"Stay in hospital? I told you not to go, but you had to. Once you’re in the hospital, you think the doctors won’t make you spend a bit of money and just let you come back like that? Hurry back and bring him home, wrap him up in a quilt until he sweats it out, and he’ll be fine..."
Some old folks agree with this method; after all, it’s what they did back in their day.
But the younger wives, they don’t agree at all.
If he’s sick enough to be hospitalized, why would he go back home?
Don’t they realize a fever is serious? If it’s not handled properly, it could fry his brain.
But at that moment, they couldn’t voice their opinions because Aunt Sun was quite intimidating.
Chang Ying was especially angry, "Mother, covering him with a quilt while he has a fever—that would make Xiao Yu an idiot, wouldn’t it?"
Mrs. Sun was furious, "Pah, pah, pah... What kind of a mother are you, cursing your own daughter like that? Didn’t we always deal with kid’s fevers in the past?"
"Xiao Yu caught a chill from the well water; just needs to be wrapped up a bit, and I’ll fix up some garlic water for her to drink. I guarantee she’ll be bouncing with energy tomorrow. You hurry to the hospital and don’t waste our hard-earned money."
As soon as money was mentioned, the old lady suddenly thought of the large sum of money her daughter-in-law had taken.
She urgently said, "Where’s the money? Give it to me quick."
Chang Ying was already very angry from what she had said, but hearing her mother-in-law still harping on about money made her even angrier.
Yet, she restrained all her rage.
"The money is earned by both of us, so from now on, I will be in charge of it. With your age... it’s better not to handle these matters."
As soon as Mrs. Sun heard the money wasn’t coming back and she would have to manage it herself, she was unwilling.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Give you the money... to send to your maternal home? That’s the money my son worked so hard for, and it’s safer in my hands than being squandered by you."
Under normal circumstances, no one would want their family wealth disclosed, but Chang Ying couldn’t hold back at this moment.
"What money would I give to my maternal home? Mother, don’t turn the tables on me, for these years, Tao and I have turned over our entire salary to you each month, for what, eight years? We started with a salary of twenty-five, but these past few years it has been thirty-five yuan. Over ten years, deducting our expenses, let’s say we saved twenty yuan a month, right? That’s two hundred forty yuan per year and over ten years that would be how much?"
Someone immediately did the math, "Ten years, two thousand four hundred."
Holy shit, it’s hard to believe the Sun Family was actually so wealthy.
Everyone was shockingly incredulous.
Upon hearing this figure, Mrs. Sun’s face turned dark.
"Chang Ying, you wasteful woman, what are you blabbering about? Where would we have that much money... don’t we need to eat, drink, and wear clothes?"
"I handed over my salary as soon as Tao and I got paid every month. We didn’t keep a cent for ourselves. How could our household expenses be forty yuan a month? The figures I’ve reported are certainly not too high."
Chang Ying stared at her, "I won’t even mention two thousand four. Shouldn’t there at least be a thousand yuan left in the house? How much have you hidden away? There’s only five hundred left in total. Tell me where has all the money gone? Don’t tell me it was spent on the household; I know exactly what our household expenses are. On average, you only spend ten yuan a month."
The others also tended to agree with this, since their own households were about the same.
Some of them even spent one or two yuan less.
Besides, living together in the same courtyard, they had never smelled much meat cooking coming from the Sun Family’s house.
So, it was impossible for them to have spent that much money.
"Chang Ying, perhaps your mother-in-law has hidden it elsewhere."
Chang Ying looked at her mother-in-law, "Is that so? Have you put it aside in savings? If that’s really the case, then I’ll apologize to you, Mother."