My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Yang Fenglan placed the basin in the corner, covered it, and then found a few tattered cloth bags, which she casually tossed onto the surface, making it look like an ordinary, messy corner.

Turning around, I saw the strange looks from the other two people.

Shen Yu: Sure enough, the chicken was cooked, but they hid it and wouldn't let me eat it.

Zhou Jingyi: The chicken is stewed, it'll taste even better if we let it sit for a while?

Yang Fenglan touched her nose guiltily, "Well, I was afraid that your aunt and grandma would see the food and want it when they come to our house, so I hid it first."

The young couple: ! !

"Mom, you...you're not sharing with Grandma?" Zhou Jingyi asked incredulously.

"What's the point of sharing? There's not even enough for us to eat."

Over the years, the original owner had sent many things to the Zhou family. At first, she felt it was wrong to keep everything to herself and was afraid that people would say she was unfilial.

Later, it was mostly the Zhou family who came to ask for them.

They didn't ask for anything themselves, but just invited the children to the original owner's house to play. When they saw something delicious, they would stare at it without saying a word.

The original owner would feel bad about it and would share it with them.

The original owner's weak and pretentious nature had a subtle influence on Zhou Jingyi.

—From a young age, he believed that it was his duty to share things with his grandmother's family, and that it was his way of fulfilling his filial duty to his deceased father.

Hearing Yang Fenglan say this, Zhou Jingyi felt as if the world had completely changed.

From childhood, his mother always taught him that filial piety is the most important virtue, and that he should always be respectful to his elders, no matter what.

And now, she's actually hiding the cooked chicken!

"Mother, you...you've changed." Zhou Jingyi said in disbelief.

Shen Yu also looked over with a strange expression.

Yang Fenglan: ...

She's maintaining the original character's persona, but the changes aren't as obvious, right?

"Yang! Get out here right now!" came the sharp shout of the mother-in-law, Wang.

"Don't talk nonsense," Yang Fenglan warned Zhou Jingyi before hurrying out.

As the sun set behind the mountain, it cast a dark shadow on the two people on the path.

As soon as Wang entered the courtyard, she threw the carrying pole and bucket on the ground and said, "Yang, you've really grown up!"

"Mother, sister-in-law, what brings you here? Please sit down, I'll get you some stools." Yang Fenglan took two small stools from under the eaves.

Turning around, she saw Wang rushing towards her with great momentum, raising her hand and slapping her across the face, "You actually dared to deceive me!"

Yang Fenglan was startled and instinctively crouched down. Then, she heard Wang's heart-wrenching screams coming from above.

"what--"

"Mom, what's wrong?" Wang Guihua stepped forward and gasped in shock.

Because Yang Fenglan dodged that move, Wang was too fast and didn't have time to stop. Her right middle finger scraped hard against the wall behind her, drawing blood from her fingertip.

Fortunately, the people doing the work don't have long fingernails, otherwise, this would have turned into a flip-top manicure.

"Fenglan, why did you hide?" Wang Guihua looked at Yang Fenglan in surprise.

Yang Fenglan blinked innocently: She hit me, why can't I dodge?

"You've ruined your mother's life!" Wang Guihua pretended to feel sorry for Wang Shi, holding her hand and blowing on it.

Exhausted from a long day, Wang felt dizzy and her fingers were now throbbing with pain. The emotions she had been suppressing finally erupted.

"Fine, fine, so you don't even care about me anymore, do you? First you tricked me into watering the fields for you, and now you dare to hide!"

"You ungrateful wretch! Back then, I made sure the Zhou family didn't become a burden on you and your son, so they could live separately. And now that you're living a good life, you've forgotten all your kindness."

Yang Fenglan: ?

Should the Zhou family be allowed to live separately?

That's an exaggeration!

It was clearly because after Zhou Jingyi's father died, the Zhou family disliked Yang and her son for being a burden to them, so they separated Yang and her son to live separately!