At this time, Chen Ya immediately brought a small bowl over: "Mom, prepare the porridge."
"Let's cook some thick porridge tonight!" Luo Xiangqin used a small bowl to fill it with brown rice.
"Go!"
"Okay!" Chen Ya glanced into the rice bucket.
"Mom, why is there so much rice?" Chen Ya knew clearly that there was only a little rice in the rice bucket, and the bag of rice that Old Man Ning brought back could not fill the entire rice bucket. It was really strange that there was so much rice here!
"Don't ask. I won't know even if you ask!" Luo Xiangqin glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law and said, "Go quickly!"
"Go now, go now!" Chen Ya was extremely shocked at this time.
Because she was cooking, she secretly scooped a few bowls of rice and gave them to her parents' home a few times.
But no one should know about this. Seeing that her mother's family had no wild vegetables to eat, she felt sad and had to secretly send some rice to them.
"Ya, I'm telling you, you are not allowed to go to your parents' house anymore!" Luo Xiangqin saw Chen Ya staring at her rice bucket.
He immediately spoke seriously to Chen Ya.
"Mom, my daughter-in-law knows." Chen Ya felt uneasy, but it shouldn't be difficult to steal some rice.
My mother's family has no rice left.
That night, Chen Ya stewed a pot of rabbit soup and cooked thick brown rice porridge. The family gathered together and had a feast that was even more sumptuous than the Chinese New Year meal.
After everyone had their meal, they went back to rest, and Luo Xiangqin brought a bowl of rabbit meat soup into Ning Laosan's room.
"Lan Qing, heat up this bowl of meat soup over the charcoal fire tomorrow morning. It's delicious."
Liu Lanqing immediately took it with both hands: "Hey, listen to my mother!"
Luo Xiangqin glanced at the sleeping Ning Xiaotang again before turning around and saying, "All the copper coins we earned this time were used to buy food. You guys have contributed a lot to the family."
Ning Lao San took out the copper coins from the two rabbits he had sold and said, "Mom, these are the copper coins from the other two rabbits. Please keep them."
A rabbit weighs five pounds, which is one hundred copper coins, and two rabbits weigh two hundred copper coins.
Seeing the two strings of 100-wen copper coins on his hand, Luo Xiangqin said with satisfaction, "You are all sensible. Come and rest!"
Then Luo Xiangqin touched the copper coins in her arms and walked out of the room.
During the night, Luo Xiangqin vaguely heard some noise, but because it was too cold, she didn't want to get up to check. This made Chen Ya feel at ease and he scooped three bowls of brown rice into a small bag.
After a while, Chen Ya found his way out of the village entrance.
Chen Ya's older brother, Chen Yigen, had been waiting there for a long time: "Sister, why did you come just now? I'm freezing."
Chen Yigen's head was covered with white snowflakes.
"Brother, these are three bowls of rice from my mother-in-law's house."
"Why are there only three bowls?"
"Brother, you also know that brown rice is very precious these days. Three bowls are not a small amount!" Chen Ya felt guilty towards her husband's family, but her family had no wild vegetables to eat, so she had no choice but to secretly bring rice out to give to her family.
"Please scoop out a few more bowls of rice next time. We are almost starving to death!"
"You guys~ Hey, I can only steal rice after everyone is asleep. If I steal too much at once, my mother-in-law will find out!"
"Forget it, I'm leaving now!" Chen Yigen took the rice and hurried back.
The elderly and children at home are all waiting for the rice to be cooked, and they are all crying out with hunger.
At this time, the lights in Old Man Ning's house were bright.
When Chen Ya returned to the yard, she saw that everyone had woken up and was just waiting for her.
"Dad, Mom! I know I was wrong!" Chen Ya knelt down without waiting for Old Man Ning and Luo Xiangqin to speak.
Old Man Ning was startled: "Old man, what have you been doing?"
Chen Ya wiped the tears from her face and said, "I just scooped out three big bowls of rice and sent them out to my mother's family."
Hai Moying immediately exclaimed: "Why can you send rice back to your parents' home?"
Luo Xiangqin was very displeased with Hai Moying's shock: "Stop talking nonsense!"
Chen Ya saw that her mother-in-law was not angry, but looked at her tenderly.
"Mom, it's my daughter-in-law's fault. Please punish me!" Chen Ya shook his frail body.
"Mom, I was the one who told you about Ya going out, you deserve a reward!"
Hai Moying immediately raised his face with pride.
Ning Lecheng immediately stepped forward and grabbed Chen Ya: "Ya, hurry up! We just sent rice to your family, but we're not like some people who spent thirty taels of silver in one meal and even had a miscarriage!"
Ning Lecheng helped Chen Ya up.
Liu Lanqing also stepped forward quickly: "Sister-in-law, the ground is cool, don't kneel there."
But Chen Ya still knelt down again: "If Dad and Mom refuse to forgive me, I am willing to kneel for three days and three nights!"
"Then let her kneel down and reflect!" Hai Moying shouted again immediately.
"Shut up, Dad hasn't even said a word, why are you yelling?" Ning Lezhu reached out and slapped Hai Moying in the face.
"You~you hit me again!" Hai Moying really felt that he was wronged again.
Tears were about to fall when I heard, "Boss, go and get three more bowls of rice and send them to my in-laws' house!"
Old Man Ning still couldn't bear to punish Chen Ya like this.
The eldest daughter-in-law works from dawn to dusk every day. Logically, she should have more work to do in the kitchen, but she is getting thinner and thinner.
It makes people feel compassion.
"Dad, won't you punish my sister-in-law?" Hai Moying immediately wiped her tears and said hurriedly.
"Punish her? What you did was even more outrageous than hers. You yourself said you paid back the money owed to the Third Brother this year?"
Hai Moying immediately lowered his head in fear again.
Yes, she had not paid Ning Lao San a single penny in the past year.
At this time, Liu Lanqing stared at Hai Moying with a slight displeasure, and saw her scratching her head with her hands.
"I don't have any copper coins. The children have picked almost all the fresh mushrooms in the back mountain. Now it's snowing, and I don't have anywhere else to earn copper coins!"
Hai Moying has gained a lot of weight this year, and her skin looks tighter than Chen Ya's.
"Look at you, you eat well and dress well, but you don't work hard!" Ning Lezhu yelled at her again.
"Chen Ya, have Le Cheng deliver three more bowls of rice. Don't steal rice again next time. This time, I'll punish you by making you cook every day and sweep the yard!"
Old man Ning spoke of the punishment symbolically.
"But these are the tasks Chen Ya has always done. Doesn't that mean she wasn't punished?"
Hai Moying was angry again.
"Shut up! From now on, you'll learn how to do housework from Chen Ya every day, chopping vegetables and cooking!"
"What? I'm being punished too?" Hai Moying was so angry that he fell backwards.
After rolling her eyes, she resigned herself to her fate under the fierce gaze of her man: "Yes, Dad, I will get up early to work tomorrow."
Chen Ya still knelt on the ground and refused to get up. Ning Lecheng also knelt down and said, "Dad and Mom, I am an unfilial son!"
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