Daya took the pig bone, placed it on the chopping board beside her, picked up an axe from the firewood pile, and with a few strokes, she cut the pig bone into several pieces. Chu Tian was stunned by what he saw, thinking, is this girl really only twelve or thirteen years old? How can she chop bones so neatly without changing her expression?

Chu Tian looked at Daya and thought to himself that many of the psychopathic killers in movies had become killers after suffering many unfair treatments since childhood. He thought Daya would definitely not become a psychopath in the future, right?

Chu Tian trembled all over and thought to himself that he should pay more attention to his niece in the future to prevent her from going astray...

Daya felt uncomfortable being stared at by Chu Tian, ​​"Fourth Uncle?"

Chu Tian's heart trembled when he saw the man holding half a pig bone in one hand and an axe in the other. He smiled stiffly and said, "It's okay. Don't forget to come over later..."

After saying that, he fled...

Daya looked at Chu Tian, ​​whose steps were chaotic, with a puzzled look on her face. She lowered her head and washed the chopped ribs while muttering to herself, "Why is Fourth Uncle so weird..."

Daya put a full pot of water into the big iron pot, and put the washed pork bones in after the water boiled. After thinking for a while, she dug out a small piece of ginger and a large green radish from the soil in the corner of the house, cut the washed ginger into slices and threw it into the water, and cut the radish into pieces and put it aside. She would put it into the pot after the bones were almost stewed.

After adding enough firewood to the bottom of the pot, Daya remembered that her fourth uncle had told her to go find him, so she quickly washed her hands, walked out of the kitchen and headed towards the fourth room's dugout.

"Fourth Uncle, Fourth Aunt..."

Yao Xiujuan was making underwear for Chu Tian under candlelight. When she heard the sound, she looked up and saw Daya poking her head into the room. She smiled, put down the half-sewn underwear in her hand, and waved, "Daya, come in quickly."

Daya smiled shyly and walked into the cave. She saw Chu Tian lying on the kang and already asleep. She said hesitantly, "Fourth Uncle asked me to come..."

Yao Xiujuan smiled and patted the bench beside her, "I know, you sit down first."

Daya sat down stiffly. Yao Xiujuan took out half a kilogram of wrapped red dates and a small paper bag of brown sugar from the basket beside her and pushed them in front of Daya.

"Daya, these are red dates and brown sugar. You're a grown-up girl now. Eating more red dates and brown sugar is good for you..."

Daya panicked and pushed it back, "Aunt Si, I can't accept this..."

Forget about red dates, they are produced locally in Xinjiang and can be bought with money without tickets. Although they are often out of stock, they are not unavailable. However, brown sugar is different. She has heard her mother say more than once that brown sugar is harder to buy than white sugar. Even if you have money and tickets, you may not be able to buy it...

Yao Xiujuan pushed it back, patted Daya's hand, and said earnestly, "Daya, Fourth Aunt knows you are a good person, but as a girl, if you don't treat yourself well early on, you will suffer in the future."

"Your mother doesn't know how much she cares about you..."

After a pause, Yao Xiujuan looked at Daya, who had a gloomy expression on her face. She knew she had spoken out of turn, and hurriedly said, "Daya, Fourth Auntie is not trying to sow discord between you and your mother..."

Daya shook her head and smiled bitterly, "Aunt Si, I know what you mean."

Yao Xiujuan sighed, "You should eat some of these red dates and brown sugar every day. When you've finished, Fourth Aunt will give you more."

"Don't refuse. Fourth Auntie really loves you and doesn't want you to suffer in the future..."

Daya thought about it and shook her head, "Aunt Si, I can't accept these things. Even if I accept them, I can't keep them..."

Yao Xiujuan thought about her eldest sister-in-law and Erya's personalities, and after some thought, she suggested, "How about this? You come to Fourth Aunt's place every day to eat some red dates and drink a bowl of brown sugar water, without letting your mother and your second sister know."

"Thank you, Fourth Auntie"

Daya opened her mouth, but couldn't say no, so she could only say thank you in a low voice.

Yao Xiujuan handed Daya the quarter of the apple she had reserved earlier, "Eat it, this is from Wu Ya."

Daya took a quarter of the apple and ate it bite by bite. The more she ate, the more tears came to her eyes. She wondered why she was not her fourth uncle's child? Why was her fourth aunt not her mother? Why was her mother so mean to her...

Yao Xiujuan looked at the tears in Daya's eyes in the candlelight and sighed helplessly in her heart. Thinking of what Brother Tian said to her, she couldn't help but feel more distressed for Daya.

At the dinner table that evening, Ma Cuihua looked at the large bowl of pork bone soup in the middle of the table, swallowed her saliva, and said flatteringly to Liu Zhaodi, who was sitting at the head of the table, "Mom, why did you buy such large bones? There's so much meat on these bones..."

"Let me help Mom divide it..."

As she was about to take it, Chu Tian hit her hand with a chopstick.

"Ah! Fourth Brother! What are you doing?"

Ma Cuihua covered her red hands and glared at Chu Tian angrily.

Erzhu and Erya, who were about to reach out to grab the meat bones, quietly withdrew their hands and timidly looked at Chu Tian who was sitting opposite them. There was nothing they could do as the scene of them beating Erzhu angrily that day was still vivid in their minds.

Erzhu's butt was so red and swollen from the beating that it took several days to go away.

Chu Tian glanced at Ma Cuihua calmly and said, "I bought this pig bone, so I should divide it. Why should my sister-in-law divide it?"

Ma Cuihua glared, "I'm your sister-in-law!"

Chu Tian rolled his eyes speechlessly, "You are my sister-in-law, not my mother, what is there to say? Is it that you are not enough to be my sister-in-law?"

Ma Cuihua, "..."

Liu Zhaodi glanced at Chu Tian unhappily, but didn't say a word.

Chu Jun walked over to the table and said softly, "God, don't be like this."

Chu Tian nodded perfunctorily, "Yeah, yeah...Brother, please sit down and eat."

As he said that, he fished out the bones from the basin. He originally wanted to give them to Yao Xiujuan first, but after thinking about it, he fished out the bones with the most meat and put them into Liu Zhaodi's bowl first.

Liu Zhaodi looked at the big bone in the bowl and looked at Chu Tian with a very complicated look.

Chu Tian saw it but pretended not to see it. He continued to pick up bones. He picked up a bone for Yao Xiujuan and Wu Ya, and then picked up one for Chu Jun and Daya. Finally, he picked up one for himself and then left it alone.

Ma Cuihua was waiting for the bone, but she saw Chu Tian had already started to chew it. She was so angry that she wanted to stare a few holes in Chu Tian's body.

Erzhu tugged at the corner of Ma Cuihua's clothes and said anxiously, "Mom, I want to eat too..."

Erya was also envious, "Mom, I want one too..."

Ma Cuihua took a deep breath and said in a bad tone, "Eat, eat, eat, are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost?"

Daya, who was standing by, was so frightened that her teeth trembled as she gnawed the bone. She carefully put down the bone and was about to say something when she heard Chu Tian say something.

"Daya, eat yours."

"You have hands, so why do you need someone to serve you? Do you think you are the wife, daughter, or master of the landlord's house?"

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The landlord's wife Ma Cuihua, young lady Erya, and young master Erzhu had no choice but to pick up the few remaining small bones from a large pot of soup with a sense of grievance. There was very little meat on them, but the three of them did not dare to express any dissatisfaction.