"This is it?" Upon hearing his father's words, Wang Hu stopped crying for the moment and looked in the direction Wang Dazhu was pointing.
His eyes widened instantly.
“So ugly!” Wang Hu pointed at the little girl.
Wang Dazhu and Zhao Chunniang were afraid he would cry, but now that they saw he had stopped crying, they felt that everything was easier to talk to.
"That's right, this girl will be your sister from now on... Although she's a bit ugly now, she might grow up to be beautiful, even prettier than that little girl from the Lin family!"
"When I grow up, I can marry you and be your wife. What do you think?" Zhao Chunniang said to Wang Hu with a smile.
Actually, she didn't really like this little girl. She thought she ate too much and was too thin, with big, dark eyes that looked like they could pop out of their sockets...
Even when Lin Wanyue was so thin when she was first found, she was still more spirited than this little girl.
How much food would you have to eat to gain weight?
When can I start working for her family?
The thought that Lin Wanyue didn't have to do any work in the Lin family and could just eat, drink, and have fun every day made Zhao Chunniang feel even more disgusted when she looked at the dirty and thin girl.
Even if she could really make their family as rich as the Lin family, as Wang Dazhu said, she would still have to make them work.
After all, there were only two people in their family, while the Lin family at least had Liu Junlan and four boys.
Wang Hu pouted and cried even louder than before: "Waaah, I don't want... I don't want such an ugly sister, she's too ugly! And Lin Zihan and Lin Ziqiu told me that their sister always brings back delicious food every time she goes up the mountain!"
"But she's so ugly, and she even ate the candied hawthorn Dad brought me... Waaah, I don't like her! I only want Wanwan! She's really ugly... Waaah..."
The little girl looked at Wang Hu with her dark eyes. Even though she was being told that she was too ugly, she just tilted her head and showed no displeasure on her face.
Of course, with her blank expression, no one could discern any emotion from her face.
The little girl looked at Wang Hu for a while, then seemed to lose interest, turned her head back to look at Zhao Chunniang, and said, "I'm so hungry, I want to eat..."
Wang Hu's crying disturbed Wang Dazhu and Zhao Chunniang, who were constantly trying to comfort their son.
Zhao Chunniang had no time to spare for this little girl. She said impatiently, "Hungry? Are you a reincarnated starving ghost? Go eat in the kitchen yourself. Stop making a fuss and you've made my son cry!"
When Zhao Chunniang turned to look at Wang Hu, her face immediately turned into a smile: "Hu Zi, don't cry. You cried for so long last night. If you keep crying, what will happen if you ruin your eyes? It's all because of your useless father. He promised to bring you some snacks, but they all went to that starving ghost... I'll help you beat your father. It's all his fault."
As he spoke, he reached out and patted Wang Dazhu on the shoulder a few times.
"Yes, yes, yes." Wang Dazhu felt sorry for his son and quickly said, "It's all Dad's fault, Tiger, don't cry. Next time Dad goes to the county town, I'll buy you something delicious... like roast chicken, okay?"
In the county town, a roast chicken costs only eighty coins, and its color and appearance are very tempting.
Wang Dazhu thought it was too expensive and ultimately couldn't bring himself to buy it. He only bought two jin of pastries from a nearby shop.
However, he didn't eat a single bite himself, intending to bring it back for his son, but he ran into that little girl on the way.
Fearing the snacks might starve to death on the way home, he took out a little bit. But once he had one, the little girl wanted two. Before he could take out one, the snacks were gone.
Now, seeing his son crying, Wang Dazhu is filled with regret.
Upon hearing that he could eat roast chicken, Wang Hu immediately stopped crying and looked at his father, saying, "Then, then I want to eat it today."
It's almost dinnertime now, and no matter how much Wang Dazhu loves his son, he can't possibly travel back at night.
Therefore, it's impossible for Wang Hu to eat roast chicken today.
The couple had no choice but to promise that they would definitely set off the next day to buy him roast chicken.
"Okay...okay..." Wang Hu finally stopped crying and said to his mother, Zhao Chunniang, "Mother, I'm hungry, I want to eat."
"Alright, alright! I'll go cook you some noodles right now." Seeing that her son wasn't crying anymore, Zhao Chunniang had no reason to refuse and prepared to cook the noodles she had saved up over the past few days for him.
Noodles were a relatively rare delicacy at this time, and ordinary families would not eat them unless it was a festival.
Zhao Chunniang was not only heartbroken for her son, but also because the little girl had eaten all of her lunch, leaving her with nothing to eat for the time being. The only quick and easy option was to cook noodles so her son could eat his fill and not go hungry.
But when she got to the kitchen, she found that it looked like it had been burgled.
Not to mention the noodles, even the few eggs she had hidden away, and the rice in the rice jar, were all swept away.
"Who the hell dares to steal my grain?" Zhao Chunniang shouted shrilly.
Although there wasn't much rice in their rice jar, it still weighed about ten kilograms, enough for their family of three to eat for almost half a month!
There's not a single grain of rice left, not even the eggs, not even the noodles, not even the radishes and greens we brought back from the garden...
Zhao Chunniang suddenly froze.
As for the grain and eggs, it's possible that some clueless scoundrel in the village stole them; it's hard to say.
But who doesn't have a lot of radishes and greens piled up at home?
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