Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

When I turned around, I saw that it was Guoguo who kicked my stomach, but Guoguo didn't know it. He was still sleeping soundly, and his little mouth was still chattering. He must have dreamed about delicious food.

Chen Lang was also at a loss for words, but he was not angry. All children sleep like this, like octopuses.

However, Chen Lang did not see Li Xiuzhi on the other side of the bed.

Up so early?

Chen Lang looked towards the door. The door was open a crack and moonlight came in through the gap.

The moon hasn't set yet, which means it's still early.

Maybe he had to get up at night, Chen Lang thought, and prepared to sleep for a while longer.

However, just as I closed my eyes, I heard a scream from outside: "What are you doing?"

The voice came from Qin.

Chen Lang realized something was wrong and hurriedly put on his coat and went out.

When I arrived at the kitchen, Qin and Li Xiuzhi were confronting each other.

Li Xiuzhi was holding the pot she had just bought, with two large bone sticks placed in the pot.

Faced with Qin's questioning, Li Xiuzhi felt a little guilty and lowered her head, not daring to look at her.

Qin had her back to the kitchen door, unaware that Chen Lang had already arrived. She poked Li Xiuzhi's forehead fiercely with her finger and cursed in a low voice, "You thief, you're not sleeping in the middle of the night to come and cook for me, aren't you?"

"Doesn't lamp oil cost money? Doesn't firewood need to be collected?"

"Also, we haven't split up yet. Everything has to be handed over to me for distribution. Hand over the bone stick and go back to sleep!"

The cowardice she had developed from facing Qin's scolding for a long time made Li Xiuzhi subconsciously want to pass the blame on to her.

But Chen Lang’s previous words suddenly rang in his mind.

"If other people in the family try to steal our things, we'll argue with them. We absolutely won't suffer any loss!"

Thinking of this, Li Xiuzhi took the pot back and said, "Mom, you said I cooked for you, I admit it."

"But aren't you here to cook for yourself?"

"I've always wondered why Dad, my uncle, and his wife don't eat well every morning, but they all look so rosy-cheeked, while Guoguo is the only one who's getting thinner day by day."

"You also get up in the middle of the night, cook delicious food, hide it, and then give it to them after breakfast, right?"

Qin didn't expect that the usually cowardly Li Xiuzhi would dare to argue with her, and pointed out the reason why she got up early in one sentence.

Furious and humiliated, Qin raised her hand to hit him, cursing, "I'll beat you to death, you unfilial daughter-in-law!"

Li Xiuzhi was not afraid at all. She dodged Qin's slap and said, "Mom, Chen Lang told me that starting from yesterday, our family will not be bullied anymore."

"If you don't want me to cook for you, that's fine, but you have to treat everyone equally. Whatever Daddy and Uncle eat, our family should eat too."

"Otherwise, I, Li Xiuzhi, would have really opened this special class!"

Qin cursed angrily, "You're rebelling! You're just like that evil son, you're going to rebel against heaven!"

"Has Chen Erlang ever contributed anything to the family? Why does he eat so well? Everything this family eats, wears, and uses is earned by your father, Sanlang, and Silang. What can Chen Erlang do? All he does is go to the county town every day to look for that vixen!"

Li Xiuzhi sneered: "Mother, you have to speak with conscience. Erlang has indeed done a bad job in the past two years, but don't forget that he still gets a subsidy of fifty cents every month! This amount of money has never been seen in our family."

"Fifty cents is not enough to feed our family of three, but at least it will fill us up."

"But the question is, has our family ever had a full meal under your arrangement?"

"I gave you money, but you still can't eat enough. So I cook for you. What's wrong with that?"

Qin was so angry that her hands and feet were shaking. She lowered her head and searched for a while, picked up a wooden stick as thick as three fingers from the firewood pile, and was about to hit Li Xiuzhi with it.

But just as the hand holding the stick was raised in the air, someone grabbed his wrist.

Qin turned around and saw Chen Lang's gloomy face.

This scene made Li Xiuzhi very happy.

So this is what it feels like to be cared for by your own man.

Chen Lang said expressionlessly: "Mom, hitting people when you can't win the argument is so boring."

Qin was about to vomit blood.

She couldn't understand how Erlang's family could become so tough in just one or two days.

Who gave them the courage?

"Do you still want to beat your own mother? You unfilial son!" Qin couldn't find any other reason, so she could only start with filial piety.

Chen Lang said calmly, "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. Have you beaten Guoguo less often?"

"I learned all this from you."

Qin was a village woman, so her mind certainly wasn't as quick as Chen Lang's, a scholar, and she was confused in an instant. She mumbled for a long time but couldn't utter a single word!

Chen Lang continued, "Mom, go back and rest. You're old. Be careful of a stroke if you get up so early to work."

"Let me be clear, if you become paralyzed, I, as an unfilial son, will definitely not care. Besides, the third and fourth sons are so filial, they wouldn't need one more."

Qin stared at Chen Lang in amazement, her mentality completely broken.

"You, you, you...I will definitely go to the government office to sue you, I will!"

Chen Lang said, "Oh my god, thank God, please go quickly, I'm looking forward to it."

Qin couldn't stay any longer and walked out of the kitchen wiping her tears.

Although it was satisfying to confront her mother-in-law, Li Xiuzhi still felt uneasy afterward.

"Erlang, are we going too far? My mother-in-law is crying."

Chen Lang said calmly: "If she doesn't cry, then you will cry."

"Then I'd rather let her cry."

Li Xiuzhi said, "She is your mother after all. If you are unfilial to her, you will be struck by lightning."

Chen Lang smiled and said, "If she treats me well, I will naturally respect her."

"But she's not good to me, so no matter how filial I am, I'm just stupid."

At the same time, he added in his mind, "Besides, it's still unclear whether they are his biological children or not."

Li Xiuzhi wanted to say something, but Chen Lang gently pressed her lips with his finger and said, "Okay, this matter is over. Let's not talk about it anymore."

"Just leave the pork bones in the kitchen. Whoever wants to stew it can do so. Stewing is time-consuming and laborious, so we won't do it."

"Anyway, they've already cooked it, so they don't dare leave me out, or I'll flip the table."

Li Xiuzhi thought about it and realized that this made sense. It would take at least two hours to cook bone corn soup, and she had to keep an eye on the fire the whole time, which was really tiring.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Li Xiuzhi took the bone sticks out of the pot and placed them on the stove.

Chen Lang took her hand and said, "Let's go back to the room and continue sleeping. We can at least sleep for another hour or so."

Li Xiuzhi's face flushed, but she didn't pull her hand back. She just let Chen Lang pull her back to the house.

At the same time, Qin returned to the house, woke up the sleeping old man Chen, and began to complain.

"Master, you have to make the decision for me. Chen Erlang, that unfilial son, and his wife are bullying a poor old woman like me..."