Chapter 583
River Dam, bungalow.
After Xue Yuantong woke up, she took some time to go to Chuchu's house and settle her "breakfast-lunch," then returned to bed to laze around, unwilling to get up for a long while.
When she received Jiang Ning's perfunctory reply, Xue Yuantong flew into a rage and hurled her phone viciously onto the soft quilt.
Then she hugged her pillow and beat it up to vent her anger.
Jiang Ning, you jerk! She swore to heaven that she absolutely would not speak to Jiang Ning for an hour, nor would she go to his house to help him work out on the computer.
She rolled over to the chair, untied the plastic bag, peeled a Satsuma Mandarin to eat, and thought about what she needed to do today.
Though it was the weekend, her mother could never sit still and had gone to work overtime again. Evergreen Liquid paid overtime wages, and they were exceptionally generous.
Thus, many household chores fell onto Tongtong's shoulders.
Xue Yuantong was not some spoiled little girl who opened her mouth for food and held out her hand for clothes.
Children from poor families grew up early. Since she was little, she had known how to fend for herself. She often ran outside to collect scraps, pick peanuts, dig sweet potatoes, steal watermelons, and fail to catch wild rabbits.
In Hui Province, nearly every rural child born in the nineties whose family was average or poor had done farm work.
Biting into a Satsuma Mandarin, Xue Yuantong took stock of today's chores: wash the bedsheets, duvet cover, and pillowcases, scrub the clay pot, then clean the whole house.
Sweeping in particular was a huge hassle.
As Xue Yuantong pondered a solution, her eyes suddenly lit up. She thought of her