Mother Chen rolled her eyes at Chen Laizi and didn't want to pay any attention to him at all.

"Where does all this rice come from?" Chen Laizi asked, pointing to the sacks piled up in the kitchen.

"Where else could it have come from? Our daughter bought it! Should I count on you? Ha!" Mother Chen's tone was full of disdain.

Chen Laizi was choked by Chen's mother's attitude and walked out of the kitchen angrily.

Chen Xiaoru was sitting in the shade of the yard, resting. Seeing Chen Laizi come out, she said, "Dad, why are you out? I thought you were here to help Mom light the fire!"

She thought Chen Laizi would apologize to her mother in the kitchen! It seems that I overestimated Chen Laizi!

Chen Laizi walked over to Chen Xiaoru, sat down on a small stool, stared at her, and asked with a puzzled tone: "Your mother said that you bought the rice in the kitchen?"

Sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled spots of light. Chen Xiaoru gently fanned herself, watching Chen Laizi's face, a mixture of surprise and inquiry, and secretly laughed to herself: These two parents are truly enemies. However, she couldn't tell him the truth about this matter.

"Yes! I bought it." Chen Xiaoru stopped fanning herself and answered affirmatively, her eyes clear and calm.

Chen Laizi looked Chen Xiaoru up and down, as if he wanted to find some flaws in her, and asked cautiously: "My daughter, where did you get the money to buy so much rice?" He was afraid that his tone would be too harsh and make his daughter unhappy.

Chen Xiaoru shrugged casually and smiled slightly: "Oh, nothing! I did something good yesterday, and someone gave it to me." She deliberately downplayed it and did not intend to tell him the truth.

"Is that so? Then I'm relieved." Chen Laizi felt relieved and turned to gossip again, "But girl, what good deeds did you do to deserve so much money?"

Chen Xiaoru was getting a little impatient. Why was this guy so long-winded? She shouted directly, "Mom, where's Zhou Si? Why can't I see him?"

"Where else could he go? He might have gone to the mountains to pick wild vegetables." Chen's mother's voice came from the kitchen with the background sound of pots and pans colliding.

Speak of the devil, and here he is. As soon as the words fell, Zhou Si walked in from outside the yard with a basket full of wild vegetables.

"Dad, Xiaoru, I'm back." Zhou Si's voice was as soft as a mosquito. If it weren't for the quiet surroundings, no one would have been able to hear it.

When Chen Laizi saw Zhou Si coming back, he quickly called out, "Xiao Si, you're back. Are you tired? Come and take a break."

Although he was not as close to Zhou Si as he was to Chen Xiaoru, he was still pretty nice to him. He would buy Zhou Si some small gadgets when he won money.

Chen Xiaoru looked at Zhou Si and thought: Zhou Si is obviously not having a good life in the Chen family. My mother and I don’t treat him very well, but he still stays here wholeheartedly.

She knew that this was not only because Chen Laizi had saved his life, but also because he was afraid, afraid of being sold to that kind of place...that kind of "paradise" for men.

"Dad, I'm not tired." Zhou Si's voice was still very soft. He carried the basket and walked towards the kitchen with his head lowered. "I'll take the wild vegetables to the kitchen."

Chen Laizi looked at Zhou Si's back and opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't know what to say. He had accidentally saved this young man. He couldn't help but sigh that he had saved people twice in his life. The first person he saved became his wife, and the second person he saved became his son-in-law. Every time he thought of this, Chen Laizi felt happy.

Chen Xiaoru didn't care about Chen Laizi being so pretty! She watched Zhou Si enter the kitchen, thinking about other things.

The aroma of food soon wafted out from the kitchen, making people's mouths water.

"Get ready for dinner!" Chen's mother's voice came from the kitchen.

Chen Xiaoru's eyes lit up when she heard this. She stood up and ran to the kitchen eagerly: "I'll help!"

The food she ate yesterday was so hard to swallow that if she wasn't so hungry, she wouldn't even want to touch it! Now that she smelled the aroma of rice, how could she sit still?

Mother Chen poked her head out of the kitchen, spatula in hand, and said with a smile, "My daughter, go wait in the front hall while I bring the food out."

"Okay! Mom, hurry up!" Chen Xiaoru responded happily and walked out briskly. She felt happy in her heart because she could finally have a good meal!

Chen's mother and Zhou Si brought the food to the table, and Chen Xiaoru immediately buried her head in the porridge. She was really hungry.

Seeing her daughter like this, Chen's mother glared at Chen Laizi, as if to say: It's all your fault! Look how hungry you made your daughter!

Chen Xiaoru was eating voraciously. When she looked up, she found that both Chen's father and mother were holding buns in their hands, except Zhou Si.

"Zhou Si, eat some buns." Chen Xiaoru said.

"I... I don't like it. Leave it for you!" Zhou Si responded cautiously, his voice still very soft. But what he was thinking was: If I eat the buns, and you torture me in different ways later, then I still won't eat them.

Seeing Zhou Si's cautious expression, Chen Xiaoru knew he had strayed from his thoughts again. She stuffed a bun into his hand unhappily and said, "Eat! Everyone gets one. I bought it. Don't you think it's bad?"

Although her tone was harsh, there was a hint of helplessness in her eyes.

The sunlight came in from outside, fell on the buns on the table, and a faint heat rose.

Zhou Si lowered his head, looking at the plump white bun in his hand, feeling a little confused: Is she... is she okay? She actually asked me to eat buns. Did she come up with some new way to torture me?

Seeing Zhou Si still not moving, Chen Xiaoru slammed her chopsticks on the table with a "clack" sound, her eyes widening. "Eat! What are you standing there for? Do you think you can take a bite of this bun? If it gets cold, you'll just be feeding the pigs!"

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