Zhao Yuxiu rolled her eyes helplessly, turned around and wanted to ask An Jingzhi what to do, but saw that An Jingzhi's door was also closed.
After thinking for a while, she brought the two bowls of rice left in the kitchen to the clean dining table in the hall.
He called his daughter An Caiyun who was helping nearby, "Go and call your two younger brothers to come over for dinner. Then don't worry about them. Go back to your room and rest."
The two men, who were sitting facing the wall to reflect on their mistakes, felt sore from standing, and were drowsy and hungry, when they heard footsteps behind them.
"You two go eat."
An Zhigang immediately ran back in a rage. An Shizheng stopped where he was and said hesitantly, "Grandpa told us to face the wall and reflect on our mistakes."
"Grandpa left this meal for you. Go and eat it."
An Shizheng then turned around and walked towards the hall. Although he was exhausted from hunger and the sun, he couldn't help but speed up.
By the time he picked up his bowl, An Zhigang had already eaten most of his meal.
After finishing his meal, An Zhigang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally I'm alive."
It feels really bad to be hungry.
It’s just a pity that grandpa is so cruel that he doesn’t even leave him a piece of meat!
At first he thought his mother had hidden one or two pieces of meat in his rice, but after he finished his meal, he still didn't find any meat!
But then he thought about how angry his grandfather was today, and his mother probably didn't dare to hide in the bowl, so she might have hidden in their room.
After finishing his meal and drinking a sip of water, he hurried to Li Xinfeng's room. Just as he was about to push the door open, he found that the door was locked from the inside.
He knocked on the door twice but no one got up to open it. When the snoring sound from inside could be clearly heard outside, An Zhigang couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
There’s no need to fantasize anymore, his mother didn’t even think of him!
With his head down, An Zhigang suddenly thought of something and ran back.
"Is there meat in your meal?" An Zhigang felt much better after finishing his meal as quickly as possible. He was puzzled when he heard this:
"What meat? Grandpa said we don't have any meat to eat."
Only then did An Zhigang return to his room contentedly.
It seems that grandpa really treats everyone equally this time and punishes both of them the same way.
Even though he was fined and had no meat to eat, An Zhigang was very happy.
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When I woke up from my nap, the house was quiet and empty.
When An Jingzhi walked out of the room, the chickens in the house became quiet.
The original owner's two sons had already gone to work in the fields, and young boys like An Shizheng would also go to the fields to help.
There is enough labor in the family, and most of the time they only need to go up the mountain to chop wood and cut grass for the pigs.
As for the original owner, because he is old, he has not been involved in farm work since last year and only helps out during the busy farming season.
He has savings and his family hasn't split up yet, so he doesn't have to worry about food and drink.
He was wholeheartedly trying to find a way to distort An Shizheng's teachings.
But he is a good person at heart, and he has only been taught by An Shizheng to be tired of studying.
An Zhigang is already in junior high school, but An Shizheng stopped studying a few years ago. At first, it was because of inferiority complex and he didn't want to waste his family's money.
The original owner just went along with it and pretended not to understand the child's thoughts.
Later, he deliberately said in front of An Shizheng that An Zhigang had studied for so long but was not as sensible as An Shizheng who had only studied for a few years.
In front of An Shizheng, he always belittled and suppressed An Zhigang, and praised An Shizheng for helping with housework and being sensible, saying that he would be the pillar of the family in the future.
An Shizheng, who was panic-stricken and insecure, naturally worked hard in the direction praised by the original owner. He had some expectations for studying, but now it didn't matter to him anymore.
If the original owner hadn't been a whore and wanted to have a good reputation, she would probably have used An Shizheng as a strong laborer.
Even so, An Shizheng can now get five work points.
Zhao Yuxiu was wearing a bamboo straw hat, bending over to work, sweating profusely.
Feeling he couldn't hold on any longer, he walked to the side and gulped down a few gulps of water.
A woman who was also drinking water nearby asked curiously, "I heard your brother-in-law's two children had a fight? How did you handle it?"
She pointed to two young boys helping to work in the fields not far away and said, "They don't look injured anywhere."
The wounds on the face don't count, you can tell at a glance that they were caused by a fight.
Old Man An is a heavy-handed person and is very strict with his own grandson. Every time An Zhigang was punished by him, he would be unable to get out of bed for several days.
But now it seems like nothing happened.
Zhao Yuxiu was also puzzled. She vaguely knew some of the little thoughts in her father-in-law's mind, but it was not easy to tell her husband.
When the women in the village hinted at her, she could only play dumb and felt very aggrieved, but what could she do about her elders' affairs?
"I didn't hit them," Zhao Yuxiu said carefully, "I just punished them by not allowing them to eat meat."
"What? Your family eats meat at noon?" The woman's face was immediately filled with envy: "Among all our family members in the village, only your family and the team leader's family live well." They only eat some meat because of the heavy work in the fields, and the oil on that little bit of meat is not as nutritious as other people's meat.
The captain's family lived well because they were cadres and had more income. Zhao Yuxiu knew why their family lived well, and because she knew it clearly, she felt quite embarrassed.
He was clearly receiving favors from the grandfather, yet he actually wanted to teach his grandson bad things.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yuxiu lost the desire to chat.
But she was not as interested as the woman next to her. She kept asking her how many times a month her family ate meat and whether the bacon was delicious.
The reason why bacon is made is that there is too much meat to store, so it is smoked to facilitate long-term storage.
But it is difficult for big guys to eat some meat, let alone too much meat. This situation is absolutely impossible.
So the woman had never eaten bacon before and was very curious.
Zhao Yuxiu originally wanted to drink some water and rest for a while, but this woman kept pestering him and he had no choice but to go back to work.
An Zhigang wiped the sweat from his forehead and said proudly, looking at An Shizheng who was working at a leisurely pace, "You can't do this at all. You've been working for so long, but you're still not as fast as me!"
An Shizheng glanced at him calmly and said, "You're working so fast now, you won't have the energy to do it later."
An Zhigang didn't take it seriously: "Just keep bragging."
"What? You can't do the work better than me, and you don't want to admit it?"
Although An Shizheng was calmer than his peers, he was still a young boy after all. He turned his head and looked at An Zhigang steadily, pointing to his own land and then to An Zhigang's land.
"Since you say so, let's see who's faster. Your piece of land is about the same size as mine, so let's see who finishes mowing first."
An Zhigang agreed without thinking.
"Let's compete, who's afraid of who? Whoever said that will bark like a dog!"
An Shizheng blurted out: "I'm afraid you can't afford to lose."
An Zhigang snorted coldly, "Stop talking nonsense and get started!"
After the countdown of three, two, and one, the two of them were like emotionless straw-cutting machines.
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