Chapter 32 Don't blame me for being ruthless

In order to stay, the first and third wives had to bear the pain and give up half of the food.

Zhang Erxi was so angry that he jumped up and down as he watched the food being sent out, but there was nothing he could do. He had to frown and clench his fists in anxiety.

During the day they have to help the villagers push carts and move things, and they also have to stand guard when others are resting.

After finally waiting until nightfall, when everyone else had fallen asleep, they still had to patrol in shifts.

After several days of tossing and turning, Zhang Defu's body finally couldn't take it anymore and he accidentally fell asleep while on night duty.

When it was Zhang Sanbao's turn to relieve the guard, he found Zhang Defu fast asleep at the entrance of the cave, snoring loudly.

He originally planned to wake him up, but then he thought that nothing would happen at this late hour, and he was also very tired, so he simply lay down and slept with him until the next morning.

Fortunately, that night was peaceful and they woke up early. The villagers didn't notice anything unusual and thought that the two brothers had really stayed at the entrance of the cave all night.

Zhao Chunhua, who had gotten up to use the restroom last night, had already noticed something was going on and told everyone the truth: "I went to the restroom last night and saw you two sleeping at the entrance of the cave. Your snoring was louder than the old cows we raise in our village! I called out to you several times, but you didn't respond at all."

"I was worried that there would be problems if no one was on guard, so I called Tianfu and Dajun to take over the guard duty, and that's how the whole night passed peacefully."

After saying that, a sharp light suddenly flashed in Zhao Chunhua's eyes: "Zhang Defu, Zhang Sanbao, it seems that you don't care about our safety at all! It's better for you to leave early!"

When everyone heard this, any sympathy they had for these two people immediately disappeared.

"Zhang Defu, do you want to kill us? What if another group of bandits comes? Can we still survive?"

"If you two don't want to stay here any longer, just say so and leave as soon as possible. Don't cause any more trouble for our village!"

Listening to everyone's accusations, Zhang Defu quickly explained: "Actually... it's because I'm tired..."

Zhao Chunhua responded with a cold smile: "Everyone is working hard. Your two families have caused a lot of villagers to suffer. You deserve to suffer more!"

After hearing this, Zhang Defu was furious, but he could only endure it temporarily in front of so many people.

He lowered his head and said, "It was indeed our fault yesterday. I promise that I will never make the same mistake again."

"Just saying it is not enough. How can you make us believe it?" Zhao Chunhua asked.

Zhang Defu gritted his teeth, raised three fingers of his right hand and swore: "If I sleep one more time, I will take out all the remaining coarse grains in the house and share them with everyone."

Hearing such a promise, Zhao Chunhua couldn't help but admire in her heart, this guy is really willing to spend so much money.

Seeing his brother's statement, Zhang Sanbao followed suit and made the same promise.

Seeing this, the villagers' resentment gradually dissipated, and the team set out on their journey again.

Since most of the black flour had been compensated to several poisoned villagers a few days ago, the two families now had little dry food left.

At night, everyone in the village started to cook and eat pasta made from black flour, but Bai Xiaowei could only cook a pot of wild vegetables and pig grass roots.

Zhang Erxi couldn't help but lose his temper when he saw this situation, but his father glared at him and he immediately shut up.

"It's good enough to have something to eat, what else do you want!" Zhang Defu said in a low voice.

In order to calm Zhang Erxi down, Bai Xiaowei scooped him a bowl full of wild vegetable soup and comforted him, "Our family is in a difficult situation for now, but we will be fine after this period of time. Then we will have meat to eat."

Although he looked reluctant, Zhang Erxi didn't dare to make a fuss because he had just been beaten a few days ago.

When the family was eating the inedible wild vegetables, suddenly a fragrance wafted over.

The whole family's attention was drawn over and they found that Zhao Chunhua was stewing porridge with dried meat.

In addition to the fragrant porridge, Xie Lanqin also held a cake made of fine white flour in her hand. She tore the cake into pieces and mixed it into the porridge before cooking them together.

The aroma of rice, meat and cakes mixed together and kept coming over.

At this moment, Zhang Erxi was so greedy that his eyes were almost sparkling with stars.

Not only Zhang Erxi, but Zhang Defu and Bai Xiaowei were also drooling. They had just drunk a bowl of wild vegetable soup, but their stomachs were still growling with hunger.

"Mom, I want to eat meat, too!"

Zhang Erxi pulled Bai Xiaowei's arm and acted coquettishly, "We still have some dried mice, right? Can you give me some more?"

Bai Xiaowei explained helplessly: "The little bit of rat we have has already been divided up by others. Erxi, be patient, there will be plenty of good days ahead."

I don’t know when we can reach the capital. If we eat up all the food now, the escape will be very difficult.

But Zhang Erxi didn't care at all. He pointed at the people across the street and said, "Why can they eat meat? It's unfair! I don't care. I want to be the same as them!"

Seeing her son throwing a tantrum again, Bai Xiaowei lost her patience, stared at him fiercely and scolded him: "If you want to eat, go find it yourself, don't make a fuss here!"

In fact, she herself wants to have a good meal too!

But Zhang Erxi still refused to listen and simply sat on the ground and started crying: "No matter what! Since you gave birth to me, you have to give me meat to eat!"

Zhang Defu got a headache from his shouting. He was already in a bad mood, and now he was even more annoyed after a hard day's work.

He picked up the stick and threatened, "You are really spoiled! I say three, if you don't get up I will really beat you! One! Two——"

Seeing that he was really going to use force, Zhang Erxi immediately got up from the ground and didn't dare to make any more noise.

When Zhang Dajun and Zhang Daniu saw this scene, they couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Zhao Chunhua slapped Zhang Dajun and cursed, "Sister-in-law is calling you to eat, are you pretending not to hear?"

Zhang Dajun then turned around and took the bowl of meat porridge from Xie Lanqin, saying with a smile: "Mom, I was watching them quarreling. It was quite lively."

Zhao Chunhua said, "What are you looking at? Eat your meal and go to bed. You have to travel tomorrow morning. Don't stare at other people's affairs all day long."

For some reason, her eyelids had been twitching since noon, and she always felt that something bad was going to happen.

Through Zhao

At Chunhua's urging, the second roommate finished dinner and quickly lay down to rest.

Zhang Defu was on guard in the first half of the night, and Bai Xiaowei came to help since she couldn't sleep.

The two men's stomachs were growling with hunger, and they couldn't help but look towards the house, with evil thoughts in their minds.

Bai Xiaowei whispered, "I see they are all sleeping soundly."