Quick wear: cannon fodder is a bit strong

Qu Xiaoxiao frowned, closed her eyes, and finished the bowl of earthy, oil- and salt-lacking wild vegetable soup in one gulp. Then, with a bitter face, she returned the bowl.

In fact, she had just picked up the bowl when Maotuanzi in the space was already laughing his head off:

[Hahahahaha, host, you are the legendary "suffering without suffering"! ]

Unfortunately, before it could finish laughing, a bowl of wild vegetable soup was poured into Maotuanzi's mouth.

Maotuanzi: "Ugh~Pah! Pah! Pah! Pah!"

It's not clean anymore!

[Wuwuwuwuwu~ Host, what are you doing? If you don’t want to drink, then don’t drink. Why are you bullying everyone?~]

Qu Xiaoxiao said grimly: "Let you gloat over my misfortune!"

Maotuanzi shut up in an instant: He was wrong again! He will never laugh at his master again.

As for the Sun family, the harvest was the same as yesterday. Only Sun Jiaojiao, along with the sisters Sun Qingqing and Sun Miaomiao, dug up some wild vegetables. After cooking them and distributing them to everyone, it was still just a little wild vegetable paste.

Sun Yaozu's eyes turned blue from hunger.

Mrs. Sun was also so hungry that she was shaking. When they walked in the afternoon, she really didn't have the strength to carry Sun Yaozu on her back.

"Yaozu, I'm so hungry I don't have any strength left. Can you please come down and walk for a while?"

Mrs. Sun coaxed Sun Yaozu in a gentle voice.

She now felt a little regretful. Was it too early to adopt her son? She could have waited until Agutta was born.

This way, you won't have to have many ancestors to serve you along the way.

"I don't, I don't!"

Sun Yaozu was unwilling to do it when he heard this. As the male protagonist of the small world, he was young, but not stupid. The Sun family members walked hard every day, and their feet were covered with blisters.

It hurts him just looking at it.

I can't imagine how much suffering I would have to endure if I had to walk on my own in the future. He pouted and complained aggrievedly:

"Mom, I'm still young. Don't you love your son anymore?"

"It's not that mother doesn't love you,"

Madam Sun coaxed her kindly, "Come down and walk for a bit first. I'll carry you back when I've recovered my strength, okay?"

At this moment, Doctor Sun also figured it out - he was different from Mrs. Sun Er. He was old and his body could no longer bear children.

Master Sun is no longer with us. He finally has a son by his side, and Sun Yaozu was also predicted by a fortune teller to be the man who can bring the Sun family back to prosperity.

She couldn't give up just because of this little difficulty at the moment. She had to take the opportunity to hold on to her adopted son.

"All right……"

Seeing that the other people in the Sun family seemed to have not heard the conversation between the mother and daughter at all, Sun Yaozu concluded that there was nothing he could do and reluctantly slid down from Madam Sun's back.

"Mom, after you have rested, you still have to carry me on your back."

"sure!"

Mrs. Sun agreed readily.

But the more he walked, the more tired he became, and the hungrier he became. How could he ever have a chance to "rest"? Thus, Sun Yaozu, unprecedented in his career, walked the entire afternoon on his own.

He cried until his voice was hoarse. Madam Sun just kept comforting him and encouraging him: "Come on, Yaozu, you can do it. Yaozu is so amazing that you can walk such a long way by yourself~"

But I never carried him on my back again.

Sun Yaozu was furious, but he could do nothing about it. When he went to find Sun Wanru again, she ignored him completely.

"Yaozu, now that you have a new mother, you should work hard to pursue your future of wealth and honor."

Sun Wanru held Qu Zhongliang's arm affectionately, looking like a harmonious couple:

"That way, when mom gives birth to a little brother, you, as the older brother, can take care of him, right?"

Sun Yaozu was still young. It was one thing for him to not want his mother, but it was another for his mother to not want him. Furthermore, his mother had said she wanted to give birth to a new little brother.

Sun Yaozu felt a huge panic coming over his heart.

He, who had been pampered since birth, realized for the first time that one day he might be abandoned or even given up by his family.

This fear made him stop making a fuss when he returned to Madam Sun, and instead he became well-behaved and polite, unlike before.

Madam Sun didn't know where this change in him came from, but she was secretly delighted.

no way.

Under normal circumstances, she would naturally try to curry favor with her adopted son and take good care of him. But when her son's interests conflicted with her own, she would prioritize herself over herself.

It would be best if Sun Yaozu could be sensible and not make trouble now.

But Sun Yaozu didn't ask her to carry him on his back, but kept complaining about being hungry.

After a day's journey, the Sun family was exhausted and hungry. When it was time to rest, they all sat down on the ground, no one having the strength to move another step.

"Jiao girl, why are you still sitting here?"

Madam Sun waited for a long time, but her grandchildren didn't move. She couldn't help but urge Sun Jiaojiao in a dissatisfied tone:

"Why don't you take your sisters and find something to eat? Do you want to starve this whole family to death?"

"Third brother, third brother's wife, you two, hurry up and find some water. I'm so thirsty..." Old Lady Sun's lips were cracked, she was really thirsty.

So he gave the following orders repeatedly:

"And everyone from the eldest and second eldest families, don't be idle either. Find some dry firewood. We'll need it for cooking and heating at night."

"It's just a small matter, do you still need my orders? You all have no sense at all."

Old Madam Sun complained dissatisfiedly.

Sun Zhengzhi said nothing, but nodded in agreement. Only the old concubine curled her lips in disdain, but said nothing.

Ever since Sun Wanru's arm was broken, the old aunt returned to her usual silence. She also blamed her daughter Sun Wanru for not living up to her expectations.

Anyway, she has beaten me, scolded me, and taught me a lesson. Now let her be.

After all, she still had a son—Master Sun San—whom she could count on. But the current situation was uncertain, and it was hard to say what the future of the Sun family would be. The more she said now, the more mistakes she would make.

At this moment, I will not do anything to stand out.

"Grandma, why don't you ask someone else to find food now? I really don't have the strength to move anymore..."

Sun Jiaojiao lay flat on the ground, looking desperate and speaking weakly.

It's true that she is the oldest among the grandchildren, but she is just a woman. Why should the most important and difficult task of finding food for the family fall on her?

Besides, the little food she and her sisters worked so hard to find had to be handed over to the government, and when she got her share, it was only a tiny amount.

No matter how I think about it, I feel unbalanced.

Moreover, after the Shi Duxiang incident, she knew the Sun family's attitude towards her, and she didn't want to contribute to the Sun family anymore.

If we're going to starve to death, let's die together.