While his words were somewhat flattering, they were also true. For example, Mom now uses more oil when cooking than before, and most importantly, she's now very willing to eat more.
In the past, we would only eat eggs once every ten days or half a month, and meat was an even rarer treat. But these past few days, we've had eggs almost every day, and we've also had meat twice, both times it was braised pork, such a big plate, which we ate in one meal.
I've never eaten meat like this before. My mom used to only buy a small piece of meat each time she bought it, then cut it into small pieces and stir-fry it with chili peppers or radishes. There was hardly any meat in the dish.
To be honest, Zhou Jiahong thinks life is pretty good now. Although he has to work every day, he has eggs and meat to eat!
“Mom…” Zhou Jiadong, pale and weak, sat down next to Zhou Jiahong and awkwardly called out “Mom.”
Yu Qiuying, however, continued eating her breakfast without paying him any attention.
Zhou Jiadong awkwardly touched his nose, feeling a little uneasy. His mother hadn't agreed last night not to break off their relationship.
Zhou Caixiang sat down cautiously. Seeing that her mother was expressionless and ignored her older brother, she didn't dare to say a word.
Today, the family had a rare opportunity to sit down together for breakfast. Zhou Jiadong was so hungry that he ate three large bowls of rice noodles. He had been eating these rice noodles since he was a child, but today they tasted especially delicious, so delicious that his eyes welled up with tears.
Zhou Caixiang also ate two bowls. She used to think that rice noodles were not tasty and that she preferred noodles. But today she realized that when you are hungry, everything tastes delicious.
After breakfast, Zhou Caixiang didn't dare to act up again and obediently cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them.
There was nothing she could do. She had already witnessed her mother's cruelty yesterday, and she needed to ask her mother for money to go back to school this afternoon.
Zhou Jiahong followed Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian to the fields.
Zhou Jiadong stood in the yard with his cane, watching his usually rebellious fifth brother obediently follow his mother and eldest sister to the fields, and watching his fourth brother, who never did housework, obediently washing dishes in the kitchen. For a moment, his feelings were a bit complicated.
He only now realized that his mother had really changed.
He suddenly remembered what Wang Xiuying had said to him that day. After Zhong Xiaolan left, Zhou Laogen came over and told him that his neighbor, Lü Sanmei, had poisoned all his chickens and that his mother had received 500 yuan in compensation.
Then Wang Xiuying came over and scolded Zhou Laogen, accusing him of becoming more and more immature as he got older.
This is what Wang Xiuying said to him at the time: "I think you're not even as good as Lu Sanmei's son, Zhou Qiming. When Lu Sanmei fought with your mother, Zhou Qiming, who's such a scoundrel, knew to steal your chickens to get revenge for his mother. But you're making your mother so angry for an outsider?"
The outsider she was referring to was Zhong Xiaolan. She learned about Zhou Jiadong forcing Yu Qiuying to borrow money to raise the bride price in order to marry Zhong Xiaolan from Zhou Cailian.
"And another thing, do you think Zhou Laogen is any good? What he just told you was clearly an attempt to sow discord between you and your mother! Tell me yourself, since your father passed away, for so many years, Zhou Laogen's family has been openly and secretly bullying your mother. Do you really not know that?"
At the time, Zhou Jiadong thought Wang Xiuying was being nosy, but now that he thinks about it...
He lowered his head in shame, and couldn't help but think of the argument he had with his mother over the bride price, and the hurtful things he had said to her during the argument. He felt a pang of guilt.
One can only think of Zhong Xiaolan...
Zhou Jiadong pursed his lips, his eyes darkening involuntarily.
I'm sorry, Xiaolan, I can't sever ties with my mother for your sake. I'm so sorry...
Zhou Jiadong ultimately gave up on Zhong Xiaolan because he simply didn't have the courage to sever ties with his family for her sake.
At this moment, Zhong Xiaolan had no idea that Zhou Jiadong had given up on her. The Zhong family was having breakfast.
Zhong Xiaolan absentmindedly picked at the rice in her bowl, her face looking haggard.
Zhong Dalong glanced at her coldly. "Hmph, I don't think Zhou Jiadong is coming. He can't possibly come up with a thousand yuan. You'd better just obediently marry into the Wang family. Aside from being a bit older, what about Wang Tianhai isn't better than Zhou Jiadong? With your pathetic health, if you marry Zhou Jiadong, the Zhou family will probably struggle to even feed you. You expect them to buy you traditional Chinese medicine to improve your health? I think you're hopeless."
Zhong Xiaolan interrupted him impatiently, "Dad! Stop talking, Jiadong will come, he will definitely come today!"
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