"Mom, mother came too suddenly. My house hasn't been tidied up yet. It's too, too messy."
He Tianci made excuses to prevent Meng Lan from entering the room. His mother's arrival was so sudden that Xiu Qing didn't know to communicate with him in advance.
Thinking of this, He Tianci secretly glared at Yang. Ms. Yang shrank her neck and said that it was none of her business. How could she, a junior, control her mother-in-law and her elders?
"What's wrong with you? Have you ever seen anything like this?"
Meng Lan asked angrily, then pulled away He Tianci who was blocking the door and walked straight into the house.
He Tianci said to himself in his heart that his mother had loved him since he was a child and she would stick to him to eat any delicious food at home. Even if his mother found him eating roast chicken alone in the town, she would not blame him.
He is the youngest son that his mother loves most. As the saying goes, the youngest son and the eldest grandson are the lifeblood of the old lady. There is no reason why his mother should not love their third wife. He Tianci thought of it as a matter of course and became less nervous.
As soon as Meng Lan entered the room, she saw the leftover half of the roast chicken on the table.
Meng Lan took a few steps forward, and when she got closer, the remaining aroma of the roast chicken was inhaled into her nose. Being hungry due to lack of oil and water for a long time was one thing, but at this time, Meng Lan felt more chilled.
The real heartbreak is never about making a fuss, like now.
Meng Lan looked at the leftover roast chicken on the table, and what appeared in front of her eyes were the dark and thin bodies of the two brothers He Chuanzong, He Zhaodi's withered yellow hair, and He Pandi's sallow face...
She hated He Tianci's selfishness regardless of his family's life and death, and even more hated the original person's partiality!
Thinking of this, Meng Lan resisted the urge to give the original body two big slaps, because this body was her own now, and the one who hurt the original body was herself, but she could not resist the urge to slap the roast chicken.
Snapped!
Meng Lan slapped the half of the roast chicken that was lying quietly on the table to the ground. It formed a perfect parabola in the air and then landed without any doubt. It also rolled several times on the ground before stopping. .
"Mom, my roast chicken..."
He Tianci still didn't understand what happened. He saw the roasted chicken fall on the ground and was stained with ashes. He couldn't help but feel sad. He also blamed Meng Lan a little more in his tone. He didn't notice that Yang was about to blink and twitch. eyes.
Yang originally wanted to remind He Tianci that her mother was different from before, so she had better be careful not to make her angry.
But He Tianci was stunned and couldn't tell. Yang's eyes were tired and she stopped winking at him.
Anyway, the husband and wife were birds of the same forest, and they flew separately when disaster struck. She saw that her mother-in-law seemed to be even more angry than before, and she quietly took a few steps back.
When He Tianci saw that Meng Lan ignored him, he just walked forward a few steps like a dazed young man, mumbling at the same time.
"Mom, what's wrong with you? Why did you put the roasted chicken on the ground when it was so good? It's still edible, why are you wasting it so much?"
Meng Lan watched He Tianci walk over step by step, and then raised his face. Her hands were itching unbearably, and she couldn't help but give He Tianci a firm slap. A five-finger mark immediately appeared on He Tianci's fair face. .
Meng Lan looked at He Tianci's disbelieving eyes, and felt unprecedentedly happy.
The traitor should have been beaten long ago!
"Mom, you actually hit me..."
He Tianci, who was stunned, took a while to react and covered his beaten face.
"Do you know why I hit you?" Meng Lan stared at He Tianci coldly and asked him.
"How do I know why mother beat me? Mother, I am a gift from heaven, your most beloved son..." He
Tianci shook his head and said, obviously he still didn't want to accept the fact that Meng Lan beat him. His mother had never hit him since he was a child.
Snapped!
Meng Lan looked at He Tianci's confused and aggrieved look. She couldn't hold it back, and another five-fingerprint appeared on the other half of He Tianci's face, "Do you understand now?"
He Tianci covered one side of his face with one hand, looked at Meng Lan with horrified eyes, and spoke tremblingly.
"Mom, I will definitely, definitely study hard and take the exam next year to achieve a great reputation and bring glory to my ancestors."
At this time, He Tianci thought that Meng Lan was blaming him for being lazy and not studying. He thought that he could calm Meng Lan by expressing his determination. He never thought that Meng Lan was angry with him for eating alone and not caring about the life and death of his family. .
