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It's no wonder Jiang Chengzhou would think that way.

Before my aunt came, my uncle would leave early and return late, and no one would take care of him. He ate in the cafeteria all day long.

Sometimes when Uncle goes on a mission and no one is home, Grandma Chen and Ma Xiaobei's mother will invite him to their house for dinner.

Jiang Chengzhou never goes there.

The cafeteria has food, so why does he have to eat at someone else's house?

But when all his friends were called home by their parents for dinner, he could only go home alone. Hearing other people talking and making noise, he would feel lonely and secretly hide under the covers to cry.

That night, Jiang Chengzhou and his uncle lay side by side on the bed, and they both sighed.

"Uncle, why are you sighing?"

Su Lang put her hands behind her head. "I want to move as soon as possible."

This didn't bother Jiang Chengzhou; he simply responded with an "Oh."

"And you?" Su Lang asked.

Jiang Chengzhou imitated his uncle, putting his hands behind his head, "Uncle, you should be nicer to Aunt."

Su Lang found it amusing. "Why are you suddenly saying that?"

Jiang Chengzhou sighed, "If you treat your aunt badly, what will happen if she and your sister leave?"

At first, Jiang Chengzhou was wary of his suddenly appearing aunt and sister.

But now, his aunt and sister have become his closest family members besides his uncle.

He wanted to stay with his uncle, aunt, and sister forever, and didn't want to wait for his uncle to come home alone anymore.

Su Lang asked with a smile, "You little rascal, you're not going to miss your aunt's cooking, are you?"

"Of course not," Jiang Chengzhou swallowed, "I like my aunt even though she doesn't cook."

Su Lang: "Then I'll get you food from the cafeteria tomorrow?"

Jiang Chengzhou's heart was bleeding, but in order to show his loyalty to his aunt, he nodded in agreement with a bitter face.

The next day at noon, Su Lang indeed went to the cafeteria to get his lunch.

Having suffered through the awful food at the cafeteria these past few days, Ma Daniu laughed when he saw Su Lang reappear. "Commander Su, didn't your wife cook for you today?"

Su Lang waved the lunchbox in his hand, a half-smile on his face: "This is lunch for Chengzhou, to remind him of the bitter past and appreciate the present."

When Lin Zhilan was cooking lunch, she noticed that Jiang Chengzhou seemed a little restless.

Unable to get any information from him, Lin Zhilan stopped bothering with him.

Jiang Chengzhou was at home playing with his younger sister, and he would glance at the door every now and then.

When he saw the lunchbox in his uncle's hand, his heart finally died.

Lin Zhilan saw it too and asked in confusion, "You cooked at home, why are you going to the cafeteria for food?"

Su Lang glanced at her nephew. "Chengzhou said last night that he wanted to eat in the cafeteria?"

Lin Zhilan: "Really?"

"If you don't believe me, ask him."

Jiang Chengzhou met his aunt's questioning gaze and nodded heavily.

The island is not rich in resources; the most common things are various kinds of fish.

Fortunately, Lin Zhilan knows a lot of things and often makes different dishes. Today, she happened to make sauerkraut fish, which Jiang Chengzhou had never tried before.

The aroma of the pickled fish stimulated Jiang Chengzhou's nasal cavity and mouth, causing him to salivate incessantly. Every time his chopsticks reached towards the pickled fish, Su Lang would cough lightly, startling him into withdrawing his chopsticks.

Lin Zhilan assumed that Jiang Chengzhou had done something wrong and that his uncle was scolding him, so she didn't say anything.

After half a day, Jiang Chengzhou remained silent, and large tears fell into the bowl.

Tears mixed with rice make one look pitiful.

Lin Zhilan couldn't help but ask, "What happened? What did Chengzhou do wrong?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Chengzhou finally couldn't hold back and burst into tears.

Su Lang realized she had gone too far with the joke and quickly tried to salvage the situation: "Alright, alright, you can have it."

Jiang Chengzhou shook his head, crying, "I won't eat."

When Linlin saw her brother crying, she also started sobbing softly.

Su Lang panicked and got up to hug and comfort her.

One was big, the other small; one was howling at the top of its lungs, the other was sobbing softly, like a duet, very rhythmic.

Lin Zhilan sighed and pulled Jiang Chengzhou to wash his face.

Only after washing his face did he ask what had happened.

Jiang Chengzhou recounted what happened last night, then looked up at her with a pitiful expression, "Auntie, even though your cooking is terrible, I still like you."

Lin Zhilan was both amused and annoyed, and at the same time, she was also a little touched.

She pinched Chengzhou's little face and laughed, "Me too, you cried so much you even had snot bubbles coming out, but I still like you."

Jiang Chengzhou blushed, and another snot bubble appeared on his nose.

"Pfft."

Lin Zhilan suppressed a laugh and told him to wash his face again.

Seeing that her brother had stopped crying, Xiaolinlin also stopped and let her mother wipe her face with a wet towel.

Finally, the family of four returned to the dining table.

Little Linlin absolutely refused to let her father hold her and insisted on squeezing onto a chair with her brother.

Lin Zhilan moved the cafeteria food in front of Su Lang, saying, "I told you to play with the child, so you can eat all of this. Don't waste it!"

Su Lang pretended to be disappointed and sighed, and Jiang Chengzhou immediately looked at him and smiled.

Little Linlin didn't understand, but she watched her father laugh along with her brother.

Seeing that his daughter was giving him a friendly look again, Su Lang reached out to hug her, but Linlin turned her head and hugged her brother's hand instead.

Seeing that his aunt and sister were on his side, Jiang Chengzhou's previous grievances and sadness vanished, and he continued to eat happily.

Because the new furniture hadn't been made yet, the move was postponed for a while longer.

But then something else happened.

Liu Chunhua came to see her in a hurry that day, saying that there were rumors outside that Lin Zhilan was abusing Jiang Chengzhou.

Lin Zhilan pointed at herself incredulously, "I abused Chengzhou?"

Liu Chunhua lived right across the street, and she knew perfectly well how Lin Zhilan treated Chengzhou.

Putting all that aside, just looking at Jiang Chengzhou laughing and joking around like a little fool all day, you can tell he's doing well.

Liu Chunhua said, "That's right, they even came to ask me about it, saying that you asked Chengzhou to help you take care of the child, and that Linlin is spoiled and always wants Chengzhou to carry her when she goes out, and they also said..."

"Your family eats two different meals, but you only let Chengzhou eat in the canteen, saying it's to make him remember the bitter past and appreciate the present. He refused to eat, and you and Commander Su even hit him. Jiang Chengzhou was beaten until he cried loudly."

After hearing this, Lin Zhilan was somewhat impressed by the person who fabricated the rumor.

Chengzhou hugs his younger sister, eats in the cafeteria, and cries...

These are all correct, but the process is completely wrong.

"Sister-in-law, do you know who told the tale?"

"It definitely wasn't me." Liu Chunhua knew she was a busybody and a big mouth, but she had already made a self-criticism last time and wanted to be on good terms with Lin Zhilan, so she didn't tell anyone about the Su family's affairs.

Lin Zhilan smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, I didn't say it was you. I just wanted to find out who spread the rumor so I could go and explain it to them in person."

Liu Chunhua was filled with excitement; she knew that Zhilan was not one to swallow her pride.

"When a message is passed on, it spreads from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. You can't find the source, but I still have a general idea."