HLnovel Chapter 10 The Lu family stole our bowls
Chapter 10 The Lu family stole our bowls
The Tian family started making noise early in the morning.
The reason is simple: it's about who makes breakfast.
In the past, it was always Mrs. Lu who got up early to make breakfast, while the others slept until the sun was high in the sky and then had a warm breakfast.
Yesterday, Ms. Lu finally took the children out of the house. Wang Yulan was happy and didn't say anything even though she didn't eat breakfast that morning.
Today, Wang Yulan came to the kitchen with a yawn. When she lifted the pot lid, the pot was ice cold, and the water used to boil the eggs last night was still in the pot.
"Madam Lu!" she shouted, then belatedly realized that Madam Lu had already taken the children and left.
She turned her head away to hide her embarrassment, only to find the bowl she had eaten from the night before still lying there unwashed.
"The eldest son's, the third son's."
Wang Xiuying shivered in bed, then tiptoed out of bed.
"Mother," she answered vaguely.
"Eldest daughter, what time is it? The pot is still cold. What? Are you planning to starve your father and me to death?" Wang Yulan began to berate her.
"Isn't breakfast always made by the Lu family..."
"The Lu family! The Lu family! The Lu family has already been expelled, so you all have to get out too?!" Wang Yulan raised her voice.
Wang Xiuying then realized that Lu Shi had already left and was living in a thatched hut at the end of the village.
She got dressed but didn't go out. Through the door, she said, "Mother, I thought Xiuyun was making breakfast. If I had known she wasn't making it, I would have gotten up much earlier."
"Mom, don't be angry. I'll get dressed right away and make breakfast right away."
She said nice things, but in reality, she pressed her ear against the door, listening to the sounds outside.
Finally, she heard Guo Xiuyun open the door.
"Mother," Guo Xiuyun said, yawning as she came out.
Wang Yulan had been yelling at the door for so long when she finally saw someone. She vented all her anger on Guo Xiuyun.
"What time is it? What will your father and Jinzhi eat when they get up later?"
“Previously, Lu could handle all the household matters on her own.”
"Now that you and your eldest son are working together, can't you do a good job?"
“I’m telling you, if you don’t do a good job, I’ll have the third brother divorce you.”
"If the third son passes the imperial examination in two years and becomes an official, his father and I will marry him off to a daughter of an official."
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and go to the kitchen to cook!"
Guo Xiuyun fled into the kitchen, her ears still ringing.
She lit the fire, heated the pot... and put the rice in the pot before Wang Xiuying finally arrived.
"Oh my, Xiuyun, you've already started making breakfast?"
“I told my mother I came right after I got dressed, and she called you.”
Wang Xiuying glanced at the dirty bowls piled in the corner, but showed no intention of washing them. Instead, she opened the cabinet where the bowls were kept.
"what?"
"Where are the bowls at home?"
Guo Xiuyun's mind was still replaying Wang Yulan's words, and she didn't realize that there was anything wrong with what Wang Xiuying said.
"What's wrong?" Hearing Wang Xiuying's question, he peeked out from behind the stove.
Wang Xiuying looked through the cupboard. "When Madam Lu was at home, everyone had a bowl."
"Now that they're gone, there should be five more bowls in the house."
The second son's, and Lu's mother's four children.
There's only one bowl left in the cupboard.
Where's the bowl?
The two exchanged a glance and simultaneously recalled Liu Xianglan's words.
"Could it be..."
"They really stole it?!"
The two children looked out of the kitchen and cried out, "Mom, the Lu family stole our bowls!"
The bedding and clothes that the Lu family used to sleep under had been starched and washed for more than ten years, so they could be thrown away if they were lost. But the bowls were different; a bowl was worth several coins.
"What?!" Wang Yulan ran into the kitchen and glanced into the cupboard.
“These jinxes!” She pulled a twig from beside the stove. “Xiuying, grab your tools and come with me.”
Guo Xiuyun was about to join them, her face beaming with excitement.
Wang Yulan stopped her, "Third son's wife, you stay home and cook."
Guo Xiuyun's face fell, and she casually tossed the branches aside.
"Don't make breakfast, just make lunch," Wang Yulan instructed her.
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Following Tian Tian's suggestion, Lu Tao and Tian Xiang used reeds to draw a new circle on the ground.
The newly fenced-off vegetable plot is over 200 square meters, enough to grow a lot of vegetables.
"Once the house is repaired, we'll fence off the land." Tian Xiang put down the reeds. "I'm going to make lunch."
Lu Tao was weaving thatch, making curtains from the thatch, which could be tied directly to the frame of the house, and then covered with yellow mud.
Hearing Tian Xiang's words, Lu Tao put down the thatch and said, "Mother, let's cook."
"Mom, let me do it."
"After you finish weaving this curtain, tie a mat with reed stalks. This afternoon I'll go wash the wild vegetables that Tian Tian and Jing He dug up and spread them on the mat to dry."
The mother and daughter discussed the matter calmly.
"Okay." Lu Tao quickened her pace.
"Let's air out a lot of things before autumn arrives, and then use the money to buy two more quilts," Tian Xiang muttered to Lu Tao at the door.
Lu Tao responded to every question, "Yes, the sun is strong before autumn, and it will dry in two days."
"Then Jinghe and I will continue digging up the mountain this afternoon." Tian Tian hugged Tian Jinghe, who was close to her, and the little guy nodded repeatedly.
Just as Tian Xiang was about to light the fire, she heard a sound...
"The Lu family!"
Her hand trembled, and the tinderbox fell to the ground.
The family looked up and saw Wang Yulan and Wang Xiuying coming towards them with sticks in their hands.
Tian Tian immediately glanced at the pottery jar on the ground.
The Tian family's sudden and aggressive arrival must be because they discovered that some things were missing from their home.
Tian Tian lowered her head. "Jinghe, go to the village chief's house and bring him here."
"Be careful when walking along the river."
Tian Jinghe avoided Wang Yulan and ran as fast as he could along the riverbank towards the village.
Lu Tao and Tian Xiang stood up, their backs to the room.
During this time, Tian Tian stored all the pottery jars, bowls, tinderboxes, chopsticks, ladles, kitchen knives, sickles... into the system.
Wang Yulan rushed in front of Lu Tao and raised her hand to hit her with a tree branch.
Lu Tao shielded Tian Xiang behind her, trying to block her with her own body.
The expected pain did not come. Lu Tao opened one eye and saw Tian Tian blocking Wang Yulan's stick with both hands.
"Sweetie." Lu Tao quickly pulled Tian Tian behind her. "Mom, what are you doing?"
"Mrs. Lu, I'm no longer your mother!" Wang Yulan winked at Wang Xiuyun, "Search the house!"
"What are you searching for?" Lu Tao grabbed Wang Xiuying. "What do you want to search for?"
Wang Xiuying shook off her hand, laughing smugly, "Mrs. Lu, you don't know what we're looking for?"
"Four bowls are missing from the house; you must have stolen them."
Four bowls?
Lu Tao paused, not out of guilt, but out of worry.
Because... she really does have four bowls here.
If Wang Xiuying saw them, she would definitely accuse them of stealing and take everything away...
Therefore, Wang Xiuying must absolutely not be allowed to go in and search.
"No!" Lu Tao stretched out her arms, standing firmly in front of Wang Xiuying.
"Wang Xiuying, what right do you have to search my house?"