From Cannon Fodder to '80s Tycoon with My Space Supermarket-Chapter 195 - 157: Wide Awake

Chapter 195: Chapter 157: Wide Awake
If she can’t even sort out this relationship, then all these years, she has indeed lived in vain.
In the past, even when she was holding back her anger, she kept supporting her family, after all, wasn’t it just for that sliver of diluted kinship?
After all, since she was little, she hadn’t felt much maternal love.
In this aspect, she had always been in a state of emotional deprivation.
So, she had hoped and longed for this kind of affection until later she discovered that as long as she gave her family some benefits from time to time, her mother would treat her kindly for a while.
She started looking forward to such days, so she kept providing money to her family.
But who could have thought that in the end, it was she who was foolish, supporting a pack of ungrateful people, and even let her own family’s life become like that.
She had to realize that, in their village, only their family was still living in a mudbrick house.
Nowadays, every household had long since built big houses with tile roofs, not to mention having electricity; as for their family, to support her own family, they even begrudged using kerosene lamps.
At her age, she had to start considering her own family, not to be easily deceived by a few words from her sister-in-law.
As for what her mother had just said, she wouldn’t take a single word to heart.
After all, she was no longer at the age where she needed her mother; now, she was a mother herself, and instead of yearning for that bit of maternal love, she might as well treat her own children better.
Mrs. Fu recalled how just now, her own mother and sister-in-law talked about how their eldest daughter was soon going out for a blind date.
Only at this moment did Mrs. Fu remember she was also a mother and that her daughter was away studying and hadn’t been home for a month. She didn’t even know how her child was faring outside.
In those past years, she really had neglected her own children quite a bit.
Mrs. Fu felt a twinge of guilt in her heart, thinking that in the future, she must visit her daughter to see how she was doing at school, whether she was being bullied, if she had enough to eat, and clothes to wear.
As a mother, she was truly inadequate, not even knowing what shoe size her child wore now.
She even cared more about these nephews and nieces from her family than she did about her own children.
Thinking about it, she felt foolish.
Her sister-in-law was dumbfounded after hearing what her own mother-in-law had said.
She wanted her mother-in-law to say a few soft words, to persuade this sister-in-law to continue helping their family.
But this was not helping; it was making things worse.
Not even eight hundred mouths could explain it now.
Not only did the soft words not work, but they also thoroughly offended her.
Her sister-in-law looked up at the expressions on the faces of Mrs. Fu and Mr. Fu.
In fact, Mr. Fu was ultimately an outsider and naturally wasn’t concerned with their family’s issues.
But Mrs. Fu was different; after hearing what her mother had said, her expression was terribly grim, as if she had smeared soot from the bottom of a pot on her face.
Watching her mother-in-law about to continue speaking, Mrs. Fu’s sister-in-law quickly stopped her from opening her mouth again.
This was truly awkward, not knowing what to say, wanting to open her mouth and offer some explanation.
After all, their family would still need Mrs. Fu’s support in the future to live better.
So, the soft words had to be said.
You can’t lose a big money tree because of this, so you must bow your head when necessary.
Before she could open her mouth, Mrs. Fu, with a sarcastic tone, spoke from the other side:
"Sister-in-law, I know what you’re thinking, don’t waste your efforts. From now on, I won’t give your family a single cent."
"In the end, you’re just trying to please me now so I’ll continue supporting your family, right?"
"Don’t waste your energy, I’m not stupid. I won’t fall into your traps again and again."