Shen ng went directly into the space after returning to her room, her head still hurting a lot. She found so dicine and brain-nourishing items to eat, and only then did she feel at ease.
She felt sticky all over from yesterday till now, thankfully Wang Guizhi had wiped her down, otherwise, she would have definitely slled bad.
In the bathroom, she ran hot water and had a refreshingly thorough bath, scrubbing herself fiercely with the bath towel she bought specifically for this purpose. People in the countryside seldom care about hygiene, mud being scrubbed off her original body ca off in strips, disgusting Shen ng so much she almost vomited. She scrubbed twice and soaked in the bath before she finally stopped, her eyebrows tightly furrowed when she removed her shower cap, she would have vigorously scratched her hair if not for her severe headache.
While she was busy scrubbing ash off herself at ho, outside, Lu Mingyang and the other kids ran to the hillside to gather grass for pigs. Lu Mingkai, though young, also tried hard to help his brothers and sisters. Without tools, his little hands were marked with several red lines.
He pulled a few more bunches of grass and looked up to see his brothers and sisters bent over working, his mouth curling in displeasure. Other kids gathering grass for pigs had already gone ho to eat, but no one had called them yet!
"Daqing, Erqing, hurry ho for food, the sun is harsh, stop working."
"Coming, Mom," Daqing placed the grass into the basket and called out to Lu Mingyang.
"Mingyang, why hasn't your granny called you guys back for als? She didn't call yesterday and hasn't called today either, how could that old lady be so heartless? I saw Yong Qiang and Yong Li have all gone back."
Lu Mingyang continued working without even lifting his head.
"You hurry up and take Erqing ho, your mom is waiting for you, we'll go ho in a bit."
"You go ho, what are you going to eat at ho? Your grandma looks miserable, and your mom is the sa; Mingyang, why don't you take Ming Liang and the others to my house to eat? My mom won't mind, she'd be heartbroken seeing you guys haven't eaten."
Daqing went to pull Lu Mingyang as he spoke. His grandmother and Liu Sanjin were sisters-in-law, making them cousins technically. Although the food at his ho wasn't great, it was at least sothing.
"I'm not going, we've been to your house several tis this month already. Look at your aunt's face, it's almost falling off, if we go, your mom will be squeezed again by her. We'll just go ho, it's fine, you better hurry."
Daqing walked down the hillside with Erqing, took a few steps, then looked back, "Are you really not coming?"
"No, go back ho, it's alright!"
Watching Daqing and Erqing leave, Lu Mingyang finally stopped smiling, though calling it a smile is not quite right; he just tugged at the corner of his mouth, if not for Daqing's mother frequently helping them, he was indifferent to everyone else.
"Bro, I'm hungry, when will our grandmother co to call us?"
Lu Mingliang put his shovel down on the ground and sat down with a thump.
"Why call us for a al? If she wanted to call us, she would have by now. Bro, let's just deliver this grass for pigs and go ho, I hid away three cakes of that nasty woman's eggs, we can share them."
Lu Mingkai's eyes lit up, showing his teeth in a grin as he looked at Lu Mingliang, craving the egg cakes.
Lu Mingfang picked up the shovel and pursed her lips, "Bro, I think mom might really beco better. Grandma and granddad talked to her this morning, and she's still sick. Let's go back, what if she actually dies? No one would be around her, and dad will ask us what to do if he cos back, I'm scared."
None of them were really Lu family's kids, if that nasty woman really dies, what would they do? Although living with the nasty woman wasn't great, they slept in a good room and occasionally got to eat sothing nice.
But it's different at Grandma's, she makes people work, and the food is always thin, with cornbread made from black bean flour, really bad to swallow. Xiao Kai couldn't even defecate after eating it.
She didn't want to go to Grandma's for als, her stomach hurt from hunger, she didn't want to go at all.
Lu Mingyang looked at his younger siblings with a slight frown, then said loudly after a while: "Let's go ho, let's go back ho."
"Hehe, good, Aunt Tian and Granny Chen brought back eggs yesterday, I saw, Grandma had put them in the kitchen cabinet, it's fine if egg cakes are not filling, we'll cook eggs later, that bad woman is lying in bed anyway, who knows how many eggs and brown sugar she has taken, let's make brown sugar water for Lu Mingfang when we get ho, little girls all like sweets."
He was swallowing hard while talking, he also liked sweets, but if he could steal so, he preferred giving it to his sister.
Lu Mingliang talked a lot, Lu Mingkai drooled all the way.
He said a lot, Lu Mingliang didn't speak, he knew in his heart they wouldn't get food from Grandma, even if they did, they would let Second Aunt make so an remarks first.
Grandma and them have never treated him, Mingliang, and Mingfang as mbers of the Lu Family, although they called them dear, they never took out good things for them, unlike how they treated Yong Qiang and Yong Li, who got to eat eggs and duck eggs. Even Ming Kai, her own grandson, didn't receive such treatnt.
He didn't think that bad woman would change, but since great-grandparents just left, even if she wanted to pretend, she should keep up the act for two days, these two days should not be hard.
In the main hall of the Lu Family Old Mansion, the whole family was eating, Xie Jinghao was feeding Xiao Gang a spoonful of food, and looking at the silent family mbers, after thinking, finally said: "It's getting so late, should we call Mingyang and the others to co eat, and also bring so food for elder sister-in-law?"
"Forbid them to co, I'd like to see who dares, hmph, didn't that woman already divide her rations? Still wants to eat our rations, wishful thinking, and those few burdens, not a grain for them."
Lu Jiahe said bitterly, biting off a few bites of stead bread.
While he said these things, Liu Sanjin didn't even lift his eyelids, seeming to agree, Xie Jinghao frowned tightly.
"Elder sister-in-law is still injured, the kids can't cook, if sothing really happens, it won't be easy to explain when big brother cos back."
"Hmph, nice words, in that case, third sister-in-law, why don't you save your rations and let elder sister-in-law and their kids eat them?" Wu Xianglan said rolling her eyes.
Pretending to be a good person here, as if she's so kind of saint.
"Mom, third sister-in-law is right, elder sister-in-law is still wounded, and the children aren't close to her, if sothing really happens, indeed it won't be easy to explain, why not we still bring over so food, I, I won't eat, saving so rations should be fine right!"
"What nonsense are you talking, you hardly ate any food yesterday, if you don't eat today, how can your body take it, don't talk like that, I'll save the rations."
Lu Jiaxuan said and put his bowl down, standing up to grab so bread.
Seeing his younger son not eating, Liu Sanjin quickly said: "Don't go, just you are good-hearted, could your mother be a bad person? If elder sister-in-law and them wanted to eat, they would've asked Mingyang to co over already, they are not hungry, just wait, they will co over to ask for food soon, mom won't refuse them, but how to give depends on elder sister-in-law's attitude."
She had been waiting this morning to hear Shen ng's bad news, peeking through the door crack for a while, only to hear Old Mrs. Wang saying her health was much better, which angered her so much her teeth hurt all morning.
Since there's nothing wrong, if they want to eat, they need to return sothing, otherwise, don't even think about her giving them a single grain of rice.
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