After walking for a while, Liu couldn't bear it anymore and stopped by the roadside to rest.

Xia Daohua deliberately irritated her: "Auntie, aren't you very anxious? Why are you stopping now? At this slow pace, how long will it take us to get to town?"

Liu was so angry at Xia Daohua that her breath got stuck in her throat, unable to move. Seeing that no one was around, Liu couldn't help but roll her eyes at Xia Daohua:

"Daihua girl, I'm not saying this to you, auntie, but this young lady needs to be quiet and well-behaved to be liked. If you're sharp-tongued like me, be careful you won't be able to get married in the future!"

Xia Daohua smiled happily: "I don't want to get married! If I really can't get married in the future, that would be great! Auntie, thank you!"

Liu was speechless for a moment. She patted her forehead, feeling a little annoyed. Xia Daohua was only nine years old, after all. How could she understand what marriage was all about?

If I tell her this at this time, hoping to discourage her, won't I be disappointed?

Liu took a breath and finally regained her balance. She was too lazy to pretend to be poor and said to Xia Daohua and Lihua:

"Don't be in such a hurry to leave, both of you. Come and rest with me for a while.

When a horse-drawn carriage or ox-drawn cart passes by, we will get on it!

"My aunt will pay for it, and we'll take a bus to town. It's definitely faster than walking."

They didn't have to wait long before a carriage passed by.

It would have taken more than two hours to walk, but with the carriage, it took less than half an hour to get there.

When Liu entered the house with Lihua and Xia Daohua, they were immediately greeted by the enticing aroma of food. Looking closely, they saw Xia Youcai and Jinhua drinking porridge. Zhu, holding Ah Liu, sat below Jinhua, feeding her egg custard and occasionally picking up a fried dough stick with her chopsticks and taking a quick bite.

There were not only soy milk, fried dough sticks, and tofu pudding on the table, but also a basket of steaming dumplings.

This meal was nothing special to Xia Daohua, and it was just a daily routine for Xia Youcai's family. However, Lihua couldn't help but feel a surge of anger rising in her heart.

In the early years before the family split up, grandparents would often ask their sons to take turns doing hard labor to carry the harvest to the town and deliver it to Xia Youcai's home.

They said that they had to support Xia Dalang's studies. The eldest wife's life was not easy, so the family had to provide some financial support for her.

However, the breakfast that the Xia family ate was often black mixed flour steamed bread, or millet flour steamed bread, or sometimes cornmeal pancakes.

Xia Youcai's family actually had some delicious fried dough sticks! They were made with white flour and lots of oil, so they were incredibly expensive! They also had soy milk, tofu pudding, and steamed buns—none of them were cheap!

The most important thing is that all these things have to be bought from outside!

Now that their family doesn't subsidize them anymore, they can live so well. What kind of a life were they living in the past when their family subsidized them?!

Lihua's face became increasingly ugly.

If I hadn't been reluctant to waste food, I would have overturned the table.

Although Xia Daohua didn't feel anything about this "luxurious" breakfast, she had already noticed that Lihua was really angry.

The coldness from Lihua almost froze Xia Daohua!

But if you look at the top of Lihua's head, the flames are so blazing that they can almost light up the child!

Xia Daohua couldn't help but secretly click her tongue and made up her mind that before Lihua vented her anger, she would never take the initiative to provoke her and would definitely not be her punching bag!

When Xia Youcai met his wife and two nieces, he was a little surprised. Didn’t they agree to trick Lihua here? Why did they bring Daohua here as well?

However, he still nodded to Liu, forced a smile, bared his teeth at Lihua and Xia Daohua, and asked nonchalantly:

"Here you are! Have you had breakfast yet? Do you want to eat something together?"

This question is very insincere.

Besides, the food on the table is calculated per person, and there is no extra food at all. How can they eat it all?

This is obviously just a heartless compliment!

Upon hearing this, Lihua's face suddenly turned darker, and the coldness emanating from her body became even stronger.

Xia Daohua couldn't help but take a step aside, consciously keeping a safe distance from the ice block, and then said to Xia Youcai with a smile:

"That's great! My aunt-in-law was worried about home, so she told us to leave early this morning. My sister and I didn't even have time to drink a sip of water before we left. Now my stomach is growling with hunger!"

As Xia Daohua spoke, she pulled a chair over and sat down very naturally.

After sitting down, he took the plate of fried dough sticks in the center of the table and the tray of steamed dumplings next to it, and placed them in front of him while turning around and calling Lihua:

"Sister, don't just stand there like an idiot. Eat first!"

As Xia Daohua spoke, she took out a pair of bamboo chopsticks, apparently from her sleeve pocket, but actually from the storage area of the space supermarket.

She blew away the nonexistent dust on her chopsticks, picked up a steamed dumpling, tested the temperature with her lips, and took a big bite.

"Mmm, delicious! This bun is stuffed with shepherd's purse and pork! The skin is thin, the filling is large, and it's full of oil and ingredients. It tastes really good. Sister, eat it quickly! Otherwise, you're hungry and can't even hold a needle or thread. How can you help Sister Jinhua with the work?"

Xia Daohua's behavior shocked Xia Youcai, Jinhua, and Zhu, and angered Liu, but it made the two beauties, Lihua and A Liu, one big and one small, laugh.

At first, when Lihua saw Xia Daohua climbing up the pole and sitting down to eat, she thought it was very spineless and felt a little angry with her.

But Xia Daohua just made a few movements and said a few words, and the faces of everyone in the room changed. For some reason, his heart, which had been so heavy with resentment, suddenly felt much better.

Lihua knew that Xia Youcai's family's behavior was extremely unfilial to the old couple, but as a niece, she had no right to accuse her uncle and aunt of being unfilial.

If the old couple didn't want to pursue the matter, no matter what she said, it would be of no use.

It was precisely because she knew all this clearly in her heart that Lihua's expression became increasingly ugly.

No one expected that Xia Daohua was just a little naughty, but she made Xia Youcai and Liu's faces look so funny.

Lihua breathed a sigh of relief, pulled a chair over and sat down.

"Since it's so delicious, I have to try it."

Xia Daohua hurriedly took out another pair of chopsticks from her sleeve pocket and gave them to Lihua.

When Zhu saw it, she immediately felt very strange:

"Sister Daohua, when you go out, do you always carry several pairs of chopsticks with you?"