Transmigration: From Dragon Princess To Pampered Granddaughter
Chapter 221 - 222: Surrounded by a Pack of Wolves 1

Chapter 221: Chapter 222: Surrounded by a Pack of Wolves 1

Fortunately, Ma Xiulian was a forgiving mother-in-law who never blamed her daughter-in-law for not having a son.

If it were someone else’s family, things probably wouldn’t have been so easy.

"Our Chen Family is so blessed, aren’t we?"

Thinking of her beloved granddaughter, Guibao, the corners of Ma Xiulian’s eyes softened, and her normally stern face took on a touch of kindness.

Seeing her in a good mood, Zhao Mei’s mother crumpled the washed and bleached corner of her robe and timidly began: "Mother, I came mainly because there’s something I want to discuss with you."

"What’s that about?" Ma Xiulian feigned cluelessness.

At this time, relatives knocking on the door usually only wanted to borrow grains.

Zhao Mei’s mother looked at her. She opened her mouth to speak but swallowed her words. Shaking her head, she said, "It’s nothing, it’s nothing."

Ma Xiulian said with a friendly smile, "Since you are already here, stay for lunch before leaving. Chat with my eldest daughter-in-law while I head to the kitchen."

Once the mother-in-law was gone, Zhao Mei quickly pulled her mother into her room, shut the door, and asked nervously, "Mom, did you come to borrow grain?"

Zhao Mei’s mother nodded, "I know that everyone is short on food, but I don’t have another choice."

She was an honest person and easily embarrassed, but she had a good temper and could easily be pressured into doing things, including asking to borrow grains.

Actually, their commune’s harvest this year was not bad. Getting enough to eat should not be an issue, but it might become a problem if the autumn harvest was affected.

Zhao Mei held her mother’s hand and reassured, "Let me talk to my mother-in-law and see if we could spare anything."

But in her heart, she sighed. Her mother-in-law had been clear; borrowing grain will not be an option.

Still, she could not just sit idly by as her mother’s family starved!

After saying that, Zhao Mei was about to look for her mother-in-law to plead her case but was stopped by her mother: "Forget it, grain is too precious. Let’s wait for the autumn harvest. I’ll head back now. You... work harder, try to have a son soon."

Compared to grains, she was more worried about her daughter who had been in the Chen Family for ten years without a son.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mei’s eyes instantly turned red: "I want to have a son, but I just can’t!"

Zhao Mei’s mother comforted her for a while, even thinking about secretly praying to Guanyin for a son on her behalf.

Feeling uncomfortable, she didn’t want to stay for lunch and slipped away.

Zhao Mei went to the kitchen after sending off her mother, "Mom, my mom left."

Ma Xiulian sighed, "Why did she leave? I made some bacon."

"Mom..."

Zhao Mei opened her mouth but still couldn’t bring herself to say that her family needed to borrow grain.

At dinner, the conversation turned to borrowing grain from the commune.

"This year is so tough, families with fewer laborers can’t even fill their stomachs, now they’re everywhere begging for grains."

"I think families with more labor are having a harder time. Look at those communes below, the harvest wasn’t good, and they have a lot of mouths to feed."

"Who would have thought this year, which was expected to be a bumper harvest year, would turn out like this!"

Hearing these conversations, Zhao Mei was even more anguished, looking at her mother-in-law, just about to speak, when Ma Xiulian said, "Regardless of other families, we’re not lending any grains! Once you start lending, others will follow, and besides, our grains are just barely enough to feed our large family.

The Zhang Family at the east end of the village had lent some to a relative, and then many relatives came knocking at their door to borrow grains. In the end, they had to reluctantly lend out a lot of their grains."