Something's wrong with Chapter 225.
Something's wrong with Chapter 225.
"So what if I get up a little late? I don't have to go to work!" Xiao Xiao looked at the time and realized it was ten o'clock, and that she had indeed gotten up a little late.
"Xiao, that's not what you promised me. Didn't I tell you to get up early to cook and do laundry? Your uncle and I have been working in the fields since early morning!" Mother Yu said angrily.
"Alright, stop talking and hurry up and cook!" Mr. Yu interrupted Mrs. Yu's incessant chatter.
Yu's mother turned to cook, and Xiao Xiao felt a little embarrassed that she had slept so late despite being a guest. She quickly tidied herself up and went to help with the cooking.
After dinner, Yu's mother went to do the laundry herself, ignoring Xiao Xiao.
Feeling bored by herself, Xiao Xiao went for a stroll in the village. The air in the mountains was fresh, and there were green mountains and farmland in the distance. Everything looked so vibrant.
As she walked, Xiao Xiao saw a group of people gathered ahead and, out of curiosity, went over to investigate.
"Hey, whose guest are you?"
"Hello, Uncle and Aunt! I'm Yu An's friend!" Xiao Xiao was a little embarrassed, but she still greeted them politely before leaving.
"Tsk tsk, Yu An found a pretty good wife!"
"Absolutely! You can tell she's from the city just by looking at her face!"
"Old Yu is going to enjoy a life of luxury from now on!"
"What are you enjoying? I heard Ange'er's mother arguing at home first thing this morning!" A neighbor overheard the argument.
"What's all the noise about?" A neighbor's question piqued the curiosity of the others.
"Hey, it sounds like Ange'er's mother is saying that the little girl doesn't get up in the morning to cook and do laundry!"
"What? This young wife only arrived yesterday? Why is she being cooked for already?" one of the older women exclaimed in surprise.
When a new bride comes to visit in their village, they treat her well; they never let a guest cook for them.
"Who says otherwise? This is still a guest. It seems the Yu family doesn't take the young girl seriously at all!"
"The Yu family has always been like that, all they do is brag. If it weren't for An'er's good grades, who would bother with them!"
Indeed, everyone in the village knows that the Yu family is arrogant and boasts about how much money they make every day, even though they are actually the poorest family in the village.
This is all his own doing. Everyone else is trying to go out and work, but Lao Yu insists on staying at home. He even goes out to play cards from time to time, and he doesn't take good care of the land at home.
Xiao Xiao wandered around the village and noticed that it seemed that Yu An's house was the most dilapidated in the village. Other houses, no matter how bad, were brick houses, but Yu An's house was an earthen house.
Just then, Yu An called, and she asked the question.
Yu An couldn't very well say that his parents weren't working hard, so he could only say that the burden of their three children going to school was too heavy.
"But Xiaoxiao, I've graduated, and now only my little sister is in school. Things will get better and better for our family. How are you doing in the village? I heard from my mom that she scolded you this morning, and I feel a little bad and want to apologize to you?"
Actually, Yu An's mother didn't say that at all. She called and gave Xiao Xiao a thorough scolding, mainly for being lazy. But Yu An couldn't say that to Xiao Xiao.
As expected, when Xiao Xiao heard Yu An mention this, she quickly said that she did not stay up too late on purpose, she was just too tired the day before.
Then, under Yu An's sweet words, Xiao Xiao promised that she would never sleep in late again and would be more filial to his parents.
Sure enough, the next day, Xiao Xiao got up early, cooked the meal, washed the clothes, and swept the yard.
"Xiao, no offense, but why do you put so much rice in your porridge?"
Xiao Xiao thought she would receive praise from Yu's parents this time, but unexpectedly, Yu's mother started by criticizing her.
Xiao Xiao was completely confused, looking at the rice porridge in the bowl. Isn't this how you cook porridge?
"Xiao, let me tell you, you don't need to cook so much porridge this morning. We'll be having lunch soon, so it's okay to eat a little less in the morning. Also, look, you even stir-fried some vegetables, that's such a waste. Just have some porridge and some pickled vegetables in the morning. That's how you live!"
Xiao Xiao was speechless. Was Yu An's family so poor that they couldn't even afford vegetables?
What surprised her even more was that after the meal, her mother took her to dig for wild vegetables.
"Xiao, you dig here, I'll go over there!"
"Okay, Auntie!" Xiao Xiao squatted down and used a small shovel to scoop up the wild vegetables on the ground.
Something doesn't feel right.
"Hey, girl, why are you digging up wild vegetables to eat? You're from the city, are you used to this kind of food?" An older woman greeted Xiao Xiao.
"Hello, Auntie. I don't know her either. My aunt asked me to dig this up."
"Girl, let me tell you, this bitter vegetable is really bitter. You have to blanch it and wash it thoroughly. Why are you thinking of eating this?" the aunt asked, puzzled.
"Auntie, don't you usually eat this?"
"No way! We have so many vegetables in the garden that we can't even finish them all. Who would eat this stuff?" The auntie said with a look of disgust. In the countryside, people have so many vegetables in their gardens that they can't even finish them all. Who would eat wild vegetables?
If wild vegetables were delicious, they would have been grown in vegetable gardens long ago, instead of growing by the roadside!
"Then, why did Auntie make me dig it up?!" Now it was Xiao Xiao's turn to be dumbfounded.
She thought that people in the countryside couldn't afford vegetables, so they went to dig up wild vegetables to eat. But the aunt told her that they couldn't even finish eating all the vegetables in their own garden!
"This..." The auntie didn't know how to comment on the matter, so she just smiled and left. Before leaving, she told Xiao Xiao to come to her house if she wanted any vegetables, and she took Xiao Xiao to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.
Not long after the aunt left, Yu's mother arrived and immediately launched into another round of questioning.
"Xiao, how come you've only picked so little after so long? Look at me, I've already picked a whole basketful. You're not good at working!"
"Auntie, don't we have a vegetable garden? Why are we digging up wild vegetables to eat?"
Yu's mother was surprised that Xiao Xiao would ask about the vegetable garden, so she quickly said that there was one, without explaining why she was digging for wild vegetables, and then called Xiao Xiao back.
In the following days, Xiao Xiao even went to the fields with her parents, who complained that she wasn't good at working and wasn't fast enough at weeding.
Xiao Xiao returned home exhausted after a long day. Just as she was about to go inside and lie down, her mother dragged her to cook.
"Xiao, look at you! Didn't I tell you we'd have to cook as soon as we got back? Why are you still trying to go inside!"
Xiao Xiao sat down numbly to tend the fire. She felt something was wrong. Wasn't she supposed to be taking her parents home and then taking the opportunity to rest? Why was she so tired now?
She decided to go back, and when her mother found out the next day, she was furious.
"How can you go back! If you leave, who will cook for us, do our laundry, and we haven't even finished weeding the fields yet!"
After hearing what her mother said, Xiao Xiao finally realized that cooking and washing clothes had become her responsibilities.
"Auntie, I was only responsible for bringing you back, not for washing your clothes and cooking for you!"
"I don't care, you're An Ge's daughter-in-law, so you're part of the Yu family and you have to do our laundry and cook for us!"
si-mexico