Zhang Chunxue was adding water to the mix. "Who knows? Maybe Zhong Chengfa and his wife can't even afford to eat!"
Zhou Mingli wiped Zhong Hongqing's hair with a towel and couldn't help complaining, "What on earth are they doing? Hongqing is only three years old! How can they let the child starve to this state?"
Song Yanshen was watching silently from the side.
He thought of himself. He seemed to be this thin and small when he was three years old...
But the problem is, he is an orphan, but Zhong Hongqing has a father and a mother, so how could he be so thin?
Zhang Chunxue quickly mixed the water, picked up Zhong Hongqing and put him into the basin.
When she hugged him, she realized that Zhong Hongqing was indeed very light, not much heavier than Zhong Yuanyuan who was only eight months old.
Zhou Mingli was heartbroken: "How on earth did Zhong Chengfa and Li Hongjuan raise their child? Look how skinny the child is!"
The mother and daughter washed Zhong Hongqing's hair and gave him a good bath. During this time, Zhou Mingli kept blaming Zhong Chengfa and Li Hongjuan, and felt sorry for Zhong Hongqing.
Zhang Chunxue's heart was calm.
After all, she was reborn and had no good impression of Zhong Hongqing at all.
In her previous life, this grandson, whom she had spoiled and raised, was unwilling to even visit her when she was seriously ill. Zhang Chunxue really didn't want to have any expectations of a man of this kind anymore.
After drying his body and putting on Song Yanshen's clothes that were several sizes too big for him, Zhou Mingli pulled him to the stove and dried his hair.
"Hongqing, tell me, how did you get here alone?" Zhou Mingli was really curious.
After all, it was raining heavily, and it was still two kilometers from the village to the town!
It’s really hard to imagine how this three-year-old child managed to get through this alone.
Zhang Chunxue was also somewhat curious about this question.
Logically speaking, Zhong Hongqing shouldn't even know where they live.
Zhong Hongqing sat obediently and let Zhou Mingli wipe his hair.
Hearing Zhou Mingli's question, he immediately whispered, "My mother and I got separated on the street..."
Zhou Mingli became even more curious: "Then why did you come here? How did you know we were here?"
Zhong Hongqing's voice became even quieter. "One time, my mother and I were outside and saw that Song, Grandpa Song, coming home. We secretly followed him... and we knew about it."
Zhang Chunxue's brows immediately furrowed: "Are you still following Song Xingzhi?"
Zhong Hongqing shrank back and dared not speak.
Zhou Mingli thought for a moment and said, "They might want to find out where we live..."
As she spoke, her brows furrowed. "If Li Hongjuan really found our house...it would be annoying just thinking about it!"
Zhang Chunxue was washing Zhong Hongqing's clothes. Upon hearing this, she simply said, "She wouldn't dare."
After thinking for a moment, she added, "At least, she doesn't dare to come alone, otherwise she knows what the consequences will be."
Zhou Mingli knew how powerful her mother was, so she relaxed a little, but she still couldn't help but mutter, "But Li Hongjuan... just likes to disgust people..."
Before she divorced Zhong Chengren, she was often bullied by Li Hongjuan at home.
Li Hongjuan relied on the fact that she gave birth to a son while Zhou Mingli only gave birth to a daughter. She was so proud of herself that she thought she was superior to others. She looked down on Zhou Mingli in her words and deeds, not to mention the bullying she did on a daily basis.
When Zhang Chunxue finished washing Zhong Hongqing's clothes and just hung them up, she heard Zhong Yuanyuan's humming in Zhou Mingli's room.
Zhang Chunxue immediately went to the room over there, picked up Zhong Yuanyuan, checked her, and found that she had urinated.
She quickly changed Zhong Yuanyuan's diaper and carried her to the kitchen.
"Oh, our Yuanyuan peed a huge pee!" Zhang Chunxue teased Zhong Yuanyuan's delicate face with a smile, "Looks like you had a full lunch! Grandma will make you noodles tonight!"
Zhong Hongqing looked at Zhang Chunxue hugging Zhong Yuanyuan, his eyes full of desire.
He still remembered that his grandmother used to hold him like this, but now... that place no longer belonged to him.
Song Yanshen moved the baby chair that Song Xingzhi had specially made for Zhong Yuanyuan from the main room to the kitchen. He put Zhong Yuanyuan in the baby chair and gave her a polished wooden toy. Then they started to get busy.
Zhong Hongqing sat aside, looking at Zhang Chunxue in a daze.
Zhang Chunxue was washing various ingredients while chatting with Zhou Mingli.
It rained too heavily today, so I didn’t set up the stall. I will definitely have to bring more ingredients to the county tomorrow, so I have to prepare them in advance.
The temperature has started to drop recently, so I don’t have to worry about the ingredients going bad.
However, outside, Li Hongjuan was almost going crazy.
She brought Zhong Hongqing to the town to buy things, but when she had an argument with someone in the supply and marketing cooperative, Zhong Hongqing, who had been following her, disappeared.
You know, it's raining heavily, and I don't know where the child went...
She held an umbrella and anxiously called Zhong Hongqing's name in the town.
However, there was no response.
At Zhang Chunxue's house, Zhou Mingli also thought about this problem.
"Mom, Hongqing said he got separated from Li Hongjuan. Li Hongjuan should have noticed he's missing by now... She must be worried sick right now, right?"
Zhang Chunxue was very calm: "Let her worry!"
"How can you be a mother if you can't even take care of your own child?"
Zhou Mingli opened her mouth but said nothing in the end.
As a mother, she felt extremely anxious when she imagined the scene of her child being lost.
But then I thought again, I still have to teach Li Hongjuan a lesson.
After all, this time they were in town, and it was smart of the child to find his way to their house by himself.
If a child wanders around in the village and falls into the river, or is abducted by human traffickers... the consequences would be truly unimaginable.
When Song Xingzhi got off work and returned home to see Zhong Hongqing, he was also stunned.
"Why is this kid here?" Song Xingzhi looked around curiously, "Where are his parents?"
Given how much Zhang Chunxue hated her three sons, Song Xingzhi felt that there was no way she would let them into the house.
Zhang Chunxue watched him take off his raincoat, but his body and head were still wet. She hurried forward and took a towel to help him wipe the water off his body.
Song Xingzhi immediately took her hand, placed it on his lips and kissed it gently.
"No, the child came here by himself," Zhang Chunxue shrugged. "He said he got separated from his mother and found his way here."
As she spoke, she didn't forget to tease Song Xingzhi: "Do you know that you are being followed?"
Song Xingzhi: “???”
What the hell? He's being followed?
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