"Wangmei, is it hot? Go and sit next to it. Bring a few more eggs. Mom, come and light the stove."

In her previous life, she grew up in a rural area and could only cook a stove at the age of seven.

"Mom, why are you here?" Lamei looked up when she heard the sound. Before she could react, she saw her mother taking the firewood in her hand and pulling her up.

"Mom, the eggs were locked in the cabinet by the milk, and I can't open them." Lamei continued.

Yan Xia threw the lit straw and firewood into the stove, stood up, picked up a thick wooden stick, and smashed it against the cabinet.

The broken lock was old, and it fell to the ground immediately after being smashed.

"Here, it's on. Wash the eggs and boil them in the pot. We'll have a good meal today."

Yan Xia's face was expressionless. Her operation really frightened Lamei.

"Mom, this...won't grandma scold you for being like this? Mom, what happened to you today?"

"It's okay. Your grandma is still sleeping on the ground. Cook them all. Don't leave any of them behind. Also take down the bacon from the roof. I'll make bacon and stir-fry chili later. You can use the casserole to cook the rice. Don't add too much water. , I only eat dry food." Yan Xia ordered.

My mother had already spoken, so Lamei had no choice but to do as she said. Anyway, my mother was holding on when the sky fell. It happened that she hadn’t eaten eggs in two years. The last time she ate them was when she was helping her nephew wash clothes, and they fell out of his sleeves. Although a piece of egg white was stained with plant ash, Wintersweet couldn't help but eat it.

When she thinks of the taste of eggs, Lamei wants to drool. Her life in the Chen family is not much better. One meal a day is pure wild vegetables or brown rice porridge, which makes her hungry but not full. There is no taste in her mouth at all.

As for why grandma slept on the ground, Lamei didn't care at all.

She can sleep wherever she likes, but it's not good for her, and sleeping in a cesspit is none of her business.

The mother and daughter were busy cooking the food, and it was all done in a short while. Guihua had already called the remaining three children back.

"Come on, wash your hands first, then sit down and eat quickly. I have something to tell you when you're full. Osmanthus must have mentioned it to you just now. We'll discuss this later. I'm starving to death."

After Yan Xia finished speaking, she picked up the bowl and chopsticks and sat down at the table first. She filled a bowl of rice with two fried golden poached eggs on top. When she took the chopsticks down, the egg yolks flowed out, and they turned out to be sugar-coated eggs. A mouthful of rice, an egg, and a chopstick of fried bacon with chili peppers. The three flavors are mixed together and chewed.

"Oh, it smells so good. It's so delicious. Why are you still standing there? Sit down and eat. Aren't you hungry?"

Mother said so, so the five of them had no choice but to sit down obediently.

At first, they only dared to eat the rice in small bites. After Yan Xia gave each of them a large piece of chopsticks, they started eating bravely.

In just fifteen minutes, a large pot of bacon, fried chili, eighteen hard-boiled eggs, and a pot of rice were all eaten.

I didn’t make too many poached eggs, just two per person.

The bacon here is not too salty and is just right to eat with rice.

The five siblings haven't eaten meat in several years. Since their father passed away, the food has become worse and worse. They sat at the small dining table and burped.

"Okay, now that we've eaten and drank, it's time to get down to business. Osmanthus, put down the dishes and chopsticks. No need to wash them. Today we are leaving this wolf den. From now on, we will never be angry with that old woman again. But do you want to leave? I'm afraid we will have to suffer for a while. Although the temple at the end of the village is dilapidated, it has a gate and can barely accommodate people. When we leave here, we will live there temporarily. As for the fields, my mother has no money to buy them. When the time comes, we will open up wasteland, and there is a lot of wasteland in Baihua Village."

"Mom, let's see if we can do some small business and try to get your three brothers to marry back next year. Osmanthus and Wintersweet will get married later. It's not too late to be eighteen. What do you think?"

After a brief planning, Yan Xia looked at a few people.

"Mom, I'll go with you. I'll go wherever mom goes." Guihua, the second child, said first.

"I'm just like my eldest sister. Where my mother is, my family is." The eldest brother, Chen Jinfu, also quickly took sides.

"Mom, I don't want to stay in this bad place anymore. Nai scolds me every day, and Yin Bao beats me at every turn. Look, my arms are all bruised. Mom, I don't want to stay here even if I starve to death from exhaustion." The third child, Chen Jinlu, rolled up his sleeves and saw that they were covered with bruises, which made Yan Xia's eyebrows jump.

"As long as I can have a full stomach, I can go anywhere." After Laosi Laomei said this, she picked her teeth with chopsticks. She smashed them with her mouth. After the shreds of meat stuck between her teeth were picked out, she couldn't bear to throw them away. She was still not satisfied. Eat it.

Since her father's death, she has forgotten the taste of meat. Let alone meat, she can't even take a sip of broth.

As long as she can eat meat, she is willing to live in a hut, not to mention living in a ruined temple.

"Lao Wu, what about you?" Chen Jinshou, the youngest son named by Yan Xia, lowered his head and remained silent.

Just as he raised his head to respond, there was a loud noise in the yard.

"Where are the people? Where have all the people died? Osmanthus, empty your cousin's bucket. It's almost full. You're a damn girl who's always lazy. Look carefully at your skin and flesh. I'll complain to your grandma and let her beat her. Kill you."

Guihua's sister-in-law Li Rulan has already gotten up. Since she married into the Chen family, she has given birth to the only great-grandson Chen Tiangui. No matter how hard her waist is, the whole family has to support her, even the bad-tempered Chen Li and Li Rulan Also pleasant-looking.

"You're deaf, you can't hear me. Osmanthus, osmanthus! People, they died early in the morning. Oh, I'm so angry. Wintersweet, wintersweet, come out and empty the bucket -"

Li Rulan shouted at the top of her lungs for a long time but no one answered her.

Yan Xia in the kitchen pulled her two daughters and motioned them not to go out.

Tired of shouting, Li Rulan had no choice but to empty the bucket out of anger.

After the others left, Yan Xia began to give instructions.

"Guihua, you and Lamei go and pack up all the bedding and clothes in your room. We are leaving today. Jinfu, as soon as daybreak you go and invite your Grandpa Lizheng. Now you and Jinlu go back to your room to clean up." Baggage, remember, don’t leave anything behind. What you can’t take away today, you probably won’t be able to take back in the future. As for Jin Shou, you are just like them.”

Yan Xia always felt that her youngest son's expression was a bit strange, but she didn't think about it deeply. After all, it was the first time she met him, and even if she relied on memory to get along with him, she still felt a bit strange.

After the children all went out, Yan Xia quietly transported the rice barrels from the kitchen to the space, even the few remaining pieces of bacon, and then locked the cabinet and came out.

It was already midnight, the sky was starting to turn white, and the clouds in the east were hanging with golden glow. It would be bright in ten minutes at most.

All sounds came from various rooms in the Chen family.

They are probably all up and getting dressed.

She walked into the woodshed and closed the door. The blood on Chen Li's body had dried, so she was fine. She might have to sleep for a while.

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