The next day, Mother Qi arrived at the county hospital with a belly full of anger and started nagging as soon as she caught Qi Fenglian.
"...You haven’t seen the way she cooks, she almost tips over the oil jar, that woman is such a spendthrift, has no idea how to run a household. We in Taiguo really drew the short straw by marrying her."
"And those eggs, I didn’t even ask her to cook them, but she went ahead and fried up three all by herself. I was saving those for your postpartum care, and she, without asking, just used up three."
"Your father even says her food tastes good, pah! Anyone’s food would taste good drowned in that much oil. Such a wasteful woman, she really doesn’t know how to manage a home!"
Qi Fenglian weakly smiled and said, "Mom, don’t be so hard on her. Everyone has their own way of cooking. If it has been eaten, then it’s been eaten."
"No matter what the habit is, nobody uses oil like she does. I knew she was a big spender even before she married into our family. I’ve sneakily looked at the clothes in her wardrobe, they look expensive, who knows how much money she has spent," Mother Qi said with a face full of displeasure.
Qi Fenglian chuckled again, "Mom, you really misunderstood her. Which young lady doesn’t like to dress up? Maybe she bought the clothes before she got married?"
"Even so, she spent it all on herself. Look at what she brought as a dowry when she married into our family, not a single decent item. Hmph, always talking about how glorious her ancestors were, bah, when the capitalists were being denounced fiercely, why didn’t she mention that? In the end, she was just spoiled by her parents, always wasteful since she was young."
Qi Fenglian stayed silent and after a while, she said, "When I married, it was the same, not very glamorous either."
Mother Qi was taken aback by her remark, her face looked a little unpleasant, and she awkwardly said, "Back then, the family’s circumstances weren’t good, but it’s better now, isn’t it? Taiguo also gives you money from time to time, right?"
"Yes, so every family has its tough times. Mom, stop criticizing Taiguo’s wife. Being a daughter-in-law is hard, and I didn’t realize how hard it was until I was in that situation myself," Qi Fenglian said with a rueful smile.


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