" They really want grandmother to die now that she is no longer as active as she used to be, they all are heartless bastards, I am telling you, Sister Dong!" The more Yu Tong spoke the more agitated she became, she has been working on the docks for months but her grandfather who treated Yu Cheng as a rare treasure would snatch her salary every day to buy this and that for her brother. She was the one who was working hard yet she couldn't even buy a single hairpin for Li Hanjing, at most she brought him a meat bun and that too was refused.
Of course, it was refused! What kind of woman gives the mer she wants to chase a meat bun as a gift?
These things were still bearable but what she could not tolerate was how her family almost pushed her grandma to the gates of death. She was the one who has been working from morning to evening in fields when no one was willing and yet when the calamity struck every turned their backs on her grandma. How can she be not angry?
Yu Dong didn't say anything unlike Yu Tong who grew up with grandma Yu, she didn't have many feelings for the elderly woman. At most, she was willing to take responsibility for her but other than that she didn't really have any close feelings for Grandma Yu, so even though she felt that what happened to grandma Yu was unfair, she couldn't summon the same anger as Yu Tong.
" Sister Dong, will grandma be okay?" Yu Tong asked, she took Yu Dong's silence the wrong way, seeing that Yu Dong wasn't saying anything she was worried that something serious happened to their grandmother. " She will be fine right?"
" She stayed in the water for too long, even if she was rescued it was a bit late so ...I think it will be a bit hard for her to fully recover and with the water, in her lungs, there is a chance that she will get pneumonia," Yu Dong summarised Grandma Yu's condition seriously to Yu Tong, she could sense that Yu Tong was genuinely worried about grandma Yu and didn't hide anything at all. "If we try hard enough, she might recover but it will take at least a month or two and with the current situation it will take at least three to four months since there are not many herbs that we can find in the mountain, the one that I have with me are not enough, so ....it's going to take a lot of time and money."
Grandma Yu was sick, to begin with, and after staying in the water for so long even if she was treated with spiritual energy it will take her body at least a few months to recover completely, there was a chance that she will have to stay in the bed for a long time.
" Sister Dong ...that money can you ask the Yu family to pay it?" Yu Tong suddenly spoke after listening to what Yu Dong said, she knew that her grandmother's condition would aggravate if she was left alone in the water for too long and she told her family the same thing but they all said that her grandmother was hail and hearty, even if she gets sick, she won't get too sick and will be able to recover after they get her treated.
" Ask the Yu family for money?" Yu Dong looked at Yu Tong in amusement, asking the Yu family for money was equivalent to asking them to cut off a piece of flesh, she still hadn't forgotten how shrilly Old man Yu has screamed when grandma Yu handed her ten taels.
It was like listening to hearing a banshee sing.
" Do you think that they will hand me the money just because I asked them to?" Yu Dong snorted as she said, " You know it better than anyone else grandma Yu's health wasn't this bad before and her back pain wasn't serious either. But then her health got worse and worse because that cheap grandfather of yours did not want to spend any money on her. Last time he came and sobbed a bullshit story in front of Li, saying that grandma Yu's illness has gotten worse and asked for twelve silver taels because Li was soft hearted he gave those taels to him but I bet that she didn't even use a single tael to treat grandma Yu's condition. I should have snatched that money back."
After she left the Yu family, no one in the family worked in the fields anymore, and the money that the Yu family got from the fields decreased as well. Aunt Yu was a woman who liked to suck up to her superiors and with Yu Cheng's expenses, her salary of two taels was nowhere enough. The Yu family has never seen such days, they could not get used to the sudden decline in their status and because their condition was getting worse day by day after filling the bottomless pit called Yu Cheng, the meals went from fine grains mixed with coarse one to simply the crude and coarse grains.
Apart from Yu Cheng who was studying in the academy, no one was allowed to eat any meat, at most Old man Yu and Qui Bai would go and buy some bones and ribs that were cheap because of the lack of meat and stew them in water without any oil or salt.
The lesser the money at the house became the more stingy old man Yu became, it got to the point that he was even counting how many pancakes he could eat in a day. Yu Tong would sometimes stop by their house and tell Yu Dong everything that was happening in the Yu family.
Now that the situation was like this and the Yu family had nothing left will Old man Yu take any money from his pockets to treat Grandma Yu? Even thinking about such a thing was laughable.
