Jiang Mianmian tilted her head, her fair little face showing an innocent expression, "Then I'll eat yours and mom's."
Upon hearing this, Su Wanyu immediately replied without hesitation, "No way, the work points your dad and I earn are hardly enough for us to eat!"
She only did light tasks, and her husband had always been slacking off; together, they earned just two points more than her father-in-law did alone in a day.
Although she was telling the truth, Jiang Mianmian still felt as if she had been shot in the chest and blinked her eyes pitifully, "Mom, I'm your dear daughter, how can you bear to see me go hungry?"
"I can bear it!" Su Wanyu answered resolutely.
"We had agreed from the start, everything within the family must be fair and just. We don't take advantage of you by giving you less food because you're little, and you shouldn't take advantage of your young age to leech off us."
Jiang Mianmian felt another arrow pierce her chest and really wanted to cough up blood for her mom to see, especially since she had caught her parents sneaking snacks several times.
Indeed, the prettier a woman is, the colder and more merciless she tends to be!
So, she turned to Jiang Changhai and called out in a soft and sweet voice, "Daddy~"
Her dad was a sucker for this act, whether it came from his own daughter or his daughter-in-law.
However, Jiang Changhai just raised his hand to touch her little head and said helplessly, "Darling, it's not that dad doesn't cherish you, it's just that I really can't help you this time. Boys in our family, who didn't go to school, also started working in the fields from the age of eight."
Of course, he didn't include himself.
Seeing that acting cute and impish was ineffective, Jiang Mianmian finally experienced an unprecedented sense of crisis and followed up persistently, "Is there really no other choice?"
Jiang Changhai thought for a moment and nodded, "There is, you can do what your dad did, if grandma refuses to feed you, throw a tantrum on the ground."
"Then forget it." Jiang Mianmian immediately deflated like a burst balloon, and even the tomato in her hand lost its appeal.
It's not that she didn't want to throw a tantrum, but she knew it was useless.
After all, no matter how irresponsible and annoying her dad was, he was still the son his mom had cherished for so many years, whereas she was just one of the many granddaughters a generation apart.
Her grandmother, who favored boys over girls, couldn't care less about granddaughters!
Looking at her disheartened little face, Jiang Changhai said with a look of inability to help, "Now you only have two choices laid out in front of you, either work or study."
The system also took the opportunity to persuade, "Host, farming is both hard and tiring, only education can truly be your way out."
"Ahhh! This is so hard!" Jiang Mianmian wailed in agony as she rolled around on the bed.
Meanwhile, the elder couple of the Jiang Family was also troubled by this matter.
"Fussing over nothing every day! There isn't a single girl in Stone Bridge Village who doesn't work but goes to school instead. Just feeding them is good enough!" Zhang Guihua started complaining the moment she walked into the house.
After silently smoking a few drags of his dry pipe, Jiang Dashan finally said, "Go count how much money we still have at home."
Zhang Guihua exclaimed in shock, "Old man, don't be foolish, sending a loss-making investment to school is just a waste of money!"
Jiang Dashan looked at her sternly, "If you don't let him, can you control Eldest when he goes mad?"
When their eldest son threw a fit, he truly went crazy, a grown man in his thirties still capable of shamelessly lying on the ground throwing a tantrum, always making the whole village laugh.
He cared about his reputation and couldn't afford to lose face!
Zhang Guihua choked immediately, clearly aware of what kind of person her son was.
But the thought of spending an extra two yuan on school fees each year pained her heart.