Chapter 101 Only I Didn't Drink

Da Ni was worried about her younger sister, but she didn't dare leave any for her under her grandmother's nose. She only saved two sips for her mother, Zhao Mei.

So that morning, all the women in the Chen family, except for Li Chunhua and Chen Erni, drank sweet and fragrant malted milk powder.

Li Chunhua was unaware of this, and fearing she would offend her mother-in-law, she secretly slipped out of the house after washing the dishes.

Chen Erni was already crying from frustration when she heard her grandmother cursing, "Dani, make Erni do some work. If she doesn't work, she won't get any food tomorrow. We don't raise lazybones in our family!"

The tears started flowing even faster.

So when Da Ni entered the room, she saw her lying on the bed, crying so sadly and feeling extremely wronged.

Dani thought she was starving, so she quickly went over and took out half a sweet potato cake. "Eat it quickly, Mom has another half."

Erni suddenly raised her head, her eyes red and pleading as she looked at her pitifully, saying, "Sister, I want to drink malted milk powder too."

"You heard everything?" Dani looked troubled. "But milk powder is such a precious ingredient, so we definitely won't be drinking it easily anymore."

That tiny jar costs a whole two yuan!

The most money she ever received as New Year's money in her life was only one cent.

Erni complained with a wronged expression, "You all drank it! Even Liuni drank it, but I didn't!"

Da Ni coaxed her, "Then next time, next time I won't drink it, you can drink it all, okay?"

Erni knew that no matter how much she cried, she wouldn't get to drink malted milk powder today, so she could only nod with tears in her eyes, take half a sweet potato cake and eat it.

Seeing her sob occasionally, Da Ni felt sorry for her, but for the first time she showed a solemn expression to her younger sister and said, "Er Ni, listen to your older sister. Don't waste food anymore, and don't be jealous of Gua Bao anymore. Grandma's punishment this time was too lenient. If there is a next time, you will definitely get a severe beating."

Erni bit her lip and remained silent, her eyes revealing stubbornness and resentment, but she was not as fiercely resistant as she had been the night before.

Da Ni knew she had taken it to heart, so she quickly pressed on, "Have you forgotten that when Guai Bao was two years old, Xiao Bao pushed him off the threshold and scraped his head? Grandma then beat Xiao Bao's bottom with a bamboo stick until it bled, and didn't give him any egg custard for two months?"

Xiao Bao is the boy in the family, and he was still severely disciplined by his grandmother. If it were Er Ni, she couldn't even imagine how terrible the consequences would be.

Erni understood this as well, so she nodded reluctantly, "I understand."

Da Ni patted her head with satisfaction and said, "Although you have grandpa and grandma who love you, you also have your sister and parents who love you. Look, your aunt even wanted to hit you today."

Erni looked disgusted and said, "I would rather die than be my third aunt's daughter!"

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Outside the house, Ma Xiulian, carrying a hoe, prepared to go out: "My dear, Tingyun, there are two sweet potatoes roasting in the stove. If you two are hungry, take them out and eat them, okay?"

The two little ones responded in unison, "Okay."

After she left, Gu Tingyun asked, "Sweetie, are we going to fly kites again today?"

With a wave of her small, chubby hand, Helian declared with an air of dominance, "Forget flying kites, let's go catch wild rabbits on the back hillside!"

She couldn't eat the wild boar meat that had been sitting for two days.

This isn't because Helian Jiao is picky about food; it's because dragons never eat animals that have been dead for more than an hour, and they even swallow them whole in their original form.

(End of this chapter)