Cai Xiufang: "You! Nothing ever stays in your hands."
Kang Li: "Who says? My hands are tight, not like a sieve or a winnowing basket."
"You know yourself whether you're a sieve or a winnowing basket."
Having money, but not knowing to save it, just spending it—but never on herself. Almost all of it goes towards the family, son-in-law, and a few kids, or she just takes out a bunch all at once to help the villagers do real things.
She might be a rural woman, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know how much it costs to build roads, especially those wide, flat ones that are even better than the city's—they take real money.
But still, her dear Li spends money without even blinking an eye.
"I'm not like that."
Kang Li replied very straightforwardly, and even smiled to curry favor.
