He wanted to leave quickly and shake off the elderly couple, but they had already caught up, so he had to frown and stop.
"Father, Mother, what brings you two here?"
Old Mrs. Chen rushed forward, grabbed Chen Zhancai's hand, and tears welled up in her eyes. "Oh, my good son, I'm so glad to see you again."
"Yes, if we hadn't found you, your mother and I would have come for nothing," Old Man Chen happily chimed in.
Chen Zhancai impatiently pulled his hand away. "What do you want from me?"
Grandma Chen smiled and wiped away her tears. "My dear son, you don't know, our family has run out of food again. Your father and I have been eating bran and wild vegetables every day, and now we're almost out of rice bran."
Old Chen quickly chimed in, "Zhancai, your mother has been eating nothing but chaff these days and can't poop. She's been crying and screaming all day long. You need to give us some money to buy some grain."
Chen Zhancai frowned in disbelief, "The two hundred coins Chen Zhanliang gave us could buy millet that would last us two or three months. How come you've run out of food so quickly?"
“Zhancai, you’re right. Your mother and I can eat millet for two or three months, but your mother loves fine rice. We thought that you would earn at least two taels of silver a month in town, and you could afford to support us by eating some fine rice, so we bought twenty catties of fine rice.” Old Man Chen’s eyes darted away, not daring to look him in the eye.
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhancai's face immediately turned cold. "What? You bought twenty catties at once? When you were enjoying yourselves, why didn't you think about going hungry? Now that there's no food left, what can I do? You'd better figure it out yourselves!"
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