life is sweet

Chapter 153 [153] One lie rounds up another lie
Huang Xiaopei barely ate a third of the original bowl of porridge, so he put down his chopsticks.

"Mom, are you already full?" Su Zixuan asked very brightly.

"Well, I'm full, so hurry up and eat."

"Oh."

She got up all at once, and when she was about to leave, she didn't forget to tell her: "By the way, Xuanxuan, eat quickly, and after you finish eating, remember to review the next afternoon's class. Today's Math Olympiad class is more difficult."

"Oh." Su Zixuan replied helplessly.

Now she regrets that she has nothing to do and took the initiative to talk to her mother, because her original plan was to take a break after a long time, and she wanted to watch cartoons with her sister, and both of them had made an appointment.

But the reality is so cruel, she glanced at her younger sister Su Zihan, Su Zihan smiled knowingly.

And just as she turned to leave, she suddenly stopped, as if remembering something.

She smiled at He Meizhen and said, "Oh, by the way, Mom, I have class in the afternoon, and I have to prepare for class until late this morning, so I will trouble you to buy vegetables in the morning."

"Okay, you go and do your work, I will go shopping."

He Meizhen smiled and agreed after hearing this.

As far as He Meizhen is concerned, she came to Shanghai this time to buy vegetables and cook. I feel a lot more comfortable.

Although He Meizhen is very clear about her position and understands everything, Su Tiejun, who has not left the dinner table, is not happy after hearing this.

He said unceremoniously: "Of course you can buy groceries, but you must pay for groceries. Otherwise, with the consumption level here, the 200 yuan will be spent in a day or two." Well, this is a meal for the whole family."

Huang Xiaopei was a little puzzled when he heard his father-in-law's words, thinking that he had given money to his mother-in-law.

When Huang Xiaopei was about to explain, her mother-in-law He Meizhen suddenly said, "You will definitely be paid for the vegetables, so don't worry about this matter."

"Don't worry about what? It's for sure that we have to pay for the vegetables. We can't let us pay for the vegetables, right?" Su Tiejun looked at Huang Xiaopei with a contemptuous tone and said, "But the 200 yuan is not from me. Say, if you buy a little better food, you will spend it all in one day."

This time Su Tiejun spoke in a grand manner, feeling that he usually spends money like running water, but knowing that He Meizhen bought some vegetarian dishes yesterday, he thought he bought too much.

Although Su Tiejun's words were true, Huang Xiaopei felt very uncomfortable listening to them.

Obviously she gave money for the vegetables, and she didn't limit the quality and quantity of the vegetables she bought. She thought for a while, wondering if she didn't tell her father-in-law about the fact that she gave the money to buy vegetables for her mother-in-law?

It's just that the father-in-law paid 200 yuan each, and he seemed to know that he had given the money, but he also felt like he only gave 200 yuan. This really made Huang Xiaopei very puzzled.

So she replied: "Dad, we must pay for the money for buying vegetables. How can you make them pay back?"

"Before Mom came, I also made it very clear that the food money and other living expenses are all paid by us."

"It's good if you make it clear. Just make it clear and you have to fulfill it. Don't make enough money for vegetables. Your mother is used to living a hard life and buys vegetables every day. That's not good." Su Tiejun replied.

"I know, these children are growing up, and they definitely can't eat vegetarian dishes every day. They need a mix of meat and vegetables. I also told Mom about this. You can buy whatever you want, right, Mom!"

"Yeah, who said you eat vegetarian dishes every day!"

He Meizhen replied embarrassingly.

"Dad, I actually don't quite understand what you mean by the 200 yuan you just kept talking about? I don't have a limit on how much I can spend on vegetables a day?" Huang Xiaopei then asked, "How much are the meat and vegetable dishes?" , how expensive you can buy, whatever your mother likes, you can buy whatever you want."

"Really? Mom, is that what I said?"

"Yeah yeah!"

At this time, He Meizhen was extremely embarrassed. Seeing that she only told Su Tiejun that Huang Xiaopei had only given 200 yuan to buy vegetables, Ma Shan was about to reveal his secrets.

She hurried to Su Tiejun's side, pulled him hard, and said in a low voice while winking: "Go and watch TV quickly, you can take care of the grocery shopping, and I will tell Xiaopei about it."

Su Tiejun looked at He Meizhen who had been winking all the time, not to mention what he said just now was very clear, so he didn't say any more.

I just walked slowly to the sofa to watch TV.

Huang Xiaopei was really puzzled, she wanted to explain the matter clearly, but her mother-in-law sent her father-in-law away.

And He Meizhen naturally knew that Su Tiejun wronged her about this matter, and also knew that Huang Xiaopei was full of questions at this time.

So she hurriedly dragged Huang Xiaopei into the kitchen again, and smoothed things over in a low voice: "Xiaopei, don't be angry, your father, he is just such a person and speaks like this, don't take it to heart."

Huang Xiaopei replied: "It's okay, but Mom, what did Dad mean just now? I don't quite understand,"

"Did he always think that you and I controlled the purchase quantity or price of vegetables?"

"No," He Meizhen quickly denied.

After she finished speaking, she smiled and explained, "Your father may not be very clear to you. He is usually in charge of the money at home, and the food money you give, so I only talked to him for a while. Give him money, but didn’t tell him how much he would give.”

"I guess, he just guessed that you would give me 200 quick cash for food."

He Meizhen still didn't tell Huang Xiaopei the truth, she was afraid that Huang Xiaopei would think too much.

"Oh, like this," Huang Xiaopei asked, "then why don't you tell him the truth? I think it's best to tell Dad, so as to avoid misunderstandings like today."

"Hey, I'm mostly afraid to tell him."

"Afraid? Why are you afraid?"

"Didn't I just say that he is usually in charge of the money at home. I told him that I was afraid that he would want the money. This is the money for buying vegetables. If I gave it to him, then I would pay for it every day to buy vegetables." Ask him for it, and after he asks for it, it is really possible that he will limit the amount when buying vegetables in the future, which will make it very troublesome.”

"Oh, that's right!"

Huang Xiaopei understood this answer.

"Yeah! So this matter, I think about it, rather than being so troublesome, it's better not to tell him, what do you think?"

"It's really troublesome to get money every day."

"That's right, so please forgive me." He Meizhen said.

"I understand what you mean, but you still need to make it clear to Dad about the money for buying vegetables, otherwise I'm afraid he will misunderstand and say that we are children and take advantage of your elders."

"Don't worry about this, I will definitely make it clear to him later."

"Oh, just explain. In fact, I'm mainly afraid that Dad will misunderstand."

"Well, I know."

(End of this chapter)