Chapter 260: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 261: Fallen Into a Trap Again?

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Song Qiushui naturally understood what Chai Mi meant — nothing more than that she herself was also someone who dressed in trendy outfits and had an outrageous hairstyle, but she didn't care: "You guys just don't understand what fashion is."

"Well... anyway, nobody understands it like you do." Chai Mi teased with a smile.

Then she said: "Your cousin sister... is probably fighting with my Second Uncle right now. After finally avoiding them for so many years, now they've dragged out the money those two gave for building the house at the old family home all those years ago — she won't be balanced in her heart."

"Why bother, idle with nothing to do." Song Qiushui didn't care too much about this: "Even if she has money she wouldn't give me any, stingy to death. Way worse than my Second Uncle. Hmm... aiyah... what did you just say? I feel like there's some connection in between. Let me think..."

Song Qiushui thought for a while, then suddenly looked at Chai Mi with a strange expression: "You mean, let my cousin sister take the money out, and then the village goes to Chai Zhongxiao's house to collect money. That way it kills two birds with one stone?"

"I don't know about killing several birds, but it's obvious the township is pressing the village for money right now. Will this money come from your family or Liu Zhanggui's family? Either way someone has to pay this money for the matter to be settled." Chai Mi analyzed to Song Qiushui: "Better to make Chai Zhongxiao pay. He just happened to fall out completely with our two families this morning, and now Chai You Fu absolutely must pay this money. Why not have it so that just when Chai You Fu delivers the money, the village happens to come collect it. That way things get wrapped up cleanly."

Song Qiushui was still a bit sleepy, yawning: "Okay, I'll tell my dad later. But should we tell my cousin sister or ask her about this? Better to work both sides?"

"Not on the same side, better not to ask. Coincidence is fine too. After all, if Song Qiuping puts up the money, would she be happy? Definitely not. When your dad and them get the money back from Chai Zhongxiao, your dad and the village solve their problem, but the money ultimately came from Song Qiuping — she'd suspect your dad of taking a cut for them. So it's better not to inform her."

"Understood, coincidences happen a lot. Sleepy, talk tomorrow... no rush." Song Qiushui mumbled drowsily: "Sister, does this count as me doing you a favor? Arrange something for me tonight, my mom..."

Song Qiushui lowered her voice: "My mom's been too busy to cook lately... it's leftover food every day, I'm about to get thin... I see your mom's been in good health recently, let's go have some mutton offal soup?"

Chai Mi frowned: "In this scorching heat, drinking that stuff, isn't it hot? Besides, where would we get a sheep? Steal one? Or kill our family's sheep?"

"Uh... then switch. Let's eat seafood..."

"Don't mess around, we're far from the sea, I don't even know what the sea looks like."

"Then catch a few shrimp or small crabs? Those aren't too hard to catch..." Song Qiushui pleaded: "I heard people say these past two days at that small river bend near the big pit, they've caught several small crabs. I've never eaten crab, heard it's delicious. Let's go catch a few too."

Chai Mi frowned.

Crabs aren't easy to catch.

In the local ecological environment, crabs are especially rare — eating crab depends on luck.

And recently the drought has been severe; if you really go to the big river where there's more water, you might run into a few nests, but messing with this thing takes a day or two.

But who told Song Qiushui to be a glutton.

This glutton girl.

"In a bit, I'll ride my bicycle and take you to set a few ground traps when I get home. But you won't eat it tonight, eat at home, and tomorrow morning you still have to go check the traps. If luck's good, we catch crabs, I'll arrange it for you tomorrow noon. If luck's bad, you just wait... but don't hand everything to me, you have to get up early tomorrow, otherwise if the traps are set and you go late, someone might steal the traps, and then there's nothing."

"Don't worry... who the hell dares steal my traps, I'll chase them home and curse them out."

At this moment, at Chai You Fu's house.

Chai You Fu, who had already been standing outside for several hours, was at the window sill outside, begging Song Qiuping pitifully: "Wife, look, at the time words chased words, I agreed in a muddle. Besides, you were at the scene too, that situation — if I didn't agree, it wouldn't have been that simple either..."

"Less fucking nonsense. I don't care, this money — if you're willing to pay, you go earn it yourself. With that measly salary of yours, you'd spend over two thousand yuan just by moving your lips? That's almost catching up to your yearly salary. Even if you sold yourself off piece by piece, you wouldn't be worth two thousand yuan." Song Qiuping was furious, and in her agitation, she threw the teacup in her hand.

