Li Ping was so startled by her grandmother Li Wan's scream that she dropped the meat she was eating with her chopsticks onto the table.

The large tabby cat, which had been lying down and sleeping nearby, swiftly snatched the meat, jumped off the kang (a heated brick bed), and gracefully ran outside.

Li Wanshi was furious. She walked up to Li Ping and poked her white forehead with her sharp finger. "Well, you! You give the meat to the cat but not to your grandparents! You ignorant little brat, tell me! Who taught you to do this!"

A red mark appeared on Li Ping's forehead from being poked, which frightened her so much that she hid behind Zhao Sufang.

When Li Jin heard his mother yell twice, he hurriedly tried to explain, but before he could open his mouth, he saw his mother finish yelling at her fifth daughter and head straight for Zhao Sufang.

Li Wanshi snatched the bowl of malted milk powder from Zhao Sufang's hand.

The younger sister drank slowly, and there was still more than half a bowl left in her bowl. Li Jiabao had already told his mother that he would drink whatever the younger sister left behind.

Li Wanshi's eyes blazed with fury. She stared at the malted milk powder for a few moments, then picked up the bowl and took a sip, becoming even more enraged.

"They actually have money to drink malted milk powder! Don't they know how to be filial to their elders when they have malted milk powder?!" After saying that, Li Wanshi tilted her head back and drank it all in one gulp.

Li Jiabao was dumbfounded when he saw that the sweet malted milk powder he was about to eat had all been drunk by his milk.

"Grandma, Grandma, why did you drink all the malted milk powder?"

Li Jiabao burst into tears. He had been longing for the malted milk powder for so long! The fragrant and sweet malted milk powder had all been drunk by his mother!

"What, I can't drink? You've been living the high life behind my back and your grandpa's back, do you have any conscience?!"

Li Wanshi was absolutely furious.

Li Jiabao, the grandson, is a very filial child. His words are sweeter than honey, and he always calls her "Grandma" when he sees her.

The eldest son, Li Jin, was even more so. He was always very filial, and he would always give her and her husband the best food first. Since her husband didn't like good food, it would end up in her mouth.

I needed to talk to my eldest son today, and I happened to run into them eating stir-fried pork and drinking malted milk powder.

This is what you can see for yourself; how much is there that you can't see?

How much delicious food and drink did she eat behind her husband's back?

That's absolutely outrageous!

snort!

The son is a filial son, and the grandson is also a conscientious person. How could they possibly eat alone behind his and his father's back?

It must have been instigated by this daughter-in-law who had no qualifications.

right!

This eldest daughter-in-law is no good person. She always looks weak and cowardly, and she can't even fart when she kicks the ground. But inside, she's full of bad intentions!

Seeing his mother both angry and aggrieved, with tears welling up in her eyes, Li Jin quickly slid off the kang (a heated brick bed) and helped her sit down.

Li Wanshi sat down on the kang (a heated brick bed), glaring fiercely at Zhao Sufang with eyes so intense they seemed to want to turn into a knife and cut a piece of Zhao Sufang's flesh off.

Li Wanshi cursed, "You wicked whore, you've lost your conscience! You've instigated my son and grandson to be unfilial! I'll show you!"

Zhao Sufang held her youngest daughter, who was crying loudly in her arms, and hugged her fifth daughter with one arm. She hadn't said a word since her mother-in-law entered the room and started acting up.

She married into the Li family at the age of fifteen and was scolded by her mother-in-law for more than twenty years. Although she was used to being scolded, she still felt embarrassed to hear her mother-in-law scolding her so harshly in front of her children. She turned around, hugged her youngest daughter, and pulled her fifth daughter to the west room.

"Oh, so you dare to give me attitude! Look at the good wife you married!"

Seeing that Zhao Sufang not only didn't apologize to her but also dared to go out, Li Wanshi complained loudly to Li Jin.

Li Jin quickly tried to appease his mother, putting on a fawning smile, "Mother, Mother, my dear mother, wasn't this wife the one you arranged for your son? Why are you blaming your son?"

Ignoring her eldest son's banter, Li Wanshi said, "I found you a wife, just so you'd forget your mother! Have you lost your mind, letting this whore instigate you to disown your parents! Little Liu, you're eating and drinking well behind your parents' backs, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning!"

As she spoke, she kept tapping her eldest son's forehead with her middle finger.

Unlike before when she poked Li Ping's forehead with her sharp fingernails, Li Wanshi gently tapped her son's forehead with her soft fingertips.

Li Jin is already in his forties. After leaving the military, he first became the director of a winery, and now he is at least the brigade leader and the head of a village. He is not respected wherever he goes. Now that his own mother is humiliating him in front of the younger generation, he is not happy either.

However, she felt guilty for not immediately offering the delicious food to her parents, and her face turned red and purple, her expression changing drastically, making her quite a sight to behold.

Li Xiangdong watched his grandmother's tantrum with cold indifference, but in his heart he wished he could kick her out of the house.

That wretched old woman only cares about herself and her youngest son, Li Song. She's used to sucking the blood of her eldest son, second son, and daughters, as if none of her other children are her own flesh and blood.

In his past life, his fourth sister was sold by her, and in this life, his fourth sister was almost sold again, leaving him with a debt of one hundred yuan. For Li Xiangdong, the pitiful bond between the two of them had long since vanished.

"Mom, this meat wasn't bought by me. It was bought by Xiangdong and the other kids with some money they collected and sold from scraps. The kids haven't had meat in a long time and they're really craving it."

Li Jin patiently explained to Li Wanshi in a low voice.

Li Jin took Li Xiangdong's words to heart, but didn't directly tell his mother about selling Chinese medicine. Perhaps he knew in his heart that as long as he started, his mother would definitely take out the forty yuan, and would continue to ask him for money from selling Rehmannia glutinosa.

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