Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

What truly angered Gu Jin and made her restless was that they had also destroyed the vegetables in the garden.

Because cabbages grow in different areas of the ground, some are sparse and some are dense, and nobody wants the sparsely planted area.

Then someone suggested pulling them all up and dividing them by weight.

Gu Jin grabbed a stick and charged over, hitting anyone in sight. "Who told you to divide it up?"

"Who told you to divide it?"

"I planted it, I watered it, I sprinkled the manure, and you just say you're going to mess with it like that?"

"You can divide the chickens among yourselves and kill them, I don't care. You can eat from this vegetable garden if you want, but if you dare to pull up my vegetables, just try it."

“Not all the land in this yard belongs to you.”

Wen Tang and Chi Yue helped Gu Jin calm down, one on each side, afraid that she would upset herself.

Wen Tang couldn't help but say, "The cabbages are still in the ground; we can just pick them when we want to eat them!"

"If we pick them all at this time, and we can't finish them, wouldn't that be a waste?"

Chi Yue also said, "It's like how much of a bargain you can get by taking a couple more bunches of vegetables at this time."

Xu Zhongguo quickly stepped in to smooth things over, saying, "Third Aunt is right. These vegetables are in the garden, so you can all eat them together. Whoever wants them can pick them, and they'll be fresh."

The vegetable garden remained untouched, and the rest had basically been divided up as well.

Then everyone left.

Wen Tang finished eating the melon seeds she had in her pocket.

She let go of Gu Jin's arm. "Auntie, we're going back now. Remember to come to our place tomorrow and steam buns with us. Don't forget!"

Gu Jin nodded with a smile.

After Wen Tang and Chi Yue left, the smile on Gu Jin's face vanished completely.

Because of the family division, even the four legs of a stool had to be counted, so the Xu family was in complete chaos, looking like it had been ransacked.

Gu Jin sat in the quiet courtyard, thinking: What's so good about having a son?

Everyone says that having a son is a blessing, but she doesn't see any blessing in it.

When raising a son, boys eat a lot and wear a lot of clothes. Parents have to cut back on clothing and diet, otherwise they can't raise their children to adulthood.

Now that he's finally grown up, you have to busy yourself finding him a wife, otherwise people will laugh at you behind your back, saying you raised a son who'll never get married.

The daughter-in-law came into the family, and I thought it would be the beginning of a life of happiness. But each daughter-in-law had her own calculations, and in the end, the tree split into branches, and they were all afraid of not getting enough benefits...

Gu Jin sat at the doorway as night fell, not even wanting to cook.

Xu Anming came to borrow her stove. "Mom, we didn't get a pot, can we borrow yours for a bit?"

Xu Anming used Gu Jin's pot to stew the piece of chicken he had been allocated.

Xu Ansheng borrowed an egg from Xu Ancheng and gave it to Xu Ancheng's family.

Xu Anming didn't want to give up that egg, so he set his sights on his mother.

They had considered taking advantage of Xu Huaishan before.

Xu Huaishan refused to lend any money to anyone. He put the chicken in the pot, added water, and started cooking.

The chicken was stewing in the pot, and Xu Huaishan went to dig out some noodles, even though he was in his fifties and didn't know how to knead dough.

Not knowing how to knead dough, I took a bowl and stirred some dough pieces.

Wait until the chicken is fragrant and tender.

Xu Huaishan scooped out half of the chicken, covered it tightly with a bowl, and took it back to his room.

Then I added dough pieces and some green vegetables to the boiling pot.

Old hen soup is fragrant even without adding anything, not to mention the aroma of noodles and vegetables.

Xu Ansheng, who was waiting outside for the pot, couldn't help but swallow hard at the smell.

Xu Huaishan served out two large bowls of old hen soup noodles.

At Xu Ancheng's house, Zhang Fen also served the chicken soup noodles and came out to say to Xu Ansheng, "Second brother, you and your wife can use the pot!"

