Li Yadong shook his head innocently and replied, "No, he didn't give us any money, he just told us the address. My dear daughter, everything Dad said is true."
Xia Shige smiled and sighed, then shook his head and said, "You guys are really cheap. The Lu family used you as pawns and didn't even give you a single dollar."
Li Yadong didn't know what to say when he heard that. He just looked at Xia Shige eagerly. He hoped that Xia Shige would let them in.
Xia Shige asked again: "Where is your mother? Where is the children's grandmother? Why didn't she come with you?"
Li Yadong's face froze, and he stammered, "The weather was too hot, and your grandmother couldn't hold on. She passed away a few days ago..."
Li Yadong's family had no income, and the family's remaining savings were almost gone. In fact, their existing supplies were not unable to support the whole family, but Li Yadong always felt that his mother was a burden, and from time to time he did not give her food. The old lady was weak and could not bear it, so she starved to death.
Xia Shige nodded in understanding and asked, "Oh, so that's how it is. When your mother passed away, did you break the basin and cry for her?"
Li Yadong froze again. They were reluctant to buy a coffin and an urn, and they thought it was too hot outside. They even felt tired to dig a dirt pit. So they simply wrapped the old lady's body in a quilt, dragged it out at night and threw it on the roadside.
New corpses appear on the roadside every day, some people died of heat stroke, and some were killed and dumped by criminals.
The state will uniformly verify the identities of the bodies, send them to the crematorium, and queue them up for cremation.
Xia Shige saw Li Yadong's expression and understood his answer. Then Xia Shige didn't want to talk to the Li family any more, so she said to Officer Tan and the security guard, "Excuse me, please don't let them enter our community in the future."
Officer Tan and several security guards were all acquaintances of the Xia family. They nodded and escorted the Li family out of the community.
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"They are really a bunch of lunatics. They have been divorced for more than ten years, but they still have the nerve to bring their whole family to harass their ex-wife." Sun Yuegui closed the door and angrily cursed the Li family while carefully checking whether the door was locked.
Then she comforted Xia Huiyin and said, "Don't worry, big sister. This family will definitely not have a good life in the future. Didn't you see the expression on that mistress's face just now? Her two children are definitely not Li Yadong's!"
Xia Huiyin forced a smile. She no longer cared whose child it was. She was just afraid that Li Yadong would come knocking on her door again.
Grandma looked at the messy vegetable field made by the Li family and said distressedly, "Oh, these people are really sinful. The vegetable seeds we just planted this morning have been messed up by them."
Grandma Liu comforted her, "Don't worry, it will be the same if you gather them together after they sprout."
Upon hearing this, Xia Shige also looked at the vegetable garden, and suddenly she found a white insect in the garden.
She looked closer in confusion.
It's a sand vine worm!
The sand vine worms were hatched from the eggs of the desert vine, but Xia Shige was a little confused. According to the timeline of his previous life, this kind of worm should not have hatched so early...
Could it be that the wildfire in the back mountain accelerated the hatching of sand vine worms nearby?
Because desert vines grow very quickly, sand vine insects also reproduce very quickly, and have always been an important source of protein during natural disasters.
Although the desert vine is poisonous, the flesh of the sand vine worm is not poisonous.
When the processing plant makes sand rattan cakes, the hatched sand rattan worms will be dried, crushed and wrapped around the outer layer, giving the entire sand rattan cake an aroma of roasted protein.
Although sand vine weevils are considered a delicacy, Xia Shige is afraid that they will fly in in large numbers and cause damage to the vegetable fields.
Xia Shige went back to the space and dug out the mugwort and mint planted in the farmland in front of her. She remembered that experts in her previous life had told her that these were quite effective in repelling sand vine worms.
Xia Shige scattered some mint and mugwort leaves around the yard, and took some to Tang Shiqi's house next door.
The nanny at Tang Shiqi's house was cleaning the door. When she saw Xia Shige coming, she greeted her enthusiastically.
Xia Shige handed the mint and mugwort leaves to the nanny and explained the situation to her. After listening, the nanny patted her chest and said, "So it's sand vine bugs. I was wondering why there are so many bugs in the yard. Thank you, Miss Xia. I'll spread these herbs in the yard right away."
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