"Pah! Have you no shame? I’m practically a mother myself, and you’re trying to pick my pocket?"
Shi Xiangdong’s weathered face turned beet red. "I was just checking to see if you had any money left, not—what are you thinking, you brat? Do you really think I’m that kind of person?"
The Shi family lived not in the county seat itself, but in the coal mine residential compound on the outskirts. It was quite a distance from the textile mill—a full hour’s bike ride. Consequently, the news of Yuanchun’s divorce had not yet reached them. Since Father and Mother Zhou had arrived in the city, Mother Shi had heard the news and stopped sending word for Yuanchun to come home and help with chores. Yuanchun was happy for the peace and had temporarily cast her original family aside.
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