Lu Ying wanted to cry but had no tears, but dared not show it on his face. "This subordinate dares not, this subordinate is just worried about Second Master!"
"What's there to worry about?" Hu Mingmei said calmly, glancing at another clam on the table. "I can't open this thing no matter what I do. Can you open it?"
"Alright!" Lu Ying replied, "Leave it to me!" Second Master was a man who couldn't even kill a chicken, so it was normal that he couldn't open this thing. Let him, his subordinate, handle this kind of heavy lifting!
Lu Ying acted immediately, clamping the clam between her hands and pulling it apart forcefully. Hu Mingmei watched Lu Ying without blinking.
But the exciting moment didn't come; instead, it was quite disappointing. Lu Ying didn't manage to tear open the clam.
"I knew it would be like this!" Hu Mingmei didn't feel much disappointment. Instead, he said calmly, "I tried it too, but I couldn't open it!" It seems that it wasn't just his problem; Lu Ying couldn't open it either.
"That can't be!" Lu Ying said doubtfully, turning the clam over and over to examine it. "It shouldn't be impossible to open." This thing doesn't look particularly sturdy.
No matter how hard Lu Ying tried, the clam wouldn't open. Lu Ying didn't believe it, so she tried another one, and found that it didn't open either.
"I refuse to believe it!" Lu Ying slammed the thing to the ground with force, and with a "crack," the sound of the thing breaking reached their ears.
The two exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes. "It's broken open?" Lu Ying quickly squatted down, picked it up and saw that the side that had been smashed to the ground was already shattered, but it was still not open. Lu Ying immediately picked it up and threw it forcefully again, and immediately felt the contents scatter and fly everywhere.
So Lu Ying picked up the clam, and using a little force along the crack, opened it.
However, a fishy smell wafted out. When Lu Ying opened it, she only saw plump, white meat inside, but nothing else.
Seeing that Hu Mingmei was staring at her without blinking, Lu Ying simply pulled out all the meat inside, squeezed it, and looked at it, but it was just a piece of meat, nothing special.
The other one is the same.
"Second Master, there's nothing special about this. What are you going to do with it?" And you even stole it, making it all so mysterious, but there's really nothing strange about it—except for the fact that it's hard to open, Lu Ying didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Hu Mingmei casually recounted everything that had happened the previous night.
Lu Ying immediately voiced his thoughts, "Second Master, could it be that Bai Nuo wanted to eat this, but was embarrassed because you saw it and that's why he said that? I'm not saying this, but Bai Nuo's family is so pitiful. The old are old, and the young are young. The young have to go to school, and the old can't move and need to be taken care of. All the burdens fall on Bai Nuo. If Bai Nuo doesn't find a way to solve the problem of food and clothing, this whole family will die."
“She still has a lot!” Hu Mingmei didn’t think things were as Lu Ying described.
"How about I go get them for you and let you take a look?" Lu Ying immediately said. "Or, shall we go and check out that pond?"
"Okay!" Hu Mingmei nodded. That works too. They'll know once they see a few more.
"Where is Bai Nuo now?" After finding out the truth, Hu Mingmei was no longer in a hurry and casually asked, "You just said that Bai Yu was beaten?"
“Yes!” Lu Ying nodded. “It was quite a serious beating. Half of his face was swollen. When I came in, they were comforting Bai Yu.”
"Let's go out and take a look!" Hu Mingmei said, and walked towards the door, disappearing from Lu Ying's sight in no time.
"Second Master!" Lu Ying looked at the door, but Hu Mingmei was no longer there. Then she looked at the mess on the floor and the smell of blood on the table. She quickly cleaned them up and followed Hu Mingmei out.
This Second Master, he just won't clean up after himself. If Bai Nuo finds out about these things, we're doomed.
While Lu Ying and Hu Ming were opening river clams, the main room was in complete chaos.
Grandma and Aunt Liu surrounded Bai Yu. Grandma looked at the redness and swelling on Bai Yu's face and felt so sorry for him that she held Bai Yu and kept crying, "My dear grandson, how could you be beaten like this?"
"Grandma, I'm fine now, it doesn't hurt!" Seeing Grandma like this, Bai Yu no longer felt aggrieved and looked at Grandma with some embarrassment.
"And you too, how did you take care of your younger brother?" Grandma looked at Bai Nuo reproachfully. "How did you get beaten up like this? A-Yu is still losing his baby teeth, what if he broke them?"
If the teeth that have been replaced are knocked out, then Ah Yu will be toothless for the rest of his life, which would be the same as being disfigured.
Seeing that the old woman was getting more and more upset, Bai Nuo said helplessly, "Grandma, it's not that serious. Ayu's teeth are still fine, they just look a little swollen. Aunt Liu, go and boil an egg."
"Oh!" Seeing that she couldn't be of much help here, and after Bai Nuo asked her to do something, Aunt Liu replied quickly, "I'll go right away!"
Seeing that the old woman was still looking here and there, Bai Nuo simply said, "Bai Yu, let Grandma see your teeth!"
The matter is over and done with. Bai Nuo has already dealt with it. She has taken care of the person who hurt A Yu, and he is no longer attending the bad school. Although Bai Yu was beaten, it was not serious, so Bai Nuo is not too worried.
"Grandma, look, my teeth are all fine! Ah!" Bai Yu opened his mouth and let out an "ah" to show his grandma his teeth. Grandma cupped his face, looked him over, and saw that apart from the teeth that hadn't grown in yet, all his other teeth were fine. She was relieved and pulled Bai Yu to her side. "How did you get beaten up? Did you go and cause trouble?"
"I didn't cause any trouble, trouble came to me. But with my sister and brother Lu Ying by my side, we knocked them down in just a couple of swipes!" Bai Yu excitedly demonstrated to his grandmother.
"The egg is here, the egg is here!" The grandmother, grandson, and granddaughter chatted and laughed in the main room. Grandma Liu was holding a bowl with a steaming egg in it.
"Bai Yu, come here!" Bai Nuo took the bowl from Aunt Liu's hand, then took a towel, wrapped the egg in it, pulled Bai Yu over, and applied the egg to his face as a hot compress.
"Bear with it, it hurts a little, but it'll be fine after you finish applying it!" Bai Nuo said softly.
When Hu Mingmei arrived, this was the scene she saw: the woman was half-squatting on the ground, carefully applying a hot compress to her younger brother, and saying something. Her expression was very gentle. Hu Mingmei was stunned for a moment, then turned and left.
This situation is not suitable for him.
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