Chapter 221 - Face As Thick As China Wall
Madam Zhang heard her sister in law scolding her husband and her family and her heartfelt started to feel as if someone had set it on fire. She immediately pursed her lips and then spoke gloomily" Sister in law sure knows how to avoid responsibilities. After spending so much effort all you are doing is talking in circles, if you were already working in the fields then couldn"t you have spent a little more effort and harvested a little wild vegetables for your family? It"s not like we ask you to do this every day, right? We only asked you to do it today and yet you responded to our one sentence with ten of yours. "
Lin Zhi sneered as she looked at her sister in law. This fatso believed that she was really a smart pant, doesn"t she? Fine! Then don"t blame her for giving her any face " Sister in law, just because your waist is as thick as china wall, doesn"t mean you make your skin just as thick! Why don"t you think before you speak huh? I don"t only need to weed the fields but also take care of the household affairs, if I don"t feed the chickens and the pigs they will die within two days under your care - how can you even have the face to say that I"m avoiding my responsibilities? The reason this house is functioning properly is all because of me! If you think I don"t do enough work then you take on my responsibilities and see for yourself how easy it is to juggle between household responsibilities as well as taking care of our family"s fields !"
Madam Zhang wanted to retort but then she thought about how she was continuously defeated by her sister in law in their verbal battles and stopped speaking.
" What don"t dare to speak ?" said Lin Zhi with a mocking smile " clearly, you don"t even dare take half of my responsibilities yet you speak as if I"m lazying around all day. Humph, you better learn to speak properly with me! I"m not Zhao Lan, if you upset me see how I set every single one of you right !"
Then without even giving a single glance to the ugly expression of the Lin family, Lin Zhi walked inside the house.
This time neither Lin Ze nor Grandma Lin dared to speak impolitely with her. Lin Zhi was right, they have completely forgotten about weeding their family"s fields - if Lin Zhi didn"t bring up this matter today the wheat in their fields would have gone bad before they could even remember about it.
" Mother what are we going to do now ? " said Lin Ze sullenly, he was really upset with his sister"s att.i.tude. But he also didn"t want to go to the fields and work like an ox, what was so good about farming? Working from day to night and having no income at all. And he was going to become an official"s father once his son brings glory to their house - why will he work in the fields like these stupid villagers? He wasn"t wasting all the life savings that he saved on his son only to work like a mule, was he? The more Lin Ze thought about it, the more he realised that he was in the right and his sister was in the wrong, as a future official"s father there was no need for him to work hard but his sister who knows how to lash out on their family with double meaning words, need to work hard. After all, she would be depending on him and his son throughout her life, there was nothing wrong if he asked her to work in the fields in his place - as he was head of the house it was only right for Lin Zhi to work for him. She was living under his roof and yet she dared to look down at him? How dare she!
Just like that all his courage returned, and he immediately puffed out his chest and looked at his mother impatiently " mother, what are we going to do? I can"t sleep on an empty stomach can I ? Without a proper meal how will I be able to replenish my body? If this goes on I will end up becoming a cripple !"
Lin Ze have completely forgotten that this house wasn"t his " yet ", his mother was still alive and without his mother"s biased att.i.tude he would have never had the chance to become the head of the family. After all, this house once belonged to the Lin brothers grandfather, if Lin Ze had a right on this house then his brother and his sons too had a right on this house as well. But Lin Ze in his vain pride seemed to have completely forgotten about it.
" That"s right grandmother " chimed Lin Yunxi, she too was pampered by her mother and was used to eating three meals a day, never had she seen a day where she didn"t eat until her tummy was full. But today not only didn"t she get any lunch, but even her dinner was also on the brink of being revoked. In such a perilous situation, how can she remain silent? If she cannot eat then she might as well ruin the appet.i.te of her heartless cousins! They knew that the price of grains have doubled, with such troubling conditions was it too much if they sent an extra metre of grains? It wasn"t right then why do they need to act so heartlessly towards them? If they won"t care about her then they cannot blame her for being scheming! Thus, Lin Yunxi immediately pulled on a pitiful expression and spoke in a slow and grim voice " Grandmother, my cousins must have brought a cart full of grains back with them. With so much money it"s important that didn"t stock up on their grains, I don"t think that it is too much for them to give us some extra metre of rice as well right? Grandmother if only you listened to me in the afternoon and borrowed some grains then my father wouldn"t have gone hungry at noon. Look carefully grandmother, my father looks so listless if this goes on how will he recuperate properly? Our family still need to depend on him "
Lin Ze immediately grimaced as he ma.s.saged his legs, he knew his daughter was baiting his mother by spouting nonsense but as long as his mother bring him a sumptuous meal, he had no qualms about making a fool out of his mother.
The more Grandma Lin listened to her granddaughter the more distressed she became. She turned her head to look at her son who was ma.s.saging his broken legs that were still covered with medicinal powder and immediately a fire ignited in her heart. So what if? Lin Heng returned? He was her son! Even if it was only in the name she was still his mother and he was her nominal son, as long as she had this t.i.tle it was Lin Heng"s duty to be filial to her!
" Mother -"
"Go back inside," said Grandma Lin with a darkened expression when she heard her son"s frail cry " if those good for nothing can raise their sick mother and missing father who didn"t turn up for years, then they might as well raise our family who gave them a roof over their head !"