Chapter 499: 499: Catching the Thief and the Goods (Part 2)
"Mmm, mmm, mmm!"
Like a chick pecking at grains of rice, Dong Xinyuan imdiately cradled the large basin filled with boiled pork. She smiled goofily, her mouth agape and drool nearly dripping into the basin.
With a slurp.
How delicious!
...
The Liang family usually ate inside the house, but this ti, Big Brother Liang Zhichen brought out a few stools, and Fourth Brother Liang Haoming carried a table to the center of the courtyard.
Dong Xinyuan placed the basin of at on the table and then couldn’t move from there; she sat properly on the stool, just waiting for her big sister to call them to eat so she could dig in.
After cooking, Dong Huiying washed her greasy hands when she had a mont, and coming out of the kitchen, she saw everyone waiting for her, even Second Brother Liang Shuyu, all staring intently at the food on the table without touching a chopstick.
At so point, Dong Huiying had her own fixed seat.
Her seat was between Big Brother Liang Zhichen and Second Brother Liang Shuyu, with an empty spot next to Liang Zhichen followed by the Fifth Brother Yue Ning; below Liang Shuyu were Fourth Brother Liang Haoming and Sixth Brother Liang Yixuan in order.
In total, to her right were the odd numbers, and to her left, the even numbers.
And Dong Xinyuan, her sister from her mother’s family, was squeezed between Yue Ning and Yixuan, directly across from her.
After Dong Huiying sat down, she first picked up an empty bowl, took so rice and at, and then placed it in front of the empty seat on Liang Zhichen’s right side.
Seeing this, Dong Xinyuan blinked.
Her big sister had six husbands, but... one two three four five?
She glanced at the empty seat.
Reportedly, the third brother-in-law was an actor in the town. In those days, few married n were willing to perform and make a public display of themselves, even as a refined actor; partly because it involved their personal dignity and respect, and also because their wives certainly wouldn’t be pleased.
But the third brother-in-law...
"The third brother-in-law isn’t back from the town?"
Dong Huiying paused, and for a mont, the atmosphere turned very somber. Dong Xinyuan felt anxious, wondering if she had misspoken.
Dong Huiying picked up the chopsticks, and with a faint smile, she lowered her head and said, "Let’s eat, the dishes will get cold if we wait any longer."
"Oh..." Dong Xinyuan, lost in thought, picked up her chopsticks, but she rembered her own mother.
Half a year ago, her mother had run back ho, half-dead. Her mother ntioned that she had encountered the third brother-in-law on the mountain, and he was in poor condition. She had carried him back to the Liang family. Her mother then intended to hunt a wild boar to bring to the Liang family but t with danger on the mountain, and the matter of the wild boar naturally ca to nothing, leaving her unwell even now.
Dong Xinyuan mulled this over for a long while but couldn’t quite understand; still, she realized that the third brother-in-law seed to be a taboo topic. Had she really misspoken earlier?
However, her concerns were quickly pushed aside as the delicious food in front of her captured her attention, making her eat rrily.
While the Liang family was dining, Aunt Wang from next door was also having dinner. But she couldn’t eat.
Compared to the als at the Liang family, her own seed sowhat lacking.
Though her ho did not lack silver, and they had at and vegetables, the at was dry and the vegetables wilted, the flavor far inferior to that of the Liang family.
Aunt Wang only managed a couple of bites before stopping, feeling quite displeased inside.
After the al, over at the Liang family’s, they started picking up the table and washing the dishes, then after tidying up, they extinguished the lamps.
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