"What are you in such a hurry for?" Su Qiao stuffed the five hundred wen she had just received into Zhou Lihua's hand.
Zhou Lihua hurriedly hid the money in her bosom, then turned around and shut the door. Only then did her expression improve somewhat.
"How could I not be in a hurry?"
"Listen to yourself. You said you'd let me eat my fill of meat, and you said you'd pay me back three times the money. Which of those things have you actually done?"
"You even gave such a good source of income to other people. How could you not think more about your mother? About your father, your older brother, and your younger brother?"
Su Qiao did not like hearing that.
"What do you mean, I gave it to other people? Are Grandpa and Grandma other people? Are Second Uncle and Second Aunt other people?"
"Isn't the money still being used on our own family? Don't you need to eat and drink too?"
"Besides, Second Brother made the toothbrush handle, he carved the pattern, and the two siblings helped prepare the bristles. It wasn't all my own work."
Zhou Lihua did not think much of it. "What's so difficult about making a toothbrush? Anyone who knows a bit of handicraft can figure it out."
"All right, then. Take a look at this."
Su Qiao felt there was no way to explain it to her. She pulled a paper packet from her bosom and waved it in front of her.
Zhou Lihua sniffed, and her eyes suddenly lit up. "A chicken leg?"
Su Qiao stuffed the chicken leg wrapped in palm leaves into her hand. Then, as if performing a magic trick, she took a small packet of candy from her purse and handed it over as well.