"She must be trying to pin that scandal on Laosan’s Wife. I’ll go." Mrs. Zhao left these words and headed towards Da Zhu’s house.
Meanwhile, Da Zhu’s stepmother was adamant about going to demand money.
But Da Zhu’s father sat on a small stool, no matter what Da Zhu’s stepmother said, even as his younger son played in the courtyard, he did not go to find Educated Youth Yun.
"Why are you two still standing here? And you, as a father, your son has a high fever and is unconscious, you don’t take him to see a doctor, but disregard his life. How can you still think Da Zhu isn’t your child? Don’t you even know what your own mother looks like, as his son?"
"And you, Wang Lihua, deliberately stirring up in front of the elder child saying Da Zhu and Xiao Hua aren’t his, aren’t his offspring, whose are they?"
Mrs. Zhao’s gaze lightly swept towards Wang Lihua, "Wang Lihua, how did I hear that before you were to be married off, you nearly snatched a man, I don’t even know what you did after....."
Before she could finish speaking, Da Zhu’s father slapped Wang Lihua, "You actually did such things."
Wang Lihua didn’t expect Mrs. Zhao to make such a scene, "I didn’t, I really didn’t."
"What are you still doing standing here, why not go to the doctor to see your son, remember to bring your money. You’re not a child anymore, not everything others say is true, why don’t you verify it? Your mother really wasted all those years raising you, if it wasn’t for the famine, for the sake of you and your brothers, would your parents have gone into the mountains to find food, only to vanish without a trace?"
Da Zhu’s father is a native of the Zhao family; he should call Mrs. Zhao "auntie."
Da Zhu’s father also has two younger brothers, but after getting married, they moved out and lived their own lives.
"I want to get compensations from Educated Youth Yun."
Mrs. Zhao snorted coldly, "You come to me, bullying our Zhao family’s children, disregarding us elders?"
Seeing that Da Zhu’s father had left, Mrs. Zhao also turned and left without casting a glance at Wang Lihua.
The people who were previously perching on the wall watching the excitement saw them leaving and lost interest too, but soon the story spread.
It was too sensational.
Da Zhu’s stepmother almost assaulted a man.
In the end, the story got twisted to Da Zhu’s stepmother having snatched several men.
This incident has nothing to do with Yun Xiaoxiao.
They had already reached home.
"I’ll go make something for you to eat."
"Auntie, I’m not hungry."
Da Zhu knew Da Bao’s house had plenty to eat, but he couldn’t keep eating his auntie’s food.
"I have a few buns; I’ll warm them up."
Meanwhile, Da Zhu’s father and Mrs. Zhao rushed to the village doctor but saw no one. Upon asking the village doctor, they learned that the person had awakened and the fever had come down, likely taken back by Educated Youth Yun.
They then headed to the Zhao residence.
Da Zhu and Xiao Hua hadn’t eaten them in a long time.
Nowadays, they ate sweet potato porridge; their stepmother ate the solid parts while they ate the watery part, and they could only have one bowl, hardly enough to fill up.
"Eat up, they’re really tasty. My grandma and my mom made them together," one urged.
"Eat quickly, fill up, and your illness will recover sooner," another added.
Under the counsel of several, Da Zhu and Xiao Hua each took a bun and slowly started eating, as if savoring the most delicious food in the world.
As Da Zhu’s father and Mrs. Zhao arrived, they saw Da Zhu and Xiao Hua each holding a bun and eating it.
When Da Zhu and Xiao Hua saw their father coming, they instinctively tried to hide their food in their bosoms.
"Da Zhu, Xiao Hua..."