Lin Changfa was so angry that he laughed. He really wanted to open this woman's head to see what was inside. "What right does the clan leader have? Did the clan leader eat your food? Did the clan leader borrow your food? Let alone giving the clan leader's food to Cao'er and his son, even if he grabbed someone from the street and gave it to him, you have no right to say anything. Besides, Cao'er and his son are Qingqing's saviors!"
"You said you worked on all the land at home. If we didn't have any land, where would you farm? Wouldn't the food we earned from farming go to our families? What do you mean by dividing it so clearly with us now? You and the Yu family are one family. Are you enemies with the Lin family, who I don't give you food?"
Lin Changfa became more and more furious as he spoke. He could hardly protect himself. If the clan leader had not been thoughtful enough to take them into the mountains for refuge and they had not been able to find a lot of food in the mountains, their rations would have been gone by now and they would have ended up in the same miserable situation as the refugees on the road.
He couldn't imagine his children and grandchildren starving to the point of being skin and flesh. They'd eaten their last two bags of food, and it was gone. The clan leader said things would improve once they got out of this drought-stricken area, but the question was when. He'd been so worried about food that he'd been unable to sleep all night, and now this prodigal woman was even trying to give some of their meager rations to her family.
Who could tolerate this? If the situation were reversed today, and the Lin family had nothing to eat or drink, given the way the Yu family had previously avoided the Lin family, they probably wouldn't have gotten a single grain of rice.
Lin Zijun and his two brothers were also very angry: "Mom, don't worry about your family. Don't you know if our family's food is enough for you to cook every day?"
"No one in my family can even fill their stomachs, Mom, please stop being such a kindhearted person!"
Yu Lanhua felt uncomfortable. Why were the children she gave birth to so different from her?
"Your grandma loves you so much in vain. If she hadn't given birth to your mother, how could you have come into being?" Yu Lanhua glared at the three unfilial sons.
Lin Zikun had an active mind since childhood, so he was not affected by the mental pressure from his mother. "Mom, please don't say that. If grandma hadn't given birth to me, who knows, I would have been reincarnated into a wealthy family as a son, and I wouldn't be living such a hard life."
Yu Lanhua was so angry that tears came out: "You rebellious son, you are saying that mother should not have given birth to you!"
Lin Zikun curled his lips: "It was clearly my mother who started being unreasonable."
"My life is so miserable!" Yu Lanhua was so upset by the bullying from these fathers and sons that she sat on the ground and cried loudly, showing the peasant woman's crying, making a fuss and even threatening to hang herself to the fullest.
Cao Ermao raised his head and looked here with difficulty. Even though he was following Lin Rui and others, in order to prevent them from suffering from the pain of having their stomachs changed, he specifically instructed his mother not to change the food they eat all of a sudden. Rice porridge and meat porridge tasted good and were nutritious, but giving them food now would undoubtedly mean sending them to death.
With their bodies so weak, it is hard to say whether they can survive the pain of having their stomachs replaced. Now the wild vegetable porridge and wild vegetable paste have made their hands and feet weak, but at least they can still hang on to their lives and slowly recover their body functions.
Ermao couldn't help but say, "Mom, she's really strong!"
Cao'er patted his shoulder and said, "Yes, we will be fine too. Patriarch Lin has asked his mother to put more and more rice in the wild vegetable porridge she makes for us. Ermao, you must remember the Lin family's kindness and also remember Daniu. He risked his life to keep us alive. Otherwise, we would have died somewhere like everyone else."
"Mom, I can save that." Ermao nodded.
While Lin Rui was eating, he also saw the farce at his uncle's house. Lin Changxi gulped down all the porridge and wiped his mouth: "My sister-in-law is really confused!"
Feng Zhenniang pouted as she fed Qingqing some rice soup, "I don't know why she's so protective. If my eldest brother hadn't insisted on marrying her, the Yu family wouldn't have demanded such a huge dowry. This is no different from selling a girl."
Lin Rui couldn't help but look at his mother: "Mom, if you meet your relatives..."
Feng Zhenniang didn't take it seriously: "Don't even bother with me, even if you starve to death."
Ah... I almost forgot this. I was sold to the Yu family as a child bride. If it weren't for Lin Changxi's mother, Lin Rui's grandmother, who was kind-hearted and didn't torture her daughter-in-law, I don't know how much suffering I would have endured.
Therefore, Feng Zhenniang had long abandoned her so-called mother's family after they sold her. After she married Lin Changxi and had children with him and completely established her foothold in the Lin family, the Lin family was the only family in her heart and eyes.
She was also puzzled by Yu Lanhua's indecision. According to her understanding, Yu Lanhua's life was not very good before she got married. She had to go up the mountain to cut grass for pigs or go to the fields to pull seedlings before dawn every day. During the slack season, she had to embroider patterns to supplement the family income. Her life was hard and busy all the time. It was not until she married into the Lin family that things got much better.
Or maybe this sister-in-law is the type who only cares about food and not about beatings. After having too many good days, she starts to miss the days when she was exhausted at her parents' home.
Lin Susu poured some of the porridge in her bowl to Niu Niu. Seeing this, Zhao Qing immediately wanted to fill his bowl for his wife. Lin Susu shook her head and pushed him away: "I've had enough, you eat more." After saying that, she couldn't help but glanced in the direction of Yu Lanhua worriedly: "Rui Ge'er, if Auntie really makes her uncle's family divide the food with her family, then we..."
"Unwarranted kindness will kill everyone." Lin Rui turned his head to look at his uncle's family and said in a cold voice: "If uncle really does this, our three families should draw a clear line with him."
He knew all too well the choices people make in desperation. If he gave his uncle's food once, he'd be infected with the Yu family's inescapable malignancy. The drought-stricken area lay barren, its edible bark and roots dug up by the first wave of disaster victims. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many starving bodies. The Yu family, fully aware of the threat of death, would see their uncle's family as their only hope of survival, following them wherever they went.
And the eldest aunt is the link among them. Looking at her appearance, she would rather starve to death than let her family have enough to eat. Lin Rui seems to have guessed the most likely scenario, which is that the other three families of the Lin clan jointly donate food to help the eldest uncle's family, and the eldest aunt desperately squeezes out part of the relief food to maintain the lives of the Yu family.
The three families didn't have much food to begin with, and how much could they provide to my uncle's family? Even with what my aunt-in-law did, the people in my uncle's family still couldn't have enough to eat. In order to prevent them from starving to death, the three families could only provide a little more, which was equivalent to the three families supporting both my uncle's family and the Yu family.
He hated this kind of trouble, and also hated this kind of unnecessary changes. Kindness in times of trouble could kill people. If the uncle's family didn't understand this, there was no need for everyone to travel together.
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