Huang Xiaoguo was stunned. With him?

"And the third brother, look after those two. I'll go with them. If you want to take the second and fourth brothers, then go ahead."

Having made up his mind that the eldest and third sons wouldn't leave, Old Lady Wu glanced at Huang Mancang, who squinted and smiled at her.

Huang Xiaomin was about to speak when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. Before he could even look at Li Jin'e beside him, he heard Old Lady Wu's voice.

"Okay, you take two sons, and I'll take two sons."

This means they're splitting up.

Huang Xiaoguo and Huang Xiaomin pouted; they didn't want Huang Mancang...

If they could stay in the city, they would prefer to stay with Old Lady Wu.

The meal was enjoyed by Grandma Wu and her two sons, plus Huang Mancang.

The remaining people looked at Old Lady Wu with complicated expressions.

Zhou Pandi leaned against the window, looking at the orange light reflected on the ground through the window of the Huang family's house. Her brows were furrowed. When Hao Ren returned, he saw that the house was deserted and there was not even a trace of food.

“Zhou Pandi!”

ah?

When Zhou Pandi came to her senses, she turned around at the sound and saw Hao Ren's face, which was as black as the bottom of a pot.

I blinked and realized that I hadn't made dinner yet.

She jumped up from the bench by the window with a 'whoosh,' saying, 'I forgot.'

Forgot? Hao Ren's anger surged, "How could you not forget to keep an eye on Huang Mancang!"

Zhou Pandi pouted, displeased, and said, "You're talking about Huang Mancang..."

Before he could finish speaking, a slap landed on his cheek. Zhou Pan looked at his side and felt a burning pain. The feeling of guilt he had just felt for forgetting to cook was instantly wiped away by the slap.

"Are you crazy?! Have you taken some kind of mad drug?! Or were you bitten by a dog?!"

“These past few days, you’ve come home with a sour face every day. Who are you trying to impress? Only I am willing to serve you and marry you. Don’t you even look at yourself, looking like a dog? What woman would want you?”

Zhou Pandi's anger clouded her judgment, and she blurted out all sorts of hurtful and offensive words to Hao Ren.

They didn't notice that Hao Ren's expression was growing increasingly cold.

"Let me tell you, Hao Ren, from now on, I'm not serving you anymore. You can eat wherever you want, I won't..."

*Smack!*

Zhou Pandi's voice stopped abruptly. Just now, her cheek was only in pain, but now it was completely numb. She pressed her tongue against her cheek, and a tooth fell to the ground along the cracked corner of her mouth.

Zhou Pandi's pupils contracted as Hao Ren's emotionless voice rang out above her, "Only you are willing to serve me, willing to marry me?"

"Take a piss and look at yourself! You think you can get close to any man other than me? Don't you even know what makes you better than Wu Mingxia? Even his feet are prettier than your face!"

Zhou Pandi picked up the tooth from the ground, clenched it in her hand, and pounced forward to scratch Hao Ren's face hard.

"I can't compare, I can't compare...!"

Hao Ren didn't hold back either, and the couple fought fiercely for a moment, so much so that even Hao Fugui, who had just stepped into the house, didn't notice.

Hao Fugui, with a mournful face, was about to shout to vent his anger when a water glass flew towards him, instantly freezing him in shock.

When Zhou Pan saw it, Hao Fugui's forehead had already swollen up into a large bump.

"Stop fighting, everyone!!!"

Hao Fugui's chest heaved violently, his nostrils flared, clearly still shaken. Thank goodness it was just a cup; if it had been a stool or a knife, he would be lying on the ground unconscious by now.

Zhou Pandi casually brushed her disheveled hair behind her head, pushed Hao Ren away, and forced a smile, "This, this is just us joking around. Are you hungry? Mom will go cook."

Hao Ren also silently got up. As soon as he unfolded his clothes, his face stung with pain. It seemed that his face had been scratched up by that damned woman.

Hao Fugui said irritably, "My dad's face is all smeared, are you kidding me?"

Zhou Pandi turned her head and glanced at Hao Ren's face, feeling guilty, and remained silent.

Hao Fugui took off his schoolbag and threw it aside. "I'm about to go to the countryside, and neither of you asked me anything. You're just looking after your own little plot of land."

“Go to the countryside? Mom, why didn’t you hear that Huang Xiaoqiang was going to the countryside?”

Hao Fugui turned his face away and said, "Didn't you hear that Huang Xiaoqiang is going to the countryside? Huang Xiaofu is your son, isn't he? You even know whether he's going to the countryside or not."

Zhou Pandi said awkwardly, "Well, isn't he in the same class as you? Besides, he goes home early every day. What have you been doing outside? Why are you only coming back at this hour?"

What are you doing? Hao Fugui's tone faltered, and he said with a fierce but weak expression, "If you don't care about me, I'll have to figure it out myself."

"Who said we're not going to take care of you? Where are you going to in the countryside?"

"The Great Northwest."

After thinking for a long time, Zhou Pandi couldn't help but ask her son, "Logically speaking, Huang Xiaoqiang, who's in the same class, should also go to the countryside, so what about him...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Hao Ren clenched his fist and kicked Zhou Pandi away.

"Get out, get out, get out now."

Zhou Pandi lay on the ground and spat. This damn thing, it won't even let me finish my sentence.

“Your mom’s heart is with someone else now, and she doesn’t care about you at all. Don’t worry, Dad will think of a way to help you.”

"Can we avoid going to the countryside?"

"Well... Dad will ask around tomorrow after he goes to work, to see if we can pay someone else to do it."

"Dad, you are a hundred times better than my mom."

"Good son."

Zhou Pandi got up from the ground and banged on the door for a long time, but there was no response from inside.

Enraged, Zhou Pandi picked up a stool from the yard and was about to smash the door, but then, thinking of her son inside, she angrily put it down again.

I can't go back today, I'll just stay at my parents' house for the night.

Zhou Pandi, panting, stepped into her parents' house. "Mom, Mom, I'm back."

"Oh, I've got Pandi back!" Zhou's mother came out excitedly when she heard Zhou Pandi's voice, but when she saw her hands, her smiling face instantly fell.

Zhou Pandi didn't notice anything amiss as she walked into the yard, waving to her mother, "Mom, quick, get me a glass of water, I'm dying of thirst."

After waving for a while without getting a response, Zhou Pandi tried to go inside to get some water, but her mother blocked the door completely.

"Mom, move aside, I need to go inside and get some water."

Zhou's mother stood steadily in front of the door, ignoring what she said. Instead, she glanced at Zhou from head to toe, and finally gave up before speaking, "I thought you didn't recognize me as your mother. It's been almost a month, and I haven't even touched the back of your head."

"I don't want to talk about this."

"Fine, I won't hold it against you for not coming to see me this month. So you came back empty-handed?"

"Buying nothing and bringing nothing, is that reasonable?"

Zhou Pandi stared wide-eyed at her mother, "I only didn't buy anything this once, and you won't even let me in the door, or give me a sip of water."

“Whenever I went back to my parents’ home before, I never bought you anything. I only ever bought you good things, never anything bad.”