Chapter 114: Ahem, shh, keep it down, this isn't glorious

Capital—

Jiashuyuan.

After the new nanny hired by the Lu family finished cooking dinner, she untied her apron and prepared to leave.

Her family conditions were alright; her children were all working, so the pressure was light.

The reason she was still a nanny was purely out of professional habit and personal hobby; she just couldn't stay idle.

She had been working for half a month recently and knew very little about the situation in the employer's house.

She only felt that the employer couple was quite strange; clearly husband and wife, yet one always slept in the study, and the other slept alone in the master bedroom.

None of the children in the house were home, and even the elders didn't live there!

She had been a nanny for over twenty years and was seeing such an employer couple for the first time.

Oh no, to be precise, this employer couple was a remarriage; one was divorced, and the other had climbed into bed to take the position after being widowed.

She learned all this while chatting with nanny sisters who had good relationships in the same Jiashuyuan while buying groceries.

Ahem, shh, keep it down, this isn't glorious.

She was just a nanny and had no qualifications to discuss the situation of the employer's family, so she slipped away...

"Zhou Ma, are you leaving? This is canned food issued by our unit, take two bottles home for your grandchildren to eat."

Lu Mingyuan happened to be off work, carrying a box of canned food, and seeing the new nanny leaving, he hurriedly took two bottles of fruit canned food out of the box.

"This is so embarrassing."

Zhou Ma said this with her mouth, but in her heart, she was moved by the generosity of the employer.

After some pushing and pulling, she happily accepted it.

Her own grandchildren loved this stuff, and she really couldn't refuse.

After Lu Mingyuan watched Zhou Ma leave, he casually placed the box on the coffee table.

Looking at the time on the clock on the wall, he prepared to go to the bathroom to take a shower first.

It was in this gap that Zhang Xuemei returned home carrying a bundle of vermicelli.

On the table were steaming hot dishes; she took a look, three dishes and one soup, one meat and one vegetable, two dishes half meat and half vegetable.

The dishes were not as good as before.

It was all Shen Man's fault; as soon as she arrived, she cried poor and sold misery, coaxing her husband into a flood of fatherly love, giving whatever was asked, emptying the family fortune to give the other party a substantial dowry!

And she was even worse; she just secretly moved two thousand from the public account for her daughter's dowry, and she was treated differently, with her husband forcibly squeezing half out of his own salary every month to send to Shen Man!

Sure enough, a biological daughter and a non-biological stepdaughter were just different in her husband's heart!

However...

Zhang Xuemei meaningfully touched her flat belly; what she would rely on in the future was this piece of meat in her belly!

It would be best if it were a boy, then everything in the Lu family would be her son's!

She could climb into bed and take the position, so she could help her son lay a good foundation and take everything from the Lu family!

They all say parents love the youngest; if she could give birth to the youngest...

Hmm?

Suddenly, she saw the box on the coffee table.

It looked like it was issued by her husband's unit.

One, two, three... four bottles of canned food.

That's not right, two bottles were missing?

Zhang Xuemei looked around, her brows locked tight.

Could it be that there was a thief in the house?

"Oh, ma'am, you're back too. I've finished cooking, but I suddenly remembered the master's leather shoes weren't polished, so I came back to polish them before getting off work."

Zhou Ma carried the two bottles of fruit canned food, not thinking too much, and walked in openly.

"Where did you get the canned food you're carrying?"

Zhang Xuemei suddenly looked serious, staring at Zhou Ma with eyes like she was looking at a petty thief.

"Ma'am, what kind of tone is this? Are you suspecting me of being a thief?"

Zhou Ma sensed the other party's bad tone, and a nameless fire in her heart began to burn.

She had been a nanny for so many years and had never stolen anything!

This was insulting her dignity and questioning her character!

"Why? You have the guts to steal things, but no guts to admit it?"

Zhang Xuemei had fire in her heart, and without distinguishing right from wrong, she directly vented it at Zhou Ma.

"Fine, fine, fine, since ma'am suspects me so much, there's no need for us to continue working; settle the money, I'm quitting!"

Zhou Ma usually had a very good temper; this was the first time she had been suspected of stealing by an employer, and it made her heart and lungs ache with anger!

This job wasn't something she absolutely had to do!

"I haven't even done anything to you, and you're preempting me, feeling guilty, aren't you! Thief!"

Zhang Xuemei got excited; being caught stealing made her lose face, and now she wanted to settle the money and quit, who was she trying to scare!

"I think you're full of crap, you stinking, rotten thing, bad egg, picking up cigarette butts on the street—asking for a beating."

Zhou Ma was a genuine local, and when she cursed using local dialect, she didn't hold back at all.

She was determined today; she didn't want the job, she wasn't doing it!

Zhang Xuemei couldn't understand what the other party was saying at all, only feeling that the other party's eyes looked like they wanted to eat someone, and it sounded like she was cursing very filthily.

It was just that she was used to being pampered and forgot to retort and curse back, so she could only cover her heart and keep—

"You,"

"Don't you get all red-faced and anxious; you can beat the drum and break the jar, no one is fighting you for it."

"A pug wearing a bell, what kind of big beast are you pretending to be!"

"With the time you spend spouting nonsense at me, you'd better look after your own dead-end property."

"You stinking mongrel, acting tough and pretending to be an elder with me, kissing a dirt dustpan, you'll just get a nose full of dust."

"This lady doesn't have time to play around with you, I'm off, you dog, go play with a spoon handle somewhere else."

Zhou Ma had no worries, and when she cursed, it was smooth.

Lu Mingyuan, who was originally taking a shower in the bathroom and hadn't had time to rinse the shampoo foam off his forehead, hurriedly put on his clothes and came out; before he even went downstairs, he heard Zhou Ma's outburst in the living room...

Instantly, his brows knotted, thinking, since she cursed Zhang Xuemei, she couldn't curse him anymore, right?

Every injustice has its perpetrator, every debt has its debtor.

Zhou Ma still distinguished right from wrong; she saw the master, restrained herself a bit, and said aggrievedly:

"Master, your wife has a bad heart, slandering me for stealing the family's canned food; I explained, but she wouldn't listen, and she sarcastically mocked me..."

"I demand to settle the wages for this half month, I'm not doing it anymore!"

"Mm, I'll settle it for you; it's our family that has let you down, please calm down, I'll calculate a month's wages for you, thank you for your care during this time."

After Lu Mingyuan heard this, he glanced at his wife faintly, didn't entangle too much, and readily settled a month's wages for Zhou Ma.

"This canned food?"

Zhou Ma was a bit embarrassed; the master was actually quite righteous, how did he end up with such a wife?

"This is a gift for you; I'm sorry for letting you suffer an unjust accusation. I solemnly apologize to you here, please forgive me."

Lu Mingyuan bowed in thanks, upright and proper, with a very good attitude.

"Hey, don't be polite, master, you are a good person, it's just a pity..."

To end up with such a rotten wife.

But there is a saying that every cause has an effect; perhaps there is another hidden reason for the master's situation.

In short, she got a month's wages, which was enough; she slipped away, and in the future, even if this family's wife knelt and begged her to work, she wouldn't! ===== CHAPTER 115 =====