Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The woman nodded, carefully took out a small paper bag from her bosom, opened it, picked up a finger-sized amount of powder and shook it into the soup. Soon, the white powder floated in the boiling broth and dissolved. The two looked at each other, their cloudy old eyes full of terrifying cruelty and determination.

……

Here, after taking everyone around the room, except for three people who stayed in the room to rest due to exhaustion, the rest of the people followed Sangui back to the main hall.

When the old man and the woman came over with a few bowls of meat soup, they were slightly surprised to see that there were obviously fewer people in the main room. But soon they saw their son's affirmative look and they were relieved.

Sangui pretended to be humble and invited the guests to take a seat, and cooperated with his parents to distribute the broth to everyone.

When the old man was distributing soup to them, Lin Zhaodi stopped him and said with eager eyes, "You are so polite, old man. This broth is so delicious. Is it Aunt's cooking? My parents have been exhausted from the long journey. When they asked you to take us to the bedroom, they were so tired that they just took a rest there. We sisters will bring the broth back to the room to eat with our parents. Don't bother distributing soup to us. Thank you, thank you."

As she spoke, Lin Zhaodi changed her previous stern attitude of rejecting water and looked greedily at the bowls of broth on the old man's tray, drooling with desire.

Then, without waiting for the old man to react, he stepped forward and snatched the tray from his hand, counted the soup bowls corresponding to the number of people they had, and shamelessly lingered in the broth that the woman had not yet distributed.

Lin Zhaodi looked so greedy and insatiable that the old woman was so scared that she quickly moved the tray in her hand to the side to avoid her increasingly aggressive and predatory gaze.

Are you kidding? We only cooked such a small amount of soup, we can’t let her take it all, what will happen to the others then?

The old woman's evasive action was too obvious and direct. The sisters from the Lin family were rejected, but they were not angry. They laughed awkwardly and prepared to go back to their rooms with their trays to eat.

The old man and the others were a little dumbfounded, and asked them blankly, "Aren't you eating here?"

"No, thank you, Dad. My parents haven't had meat soup for a long time. Let's bring it into the house and share it with them."

In front of outsiders, Xiaocao did not call Lin Lao and Miao as foster father and mother, but simply called them father and mother. This way, it was easier to confuse outsiders and make them think that they were really a family, which made things easier.

With the Lin sisters taking the lead, Chun Xing followed suit, snatched the tray from the woman, smiled and thanked them, and explained that her grandfather was also resting in the house, and she couldn't eat alone outside, lest she would be lectured by her grandfather later. So she simply brought the food back to the house and shared it with her grandfather.

As they said that, a few girls shamelessly picked up their bowls and were about to leave.

The old man and the woman were caught off guard by the girls' swift, greedy and shameless behavior. Before Erkang could even reach out his hand, the girls ran away without a trace.

Many people in the main room dispersed at once, leaving Ergouzi, his mother and the three members of the host's family standing there in a daze. The atmosphere was as awkward as it could be.

Sangui wanted to make some jokes with Ergouzi and his mother to smooth things over, but he was interrupted by Lin Xiaoyue, who had returned from outside the main hall, shouting, "Aunt, remember to return the bowl to me. We haven't returned the bowls and chopsticks we borrowed from you before."

Obviously, this sentence was said to Ergou's mother. Although Ergou and his mother had not officially joined the gang, they came for them after all, so it would be bad to just leave them alone.

Unfortunately, before Lin Xiaoyue called out, the naive Ergou, in order not to embarrass his master, ignored the steaming hot broth and gulped down several mouthfuls. Even though he was panting from the heat, he was reluctant to spit out the meat in his mouth. Instead, he chewed it a few times and swallowed it.

Ergou's mother was stunned by her son's unprecedented speed. Before he could say anything, Ergou took another sip of the broth. While chewing the meat in his mouth, he mumbled his thanks to the host.

At the same time, he turned to his widow mother and said, "Mom, this soup is really delicious. It's so delicious. I've never tasted such good broth. Mom, you should drink a few sips too. The meat is really chewy, but a little too hard. But chew it a few more times. The meat that has absorbed the soup tastes even better."

Ergou's mother saw that she couldn't stop her son. The soup in the bowl that her silly son was holding with both hands was decreasing in volume at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ergou's mother felt a chill in her heart and wished she could hit her son on the back of his head with an iron sand palm.

It was just... making her so angry.

Er Gouzi drank up his bowl of meat soup in no time. Seeing that his parents didn't even move, he couldn't help but lick the remaining soup on the corner of his mouth with his tongue, and said with an unsatisfied look, "Mom, why don't you drink it? Drink it quickly, it's really delicious, I'm not lying to you."

Ergou's mother was too tired to complain. She just wanted to drag her son back into the house and beat him up. She didn't want to say anything else.

Just, I feel tired.

"Alright, this soup is too hot. Let's go back to the house and let it cool down before drinking it. It's so hot, aren't you afraid that a bowl of hot soup will burn your throat?" After scolding her son, Er Gou's mother smiled at them embarrassedly, "Excuse me for making fun of you all. We'll go back to the house. Thank you for your hospitality."

Having said that, Ergou's mother didn't wait for the three men to ask her to stay. She hurriedly took her son in one hand and the soup bowl in the other and quickly left the main room.

On Sangui's side, the family of three were still a little dazed facing the empty main room. They felt that the big fish they had encountered this time were really... each one was more intimidating than the other, and they were really rude in eating and taking.

Ergou's mother pulled her son out of the main room and met Lin Xiaoyue who was waiting for them in the dark outside.

However, the little girl looked very bad at the moment. She looked at the mother and son for a while, and finally paused on the bowl of soup in her hand, and reminded them coldly, "Don't drink this soup if you can. Remember to lock the door after you rest. Be careful."

After leaving a message, without giving the two a chance to ask, Lin Xiaoyue turned around and left. Her cold attitude made Ergou feel quite uncomfortable. He always felt that the little girl was obviously fine before, but she turned hostile in an instant, and the change in her attitude was too scary.

Ergou's mother was stunned. Thinking of the unusual reactions of the two families, her intuition told her that they must have discovered something.