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Wu Man turned to look at her, and snapped angrily, "You pay the electricity bill?!"

Xu Hemei was terrified by her high decibels. "There are only the two of us here. You don't need to shout so loudly. I can hear you."

Wu Man snorted coldly, immediately noticing the gold bracelet on her wrist and the shopping bag in her hand. She said in a very sarcastic tone, "My son works so hard at the hospital, and you, on the other hand, go out and buy random things!"

Xu Hemei frowned. "My mom bought these for me. What does it have to do with your son? His salary card is with you now, isn't it?"

Wu Man persisted, "My son was on duty at the hospital during the Dragon Boat Festival, while you're enjoying yourself. It's one thing to not be able to get pregnant, but you still go out to play. Your mother buys things for you, but you don't even ask her for cash. My son is working so hard at the hospital, and you're wearing gold and silver. What kind of behavior is that! You don't know how to be considerate of him at all. He's working so hard because of you!"

Xu Hemei really stabbed her in the buttocks with a knife. It was an eye-opener. She had never seen such a shameless and unreasonable person.

She simply couldn't stand it anymore. "Your son works so hard, what does that have to do with me? If you really care about him, make him quit his job too, and you can support him. Treat him like royalty."

It's as if if he doesn't marry her, his son won't work, buy a house, eat, or drink.

Just as Wu Man was about to speak, the sound of the keypad lock opening came from the door.

When Duan Fei returned, she changed her expression completely, greeting him with a big smile, opening the shoe cabinet and taking out slippers, "Son, you're back."

Duan Fei put down his car keys, craned his neck to look at Xu Hemei standing in the living room hallway, and then sat down to change his shoes.

He knew that Xu Hemei's expression meant she had argued with her mother. He sighed silently in his heart, feeling utterly exhausted.

After helping her son change his shoes, Wu Man excitedly asked, "What would you like to eat? I'll go cook right away."

Duan Fei smirked, "Just make something simple, I'm going to take a shower first."

Wu Man smiled and said, "Dinner can't be just anything. How about braised prawns, stewed pig's trotters with soybeans, sweet and sour pork ribs, and some stir-fried vegetables?"

Duan Fei said helplessly, "Mom, there are only three of us, we can't eat that much."

Wu Man wouldn't listen to a word she said, and then said, "Make another yam and pork rib soup, go take a shower, I'll go cook." After saying that, she happily ran into the kitchen.

Xu Hemei rolled her eyes at these words.

Yesterday she had dinner with Wu Man. Wu Man was extremely frugal, serving water spinach stir-fried with pork, a single dish that achieved a balance of meat and vegetables, and also included leafy greens.

But we can't just eat one dish; it's not like we're facing a famine.

She wanted to go to the kitchen to cook two more dishes, but Wu Man said, "These meat and vegetables are for my son to nourish his body. He works very hard at the hospital every night shift. If you want to eat them, go buy them yourself."

This infuriated her, and that night she ordered three takeout meals, ordering whatever smelled delicious, making Wu Man drool.

Duan Fei changed his shoes and walked towards Xu Hemei, taking the shopping bags from her hands, his tone somewhat reproachful: "Why did you buy so much stuff?"

Xu Hemei was particularly sensitive right now, and she was very unhappy with his tone. "What's wrong with buying these things? Can't I buy them?"

Duan Fei was good at playing the victim. He took her hand, glanced at the kitchen, and coaxed her softly, "I didn't say I wouldn't buy it. Buy it if you're happy."

Xu Hemei's mood improved slightly, and she hummed twice: "These were all bought for me by my mother," she said, raising her wrist. "And this one, isn't it pretty? It cost over nine thousand, which is almost a month's salary for you."

Duan Fei touched it and said, "It looks nice." He glanced at the shopping bag next to him, noticing that the brand names on the bag were all in English, and seemed to be deep in thought.

That evening, Xu Hemei went to take a shower, and he secretly looked at the receipt in the shopping bag.

A pair of shoes costs 1,800 yuan, a skirt costs 800 yuan, a shirt costs 1,000 yuan, and of course the most expensive item is an LV bag, which costs 15,000 yuan.

He stared at the receipt for 15,000 yuan, his expression hesitant.

After Xu Hemei finished showering, she happily wanted to take things apart, but Duan Fei carried her to bed and said, "Let's make a baby first."

"Oh, it's still early, no rush."

"no....."

Duan Fei found Xu Hemei's newly bought bracelet in the way, so she had no choice but to take it off and put it on the bedside table.

After giving birth, she put the bracelet in the drawer of her dressing table, no longer in the mood to take things apart, and went to bed to sleep.

When I woke up the next day, I found that all the shopping bags I had left in my room were gone.

Puzzled, she went outside and found the house empty. Usually at this time, Wu Man would be sweeping and mopping...

I searched the house thoroughly, but couldn't find those shopping bags anywhere.

She was puzzled and called Duan Fei, "Your mother is missing, and the things I bought yesterday are also gone. What happened?"

Could it be that her mother-in-law took her things...? She made a reasonable deduction in her mind.

Duan Fei's voice on the other end of the phone was helpless, "Did you forget where you put it last night? Look for it again, I'm busy, I'll hang up now."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Hemei returned to her room, opened the drawer, and found that the bracelet was still there.

She put the bracelet on her wrist and then called her mother-in-law.

The call went through, but no one answered for a long time.

If they don't answer, keep calling.

Besides Duan Fei, she was the only other person left in the house. Who else could have taken her things but her own?

Finally, after the fifth call, the phone was answered.

Xu Hemei abruptly asked, "Did you take my things?"

The sounds of bustling traffic came from the other end of the phone. Wu Man shouted at the top of her lungs, "Buying such expensive things is wasteful! I'm going to the mall to return them to help with household expenses!"

Xu Hemei frowned. "Do you know this is theft? You stole my things!"

Wu Man continued to shout at the top of her lungs, "We're all family, what's this about stealing? These things are the joint property of you and my son, and my son owns half of them."

People sometimes laugh when they are extremely speechless.

Xu Hemei laughed in exasperation and said, "I'm a neurosurgeon, and I strongly suspect you have a tumor in your brain. You should go to the hospital for an X-ray when you have time."

After saying that, she stopped listening to Wu Man's rant and hung up the phone.

She was furious. She had never met anyone like Wu Man in her life. She called Duan Fei, but no one answered the phone for a long time.

She sent a WeChat message yelling: "Duan Fei, you come back right now! Your mother stole my things! Don't play dead, or I'll call the police right now."

Duan Fei replied instantly: 【What exactly happened? I'm really busy right now and don't have time to go back. Don't get agitated.】

Xu Hemei: [Your mom stole those shopping bags from yesterday, saying she's going to return them to the mall. She also said those clothes and bags are marital property, and you should own half of them. That's ridiculous! I've never heard anything like that in my life!]

Duan Fei: [Mom did go a bit too far, but it doesn't warrant calling the police. Calm down, wait for her to come back, and have a good talk with her.]

Xu Hemei was even angrier. She lost her appetite for breakfast and seriously suspected that her inability to conceive was largely due to her mother-in-law's influence!

She sat on the sofa and waited for two hours until noon. Wu Man returned carrying several shopping bags, muttering, "What kind of mall is this? They won't give me a refund."