Chapter 232: Snatching Meat

The wine that Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao brought was placed on the table, and the fruit was taken by Mrs. Weng, taken to the kitchen, washed and brought out again.

"Where did you buy this fruit? It's so juicy." Mrs. Weng said as she took a grape and put it in her mouth. She took a bite and the juice filled her mouth. She exclaimed, "So sweet!"

Weng Ermei also took one and put it in her mouth to try it. "It is indeed very sweet."

After hearing this, other children came over to try. A large plate of fruit was finished by seven or eight people in less than five minutes.

"Mom, grapes are delicious. Do you have any more?"

"Yes, I'll go wash some more."

Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao sat under the veranda, accompanied by Weng Yong. As for Li Yuan, he had not been seen since he entered the door.

"I have an unwelcome request." Weng Yong was a little embarrassed to say it, but for the sake of his family, he took a sip of tea and said, "Do you have any nanmu wood at home? I would like to ask you to make some furniture."

Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

"There is no more wood." Xu Hexiao shook his head.

"Is that so?" Weng Yong said with some regret, "But think about it, making so many pieces of furniture must have consumed a lot of wood."

"That's true. The previous wood was transported from the south by a friend, and this kind of wood is not easy to find." Xu Hexiao said.

Weng Yong agreed with Xu Hexiao's words, "Nanmu has a long growth cycle, and the vegetation was severely damaged in the past few years, so good wood is indeed hard to find."

Li Yuan came back when it was time for dinner and bought a roast duck.

"Why did you only buy one?" Weng Yong frowned. There were more than a dozen people in his family, plus nine people in Lin Qi's family, more than twenty people in total. One roast duck was not enough.

"There are no more. They have all been reserved by others. I only got the last one." Li Yuan said.

"If there's no roast duck, you can buy something else." Weng Yong lowered his voice with a look of annoyance on his face.

Li Yuan looked expressionless, "What should we do then?"

"The meal has already started. What else can we do? I'll go to the kitchen and ask your sister-in-law to find a way to add one more dish." Weng Yong walked quickly towards the kitchen.

"There are no more dishes." Mrs. Weng shook her head. "There are so many mouths to feed in our family, and we don't have enough tickets to begin with. We were able to get so many dishes today because we saved money these days."

Although my father-in-law's unit has given him a lot of extra tickets, they have a large family and consume so much every day. If they use them all today, what will they eat later?

There were more than 20 people, divided into two tables, one for adults and one for children.

There were seven dishes on the table, three meat dishes, three vegetarian dishes, and a soup. This was considered a rich meal in this era.

The amount of each dish is a bit small.

Weng Song had seen how much Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi ate, so when he saw this dish, he immediately frowned. He remembered that he had told his daughter-in-law and daughter to prepare more food a few days ago, so what was going on now?

In front of Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi, Weng Song didn't say much. He poured them some wine and talked to them about the recent situation while drinking. Maybe he forgot about it because of the conversation or for some other reason, but he didn't touch the dishes, not even a chopstick.

However, he didn't eat, and the others couldn't help but persuade him, "Dad, stop chatting and eat the food quickly, otherwise it will get cold."

Weng Song looked at his daughter-in-law who was advising him with a complicated expression, but he finally picked up a piece of food with chopsticks.

Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi looked normal, and ate politely and slowly.

As for the others, they picked up their chopsticks very quickly and before long, half of the food on the table was gone.

The children at this table were even faster, eating as fast as if they were marching to war. Seeing that the children from the Wengsong family were fast, they did not give in. The children from the Lin Qi family also hurriedly sped up. The four older ones put the food in their own bowls and filled up the bowls of their three younger brothers.

In less than two minutes, all the meat dishes on the table were put into everyone's bowls, leaving only the vegetarian dishes on the table.

The older child ate fast and the younger one ate slowly. When the others finished the meat in their bowls, half of the meat was still left in the three younger ones' bowls.

Taking food from other people's bowls had never happened in the Lin family, so the children of the Lin family did not guard their own bowls. So when a few pairs of chopsticks took the meat from the bowls of the fifth, sixth and seventh children, the seven children of the Lin family were stunned.

"Sister~" The seventh brother pouted and looked at his sister, tears welling up in his eyes.

The kids sitting opposite Old Seven looked very proud and even laughed at him, saying, "Silly."

Xu Boxi pursed her lips, and her hands holding the chopsticks turned slightly white because she was holding them too tightly. At this moment, she wanted to beat him up, but she held back in order not to make things difficult for Grandpa Weng.

"Seventh Brother, it's okay. Let mom and dad take us to the state-owned restaurant to eat braised pork later." Xu Boxi comforted him.

"Will mom and dad agree?" Lao Qi hesitated.

“As long as you tell mom and dad about these brothers and sisters snatching the meat from your bowl, not only will you eat the braised pork, they will also order braised pig’s trotters, chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised goose... and buy you roast duck.” Xu Boxi counted a long list of delicious dishes.

"Two roast ducks, I didn't eat enough just now." said Lao Qi.

"No problem." Xu Boxi agreed.

