Chapter 323: Chapter 323: Snatching Pork Buns Chapter 323: Chapter 323: Snatching Pork Buns “What are you saying, whether they are sincere or not, we did indeed eat their snake meat, and we should be grateful,” said a woman, immediately displeased upon hearing this.
“Pfft, what’s so great about some rotten snake meat?” said the speaker, who was clearly dying of envy, but spoke disdainfully.
After agonizing over how much silver her family had spent, Old Lady Mo remembered that the neighbors had said the python weighed over a hundred kilos. Xuexue and the others must have made quite a bit of silver today. Suddenly, her heart itched like a cat’s scratch, constantly thinking about how to snatch Xuexue’s silver. With that, her sly eyes twinkled as she sidled up to Xuexue with a smile, “Xuexue, you folks must have made quite the silver in town today, huh?”
Xuexue looked at her warily, her face guarded, “What do you want?”
“What could an old woman like me want? I’m your grandmother. You’ve earned so much silver, you should give some to show filial respect,” Old Lady Mo insisted, her eyes gleaming brightly as she stared at Xuexue.
“We still don’t have enough money to build our house, I have no money to give you.”
“Giggle! You must be kidding, just the python from yesterday weighed over a hundred kilos, and the silver from that alone was more than two hundred taels. How could there not be enough money to build a house!” Old Lady Mo laughed cunningly, having already calculated the snake meat price in her head when she heard Chuner mention two taels of silver per kilo.
“Then you must have also heard that I gave most of the snake meat away to the villagers,” said Xuexue.
This mention made Xuexue feel pain as well, lamenting how she had lavishly shared the precious silver, distributing it to others.
The onlooking villagers, some of whom had received her snake meat just the night before, immediately spoke in unison, “Yes, Xuexue gave a lot of the snake meat to us. Many people in the village saw it. Old Lady Mo, you should stop bothering Xuexue, even if the snake meat was two taels of silver per kilo, she didn’t earn much silver today.”
“Exactly, they’re building a house and need the money. You’re their grandmother; you shouldn’t be holding them back,” they said.
The villagers who had received the snake meat spoke up on Xuexue’s behalf.
“What business is it of yours!” Old Lady Mo, pointed at by so many, became somewhat cornered and embarrassed, and was about to leave. Eyeing the packages of goods with some regret, she suddenly saw Chuner holding a package and, without a second thought, snatched it away and walked off, loudly saying, “Chuner, consider this package a token of respect for your grandmother.”
Chuner stared dumbfounded as Old Lady Mo’s figure receded into the distance.
Suddenly, she burst into tears.
Xuexue and Big Bull were moving things into the house when they heard Chuner cry and immediately rushed out, anxiously asking, “Chuner, Chuner, what’s wrong?”
“Waaah…!” Chuner, too busy crying, couldn’t even speak.
Some villagers nearby, unable to stand by, said, “Just now, Old Lady Mo snatched something from Chuner, and then she started crying.”
On hearing this, Xuexue felt a tingling anger. That despicable old woman had gone too far, even snatching things from a child.
“Chuner, tell your sister, what did grandmother snatch from you?”
“Waaah…! Sister, grandma took my pork lard cakes, they were mine,” Chuner cried, her face wet with tears.
“It’s okay, don’t cry. Next time we go to town, I’ll bring you back a big bag of them, okay?”
Chuner nodded, finally stopping her sobs, but still sniffled softly.