Chapter 19 Is stepmother bad to us?
Seeing him like this, Yu Jianshe and Yu Lixin said nothing more and went back home.
Gu Nan followed him into the east wing and looked at his elder brother lying on the bed. He frowned and said, "Brother, you did nothing wrong. Who told Yu Hui to strangle Beibei? You were avenging Beibei."
"Nannan, do you think our stepmother is bad to us?" Gu Dong asked, looking at his younger brother under the bed.
Gu Nan thought for a moment and said, "Of course she is bad. She didn't even give us meat to eat, and she even pinched Beibei."
Gu Dong was silent for a while, thinking back to the past, and whispered: "It's not that she doesn't give us meat to eat, it's just that she eats meat less often. Every time she cooks meat, she rarely eats it herself..."
Basically, they ate all the food, and Yu Hui rarely ate any meat.
Although they ate meat less often, their stepmother never let them go hungry or cold.
Gu Nan pouted and thought about it. In his memory, his stepmother seemed to rarely eat meat. Although they ate meat less often at home, the meat was basically eaten by them and their father, while his stepmother just ate the vegetables in silence.
"Do you think she will really divorce her father?" Gu Dong asked again.
Gu Nan: "Wouldn't a divorce be better? Then Mom can come back."
"Yes, Mom can come back soon." Gu Dong repeated in a low voice, but he felt something was wrong in his heart.
Yu Hui coaxed Beibei and made her a bottle of milk powder.
She peeled an apple for Gu Xixi and let him eat it. Looking at Beibei, she went to take away the dead snake and change the bed sheets.
Yu Hui was very afraid of snakes, but she managed to control her fear, used tongs to pick the snake out of the bed, and threw it into the ditch.
After changing the sheets and quilt covers, she didn't have time to wash them, so she put them in the wooden basin for washing clothes.
After doing all this, the brothers Gu Dong and Gu Nan did not come out of the east wing, and Yu Hui ignored them.
She moved Beibei's cradle to the kitchen and asked Gu Xixi to sit on a small stool to watch while she began to chop the stuffing and prepare to make dumplings.
The filling has been mixed and the noodles in the pot have been proofed.
Yu Hui spread a layer of flour on the clean and dry long chopping board, took out the dough, kneaded it, rolled it into long strips, and pinched it into dough pieces one by one.
She rolled the dough into a ball and used a rolling pin to roll it into round sheets. Yu Hui started wrapping the dumplings only after half of the sheets were rolled out.
She made the dumplings very quickly. She scooped a large amount of fragrant stuffing with a spoon and placed it in the middle. She pinched the dough at the edge and soon finished a plump white dumpling with eighteen folds.
"Does it look good?" Yu Hui held the bun in her hand and showed it to Gu Xixi and Beibei.
The latter nodded vigorously, "It looks good."
Beibei sat in the cradle and nodded along with his brother.
Yu Hui was quick and efficient and quickly wrapped twenty of them.
She added some coal to the stove, placed a bamboo steamer covered with gauze on the big iron pot, placed twenty buns neatly on it, covered the pot with a lid, and then continued to make buns.
Soon the pot was steaming, and the aroma of the buns stuffed with pork and green onions wafted out from the Gu family's yard.
As soon as Wen Zhaodi and her son Wu Hongbing walked to the door of their house, they were overwhelmed by the aroma of steamed buns.
"Whose family is steaming these buns?" She stretched her neck and sniffed hard. Wow, the smell was even better than the ones made by Chef Yu in the canteen of the compound.
When Wu Hongbing smelled the fragrance of the buns, he immediately felt that the big apple in his hand was no longer fragrant. "Mom, I want to eat buns, I want to eat buns."
Wen Zhaodi naturally agreed to her baby son's request, "Okay, okay, mom will go to the cafeteria to buy you some buns later."
The people living next door to the Wu family heard Wen Zhaodi going to the cafeteria to buy buns in the evening and said, "Hongbing's mother, the buns in the cafeteria were sold out this morning. There are no more for lunch or dinner."
No night? What to do?
Wen Zhaodi looked at her beloved son and said in a negotiating tone, "Be good, Hongbing, let's have buns tomorrow morning, okay?"
