Tang Min waited in the room for a while before she heard footsteps outside the door.

Soon after, the three little ones arrived, holding hands and standing obediently in front of Tang Min.

Only Zeng Chengjing was still oblivious. Upon seeing Tang Min, he shouted, "Mother, what are you doing here?"

Tang Min waved and pointed to the sofa, "Sit."

The three little ones slowly moved onto the sofa, their movements remarkably synchronized: legs together, hands obediently placed on their laps, in a posture of listening to instructions.

When Zeng Chengyu went out, he had his head down, so Tang Min didn't notice. But now, looking at the rest of them, she saw that they all had injuries on their faces. Tang Min was a little angry and a little heartbroken. "Why are you all so nervous? I just came to call you for dinner."

The three little ones looked at each other, somewhat at a loss.

Finally, Zeng Chengyu mustered her courage, lowered her head, and whispered, "We did something wrong."

Tang Min laughed at their expressions. "What? Are you going to stop eating from now on just because you got into a fight?!"

"Eat quickly, I don't have the patience to stay here with you."

Seeing that the three little ones were still hesitant even when she spoke politely, Tang Min could only raise her voice and pretend to be fierce.

Aunt He also stood to the side and quickly pointed to the food on the table, making eating gestures.

But the three little ones still haven't made a move.

Aunt He whispered, "Young Master, Young Miss, before he left, he agreed to let you eat. Hurry up and eat, you're still growing." As she spoke, she gently tugged at the bodies of the children.

"Eat it. If he has any problems, let him come find me."

Tang Min was already dissatisfied with Zeng Yunchen's handling of the matter, and hearing He Ma mention it made her even angrier. She would settle accounts with Zeng Yunchen when he returned.

"Big brother, second sister, I'm hungry..."

Zeng Yunjing, who had been out of it and waiting for his older siblings to make a sound, couldn't help but touch his stomach and said with a wronged expression that he had been hungry for a long time, but since his older siblings hadn't eaten, he didn't dare to go over.

Hearing his mother say it was time to eat, he could hardly wait any longer.

Zeng Chengyu and Zeng Chengxue took the chopsticks handed to them by Aunt He, and looked at each other. Actually, they had been hungry for a long time, but when they thought about what happened yesterday, they still felt angry. They felt that they had done nothing wrong, so they stubbornly refused to eat.

At this moment, He Ma and Tang Min were both coaxing him from the side, and they were also a little unwilling to hold back any longer. After hesitating for a while, they handed Zeng Chengjing a pair of chopsticks and then picked up their own utensils and began to eat impatiently.

The three little ones were clearly starving, wolfing down their food without even saying hello before meals, as was their usual practice. However, Tang Min didn't mind; she found the rules too numerous and tiresome anyway.

In Zeng Chengyu's small living room, only the sounds of eating and Aunt He's busy running around were heard. She would add dishes, pour water, and tell him to eat slowly. Even Zeng Chengjing, who usually needed to be coaxed to eat and didn't like vegetables, became very well-behaved and didn't need to be coaxed.

Tang Min was pleased to see them eating. The three little ones were finally less reserved in front of her, although it was for other reasons.

However, she was still worried about how to ask the three little ones without it seeming too abrupt. After all, she was now the mother of the three little ones, but she had never cared about them. She didn't know if they would be willing to talk to her about it.

Thinking of this, Tang Min tapped her head and muttered to herself, "Weren't you supposed to be lying down? Who told you to meddle? People just said one thing and you got all worked up. You're really useless, so utterly useless!"

The three children stopped involuntarily when they heard Tang Min tapping their heads, looked at her, and even tried to put down their chopsticks.

Tang Min was struggling with her thoughts when she came to her senses. She hadn't heard the sound of eating and was wondering why the three little ones were eating so quickly.

Turning around, she saw them sitting upright on the sofa again. She looked at Aunt He and asked with her eyes.

Aunt He gently pointed at her, and Tang Min pointed at herself, silently saying, "Because of me?" Aunt He nodded.

Tang Min looked at them in confusion, "Why aren't you eating?"

No one responded...

