Chapter 4 Who Took My Meat
Yu Hui walked out of the main room and went to the kitchen. As soon as she reached the kitchen door, she saw Gu Dong and Gu Nan coming in. She ignored them and went straight into the kitchen.
In those days, honeycomb coal and coal were burned in the courtyard.
It was enough to use a coal stove to boil water. Yu Hui had never used a coal stove before, so it took her some effort to light the honeycomb coal.
Filling the kettle with water and placing it on the stove, Yu Hui remembered that the original owner had gone to the free market in a nearby village that morning and bought a pound of pork. After buying it, he placed it in a large pot and cooled it with cold water.
Yu Hui, who hadn't eaten meat for a long time, had an idea about this pound of pork. She used the chopped pickles that she and Gu's mother brought from the countryside to make twice-cooked pork.
The most delicious dish is the twice-cooked pork with chopped pickles. Yu Hui can finish three bowls of rice just by thinking of the taste in her memory.
When she walked to the stove and lifted the lid of the pot, the smile on her face froze.
No, where is her meat?
She has a pound of pork belly!
Qin Shulan!
Yu Hui hurried to the cupboard, opened it, and found the basket of eggs was empty.
That was bought by the original owner for Beibei to eat.
She remembered that the last time Gu Huai was here, Qin Shulan came to visit her grandson and granddaughter. She took a fifty-cent packet of biscuits and left with a bunch of other things, saying that milk powder was hard to buy. She also took a bag of Beibei milk powder and left. She knew that these things must have been taken away by Qin Shulan.
There was no meat to eat, and Yu Hui was in a bad mood. She walked into the main room with a dark face. The three brothers Gu Dong were eating the fifty-cent biscuits that Qin Shulan brought today. Gu Dong was still feeding Gu Bei with the biscuit crumbs.
Yu Hui didn't look at them, but walked straight to the chest of drawers. When she opened it, she saw that the two bags of milk powder that the original owner had bought at the state-owned store the day before were gone.
"Where is the milk powder in the cabinet?" Yu Hui took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and asked Gu Dong and Gu Nan.
Gu Dong: "Grandma said that little brother Longlong had no milk powder to eat, so she took it away?"
"You just watched her take it?"
Gu Dong: “…”
The expression on his face clearly said "What else?"
Grandma can’t buy milk powder, and little brother Longlong is about to run out of food.
"Heh..." Yu Hui laughed angrily, "You're such a good brother. You let your grandmother take all the milk powder to feed her grandson. Have you ever thought about what your sister eats?"
younger sister……
Gu Dong looked at his sister in the cradle and scratched his head. He had forgotten about his sister.
"Why don't you just go to the store and buy it? It's not like my dad didn't give you money."
Dad gave her a lot of money, about ninety yuan.
Grandma said that ninety yuan was a lot of money. Since their stepmother fed them such poor food every day, she must have embezzled a lot of money.
The money that was embezzled was definitely intended to be secretly hidden for personal use.
"Then you know, this month's milk powder coupons have been used up, and your sister has been relying on these two bags of milk powder for the past ten days!"
"You didn't tell me, how would I know?" Gu Dong muttered softly. Although he said it toughly, he still felt a little sorry for his sister in his heart.
Yu Hui rolled her eyes. "You also let your grandmother take all the meat and eggs in the kitchen. Did I not let you eat meat? It was you who gave the eggs and meat away."
The original owner was a very frugal person. Since Gu Huai handed the house over to her, she wanted to manage the house well and save the money.
The more money she saves, the better she is at living, and Brother Gu Huai will feel that he made the right decision in marrying her.
They eat very little meat at home, only once every ten days and three times a month. It's not like Gu Dong and the others said that they are not given meat.
But compared to other families in the compound who only eat meat twice a week, that is less.
What's more, when Gu Dong and his friends used to eat in the cafeteria, they basically had meat every other day.
Gu Nan tilted his head and looked at Yu Hui with disdain, "That's our grandma. She's so kind to us, buying cookies to visit us. Isn't it our duty to show our filial piety to her?"
