Chapter 100 - 0100: Help in Need 4_1
Every time Wang Jiao thought about her father, she was filled with frustration.
No matter how close a niece is, she couldn’t be closer than a biological daughter, right?
Nevertheless, her father adamantly refused to break off the engagement between Feng Qingxue and Lu Jiang to allow her to marry Lu Jiang. He kept emphasizing the importance of keeping promises; that the two had already been engaged. Didn’t he know that only marriage counts? As long as they hadn’t married, the engagement could still be called off. Such things had happened in their village before. When they broke off the engagement back then, did they care about integrity? Not at all.
With anger burning in her heart, Wang Jiao’s face turned slightly unpleasant. To Lu’s father and Lu Tianjun, she seemed like a troublemaker. Lu Tianzhi, who was timid, immediately hid behind his elder brother.
Lu’s father wrinkled his brows slightly but quickly relaxed. He said lightly, "Oh, it’s Wang Jiao from Secretary Wang’s family. What can I do for you?"
In front of others, Lu’s Father never called Wang Zhengguo by his name.
"Uncle Lu!" Facing the cold outside and the warmth inside, Wang Jiao’s cheeks flushed in excitement. Shyness was mixed with pleasure in the corners of her eyes. "It’s snowing and cold outside. I brought you some charcoal for heating your room."
In fact, Wang Jiao knew that the three-year famine hadn’t ended yet. She wanted to bring some grain, but all the grain at home was locked up by her mother.
Her family measured each meal carefully. Her parents certainly wouldn’t allow her to give their grain away.
Lu’s father glanced at the charcoal spilling out of the small basket. How could he not recognize it was the same they had sent out? Looking up at Wang Jiao, he was taken aback for a moment, then graciously replied, "I appreciate your thought, but we can’t accept it. We didn’t earn it with our own labor and using it would make us feel guilty. The weather is cold now; you should take it back and use it to keep your parents warm."