Chapter 35: Trouble at the Street Corner

Even Li Shoude had spoken; it was meaningless for Sun Shi to argue further, so she could only shut her mouth.

Li Jinfeng had originally hoped that her family could follow to the state so she wouldn't have to stay at the Lao Li family and suffer anymore. Upon hearing this, she knew the matter of going to the state was ruined, and she couldn't hold back anymore, covering her face and crying as she ran out of the main room.

"This dead girl, crying on such a good happy day? Bad luck!" Old Madam Li looked at Li Jinfeng's back as she ran out and scolded angrily.

"That's right, that's right, bad luck!"

Li Xiufang echoed, then pulled Old Madam Li's hand and acted spoiled, "Mom, accompany me to town to buy some dowry. I can't lose face after I marry into the Huang family in the future."

"Alright, alright, let's go now!" Old Madam Li agreed instantly.

When the mother and daughter arrived in town, they naturally saw the snow cakes selling explosively at the street corner.

Li Xiufang kept pulling Old Madam Li forward, "Mom, I want to eat that snow cake! I heard people say it's delicious, icy and cool, and you won't be hot after eating it!"

"That's right, Mom, buy one!" Zhu Shi, who came to town to help carry things, also kept saying. She licked her lips; the weather was too hot, and her lips were already dry and peeling, "It's not easy for us to come to town once; we must taste this novel thing!"

"Eat, eat, eat, you lazy woman only knows how to eat!" Old Madam Li angrily retorted to Zhu Shi, "I let you come to town to help carry things, not to eat! That snow cake is five wen each; can you afford to eat it!"

If it weren't to give Sun Shi a warning and keep her at home to do housework properly, would she have let this ignorant, greedy woman Zhu Shi follow to town?

Zhu Shi shut her mouth resentfully, not daring to speak again.

Ever since the last incident, her status at home had plummeted. Her mother-in-law either beat or scolded her, and even her father-in-law didn't give her a good look. All the tiring and dirty work at home was thrown to her.

In the past, there was still that dull Jiang Shi who could be bullied, but now Jiang Shi had left, and she had become the one being oppressed in the family.

Now that her status had finally recovered a little, she couldn't let her mother-in-law dislike her again.

"Mom, I'm about to be a bride and marry someone else. I won't be by your side in the future, so just buy one for me to eat..." Li Xiufang still begged relentlessly.

"Alright, alright, alright, Mom will buy it for you." Old Madam Li finally agreed.

The three of them walked over, and there was still a long line in front of the snow cake stall.

At this time, Zhu Shi suddenly pointed at the snow cake stall and screamed, "Mom, look, isn't that Jiang Shi!"

The grandmother and granddaughter heard this and looked over together.

It really was Jiang Shi!

"Mom, look at Er Ya!" Li Xiufang saw Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was responsible for collecting money in front of the stall, at a glance. She had a money bag slung around her waist, constantly putting the copper coins from selling snow cakes into it, and the small money bag was already bulging.

"Good, how dare you do this behind my back!" Old Madam Li immediately rolled up her sleeves, rushed up aggressively, and snatched the money bag from Jiang Xiaoxiao's waist.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was caught off guard, directly staggered, didn't stand firm, and almost fell forward.

Fortunately, Jiang Wei was quick-eyed and fast-handed, pulling Jiang Xiaoxiao in time.

"What are you doing!" Jiang Wei snatched back the money bag and scolded angrily.

"What am I doing? I still want to ask what you are doing! You stinking woman, how dare you come out to earn money behind my back! Do you still have me, this mother-in-law, in your eyes!" Old Madam Li roared back without showing weakness. With her anger rising, she seemed to have forgotten the incident where she was lectured by Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei looked at her face covered in scars and smiled coldly, "Mother-in-law? Don't tell me you've forgotten that we have already separated and broken off kinship. What face do you have to manage my affairs!"

Old Madam Li choked. Facing Jiang Wei's cold gaze, she seemed to recall the miserable state of being pulled by her hair and smashed against the ground by the other party last time, and suddenly felt a little timid.

But seeing so many people around, she didn't believe Jiang Wei dared to hit her in public.

Thus, Old Madam Li immediately straightened her back again, stiffened her neck, and retorted, "Broken, broken off kinship, so what! Even if we broke off kinship, I am still your mother-in-law!"

Saying this, she pointed at Jiang Xiaoxiao, who had almost been pulled down by her just now, "Don't forget, she is my Lao Li family's granddaughter. Bones are broken, but the tendons are still connected. Even if we broke off kinship, she is still my Lao Li family's granddaughter!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at Old Madam Li relentlessly saying such delusional jokes, her heart full of disgust, and immediately turned her head away, saying mercilessly, "Don't talk nonsense. My surname is Jiang; I am not your granddaughter. I don't know you."

Saying this, she ran behind her mother and pretended to be afraid, shrinking her head.

"You, you!" Old Madam Li didn't seem to expect Jiang Xiaoxiao to refuse to recognize her as her grandmother in public, and was so angry that her whole body trembled, "You unfilial girl! You little beast born by a mother but not raised by a father, how dare you not recognize me..."

Seeing Old Madam Li scolding more and more ugly, the passersby in line couldn't stand it anymore and said one after another:

"Are you really the child's grandmother? How can you scold a child like this? Look at how scared the child is..."

"I think it's fake. Didn't the little girl just say it? Her surname is Jiang, and she has nothing to do with this old woman surnamed Li."

"Tsk, what kind of person is this? Probably seeing people selling snow cakes and making money, she came up to climb relatives and wanted to beg for favors?"

Everyone said a word, making Old Madam Li's face turn white and then blue...

Although she was used to being shrewish and unreasonable in the village, she had never been pointed at and scolded by so many people in person.

She wanted to retort, but before she could speak, she was pushed away by a few impatient people: "Go, go, you old country woman, don't block the way. If you want to be shrewish, go somewhere else. Don't block me from buying snow cakes!"

Old Madam Li was pushed and staggered. No one supported her from behind, so she directly fell on her butt.

She let out an "ouch," frowning in pain. Just as she was about to get angry, she looked up and saw the big man who pushed her, tall and broad, full of muscles, so she shut her mouth resentfully.

Seeing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao immediately picked a large snow cake for the big man, "Uncle, here, your snow cake."

The big man grinned and paid the money readily.

Li Xiufang saw Jiang Xiaoxiao put the money into the money bag, bit her teeth hatefully, and regardless of Old Madam Li who was still falling on the ground without anyone to support her, she directly shouted, "Aren't you selling snow cakes! I want to buy your snow cakes now, hurry up and give them to me!"

Saying this, she took out the copper coins that Old Madam Li had secretly stuffed into her hand before going out from her bosom and threw them on the ground viciously.

She thought Jiang Xiaoxiao would bend down to pick up the money, but the other party gave her a glance with eyes like looking at a fool, then turned around and ignored her.

Jiang Wei on the side said lightly, "If you want to buy snow cakes, please go to the back and line up."

Li Xiufang looked at the long dragon that almost lined up to the opposite street corner, and almost couldn't catch her breath.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 36 =====