment.
Since she married into the Cheng family, she has given her mother a sum of money every year. She has already given this year's money.
Old Mrs. Ruan looked unhappy, "I'm your mother, I can't come."
This girl is also an ungrateful person. She has forgotten how she married into the Cheng family.
Just some filial piety money is given every year, nothing else.
She had been very considerate of her and seldom came to bother her. She came to see her because she had something to do. Just look at her attitude. If she wasn't her mother, she probably wouldn't be able to enter this door.
Ruan Jinlan smiled and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? You are my mother, you can definitely come."
She turned to look at Nguyen Kim Phuc and said, "Brother, you don't have to go to work. There must be work to do in the fields at this hour."
Ruan Jinfu didn't say anything. He gestured to Old Lady Ruan to speak up if she had anything to say.
"Don't ask me any more questions. We are here to tell you something." Old Mrs. Ruan sat on the sofa, still a little uncomfortable. She held the handles with both hands and quietly moved her buttocks. She continued, "Something happened at home. The house was burned down. This time we came here to ask you for some money to rebuild the house."
"What?!" Ruan Jinlan was shocked.
The house was burned?! In an instant, Ruan Jinlan's mind was full of thoughts.
"What about my second brother's family?"
"What do you think? The two houses were connected, and the second one was also burned down." "In fact, only the kitchens of the two houses were burned down, but Mrs. Ruan deliberately didn't say it.
Anyway, it’s impossible for Ruan Jinlan to go back to the village to see.
Ruan Jinlan felt that all her strength had gone away. The houses of her eldest and second brothers were burned down, so how much money would her mother ask from her?
"Your mother is not dead yet, who are you showing off to by acting like that?" Old Lady Ruan was furious when she saw her little daughter.
Ruan Jinlan took a long time to recover and asked, "What's the purpose of your coming here today?" Although she already had an idea, she still wanted to ask again.
"Our house burned down, and we can't bring our family to live with us. So you can give us 200 yuan to help rebuild the house." Mrs. Ruan had already planned the 200 yuan. She also gave us room for bargaining.
She also knew that it was impossible to get as much as she said.
The kitchen at home needed to be rebuilt, and it would cost a lot of money to find a flower lady. Mrs. Ruan didn't plan to pay for it herself.
Most of the things in the makeup box have been sold. There are still a few items left, but they are not worth much these days. I can only put them aside for now and wait for the opportunity to sell them for money.
The money she had saved in the past, as well as the annual tribute money, were the money she had saved for her coffin. There was no way she would use it.
Financial situation at home is tight right now and there are many places to spend money, so naturally we need to find some income.
My daughter married well, and her son-in-law's family is also very well off. As the saying goes, a son-in-law is half a son. If there is something going on at my mother's home, my daughter and son-in-law must help.
"200?!" Ruan Jinlan couldn't believe it. Her mother really dared to ask.
Since she married Cheng Fuguang, she has given her mother a sum of money every year, which has increased from fifteen to fifty.
She gave the money when she went back to her parents' home during the Chinese New Year this year.
It's only been half a year and he's asking for money again, and this time he wants 200 right away. How can she afford it?
"200, you think it's too much? We need to build two houses, and we also need to buy back the things that were burned at home. I didn't ask for more." Old Lady Ruan looked as if she could calculate it for her if she didn't believe it.
"Mom, how can I have so much money? You know I don't have a job, and all the money I have is from my children's father. The money I give to them every year is what I save little by little. I really don't have any extra money." Ruan Jinlan really wanted to cry but had no tears.
Just because it was her mother who helped her marry into the Cheng family, her mother has always used this to control her.
It’s been more than ten years, maybe that’s enough.
"You are the great contributor who gave birth to three sons for the Cheng family. You didn't hold the money in your hands for so many years?!" Mrs. Ruan didn't believe it. Her daughter only had such a small living allowance every month.
How is that possible?
"I really don't have any. The Cheng family guards me like a thief. Cheng Fuguang keeps all his salary and other things. The only money I can get is the monthly living expenses. The annual filial piety money is deducted from the living expenses. And they dare not deduct a lot at one time. If the quality of life is obviously reduced, Old Cheng will also ask about it." Ruan Jinlan didn't care about the embarrassment. She told the whole truth. She really had no money.
Although the Cheng family married her, her life was not as glorious as it seemed to outsiders.
It would be unlikely to look for a family like the Cheng family in the countryside no matter how hard you try.
So when he married Ruan Jinlan, there was quite a lot of discussion about him.
Fortunately, Ruan Jinlan was pregnant. Just one year after she got married, she gave birth to a pair of twin sons.
Twins are rare, and twin sons are even rarer. A few years later, another son was born to the Cheng family.
These three sons are the reason why Ruan Jinlan was able to have a place in the Cheng family.
Over the years, the Cheng family has been afraid that Ruan Jinlan's family would come after them and take advantage of them, so Cheng Fuguang only accompanies his wife back to her parents' home on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and they don't contact them at other times.
Fortunately, over the years, the Ruan family has remained peaceful and nothing has happened.
Ruan Jinlan's life will be relatively better.
Old Lady Ruan was so angry that she stretched out her finger and poked Ruan Jinlan's head fiercely, "Tell me about you, why are you so stupid! How could I give birth to someone as stupid as you! It's been more than ten years, and you haven't taken over the Cheng family yet. What do you usually do!"
"For your sake, I have never come to your house to bother you over the years, nor have I found anything else for you to do. Why are you still working like a slave in Old Cheng's house?"
"Tell me, when will you be able to take charge of the Cheng family?"
When Old Mrs. Ruan said this, she completely forgot that Cheng Fuguang's parents and her daughter's parents-in-law were still alive and well. If her daughter wanted to be the head of the Cheng family, she would probably have to wait for many more years.
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