Zhong Chengfa was cooking at home, and Zhong Hongqing was watching eagerly from the side.
Seeing that his father had made another black pot, his face immediately wrinkled like a bitter gourd.
"Dad, grandma and the others cook delicious food, why does your cooking taste so bad?"
Zhong Hongqing felt very aggrieved: "It's so bad to eat every day!"
Zhong Chengfa felt even more aggrieved: "It's good enough that a grown man like me can cook! You picked it!"
"If you don't want to eat, just go back to your grandma's house! Do you think your grandma gives you food?"
Zhong Hongqing suddenly fell silent.
He still remembers that during the days he was at his grandmother's house, all the delicious food at home went to his cousins, and he never had a bite!
Not only that, he often doesn’t have enough to eat!
At home, even though the food dad cooks isn’t tasty, at least I can still eat my fill, right?
Just then, a cautious voice suddenly sounded outside the yard.
"Chengfa? Chengfa? Are you home?"
Zhong Hongqing was stunned at first, then he jumped up excitedly: "It's Mom! It's Mom's voice!"
Zhong Chengfa was also stunned. Before he could react, Zhong Hongqing hurried to the gate of the courtyard.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw that it was indeed his mother standing outside.
As soon as Li Hongjuan saw Zhong Hongqing, her eyes turned red and she quickly walked over and hugged him.
"Oh, our Hongqing has really suffered... How come he has lost so much weight?"
Zhong Hongqing missed her too, and burst into tears: "Mom! I miss you so much..."
Li Hongjuan wiped her tears while secretly glancing in the direction of Zhong Chengfa.
When she just came back, she almost thought she had taken the wrong path, because the former large yard now had a wall separating the front and back yards.
Now there are only their house and Zhong Chengyi's house in the front yard, while Zhong Chengren and Zhang Chunxue's houses have been moved to the backyard.
She only knew that Zhang Chunxue had separated the family, but she didn't expect that even the courtyard wall had been built.
Zhong Chengfa came over with a spatula in his hand. Seeing the now haggard and frail Li Hongjuan, he couldn't help but taunt her: "Hey, why are you here? Are you here to ask me for food money?"
"I don't have any money to give you right now!"
Li Hongjuan's face flushed red: "Chengfa, what are you talking about?"
"I'm back now, why should I ask you for food money?"
Zhong Cheng snorted coldly, "Aren't you siding with your mother's family, saying that if I don't give you food money, you won't come back with me?"
"Why are you back now when I haven't paid yet?"
"Could it be that you ate too much at your mother's house and your parents kicked you out again?"
He stretched out his voice, "Oh—and your greedy sister-in-law... I'm confused. I didn't give them any money, so why would they let you go?"
Li Hongjuan explained timidly: "I, I don't know either, it's just that my sister-in-law suddenly asked me to come back today..."
Zhong Chengfa suddenly had an idea: "Could it be that your family wants you to come back and steal my money, and then give it back to them?"
When Li Hongjuan heard this, she immediately became anxious: "How could I possibly do such a thing?"
She looked at Zhong Chengfa and spoke cautiously, "I'm back now, aren't I? From now on, we can live our own lives..."
She put Zhong Hongqing down and quickly took the spatula from Zhong Chengfa's hand: "I'll do it, I'll do it..."
After seeing what was in the pot, her face darkened: "What the hell is this?"
Zhong Chengfa was also a little embarrassed: "It's just multi-grain noodles..."
"Why are the multi-grain noodles this color?" Li Hongjuan asked in disbelief. "Is this what you usually eat?"
Zhong Chengfa was a little annoyed: "As long as I don't starve to death, it's fine. What do you care?"
Hearing the impatience in his tone, Li Hongjuan didn't dare to ask any more questions and quickly changed the subject: "Um...how did our yard become like this? Why are you cooking here?"
"It's going to rain, and the pot will be full of soup!"
Zhong Chengfa said unhappily, "How can you light a fire when it's raining?"
His simple kitchen now is simply a stove built against the wall, without even a shed on top to shelter from the rain.
Li Hongjuan couldn't help but speak again: "You haven't told me yet why the family has become like this!"
"Isn't this clear?" Zhong Chengfa was even more annoyed. "After the family split up, my mother divided the yard. The third child and I will live in the front yard, and Mom and the others will live in the back yard!"
Li Hongjuan was immediately dissatisfied when she heard this: "Why can the second brother's house be next to my mother's?"
Zhong Chengfa sneered, "Second brother? He doesn't even have a house anymore! He divorced his sister-in-law, and mom gave the house to Yuanyuan."
When Li Hongjuan heard this, she was stunned at first, and then she screamed, "What? Mom actually gave the house to that girl Zhong Yuanyuan? Is she crazy?"
Her voice was so loud that Zhong Chengfa was frightened and reached out to cover her mouth.
"Keep your voice down! If mom hears you, you'll be in trouble!"
Li Hongjuan was also a little afraid of Zhang Chunxue, and immediately shut her mouth when she heard that.
But she felt very uncomfortable in her heart, so she lowered her voice: "Why did Mom give the house to Zhong Yuanyuan? She's just a money-loser!"
"Even if he has to give it to someone, it should be given to our Hongqing! He is my eldest grandson!"
When Zhong Chengfa heard this, his face was immediately filled with sarcasm: "Eldest grandson? Do you think Mom likes this eldest grandson? Mom likes Xiaoxiao and Yuanyuan!"
"Mom used to love this eldest grandson very much, but because of what you did, Mom doesn't even like Hongqing anymore!"
"You know how good Mom was to Hongqing!"
He was getting angrier and angrier as he spoke: "Why are you so greedy? My second sister-in-law was sick and needed fish soup to nourish herself, but you insisted on letting her drink it all and didn't even leave any for her! If I were your mother, I'd be furious too!"
Li Hongjuan shrank back, still a little unconvinced: "After all, isn't it just a little fish soup? And I'm just mad at my mom for being partial..."
"Zhou Mingli just has a high fever, she's not dying! Why are they making fish soup for her when we can't even taste a bite?"
Zhong Chengfa saw that he had no remorse at all and was furious: "How dare you say that! If you want to drink fish soup, can't you just go catch the fish yourself? You have to have that one bite, don't you?"
He couldn't help but yelled, "You still don't think you're wrong! You still think it's just a bowl of fish soup, right?"
Li Hongjuan was shocked when she saw it and quickly explained: "I was just very angry at that time... but now I know I was wrong..."
She apologized with a smile: "I really know I was wrong, Chengfa, don't be angry..."
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