Gu Minghe reached out to scratch his ears in disbelief, staring and asking: "What did you just say? Say it again."

"I told you that we are running out of food. You have to think of a solution." Liu Xiaocao was frightened and took a step back, saying in a low voice.

"No, when the family was divided, we distributed about 300 kilograms of grain, and two days ago we distributed more than 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes and potatoes. You told me that we were running out of food?" Gu Minghe said angrily, and as if he suddenly remembered something, he quickly pushed the person in front of him away, opened the cabinet and looked at the bag of potatoes and sweet potatoes left inside.

As for the other grains, not even a hair was left, let alone bags.

When Gu Minghe saw this, his head buzzed. He stood up with the help of the cabinet and looked at Liu Xiaocao and shouted angrily, "Where is the food?"

"They've all been eaten. We've been separated for more than two months. How can they bear the food we eat every day?" Liu Xiaocao was afraid that her husband would see her guilty conscience, so she stretched her neck and said

Gu Minghe looked at his daughter-in-law like this. Although he had doubts in his heart, he nodded and stopped asking questions because his family had indeed been eating dry food for every meal since the separation.

Instead, he squatted at the door, looking at the heavy rain outside with a sad face, wondering where to get food.

"Boss, my parents bought a lot of food. Go ask mom tomorrow." Liu Xiaocao thought that the two old men were so old and still occupied so much food, so he stepped forward to give advice.

"Dad can't give it to me." After asking, Gu Minghe looked up at his father who was smoking at the door. He didn't want to go.

"You are so stupid. When dad is not at home, tell mom. If you sound pitiful, she will definitely agree." Liu Xiaocao thought, if she just acted a little pitiful, her mother-in-law would agree to let them live in the fourth son's house. Then since her own son is so pitiful, can't she give him some food?

"Well, just hold on for a few days. I'll go talk to mom in a couple of days." Gu Minghe thought so too, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"What's the third brother's idea again? Look at his face, it's not funny." Niu Lili was sitting at the door sewing shoe soles. She looked up and saw the third brother and his wife laughing. When she thought about the fourth brother's house being occupied by them, she pouted and said

"No, don't think that bad of the third brother. No matter what idea he has, we won't agree to it even if he finds us." Gu Mingtao was sitting in the house weaving a basket. After hearing what his wife said, he replied nonchalantly.

Section 39

"That's right." Niu Lili thought about it and nodded, then talked about something else.

The heavy rain continued to fall, and Gu Minghe sat on the kang, looking at the potatoes for dinner. With a snap, he put down his chopsticks, put on his raincoat, and went out.

"We're having dinner, what are you doing?" Liu Xiaocao watched her husband go out and hurriedly called out.

But Gu Minghe didn't want to pay attention to this man. He didn't even say a word and went straight to his parents' room.

"What are you looking at? If you don't want to eat, get out of here." Liu Xiaocao got angry when he saw the three money-losing guys and started to curse.

The three children were frightened by their mother and trembled a little, but they didn't want to go hungry, so they gritted their teeth and reached out to grab a potato, chewing it with relish.

"You're starving every day. Did I give you food or clothes?" Liu Xiaocao looked at the useless guys who were losing money and was so angry that she put down her chopsticks and stopped eating. She stood at the door waiting for them to come back.

Lin Dacui looked at her third son who came in, swallowed the corn porridge in her mouth and asked: "The third son is here, have you eaten yet?"

"No." Gu Minghe sat aside and looked at the corn porridge, steamed bread, and fried shredded potatoes on the table. He swallowed and shook his head.

"Tell me what you want to do, and leave immediately. Don't delay my meal." Seeing the useless look of the third son, Old Man Gu got angry and put down his bowl and chopsticks and said,

"No, it's okay. I'll leave first then." Gu Minghe said that, but his butt was sitting on the stool without moving.

"Then go back and don't stand here anymore." Old Man Gu snorted when he saw that the third brother didn't move and didn't even raise his eyelids.

"Okay, let's eat here. Go back and get your own bowl and chopsticks." Lin Dacui sighed and said when she saw what the third brother did.

"Hey, thank you, mom." Gu Minghe happily agreed when he heard his mother say that, and ran back to get the dishes and chopsticks.

"The third child is already so old, you should stop pampering him." After the old man Gu and the others disappeared, he looked at the old woman and said

"They are all my flesh and blood. If I don't spoil them, how can they just sit there and watch them with their eyes wide open?" Lin Dacui thought that she would ask the third brother about it when he came over later.

They only eat corn porridge and steamed corn bread, but he is so greedy. What do they usually eat?

"Boss, you're back. What did your parents say?" Liu Xiaocao asked happily when she saw the boss coming back.

"What did you say?" Gu Minghe was confused by his wife's question.

"Didn't you go to your parents to borrow food? What did they say?" Liu Xiaocao frowned at her husband and asked.

"I didn't ask. Oh, okay, my parents are waiting for me to eat, I'm leaving now." After saying this, Gu Minghe picked up the dishes on the table and ran out.

Liu Xiaocao watched her husband in the house, stamped her feet vigorously, and cursed: "You are such a loser. You are just given a meal and you are still so happy."

"Tell me, what's going on?" Lin Dacui saw her third son sitting on the stool and asked without waiting for anyone to serve her porridge.

"What's going on?" Gu Minghe picked up a steamed bun, took a big bite, and said incoherently

"Look at you, what's wrong with you? Are you so greedy for a steamed bun?" Lin Dacui glared at her son and asked.

"My family only has potatoes and sweet potatoes, no other food. Eating these every day makes my heart and stomach burn." Gu Minghe swallowed the steamed bread, drank a mouthful of corn porridge, and then sighed with satisfaction.

"No food? No food so soon? We gave you more than 300 kilograms of food when we divided the family property." When Lin Dacui heard her son say that his family had no food, she immediately stood up and shouted anxiously.

"Well, after the separation, we have been eating dry food for every meal, and we have run out of food." Gu Minghe nodded and said

"You, why don't you save a little? These 300 kilograms of food can last you until autumn if you save a little." Lin Dacui looked at her heartless son who was still eating and drinking with big mouthfuls, and she felt really angry for him.

"Okay, stop talking. If they eat like this, they must have a way to get food. Just don't worry about it." Old Man Gu glanced at Gu Minghe and said to the old woman, "Your mother and I don't have much food here. Don't count on us. Find a way yourself."

"Dad, you can't say that. I'm your son. Can you just watch my family starve to death?" Gu Minghe was immediately anxious when he heard his father say that.

"We old couple are sick and lying on the kang, and you didn't say you would take care of us, so after you finish this meal, just go wherever you want." After saying this, Old Man Gu stood up, picked up the steamed bread on the table, and dragged the old woman back to the house.

Gu Minghe looked at his father like that, sat there angrily, and after he was full, he took the rest home.