Chapter 77 Defending the Bicycle

With a bicycle, Lu Bailing rides it around the village every day.

Lu Xiaowen was so angry when she saw it.

It was as if Lu Bailing was riding her bicycle.

She wanted to kick Lu Bailing off the bicycle, but the bicycle was not hers yet.

After Lu Mingxuan came back, he was very depressed. Except for coming out for dinner, he locked himself in the room all the time.

Lu Xiaowen wanted to ask her eldest brother to go to his third uncle's house to ask for the bicycle, but Li Chunmei didn't let her disturb him.

Lu Mingfeng and Lu Bailing had not been to the mountain for a long time because of their studies.

It was not easy to take things out of the space every day. In order to improve the family's diet and supplement nutrition, Shen Jiale took out two mud-wrapped beggar chickens from the space under the pretext of going up the mountain to collect firewood.

Lu Bailing watched the second sister-in-law take out two large mud balls from a bundle of firewood and poked them with her hands curiously.

"Second sister-in-law, what is this, and is it hot?"

Shen Jiale said mysteriously, "Good stuff, find me a stone."

Lu Bailing immediately went out to find a stone.

The brother and sister watched Shen Jiale hitting the mud ball with a stone.

The mud ball cracked a crack, revealing the leaves inside, and an alluring fragrance floated out from the leaves.

Lu Bailing took a deep breath: "Second sister-in-law, it smells so good!"

Lu Mingfeng helped to remove the dry mud outside, opened the leaves, and revealed the roasted whole chicken inside.

Lu Mingfeng praised: "Wife, you are so amazing that you can catch pheasants in the mountains."

Shen Jiale said: "When I was picking firewood, a pheasant happened to fly to me, and I caught it. Unexpectedly, another one flew over after a while. Today's luck is really bursting."

Lu Mingfeng tore off two chicken legs, one for his wife and one for his sister.

Lu Bailing bit the chicken leg and said, "Second sister-in-law, you still have the seasoning with you?"

Shen Jiale explained, "I bought it and forgot to take it down. I saw the seasoning on me, so I made beggar's chicken."

The three of them ate the delicious beggar's chicken. Shen Jiale kept the other one, saying that it was a reward for Lu Bailing's recent academic progress.

Lu Bailing was embarrassed to ask for another one because she had already eaten one with her second sister-in-law.

Shen Jiale asked her to take it back to eat with her parents.

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When Lu Bailing returned home with the beggar's chicken, she saw Lu Xiaowen at her home.

Lu Yongfu said, "Xiaowen came to see you and said she wanted to practice riding a bicycle."

Lu Bailing said unhappily, "She doesn't have a bicycle at home,

so why practice?" Lu Xiaowen said, "I'll have it when I learn it."

Lu Bailing ignored her and called her mother over, and then called her elder brother and sister-in-law.

When Lu Bailing came back, Liang Qiaoli saw her holding a mud ball in her hand, thinking it was her daughter playing with it.

When Lu Mingqi and his wife came, Lu Bailing did not avoid Lu Xiaowen and knocked open the mud outside.

Everyone was stunned when they saw a chicken inside.

Seeing Lu Xiaowen swallowing her saliva, Lu Bailing said, "Dad, this is the beggar chicken that my second sister-in-law gave me as a reward. Do you want to eat it?"

Lu Yongfu certainly wanted to eat it, but he had learned from his previous experience and didn't understand what his daughter meant, so he said, "Since it was your second sister-in-law who gave you the reward, you should eat it yourself. After eating it, you should study hard."

Lu Bailing broke off a chicken leg and gave it to Liang Qiaoli, broke off the chicken wings and gave them to her eldest brother and sister-in-law respectively, and finally gave a chicken leg to Lu Yongfu.

"Dad, Mom, my second sister-in-law said that as long as I study hard, I will have endless chicken, duck, and fish meat to eat in the future."

Lu Yongfu took the chicken leg, paused, and gave it to Lu Bailing: "The chicken leg is for you to eat."

After a while of pushing each other, Lu Bailing let Lu Yongfu eat.

Lu Xiaowen was still waiting for his uncle to give him his chicken leg, and the Lu family also looked at Lu Yongfu.

Lu Yongfu of course saw the expressions of his family and niece, and finally put the chicken leg into his mouth.

Lu Bailing breathed a sigh of relief.

She was testing Lu Yongfu, if Lu Yongfu dared to give the chicken leg to Lu Xiaowen, she would immediately snatch the chicken leg away.

Lu Xiaowen watched the uncle's family eating chicken, no one was polite, secretly clenched her fists.

However, she still had something serious to say, eating less would not make her thinner.

