Lu Yang gritted his teeth and his face turned red with anger. This sentence only had four words, but it was true. He called Lu Yi dad.

But why do I feel humiliated?!

Lu Yang clenched his fists and didn't bother to lower himself to ease the situation.

Lu Yi turned his head and continued to stare at Guo Fuyue crying. When he saw her stop crying, he asked, "Why don't you cry anymore?"

Guo Fuyue choked and wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief. "My dear, let's get a divorce. I really can't live a good life with you anymore!"

Lu Yi understood that retreating to advance didn’t work, so he resorted to threats.

But looking at Guo Fuyue's hysterical look, what she shouted might be the truth.

Lu Yi ignored Guo Fuyue's words, and returned to his room with two bags of sugar-roasted chestnuts, eating them happily. The crying sounds in the main room started again.

"If you want to cry, go to your own room." Lu Yi opened the door and shouted.

The sweet aroma of chestnuts wafted through the house, and the triplets couldn't help but swallow. However, they didn't ask for it, and they stubbornly helped Guo Fuyue back to the room.

After daybreak, Lu Yi opened a can of eight-treasure porridge and poured it into the pot to heat it up. After finishing breakfast, he walked to the chicken coop and watched four energetic hens clucking around.

Lu Li worked tirelessly in the kitchen to clean and steam sweet potatoes. Glancing at Lu Yi leaving the kitchen, he secretly scooped a ladle of water into the pot, mixed it with the remaining pot bottom, and filled a large bowl of eight-treasure water. He drank a sip himself and asked Lu Yang to come over and drink.

"Brother, this kind of life won't last long. Believe me, I will find a way to ruin his reputation!" Lu Yang made up his mind and said in a low voice.

"I believe you!" Lu Li glanced at Lu Yang and pursed his lips. "Don't drink it all. There are still mother and second sister."

After Lu Yi finished visiting the chicken coop, he picked up three eggs and locked them in the cupboard, then took them to the dock to work.

"Qian'er, Mom wants to eat candied fruit. Let's go to the mountain... cough cough... pick some and bring them back." Seeing Lu Yi pulling Lu Li and Lu Yang's arms away, Guo Fuyue said while holding back a cough.

Lu Qian's face showed some disapproval. "Mom, the fruits outside the mountain have almost been picked. Not only are they hard to find, but we have to walk quite a distance inside. Can you handle it? Why don't we wait for my eldest brother and third brother to come back?"

"Cough cough!" Guo Fuyue coughed twice more, his face turned even paler, and he shook his head.

"Your father dragged them to the docks to work. They're so tired they don't even have the energy to talk. Let's not bother them anymore. Shall we go?"

Lu Qian said nothing, her eyebrows knitted together. She was still worried about Guo Fuyue's health and hesitated, "How about I go, I'll go pick some fruits by myself, and mother won't have to go to the mountains."

A smile flashed in Guo Fuyue's eyes. He remained calm and persuaded her twice more. Finally, he could only watch Lu Qian walk away with the basket.

She stopped and waited for a cup of tea, then turned and went to the woodshed to find tools for digging.

He closed the yard door and started digging under the big tree. After digging for almost half an hour, he took out a box from the deep pit with his hands covered in mud.

Guo Fuyue took off the thin hairpin from her head again, and saw the box opened with a sound. It was full of hairpins, rings, and jewelry, as well as copper coins at the bottom.

She picked and chose, selected two hairpins and two bracelets, put the box back into the deep pit, and started filling the pit with sweat on her face.

Almost as soon as she started digging the hole, Xiao Fan closed the forum page and watched intently to see what she was going to dig out.

When he saw the box as big as Guo Fuyue's head and the things inside, the white light on Xiao Fan's body became brighter, and he quickly told Lu Yi about it.

Lu Yi was at the dock, carrying a large bag on her back. She walked steadily, step by step, and said to Xiao Fan in her mind:

"It turns out that this orphan girl's family has some financial resources."

She said, since she was an orphan and could go to Bian Jing alone, why didn't she leave any reserve funds, and only had one acre and seven mu of land and this empty house?

It turned out that the reserve funds were buried underground, and I gave them all to her tonight.

After receiving their wages, Lu Li and Lu Yang looked at Lu Yi walking towards them, and the smiles on their faces disappeared. They watched unwillingly as the copper coins they had just warmed in their hands were all taken away.

While Lu Li was distracted, a coin was suddenly thrown into his empty palm.

"You've worked really hard today. I'll only take thirteen cents. You can keep the extra."

Lu Yang felt something was wrong. "Where's mine? You only took thirteen copper coins, why did you take all my eight copper coins?"

Lu Yi looked at his tired face, weighed the pile of copper coins in his hand, and put them into his purse, "You count it as eight cents."

Walking to the pancake stall, Lu Yi ordered four white flour meat pancakes, then turned around and said, "If you want to eat, buy it yourself. Don't expect me to feed you with good food and drink every day."

Lu Yang's face turned ugly when he heard this. Buy it himself? He didn't have a penny on him, how could he buy it? And he couldn't do anything to this man!

Lu Li grabbed the hard-earned penny, bought a piece of black bread, and without hesitation, cut it in half to share with Lu Yang.

With his stomach full, Lu Li couldn't help but think about how to make life better for himself and his family. "Third brother, I'll do more next time, and you shouldn't be stingy. At least save some money so that mother and second sister can have a taste of meat pie."

Lu Yang's face became even uglier as he held half a piece of black pancake. He had no objection to Lu Li's words, but!

How could he be so stingy? He was only seven years old. Did Big Brother think everyone was like him?!

Lu Yi ignored the quarrel between the two brothers behind him and ate the meat pie leisurely along the way. He had finished the meat pie by the time he reached the door of his house.

She deliberately stood under the big tree for a while. When she stood on the slightly fluffy ground, the sound of gold and jade colliding was heard in the space. Only then did Lu Yi raise her feet and slowly walk towards the room.

In the days that followed, Lu Yi took Lu Li and Lu Yang to the town dock to carry bags after breakfast every day, and kept an eye on them to prevent them from slacking off.

Lu Li worked very hard, sometimes earning fourteen copper coins, sometimes fifteen copper coins. But Lu Yang couldn't do that. He could only earn eight copper coins at most, and he worked himself to death but couldn't earn a penny more.

After half a month, there was a subtle awkwardness between Lu Li and Lu Yang.

In front of the noodle stall, Lu Li sniffed the fragrant aroma of noodles and gave a penny, "I want a black noodle."

"I want two!" Lu Yang shouted from the side.

The woman selling cakes looked at Lu Yang, then at Lu Li who was paying, and said, "Two coins are not enough, we are still short of one penny."

Lu Yang retorted to Lu Li, "Brother, give me another penny. You have money."

Lu Li frowned and subconsciously glanced at Lu Yi beside him. Lu Yi was eating a meat pie and looking over here as if he was watching a show, with no intention of intervening at all.

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