Chapter 206: Surprising Discovery – Daily Melon Eating at the Sickly Aunt’s Courtyard

Chapter 206: A Surprising Discovery - The Daily Life of the Sickly Sister-in-law in the Courtyard

Perhaps Zhang Mei's gaze was too sharp, and Lin Shu couldn't hold up under it. "It's all gone."

Seeing that she still didn't believe her, Lin Shu reluctantly took out the things she had bought. "Look, I told you it’s all gone."

Zhang Mei looked at the miscellaneous items in the bag. "You spent more than ten yuan on this stuff?"

"Yeah," Lin Shu nodded. "See, I told you it’s all gone."

Zhang Mei was infuriated by her carefree attitude. "What kind of attitude is this? Didn’t I warn you? Why are you still like this?"

"It was my first time getting a salary. I didn't notice when it was issued, and only realized I spent so much when I was buying. Why don’t you return it?"

"Come on, let's go return it together."

"No! How could I return it? It’d be so humiliating. I don’t want to."

"Then what should we do? What about the money we agreed to save?"

"It's gone."

"I don’t care, you owe it to me."

"I told you it's gone, what else do you want me to do?"

"What about your husband's? Isn't his salary with you? Give me ten yuan from his salary now." Zhang Mei’s eyes lit up as she stared at her.

"No, his salary isn't with me." Lin Shu shook her head. "Besides, his salary is meant for the household."

"It hasn’t been handed over yet, right? Hurry up and get ten yuan from him for me."

"I told you I don’t have it!" Lin Shu was extremely irritated.

"How do you not have it? Didn’t you pick up his salary too?" Zhang Mei couldn’t understand.

Working in the same factory, why didn’t you help collect it?

Lin Shu was also stunned. She was so excited about her paycheck that she hadn’t thought about this at all. Only after her mother mentioned it did she realize what she had missed.

Seeing her dumbfounded look, Zhang Mei knew she wasn’t lying. She pointed at her head. "How could you be so clueless?"

"Why are you scolding me? I just didn’t think of it."

"Am I wrong for calling you clueless?"

"Alright, alright, just leave, I don’t have any money for you." Lin Shu, feeling hurt by the scolding, wanted to chase her away.

"Go where? I came all this way, aren’t you going to offer me a meal?" Zhang Mei didn’t want to come for nothing.

"..." Lin Shu sighed in frustration and shot her an angry look.

"Don’t look at me like that, it’s not too much to ask for a meal, right?"

"Hmph!"

Zhang Mei ignored her and put the scattered snacks and candies back.

Zhang Mei grabbed Lin Shu’s bag and walked out the door.

When Lin Shu saw her mother, Zhang Mei, packing up, she initially thought she had finally come to her senses and was about to ask for forgiveness. Her mood had just started to lift when she noticed Zhang Mei was about to leave with her bag.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"Can’t you see what I’m doing?"

"I bought these things. Why are you taking them?"

"Hmph, since you can’t give me money for my retirement, shouldn’t I take these things instead?"

"No, these are things I bought for myself." She tried to grab the backpack back.

Zhang Mei dodged her, "Fine, why not? If you don’t have money, these things will have to do!"

"No way, give them back to me."

"You wouldn’t want your mother-in-law finding out you just got your paycheck and splurged on all this, would you?"

"I..." Lin Shu froze; she really didn’t want that.

"Good, you get it. Otherwise, I’ll just go straight to your mother-in-law."

"Mom!" Lin Shu yelled, furious.

"Enough with the yelling." Zhang Mei covered her ears.

Lin Shu had no way to handle Zhang Mei. "Then just leave already!" Since she couldn’t stop her, she just wanted her out of sight.

"I said I’m staying for dinner." Zhang Mei brushed her off.

"Hmph!" Lin Shu was seething.

Hmph, you think you can take me on?

Zhang Mei stepped out, but just before leaving, she suddenly thought better of it and quickly transferred the items from Lin Shu’s bag to her own backpack.

That was close.

Phew.

In the end, Zhang Mei stayed for a meal before leaving.

Lin Shu watched Zhang Mei leave with the bag, her anger growing the more she thought about it.

That night, lying in bed.

"Your mom came over tonight for money? Did you give her any?"

"No... I didn’t."

"Really? You didn’t?"

"Really, I only have a little over ten dollars this month. How could I give her anything?"

Jiang Yang stared at her, not noticing anything unusual, and said, "Good thing you didn’t."

"Mm."

Lin Shu thought about the things her mother had taken, her anger boiling over until she couldn’t sleep, tossing and turning.

"What's wrong? Having trouble sleeping?" Jiang Yang was quite tired today and wasn't in the mood for intimacy, so he was almost asleep when her restless movements woke him up.

"Nothing, just feel like going to the bathroom. Not sure if I should go?" Lin Shu offered an excuse.

"Then go, what’s the hold-up? You planning to hold it till morning?" Jiang Yang said groggily.

Lin Shu was nudged into action, momentarily unsure of what to do. In the end, maybe because she brought it up, she indeed felt the urge to go to the bathroom.

"Alright, I'll go now." Lin Shu got up and went out.

As she rubbed her arm, she noticed how bright the moon was tonight!

She hurried into the bathroom.

As soon as she sat down, she heard a voice hushed with excitement from the next stall: "Zhu Zi, is that thing about getting rich for real?"

"Of course!" a male voice replied smugly.

"Can I see it?"

"Of course not, but if you treat me right, I might reward you."

"Zhu Zi~ Zhu Zi~" the woman’s voice turned sultry.

The sounds that followed were unmistakable.

When they were done, the female voice asked, "Zhu Zi~, where did you hide it?"

"Hehe, somewhere you’d never guess."

"Is it in the bathroom?"

"You’re sharp, baby."

"Really in the bathroom? Where is it? Come on, show me!"

"We don’t need it now. It’s safely hidden, so let’s leave it there. Don’t worry, I’ll make it worth your while if you treat me right."

"You’re such a devil~"

...

Lin Shu clamped a hand over her mouth, stifling her laughter. She didn’t expect to overhear such a big secret and was pleasantly surprised.

Good stuff—there’s good stuff right here in the bathroom!

Heaven is really helping her!

Hehe, she must be heaven’s favorite. Just lost her salary today, and tonight money comes to her.