The Tender Beauty is Sweetly Doted in the 20th Century Novel!-Chapter 280 - 278: I Raised You with Hardship for 20 Years, and This Is How You Treat Your Mother

Chapter 280: Chapter 278: I Raised You with Hardship for 20 Years, and This Is How You Treat Your Mother

Her plans were perfect.

But every woman buying vegetables was a master with sharp eyes.

Not only could they pick out the freshest and best food in the markets and stores, but even any random woman could spot the worst items.

Thus, on the third day of Ye Xiaotong’s business, it was actually worse than the second day!

No one came to buy anything!

By the afternoon, she was growing impatient, holding her child with back pain while racking her brain about whether to try a different activity.

But she barely had any money left to offer anything.

"Waaah—"

Wu cried out again in discomfort, wailing his heart out, making one feel distressed just hearing it.

But Ye Xiaotong felt more anxiety in her heart.

She couldn’t take it anymore!

Why was doing business so difficult!

Obviously, she hadn’t done anything wrong!

Why couldn’t she make any money!

The plastic lunch box He Chen gave away on his first business day looked much more expensive than hers, yet they made several hundred in one morning!

Why couldn’t she earn anything? And she even lost eight yuan!

What was wrong?

Ye Xiaotong couldn’t figure it out at all.

But fortunately, before she was about to close up, Yang Xiumei came into town from the village.

And Yang Xiumei had come with her luggage, clearly coming to rely on her.

Ye Xiaotong hid her irritation and immediately put on a proud look.

"What brings you here?"

Yang Xiumei put her luggage on the glass counter and immediately said angrily,

"Isn’t it because I had a fight with your dad? He’s really something now, raised a college student, looks down on everyone, and expects me to serve him at home like a lord. I’m not taking that. I can always go to my own daughter, he can find his own daughter if he’s got the guts!"

These words made Ye Xiaotong feel good inside.

It seemed no matter what, her own mom was still her mom and wouldn’t genuinely favor Ye Manman just because she went to college, she would still side with her.

Thinking this way, her attitude towards Yang Xiumei instantly improved a lot.

Yang Xiumei had her mind set on her little grandson, pouting while cuddly picking up Wu from Ye Xiaotong’s arms, but before she could even be happy, she could tell at a glance that the child was unwell.

"What’s going on with Wu? How did he get sick after only a few days, his little face is so red, is he running a fever!"

"Did you take him to a doctor?"

Yang Xiumei nervously touched Wu’s forehead and put her hand behind to feel his back, looking very anxious.

However, this mention annoyed Ye Xiaotong.

She impatiently sat aside, not even wanting to look at her son anymore.

"I did take him, how could I not, spent several yuan on shots and medicine, and he still wouldn’t behave, refused to take medicine wasting several packs, otherwise how could he not get better."

She kept complaining but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, mom was here.

Now she could focus on her business and leave the childcare to her mom.

This time, there was no way she’d incur losses again!

As expected, Yang Xiumei, being more experienced, easily fed the medicine to Wu.

When Wu woke up at night, aside from breastfeeding, Ye Xiaotong didn’t have to care for anything else and left everything to Yang Xiumei.

Yang Xiumei wasn’t at all impatient.

She especially adored her grandson because, after all, he was a boy, the only heir of the Xie family!

Even though Xie Fengmian was in jail, he would come out eventually, and their family had been doing business in town for so many years, they had some connections, and starting over wouldn’t be hard.

Her little grandson would just have to wait to inherit, how easy would that be.

Ye Xiaotong never told Yang Xiumei about what she did for the Xie family, nor did she mention that the Xie family had sold everything, and the money was all in her hands.

After all, she had spent all that money now, and if Yang Xiumei aimed to get money from her, it would be hard to handle.

Some things are better kept a secret.

Anyway, once she started making money with her business, everything would be negotiable!

On the fourth day, Ye Xiaotong restarted her business.

This time, she didn’t do any promotions, nor did she prepare as many marinated dishes.

She wanted to first see how much she could sell in one day.

Maybe with fewer things, cleaned up tidily, it looked much better than before, and there were more people buying marinated dishes today.

But it was still sparse, not even selling half.

And she had no freezer, so these things couldn’t be stored overnight, they’d definitely spoil by tomorrow.

So, Ye Xiaotong had to bite the bullet and use the unsold dishes for dinner, throwing away whatever they couldn’t eat.

Then for a whole week, they ate marinated vegetables every day.

At first, Yang Xiumei quite liked it, thinking her daughter was awesome, making tasty marinated dishes.

But after eating the same dishes every day for a week, she couldn’t take it anymore.

Neither could Ye Xiaotong, now just seeing those marinated dishes made her nauseous, she wanted to throw them all away.

But throwing them away meant she’d have to spend money buying ingredients for meals, and where would she get that kind of money to splurge?

Every day was a loss, with losses growing bigger.

Now the money she had on hand was dwindling day by day, she estimated not more than thirty yuan left! 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Thirty yuan!

How to get by?

If they were still in the countryside, thirty yuan could be enough because three meals a day could be solved with homegrown food, no need to buy.

But now, they were in town.

If she didn’t buy groceries, there’d be nothing to eat!

Not to mention it wasn’t just her eating, but also Yang Xiumei.

Though Yang Xiumei helped care for Wu diligently every day, Ye Xiaotong’s heart was slowly growing resentment.

She suddenly felt her mom was useless.

Why couldn’t she help with her business?

Why couldn’t she have been like Xie Fengmian’s mom, working hard with Mr. Xie when she was young, paving the way for a good background?

Why did she, a woman, have to work tirelessly day and night for business, desperately trying to earn money but failing?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got.

Especially when Yang Xiumei came asking if they could not have marinated dishes for dinner.

Ye Xiaotong, unable to hold back, snapped at Yang Xiumei.

"Mom, you’re living with me now, eat what I eat, I’m not making you earn money or give me money, can’t you stop being picky?"

Her expression and tone were icy, even a bit disdainful.

Yang Xiumei, sharp as she was, could easily see her daughter’s meaning.

She was really surprised that after arguing with Ye Guoqiang and even leaving home for her daughter, the daughter was now bothered about her being picky and not paying.

How long had it been?

Only a week!

She had raised her for twenty years!

Yang Xiumei felt utterly heartbroken.

"Xiaotong, are you getting tired of mom?"

Ye Xiaotong was already irritated, hardly caring how she felt.

"I never said that, it’s your own thought."

This essentially admitted it, letting Yang Xiumei understand.

Yang Xiumei shook her head, full of sadness.

"Fine, I raised you with so much hardship for twenty years, and this is how you repay me."

"I’ll leave, from now on, just pretend you don’t have a daughter in the city."

Yang Xiumei packed her things, didn’t even have dinner, and just left.

Ye Xiaotong had no mind to see her off, instead, she felt relieved.

Finally gone.

No more worrying about anyone eyeing her money, fewer mouths to feed every day.