Chapter 5: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 5: Asking for Money

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Youqing lifted the door curtain and entered the inner room.

At this time the sky wasn't very bright yet, the light inside the room wasn't very good either, but as soon as Chai Youqing entered he saw his father Chai Zhongxiao frowning deeply, glaring at Chai Youqing with a fierce look.

Chai Youqing felt a bit dazed inside, he actually forgot what he had come to do, stammering unable to speak, and only after a long while did he take out a box of cigarettes, pull one out and hand it to Chai Zhongxiao.

Chai Zhongxiao also froze, gave Chai Youqing a sideways glance, took the cigarette and looked at it: "Great Production? And a soft pack? One yuan seven or one yuan eight a box? What proper household can afford to smoke this."

But although he said that, Chai Zhongxiao still lit it up, puffing away himself.

"This cigarette is mild, not as satisfying as dry tobacco. Oldest, you should still smoke dry tobacco from now on, only ten-something yuan a catty, one catty of tobacco leaves can last half a year. These foreign cigarettes, they're not something us common folk can afford to smoke."

Chai Youqing just kept nodding and saying yes.

Wang Huirong looked at Chai Zhongxiao with slanted eyes, muttering: "Smoke smoke smoke, besides smoking it's drinking. This family will be smoked poor by you sooner or later. Buying one catty of tobacco leaves could buy over ten catties of flour. Could make dumplings for several meals. Walking around with a stirring stick smoking all day, can that be eaten or drunk?!"

Chai Zhongxiao rolled his eyes, got off the kang, dragged on his cloth shoes, casually knocked off the ash, and said to Wang Huirong: "Go boil some water, make some tea."

Then he said: "Oldest, you get on the kang and sit."

Chai Youqing didn't get on the kang, put the cigarettes back in his pocket. This box of cigarettes he had bought during the New Year, had always been reluctant to smoke, only took it out today. Giving his father Chai Zhongxiao one to smoke was fine, but he himself still couldn't bear to smoke it, just like Chai Zhongxiao said, he also felt that as an ordinary commoner, he couldn't afford to smoke this stuff.

Too expensive.

Wang Huirong frowned, but in the end still went and got some firewood, and boiled water in the big pot.

After a while, the water boiled, used some broken tea leaves, in a white porcelain teapot already covered in tea rust, brewed some tea.

Chai Youqing was indeed a bit thirsty, so he poured a bowl of tea that had almost no tea color, blew on the heat, and took a sip.

"Oldest, if you have something to say, just say it." Chai Zhongxiao was nearly sixty, shaved bald head, face a bit thin, but his build was still very sturdy, when he spoke there was a kind of imposing presence without anger.

Chai Youqing raised his head to glance, then lowered it again. He originally wanted to tell Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong to pay his wife Su Wan's medical expenses, but the words reached his mouth yet he couldn't say them no matter what, only saying softly: "That... Chai Mi's mother is hospitalized... that... well... um um... that, Dad you also know, I don't have much money on hand. I was thinking... um um... I was thinking... Dad, Mom, you two give me some money..."

By the last sentence, Chai Youqing's voice was already as low as a mosquito's.

Chai Zhongxiao narrowed his eyes at Chai Youqing, then half-closed his eyes, rubbed out the cigarette butt with his fingers: "Oldest... you have to know being the head of household is the hardest. You three brothers..."

Chai Zhongxiao stretched out his big hand gesturing: "My one bowl of water kept level, right? You have something here and come ask me for money, how will the second and third look? Never mind that I don't have money, even if I did, how would you have me give it to you?"

Chai Youqing lowered his head and said nothing.

Wang Huirong wrinkled her nose and scolded: "Oldest, you're just too honest. What big deal is Su Wan? Did her arm break or her leg break? Still hospitalized? This is too shameless, a little illness and she's hospitalized, is the hospital opened by her family... If you ask me, you just can't spoil her..."