Chapter 257 Scolding Awake
It wasn’t easy, but Wang Yongping managed to get through explaining the situation intermittently. Old Granny Zhang cursed and summed up disdainfully, "These unpresentable matters! It’s only because your sister has improved our family’s circumstances that we live better now and will even more so in the future. Now, outsiders flatter us with a few kind words, and you forget the hard times, lightening your bones by three pounds! Do you really see yourself as somebody? After getting a little praise like a cat’s piss, you start getting above yourself!"
"Seeing that Despicable Person of the Li Family not doing well, you feel smug, huh? So smug that you just want to show off! Pah! Such a worthless thing, what is there for you to show off? When something goes wrong at home, what can you do besides using that brute strength of yours? Have you earned a tael of silver, or contributed significantly to the family?"
"It’s only because Zhuzhu pities you and gives you face, thinking of you in everything she does! I see you haven’t improved in any way, but you sure have grown complacent! Zhuzhu doesn’t hold it against you, and now you think you’re the head of the family, right? Always trying to stand up for Zhuzhu, but lacking the brains to avoid these foolish, harmful actions!"
The little vanity in Wang Yongping’s heart, along with his most secret, incomprehensible desires, were laid bare by Old Granny Zhang’s blunt words—it really burnt his face.
He knew that although his younger sister was in charge, she always indulged him, his Fourth Brother. She might be harsh with her words, but she always had him in her heart, not forgetting to involve him when there were benefits.
Sometimes, even if he did something wrong, at most she would just scold him a bit and then let it slide.
Especially when he went to the neighboring village to announce that their family was going to buy mountain goods, the shocked expressions of the others gave him a sense of vindication.
After everyone knew that the Wang Family was indeed on the rise through connections with major bosses.
There were many who changed their attitude towards him, calling him big brother as soon as they opened their mouths, all with the underlying message for him to take care of them in the future.
Wang Yongping, who had never experienced this kind of treatment, couldn’t deny that he enjoyed it immensely.
The ones who used to mock him as useless behind his back or sneered at him for being cuckolded by a woman now greeted him as ’brother’ and asked for his care—how tables turned!