Chapter 1031: The miserable Ye Zhangmin

Old Mrs. Xiao had finally managed to have a full meal and a good sleep.

But she didn't expect that early in the morning, the door would be kicked open by an angry Zhang Guifen!

Before Old Mrs. Xiao could react, Zhang Guifen rushed to the bed, slapped her hard across the face, and cursed angrily, "You dead old woman, you even dared to steal the rice in the incense burner I use to offer incense to the Bodhisattva. Are you even a human?"

Old Mrs. Xiao was dizzy from the slap. Looking at Zhang Guifen's face, which was full of anger and close at hand, she was instantly scared out of her wits and blurted out, begging, "Guifen, I'm sorry, Guifen! I didn't want to steal your things either, but I was just too hungry..."

Zhang Guifen was furious, gritted her teeth and scolded, "Your hunger is your problem, what does it have to do with me? That incense burner is for me to offer incense to the Bodhisattva. You stole the rice in it, that's a great disrespect to the Bodhisattva! If the Bodhisattva brings down punishment, you've implicated me!"

Old Mrs. Xiao couldn't help but choke, "Guifen... it's the New Year... you can't just watch an old woman like me starve to death in this house, right? You say if I really starved to death in this room, how would you live here in the future? Every night when you lie in your bedroom upstairs, thinking of me starving to death in this room downstairs, would you feel good in your heart?"

As she said this, Old Mrs. Xiao said with tears streaming down her face, "Guifen... just treat it as saving my old life. Doesn't the Bodhisattva say? Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda; this can also be considered accumulating a merit!"

Although Zhang Guifen's expression softened a little, she still shouted coldly, "For the sake of the Bodhisattva, I can forgive you for stealing the rice, but you must pay a certain price for your behavior of saving yourself!"

Old Mrs. Xiao hurriedly asked, "Guifen, what price do you want me to pay?"

Zhang Guifen said coldly, "You honestly wash clothes for the three of us today, and I'll pretend this never happened!"

As soon as Old Mrs. Xiao heard this, she immediately begged, "Guifen, I wasn't feeling well yesterday and couldn't go to the supermarket to work, which is why I stole your rice. Today, no matter what, I have to go to work, otherwise, our family of four won't have any food for today..."

"That's not my business!" Zhang Guifen said angrily, "Either you wash clothes for us, or you return the rice you ate to me. I won't extort you, just return as much as you ate, and refill the incense burner for me!"

Old Mrs. Xiao said with a mournful face, "Guifen, all the rice has already been cooked in the pot. Now what can I use to return it to you? How about this, you let me go to the supermarket to work today, and I'll buy rice to return to you as soon as I get my money after work, is that okay?"

"No!" Zhang Guifen said without giving an inch, "If you choose to return the rice to me, then return it now. Otherwise, honestly go and wash the clothes for me!"

After saying this, Zhang Guifen threatened, "If you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, then don't blame me for being impolite to you!"

Seeing Zhang Guifen's ferocious expression, Old Mrs. Xiao knew that this woman was definitely not joking with her.

She was now alone and weak, how could she be her opponent?

Therefore, Old Mrs. Xiao had to nod with tears, choking, "Okay... I'll wash... I'll go wash right now..."

On this first day of the Lunar New Year, Old Mrs. Xiao's family of four didn't eat a single grain of rice.

Zhang Guifen and the others threw a pile of dirty clothes, bed sheets, and quilt covers to Old Mrs. Xiao, demanding that she must finish washing everything today.

So the old lady had no time to go out to earn money at all.

And Xiao Weiwei, because she had to take care of the injured Xiao Changgan and Xiao Hailong, father and son, who were lying in bed, was also completely unable to get away.

With no one to earn money, naturally there was no food to cook, so the family could only endure the hunger.

Ever since Xiao Changgan and Xiao Hailong kidnapped Ma Lan and mistakenly kidnapped Ye Zhangmin, all four members of the Xiao family had lost a lot of weight, and their lives were miserable to look at.

And next door, Ye Chen's family, at noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, packed their things and drove to the hot spring villa Chen Zekai had given Ye Chen. The family planned to stay in the hot spring villa for two days to relax.

On the night they arrived at the hot spring villa, Ye Zhangmin sat in a dilapidated rental house, looking at a takeout of dumplings with a face full of annoyance.

Ever since Ye Chen detained her in Jin Ling, Ye Zhangmin had been relying on takeout to get by.

And what was hateful was that Ye Chen didn't allow her to order takeout herself. All the takeout was ordered and delivered directly by Master Hong Wu's confidant, and the price of each meal basically didn't exceed thirty yuan.

These past few days, Ye Zhangmin was forced to taste many popular delicacies she had never eaten in her life.

For example, braised chicken with rice, shredded pork with green pepper over rice, Kung Pao chicken over rice, Lanzhou ramen, Northeast potato noodles, and donkey meat buns, etc.

These ordinary popular delicacies were simply garbage among garbage in the eyes of the Ye family. Usually, let alone eating a meal, even smelling a bite would make them feel disgusted.

But now, Ye Zhangmin, who had always been high and mighty, could only eat this every day.

Yesterday was New Year's Eve, and she couldn't order takeout, so Master Hong Wu's people sent her two boxes of instant noodles, a bag of ham sausages, and two marinated eggs.

Seeing that she was eating this kind of garbage on New Year's Eve, Ye Zhangmin was naturally angered to the point of losing half her life, and she let out words that if she couldn't eat dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, she would commit suicide on the spot.

Therefore, Master Hong Wu's people sent her a portion of dumplings they had wrapped themselves.

The dumplings were pork and sauerkraut, because Master Hong Wu's little brother's whole family were from the Northeast, so they loved this flavor of dumpling filling very much.

But Ye Zhangmin had eaten nothing but delicacies from the mountains and seas since she was young, and the Ye family had never wrapped pork in their dumplings.

The dumplings the Ye family ate most often were made of top-grade lobster meat and wild large yellow croaker meat mixed together, then manually minced into meat paste, and then supplemented with shark fin and abalone meat paste. The cost of eating one dumpling was probably higher than the cost of an ordinary person eating dumplings for a year.

And Ye Zhangmin had never eaten sauerkraut in her life.

For a young lady who grew up in a top family like her, pickled foods like sauerkraut were a taboo she would absolutely not touch. Almost any food that needed to be pickled and fermented was equivalent to poison in her eyes.

So, she only tasted a bite of these pork and sauerkraut dumplings, and immediately spat it out, then rinsed her mouth several times before finally getting rid of the taste of sauerkraut.

Ye Zhangmin angrily opened the door and questioned Master Hong Wu's little brother, "What kind of dog-shit dumplings did you bring? Is this something for humans to eat?!"

When the person heard this, he was instantly furious, and with a Northeast accent, scolded angrily, "You stinking woman, how the fuck are you talking? These dumplings were wrapped by my mom herself. I was kind enough to bring you some, and you're talking like that? Are you looking for a beating?!" ===== CHAPTER 1032 =====