Fortunately Chai You Fu had quick hands and eyes, and dodged it.

Chai You Fu felt wronged — this promise to repay Chai Zhongxiao's money, Song Qiuping had clearly agreed too. The problem was Song Qiuping refused the moment she got home.

This put Chai You Fu in a terrible spot.

Whether it was bragging he'd blown out or being forced to agree.

Both spouses had agreed, there was no backing out.

"Then I'll try harder, in a couple years my salary will go up, this bit of money isn't a thing..."

"Less of your mother's bragging, you've been saying your salary will go up for nearly twenty years, has it gone up?" Song Qiuping glared at Chai You Fu: "Xiao Doubao makes eight hundred yuan a month, what about you? Two hundred a month, and you still have the face to say your salary will go up. If it weren't for my mother's family helping prop us up, with that salary of yours, the whole family would've starved to death long ago."

Whether Chai You Fu and Song Qiuping's days were good or bad, this actually needs to be said from many angles.

Relying on Chai You Fu's bit of salary, their days were somewhat tight.

But Chai You Fu was a teacher, so on holidays they'd occasionally get some rice and white flour, and crucially the village didn't collect much grain from their family — this let their income actually reach about three thousand yuan a year.

In this era, a yearly harvest of three thousand yuan — couldn't call it scrimping and saving, but not a wealthy family either.

Chai You Fu and Song Qiuping, this couple, at home ate plain boiled cabbage every day, but going out they'd say they ate braised ribs with beans, braised pork hock with beef.

Of course, if Chai Min was home, their living standard would improve a lot; with Chai Min not home, their quality of life dropped sharply.

Enough to eat and use for the year, but no spare cash on hand.

However, Chai You Fu knew in his heart, this father-in-law hadn't given a single cent.

At most... going to the father-in-law's small shop, buying things without paying...

But Chai You Fu had never gone.

However, Song Qiuping often went back to eat and drink. Song Qiuping didn't go back to her mother's family that often, but it was close, plus Da Lao Song and his wife only had Song Qiuping this one daughter — they could even let Song Qiushui buy on credit for over ten thousand yuan, let alone their own biological daughter Song Qiuping?

Anyway these years, food and drink, Song Qiuping hadn't taken little.

Plus Chai You Fu ate at school at noon, saving some this way, making the family look a bit more well-off.

"Sooner or later, the salary will go up... besides, don't I earn more than my big brother? My big brother doesn't earn a single penny..."

"Your big brother hasn't earned money for twenty years, but Chai Mi casually holds a full-month banquet and pockets over forty thousand... what do you have to compare with your big brother? You're only a bit stronger than Chai Youde..." Song Qiuping said angrily.

At least, Chai You Fu doesn't drink...

The couple was bickering back and forth when Chai Min came in through the courtyard gate.

Chai Min looked hurried, wasn't carrying a schoolbag, and today wasn't the weekend — clearly not a day off.

Actually, Chai Min had skipped class to come home.

Chai Min originally didn't want to attend classes and study either — she felt those things were too distant, not to mention useless...

And this time, Chai Min was studying in the county town, and she who was already absent-minded suddenly read the newspaper — not knowing until she saw it, one look and she was shocked.

The front page was all news about Chai Zhongxiao.

Fortunately Chai Min disguised herself well, and the other students did not know that Chai Zhongxiao was Chai Min's grandfather, otherwise she would have been too ashamed to stay anywhere.

After reading the newspaper, Chai Min hurried back.

Just as she entered the door, she heard her mother Song Qiuping scolding her father Chai You Fu there...

Combining the words, Chai Min learned that Chai Zhongxiao's matter had already "implicated the innocent."

"Chai Min, why are you back again?" Chai You Fu asked, frowning.

And in his words, the "again" was pronounced very heavily.

Regarding his daughter Chai Min's schooling, Chai You Fu's attitude had always been very clear: study hard and strive to make something of herself as soon as possible.

Although there weren't many successful men in the Chai family, the daughters were still ambitious—take his "younger sister" Chai Chunwei, for example; Chai Chunwei got into university and was assigned a good job afterward. Though he himself was doing poorly, at least her salary was decent, far better than the country bumpkins in the family who farmed the land, needing no wind or rain, no physical labor, with a decent and easy job.

So Chai You Fu felt that studying could change one's fate.

