Li poked her head out from the kitchen: "Let him stay and have a pancake."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xiaobei made a face at Wang Yiyi and dashed into the kitchen.

A moment later, another head peeked out from the doorway and asked cautiously, "Is Xiao Dong here?"

The person who came was Wang Xiaobei's older sister, Wang Erni.

Wang Dashan: "It's on the ground, inside the kitchen."

Wang Erni thanked her and went into the kitchen with her head down.

Before long, Wang Xiaobei's older brother, Wang Xiaodong, also came over, followed by Wang Xiaodong's wife and child. Finally, Zhao Shi and Wang Dashan's second brother, Wang Dahe, also came over.

Looking at the neat and tidy family of the second branch, Wang Yiyi finally understood what they were up to: they were here to freeload a meal.

Li was also somewhat unhappy. The family didn't have much food to begin with, and she wanted to kick them out. But when she saw Wang Dahe helping to clean the roof, she had no choice but to swallow her words.

What I originally planned to make were multigrain pancakes, but they turned into multigrain porridge, with a lot of wild vegetables added.

"The children all said they were worried about Third Aunt and Third Uncle, and insisted on coming over to see them." Zhao apologized as she took the spoon from Li's hand.

Li smiled, knowing that Zhao wasn't being sincere, but she felt a little better: "The children are sensible."

But her smile vanished as soon as Zhao brought the porridge to the table.

When Li saw that her second brother's family all had thick bowls of porridge, and then looked at her own child's bowl of thin porridge that was so watery you could see your reflection in it, her face immediately fell.

Wang Dashan's face stiffened as he looked at her, but he assumed it was just Li being polite and didn't say anything.

Wang Daya and her children glanced at their parents, but dared not speak, and picked up their bowls with a wronged expression.

It's one thing for the second wife's family to come and freeload, but everyone else has been robbed; life is tough for everyone right now.

But if you're just here to freeload, you should act like a guest. As long as everyone gets the same food, Wang Yiyi feels she can tolerate it.

She can't stand this!

She snatched Wang Xiaodong's bowl and swapped it with her own bowl of porridge, then quickly swapped it with the other members of the second wife's family.

She changed so suddenly and so quickly that it wasn't until she was all changed that Zhao realized what was happening. "What are you doing?"

Wang Yi winked at Er Ya, who was closest to him, before smiling and saying, "Second Aunt, I thought you were embarrassed to have such a large family coming over for dinner, so I served it like this, but my mother brought it to the wrong place."

Zhao's face flushed red, and after a long pause, she stammered, "We came because we were worried about you."

She was too ashamed to admit that she was freeloading.

Li picked up the bowl of thick porridge in front of her, took a bite, and then slowly said, "Eat up, it'll get cold."

Er Ya had already started eating, and Da Ya and Da Tou, seeing that Li Shi had started eating, also quickly picked up their bowls and started eating.

Even if Zhao was dissatisfied, she had no choice but to pick up the bowl of porridge in front of her.

Wang Dashan, pretending to be ignorant, picked up the porridge in front of him and started eating, even inviting Wang Dahe to eat as well.

Wang Xiaobei refused to accept this, pushed the bowl in front of her, and started crying, "I want to eat that bowl!"

As he spoke, he tried to snatch it from Wang Yiyi's hand.

Wang Yi pretended not to hear, calmly picked up the bowl, took a bite in front of Wang Xiaodong, and said to Li Shi, "Mother, your cooking is really good."

This made Wang Xiaodong cry even harder.

Zhao was trembling with anger: "Third sister-in-law, is this how you usually teach Sanya? Letting her bully her brother?"

Li didn't even give Wang Yiyi a reproachful look, and said to Zhao, "Children speak without thinking. Why should you, as an elder, argue with her?"

Feeling humiliated, Zhao could only slap the wailing Wang Xiaodong, who was crying loudly: "What are you wailing about? If you don't want to eat, then don't eat."

Wang Xiaobei cried even harder. Zhao hurriedly finished her bowl of porridge and then gulped down Wang Xiaobei's bowl of porridge as well.

Without even saying goodbye, he left with his family.

After Wang Dahe's family left, Wang Yiyi shared her bowl of porridge with Wang Dashan and Li Shi.

The mixed grain porridge was worse than she had imagined, especially the one with wild vegetables in it, which was even worse than the nutrient solution from the apocalypse.

Mrs. Li asked with concern, "What's wrong? Is it not tasty? I'll fry you an egg."

Wang Yi nodded: "This porridge is so sore throat."

Although the family didn't have much farmland, they had enjoyed good weather and abundant harvests since Sanya was born. In addition, with the subsidies from Wang Dashan's hunting, they never missed out on wild vegetables, even when they ate coarse grain porridge.

No one found it strange that Wang Yiyi said that.

Li chuckled: "Wait a minute, I'll fry you an egg right away."

Er Ya and Er Tou both shouted in unison, "Me too!"

Zhao left feeling humiliated, while Li was pleased and simply fried an egg for each of them.

After the family finished their meal happily, they began preparing to repair the roof.

The roof is thatched, which is easy to repair. Thatch can be found on the mountain, and all you need to do is buy some hemp rope.

Wang Dashan bought all these things on his way to town today, so everyone just needs to go up the mountain to cut some thatch.

Just as Wang Dashan finished moving the ladder, Zhao came over again.

Li did not let her into the house, but started talking at the door.

Zhao said, "I ran into Sanya on the mountain this morning. She must have collected a lot of eggs. My chickens like to run to the back of the mountain."

Her meaning was very clear: the eggs belonged to her family.

Li pretended not to understand: "What eggs?"

Zhao's face fell: "Third sister-in-law, why pretend to be ignorant when you know the truth? My Xiao Bei saw it all. Your family just ate the eggs, and everyone is having a hard time right now. I'm not the kind of person who likes to take advantage of others. Just give my family's eggs back."

Mrs. Li immediately became furious. "Just because you say it's yours doesn't mean it's yours! You only raise a few chickens, and you watch over them like they're your precious treasures. You think you can let them go to the back hill and lay eggs?"

Zhao chuckled: "You admit that Sanya picked up the eggs, right? If you don't give them back, I'll ask the village head to settle this and see if the eggs belong to you or me."

Li stood with her hands on her hips, jumping up and down in anger: "Go ahead and go find it if you dare! Whoever finds something on this mountain owns it. Even if you bring the emperor here, it's the same principle."

"You wait."

After saying that, Zhao left, wiggling her hips.

When Wang Dashan saw his wife come in, fuming, he asked, "What's wrong? What brings you here, Second Sister-in-law?"

Li said irritably, "She insists that the eggs Sanya picked up belong to their family, and she's going to find the village head to settle the matter."

Wang Yi could understand Zhao's stubborn mentality. In the apocalypse, people would sometimes go to any lengths for resources.

It's not surprising that people will do anything to survive.

Even if you want to get something from Wang Yiyi, you'll have to see if you have the ability.

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