"What? Dacron clothes and leather shoes, too? Good heavens, that must have cost a fortune!"
Aunt Leng's heart ached just hearing about it.
Over three hundred yuan, spent just like that. If that three hundred yuan had been given to her, she could have added a bit more money and upgraded her family's mud-brick house to a proper brick-and-tile one.
Seeing the look of shock and anguish on Aunt Leng's face, Li Hongmei knew she had achieved her goal and said no more.
"Auntie, it's getting late, and I still have to work this afternoon! I'm heading home for lunch now."
After Li Hongmei left, Aunt Leng immediately started grumbling to Third Aunt Leng, "That was three hundred yuan! Gone, just like that."
"They're so irresponsible with money."
Aunt Leng's pained expression made it look as if her own money had been spent.
It wasn't just Aunt Leng; Third Aunt Leng wore the exact same expression, pained to no end. But her thoughts ran deeper.
