Chapter 156: Ugly Beyond Recognition
After the incident where Tong Yao splashed water, Li Nuanchun and Chen Yanmei stopped communicating altogether. Now, whenever Chen Yanmei spotted her, she wouldn’t acknowledge her and instead would roll her eyes, pick up Baodan, and walk back into her room. This was all because Li Nuanchun had sided with Tong Yao that day.
Li Nuanchun understood the situation perfectly, and she didn’t hold any grudges toward Chen Yanmei. If Chen Yanmei wanted to ignore her, then so be it. It would save her the trouble of having Yanmei and her child rummage through her room like they were starving mice, turning everything upside down and pulling out any food set aside.
These days, every family lived frugally. Chen Yanmei was the exception, eating whatever she found while scavenging, even things people were reluctant to eat themselves. This applied not only to her child, who didn’t know any better, but also to Yanmei herself.
No matter how much was there, it would never be enough for Chen Yanmei’s bottomless pit of a mouth.
"Shoot! Sister-in-law, I’m thankful for your warning. I wouldn’t have suspected it otherwise. But let me set the record straight, anyone spreading such rumors will get a slap from me. Our Ahchen is so handsome, even if I were blind, I would never be attracted to the likes of Jia Qing! He’s as ugly as my second elder brother and is unbearable to look at even with an eye condition."
Tong Yao didn’t slight Jia Qing on purpose. When comparing Si Chen’s and Jia Qing’s looks or demeanor, it was like comparing heaven and earth. There was no match at all. In Tong Yao’s eyes, Jia Qing was like a dung beetle in the gutter, disgusting to think about and even worse to see.
Li Nuanchun flinched at Tong Yao’s comment about slapping someone. If anyone else had said it, she would have assumed it was just an empty threat. But coming from Tong Yao, it carried a certain weight to it. Hearing her belittle Jia Qing made her twitch at the corners of her mouth.
Undeniably, when it came to belittling people, no one in the compound was a match for Tong Yao. Li Nuanchun worried about an association with her, so she promised to clear her name quickly.