Chapter 107 Still Not Hungry Enough

But when the meal was served, I was dumbfounded!

The braised rabbit was served on a small plate and placed specifically in front of Helian Jiao and Gu Tingyun, clearly indicating that there was no portion for anyone else.

She blurted out instinctively, "Why is there only so little?"

She'd heard that the brat had caught two fat wild rabbits.

Ma Xiulian's eyes shot towards her like daggers: "What? You think being pregnant is like carrying a gold nugget, that you get a share of all the good food?! You're as shameless as a city wall!"

Li Chunhua never expected that she would be so mercilessly berated by her mother-in-law for just asking a question. She felt angry, ashamed, and wronged, but she didn't dare to utter a word, for fear that her mother-in-law would bring up the matter of sending her back to her parents' home again.

The others also snapped out of their craving for rabbit meat and immediately turned their attention to the last pot of wild boar meat in the house.

No one cared that the meat had gone bad; they still ate it with relish, wishing they could have another big bowl!

Inside the room, Erni, smelling the meat, kept sticking out her tongue and licking her lips.

She ate two small pieces of sweet potato cake in the morning and worked in the field all morning, so she was starving.

Erni couldn't bear the pain of hunger any longer. She opened the door and went out, her eyes red as she bowed her head to Ma Xiulian and admitted her mistake: "Grandma, I was wrong. I will never waste food again, and I will never be jealous of my baby again!"

Out of the corner of his eye, he secretly stared at the braised rabbit in front of Helian Jiao, feeling quite uncomfortable.

She was starving, while her baby was eating rabbit meat with gusto.

Ma Xiulian didn't even lift her eyelids before giving a soft "hmm," showing no intention of inviting her to sit down and eat.

Erni bit her lip and pleaded softly, "Grandma, I want to eat."

As soon as she finished speaking, her stomach growled loudly.

Helian Jiao heard this and turned around to look at her with a surprised expression, saying, "Second Sister, why are you standing here instead of eating?"

The little princess wasn't at dinner last night, and no one specifically mentioned it to her. Plus, there were many people eating at home, so she hadn't even noticed that Chen Erni was missing from the table.

Erni thought to herself: Isn't it all because of you, you wicked devil!

Although she didn't say it aloud, Ma Xiulian was very shrewd and could see through her resentment towards her granddaughter at a glance.

Clearly, they weren't hungry enough!

He calmly said, "She wasted the food, so Grandma punished her by not letting her eat for a day."

Upon hearing this, Helian Jiao frowned and said unhappily, "Second sister, how can you waste food? Wasting food will get you struck by lightning!"

The little princess is innocent and not stupid. She knows that her family is so poor that they can't even afford rice, and they can only eat meat once every one or two months.

It was because her grandparents loved her that they steamed rice for her every day and often hid the meat so that she could eat it all by herself.

Ma Xiulian smiled and praised her, "My dear is right, wasting food will get you struck by lightning! Our dear never wastes food, and always eats it all up."

Erni thought resentfully to herself: If it were her eating meat and rice every meal, she could eat it all up!

However, when she was so hungry and dizzy in the field in the afternoon, and her limbs felt weak, she could wolf down even a sweet potato cake, let alone meat and rice.

But now, even eating sweet potato cakes is a luxury for her!

She had to finish the rest of the work with tears in her eyes, otherwise, with Grandma's heartless nature, she definitely wouldn't let her eat at the table tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)