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The sky was gradually getting dark. Xiaoyanzi, Dongying, Wang Wushuang, Wang Shi and his party also returned home.

Wang Shi was the first to step into the house, but he stepped into the wet soil. He then asked in confusion, "What are you doing? Why did you spill water on the ground?"

Then, a woman came out of the house. She was Wang Shi’s wife. She said casually, “Oh! We accidentally spilled some water when we were fetching it today.”

Witnessing the unpleasantness in Hua Town, Dongying planned to come to his grandma to find spiritual comfort. Seeing his grandma cooking in the kitchen as usual, Dongying gave up the idea. After cooking, they pushed the food to the table.

Xiaoyanzi just ran to the kitchen quickly, found some vegetables and asked, "I want to eat the meal made by uncle. Uncle's meal is the best."

The woman next to her said, "Your uncle's cooking is delicious, but we have no food to cook for him now, so just make do with what you have!" She also took back the vegetables that Xiaoyanzi had washed.

It was completely dark around them, and they lit lanterns in Xiaoyanzi's house so that they could eat normally. Although Xiaoyanzi liked the food cooked by Wang Wushuang the most, she was not picky about food. The food cooked by her grandma was also delicious, but the food cooked by her stepmother was hard to describe.

A long time after the meal started, Xiaoyanzi was full. She planned to take some of the delicious food in front of her and share it with her uncle, grandma, and Dongying.

At this time, the woman sitting near the window stood up again and said angrily: "Eat more, you are still growing!" At this time, she stood up and picked up all the food on the plate with chopsticks and put it into the bowl of Xiaoyanzi who was already very full. Then she looked at Dongyingqian's food on the side, and saw that there was only a little left. She was too lazy to pick it up again, and then added some dishes to her own bowl and Wang Shi's bowl.

At this time, Dongying said with a stiff face: "Aunt, if you finish all the food, what will my father and mother and I eat?"

At this time, the woman next to him looked at Dong Ying with disdain, and then said angrily: "He can only guard the house with a dog, but he can't do anything else with a human being."

At this moment, when Wang Wushuang wanted to argue for something, he was stopped by Dongying and his mother. Wang Shuang looked at his son and daughter-in-law and endured it.

Xiaoyanzi fell into deep thought.

Then Xiaoyanzi picked up some of the food in her bowl with chopsticks and gave it to Dongying. She smiled and said, "Brother Dongying, you should grow taller too. You should eat more too."

Seeing Xiaoyanzi like this, Wang Shi’s woman was also helpless.

After finishing the meal, Wang Shi immediately stood up and said, "Hey, don't mind it! Brother Wushuang, this woman has this kind of personality. Don't blame her after all, she lives in such a..."

Before Wang Shi could finish, he sighed again and again. Just like that, after dinner, Mom got up carefully and took Dongying and Dad back home to sleep.

Just as we were walking on the road, A-ma suddenly fell down in front of Dongying. Dongying was so shocked that he stood there in a daze, and his ears seemed to have stopped ringing.

It was the father who reacted first, came to Dongying, squatted down, and took a look at the mother's condition. Dongying then reacted and quickly squatted down and asked anxiously: "Dad, what happened to Mom?"

After checking, we found that grandma was too tired and had fallen asleep.

Dad then let out a long sigh and said, "It's okay, your mom is just too tired. Come, help your mom up and put her on my back." Dad carried Mom on his back.

A woman squatting in the bamboo forest in the distance said angrily: "Why didn't he die? Really, I was happy for nothing." Then she stood up and walked towards Xiaoyanzi's home.

In the moonlight, Dad carried Mom on his back and led Dongying along the bamboo path and said, "Dongying! Don't think we are in a bad state now, but a good man should have great ambitions. You must be a man of integrity and achieve great things in the future."

The moonlight seemed to be their witness, witnessing the three of them at their most miserable times, while the sun seemed to be their witness, witnessing their proudest moments during the harvest.

The three of them returned home, and Dad brought Dongying a thicker quilt to cover him, and then went to take care of Mom.

He stood by the bed, holding his mother's already dry hand, tears could no longer be stopped from flowing, and he said, "You have suffered." Then he stayed with his mother all night without falling asleep.

At daybreak, the rooster was pecking at the caterpillars on the ground. As soon as the caterpillars went down his throat, he immediately started crowing.

My mother also got up. My father picked up the chopped firewood and said, "Let's go! Let's go to Xiaoyanzi's house to have breakfast."

Dongying was a little speechless and asked, "Didn't we eat yesterday? Can we not go out today and eat at home?" Grandma came over and whispered, "There is no food at home, little Dongying, our Dongying still needs to grow, so he still needs to eat."

No matter how old a child is, he or she will always be a child in the eyes of his or her parents. One can imagine how great the influence of Wang Wushuang and his or her mother is on Dongying.

Grandma then took Dongying to Xiaoyanzi's home. When they were leaving, Grandma said to Dongying, "Don't feel guilty! Going to Xiaoyanzi's home for dinner was something we discussed with them. We also agreed to their terms and combined our last bit of food with theirs. In the end, our two families will eat together to get through the year."

Afterwards, Dad also said to Dadongying: "Yes, our two families are now in a partnership, you don't have to worry." As he said that, Wang Wushuang thought, there shouldn't be any big problems, right?

After breakfast, Dongying took Xiaoyanzi to look for the ant's nest.

Xiaoyanzi said helplessly from behind, "How many times have you done this? You are already so old, and you are still playing with ants?"

Dongying answered seriously: "Why, every time! When I pulled you here, you came every time." Dongying turned his head back and looked in the direction of Xiaoyanzi, as if waiting for her answer, but in fact it seemed more like he wanted to get her support.

Looking at Dongying's expectant face, Xiaoyanzi hesitated a little, but had no choice but to accompany this little kid who had not yet grown up to play the last game!

Dongying squatted down and kept calling out to Xiaoyanzi behind him, "Look, there is an ant here. It is fighting against several ants on the opposite side." Then, Xiaoyanzi also squatted beside the ant nest and looked at the ants.

At this time, there was an ant that was quite special. It came into the enemy's encirclement alone, and was finally decomposed of its legs and head by the enemy ants. At this time, Dong Ying turned his view and saw the large group of ants that had already evacuated. Only then did he understand.

It turned out that it wanted to cover its fellows to leave! But I felt that it was unnecessary.

Little Swallow had a different idea and said, "If it doesn't stay to cover them, more ants will die."

Dong Ying said to Xiao Yanzi beside him: "Although they can no longer defeat the ants on the other side, they still have the strength to fight! Why do they have to retreat completely? Doesn't this give the other side a chance to pursue? In the end, they have to leave one person behind to cover their retreat, and this is the only way to leave such a heroic scene."