CHAPTER 145: CHAPTER 141: CONFIDENCE

Right now, she doesn’t need anything else, she just needs someone to stand up for her and confront Jiang Xin.

Whether or not to confront the villagers doesn’t matter, after all, they have been neighbors for decades. Every household knows each other so well that if things get ugly, it would be hard to interact in the future.

So, it’s better to let things slide than to cause more trouble.

However, if someone could step out and say that Jiang Xin is wrong, then to her, that person is her ally.

It would be perfectly in line with her thoughts!

Moreover, especially after her old friend said that Jiang Xin never does any chores, only knows how to shop and spend money, it just resonated with her perfectly.

God knows how angry that made her.

Originally, when Jiang Xin first came into the family, she thought having one more person in the house would mean more labor force.

With this, she could, like the other villagers, become a carefree mother-in-law who doesn’t intervene in anything and just chats with people at the village entrance every day.

By then, all the chores like laundry, cooking, feeding pigs, and feeding chickens would be done by the daughter-in-law and she wouldn’t have to worry about any of it anymore.

But who would have thought, Jiang Xin seemed like a pampered city girl, never doing anything, just sleeping in her room all day, no matter how harshly she scolded outside, the person inside just wouldn’t come out.

It was obvious that she took all the scolding as mere passing remarks, which to Mrs. Fu felt like blatant neglect.

That’s why every time she saw Jiang Xin, she felt a surge of anger.

So, lately, she’s been automatically ignoring Jiang Xin, treating her as if she were invisible, even excluding her from family meals.

Her old man at home was quite unhappy with her behavior, thinking she was being too harsh.

After all, they are a family now, no matter what, how could they not even include her in meals?

That old man thought she was bullying Jiang Xin too much.

But even so, Fu Yu’s father couldn’t do anything about Mrs. Fu, because in this household, the one who really called the shots was Mrs. Fu.

Every time Fu Yu’s father mentioned this matter, Mrs. Fu would give him a fierce glare, scaring him into silence.

Over time, he became indifferent to this issue.

After all, he was quite the hen-pecked husband.

If he tried to intervene further, it would only be in vain.

Mrs. Fu paid no attention to Jiang Xin’s comings and goings each day, moreover, she often cursed Jiang Xin in her mind, wishing for some accident to befall her every time she went out.

If that were to happen, and they got compensation, their family could receive a large sum of money, which would be the last contribution from Jiang Xin as a daughter-in-law to their family.

After all, those savings Mrs. Fu had were mostly spent supporting her maiden family, and now they could hardly afford rice for meals.

Currently, what they lacked the most was money.

But she couldn’t openly tell Mr. Fu about it, no matter how much he feared his wife.

Because if he heard that his wife had been secretly supporting her family behind his back, no man would be able to accept it.

Especially when Mrs. Fu was giving her all to support them, not caring about her own family’s wellbeing, if Mr. Fu found out, he might even consider divorcing her.

So, Mrs. Fu absolutely could not let even the slightest hint slip.

Moreover, lately, due to lack of money, their family’s meals had been lacking substantially.

Whenever Mr. Fu suggested that Mrs. Fu improve the family meals, she felt incredibly guilty.

So, Mrs. Fu could only make excuses, saying they needed to save up to build a big tile-roofed house, given that now only Fu Yu was earning money, the family needed to learn to empathize with their son.

Mr. Fu was also very proud of his son Fu Yu, and whenever he thought about his son going out to sea and coming home only a few times a month, he felt a pang of heartache for his son’s hard work, so he stopped bringing up the issue of meals.