As soon as I got home, I saw my grandma mending clothes and my mom cooking dinner in the kitchen.
Dinner is simple, just porridge and a plate of green vegetables.
Their family's harvest this year was not very good, with more than 100 kilograms of rice less than last year. After deducting the public grain payment, part of the remaining rice was sold by his mother to pay for his tuition and subsidize the family.
The other part is saved for food, but it is not enough to last a year, so they can only drink porridge frequently.
The woman who was frying vegetables saw her son come back. She immediately put down the spatula in her hand, smiled and made a few gestures, meaning for him to put down his schoolbag, wash his hands and prepare to eat.
Fang Lixing immediately understood her gestures, then put down his schoolbag and made a few gestures as well.
The woman smiled and nodded, then continued cooking.
Fang Lixing then put his schoolbag in the living room. Grandma Zhu looked at her grandson and asked with a smile, "Why did you come back so late today?"
"Grandma, I'm sweeping the floor today, so I'll be back late."
After saying that, he quickly went to wash his hands and prepared to help his mother serve the dishes.
As for the lamb chops in his schoolbag, he planned to take them out when they had dinner later to give them a surprise.
At the dining table, Mother Zhu gave the thickest porridge to her children and mother-in-law, and her own bowl was the thinnest.
Zhu Likang exchanged with his mother without saying a word. Mother Zhu was anxious and made gestures: "You have to go to school so far away every day, you should eat more, otherwise you won't have enough energy."
"My desk mate gives me his food every day, and I never feel hungry!" Zhu Likang gestured.
Since he was young, he and his mother communicated through gestures, so there was no obstacle in their communication.
Looking at her son's tough attitude, Mother Zhu felt helpless. Although her son was young, he was indeed a man of his own ideas.
Grandma Zhu looked at the mother and son fighting over a bowl of porridge and blamed herself: "Oh, it's all my fault. I'm useless as an old woman. Tomorrow I'll be the head of the family and ask him to give me alimony."
"Mom, this has nothing to do with you. I will work hard on farming in the future to support you and Likang." Mother Zhu gestured seriously.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Zhu Likang stood up, walked to his schoolbag, and took out the grilled lamb chops that Qin Han gave him.
But it was wrapped in oil paper, so Mother Zhu and Grandma Zhu had no idea what it was. They could only smell the distinct aroma of meat.
The two of them couldn't help but look at the thing in his hand, very curious about what was in it.
Walking to the dining table, Zhu Likang placed the oil paper on the table, then carefully opened the package, revealing the fragrant grilled lamb chops.
"Li Kang, where did this come from?" Grandma Zhu asked hurriedly as she looked at the meat inside.
Mother Zhu was also very anxious. Her son had no pocket money, so it definitely wasn't possible that he bought it. Then where did this thing come from?
Zhu Likang explained: "My desk mate gave me the grilled lamb chops. He asked me to bring them back to share with you. He also gave me the grilled chicken legs last time."
When she heard that it was given by her son's deskmate, Zhu's mother hurriedly said, "This mutton is very valuable. How could you accept such a valuable thing? What can our family give back?"
Zhu Likang responded with a gesture: "He forced it on me, I will help him work to repay him, I won't take advantage of him for nothing."
"Li Kang, is his family rich? Before he was roasting chicken legs, and now he's roasting lamb chops." Grandma Zhu asked.
Zhu Likang shook his head: "I don't know either."
"No matter if his family is rich or not, the fact that he can give our family such good food shows that your deskmate is also a kind-hearted person. If he needs help in the future, you must not delay helping him if you can, understand?"
"Grandma, I know. I was on duty with him today, and I even helped him sweep the floor!" said Zhu Likang.
Grandma Zhu then smiled: "What a good child."
"Mom and grandma, this smells so good, come and try it!" Zhu Likang said, and then he picked up the chopsticks to pick up the biggest ones for the two of them, and kept the last small piece for himself.
This time, Mother Zhu did not give in to her son and forcefully gave him hers.
She was very satisfied that her son, at such a young age, could be so filial.
But as a mother, she is incompetent and cannot provide a good life for her children. If they want to eat meat, they have to wait until the Chinese New Year.
Last time, Li Kang brought back roasted chicken legs. He said that his classmates gave him two chicken legs. He had already eaten one and left one for them.
But she always felt that her son was lying to her, and now she was determined to give him more meat.
But just when the three of them were about to eat the grilled lamb chops, Zhu Likan's aunt suddenly came.
She didn't want to come at first, but her husband was afraid that people in the village would gossip about her and not care about his mother's life or death, so he asked her to bring half a bag of corn flour today.
As a result, before she came in, she smelled a very fragrant smell. Although she didn't know what it was exactly, she was definitely meat.
When she thought about her mother-in-law and brother and sister-in-law eating delicious food without her knowledge, while she specially sent them food, she became furious.
So she quickened her pace and walked towards her brother and sister-in-law's thatched hut.
There is no wall around Zhu Likang's house, so people can enter her house directly. Gao Xiaomei saw that the door was half-open, so she didn't knock on the door. She just pushed hard and the door opened.
Then I saw the ribs wrapped in oil paper on the table. The ribs were very big and covered with meat. They looked very appetizing.
"You guys are so good. You are hiding here and eating alone." Gao Xiaomei's face was full of anger, but her eyes were looking at the ribs so much that they almost grew onto the lamb chops.
Seeing her sister-in-law suddenly appear, Mother Zhu was startled. She hurriedly stood up and asked with gestures why she was here and the origin of the lamb chops.
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