And Chai Min was actually quite ambitious too, able to get into high school.

You have to know, people from Sanjiacun who could get into high school were few and far between.

Especially girls—they were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

But lately, Chai Min's frequency of coming home was obviously bizarre.

In Chai You Fu's impression, when she was in freshman year, Chai Min didn't come home at all.

But since this semester, Chai Min's probability of coming home was too high!!!

Coming home on weekends, coming home during holidays, coming home for no reason?

So Chai You Fu used the word "again"!

And Song Qiuping inside the room was stunned when she saw Chai Min come home: Why home again? Ran out of living expenses again?

"Dad, Mom. I heard about my grandfather... is that matter true?"

Chai Min said a whole lot.

Since Chai Mi's third child's full-month celebration, Chai Min had gone to school, but in less than a month, the household had already been turned upside down.

First Chai Chunfang died, then Sun Yuguang made a big commotion at the Chai family's old residence, and then there were many other things; by today, what Chai Min knew was that Sun Yuguang went to the county to cause trouble, and Chai Zhongxiao ended up in the newspaper.

Chai You Fu:......

It's a long story, let's not say it after all; after all, these matters have nothing to do with Chai Min.

Chai You Fu felt Chai Min was still a child, a child studying; knowing so much was useless...

"Why are you asking about this?" Chai You Fu asked, not understanding. "You just focus on studying. How did the book put it? Just change your fate. You're in sophomore year now, and summer vacation is coming soon, then senior year—tight courses and great pressure. You need to focus on studying. These miscellaneous matters have nothing to do with you. You just need to study well. Don't meddle in what you shouldn't manage, don't ask what you shouldn't ask."

"What your father said is right... Right, I just asked you, why are you home again? Is it vacation?" Song Qiuping also didn't understand why Chai Min was home.

But Song Qiuping obviously didn't think as much as Chai You Fu; she just felt Chai Min coming home all the time would be too tiring...

"Come inside, Mom will make you something to eat. Have you eaten yet?"

"No." Chai Min rushed into the room, panting, and then plopped down on the kang head...

Then she suddenly bounced up...

The kang was too hard, poking her bones.

As a representative figure of sickly people, Chai Min had already become thin to the point of skin and bones, a small body, a frail body, topped with a not-so-frail head...

Actually, she looked very sickly.

Though there was a bit of sickly beauty, apart from beauty...

Everything else was a flaw.

Now when she sat, she needed to sit on a very thick kang mat, otherwise her bones would hurt.

"What's wrong?" Song Qiuping hurriedly asked.

"It hurts." Chai Min gritted her teeth in pain, then covered her buttocks, then embarrassedly put her hand down...

But the pain continued...

"This damn Chai Mi, why is she so evenly thin? Why am I thin all over? Places that shouldn't be thin have also become thin!!!" Chai Min cursed Chai Mi in her heart.

Of course, Chai Mi definitely didn't know Chai Min was cursing her now...

"Sigh... my daughter has such a bitter life..." Song Qiuping said with sighs.

Her own daughter now found even sitting difficult—how would she live in the future?

Chai Min's poor health wasn't a matter of a day or two; she had been in poor health since childhood.

Chai Min didn't have any major illnesses, but she got sick every day—colds and fevers, one after another; dysentery, headaches and brain fever, walking and scraping her scalp, sitting and getting hemorrhoids, lying down and throwing her back out—all these unbelievable illnesses, Chai Min had not missed a single one.

Illnesses others didn't get, Chai Min got them all.

Illnesses others got, Chai Min's were worse.

Being able to live until today could be said to rely entirely on her tough eight characters...

That was what Song Qiuping believed.

As long as Chai Min was alive, Song Qiuping was content. Of course, if she studied well, it would be even better.

Song Qiuping went to the field to cook, and when she saw Chai You Fu also come into the outer room, she was instantly furious.

She immediately went to fight.

"Mom, just now you told my dad, what money to give Chai Zhongxiao, what does that mean? Our family's money, why give it to Chai Zhongxiao? Is it just because Chai Zhongxiao is my grandfather that we have to give him money?"

Song Qiuping didn't say too much more; she just briefly said a few sentences about what happened this morning.

Chai Min immediately frowned tightly: "Mom, Dad. You two have been tricked by Chai Mi again... this is her killing three birds with one arrow. She's too inhuman, she's too bad... this vicious woman!!! How dare she bully me... our family's head?!"