Chapter 142: How Can Someone Be So Shameless?

Yang Ming didn’t want to argue with someone much older than him.

So he said directly, “Sorry! We were helping Group Leader Qin with procurement. Deputy Group Leader Hao didn’t say anything to us, so we didn’t buy anything for him.”

“What do you mean you didn’t say anything? Shouldn’t you treat everyone equally? Besides, my son is so busy—how could he pay attention to these trivial matters?”

Yang Ming: ? …

He wasn’t even in the same group as Deputy Group Leader Hao. Why should he be responsible for looking after these things for him?

“Alright, I won’t fuss about what happened before. I’m telling you now, and that’s the same thing. Just help us get the same stuff as her family!” Hao’s mother said, acting all magnanimous.

She thought, since her son was a leader, as his mother, she didn’t need to haggle with these “little soldiers.”

Yang Ming: …?

Fu Mingxue couldn’t help but feel speechless at how some people could be so unreasonable.

“Comrade Yang, you can head back. I’ll handle things here,” she said.

Yang Ming nodded immediately, but then felt he should make things clear to this difficult family member.

“Auntie, the things we got for Group Leader Qin were bought with her own allowance, not provided by the army. If you want to buy them, you can talk to Deputy Group Leader Hao.”

As soon as he finished, he quickly got in the car.

Good grief, talking to this difficult aunt was way more exhausting than any training.

Hao’s mother hadn’t expected him to just leave like that.

“Hey, don’t go! Stop right there—”

Fu Mingxue couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Enough already. If you’re missing something, let your deputy group leader son buy it for you. Why are you making things difficult for a comrade?”

Hao’s mother glared at her. “What did you just say?”

Fu Mingxue sneered, “If your family is so short on things, can’t you buy them yourselves? Why insist on making someone else do it for you? Where’s your son? If you don’t dare to ask him, I can do it for you. Why doesn’t he just give his own mother more money? Why make you come here and beg with such a thick skin?”

Hao’s mother was furious. “Who are you calling shameless?”

“If the shoe fits! Didn’t you just come here begging? The comrade already said we bought these things with our own allowance. If you want them, pay for them yourself!”

“You—you—” Hao’s mother was about to explode.

Seeing a crowd gathering, she started slapping her thigh and wailing, “Oh heavens, I’m being bullied! She and her daughter bullied us on the train, and now we’re at the army base and she’s still bullying us country folk—”

“What did we country folk ever do to her? Why does she look down on us like this—”

The other family members watching started giving Fu Mingxue strange looks.

After all, she was dressed up like a city lady, looking all glamorous.

Meanwhile, Hao’s mother was in coarse homespun clothes, clearly from the countryside.

So, was Qin’s daughter-in-law looking down on a rural auntie?

Wasn’t that going too far?

Just then, an angry shout rang out, “What a load of crap!”

Fu’s mother rushed over, glaring at Hao’s mother.

“On the train, you were the one picking fights, abusing your own daughter-in-law, and now you’re saying we look down on you? Do we even know you? What’s there to look down on?”

“And as for being country folk—hell, I’m from the countryside too! How come I’m not as good at making a scene as you?”

“You’re a grown woman, but you’re absolutely shameless. My son-in-law asked Comrade Xiao Yang to buy those things with his own money. Why are you trying to get them for free? You even want the same amount as us? What, your son doesn’t have any money? If he doesn’t, tell him to get an advance on his allowance!”"