Chapter 60: Eating Eggs (Part 1)

When Li Lijuan heard Zhao Weiguo say she couldn’t eat dinner, she was immediately dumbfounded.

She hadn’t eaten lunch today, and after traveling back and forth to the county town, she was already starving. If she couldn’t eat dinner, wouldn’t she starve to death?

“Uncle Zhao, I know I was wrong. I won’t dare to do it again in the future. Can’t you let me eat? Waaah…”

Even though Li Lijuan cried pitifully, Zhao Weiguo didn’t relent.

Ma Yumei watched with aching heart. She couldn’t just ignore her own daughter. So she pleaded with Zhao Weiguo, “Weiguo, since Lijuan knows she was wrong, can’t we just let it go? Skipping a meal will make her feel very hungry. Lijuan has already suffered so much…”

But Zhao Weiguo coldly snorted, “This girl won’t learn unless she’s punished. Not letting her eat for one meal is already lenient because of you. If she were my own daughter, I would have already given her a good beating!

“As a mother, you can’t spoil your child like this. It’s because you didn’t educate her properly that she ended up doing things like stealing and robbing.”

After all, Zhao Weiguo was Li Lijuan’s stepfather, and he couldn’t easily lay hands on her in anger, otherwise, it would be easy for people to say he was treating his stepdaughter unfairly.

But letting Li Lijuan off the hook completely was out of the question. Who doesn’t need to accept punishment for their mistakes?

But skipping one meal for Li Lijuan was nothing compared to what she had done.

Ma Yumei reluctantly fell silent. She knew that if she continued to plead for Li Lijuan, it might only make Zhao Weiguo angrier.

Li Lijuan didn’t dare to make a sound in the face of Zhao Weiguo’s anger.

Zhao Xiulan, on the other hand, felt secretly pleased.

Li Lijuan had suffered during her trip to the county town, and most importantly, she had caused such a big commotion. Based on what Li Lijuan had done today, it would be much easier to control her in the future.

At the same time, Li Lijuan’s behaviour had annoyed Zhao Weiguo, leaving a bad impression on him.

Then, her days at home with Zhao Xiu Zhu would be much better. Zhao Weiguo probably wouldn’t favour Ma Yumei and her daughter as much as before.

Knowing that Li Lijuan was punished and couldn’t eat dinner tonight, Zhao Xiulan deliberately took out five eggs from the space and brought them to Zhao Weiguo, saying, “Dad, I unexpectedly found five eggs in the bushes today. I don’t know which chicken laid them outside, so I picked them up.

“You’ve been working hard all day, so tonight I’ll cook these eggs for you to eat. Let’s enjoy some good food together as a family.”

Seeing the five eggs in Zhao Xiulan’s hands, Zhao Weiguo’s gloomy expression immediately brightened a little.

His daughter’s luck was really good, wasn’t it?

She actually found five eggs.

In this day and age, eggs were so rare that ordinary families couldn’t bear to eat them.

Li Lijuan’s incident wasted five yuan, causing Zhao Weiguo a lot of pain. Now, Zhao Xiulan had miraculously found five eggs, which somewhat made up for the loss of money.

Ma Yumei’s eyes lit up when she saw the eggs in Zhao Xiulan’s hands, and she stared at them tightly.

Eggs!

She hadn’t eaten eggs in a long time. Just thinking about the taste of eggs made Ma Yumei’s mouth water.

“Weiguo, eggs are precious. We should save them to eat slowly. My child in my belly needs them the most. If we don’t have anything to nourish my body, my child will suffer!”

(End of Chapter 60)