"I don't want to." Wu Hongbing jumped up. "I want to eat now."
“But there’s none in the cafeteria.”
"I don't care, I just want to eat the buns..." Wu Hongbing threw the apple in his hand and started rolling on the ground.
Hearing their younger brother making a fuss, Wen Zhaodi's two daughters, who were doing their homework at home, came out.
Seeing the apple thrown on the ground by her younger brother, the elder sister Wu Fang pursed her lips and went to pull her younger brother Wu Hongbing up.
"Hongbing, stop rolling on the ground, the ground is dirty." She had to wash the dirty clothes. In the family, Hongbing's clothes were the hardest to wash.
Not only did Wu Hongbing not get up, he also slapped Wu Fang while struggling.
"Ouch..." The finger hit Wu Fang's eyes, and she immediately covered her eyes and shed tears.
Wen Zhaodi angrily pushed her eldest daughter and said, "Why are you pretending? Your brother is so small. If he accidentally touched your face, how could he really hurt you?"
What she hated most was the eldest and second oldest brother, who acted like this when they were beaten by the Red Soldiers.
Wu Fang was pushed to the ground and sat down. Her mouth pursed in grievance and her tears flowed even more violently.
"My dearest son, don't cry." Wen Zhaodi hugged her son, who was only talking nonsense, and coaxed him. "Mom will go find some buns for you. I'll find out who steamed them and buy you two."
The buns are so fragrant, the family making them must be from their compound, not far away.
If she looks for it, she will definitely find it.
However, although she said she bought them, she had no intention of paying for them. They were just two buns. They lived in the same compound, and their husbands were colleagues in the same military region. The other party would definitely feel embarrassed to take her money.
"I'll eat ten."
"Okay, okay, ten, ten. Mom will buy you ten."
After getting his mother's assurance, Wu Hongbing stopped making trouble and took his mother's hand and walked into the yard.
Wu Li picked up the apple thrown by her brother, walked to her elder sister and helped her up.
"Are you okay, sis?"
Wu Fang put down her hand and shook her head. Her right eye was red from being hit by her brother.
"Look, sister. Wash it later and we'll eat it together." Wu Li showed the apple in her hand, which she had only taken a few bites of, to her sister as if she was presenting a treasure.
They never had any share of the fruit and candy at home, nor did they have any share of the meat. If they took a few more bites, their mother would scold them.
They said they were gluttons, had no conscience, and only knew how to eat meat. They didn't even know they should eat less so that their parents and younger brother could have a few more pieces.
Therefore, even if the apple was bitten and thrown away by their younger brother, it was still a good thing for them.
Wu Fang nodded, wiped her tears, and went into the yard with her sister.
As soon as the two sisters walked into the yard, they bumped into Wen Zhaodi, who was urged by her son to go out to find buns.
Seeing the apple in Wu Li's hand, Wen Zhaodi snatched it away and looked at her second daughter with contempt, as if she could see through her little thoughts.
Wu Li lowered her head in embarrassment at this look.
Wen Zhaodi went into the kitchen, rinsed the apple with water, and gave it to her son to eat.
"It's all dirty. I won't eat it."
"It's not dirty, mom washed it clean."
"It's dirty, I won't eat it." Wu Hongbing shouted loudly.
"Okay, okay, I don't want to eat it. I don't want to eat it." Seeing that her son didn't want it, Wen Zhaodi went out while chewing the apple.
Before going out, he told his eldest and second daughters to keep an eye on the red soldiers and sweep the yard.
Yu Lixin was also busy doing his homework at home, but the aroma of steamed buns wafting from next door made him lose all focus on his homework.
So he put down his pen, stood up and walked out of the room. "Where are you going?" Yu Jianshe, who was reading a comic book on the bed, called him.
Yu Lixin twisted his neck and said, "I'll go next door and persuade Dongdong to apologize to Aunt Yu."
If his mother were here, she would definitely not allow him to go next door to look for things at this time, but his mother is not at home now, so he can go there secretly.
"Have you finished your homework?" The voice of elder brother Yu Jianshe sounded faintly.
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