Li Yan looked at Wei Fang's eating habits, glanced at her husband and curled her lips.
Old Hao shook his head and called Wei Dong with a smile: "Wei Dong, you should go over and have dinner too. Wei Fang said that you have been hungry for most of the day."
After saying this, he put Wei Hong down and asked her to come over to eat.
Wei Hong was frightened by her mother Bai Hongmei and she grabbed Li Yan's clothes and refused to take them off. She could only put Wei Hong on the kang and patiently coaxed her, "Honghong, are you hungry? Look, your brothers and sisters are eating, why don't you eat something too?"
"Don't worry, your mother doesn't abandon you. She's just angry and trying to scare you. Eat your fill, go over and admit your mistake to your mother, and she won't be angry anymore."
Wei Hong rubbed her arm which was sore from being beaten, and unable to bear the hunger, she climbed onto the table to eat.
The three children had just been severely beaten by their own mother, and now they ate their meals without even raising their eyes. They devoured the food in less than five minutes and all the leftovers on the table were gone.
Looking at the mess of cups and plates on the table and the soup spilled everywhere, Hao Chunmei couldn't help but dry heaving a few times.
Li Yan quickly handed her a glass of water. Hao Chunmei drank two sips, suppressed her nausea, glanced at her mother, and whispered, "What a bunch of bandits! They ate up half a basin of vegetables."
Li Yan glared at Hao Chunmei. "Potatoes stewed with cabbage are not worth much. Just eat it. Don't be so pretentious."
Seeing that the three children had eaten their fill, Lao Hao asked them how they had made Bai Hongmei angry.
Wei Dong is the eldest of three children and is the most concerned. He knew that family disgrace should not be made public, so he pursed his lips and was unwilling to say anything. She didn't want to say it, and she didn't allow Wei Fang to say it.
Old Hao saw his sensitivity and took out a few bills from his pocket: "You guys have eaten, but your mother is still hungry. Weidong, go to the cafeteria and buy some leftovers for your mother."
Wei Dong looked at Lao Hao hesitantly. He guessed that Lao Hao wanted to get him out.
"Go on. If you keep on dawdling for a while, your mother will have nothing to eat tonight. She's pregnant."
Thinking of the fact that his mother still had a piece of meat in her belly, Wei Dong's face changed. He took the money and left without saying a word.
After Wei Dong left, Lao Hao called Wei Fang over and asked her about today's farce in detail.
At this moment, Wei Fang only hated her mother for stealing the noodles and slapping her in the face.
She felt that she was the most wronged person in the world and just wanted others to know how hypocritical and pretentious her mother was, how greedy she was, and how bad she treated her and her siblings.
They exaggerated the story of how Bai Hongmei asked them to borrow food coupons from Shen Xiao, and how after returning home she complained about the poor quality of the coarse grains and scolded Qiao Baozhu.
"Your mother is really..."
Li Yan couldn't stand it anymore, she slammed the table and was about to curse. When she saw the sisters Wei Fang and Wei Hong, she swallowed back the curse words.
"You are so willful. How can I not cook for you?"
"What's wrong with cornmeal? Who doesn't eat cornmeal these days? Oh my, there's no food left at home. Why bother running to the backyard to borrow food coupons?"
Although they said this, both Mr. Hao and Li Yan knew it very well. Bai Hongmei sent the children to ask Shen Xiao for money and food.
By the time the two kids went to Shen Xiao's house, the service agency had already gone off work.
Shen Xiao is a thoughtful person, and when he thought of this, he allocated some of the family's food. Qiao Baozhu is a newly married young wife and is shy, so she will definitely not stop him.
"I don't know what to say about her. You said she is a mother now. How should she get by? Doesn't she know how to buy a few kilograms of rice from the service center before the rice bag is gone?"
"If Shen Xiao's wife doesn't give her food, will she really let the children starve for a whole night?"
Li Yan was completely speechless to Bai Hongmei, she didn't spend a penny of the money left by Wei Yanda on the children, and she had the audacity to borrow from Shen Xiao when she had no money or tickets.
Bai Hongmei not only didn't spend a penny while staying at her house, but her children would also often steal food from her house.
Considering that she had just experienced the pain of losing her husband and was pregnant, Lao Hao and Li Yan turned a blind eye.
I hope Bai Hongmei can give birth smoothly and quickly bring her children back to the city.
But I didn't expect that Bai Hongmei is becoming more and more unscrupulous and outrageous.
"My mother ate noodles, a pound of noodles. She was full a long time ago, so of course she wasn't hungry. My aunt said that she bought it for Honghong. I asked my mother, and she said my aunt was lying."
"Humph, my mother likes to lie. She is the best at lying."
This person is afraid of comparison. Wei Fang originally looked down on Qiao Baozhu.
But in the afternoon, when Qiao Baozhu saw her, she would give her candy, intercede for her when she was scolded by Shen Xiao, and send milk powder, noodles and food to her family.
This young aunt is much more generous than her mother.
Bai Hongmei didn't know that her good daughter was resentful towards her. She lay on the kang, crying silently and feeling sorry for herself.
"Why is my life so hard?"
"My husband left me, my parents don't support me, and even my children don't love me."
"I just ate a mouthful of noodles, and they wanted to beat me to death. Yanda, I hate you. You didn't keep your promise. You said you would cherish me and take care of me forever."
"But you left and left these ungrateful people to me."
"If you can't do love, why did you promise me in the first place?"
"Wuwuwuwuwu, Yanda..."
Li Yan carried Wei Hong into the room and heard Bai Hongmei hiding under the quilt, crying and calling Wei Yanda.
In the past, when Li Yan saw Bai Hongmei so sad, she felt sorry for her as a widow. Accompany her in crying, then help her wash the children's clothes, cook for her, and clean the house.
But after a few months of getting along, Li Yan has seen through Bai Hongmei's character.
No matter how much others do for her, Bai Hongmei will never be grateful.
"Hongmei, I've brought the child back to you. He's had dinner at my place, so you don't have to cook for him. Also, Weidong has gone to the cafeteria to get you food. Come back and eat well, and don't be angry with them anymore."
When Bai Hongmei heard this, she sat up from the kang.
Her hair was disheveled, her eyes were red and swollen, and she pointed at Wei Hong and screamed with a crazy expression.
"I've already said, I don't want her anymore, take her away from me, take her away."
Bai Hongmei grabbed Wei Hong's small pillow and threw it hard at Wei Hong. She looked like a mad woman: "Get out! Get out! I don't have a daughter like you. I don't want you anymore. Go wherever you want. Get out!"
Wei Hong was so scared that she burst into tears and struggled to get out of Li Yan's arms.
She cried and screamed as she climbed onto the kang, begging Bai Hongmei as she cried, "Mom, I want Honghong. Mom, I want Honghong."
"Mom, I will never eat noodles again. Mom, I was wrong."
Bai Hongmei ignored her little daughter's wailing and fumbled around with her hands, trying to grab something handy to hit someone with.
The pillow, the pillowcase, the towel and the insole were lost.
Seeing Wei Hong constantly reaching out to her and crying, Bai Hongmei felt even more resentful.
If it weren't for these burdens, she would have lived a very comfortable life with the money left by Yan Da.
Burden, damn burden!
Bai Hongmei glared at Wei Hong as if she were an enemy, grabbed the enamel mug she usually used to drink water from, and smashed it hard on Wei Hong's head.
"ah!"
Wei Hong screamed and fell to the ground...
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