How can someone travel through time and space and become a beggar?

"Brother! You're back! Let's go to my house for dinner." Xia Chu happily came up to pull Xia Tian, but unexpectedly he was easily broken free.

"We're not going. You should go back and have dinner." Xia Tian said with a smile.

Xia Chu looked at him in confusion, "Why? My mother asked me to take you there. The meal should be ready by now."

"Be good, go back by yourself." Xia Tian patted her head, "Don't come here again in the future."

Xia Chu looked at him in surprise, "Why?!"

"You have parents now, so you should prioritize them. We're just beggars, so it's better if you don't have any contact with us." Xia Tian felt a pang of pain as he said this. He felt sadder than anyone else, having personally pushed his beloved sister away.

Xia Chu frowned, but after a moment's thought, she understood what he meant. Her eldest brother was worried that she would be disliked by the Wang family if she kept looking for her brothers while living under someone else's roof. While this made sense, she couldn't accept it. "Brother, we've already agreed today, so go ahead. But I don't agree with you severing ties with me. I'll also find a way to help you all get a household registration. I will definitely repay the Wang family parents, and I will never forget the kindness my brothers have shown me."

Xia Tian felt warm in his heart, but after seeing his sister's reproachful look, he couldn't bring himself to refuse. "Okay."

"Are we going to eat?" Guan Xu asked happily when he saw that his elder brother was persuaded.

Xia Tianqi laughed and slapped him on the back of the head, "You are usually short of food and drink, so greedy."

"I didn't eat last night." Guan Xu muttered softly, and then gave a flattering smile.

"Xiaowu is still young." Zhang Zhou tried to smooth things over.

"Then let's go eat something." Grandma Wang patted her clothes.

Xia Chu led his brothers back, and Dong Xiaohuan was waiting at the door.

The neighbor, Lady Stone, had also cooked. She smelled the aroma of meat coming from next door. Her family hadn't eaten meat since Chinese New Year. The aroma was so tempting that her mouth watered. Filled with jealousy and resentment, Lady Stone walked over to the wall and cursed, "A hen that doesn't lay eggs has the nerve to eat roasted meat all day long! You're so arrogant! Are you afraid others won't know you don't lay eggs?"

Dong Xiaohuan rolled her eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to her.

Seeing that she didn't react, Shi Niangzi became even angrier. She walked out the door and saw Xia Chu coming back with her brother. She ran towards Dong Xiaohuan happily and called her mother sweetly.

"Oh, you couldn't give birth yourself, so you picked up a beggar and treated him as a treasure." Lady Shi said sarcastically, glancing at those children. Aren't they just beggars selling flowers?

These words sounded full of malice. Xia Chu looked at the man with a pointed face and a yellow, haggard complexion. He looked pitiful and mean. "Mom, what's this?"

Dong Xiaohuan didn't want to argue with Shi Niangzi in front of the children, "Shi Niangzi next door, let's go in and eat."

Lady Shi refused to give up. "I really feel sorry for Brother Wang Yong. Such a capable man, but he married a tigress who couldn't lay eggs. He didn't even have a child, but he's a good spender. He eats meat and buys new clothes every other day, and even picks up a few beggars and feeds them for free. I don't know what sins he committed in his past life."

Dong Xiaohuan glared at Shi Niangzi angrily, pulled the children in and was about to go in.

Xia Chu was annoyed and broke free from Dong Xiaohuan's hand. No matter how much this woman was her elder and a neighbor, it was definitely not okay to scold her openly, and it might even implicate Dong Xiaohuan. But she was still a child, so she deliberately used a sweet and crisp childish voice and said innocently, "Mom, this aunt looks so old, why is she still calling Dad "Brother"? "

Dong Xiaohuan looked at Shi Niangzi and saw that her face had turned green with anger. She couldn't help laughing. Then she looked at the little hand holding her skirt, and her heart softened.

Lady Shi pointed at Xia Chu and said, "How can you speak like that, beggar? You have no mother to teach you."

Dong Xiaohuan could tolerate it herself, but not her daughter. "Mrs. Shi! Why are you fussing over a child? How can she not have a mother? I am her mother!"

"Mom, mom," Xia Chu raised her head and tugged at Dong Xiaohuan again, "Why is she angry? Am I wrong? Is this what they call getting angry out of shame?"

With a "puff", the other family who opened the door to watch the fun laughed out loud.

"It's just anger out of shame." Dong Xiaohuan touched her head.

Xia Chu didn't even look at Shi Niangzi, and continued to say infuriating words in a baby voice, using her child's identity as a child, "Mom, this aunt is greedy because of the aroma of our meat. I smell it too, it smells so good. Her family may not be able to afford meat, so why don't we share some with her? It would be embarrassing if she drools."

Sharing a piece of meat? Sending it to a beggar! She even said she was drooling. Lady Shi's face flushed red, and she wanted to tear the damn girl's mouth apart. "Who wants your meat?"

"But you mentioned several times that your aunt eats meat, and you are just greedy." Guan Xu suddenly interrupted.

"How do you know that my aunt eats meat every other day at home? Do you smell it while squatting there every day?" Zhang Zhou chimed in.

"I want to eat meat, but I can't afford it. When I see others eating, I'm jealous and greedy, so I have no choice but to come to your house to vent my anger." Xia Tian added.

Dong Xiaohuan bit her lip, barely holding back a laugh. She'd always been concerned about her neighbors, seeing them constantly, and felt sorry for Shi Niangzi's struggles. Besides, she hadn't done anything bad; at most, she'd just had a few mouthfuls. She'd held back, but today, she let out a smug blast. Seeing Shi Niangzi's face, livid with anger, Dong Xiaohuan knew when to stop and hurriedly pushed the children back inside.

Lady Liu was always on good terms with Dong Xiaohuan, and she couldn't stand Lady Shi's constant slander and rumour-mongering. She seized the opportunity and sarcastically said, "Lady Shi, if you want to eat meat, just buy it once. Why are you always staring at other people's houses?"

Shi Niangzi was so suffocated by the children that she felt uncomfortable. She spat at Liu Niangzi and said angrily, "It's none of your business!"

"Whether that person eats meat or not is none of your business. You are so unlucky to be neighbors with someone like you who can't stand others doing well. You are throwing things around and swearing so early in the morning that I would have thought there was a fight in your family." After saying this, Madam Liu slammed the door shut without giving Madam Shi a chance to retort.

"That's right, Lady Shi, whether the Wang family eats meat or not is none of your business. If you want to eat, just go buy some. But even if you buy it, you probably won't be able to eat a single piece, right?" This was said by Lady Shi's neighbor on the other side of the house. Listening to Lady Shi swearing in the yard all day long had made her irritable. Now, taking the opportunity, she stabbed back, "You'd better go in quickly. Your husband will be back soon. Tsk tsk..."

Shi Niangzi was about to curse back, but upon hearing this, she flinched back in fear. Despite her constant scolding, her life was truly difficult. Her husband was a coolie at the docks, a man who was tired from the daily grind and loved a bit of wine. Whenever he was unhappy, he'd hit her to vent his anger, but she couldn't resist. After her parents' intervention once or twice, they grew tired of it.

The two boys were at their most gluttonous, and their meals were clean and without meat. They got hungry quickly, and they kept complaining about being hungry. But their family was in financial difficulty, so they couldn't afford meat. Now, the two boys were crouching over the wall, salivating at the aroma of meat.

Shi Niangzi's eyes felt sore, and she blinked hard to hold it back. She pulled a handful of Dama Mao and said, "Get out of here! Aren't you ashamed?"