After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

When she returned to the yard, Zhang Hulan smelled the aroma of meat. She also found a low house made of earthen bricks at the west end.

She asked in surprise: "Brother, you built it in one day?"

Zhang Hujun said, "Several elders in the village saw me and the second brother setting up the shed, and they all came to help. The shed is already built, but the stove is not ready yet. It should be ready tomorrow."

Zhang Hulan thought it was great because she no longer had to share the kitchen with the second wife.

Zhang Hujun stuffed a dozen copper coins into Zhang Hulan's pocket, which were the leftovers from buying meat.

Zhang Hulan said, "Why give it to me? Just keep it for now. You'll need to buy it again in a couple of days anyway."

Wang said angrily, "Are you really planning on eating meat every three days? Are you not going to save money?"

"Mom, let's eat our stomach first. There's an old saying, 'Eat, eat, eat, it will come naturally after you eat.'"

Wang glared at Zhang Hulan unhappily, then asked, "How was your outing today? Did you find anything to eat?"

"I found it. There are also kudzu roots in those mountains, but not much. But I found two other edible things. I asked Zhao Cheng to give them to the village head. Tomorrow the village head will have everyone look for them in the mountains as well."

Wang said, "It's all right if you can find something to eat, otherwise it will be hard to get the one ounce of silver you earn a day."

Zhang Hulan rubbed her stomach and asked, "Mom, how long until dinner? I'm hungry."

Mrs. Li's voice came from the kitchen, "It will be ready soon. The rice is ready, and the meat is stewing in the pot. We will eat it soon."

Zhang Hulan ran into the kitchen and chuckled to Li: "Hey, thank you for your hard work, sister-in-law."

Li smiled and said, "Why is it so hard? We are all thanks to you. We can eat meat tonight."

Zhang Hulan saw that it was Zhang Xiaobing who was lighting the fire in front of the stove, and then she remembered that she had not seen the couple from the second house.

Zhang Hulan was surprised and asked, "Eh? Little soldier, why are you lighting the fire? Where are your parents? Won't your mother scold you for helping us light the fire?"

When talking about the second couple, Wang became furious, and Li also had an expression that was hard to express in words.

Zhang Hulan asked, "Could they have gone to the Xiang family again?"

Li whispered, "The second son's wife took half of the food we distributed last night and went back to her parents' home."

Zhang Hulan was speechless. "Let them do whatever they want. It's their food after all. They can give it to whoever they want. But if they run out of food in the future, I won't give them a single grain of rice."

"By the way, he didn't touch our food, did he?"

Li's Zhang Dahua said, "No, Xiaojun and I were watching the whole time. My uncle wanted to go inside to check on the food outside, but the door was locked and he couldn't get in."

Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad. But you have to keep an eye on the food outside, or it will all be wasted by that wasteful thing."

When Zhang Xiaobing heard what Zhang Hulan said, he lowered his head to reduce his presence, not wanting Zhang Hulan to notice him.

But Zhang Hulan just happened to find him.

"Xiaobing, why didn't you go to your grandmother's house with your parents?"

Zhang Hulan then said with a look of sudden realization, "Oh... I see. Did you know we were having meat tonight, so you didn't go?"

Zhang Xiaobing buried his head even lower.

Li poked Zhang Hulan and called out to Zhang Xiaobing, "Xiaobing..."

Zhang Xiaobing looked up at Li and saw her winking at him. He then looked at Zhang Hulan and called out, "Aunt..."

Zhang Hulan laughed heartily: "Great! A man who can bend and stretch will be able to do great things in the future."

Zhang Xiaobing asked, "What does it mean to be able to bend and stretch?"

Zhang Hulan said, "How can you bend like this? Even in your current situation, you may not want to call me aunt, but you still do it just to eat meat. How can you bend like this..."

Zhang Hulan thought for a moment and said, "For example, yesterday, when you saw your mother being bullied by me, you stood up to help her. This can also be considered as a form of kindness."

Zhang Xiaobing stared at Zhang Hulan in a daze, then asked in a low voice, "Aunt, aren't you angry with me?"

"Why should I be mad at you?"

Zhang Xiaobing said, "I pushed you yesterday."

Zhang Hulan laughed and said, "You're still a child, why should I be angry with you? Besides, you're helping your mother. If you were to remain indifferent when your mother was bullied, then I would look down on you."

Zhang Xiaobing's eyes lit up: "Aunt, am I right?"

"Yes, you're right." Zhang Hulan said with a smile, "It's our duty to protect and respect our parents. But we can't be blindly filial, understand?"

"What is foolish filial piety?"

"Foolish filial piety means you believe everything your parents say. As long as it is said by your parents, you believe it regardless of whether it is right or wrong, and you do everything according to your parents' wishes. This is foolish filial piety.

You need to have your own thoughts and judgments, and you need to think for yourself whether what they say makes sense; it is wrong to do everything according to their wishes."

Zhang Xiaobing didn't quite understand what was said, but he got the general meaning. In a nutshell, he couldn't just obey his parents on everything.

Zhang Xiaobing felt that children should listen to their parents, but he also felt that what Zhang Hulan said made sense.

"Aunt, you are amazing. You understand so many things."

"Oh, are you even shooting a horse?"

Zhang Hulan said with a smile, "Since you took a picture of my horse, I'll give you an extra piece of meat tonight."

Zhang Xiaobing grinned and said, "Thank you, Auntie!"

Wang Shi also smiled when she heard the conversation between the aunt and nephew. She was also worried that Zhang Hulan would have an issue with Zhang Xiaobing staying for dinner.

Although Wang Shi now disliked Zhang Hubing and his wife, Zhang Xiaobing was her grandson. As a grandmother, how could she not love her grandson? Of course, she had to give her grandson the meat.

In the morning, Zhang Xiaobing was going to go to Xiang's house with Xiang Chunhua and the others, but Wang Shi thought about eating meat today, so she secretly told Zhang Xiaobing, and Zhang Xiaobing did not go to Xiang's house with them.

Zhang Hulan said to Wang: "Mother, the little soldier is okay. He hasn't been taught the wrong way."

Wang said, "I basically raised her. She spends more time with me than with her mother. How can it be wrong?"

"Amazing, awesome! My mom is the best."

When the food was served, all the children in the family, big and small, gathered around the table and drooled.

Zhang Hulan first served Old Man Zhang a bowl of bone soup and a large bone.

Old man Zhang said, "I'll just drink the soup and give the bones to the child."

"Dad, just eat it. There's more in the pot. Everyone gets a share. Don't worry about others not having any."

At the table, Wang was also picking up meat for the children.

The big square piece of fat meat, one bite and your mouth is full of oil.

Daya and the other two, along with Zhang Dahahua and Zhang Xiaojun, had just eaten meat two days ago, but they still felt like they hadn't had enough meat in a long time.

Not to mention Zhang Xiaobing, who felt full of happiness after taking a bite of meat.

"Grandma, this meat is so delicious."

Wang said, "Your aunt bought this with her own money. When you make money in the future, don't forget your aunt."

Zhang Xiaobing nodded and said, "Yes, when I make some money, I'll buy some meat for Auntie."

Zhang Hujun asked, "You only buy meat for your aunt, but don't sell meat to us?"

Zhang Xiaobing quickly said, "Buy them all."

Wang smiled happily. She felt that this was what a family should be like.

"Okay, let's eat quickly."