Chapter 126: Taken by Force
But upon seeing Qin Xiangyang and his siblings along with Granny Lu each eating a bowl of cornmeal, her heart grew displeased.
"Really that poor, can’t even afford dumplings?"
"Where’s the money?" She raised her chin, demanding others’ money as if it were her own, shamelessly to the fullest, a confidence only Hu Li possessed.
"We have no money," said Qin Xiangnuan as she placed her bowl on the table, "You’ve seen what our family eats. What, do you still think we don’t eat well enough and want to eat at your place?"
"Tch, you wolf-cub scavengers, dreaming of eating the grains from my house."
As soon as Hu Li opened her mouth, she splattered saliva all over the room, but she just couldn’t believe there was no money. Fine, they won’t say it, she’d find it herself.
Qin Xiangnuan continued eating her meal of cornmeal and pickled vegetable dumplings. Go ahead and search, she already knew, hence there wasn’t a single penny in the house. Hu Li turned the place upside down, finding nothing, her face turning green with rage, then she saw the two General’s coats lying on the kang bed, and immediately grabbed them into her embrace.
"Guo Hua, look, these General’s coats are all new, one for you to wear, and one for Pengfei."
Qin Guohua was reluctant to come, but the thought of money moved his heart. Now, he didn’t want to see Qin Xiangyang and Qin Xiangnuan at all, he hadn’t forgotten the oaths he had taken, all the curses he hurled about lifetime poverty and ailments.
The rural folks were superstitious, but upon seeing these two new General’s coats, they couldn’t bear to part with them. So thick, they would be very warm to wear in the fields, and the quality of these military coats was good, issued directly by the army, sure to last for over a decade of wear.