"That's right." Gu Dong agreed.
In fact, when grandma was about to take the meat and eggs, he wanted to stop her, after all, they hadn't eaten meat for more than ten days.
But grandma said that she and grandpa hadn't eaten meat for a month, and their mouths were drooling at night. Grandma was so kind to them and bought them biscuits, so he definitely couldn't say no.
"Heh..." Yu Hui sneered, "Bring a fifty-cent packet of biscuits, take two bags of milk powder, a pound of pork, and twenty eggs and leave. That's not called visiting you or being nice to you, that's called extorting money."
"You..." Gu Dong was so angry when he heard his stepmother say that about his grandmother.
Although he was young, he knew what it meant to beg for money.
When other people's country relatives came to the compound, they took a lot of things with them when they left. Some aunts in the compound said that they were shameless people who came to extort money.
His grandmother was a city dweller who had given up her formal job to take care of them. She was not one of the poor people who came from the countryside to beg for food.
"You bad woman, you are not allowed to talk about grandma like that." Gu Nan glared at her.
Gu Dong and Gu Nan were basically raised by Qin Shulan, so they have a deep relationship with her.
Although she took care of Gu Xi for a year, he was still young and had no memory of him at all.
He was happy when he saw his grandma taking the biscuits to eat, but he was very unhappy when he saw his grandma taking away the meat and eggs.
But his brothers didn't say anything, so as a younger brother, he couldn't say anything either.
"Since you are so filial and give meat and eggs to your grandmother, you don't have to eat today." After saying that, Yu Hui went out.
Gu Xiyuanyuan's eyes lit up. Is there any meat to eat today?
She went to the market with Qian Lan this morning. Qian Lan bought three pounds of meat, saying it would last for a week. She asked her to spare one pound, which she should be able to spare.
No matter what, she must eat meat today.
The sun was about to set, and Qian Lan was collecting clothes in the yard.
"Knock knock knock..." There was a knock on the door. She looked towards the open gate and saw Yu Hui standing outside.
"What happened to Xiao Yu?"
Yu Hui frowned, pursed her lips and swallowed, looking like she had difficulty speaking.
Qian Lan, who was impatient, couldn't stand her like this and hurriedly urged, "Xiao Yu, if you have anything to say, just tell your sister-in-law."
Yu Hui then stepped into the courtyard, looking aggrieved and about to cry, "Sister-in-law, can you lend me a pound of meat and five eggs?"
Borrowing meat?
"Didn't you buy a pound of meat this morning? And you bought thirty eggs at the grocery store the day before yesterday?"
Her family didn’t cook at noon, so where did the meat go?
In just a few days, we couldn’t finish thirty eggs.
Yu Hui was weak, pitiful, and helpless. "The children's grandmother took it away. We were supposed to eat meat once every ten days, so we have to make sure the children have some today. I'll go to the grocery store and buy some for you tomorrow."
Because of the original owner's frugality, their family still had plenty of meat tickets.
So that's how it is. Qian Lan couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Qin Shulan actually took away the meat and eggs from the house after everyone left.
"I haven't eaten what I bought today yet..." Qian Lan said with a twinkle in her eyes, "I want to wait for the child's father to come back and cook some. I can give you a pound."
In fact, it was because the four children of the Gu family had to eat at home at noon, so I couldn’t bear to cook.
"Thank you, sister-in-law. By the way, sister-in-law, do you know who has milk powder coupons?"
"Milk powder coupons? Didn't you go to the state-owned store in the city a few days ago and buy two bags of milk powder?" She took her child to the state-owned store to buy shoes a few days ago and saw her buying milk powder at the milk powder counter. Because she asked too many questions, the salesperson scolded her and she left with a red face and the milk powder.
Yu Hui's voice choked with sobs, "It was also taken away by their grandmother."
Qin Shulan wants to ruin her stepmother's reputation, right? But her reputation can't be ruined alone.
Qian Lan is a kind-hearted person, but also a big mouth. If she knew what Qin Shulan had done, it would probably spread throughout the compound within two days.
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