Daily life of the mistress

Chapter 80 The Poor Li Family

Halfway through the New Year’s Eve dinner, Lu Hanyi went back to her room in a huff, claiming she had a stomachache.
    She also pulled Li Wenxun, who was still eating, back.

    Eat, eat, eat, what else is there to eat!

    Snowflakes were floating outside the house. Lu Hanyi walked back to her yard with a gloomy face in the snow. After returning, a charcoal fire in the house was not warm enough.

    The Li family is poor and very stingy.

    All financial power was controlled by Wei and her mother-in-law. After winter came, Li's father and mother and the big house started burning charcoal.

    The charcoal brazier she used in her room was sent to her by Lu Lingyun.

    Thinking of this, Lu Hanyi became furious.

    "This is how you treat your wife and children!" Lu Hanyi turned and shouted at Li Wenxun.

    "What's wrong with me?" Li Wenxun frowned slightly, with a hint of displeasure between his brows.

    "It's winter, it's so cold, just let me light a pot of charcoal in my house!"

    Li Wenxun didn't think much of it. "There's only a basin of charcoal in my parents' and sister-in-law's rooms. There are many people in this mansion who can't afford a charcoal basin."

    That is to say, Lu Hanyi has an elder sister, the wife of a marquis, who can help her and gave her some charcoal, but others don’t have any!

    The Li family has a large population. In addition to two legitimate sons, three legitimate daughters, and four illegitimate sons and daughters. In addition to the people from Li's father and mother's family, there are also Li Wenxun's grandmother, two married uncles, and a divorced aunt who is raising a child. The entire family lives here.

    Li Wenxun's two uncles were not doing well and neither of them passed the imperial examination. They only relied on Li Wenxun's father to help them get a job as a low-ranking clerk in the Ministry of Revenue.

    Their monthly salary is only two taels of silver, and even with extra income they can't earn more than five taels of silver.

    There is not even a maid in the house except for his wife and children. On weekdays, he has to rely on his wife's dowry to support his daily life. Now the price of charcoal has skyrocketed, so where can he get the money to burn charcoal?

    The sister-in-law who left home to live with the baby was extremely poor. She relied on the fact that her mother was still alive to please Li's mother and Wei, and stayed in their room all day long, holding their stinky feet and living a tight life.

    Everyone in the house was poor, with only the eldest sister-in-law's family being the more respectable. Wei was in tight control of the household expenses and told others that the price of charcoal was high this year, so no one in the house would burn charcoal. Whoever wanted to burn charcoal in their house had to pay for it themselves. So this year, only she and Li's father and mother burned charcoal in their house.

    But grandma, who knows whose money she is using!

    She is in charge of the household expenses, and no one else can see the account books. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that she is playing tricks, but there is no evidence!

    Lu Hanyi was very angry about this matter and started making a fuss at the beginning of winter. However, Wei was very skilled and she couldn't find any evidence against him. In the end, she could only go back to her parents' home to complain. Liu went to Lu Lingjun again, hoping to ask him to help her.