Once people passed forty, they started liking afternoon naps, especially after spending half a day exhausting themselves looking after children.
So when Pan Xiaoying went to call Teacher Ke, she was sleeping soundly with her grandson nestled against her. Suddenly woken by Pan Xiaoying, she was naturally a little grumpy from being dragged out of bed.
"Why are you making such a fuss? What is it that needs me to make the decision?"
"Mom, it's like this. Isn't The Department starting a mobile phone project? I was thinking of working with Xiao Yu."
"Then go talk to Xiao Yu. Why call me over?"
Teacher Ke cut Pan Xiaoying off and looked deeply at her daughter-in-law. "Xiaoying, it's one thing for you to discuss other matters with Li Ye and Xiao Yu, but when it comes to money, how could you drag me into it? Don't you understand something that basic?"
"..."
Pan Xiaoying froze, then immediately realized that Teacher Ke had misunderstood.
Money talks hurt feelings most. It was one thing for a daughter-in-law to negotiate terms with her husband's elder sister herself, but what was the point of dragging her mother-in-law into it?
Pan Xiaoying was the Wen family's eldest daughter-in-law, practically one with Wen Guohua. If she called out her mother-in-law to "make the decision" and have Li Ye and Wen Leyu put up money to help her, wouldn't that mean the family's own son was bargaining with the family's own daughter and son-in-law?
What was that? That was the big bullying the small.
Never mind that the money belonged to Li Ye and was merely being managed by Wen Leyu—even if it belonged to Wen Leyu, a mother could not help her daughter-in-law demand it. If a bowl of water was not carried level, the household would