"You... you... you’re just doing some housework, how could you be tired." Zhao Dongxiu stomped her feet in anger, "You’re Yuan Fang’s younger sister, helping us with the children and housework should be expected. Others have their mothers-in-law helping with the children and housework, but mine is in the countryside earning work points, so that’s why you’ve taken her place. You’re here to substitute your mom in looking after the children."
"You’re just doing some housework, looking after the children, and you complain about being tired, are you trying to drive me mad?"
"And you even want wages, what kind of dreamland are you imagining?"
"If you weren’t helping me with the children, you’d be toiling in the fields, becoming a dark, muddy-legged farm girl. I brought you to the city to enjoy life, but instead of thanking me, you blame me for working you."
"Helping with the children and chores, isn’t it only right for me to order you around?"
Bam...
Yuan Chun angrily kicked away a chair, saying furiously, "Only right? Brother, do you think the same? Is it only right that I tirelessly help you with the kids and housework?"
Wei Yuanfang’s face was dark, "Yuan Chun, what’s with you today? If you don’t want to take care of the kids and do housework, I’ll have mom come over to handle it."
"Ha, why?"
Yuan Chun sneered, asking him, "Mom raised you, and now she has to serve you like a slave, letting your wife boss her around? Why should she? My mom doesn’t owe you anything, Wei Yuanfang, let me warn you, taking care of your children is a favor, not an obligation. Whoever has the kids should be responsible for them; no one is supposed to serve you like a lord, making you comfortable."
"Wei Yuanfang, Zhao Dongxiu, let me tell you, if you don’t want me here, I’ll leave right away. But if you want me to stay, then wash your own clothes and take care of the kids at night. Also, brother, you should leave me money for meals when you’re traveling; otherwise, it will be like last time, when you were out all day and I had no money to buy groceries, and the rice got locked in the cabinet by sister-in-law, leaving me hungry for a whole day. I came here to help with the kids, working without pay is one thing, but going hungry, that I won’t do."
Wei Yuanfang glanced at Zhao Dongxiu with an iron face, "Why didn’t you mention this last time?"
"Humph, I thought if I swallowed my pride and sincerely helped sister-in-law manage the household and take care of the children, she would accept me. But I was too naive; she never liked me from the start because I’m just a farm girl, how could she ever accept me."
"I only can’t understand, if sister-in-law despises country folks so much, why did she marry you, a country man? When she sleeps next to you, doesn’t she mind having a muddy-leg farm boy beside her?"
Zhao Dongxiu responded anxiously, "I... never said I despised your brother. If I did, I wouldn’t have married him. Sister-in-law, don’t try to drive a wedge between us."
Wei Yuanfang said nothing, but internally felt somewhat embarrassed.
His wife’s disdain for his family and sister was something he noticed. People say love extends to everything connected to the beloved, yet his wife, despite claiming to love him, looked down on his family.
Even though he knew his wife’s love might not be as genuine as she spoke, he still liked her. He truly loved his wife.