"Grandpa and Grandma? You'll be gone soon, and you won't be able to complain anymore. You don't want to eat? Fine, then you can go hungry. I'll eat. Remember, you don't have parents anymore. Now you can only rely on me. If you don't listen to me in the future, then you'll have to find something to eat yourself. I won't take care of you."
Li Changquan had no affection for Zhu Guijiu to begin with, and this was only the second time he had seen him since moving to Baihua Village.
They spoiled him before because of his mother and older brother, but now that they're both in the dungeon, Li Changquan naturally won't let a child bully him.
He snatched the bowl from Zhu Guijiu and poured the contents into his own bowl, which he had just finished eating.
They finished both bowls of brown rice and vegetable porridge completely.
Zhu Guijiu was dumbfounded.
He sat at the dinner table and cried uncontrollably.
But Li Changquan completely ignored him.
After he finished eating, he took the two bowls to the kitchen to wash them, and then went to water the fields.
So many crops will depend on him from now on.
Li Changquan naturally needed to eat his fill to have the energy to work, while Zhu Guijiu was so fat that he wouldn't die from missing a meal.
At the same time, Yan Xia had just finished eating. She was strolling around her courtyard with her granddaughter in her arms. The baby was changing every day. Compared to when she was born, Tuanzi had become much fatter, with her cheeks slightly protruding like two little meatballs. Tuanzi had big, round eyes, a small nose, and pouty lips. She was incredibly cute.
"Our Qingqin will definitely grow up to be a great beauty." Yan Xia had already given Tuanzi a formal name, Yan Qingqin, hoping that her granddaughter would live a wise life, have good character, and have a wonderful life. In addition, both characters contain the water radical, which corresponds to her granddaughter's innate water-related destiny.
She looked at the little dumpling in her arms and liked her even more. She couldn't help but kiss her granddaughter's cheek, and when she let go, the rosy little face even bounced back.
Yan Xia's heart melted. She looked around and, seeing no one, breathed a sigh of relief.
The way she looked just now was exactly like a pervert.
But my granddaughter is so adorable, I just can't resist her.
"Aww~~" Tuanzi pouted and cried out, her eyebrows furrowed tightly, as if she was exerting force. Not long after, Yan Xia smelled a foul odor.
It stinks terribly.
Who said that babies' poop doesn't smell? Yan Xia almost threw up her dinner.
"Tuanzi pooped! Quickly take her inside and change her clothes." Yan Xia's previous tenderness vanished, and she picked up Tuanzi and turned her head away.
The look of disgust in Yan Xia's eyes only disappeared when she handed the dumpling to the wet nurse.
"I'm really not cut out to be a mother."
Yan Xia breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, the system didn't send her before she gave birth, otherwise she would have collapsed.
She simply couldn't bear to wipe the baby's poop and pee...
Fine, from now on I'll just be a mother-in-law who pays the bills. There's always a wet nurse around, so she won't have to do the manual labor.
After Yan Xia had washed Tuanzi's bottom and changed her into clean clothes, she carried her around the courtyard again.
At that time, in a dilapidated temple twenty miles outside the east gate of Jiangnan County, Wang Guangyao, smelling terrible, stared blankly at the broken roof beams. The roof of the temple had several large holes. It was alright on sunny days, but when it rained, the room would be flooded. He could only sit on the table and wait until dawn. After the rain stopped, he would use a wooden basin to scoop out the water from the dilapidated temple, basin by basin.
The dilapidated temple was not large.
There was only one altar table for offering food and burning incense, with two straw mats on each side. Wang Guangyao was sleeping on the left, and the right side was empty.
In the middle was a simple stove, on which sat a blackened pot, the material of which was impossible to discern.
It's ugly.
It must have been made from fired clay.
The pot was filled with a yellow-green paste, with a faint hint of green showing through, making it look so unappetizing that no one wanted to eat it.
It's comparable to vomit.
It was already dark. The dilapidated temple had no windows; one could only look outside through the half-missing door.
"Da da da—"
A hurried sound of footsteps came in. Wang Guangyao blinked, propped himself up on his arms, and sat up from the straw bed.
"Mom, did you bring me any meat buns?"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but swallow, his eyes filled with anticipation.
"No, I couldn't find any work today. The villages nearby aren't very well-off. I said that even if you only ask for a copper coin to wash a basin of clothes, no one will do it. So I had no choice but to go to the nearby mountains to dig up some wild vegetables. Have you finished the porridge in the pot? I'll cook you some wild vegetable soup."
In just over a month, Wang Chenshi became so thin she was no longer recognizable as human.
Her cheeks were sunken, her cheekbones looked higher, and she exuded a deathly aura from the inside out.
"Smack—"
"Mother, can't you wash two basins of clothes and earn a copper coin? You're so useless! You can't even afford steamed buns, let alone a regular steamed bread. All you do is eat wild fruits, vegetables, and mushrooms every day. I'm sick of them. Mother, your son wants meat!"
Upon hearing that there were no meat buns, Wang Guangyao immediately picked up a clod of dirt from the straw and threw it at Wang Chenshi.
It hit her right in the abdomen.
Wang Chenshi squatted down in pain.
The sound of his son cursing still filled his ears.
“My son, your mother is useless. Tomorrow, I will go to another town and see if I can carry a grain sack to buy you meat buns. My son, don’t worry, I will earn more money to pay for your medical treatment. Once your leg is healed, I will find you a wife.”
Wang Chenshi did not blame him; instead, she humbly tried to please Wang Guangyao.
"Instead of wasting your time, you should go find Nian'er and beg her to give you some money out of consideration for your past as husband and wife."
Wang Guangyao set his sights on Yu Nian'er.
"I went to the Yu family, but they said you two are already divorced. I didn't even get to say a few words before they kicked me out. They said if they see me again, they'll beat me. That little whore Yu Nian'er, she turns her back on you and she's heartless. I regret it so much. I shouldn't have agreed to let you marry her in the first place."
"The dowry was high, fine, but she does nothing after marrying in; all she does is eat, drink, and spend money. She took all your older sister's jewelry, and who knows, she might have kept some for herself. I heard from the villagers that this little slut has already remarried, marrying the butcher in town. Look at her, it hasn't been long, and she's already completely forgotten about you. She really doesn't care about you at all. You were after her looks, but she only cares about money, son."
Upon hearing Wang Chenshi's words, Wang Guangyao clenched his fists so tightly that the veins stood out.
He was grinding his teeth so hard they were making a grinding sound.
"Mother, don't mention her. Once my leg heals and I've earned a lot of money, I'll take you to live in the capital. Then that wretched woman, Yu Nian'er, will regret it."
He touched his knee; it no longer hurt.
only.....
I felt nothing at all.
"Okay, son, with you saying that, I'll work myself to death to earn money to get your leg healed. Don't worry, I'll go out to find work first thing tomorrow morning."
Wang Chenshi wiped away her tears.
She had long forgotten about the abdominal pain.
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