Fu Mingxue was stunned when she saw the mountain of items.
"Mom, why did you buy so much stuff?"
"You’re getting married the day after tomorrow. We accepted such a generous betrothal gift, how could I let you get married with nothing but the clothes on your back?"
Mrs. Fu called out to the tricycle cart driver, "Sir, could you please help me unload everything?"
"Alright." The driver made several trips to finally haul the mountain of things he’d brought into the main room.
Mrs. Fu paid him three yuan.
As the driver left, she confirmed their arrangement for him to make another delivery the next day.
Fu Mingxue poured her mother a glass of water.
Mrs. Fu happened to be thirsty and quickly drank it all down.
"Tomorrow, we’ll buy a big color TV, and then we’ll be all set."
Her words stunned Fu Mingxue. "Mom, what made you think of buying a color TV? And where would you get the coupon for one?"
"Your fiancé gave them to me! He gave me lots of coupons. Otherwise, how could I have bought all this?"
Although she had managed to trade for a few coupons from her colleagues at the factory and her neighbors before she came, those were nowhere near enough.
Luckily, her son-in-law had given her plenty.
Fu Mingxue: ...?
"Do you have enough money, then? I can give you some."
"No need. I have money on hand—from selling my job, plus what I’ve managed to save these past few years. It’s enough."
Fu Mingxue still handed her a thousand yuan.
"Mom, take this. Use it if you need to. Besides, I have plenty of money, right? You don’t have to worry about it."
Mrs. Fu: ...?
’Plenty of money? Didn’t you still owe someone eight thousand for this house you bought?’
The two children were very well-behaved, and Fu Mingxue had just received a new mission: teach them how to talk.
The reward was too good to refuse.
The fixed reward was a thousand yuan.

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