Chapter 784: The Unlucky Twin Sister (13)
Yang Chunhua was extremely angry and shouted, "You wretched girl! If you want to go to school, just go. Anyway, this family can’t afford any extra money. You’ll have to figure it out yourself."
If she spends even a penny, she won’t be called Yang Chunhua.
Qiann Yan had never expected this family to pay for her schooling, so she wasn’t threatened at all. Only someone like Yang Chunhua, whose brain was kicked by a donkey, would spoil Pei QianLann without valuing the original owner, her smart daughter.
She could tell that Yang Chunhua really didn’t like her, a sort of deep-rooted disgust.
She had some guesses about this; probably it had something to do with Yang Chunhua’s experience when she gave birth to the original owner. The excuse was that she deprived Pei QianLann of nutrition, but in reality, Yang Chunhua almost lost her life, injuring her body, and couldn’t conceive for many years, getting picked on for not having a son by her mother-in-law, which led to her hatred for the original owner.
The original owner couldn’t understand this simply because she was caught in the middle of it.
She was an outsider, with many experiences, so she could just slightly discern these memories to know what was going on.
She and Pei QianLann were eighteen this year, and their younger brother Pei Peng was only eight.
In the original owner’s memories, Yang Chunhua was picked on by her mother-in-law, cursed with various unpleasant words until the original owner’s grandmother passed away. Whenever the grandmother picked on Yang Chunhua, Yang Chunhua would redouble her punishment on the original owner.
Yang Chunhua was simply using Pei QianLann as an excuse to justly and openly grind down the original owner, but the latter wouldn’t admit it.
Pei Peng had gone to his grandmother’s house to play recently and would be back in a few days, so only Pei Jian Country and his wife and the two sisters Pei QianLann were in the house now.
Qiann Yan was the last to come to the table for dinner; initially, the three were talking and laughing, but their smiles faded as she arrived.
She noticed all three had a boiled egg in front of them and felt very dissatisfied.
She was the main workforce in this house, and she also deserved an egg.
She carried her bowl, scooped rice, piled her share of the vegetables into the bowl, and walked out carrying her bowl.
The three didn’t follow, thinking she was just sulking and didn’t want to eat at the table. Little did they know that Qiann Yan went to the kitchen, found two eggs, and fried two eggs for herself.
The sound was a little off as Yang Chunhua listened from where she was, not far from the kitchen: "What is that girl doing?"
"She’s just eating, why do you care what she’s doing? She’s getting more and more disobedient." Pei Jian Country, like Yang Chunhua, disliked Qiann Yan.
If only her birth hadn’t injured Yang Chunhua, would he have been pointed at by the villagers for all these years for having no son?
Thinking back to those years when he was pointed out by the villagers, he increasingly felt that Qiann Yan had come to collect debts.
"Did you really promise her she could go to school?" Pei Jian Country asked, "We don’t have the money for her schooling, losing her means losing a laborer, plus shelling out tens of yuan for her living expenses each month, it’s absolutely impossible. Sending her to school would be dragging this household into ruin."
"Since there’s no extra money for tuition, I think it’s better to find her a husband, marrying is better than schooling," Pei Jian Country continued.
Yang Chunhua agreed but worriedly said, thinking of Qiann Yan’s recent defiance, "I’m afraid she won’t agree."
"The family can’t come up with money, whether she wants it or not, she has to want it. Either get married or stay home working, what’s this schooling business."
Yang Chunhua felt relieved, thinking that the debt-collecting girl dreaming about schooling was absurd.
Pei QianLann was secretly pleased but knew this wasn’t foolproof, she needed a way to completely crush Qiann Yan’s hope of schooling.
She focused on Pei Jian Country and Yang Chunhua. If her parents were sick, Qiann Yan wouldn’t be able to go to school, right?