Chapter 290 Forty Yuan

After all, it was the second daughter who caused everyone to go hungry. Her parents hadn't even eaten yet, so how could she have the nerve to eat first?

Erni immediately reddened her eyes and said defiantly, "Fine, I won't eat it!"

Liu Lanzhi sighed softly, didn't try to persuade her, and turned to sit back down on the stool.

Erni knelt on the ground, feeling increasingly wronged and sorrowful.

After the food was reheated and served, the family, who were starving, immediately began to scramble for it.

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"Grandpa, Grandma, I'm home!"

Just after finishing her meal, Helian Jiao's sweet, childlike voice rang out from outside the door.

Li Chunhua rolled her eyes inwardly as she listened to the voice.

Why did that brat even come back? She should have just stayed at the Gu family's house and freeloaded off them!

Then they saw Helian Jiao toddle up to Ma Xiulian and Chen Dazhu with a takeout box in her hands: "I brought you four-happiness meatballs, braised pork ribs, sweet and sour fish and a few big meat buns!"

Gu Tingyun, who followed slowly in, was also carrying two takeout boxes.

Looking at all these nice things, Li Chunhua finally felt much more at ease.

She still has a conscience; she knew to bring back some good food, so all her hard work searching outside wasn't in vain.

Seeing so much delicious food, Zhou Zhaodi was all smiles.

Looks like I'm in for a delicious meal tonight!

Ma Xiulian, who had been wearing a dark expression, finally smiled and said, "Sweetie! Are you tired? Are you thirsty? I'll make you some sweet water!"

She didn't mention a word about the commotion that happened at noon, so it couldn't be blamed on her precious child.

Helian Jiao said in a childish voice, "I'm not tired, I want to drink sweet water."

Ma Xiulian said softly, "Okay, I'll make you some sweet water. Second son's wife and third son's wife, hurry up and take the bowls away to wash them."

Because Zhao Mei and Liu Lanzhi were pregnant, they couldn't touch cold water in the dead of winter.

During this period, Zhou Zhaodi and Li Chunhua were responsible for washing the dishes at home. The two of them carried the dishes one after the other and walked into the yard.

Zhou Zhaodi suddenly noticed two red things under the threshold: "Why are there two red envelopes here?"

As she spoke, she squatted down, picked it up, opened it, and gasped in shock. She was choked by the cold air and coughed excitedly.

"Money, cough cough cough, twenty yuan!"

Inside the red envelope were two ten-yuan bills!

Hearing the noise, Li Chunhua turned around and immediately became extremely envious.

That's a whole twenty yuan!

Helian Jiao held the bowl and drank the sweet water in big gulps, automatically filtering out these useless words.

Gu Tingyun immediately realized: "These are my baby's red envelopes! Both of them contain twenty yuan!"

One costs twenty yuan, two would cost forty yuan!

Li Chunhua was somewhat dazed. When she came to her senses, she felt as if her heart was being torn apart and she was filled with remorse!

She was walking in front, how come she didn't see me!

If she saw it, she could pick it up and take it without anyone noticing!

The rest of the Chen family were shocked to hear this, especially the eldest, second, and third sons, since they only had forty or fifty yuan of their own savings!

Even Ma Xiulian was taken aback: "Tingyun, these two red envelopes were from your mother?"

Forty dollars is no small sum!

Even if Jiang Manyun gave it to me, it's still too much!

And they even gave us two!

When the children came back earlier, they said they received two yuan in red envelopes, which she felt was too much and was a little embarrassed.

She also secretly prepared a separate large red envelope for Tingyun, with ten yuan inside, thinking it would be enough.

It seems far from that now!

(End of this chapter)