Meng Lan looked at the stubborn He Tianci in front of her, and was so angry that she raised her hand and wanted to hit someone. He Tianci saw Meng Lan's intention and shouted to Meng Lan with a mournful face.
"Mom, what did your son do wrong? You should tell your son directly! You just let me guess like this. Even if you beat me to death today, I won't be able to guess it!"
Seeing He Tianci's useless look, Meng Lan took back her hand and rubbed her palms. She had just slapped Roasted Chicken once and He Tianci twice, and now her hands were still a little sore.
Regarding He Tianci's stupid and selfish head, I guess even if she broke his head today, he wouldn't be able to figure out where he went wrong, so Meng Lan spoke immediately.
"Okay, then I'll tell you where you went wrong. He Tianci, let me ask you how much does this roast chicken cost?"
Seeing that Meng Lan stopped beating him, He Tianci breathed a sigh of relief and learned his lesson. He would answer whatever Meng Lan asked.
"Mom, a roast chicken costs fifty cents."
Fifty cents? Meng Lan frowned when she heard this price. Chicken costs about fifteen cents per catty. Buying a turkey costs about thirty or forty cents. This roast chicken doesn't look very small at all. It costs fifty cents, but the price is quite high. normal.
But brown rice costs five cents per catty. In order to save money, I bought stale brown rice, which cost only three cents per catty. If I had bought brown rice for five cents, I could buy ten catties for fifty cents.
Ten kilograms of rice was enough to feed a large family of them many meals, but He Tianci wasted money like this and lived alone. Meng Lan's tone darkened when she thought of this.
"Then do you know how many kilograms of rice this roast chicken can buy?"
He Tianci's brain was running rapidly. He quickly recalled the price of polished rice outside. It seemed to be more than 20 cents per pound?
So he hesitated for a moment and answered Meng Lan, "Can, can I buy more than two kilograms?"
Snapped!
After hearing this answer, before Meng Lan could get angry, her hand had already moved forward and touched He Tianci's face.
"Mother!" He Tianci cried out in pain and looked at his mother with confusion and reproach. Didn't he just answer a question wrong, so why did he hit him like this? He is his mother's most beloved son.
"You unfilial son, your mother, brother and niece are eating chaffy vegetables, brown rice, or old rice at home, and we are still tightening our belts and reluctant to eat. Look at what good things you are doing outside? No. If you go to study and spend money lavishly, why should you touch your conscience and ask, who are you worthy of?"
When it came to the latter part, Meng Lan was so excited that her tone of voice was so high that she almost shouted out.
With the unfilial hat being pulled off and Meng Lan's voice hoarse, He Tianci was stunned on the spot for a moment, unable to react.
Meng Lan looked at He Tianci like this and became more and more angry.
"I have long seen that you are not the type to study. Why did God give you such a big man, and you still need your eldest brother, second brother and niece to support you? Are you embarrassed? Your mother, I will give you two choices now. One is You pay a certain amount of money to your family every month, and you find a way to stay in Zhenshan to study and live, and secondly, you come home with me to farm."
Meng Lan came to the town to look for him in person. Even if He Tianci no longer wanted to believe it, the burning pain on his face reminded him that his mother was serious.
"Mom, I want to study. Can you pay less? After all, the town costs a lot, and my son also needs..."
However, the inertia of being loved by Meng Lan for many years still made He Tianci feel a little lucky. He asked tentatively.
The next second, he received a decisive answer from Meng Lan.
"There's no need to discuss. You can just go back to farming with me."
Hearing the words "Go back to farming", He Tianci's body trembled slightly. The dark and thin appearance of his eldest brother and second brother appeared in front of him. He didn't want to be like this. He Tianci shook his head subconsciously.
"Mom, then, then I will give you the same amount of money every month from now on..."
He Tianci thought about stabilizing Meng Lan first. After all, his mother seemed to be angry now. She would not treat him like this after a few days when she recovered.
Meng Lan stared at He Tianci's face for several seconds, and a smile appeared on his face. He Tianci's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly had a bad feeling. Sure enough, Meng Lan's voice sounded next.
"Last time I asked Mrs. Yang to give you two coins. Whatever is left, give it to me now."
