Yunniang sneered, pushed Jinghua out, and then turned to look at Lu Xiaonan in the shop:
"Are you going out by yourself, or should I have someone drag you out?"
"Third sister-in-law, even if your family has become wealthy, you don't have to treat us poor relatives like this."
Lu Xiaonan glanced outside and saw a dozen people gathered at the doorway watching them. His voice unconsciously rose:
“We only came to check on you because we were worried after we heard you moved here. How could you do this?”
He deliberately left it unfinished, and Han Luoxue wanted to sneer when she heard it. Was her second uncle a male green tea?
"You just came to take a look? Well, now that you've seen it, you can leave, right?"
Han Luoxue said with a smile, while the three children crying beside Lu Xiaonan cried even more sadly. Anyone who didn't know better would think that she had been bullied.
"Cousin, I'm hungry."
The seven or eight-year-old girl looked timidly at Han Luoxue and said pitifully.
I'm hungry too.
"I haven't eaten for several days."
The five-year-old girl raised her sleeve and wiped her yellow snot from her nose.
The youngest one was my second aunt's precious child. He cried while touching his belly, his yellow snot flowing all over the river, but no one cared.
Looking at those three pitiful little eyes, Han Luoxue really couldn't bring herself to harden her heart.
Providing them with a meal is no problem, but...
Yunniang could get angry at two adults, but what about these children...?
She sighed, turned and left.
Lu Xiaonan had been watching Han Luoxue and the others the whole time. When he saw Yunniang leave, he hardened his heart, turned around and went out, ignoring the three children in the room.
After leaving the house, Lu Xiaonan grabbed Jinghua and ran away.
"Honey, why are you pulling me like that? Didn't we agree to grab something here before we leave? At the very least, we should have a meal."
Do you think they'll provide meals?
Lu Xiaonan glared at Han Jinghua with annoyance, then pulled her away and ran far away. Only when they could no longer see Han Mingyuan's shop did they find a corner to lean against and pant heavily.
"Hey, honey, why are you dragging me so fast? I'm dizzy. I'm starving. We've walked so far without eating or drinking anything. I can't take it anymore, I'm going to pass out."
Jinghua complained, and Lu Xiaonan raised his hand and slapped her hard across the face. The sound was quite loud.
"You damned woman, all you know is eating! Don't you even see how your third brother's family is behaving?"
"I...I didn't even see my third brother."
At this point, Jinghua burst into tears, feeling wronged. Her third brother must have done it on purpose, hiding as soon as he knew she was coming.
"Oh no, what will happen to the three kids if we just run away like this?"
It was only then that Han Jinghua realized she had left the three children behind.
"Hmph, you don't believe me when I say you're a pig-brain. Tell me, where is the child right now?"
"At Third Brother's shop?"
As Jinghua murmured, Lu Xiaonan revealed a triumphant smile:
"It's almost time to eat. Do you think your third brother's family will let the three kids watch over them while they eat?"
Han Jinghua thought for a moment and shook her head: "My third sister-in-law is the most soft-hearted person, so it shouldn't be like that."
“If we were here, she would have kicked the child out too. If we run away, the child will be left behind, and they can only provide food. Now that we can’t get any food, let’s at least give the child a good meal.”
Lu Xiaonan sighed, rubbing his belly which was already flat as could be, then looked up at the bright sun and chuckled:
"This God is really blind. It's been three years already. Is He trying to kill us?"
Speaking of this, Han Jinghua couldn't help but shed tears:
"At least we could have a full meal before, but now..."
Everyone was just trying to get through each day as best they could. People were starving to death in the village every day, and she knew of several families whose children had been sent out to eat meat.
"Honey, we're already here, let's go find Butcher Liu and take a look."
Han Jinghua caught her breath and remembered Butcher Liu's conditions. Xue Yatou could be exchanged for a hundred catties of grain. She had to go and confirm with Butcher Liu. If it was true, she would knock her unconscious and get her there.
This time, however, she took a few steps, but Lu Xiaonan didn't follow. He remained leaning against the wall, head down, seemingly lost in thought.
"Honey, you don't want a hundred catties of grain?"
Lu Xiaonan rolled her eyes at her and sneered:
"With so many people around that girl, how do you think you can succeed?"
"I...I'm her second aunt, surely I can ask her to come out?"
As long as Han Luoxue is alone, can't the two of them hold back a little girl?
"Does your third brother's family acknowledge your second aunt?"
Lu Xiaonan could see clearly that his wife wasn't very shrewd; she just loved to take advantage of others. Before, when his third brother and sister-in-law were honest, she often went over and swindled things from them.
Judging from Xue's attitude, he probably took a lot of money from her before. And yet, this woman doesn't know anything, offending people and still bragging about it everywhere.
"Whether he acknowledges it or not, I am his second sister."
Han Jinghua straightened her back and spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Han Jinghua, are you kidding me? Your third brother doesn't even recognize his parents anymore, why would he acknowledge you as his sister? Our mother told us to get along well with him, so don't even mention your parents."
He finally understood that Han Mingyuan now hated the Han family the most, and mentioning them would only make people hate them even more.
"So what do we do?"
Han Jinghua was dumbfounded. Without parents, what were he and her third brother?
"Let's try to please him, keep a low profile. Let's secretly check if he has any food."
Lu Xiaonan's eyes darted around. He was a clever man, good at playing tricks. At this moment, he would naturally choose the option that was most advantageous to him.
"And forget about Liu the Butcher. Remember, never offend them again. If you can't control your mouth, I'll tear you to pieces."
Upon hearing this, Han Jinghua shrank back in fright.
...
"That couple is really something, abandoning their child and running away."
Yunniang brought a bowl of porridge from the kitchen, separated it into two bowls, and the three children ran over to it, picked up the bowls, and began to gulp it down.
They hadn't had millet porridge in a long time. Their grandmother used to make cornmeal porridge, a little bit of grain in a big pot of water, which was barely enough to taste the grain.
They hadn't had such thick millet porridge in ages. A few sips weren't enough. The children buried their heads in the bowls, licking them clean. Only after they'd licked them clean did they look up, their eyes fixed on Yunniang. The youngest boy, nicknamed "Wooden Head," wiped his nose, sniffed, and asked expectantly:
"Third Aunt, I'm still hungry."
Looking at the pitiful little boy, this child, like her Mengze, was also born in a year of famine, but was a little over a year older than Mengze, and was so thin it was heartbreaking.
Because he was so thin, the child looked dark and small, but his head was unusually large. Yunniang felt sorry for him, so she picked up the bowl, went back, filled it up, and brought it out.
The eldest sister quickly took the bowl and carefully separated the millet porridge, while the three siblings buried their heads and continued to drink.
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