"I haven't washed the pot yet. If you don't mind, I'll bring the noodles inside and wash them."

Xu Ansheng immediately said, "No problem, no problem. Even without washing it, it still tastes like chicken soup!"

"Alright, then you guys can use it, Second Brother!"

"After you're done, just leave the pot there."

"Eh, okay."

When Xu Ansheng entered the kitchen, he saw his father had ladled out two large bowls of chicken soup noodles. He swallowed hard and couldn't help but say, "Dad, why did you stir so many noodles?"

Xu Huaishan glanced at him and said, "Can't each person eat one bowl?"

Xu Ansheng originally wanted to ask: Who's eating?

In an instant, I remembered and said, "It seems that my older brother used Mother's pot, and Mother is still sitting in the yard!"

Xu Huaishan and the others who cooked earlier had finished, and Xu Anming had also finished. His wife, Wang Ying, simply scooped all the noodles into a large basin.

As Xu Anming left, he asked, "Mom, aren't you going to cook?"

Gu Jin didn't utter a sound.

Xu Huaishan, holding his bowl, glanced at his eldest son with displeasure.

He didn't care how Xu Anming and his brothers fought among themselves.

His mother sat right next to him, not even leaving half a bowl of hot rice, which chilled Xu Huaishan's heart.

Although he was a scoundrel in the past, he is definitely not a possessive person.

The family always prioritizes the elderly, children, and Gu Jin when it comes to food.

No one has ever been as indifferent to their elderly parents as the eldest son.

Xu Anming left as soon as he finished speaking, not paying any attention to his father.

Gu Jin did see him, but she didn't intend to pay him any attention. After Xu Ancheng and his wife left her little house, she got up, picked up her small stool, and prepared to go back inside.

Her legs started to go numb after sitting for a while.

They walk very slowly.

Xu Huaishan entered the house first. Apart from the few sparks from the stove, the house was completely dark.

Xu Huaishan put down the bowl in the dark, then gathered firewood, started a fire, and lit the kerosene lamp.

As the dim light flickered, Xu Huaishan said, "I made too much dough, you can't finish it, so I'll bring you a bowl."

Gu Jin ignored him, and Xu Huaishan, feeling bored, lowered his head and walked out of the house.

As he reached the door, Xu Huaishan stopped again. "Don't cook tomorrow night either. I still have a lot of chicken left, and I can't finish it all by myself. I'll bring you dinner tomorrow night."

Xu Huaishan left after saying that.

Gu Jin looked at the bowl of steaming noodles and felt a pang of sadness. She never imagined that in the end, it would still be a couple relying on each other in their old age.

Gu Jin was staring at the dumpling soup when Xu Ancheng stood at the door, peeked at the dumpling soup in front of Gu Jin, and asked, "Did your older brother save this for you?"

"I was thinking that if my older brother hadn't kept any, I would have brought you a bowl."

Gu Jin chuckled upon hearing this, "Your older brother?"

"Your older brother would never have guessed that I was a gift from your father."

"father?"

"I never knew Dad had this skill."

Is this enough for you?

"not enough……"

"That's enough. Go back now. I have food here. Don't worry about me."

Gu Jin didn't really want to eat any of her son's food.

She got her share.

Everything in the house is accounted for; she can't have it all herself and then take food from her son's pot—that's not how it works.

They also have children.

She wouldn't want it, but she didn't even mention it. Gu Jin felt it would have been better if she had never given birth.

Seeing that she had food, Xu Ancheng went back.

After dinner, Chi Yue originally wanted to go back to her room with Wen Tang, but Lin Jingshen said, "Xiao Yue, come and take a look at me. My back has been hurting a lot these past two days."

Why does my back hurt?

"Ah, I bumped my head on a desk at school yesterday," Lin Jingshen said pitifully.

"Let's go back inside and I'll check how serious it is."

"Uh-huh!"