Li's face looked worried and her expression was not obvious, but her emotions were obviously unstable.
Everyone fell silent at once. Hua Li hurriedly carried the fish soup and carefully placed it on the wooden table. Hua Xiao followed behind with a few sets of bowls and chopsticks.
Hua Shi came out of the kitchen carrying a pot of porridge and saw Li standing aside.
"Grandma, come and have dinner. I made fish soup. It smells so good." Hua Shi said with a smile.
Li nodded slightly, her expression still stern. She glanced up and down at the fish slices in sour soup on the table, her brows furrowed slightly.
"Is this the pickled cabbage in the kitchen?"
Hua Shi blinked, looking confused, and replied, "Yes."
It seemed that the sauerkraut had been soaked for too long, and a lot of it had become rancid and rotten. She threw away the rotten parts on the top and took the middle layer.
Scrub it repeatedly many times and soak it for a long time until the water is clear, then put it in to boil.
But, looking at Li's expression... could it be that she is reluctant to give up these pickled vegetables and wants to accuse her of being extravagant... ?
Li raised her eyelids and responded lightly, but didn't say anything else.
Hua Shi breathed a sigh of relief.
Hua Xiao went to call her father from the inner room to come out for dinner. When Hua Ciyuan came to the table, the whole family gathered around a small wooden table. The air was filled with the delicious aroma of fish soup...
“Gurgle…”
Hua Ying, who was hiding behind Hua Xiao and had no stool to sit on, stuck out her little head and stared at the fish soup eagerly, her stomach rumbling.
Before Li touched the bowl and chopsticks, no one dared to move first. This was the rule of the Hua family. They had to wait for Li to divide the food for them. Whatever Li gave them was the amount, and no one dared to object.
Li took a wooden spoon and stirred the fish soup and the meat slices. Looking at the full portion, her brows furrowed again. She looked at Hua Xiao sternly and asked,
"Didn't I tell you to kill one fish? How many have you killed? Did I let you do it on your own?"
Hua Xiao was frightened by Li, but she reacted quickly. She pointed at Hua Shi who was sitting opposite her and tried to distance herself from the matter.
"It wasn't me. She killed them. She said there were too many people and they could eat them all. I couldn't stop them."
"Dang--" Li's hand loosened, and the wooden spoon in her hand was thrown into the bowl, and her face became gloomier and gloomier.
Hua Shi looked at Li's expression and knew that this was a sign of her getting angry, and her stomach growled twice.
Hua Shi stared at the fish soup on the table, and once again felt the helplessness and exhaustion of being unable to control herself and unable to express herself.
It’s so hard to drink fish soup...
I caught it myself, cooked it myself, and served it myself... I did it all myself, and when it was finally done and smelled delicious, it was placed in front of me, but I could only watch helplessly.
She can only eat after someone else gives her orders... Oh, and now the person giving the orders has to get angry and mad before she can calm down...
Sure enough, Li's face suddenly fell, and she looked very unhappy. Her expression was tense, her words were fierce, and she cursed,
"You little bastard, you can eat whatever you want, and I can't stop you. This is how you treat me perfunctorily when I ask you to do something! I asked you to kill a fish, and you completely forgot about it the moment you asked me to! Not only did you let your elder sister do it, but you also learned to pass the buck...!"
Somehow, Li became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and her tone gradually became more rapid and harsh.
Seeing that Li was about to stand up and hit someone with a stick, Hua Shi hurriedly spoke to dissuade him.
"Grandma, don't be angry. It's not worth it to get angry over these little things all day long. It's not good for your health. As the saying goes, getting angry hurts your health.
It’s not a big deal. If you like eating fish, I will catch some for you tomorrow. It doesn’t matter if I kill one or two. It’s not a big deal.
Besides, the fish have been sitting in the basket for almost a day and can't be kept alive. We have to eat them by tomorrow at the latest, otherwise they will go bad and be wasted. I thought this would be a waste, so I took the initiative to kill two more. Can you please stop being angry?
Hua Shi spoke without hesitation, his tone was gentle and sincere, his words were well-organized, and there was a faint smile on his face.
Li turned her head and suddenly looked at her deeply.
When Hua Shi was looked at by her, he felt a tingling sensation on his scalp for some reason.
The cloudy and gloomy eyes, because of the expression on Optimus Prime, his skin was loose and his wrinkles were stuck together, which looked a bit scary.
Hua Shi swallowed, still maintaining a perfect smile on her face.
The air was filled with a heavy and depressing atmosphere. No one dared to speak to break the deadlock, and no one even dared to breathe.
After a long time, Li showed mercy and nodded, agreeing with Hua Shi's words, and did not pursue the matter of killing two extra fish.
However, when the fish and fish soup were divided, Li and Hua Shi's bowls still contained the largest portion, and most of the meat was divided into the bowls of the two.
Hua Ciyuan also took a bigger portion, and when it came to Hua Xiao and her two siblings, there were only a few pieces of fish left.
Hua Shi looked at his bowl full of fish fillets that was about to overflow, then looked at Hua Li's bowl beside him, which only had two pieces of fish fillets, so shabby that there was only a little bit of soup.
Hua Shi wanted to share some of the food in her bowl with her three younger siblings, but since Li was watching her, she didn't dare to do so.
It's not like she hasn't tried before. The last time she killed the old hen, Li took her anger out on her other three siblings because of Hua Yu, and only gave them some chicken bones and broth.
She couldn't bear to see it, so she thought of picking up two pieces and putting them in their bowls. As a result, Li smashed the bowl on the spot and got furious.
Hua Shi still doesn't understand it.
Mrs. Li was very generous to her. She was also the only grandchild in the family. According to the idea of favoring boys over girls in the village, shouldn't Mrs. Li love and pamper her three grandchildren first?
When she first came here, she thought that the village custom was to value granddaughters more, or that there was no preference for boys over girls, but she later learned that this was not the case.
Many families in the village pay more attention to boys, and most of them have a patriarchal mentality. In comparison, it is Li who favors her alone and is well-known in the village.
At first, she thought it was because the original owner was the eldest daughter in the family, and Mrs. Li paid more attention to her, so she was favored more.
Who would have thought that after getting along with her, Li's strange behavior... seemed to be love, but not quite, instead it seemed to be control, manipulation of her, not allowing her to show any disobedience, otherwise Li would fly into a rage and yell at her...
Very controlling.
Hua Li picked at the fish fillets in the bowl, a little absent-mindedly, and looked up towards the door from time to time.
The sky gradually darkened, and the alley outside the house was quiet, without a sound or movement...
He must have been thinking for a long time before he said something in a low voice.
At first, Hua Shi was so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't hear him mutter anything.
"What did you say?" Hua Shi leaned over and asked.
Hua Li glanced at Li cautiously, and when she saw that Li had no reaction, she dared to repeat,
"Second brother... Second brother, he hasn't come back yet..."
It's dark and my second brother hasn't come back yet.
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