Cen Xi stared directly at the woman holding a kitchen knife, who was covered in fat and whose eyes were nowhere to be found, and asked.

"So what if it is? I haven't mistreated your children while you were unconscious for three days. They eat here every day. What's wrong with me taking some food? I can't let them eat for free."

Because of the excessive fat on her face, Cen Xi couldn't see what expression she had, but she could see that the woman was drooling every time she spoke, her mouth was like a leaky pot, always leaking something out.

From a distance, she looked like a colossal figure towering before her.

The family next to her were emaciated and lifeless.

This woman clearly has a large appetite and is quite assertive.

"Is eating leftovers also a way of taking care of them?"

Although Cen Xi wasn't sure if she could beat this fat woman, she knew she couldn't lose in an argument.

"Who said it was leftovers? Who said that? Step forward!"

She stood at the front door of her house and roared, which startled Jiu Yi and Xiao Yu, who then clung tightly to Cen Xi's legs.

"Aunt Li, since you don't admit that you fed them leftovers, I have nothing more to say and I won't pursue the matter further. I just want to ask one question: can you return the grain that we have left?"

Cen Xi squatted down and hugged her two children, then asked with a cold expression.

What a joke! At the company, apart from tolerating those two perverted bosses, no one else could bully her.

"No! Your kids ate them all. If you want to find them, go fish them out of your manure pit."

After saying this, the fat woman, Aunt Li, was about to go inside.

"Jiuyi, take good care of your younger sister!"

Cen Xi put the two children away and quickly moved to the fat woman's side, knocking her to the ground with one move.

Before she could react, Cen Xi snatched the kitchen knife from her hand and held it against her neckless, fleshy side.

If Ms. Li were here, Cen Xi would definitely say to her with tears of gratitude, "Mother, you were so prescient! If it weren't for you making me learn Sanda (Chinese kickboxing), how would I have survived in this ancient world? I'm so grateful that you dragged me out of bed at five o'clock every day to learn this."

"If you want to be a robber, you have to ask me for permission first, right?"

What are you going to do?

The fat woman finally felt a little scared.

"Jiuyi, bring your younger sister in!"

Cen Xi waved to the little boy in the distance outside the door.

"Huh? Oh!"

Before Xiao Jiuyi could figure out why his mother was so powerful, he was drawn in by the aroma of meat broth emanating from the house.

They haven't smelled meat in their house for six months, let alone eaten it.

So he ignored everything and followed Cen Xi into Aunt Li's kitchen.

"I'll eat your food today, and you give me two days' worth of rations, then we'll call it even. From now on, we'll go our separate ways, how about that?"

Cen Xi helped the fat woman into the house. Looking at the steaming meat soup on the table, her stomach rumbled. It wasn't that she was shameless; her body was just too hungry. She hadn't felt it while lying in bed, but now, smelling the aroma of food, she was incredibly hungry.

"I'm always the one taking other people's things. Anyone who dares to take from my house, I'll beat them to a pulp. Nobody gets to eat my stuff unless I give permission, hmph!"

Even though this fat woman was being held to a cleaver, her tone of voice was anything but polite.

"Then I'll have no choice but to cripple you."

Seeing that the fat woman was unyielding, Cen Xi didn't hold back. Although the fat woman was difficult to hit because of her body, her legs were relatively thin, so with two punches, she dislocated the fat woman's legs.

To avoid the fat woman being too heavy and hitting him, Cen Xi quickly darted to the dining table after hitting her.

Seeing that the food on the table seemed to have been set out only recently and that no one in the family had touched it yet, Cen Xi was overjoyed.

He picked up the bowl next to him and ladled some meat soup for the two children.

"Jiuyi, Xiaoyu, have some drink first to warm your stomach."

"Yes! Mother is the best. Little Fish hasn't eaten meat for a year. Mother is great, and I am great too."

Xiaoyu nodded very seriously, and then smiled at Qu Xiaoxiao as if her mouth was coated with honey.

Jiu Yi didn't say anything. Just as Cen Xi was about to serve himself a bowl, he grabbed the spoon and drank several mouthfuls.

He poured the soup that Cen Xi handed him back and scooped out several large pieces of meat for himself.

What happened to saying he wasn't hungry? Turns out he was just putting on an act; this is probably his true nature.

Cen Xi didn't care what others thought of her anymore; her priority now was to fill her stomach.

Anyway, she wasn't the first to snatch it, so her conscience won't bother her.

So she quickly joined in the whirlwind of eating, and a quarter of an hour later, the three of them were finally full.

After finishing their meal, Cen Xi realized that the villagers and neighbors around them were watching them eat. And their expressions seemed rather subtle.

Cen Xi didn't care what they thought. She went straight to the fat woman, Aunt Li, and put her dislocated leg back in place.

"I ate a meal with you today, so our debt is settled. And you? Remember not to steal other people's things in the future. Look at you, you're so fat you can barely walk straight, so you need to eat less. Look at all the nutrition in your family is going to you."

"How can you bear this? Looking at your body, you must have all three highs (high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol). If you don't control yourself, you'll die of obesity sooner or later. So I'm doing this for your own good. Eating your flesh is just to lighten your burden. You should be thanking me."

"Folks, stop watching the commotion. Go home!"

After teaching that fat woman a lesson and having eaten and drunk her fill, Cen Xi looked at the dark sky and decided to go back to sleep.

Before leaving, she didn't forget to take Jiuyi to the fat woman's kitchen to look for their food.

Cen Xi originally thought there was a lot, but when Jiu Yi pointed, Cen Xi realized that the bag of grain was almost empty.

Cen Xi hesitated for a moment, but still took it; something was better than nothing.

It's the dead of winter now, so even if she wanted to go out, she couldn't find a way. She'll have to wait until next spring.

Carrying a nearly empty grain sack, Cen Xi ignored what people around her thought and simply took her two little ones home.

"Is this Lady Liu possessed? How come she changed so much after her husband died?"

The neighbors watched the whole thing as Cen Xi beat up that fat woman from the Li family, and they also watched as she ate the food from Aunt Li's house.

This is absolutely incredible.

"Sigh, if you were unconscious for three days and woke up to find your food rations stolen, you'd be furious too. Life isn't easy for anyone. I think you're pretty, so you're sure to have good fortune in the future. Maybe you'll even become a concubine in a wealthy family."

"Judging from her shrewish behavior just now, she's just as bad as that fat old woman Li. Who would dare to take her as a concubine?"

Clearly, this villager disapproved of Cen Xi's behavior just now.

"Of course! Some important people have a thing for this. Maybe we can put it together and we might even get some unexpected benefits!"