The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 449 - 453: Shang Family Daughter (14)

Chapter 449: Chapter 453: Shang Family Daughter (14)

After entering the house, Su Li was served by two nimble maids, enjoying her refreshments.

The exquisitely crafted fancy pastries were bought from the largest sweet shop in the city.

When the maids took them out, although there had been a delay due to the argument with the Yuan Family outside, they still retained some warmth and tasted just right upon eating.

Besides the pastries, the maid had also brewed a pot of flower tea for Su Li in the small kitchen. Eating it with the sweets was indeed cozy and delightful.

While Su Li was leisurely enjoying herself, the others from the Yuan Family were not having a good time.

The doctor from the big pharmacy in the city charged too much for house visits, and Old Mrs. Yuan was too reluctant to spend that much money, so she hired another doctor.

This doctor charged less, and correspondingly, his medical treatments were rather basic.

Setting bones was something he was not skilled in.

But no matter how low his fee was, money had still been spent, and Old Mrs. Yuan seemed like the kind of person who wouldn’t listen to reason.

The doctor didn’t dare outright say he couldn’t treat, and instead suggested that it might be better to take the patient to the pharmacy for a more qualified doctor to have a look.

Old Mrs. Yuan responded harshly, pointing at the doctor’s nose and cursing loudly, "You did take the money."

The doctor made a face and muttered to himself, "It was only a few cents, and she acts as if I owe her a debt."

Since he had warned them and they refused to listen, the doctor reluctantly proceeded to fiddle with Old Man Yuan’s injury.

A few crisp sounds and louder cries of pain than when the injury occurred, along with Old Man Yuan’s cold sweat and twisted mouth, made it clear he was in great agony and unable to speak clearly.

"It’s done, the bone has been set back in place."

Old Mrs. Yuan did not understand these matters and, hearing the doctor say so, foolishly assumed all was well.

Thinking that she had spent several cents, she was rather displeased and, blocking the doctor’s way out, steered him towards her eldest son.

"My eldest son was also injured, please take a look at him as well."

The doctor felt somewhat guilty about his half-hearted treatment methods, but seeing Old Mrs. Yuan’s stingy manner, he immediately felt at ease and no longer anxious.

A few cents for the consultation fee for treating two people, even if the results were lacking, it was probably worth the money.

Old Mrs. Yuan thought she got the better end of the deal, yet after the doctor left, the old man continued to moan in pain for a long time.

She called for her two daughters-in-law to take care of him, but the old man just couldn’t settle down.

Finally, with no other choice, they carried him to the medical clinic, and that’s when they discovered that both of Old Man Yuan’s arms were broken. Not only were they not set right, but they had also been wrongly manipulated, causing secondary injury. Even if they healed, there would likely be some lasting impairment.

It was a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and what the Yuan Family found even harder to accept was the exorbitant cost of treatment.

Old Mrs. Yuan had pinched and scraped all her life, and even managed to squeeze some silver coins out of her eldest daughter-in-law, but combined, it still wasn’t enough to cover all the consultation fees.

They could only eliminate the bruise ointment, touted by the doctor as highly effective, to barely cover the medical expenses.

After being tormented by a series of incidents, the other members of the Yuan Family had no energy left to deal with Su Li.

When the Yuan Family member somewhat recovered, Su Li had already been comfortably watching the drama unfold for several days.

Now, with a hospitalized patient at home, the biggest issue facing the Yuan Family was a lack of money.

The family gathered several times to discuss and ultimately decided to approach Su Li for money.

Not to mention that Old Man Yuan was in this state because of her, if people knew that she was still enjoying delicacies and the service of maids and old women amidst the family’s difficulties, she would be drowned in their spit.

As long as she was willing to pay, Old Mrs. Yuan and Yuan Wen had decided to generously forgive her this once.

Moreover, the ones sent to convey this family decision to her were none other than Su Li’s adopted children.

However, the Yuan Family had miscalculated; Yuan Jiaming and Yuan Xiaoxiao couldn’t even catch a glimpse of their own mother’s face before being turned away at the door.

After acquiring two old women and two maids, Su Li also bought two guards with some martial ability.

Su Li indicated that she had money and was very afraid that someone would harm her.

The twin dragons, who had planned to sternly rebuke their mother with righteous indignation, had never anticipated things unfolding this way.

On the first day, when they couldn’t see their mother, they were furious.

On the second day, still unable to see her, they felt resentful.

On the third day, their inability to see her made them embarrassed.

By the fourth day, they could no longer bear it...

Without Su Li’s care, Yuan Jiaming and Yuan Xiaoxiao were deprived of all their extra benefits.

They ate the same communal food as the second wife’s three Niunius—hard to swallow? Then go hungry. When you’re hungry, anything tastes good.

The house was in chaos, and the twin dragons were assigned many simple tasks, which felt unbearably humiliating for siblings who had never labored before.

The aunt who once seemed gentle, kind, and considerate appeared to have changed her tune completely.

The siblings felt as if their once warm and comfortable home had suddenly turned from a sunny spring into a harsh winter.

At this time, they began to miss the goodness of their mother.

At the same time, they still felt that their father’s words were not wrong, and all of this was still due to their mother’s capriciousness.

In truth, Su Li had been observing, wanting to see if, without their mother’s protection, the siblings could see clearly the treacherous hearts around them.

But they had disappointed her.

They instinctively felt that their mother would not abandon them, so they recklessly squandered her unconditional maternal love and turned to court the favor of their father, who outwardly showed them a heart full of love.

Perhaps deep down they knew that since they couldn’t rely on her, they sought to please him.

When the Yuan Family saw that Su Li could be so ruthless to her own flesh and blood, they became even more restless.

Especially Yuan Wen, who had received news from his classmates that he had ways to find out the preferences of the chief examiner.

But... it required money...

This was his opportunity, one he absolutely could not miss.

Yuan Wen counted the private savings he had stashed away behind his Lady’s back and let out a deep sigh.

To a peasant family, this money was considerable, but when it came to the ’opening fee’ his classmate mentioned, it was a mere drop in the ocean, not even close.

Yuan Wen was anxious, very anxious.

Compared to Yuan Wen, Old Mrs. Yuan was even more anxious.

The household meals became more and more meager each day, all because of a lack of money.

It wasn’t that there was absolutely no money; underneath the baseboard in Old Mrs. Yuan’s room, there were several coins she had hidden away.

But she didn’t want to take them out, convinced that if the twin dragons were starved until they were skin and bones, she didn’t believe their daughter-in-law could remain unmoved.

To her surprise, the daughter-in-law was indeed able to sit still, and she definitely did.

From time to time, they could smell the delicious aroma coming from the main house’s kitchen, but not a bit of it ever made its way to the two young ones’ mouths.

The high-quality clothes that Yuan Jiaming and Yuan Xiaoxiao wore were also stripped off by Old Mrs. Yuan and pawned for money, yet the daughter-in-law showed no reaction.