"If your grandson wants to eat it, you can buy it for him as long as you spend some money. It's not like the people on the dining car won't sell it to you because they dislike you!
As for your education? I'm very interested and would like to ask you which of your ancestors was so capable that they raised you to be arrogant, self-righteous, and take advantage of your age.
Lan Guoer didn't want to argue with the old lady, but the old lady kept swearing and even brought up the elders, so don't blame her for retaliating!
"You..." The old lady pointed at Lan Guo'er with gritted teeth, and was so angry that she saw stars! "Do you know who I am? You dare to talk to me like that, or you will be in trouble later!"
"Even if you are the king of heaven! I abide by the law and live an upright life. There is nothing to be afraid of, especially since you are not one!"
"You! You little bitch!"
The old lady was so angry that she picked up the enamel pot on the small table and was about to smash it on Lan Guoer's head.
"mom!"
The woman next to the old lady, who had been gloomy, finally spoke.
She snatched the enamel pot from the old lady's hand and pushed her to sit on the bunk. "Mom! Can you please be quiet? You are already old, aren't you afraid of being laughed at by others?"
"You are a traitor!" The old lady poked the woman's forehead fiercely.
"I really don't know what sin my Pan family has committed to give birth to such a useless thing like you! You can't control your man at home, and you can't hold your head high outside! You deserve to be bullied by that shameless family!"
Seeing the old lady shift her focus, Lan Guo'er gnawed on the chicken leg and ate the rice in the lunch box. Su Yan would occasionally praise it, "It smells so good!"
The old lady's little grandson couldn't stand it any more! "Wow!" he cried, "I want to eat, I want to eat meat, I want to eat chicken legs! Wow~Wow~"
The two little girls were silently wiping their brother's tears. They were very thin and dark, but they looked very sensible.
One of them even peeled an egg and handed it to the boy, "Don't cry, Xiaobao, eat the egg!"
Unexpectedly, the boy threw the egg out of the girl's hand.
"Who wants to eat eggs! You money-loser, get out of here! I want to eat meat, I want to eat chicken legs! Waaaa~"
The girl walked quietly to where the egg fell, picked it up and gently wiped off the dust on it.
Lan Guoer just happened to notice her. She clearly saw the desire on the girl's face, but the girl pursed her lips and kept swallowing her saliva, but she didn't take a bite.
Oh! Another victim of son preference!
Seeing her little grandson crying at the top of his lungs, the old lady finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the boy to the dining car.
The woman gave each of the two girls a steamed bun made of two tbsp flour and two pieces of pickled vegetables. The two girls ate with gusto...
Half an hour later, the old lady took the boy back to his seat.
The boy's mouth was greasy as he burped, and his chubby, rosy little face was full of satisfaction.
Lan Guoer and Su Yan had already eaten and drunk their fill. They were sitting on the lower bunk, cracking melon seeds and reading books.
The old lady looked at the two of them leisurely and was so angry that she pushed the little girl hard.
"Are you full? If you are, go stay upstairs! I'm really annoyed just seeing you guys!"
I really don’t know what your stupid mother is thinking. You insist on keeping two little girls with you! If it were someone else, after losing her husband, she would have abandoned you money-losing girls and gone to live happily on her own!
The two girls were shaking with fear at what the old lady said. They didn't even dare to lift their eyelids and crawled onto the upper bed with their heads lowered.
"Mom, why are you telling them this?"
The woman looked at her two timid daughters and glanced at the old lady with dissatisfaction.
"What? I can't say anything?" The old lady glared.
"Pan Mingyue, don't forget who was crying and begging me to come and take you back to Beijing? If it weren't for the fact that you're my daughter, who would care about your family's life or death?
You said that it was okay for you to come back on your own, at least you could find another man to marry! But look at you, what stupid things have you done?
As for your son, I understand why you want to take him with you. He can be relied upon when he grows up, but why do you take care of these two girls? Besides wasting the family's food and making them hold you back, what good can they do?
I think you've been in the countryside for too long, and your brain has become so rusty that you can't even tell good from bad!"
The old lady finished her scolding in one breath, panting heavily! The woman listened silently to the old lady's scolding without arguing again.
What did she have to argue about now?
At the beginning, she ignored her family's opposition and joined the team of educated youth going to the countryside with full of enthusiasm, thinking that from then on she would be able to swim freely in the vast sea and fly freely in the sky!
But reality slapped her hard in the face! The sea in the farmland was not wide, and she, a bird, could not even fly out of those few acres of rice fields.
Under the heavy labor, she had to compromise with life and married a farmer in the village.
The man was honest and kind, and treated her well. Over the years, the couple had two daughters and a son. Although their life was hard, they were generally harmonious.
Ten years passed in a flash.
But things were so unpredictable! Her husband had unexpectedly fallen off a cliff, leaving them alone and their widowed mother behind. Seeing that the policy had loosened up, many of the educated youth in her village had returned to the city through connections, she finally let go of her once-vaunted dignity and called home.
But her parents-in-law are too old to raise the children! The children's uncles and aunts want her to keep the children, but how can she trust her children to be raised by others, especially girls?
Having lived there for ten years, she knew all too well the plight of girls in the village! They didn't have enough to eat, they didn't have warm clothes, they had no schooling, no books to read! They had to take on all the chores at a young age, and by the time they were seventeen or eighteen, they had to get married...
She had already spent her youth there, but she didn't want to bury her two daughters' youth there as well!
Lan Guoer was reading, but the old lady's voice was so sharp that she probably understood the woman's background from it. She admired the fact that she had resisted the old lady's pressure and still refused to give up her two daughters, choosing to keep them with her.
Nowadays, it is really not easy for a woman to live alone with a child!
The old lady made a fuss twice in a row, but didn't get any advantage from Lan Guoer and the others. But she behaved much better in the next few days.
On the last day, when the train was about to arrive in Beijing, the old lady became arrogant again.
"Your brother will definitely come pick us up in his car soon. Some people don't respect the elderly and love the young, and they're just lazy and greedy. I have to make him pay attention. What position in Kyoto dares to hire such people?"
The old lady said this and glanced meaningfully at Lan Guoer and Su Yan.
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