Her face flushed red as she spoke in a very soft voice.
“Well… Auntie, um, I didn’t bring the… the things I wear close to my body, so I want to buy new ones.”
“Oh, you mean underwear.”
“Ah… mm… yes.”
Zhang Lanhua’s bluntness made Su Mo even more embarrassed.
But Zhang Lanhua didn’t take it to heart and said happily, “Girl, wait here. I just happen to have brand-new ones.”
Su Mo felt a little puzzled how could she have new ones?
In the blink of an eye, Zhang Lanhua had already put the new underwear together with the pajamas Su Mo would wear later into a bag.
“Later just hang this bag on the nail on the wall. I’ll carry the hot water in for you.”
Su Mo had already prepared herself mentally things in the countryside couldn’t compare to the city.
But when she stood beside the pit that served as a toilet, with a bucket full of hot water in front of her and a yellowed towel placed to the side
Especially that curtain that was only a thin layer to preserve modesty; when the wind blew through the small gap, it could hardly block anything.
Su Mo felt all the mental preparation she had done collapse.
Still, for Lin Yuyi, she could endure it.
She used the fastest bathing speed of her life really just wiping her body quickly.
When she took out the black lace thong, Su Mo froze.
She knew Lin Yuyi had a younger sister, but that sister was still very young. Wasn’t this a bit too… much for her?
She didn’t think too much about it. After she came out, Zhang Lanhua immediately stepped forward and took the dirty clothes from her hands.
“Here, I’ll wash them for you.”
Su Mo was wearing Lin Yuyi’s T-shirt, a bit loose. She tidied her hair.
“Auntie, the… thing you just gave me whose is it?”
“Is it the younger sister’s?”
Under the dim light, Zhang Lanhua bent over and placed the clothes into a basin, smiling very happily.
Even happier than when she had seen this daughter-in-law today.
“Oh, this? It’s Xiaoqing’s. The milk is Xiaoqing’s too. I asked my youngest to heat it up for you.”
“Remember to drink it later. You big-city girls are just a bit delicate.”
In her heart, Su Mo began to feel both curiosity and an inexplicable hostility toward this Xiaoqing who kept being mentioned.
“Auntie, who is Xiaoqing?”
Zhang Lanhua didn’t hide anything. “Xiaoqing? She’s the one my youngest son was going to marry before.”
“But then my youngest fell for you, so it didn’t work out.”
At that moment, Su Mo felt as if she’d been struck by lightning.
Even her breathing grew heavier. “Auntie… so the clothes I’m wearing are hers?”
Zhang Lanhua still didn’t understand why Su Mo was angry and explained even more clearly.
“Yes. What’s wrong?”
“She left them here the last time she came to see me…”
“She said she’d wait for my youngest to come back, but he asked her to meet in the city instead. Then you came, and they broke up.”
Su Mo didn’t hear another word after that.
She only knew that she was wearing Lin Yuyi’s ex-girlfriend’s underwear this was the greatest humiliation to her.
She felt as if her lower body were exposed naked, her dignity unintentionally trampled by Zhang Lanhua.
Especially in Zhang Lanhua’s words every sentence was filled with praise and longing for Xiaoqing. Then what was Su Mo?
A third party?
The mistress who caused Lin Yuyi and Xiaoqing to break up?
Hadn’t Lin Yuyi said she was his first love?
He was nothing but a complete liar who had tricked her here!
Lin Yuyi had been waiting in the room for quite a while and grew worried that Su Mo wasn’t used to things. Just as he opened the door
He saw Su Mo standing at the doorway with reddened eyes, her expression straining to keep herself from crying.
“Momo, what’s wrong?”
“Who bullied you?”
Su Mo shoved Lin Yuyi aside with both hands, entered the room, and locked the door.
“Go away. I don’t want to see you.”
She immediately changed out of the clothes she was wearing. She would rather wear her own dirty ones.
Even if they weren’t clean, even if she got sick, she would not wear what Lin Yuyi’s ex-girlfriend had left behind.
“Momo, what’s wrong? Open the door.”
“Momo, Momo.”
“Don’t scare me, Momo.”
Lin Yuyi was completely confused and even more worried.
When the door opened again, Su Mo directly threw the black thong in her hand at him.
“Lin Yuyi, go live your past with your Xiaoqing.”
After saying that, she slammed the door shut again and locked it.
She even dragged the nearby table over to block the door, afraid the flimsy door might be forced open.
On this day, Su Mo’s grievances had completely exploded.
She had been cherished by her parents since childhood when had she ever suffered like this?
Suffering would have been one thing, but being mocked so sourly by Lin Yuyi’s mother made everything unbearable. Tears kept falling.
Tomorrow, at dawn, she would leave on her own.
Outside the door, Lin Yuyi held the black thong and roughly understood why Su Mo was so angry.
Zhang Lanhua happened to come over to check on Su Mo. “Son, what’s wrong with the girl?”
Lin Yuyi clenched the small underwear in his palm and suppressed his anger as he questioned softly:
“Mom, what did you say to Momo?”
“And this why did you give it to her to wear?”
Zhang Lanhua couldn’t understand the issue and was even angrier at Lin Yuyi’s attitude.
“Son, you cruelly broke things off with Xiaoqing for this Momo. I didn’t say anything then. And now you’re scolding your own mother for her.”
“In your eyes, is that delicate Momo thousands of times better than your mom?”
“I only took out something new because she had nothing to wear. Xiaoqing never wore this why can’t she? Is she the only special one?”
“Besides, I was saving money. If she bought new ones, whose money would she spend? Yours, right? Why can’t you understand your mother’s good intentions?”
“Mom! Stop talking.”
Lin Yuyi grabbed Zhang Lanhua’s hand and pulled her away from the doorway.
Su Mo heard every word of that conversation, loud and clear.
Since being with Lin Yuyi, she had never spent a single cent of his money.
She had even been thinking about how to please Zhang Lanhua and be filial to her. Yet in Zhang Lanhua’s heart, the most satisfactory daughter-in-law was never her.
And she had foolishly tried to warm a cold face, swallowing all her grievances.
Su Mo was so angry that she barely slept all night, her eyes swollen red.
In the morning, just as the rooster in the yard crowed, she prepared to leave. The moment she opened the door
Lin Yuyi, who had been leaning outside the door all night, almost fell.
“Momo, you’re awake. Why didn’t you sleep a little longer?”
“Lin Yuyi, get out of my way. I’m going home. I’m telling you we’re over!”