"I want to eat roasted rabbit. The rabbit roasted by my father is delicious." Lao Liu also said.

"Okay. We have rabbits at home. Let dad kill them when we get home." Xu Boxi still agreed.

"Roasted chicken is also delicious. Our chicken weighs 15 pounds. It is fat and tender, and it smells delicious when roasted." Lao Wu licked his lips.

"Then let's roast a rabbit and a chicken." Xu Boxi said straightforwardly.

"Let's grill the fish. Our Hehua fish weighs about 15 kilograms. Let's grill a few and have one for each of us," suggested the second brother.

"Should we go to the state-owned restaurant or go back to eat barbecue?" The third brother looked embarrassed, "I want both."

"What's the problem? Let's go to the state-owned restaurant today and have barbecue tomorrow." The fourth brother said casually.

The children opposite were swallowing their saliva and forgot to eat.

After a long while, one person said unconvincedly, "I don't believe it. Do you have so many meat tickets in your family?"

"My family is very rich. Didn't your parents tell you?" Xu Boxi took out a big banknote from his pocket. "This is the pocket money my mother gave me this morning. She asked me to buy some candy and soda."

When they saw the great unity, the eyes of the Weng family children widened. The largest denomination of money their parents gave them was two cents!

"I have, too."

“I brought the money with me.”

“I always carry it with me.”

“........”

There were seven people, and each of them had money on them. The most money they had was ten dollars, and the least was one dollar.

The children who were fighting for the meat suddenly felt that the meat in their mouths no longer tasted good.

Next, the seven children of the Lin family just ate up the rice in their bowls. They stopped serving more rice and did not pick up any dishes from the table. They said they wanted to save their stomachs for eating delicious food at the state-owned restaurant.

After dinner, the children stopped pestering Mr. Weng and told their parents that they wanted to go home.

"So soon?" Old Weng seemed reluctant.

"Grandpa Weng, we are sleepy. We will chat with you next time you come to our house." Lao Qi said with a yawn.

"Why should I go to your house? You can also come to my house. I welcome you anytime." Old Weng said with a smile.

Lao Qi looked confused and didn't respond.

Elder Weng did not take it to heart, but turned to Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi, "I recognize the door. Visit more often in the future."

Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi naturally agreed.

Weng Yong was responsible for sending Lin Qi and his family out.

As soon as he walked out of the door, the seventh child couldn't help but said, "Mom, Brother Weng and Sister Weng just grabbed the meat from our bowls. I'm not full. Can you take us to the state-owned restaurant to eat? I want to eat braised pork."

The child's voice was crisp. Weng Yong was about to step over the threshold, but his foot paused in the air and he turned back, "Brother and sister, are you trying to steal the meat from your bowl?"

"Oh, uncle heard it." The seventh brother covered his mouth and looked at his sister helplessly.

Xu Boxi said calmly, "Uncle, you heard wrongly. Old Seven was talking about me and the older brothers snatching their meat."

Weng Yong was confused and wanted to ask more questions, but Xu Hexiao said, "The bus is here. Let's go back first and meet again next time."

Xu Hexiao waved his hand and left with the children.

Weng Yong watched Lin Qi and her family get on the car before turning back home. When he got home, he looked at the children eating fruit at the dining table with a gloomy face. The oldest of these children was fourteen years old, and the youngest was eight years old. Because the children had suffered a lot with them, the adults couldn't help but pamper them a little more, but they didn't expect that they would do such a thing today!

"Did you eat meat from the bowls of the three younger brothers of the Lin family?" Weng Yong asked.

The children's faces froze, and they wanted to say no, but Weng Yong said, "It wasn't the Lin family's children who complained. I overheard it, so you don't have to refute it. Those three brothers were only three years old, how could you put down your chopsticks?"

"It's because their older brothers and sisters were too quick and picked up all the meat," a child retorted.

Weng Yong sneered, "When the Lin family's children found out that I heard you guys picking up other people's meat, they lied to me and said I heard it wrongly, and refused to tell me about it. With their character, do you think I would believe them and finish picking up the meat?"

Weng Song sat in a rocking chair, listening to his son and children's words, and felt bitter in his heart, "It's because grandpa is incompetent and can't earn more money and tickets to buy more meat, so you have to steal food from other people's bowls."

"Dad, this is not your fault!" Weng Yong's eyes turned red. "It's my son who is useless and didn't teach the children well. I've embarrassed you."

Weng Song stood up without looking back, "My old face is worth nothing. But from now on, I don't have the face to face He Xiao and Qi Qi, and I don't have the face to face those seven children."

After saying that, Weng Song walked towards the study. His tall and straight back suddenly became hunched, as if he had aged all of a sudden.

On the other side, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao had complicated expressions after hearing the whole story.

"You did a great job today." Lin Qi praised the children.

Xu Hexiao suppressed his laughter, "Why do I feel like they are a bit sinister?"

Lin Qi: “….”

She felt the same.

"Mom, can we go to the state-owned restaurant to eat braised pork?" asked the seventh child.

"Of course, let's go now." She wasn't full either.