Chapter 142: How Can You Be So Shameless?
Yang Ming didn’t feel right arguing with an older woman.
He immediately said, "I’m sorry! We were purchasing these items for Qin Tuan. Vice Team Leader Hao didn’t mention anything, so we didn’t get anything for him."
"What do you mean, you didn’t say anything? Aren’t you supposed to treat everyone equally? Besides, my son is so busy. How could he possibly notice such trivial matters?"
Yang Ming: ...?
’He wasn’t even in the same team as Vice Team Leader Hao. Why should he be responsible for keeping track of these things for him?’
"Fine, I’ll let the past go," Mrs. Hao said with an air of magnanimity. "Telling you now is just as good. Just go and get us the same things her family got!"
’Her son was a leader now. As the leader’s mother, she didn’t have to split hairs with these common soldiers.’
Yang Ming: ...?
’Some people really can leave you speechless,’ Fu Mingxue thought.
"Mr. Yang, you can head back now. I’ll handle this."
Yang Ming nodded immediately, but then felt he needed to make things clear to this difficult woman.
"Ma’am, the things we got for Qin Tuan were purchased with his own stipend. They aren’t a gift from the military. If you’d like to buy some, you can speak with Vice Team Leader Hao."
The moment he finished speaking, he quickly got in the car.
’Good grief,’ he thought. ’Talking to that difficult woman is way more exhausting than training.’
Mrs. Hao hadn’t expected him to just leave like that.
"Hey, don’t go! Stop right there—"
Fu Mingxue couldn’t stand it any longer.
"Listen, that’s enough. If you need things, have your son—the Vice Team Leader—go and buy them. Why are you giving that man such a hard time?"
Mrs. Hao immediately glared at her. "You... what did you just say?"
Fu Mingxue sneered. "Is your family that desperate for things? Don’t you have money? Must you force a soldier to buy them for you? Where’s your son? If you’re too afraid to ask him, I can do you the favor. Why doesn’t he give his own mother more money? Is this what he wants, for her to shamelessly beg for handouts?"
Mrs. Hao was furious. "You... who did you say was shamelessly begging?"
"If the shoe fits! Weren’t you just begging? That man already said we used our stipends to buy these. If you want some, go use your own money to buy them!"
"You... you—" Mrs. Hao was so furious she looked like she was about to have a stroke.
Seeing that a large crowd had gathered, she simply slapped her thighs and began to wail. "Oh, heavens! I’m being bullied! That mother and daughter, they bullied us on the train, and I never thought that even after arriving at the base, she would still bully a simple country woman like me—"
"What did we country folk ever do to offend her? Why does she have to look down on us like this—"
The onlookers, all military family members, immediately started giving Fu Mingxue odd looks.
After all, with her stylish, polished appearance, she clearly looked like a pampered young lady from the city.
Mrs. Hao, in contrast—dressed in coarse, simple clothes—was clearly from the countryside.
’So, Qin Tuan’s wife looks down on a woman from the countryside?’
’Isn’t that going too far?’
Just then, a furious shout rang out. "Bullshit!"
Mrs. Fu rushed out, glaring furiously at Mrs. Hao. "You were the one who started trouble on the train! You were abusing your daughter-in-law, and now you have the nerve to say we look down on you? Do we even know you? What is there to look down on?"
"And this ’country folk’ business? I’m from the countryside myself! How come I don’t know how to make a scene and act like a shrew the way you do?"
"A grown woman acting so utterly shameless. My son-in-law had Xiao Yang buy those things with his own money. How can you have the audacity to just demand them for free? And insisting they give you the same amount as our family, no less! What’s the matter, is your son broke? If he has no money, then tell him to get an advance on his stipend."