Helpless, Tang Min could only bring out her fierce side again: "I'm asking you, why aren't you eating?!"

Zeng Chengjing seemed a little frightened and shrank back. Zeng Chengxue saw this and quickly pulled him into her arms, gently patting his back while looking at Tang Min with some anger in her eyes.

"If you don't want us to eat, just say so. We ate, and now you're angry and criticizing us."

Zeng Chengxue spoke rashly and in a moment of urgency, and Zeng Chengyu couldn't stop her.

"Huh? When did I get angry?"

Tang Min pointed to herself in surprise.

"Just now, you kept hitting my head. It's because you regret letting us eat."

This was a huge misunderstanding. It was just a small gesture. Tang Min didn't expect the three little ones to be so sensitive, and she felt even more sorry for them. She couldn't help but pat Zeng Chengjing's head.

"I'm not angry. I was just thinking about something. Don't be afraid, Chengjing."

Tang Min swore that she had used what she considered to be the gentlest voice.

"Chengyu, Chengxue, don't be afraid. I'm really not angry. I swear, hmm~"

"Then why did you do that just now?" It was Zeng Chengxue again. Tang Min noticed that among the three children, only Zeng Chengxue had been communicating. Although she wasn't the oldest, she already had the air of a leader. Zeng Chengyu and Zeng Chengjing also listened to her quite a bit.

"I..." Tang Min was speechless for a moment, she hadn't figured out how to tell them yet.

She could only wave her hand casually, "You guys eat first, I'll talk to you after you're done, eat first," Tang Min said in her gentle, soaring voice.

Seeing that Tang Min was indeed not angry, the three children picked up their chopsticks and started eating again.

Tang Min sighed and muttered to herself, "She's so young, and she's never been married or had children, yet she's already learned how to take care of kids. I curse this damn system again. Who would be a good person who becomes a mother without pain as soon as they transmigrate, and with three of them at that! Raising children is something I need to think about carefully."

Because of the misunderstanding earlier, the three little ones gradually relaxed and stopped eating so fast.

Zeng Chengjing, who was about to finish eating, started to get restless again, fidgeting in his chair.

At first, Zeng Chengxue patted his leg to calm him down, but when she saw that it was no use, she stopped paying attention to him and just ate her own food.

Zeng Chengyu remained composed, neither speaking nor moving around much. She quietly ate her food, occasionally glancing at her younger siblings, only coughing lightly to remind them to be careful.

It went on like this for a while.

Tang Min felt a moment of warmth as she watched the three little ones eating.

She actually really enjoys the feeling of a family sitting at the dining table, noisy and bustling. She doesn't like a house that's too quiet. But since coming here, she hasn't felt that warm, homey atmosphere for a single day.

I don't know how the original owner could have tolerated it before. If it were her, she probably wouldn't have been able to stand it for more than a week or two after marrying into the family and would have complained and gone home.

"I'm done"

"I'm done"

"I'm done"

Amidst a series of long-awaited greetings, the three little ones put down their chopsticks one after another and then got up to leave.

Seeing this, Tang Min quickly said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I have something to ask you."

Tang Min's words puzzled even He Ma.

Wasn't the young mistress supposed to come up and persuade the young master and the others to eat? I didn't hear her mention anything else.

Several people turned around to look at Tang Min.

Tang Min scratched her head. "Oh, you guys sit down first."

"Um, I heard from Aunt He about what happened at school."

The school incident made the three children tense instantly, especially Zeng Chengjing, who immediately burst into tears, saying, "It's all my fault, it has nothing to do with my older brothers and sisters, sob sob sob."

Zeng Chengyu and Zeng Chengxue stared intently at Tang Min, their expressions slightly stubborn.

Zeng Chengyu said, "It was wrong of us to fight, but we did nothing wrong. They bullied Chengjing first."

Even someone as composed as Zeng Chengyu could say that fighting was not wrong, which meant that Tang Min was certain that the kids who fought with them must have said some very hurtful things, causing even the usually calm Zeng Chengyu to lose his composure.

Tang Min frantically rubbed her pants. She now truly understood what helplessness meant. Who could save her? How should she talk to a child?!

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