[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-253":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543338,2006,"Chapter 253 - 253 253 Trouble Caused by Tea","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-253",253,"\u003Cp>253: Chapter 253: Trouble Caused by Tea 253: Chapter 253: Trouble Caused by Tea There followed a great wail, and she even dragged the assistant, who was on the verge of tears himself, to lament her grievances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just tell me, does such a person have any conscience left, huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is there any justice in this world anymore?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that she’s recovered from her illness and achieved something, living in such a fine place, she actually starts to scorn me, her own mother-in-law, calling me dirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I hadn’t raised her father, or hadn’t raised her, I’d still be a clean and untouched girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who have I toiled half my life for, huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve been here half a day without even a drop of water to drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look at how parched my mouth is, so dry I can barely close it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, such ingratitude deserves to be struck by lightning, don’t you think it’s true?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should Gu Youyou be struck by lightning or not?”The assistant, completely stunned, thought to himself that he couldn’t possibly answer that, better to ask the god of thunder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, could he really say Sister Youyou deserved to be struck by lightning?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh my goodness, had I known she was such a creature, I should have thrown her into a gully to feed the wolves ten years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m the one without any justice!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Give me the keys; I insist on going in to see what shameful things she’s hiding…”No longer able to bear it, Gu Youyou carrying a kettle, came out, while the shock Qin Changlin felt inside the room couldn’t even be described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first shock was that this white-haired old woman had a voice that could rival a middle-aged man’s, and the second was, despite complaining about her dry mouth, she could still verbally lash out so eloquently?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the things she was saying…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was this really her granddaughter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from inviting her into the house, Sister Youyou didn’t seem to have said anything, did she?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Would you like to drink your tea with the kettle, or would you prefer to sit down inside and sip from a cup?”Gu Youyou remained composed, seemingly unaffected by the Huang Family matriarch’s haranguing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The assistant observed the bizarre grandparent and grandchild with a mix of amazement and fear, cursing his own bad luck for being dragged into serving the old lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go ahead with your work,” Gu Youyou gestured for the assistant to leave, and the assistant, feeling as if he’d been pardoned, quickly scampered away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the kettle in Gu Youyou’s hand, the old Huang Family matriarch’s lips involuntarily twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She really was thirsty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling Gu Youyou’s words…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>asking her to drink from a kettle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does anyone drink tea from a kettle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who was she trying to irritate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gu Youyou, what do you mean?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is how you treat me?” the old Huang Family matriarch demanded, her eyebrows drawn together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou smiled lightly, “Didn’t you say earlier that I wouldn’t even offer you water to drink?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I’ve brought the kettle too, so do you want to drink or not?”The matriarch’s face turned green with anger at the young woman’s unrelenting and venomous sarcasm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Helpless and extremely thirsty, her mouth far too parched to argue anymore, she snatched the kettle and huffed into the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, when Gu Youyou had come out of that room, the assistant had explained that it was for entertaining guests, and as a guest of Jisheng Hall, she was naturally expected to drink tea there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, a guest deserves hospitality, and Qin Changlin, unlike Gu Youyou, couldn’t afford to be so high-handed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the old Huang Family matriarch enter, he hurriedly took the kettle and respectfully poured a pot of tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The matriarch snatched it and gulped it down with a huff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing one cup, she poured another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did she start to notice the taste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tasteless?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plain boiled water?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou had actually given her plain boiled water to drink?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a snort, she spat the water out and glared with wide, copper bell-like eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>you unfilial granddaughter, how dare you give me plain boiled water to drink, where’s my tea?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I want to drink fine tea.”Qin Changlin’s mouth twitched, knowing well that swapping it with plain water would cause trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just that Sister Youyou seemed unafraid of complicating matters further.\u003C\u002Fp>",731,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","8db08123176eadf28cd74ad0861c29342a3291db32a4c5c581ee6ff8af80740e","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-254","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-252",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]