When Lu Yongfu and his family finished eating the chicken, Lu Xiaowen said, "My eldest brother lost his job and wants to go out to find a job, but it's far to the county town and it's not convenient."

Lu Yongfu said, "Didn't he always go there by car? It was very fast."

"My eldest brother doesn't have a job now and wants to save some money. It would be great if the family had a bicycle."

Seeing that Lu Xiaowen was still thinking about his own bicycle, Lu Bailing said, "If you want a bicycle, go buy it. I don't believe that you have money to support two wives but don't have money to buy a bicycle."

Lu Yongfu originally wanted to say that if he needed a bicycle, he could lend it to Lu Mingxuan for a ride, but his daughter's words reminded him and he remembered what Lu Mingxuan had done.

It was simply a disgrace to the Lu family, so he didn't say anything. Seeing that even though Lu Xiaowen

had brought up his elder brother, his uncle was unmoved, and he began to whitewash his elder brother.

"Uncle, you watched your elder brother grow up, and this incident must have been caused by a woman outside who seduced him."

Zhou Min heard this and asked Lu Mingqi beside him, "If a woman seduced you, would you have a child with her?"

Lu Mingqi immediately stated his position, "I will never do anything to discredit the Lu family. I will only be with you until we grow old together."

Lu Yongfu saw the interaction between Lu Mingxuan and Zhu Xiaomei with his own eyes, and it didn't seem like they were forced to do it. Moreover, Lu Mingxuan was still at home, threatening to find Zhu Xiaomei.

Unable to bring up the matter again, Lu Yongfu said to Lu Xiaowen, "I heard that the child is very noisy. You should go back and take care of the child and stop hanging around outside."

Lu Xiaowen ran out feeling aggrieved because he didn't get the chicken leg or the bicycle.

Liang Qiaoli was very satisfied with her husband's performance today and said that the clothes were ready and asked him to try them on.

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Lu Xiaowen cried all the way home.

Li Chunmei quickly asked her who had bullied her.

Lu Xiaowen told her about her experience at her uncle's house, and Mrs. Lu came over with a cane.

"Since the third uncle married two daughters-in-law, they have become more and more outrageous. How can they let their nieces watch them eat?

Also, he didn't take the initiative to give one of his two bicycles to Mingxuan. Xiaowen asked for it, but he still didn't give it to her. Is he a good uncle?

I'll ask for it, and see if he dares not to give it to me!"

Lu Xiaowen laughed after hearing this: "Grandma still loves us."

Mrs. Lu was supported by Lu Xiaowen and came to Lu Yongfu's house.

When they arrived, she asked Lu Yongfu to push the bicycle out.

Lu Yongfu said, "Mom, you can't ride a bike, what do you want it for?"

Old Mrs. Lu said angrily, "Mingxuan is the eldest grandson of the Lu family. Of course, we should give good things to him first."

"But that was a reward given to Bailing by Mingfeng's daughter-in-law."

Old Mrs. Lu didn't care who the bike belonged to, her goal was to get the bike: "Since it was given to Bailing, it belongs to the Lu family."

"Mom, this car really can't be given to Mingxuan. If he wants it, he can buy it himself." Lu Yongfu rarely refuted his mother.

But Mrs. Lu didn't care. She sat on the bench and said unreasonably, "If I don't give the bicycle to Mingxuan today, I will die here!"

Seeing Mrs. Lu acting like a rogue, Lu Yongfu was at a loss when Lu Mingfeng and Shen Jiale came.

Lu Mingfeng was about to lose his temper, but Shen Jiale reached out to comfort him.

Shen Jiale walked to Liang Qiaoli's ear and whispered something.

After hearing this, Liang Qiaoli walked to the door, sat on the ground, and cried loudly.

"Everyone, come and see. A grandmother wants to steal her granddaughter's bicycle and give it to her grandson who has a mistress outside and was fired from the factory.

The job was originally found for him by Mingqi's father. He didn't even give it to our own child and let him go to work. Now she wants to steal our bicycle. If we don't give it to her, she will die in our family. Is there any justice?

Everyone knows that the bicycle was given to Bailing as a reward by Mingfeng's daughter-in-law because she did well in the exam.

Mingxuan, who brought shame to the Lu family, how could she have the nerve to steal Bailing's reward?

Oh my God... Come and judge!"

Many people quickly gathered at the door, and everyone was talking and pointing fingers at Mrs. Lu.

Mrs. Lu felt extremely ashamed and fled with her crutches.

Zhou Min had just returned home when she heard from a neighbor that her mother-in-law was bullied. She and Lu Mingqi hurried over.

Zhou Min went forward to help her mother-in-law up. Just as she was about to say something comforting, Liang Qiaoli stopped crying and whispered, "It's okay."