mtl008 Chapter 268 What a big face!
Chapter 268 What a big face!
When Xiaochunhua heard her third brother's words, she looked up at him and then at the bowl in front of her.
Then she took out her chopsticks and put them aside, and pushed her bowl forward: "Mom, I can't eat anymore, can I not eat?"
Lin Cai calmly ate her porridge: "Of course, but if you get hungry later, I won't make you any food, and you won't have any snacks to eat."
Xiao Chunhua, who had been looking forward to snacks, suddenly looked dejected: "Ah! Is there nothing left to eat? No more pastries?"
"No, there's nothing at all, not even a single crumb."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Chunhua stretched out her little hand and pulled the bowl of porridge that belonged to her in front of her.
She didn't want to go hungry for a while, and being both cold and hot was very uncomfortable; she never wanted to experience that discomfort again.
When Huani came over to get the bowl, Gu Jiao'er had already finished eating. Xiao Chunhua came with Huani.
She looked at Gu Jiao'er lying on the bed: "You fainted outside today, and my older brother carried you in."
"I know." Gu Jiao'er also saw Xiao Chunhua and had heard Huani tell her how she got here.
“You treated us so badly before, and even my older brother didn’t ignore you, so you can’t bully us anymore, do you hear me?”
Hearing this, Gu Jiao'er was startled. Looking at the little girl who had been standing behind Huani and was unwilling to step forward, she suddenly remembered what she had done before.
She had bullied the four siblings before. Why did Old Gu Dachui bring her in when he saw her outside?
Gu Jiao'er's mind was filled with this question; she hadn't even noticed when Huani and the others left!
During her stay at the Gu family's house, Gu Jiao'er only ate one meal a day. Each meal consisted of potato and coarse grain porridge, which, although it didn't look very appetizing, was very filling.
After only four days, Gu Jiao'er's leg gradually recovered. She had walked in the snow for too long that day, and the lower half of her leg was completely buried in the snow.
When Gu Dachui found him, he had already fainted, and the lower half of his leg was still buried in the snow.
It was precisely for this reason that Gu Jiao'er's legs were frostbitten, which is why she stayed at the Gu family's house for a few days to recover.
After resting for a few days, her leg has basically recovered, and Gu Jiao'er is now trying to get out of bed and walk around.
But after she had only walked around the room twice, she heard a commotion outside.
"Nier, I'm your mother! You can't abandon me! Your father, your brother, and I are starving to death! You can't leave us behind!"
"Why should I care? I can't even manage myself, how can I have time to care about you?"
"You have no food, but do you think I do?"
“My dear, I know you’re having a hard time too, but I have no choice. I can’t just watch your father and your brother starve to death at home!”
"Didn't your stepmother-in-law give the village chief so many potatoes the other day? She must have kept some for herself, so just give us a little bit!"
Hearing this, Huani was furious. She knew they were coming to cause trouble and that it wouldn't be good, but she never expected that this was their real intention.
Huani coldly looked at the woman in front of her: "No, no, nothing at all. Everything we had has been divided up by you. What else do you want?"
“The entire Gu family is completely out of food right now. We’ve already eaten one meal a day, and you’re coming to ask us for more. What do you expect me to give you?”
“You’re lying, you’re cheating! You slut, you just won’t give it to me. Mother already said you have it, so if you don’t give it to me, I’ll break your legs.”
The one speaking was Hua Ni's only younger brother, Hua Guo. He was small in stature but spoke very fiercely. He would even break his sister's legs, so he probably wouldn't treat others any better.
Hearing what Huaguo said, Huani became even angrier: "I said no, and that's final. There's nothing you can do if you don't want to believe me."
The Hua family members were indeed unwilling to believe it, especially Aunt Hua, who thought that what Hua Ni said was all a lie, and that she was deliberately saying it to deceive them.
"Since there are no potatoes, you can bring out something else, anything that can fill your stomach, Ni'er, you can give some to your mother!"
As she was talking, she started crying at the door. Hearing her crying, Huani really wanted to throw her out immediately.
But she didn't have that ability and couldn't do it now. Xiao Chunhua heard the noise inside and ran out without caring whether it was cold outside.
Approaching her sister-in-law, and seeing the old woman crying and making a scene, she said, "Aunt Hua, how could you do this? My sister-in-law isn't even part of your family anymore, why are you still coming here?"
"Pah! What nonsense are you spouting, you little brat? She's my daughter, she crawled out of my belly, how can she not be part of our family?"
Hearing this, Xiaochunhua looked up at Huani and said softly, "Sister-in-law, could you cover your ears first?"
What she's about to say might be a little hurtful, and it's not something her sister-in-law should hear.
Huani didn't understand what Xiaochunhua wanted to do, but after hearing Xiaochunhua's words, she did as she was told.
When Xiao Chunhua saw that Huani had covered her ears, she turned to look at Aunt Hua and the others and said, "My sister-in-law was never part of your family."
"Everyone in the village knows what you did before. You wanted to sell your sister-in-law and even wrote a contract of servitude. Have you forgotten all of that?"
“You’ve all forgotten, but I haven’t. It was my mother and my eldest brother who bought my sister-in-law. Her indenture is still in our hands. No matter what you say today, she’s no longer part of your family.”
Although Xiaochunhua is young, she is very clever, and since she knows what happened before, she speaks very clearly and logically.
Hearing this, Aunt Hua felt a little guilty, but in order to fill her stomach, she still stubbornly said, "So what if that's the case?"
"Didn't she, Huani, come from my belly?"
"Since we came from our mother's womb, we should take care of her. If she's hungry, we should feed her."
"Wow, you old woman, you have quite the nerve. I've been in town for so long and I've never seen such a shameless old woman."
Scarface carried a log back from outside. Because the log was too long, a long section of it was sticking out of the way, and the Hua family members were already blocking the doorway.
They turned around when they heard the sound and saw Scarface and the log he was carrying on his shoulder.