Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me
Chapter 86 - 85: The Clever Mother

Chapter 86: Chapter 85: The Clever Mother

"You’re still the cleverest, Mom," Xu Niannian chuckled, covering her mouth.

To be honest, she didn’t want to let Auntie Xu borrow grains from her aunt either.

In this day and age, every family is poor, and all rely on the little grain they have to get by.

As the saying goes, ’Borrow and return, and you can borrow again,’ but Auntie Xu doesn’t have a good reputation in the village.

She often borrows grains from others, a little from the family to the east, a little from the family to the west, yet never returns them.

Over time, nobody in the village wanted to lend her anything.

However, because Auntie Xu and Liu Guimei had married into the village from the same place, their relationship was still quite good. With Liu Guimei’s personality, she would certainly find it difficult to refuse if Auntie Xu asked.

Yang Cuihua felt smug, yet thinking of all the items she’d have to give away made her heart ache.

Seeing the pained expression on Yang Cuihua’s face, Xu Niannian asked curiously, "Mom, why did you bring the pork to Uncle Erhong’s house?"

Looking at her daughter’s clever little face, Yang Cuihua was very pleased.

"It’s all for you," she said.

"For me?" Xu Niannian was baffled. "How’s it for me?"

"You silly child, if it weren’t for you, how could your mother bear to give away so much meat? Think about it, your grandma gave Xiao Jin a jade finger ring, right? Mom noticed that it was a fine thing."

"Your grandma doesn’t just have you as a granddaughter. Usually, your second aunt doesn’t have any bad intentions, but everyone is selfish at heart. Who knows if your grandma will have another nice thing to give Sisi for her dowry. If not, your second aunt might turn the world upside down."

"But if we give your second aunt a little benefit, even if she feels upset in her heart, she will have to remember our kindness and wouldn’t feel good about making a scene."

Tsk tsk tsk, after listening to Yang Cuihua’s words, Xu Niannian could only think of how brilliant it was.

She just knew it, her mother wouldn’t be so generous without a motive, just waiting here.

However, this also showed that Yang Cuihua still valued this family relationship and didn’t want things to get too ugly in the future.

If she didn’t care about this relationship, with Yang Cuihua’s character, it wouldn’t matter to her if there was a commotion, as long as it didn’t reach her. Liu Guimei would not be a match for Yang Cuihua no matter how much she protested.

"Mom, so you don’t blame me for buying all that stuff for Uncle Erhong’s house?" Xu Niannian asked with a shy face.

Yang Cuihua looked at Xu Niannian and sighed, "Blame what? When our family was poor before, your uncle Erhong and your grandma helped us a lot. Now that you have money, you really should treat them well."

These words shocked Xu Niannian. She had always thought that Yang Cuihua was a person who, aside from being good to her, was selfish and indifferent to others.

Unexpectedly, she could still remember others’ kindness and wanted to reciprocate.

Before Xu Niannian could feel guilty for misunderstanding her mother, the next second Yang Cuihua lamented, with a pained expression, "Don’t buy so many good things next time. Just get a couple of bags of flour. Why buy Malt Extract and all that? Those finer things, they won’t appreciate them even if they eat them."

Xu Niannian was speechless immediately.

All the guilt she felt was for naught.

As the mother and daughter talked, they saw Auntie Xu leaving Uncle Erhong’s home not long after.

Yang Cuihua and Xu Niannian hid in a nearby cornfield until Auntie Xu had left.

A while later, they carried their goods and returned to Xu Erhong’s home.

They took out all the items, and the old lady immediately put everything Xu Niannian brought, including the pork Yang Cuihua gave, into her room.

She directly said, "I’ll keep these things. For Sisi and Doudou’s milk powder, Guimei, you come over to my room every morning to get it and make it for them."