Chapter 17 Go Home and Eat
After Shen Meng returned to the house, she went straight into the space. Her head was still aching, so she found some medicine and some brain-boosting food and ate some of it before she felt relieved.

Her body has been very sticky since yesterday. Fortunately, Wang Guizhi wiped it off, otherwise it would have definitely smelled bad.

She put hot water in the bathroom and took a good bath. She rubbed the mud vigorously with the specially bought bath towel. Country people rarely pay attention to hygiene. The mud on the original owner's body was rubbed into strips. Shen Meng felt disgusted and almost vomited. She rubbed twice and took a bath before she stopped. She frowned when she untied the shower cap. If it weren't for the severe headache, she would have scratched her hair.

She helped herself to rub the dust at home, while Lu Mingyang and several other children ran to the hillside to collect grass for pigs. Although Lu Mingkai was young, he also tried hard to help his brothers and sisters with the work. Because there were no tools, his little hands were all red and had several marks.

He pulled a few more handfuls of grass, and when he looked up, he saw his brothers and sisters working with their butts sticking out in front of him. He curled his lips. The other children who were picking grass for pigs had already gone home to eat, and no one called them yet!

"Daqing, Erqing, hurry home and have dinner. The sun is too hot. Stop working so hard."

"Here I come, mom." Daqing put the grass in his hand into the frame and called out to Lu Mingyang.

"Mingyang, why hasn't your grandma called you back to eat? She didn't call you yesterday, and she hasn't called you today either. How can the old lady be so cruel? I saw Yongqiang, Yongli and the others have gone back."

Lu Mingyang didn't even raise his head, he was still working.

"Hurry up and take Erqing back. Your mother is still waiting for you. We will go home later."

"Go home. What are you going to eat? Your grandma is in such a bad state, and your mother is such a bad character. Mingyang, why don't you bring Mingliang and the others to my house to eat? My mother won't say anything. She will feel sorry for you when she sees that you have nothing to eat."

Daqing went to pull Lu Mingyang as he spoke. His grandmother and Liu Sanjin were sisters-in-law, so they could be considered cousins. Although the food at home was not good, at least they could get by.

"No, we've been to your house several times this month. Look at your aunt's face, she's almost falling to the ground. If your mother gets bullied again, we'll just go home. It's okay. Go away, go away."

Daqing led Erqing down the mountain, and after two steps he turned back, "You really don't want to go?"

"No, go back quickly, it's okay!"

After watching Daqing and Erqing leave, Lu Mingyang stopped smiling. It’s not quite right to say she was smiling, she just twitched the corners of her mouth. If Daqing’s mother hadn’t helped them often, he would have been indifferent to everyone.

"Brother, I'm hungry. When will grandma come to call me?"

Lu Mingliang put the shovel in his hand on the ground and sat down on it.

"What are you calling? If you wanted to call me for dinner, you would have called me a long time ago. Why wait till now? Brother, why don't you pay for the pig feed and go home? I also hid three egg cakes from the bad woman. Let's share them."

Lu Mingkai's eyes lit up, and he looked at Lu Mingliang with his little teeth bared, "Hehe", he wanted to eat egg cake.

Lu Mingfang picked up the shovel and pursed her lips and said, "Brother, I think Mom might really get better. Grandpa and grandma talked about her this morning, and she's still sick. Let's go back. What if she really dies? There's no one around. When Dad comes back, he'll ask what to do. I'm scared."

They are all children of the Lu family. If the bad woman really died, what would they do in the future? Although life with the bad woman is not easy, the house they sleep in is still good, and they can eat some good food occasionally.

But it was different at grandma's house. Grandma would make people work, and the food was all watery. The steamed buns were made of black bean flour, which was very sore. Xiaokai couldn't even poop because of the black bean buns. She didn't want to go to grandma's house for dinner. She was so hungry that her stomach hurt, and she didn't want to go.

Lu Mingyang looked at his brother and sister with gloomy eyes. After a while, he said loudly: "Go home, let's go home."

"Hey, okay. Auntie Tian and Grandma Chen brought back eggs yesterday. I checked and found that they were all put in the kitchen cupboard by grandma. It's okay if you don't have enough egg cake. We can cook some eggs later. Anyway, the bad woman is lying in bed. I don't know how many eggs you took. There is also brown sugar. Let's go home and make brown sugar water for Mingfang. Little girls like sweet food."

He swallowed hard as he spoke. He also liked sweet food, but if he could steal a little, he would rather give it to his sister.

Lu Mingliang said a lot, and Lu Mingkai was so greedy that he was drooling all the way.

He said a lot, but Lu Mingliang didn't say anything. He knew in his heart that grandma would not give them food. Even if she did, she would wait until Second Aunt said a lot of sarcastic words before giving them food.

Grandma and the others never treated him, Mingliang and Mingfang as members of the Lu family. Although they called them their treasures, they were never willing to give them good things. It was nothing like how they treated Yongqiang and Yongli, who were fed with chicken eggs and duck eggs. Even Mingkai, their own grandson, was not treated that way.

He didn't think that the bad woman would change, but her grandparents had just passed away, so even if she wanted to put on a show, she would only do it for two days, and she shouldn't be sad during those two days.

In the main hall of the Lu family's old courtyard, the whole family was eating. Xie Jinghao picked up a bite of food and fed it to Xiaogang. Then he looked at the silent family and thought for a while before saying, "It's so late. Should we go call Mingyang and the others to come for dinner? And send some food to sister-in-law!"

"You are not allowed to go. I'll see who dares to go. Humph, didn't that woman already get her food distribution? She still wants to eat the rations here. What's more, those few burdens are not given any food at all."

Lu Jiahe said bitterly, opening his mouth and taking a few bites of the steamed bun.

When he said these words, Liu Sanjin didn't even raise his eyelids, and it seemed that he had the same idea. Xie Jinghao frowned tightly.

"My eldest sister-in-law is still injured, and the children can't cook. If something really happens, it will be difficult to explain to my eldest brother when he comes back."

"Hmph, that's a nice thing to say. Then why don't you save your own rations and give them to your eldest sister-in-law and the others?" Wu Xianglan rolled her eyes.

She's pretending to be a good person here, as if she's the only good person.

"Mother, Third Sister-in-law is right. Eldest Sister-in-law still has a wound on her head, and the children are not close to her. If something really happens, it will be hard to explain. Why don't we send some food over? I-I won't eat, so it's ok to save the food!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? You didn't eat much yesterday. If you don't eat today, how will your body bear it? Don't say such things. Let me save my food." Lu Jiaxuan put down the bowl and stood up to get the steamed corn bread.

Seeing that his youngest son was not eating, Liu Sanjin hurriedly said, "You are not allowed to go. You are just kind-hearted. Your mother is not a bad person. If your sister-in-law and the others wanted to eat, they would have asked Mingyang to come over long ago. They are not hungry. Wait. They will come over to ask for food soon. Mother will not refuse to give them food, but how to give it depends on your sister-in-law's attitude."

She was waiting to hear the bad news about Shen Meng this morning. After listening through the crack in the door for a long time, she heard Old Lady Wang say that she was in much better health. She was so angry that she had a toothache for the whole morning.

Since you have nothing to do, if you want to eat, you have to give her something to eat, otherwise, don't even think about eating a grain of rice.

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