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"You're still the cleverest, Mom," Xu Niannian chuckled, covering her mouth.
To be honest, she didn't want to let Auntie Xu borrow grains from her aunt either.
In this day and age, every family is poor, and all rely on the little grain they have to get by.
As the saying goes, 'Borrow and return, and you can borrow again,' but Auntie Xu doesn't have a good reputation in the village.
She often borrows grains from others, a little from the family to the east, a little from the family to the west, yet never returns them.
Over time, nobody in the village wanted to lend her anything.
However, because Auntie Xu and Liu Guimei had married into the village from the same place, their relationship was still quite good. With Liu Guimei's personality, she would certainly find it difficult to refuse if Auntie Xu asked.
Yang Cuihua felt smug, yet thinking of all the items she'd have to give away made her heart ache.
