"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and accept the offer!" So many people want to work in the city but don’t have the chance.
"I was afraid you wouldn’t agree, so I didn’t dare to accept," Xiaocui said.
"Are you stupid or what?" Mother Liu was furious. "Such a good opportunity, am I an idiot? Would I not agree? Tell the boss tomorrow that you’ll go to the city, got it?"
These were all people from nearby villages who knew each other well. Xiaocui had also worked for other families for so long, Mother Liu was quite reassured about Xiaocui working in the city—it wasn’t far anyway.
She could always go to the city to check on her daughter whenever she wanted.
Having a job in the city, they could even be picky when talking about marriage matches in the future.
Perhaps if she stayed long enough, she could even bring Erni to the city.
Xiaocui hadn’t expected her to agree so easily and was so excited she wished she could go and tell Shen Mianmian about it right now.
But thinking of Zhou Lanfang, she still held back.
When Shen Mianmian got to her home’s doorway, she suddenly remembered something and went around outside to open and throw away all the packaging of the sanitary napkins before she entered the main room.
Zhou Lanfang and Zhou Siyu were having dinner. Seeing her return, Zhou Lanfang gave her a dismissive glance, then with a sharp eye noticed her new trousers and the big bag she was carrying. Her eyes immediately bulged.
"Who bought you new trousers?"
Zhou Siyu also looked enviously at the items Shen Mianmian was holding. She couldn’t have bought a bunch of new clothes again, could she?
"I got my period, and my clothes got dirty, so I bought a pair," Mianmian said generously, not hiding the fact that she was on her period.
As soon as she heard Mianmian had bought clothes for herself, Zhou Lanfang stood up abruptly, "Where did you get the money?"
"The money I got from the progress award, and the rest I saved from working before the New Year," Mianmian replied.
The mention of this infuriated Zhou Lanfang. While Mianmian was not at home, Lanfang had turned the house upside down looking for money, not finding any she thought it had all been spent. She didn’t expect this wretched girl to carry all her money on her person.
Since she had a bit of spare cash in hand, and not wanting to provoke Shen Jianhua, she hadn’t pursued the idea of taking Mianmian’s money.
But after spending quite a bit on clothes for Zhou Siyu before and after the New Year, seeing Mianmian spend money on clothes now made her feel sour.
"How much money do you have left? Hand it over, I’ll save it for you. Your father works so hard to earn money, and all you know is to squander it."
"It’s all gone, I spent the last of it on the trousers."
"What?" Zhou Lanfang’s expression twisted, not believing that Mianmian had spent all her money. She roughly grabbed Mianmian, searching her body, but indeed not finding a penny, her face turned an angry green.
Poking Mianmian’s forehead, she shouted, "You wretched girl, all you know is to waste money, you ungrateful wretch! Hiding so much money and not handing it over—are you looking for death?"
Mianmian let her poke without dodging. As long as Zhou Lanfang didn’t start hitting her, a couple of pokes were nothing; they weren’t that painful anyway.
Seeing her react only infuriated Zhou Lanfang more, she grabbed the bag from Mianmian’s hand and rummaged through it, finding nothing but dirty clothes, some bags filled with ragged cotton pieces, a triangular piece of fabric, and a pack of brown sugar.
She didn’t know what the ragged cotton pieces were for and didn’t fuss over them, seeing them as useless.
She took out the brown sugar and, holding the triangular fabric, asked,
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Upon hearing it was underwear, Zhou Lanfang, with a look of disgust, threw it onto Mianmian, mumbling, "Who could wear something this small?"