70s Delicate Girl: A Guide to Being a Rich Woman-Chapter 46: Spendthrift Mom

"Stop trying to scheme, Ximei really would have taken a liking to Minghui if she was interested, wouldn’t have waited until now," Madam Chen said calmly.

"I know, Mom," Li Caixia pouted, the logic is indeed logical, finding a daughter-in-law requires slow consideration. If you’re searching, find someone who’s a bit easier to handle.

Li Caixia was somewhat absent-minded while washing clothes, constantly thinking about her son getting married.

Xu Minghui will be twenty years old in the second half of the year, and that’s no small age anymore, can’t delay any longer.

Li Caixia’s anxiety is only understood by Madam Chen in the family, she’s equally a bit anxious.

"Sis, what’s up with Mom these days? So secretive," Xu Mumu said after giving lessons to several kids, and Xu Minghui approached Xu Mumu.

"How would I know, just asking her would do," Xu Mumu responded calmly. These days Li Caixia was indeed mysterious, no idea what she was up to, seemingly keeping things from the family.

"Why don’t you ask?" Xu Minghui looked expectantly at Xu Mumu.

"Why don’t you do it?" Xu Mumu rolled her eyes, based on her experience, her mom might be planning something big again.

At this moment, Xu Mumu just hoped Li Caixia wasn’t up to anything bad.

"Go on, Mom is definitely going to tell you," Xu Minghui continued to urge Xu Mumu, he had a hunch that what his mom was doing might involve him.

Xu Mumu shot Xu Minghui a glance but went toward Li Caixia’s room.

When Xu Mumu entered, Li Caixia was tidying up the saved tickets, quite a lot of them actually.

"Mom, what are you going through these tickets for?" Xu Mumu asked as she walked over and directly sat beside Li Caixia, looking at her actions with curiosity.

"Trying to see if there’s any valuable ticket at home," Li Caixia sighed. You don’t realize the cost of living until you manage a household, once you’re managing, everything has to be calculated, and there’s not much savings at home, which makes her uneasy.

"Mom, what are you up to these days, leaving early and coming back late, not even going to work?" Xu Mumu directly voiced her doubts.

"All for your brother’s situation," Li Caixia said with a worried face.

"Brother? What’s he done wrong?" Xu Mumu raised an eyebrow slightly; say what you will, the family definitely has a knack for getting into trouble.

"What nonsense, your brother will be twenty by the end of the year, it’s time to find him a wife," Li Caixia said helplessly. If only she’d waited until he’d married to discuss dividing the family, she regretted it immensely.

"Twenty isn’t that old, why are you in a rush when Brother isn’t?" Xu Mumu said speechlessly. In her view, twenty is still too young, they could totally wait longer.

Besides, Xu Minghui’s lazy, idle, eat-without-working attitude, what girl would fancy him?

However, Xu Minghui’s face is not bad, he can still charm people.

But knowing her brother well enough, Xu Mumu’s aware his aspirations are sky-high, this matter needs time and patience.

For now, it’s better not to ruin a good girl’s life, Xu Mumu wanted to properly reform Xu Minghui.

"How can there be no rush, look at the team, among those the same age as your brother, aside from Erdan, who hasn’t married? Some already have kids." Li Caixia glanced at her daughter.

"Mom, marriage is something you can’t rush, it’s also up to Brother," Xu Mumu was feeling a bit headache, just hoping Li Caixia doesn’t rush into anything foolish.

"Don’t worry, I understand these things." Li Caixia carefully put the tickets into a bag and put them away.

"Mom, you haven’t told me what you’ve been up to lately." Xu Mumu looked at Li Caixia.

"I took a trip to Red Jade Team and found Madam Song, hehe, she prophesized that your brother can marry this year and will definitely have a good marriage match," Li Caixia said softly, her voice filled with excitement.

"From here to Red Jade Team is about 20 miles, Mom, Madam Song is a scammer," Xu Mumu’s headache intensified, oh right, her mom had a hobby of fortune-telling.

Before the three siblings were born, she had sought prophecies, previously from the old blind man in the team but he died shortly after Xu Mumu was born, supposedly having some real skills, whether or not is unknown to Xu Mumu.

After the old blind man’s death, Madam Song rose to prominence, and to find her for anything, payment in cash or goods was necessary.

In Xu Mumu’s memory, there wasn’t such a person as Madam Song, but in regards to fortune-telling, Xu Mumu didn’t believe in any of it; Madam Song was probably a fraud.

"Mom, didn’t we discuss not believing in superstitions? They’re all scams," Xu Mumu said seriously.

"Nonsense, Madam Song is very capable, witnessed by the Red Jade Team people," Li Caixia was very trustful of Madam Song.

"Mom, how much money and food did you give her?" Xu Mumu looked at Li Caixia, wanting to know how much good stuff her mom had squandered.

"Just ten bucks, and she gave me a stone to put under Minghui’s pillow; this way, Minghui can find a wife this year," Li Caixia said with a grin, willing to spend ten bucks if it meant getting an obedient, easily managed daughter-in-law.

"Did you give her anything before?" Xu Mumu’s face nearly turned green, ten bucks could buy so much food, so much meat, her mom was conned.

That’s not acceptable, that’s ten bucks, can’t let her mom waste it, must go and retrieve the money.

"Before, I just gave her five pounds of sweet potatoes, don’t worry, she delivers," Li Caixia smiled, she wasn’t easily duped, just gave some sweet potatoes and ten bucks. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Xu Mumu felt a burst of helplessness, how could her cleverly mom get fooled by a con artist?

No way, she couldn’t accept this loss, had to retrieve the money.

Another vital matter was, Xu Mumu realized her mom truly couldn’t manage the family’s finances, managing money ought to be her grandma’s task, she did it better and held authority.

"Mom, five pounds of sweet potatoes would feed our family for two days, ten bucks could buy lots of meat," Xu Mumu said worriedly, how disastrous could her mom be, that was a whole ten bucks.