Ma Xiaolan kept muttering to herself, "Sister, hurry up and return all my money to me. At worst, I’ll leave the Zhongli Family assets for Wenwen, but you cannot take the Zhong family's money. That is money I scrimped and saved for twenty years; it’s meant for my two sons to buy houses. My sons are slow-witted and poor students; they surely won't get into university. When it comes time for them to marry and buy homes, they’ll have to rely on me, their mother, to provide for them. Sister, I beg you, stop tormenting me and just give the money back."
However, no matter how much the couple pleaded or begged, the Zhong family’s money was gone—it had vanished, and there was no sign of it ever being returned. In the end, it was Zhong Daming who had to take an advance on his salary just so the Zhong family could make it through the month.
With the current grain supply, Ma Xiaolan had truly become poor, and she dared not sell it again. In the past, she had relied on the fact that Yuanchun was easy to fool, forcing her to earn money to buy white flour buns for her younger siblings, or making her go up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables, pick mushrooms, and harvest tubers. That was the only reason her three children hadn't actually gone hungry.
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