After returning home, Li Yuezhu helped her mother and brother sit on the bed. She lit a candle, took out the bruise ointment she had just taken from the doctor, and carefully applied the medicine to Zhou and Xiaoan.

"How could this damn old woman do this?" Li Yuezhu said as he wiped away his tears. His hands that were covered with ointment were still shaking.

"Okay, Zhu'er. Mom, I don't want anything else. I just want you three to be well. This is God's greatest gift."

Li Yuezhu quickly finished applying the ointment to her mother. Seeing Mrs. Zhou wiping her tears and carefully rubbing Xiao An's bruises, Li Yuezhu quietly walked out of the room.

It was getting very late, and the family hadn't had dinner yet. My mother not only had to work in the fields, but also occasionally helped others with odd jobs.

Li Yuezhu walked to the door and picked up the wooden basin that had been thrown there. There was still a little white rice on the plate. She took some new ones, made a pot of soup, and brought it to the table.

"Mom, Xiao An, it's time to eat." Li Yuezhu shouted at the top of his voice: "Xiao An, come and see what delicious food my sister has bought for you!"

As soon as Xiao An heard that there was something delicious, he ran to Li Yuezhu regardless of the pain in his body and asked, "What delicious food does sister have? What delicious food did sister bring to Xiao An?"

Li Yuezhu looked at Xiao An's greedy eyes with a smile: "Sister brought you sweets and snacks today, but you have to finish the bowl of rice first before she gives them to you."

Only then did Xiao An notice the bowl of white rice porridge on the table. He hadn't eaten such thick rice porridge for a long time. Xiao An swallowed unconsciously.

"Okay, come and eat."

There was no food at home, so she could only eat rice porridge. Seeing her daughter grow up, Zhou knew how to share some of the burden with her. She felt very relieved. She had not eaten this thick white rice for a long time.

"Zhu'er, you must be very busy today. Come on, eat more. Mom is not hungry."

After saying this, Mrs. Zhou evenly gave half of the white rice in her bowl to Li Yuezhu.

"Mom, just eat it yourself," Li Yuezhu said, and evenly distributed the rice in the bowl to Mrs. Zhou.

"When I went to the city this time, my mother's embroidery was sold for a lot of money. The boss gave me dozens of more pennies. I bought thirty kilograms of rice and thirty kilograms of noodles, which will definitely be enough to eat. Mom, you can

Eat with an open stomach."

Mrs. Zhou was very happy after hearing what Li Yuezhu said. The tailor shop had always been dissatisfied with her embroidery and often withheld money. She didn't expect that Zhu'er could actually sell more.

After dinner, Li Yuezhu took out a few packs of snacks from the house. For poor people, snacks are luxuries, and they would not buy a pack during the New Year or the holidays.

Mrs. Zhou was putting away the dishes when she saw Li Yuezhu taking out three large bags of snacks from the house. She was very surprised.

"Zhu'er, where did you get the snacks?"

"Look at what you are saying. With my small body, should I steal or rob?"

Li Yuezhu smiled and took out the snacks, first gave a piece to Xiao An, and then gave a piece of land to Zhou.

If Li Yuezhu bought 30 kilograms of rice and 30 kilograms of noodles with the money from selling embroidered handkerchiefs, Zhou still reluctantly believed that if she added these three large bags of snacks and used the money she made from selling embroidery, Zhou would be beaten to death.

She won't believe it either.

"Zhu'er, tell me clearly where this money came from?"

Li Yuezhu was so happy that she could let her brother and mother taste dim sum, but she even forgot that this dim sum was not something her family could afford.

According to Mr. Zhou's previous explanation, those square embroidered handkerchiefs would cost at most one tael of silver, while these large packages of desserts Li Yuezhu cost three taels of silver. No wonder Mr. Zhou is so serious.

Li Yuezhu's eyes rolled and an idea came to her. She quickly broke out a piece of peach cake and handed it to Mrs. Zhou.

"Oh, mother, this is a gift from a noble person."

Seeing Zhu'er's confident and calm answer, Mrs. Zhou became even more curious, where did such a noble person come from?

"A gift from a noble man. Where did the noble man come from?"

Li Yuezhu lay on Zhou's body, cuddled up to her intimately, and shook Zhou's arm: "Mom, don't you believe me? A carriage ran rampant on the road today and disturbed many people. The owner of the carriage was also a generous person.

Yes, the pastry shop next to him happened to have a pot of pastries, so he bought some to calm the people nearby. Zhu'er happened to be standing aside, so he got a few points."

Mrs. Zhou was a little dubious. How could there be such a generous nobleman in the county? She would give such expensive cakes just because it disturbed others. She looked at Li Yuezhu's calm expression. Ms. Zhou thought about it for a while and finally did not get to the bottom of it.

"Oh, by the way, Mom, after buying rice and noodles, I still had some money left, so I bought two big hens. You and Xiao An were also shocked today. I will make chicken soup for you tomorrow."

Xiao An on the side was very happy when he heard that there was chicken soup. He forgot about the pain on his body and cheered in the room.

"Sister, that's great, we have chicken soup to drink."

Although Mrs. Zhou was still doubtful, seeing how happy the two children were, she did not continue to ask.

Early the next morning, Mrs. Zhou got up and planned to kill a hen and replenish the bodies of Xiao An and Zhu'er.

"Ah, this hen has laid eggs."

Li Yuezhu was still getting dressed when she heard her mother shouting from the yard that the hen had actually laid eggs.

Xiao An heard the commotion and ran out, and saw two eggs lying on the ground. He was very excited. His family was so poor that they didn't even have enough food to eat. How could he have the conditions to eat eggs?

"Mom, can you eat these eggs?"

They all looked at their son's cute appearance and smiled knowingly: "You little greedy cat, you just know how to eat."

"Then should I kill this chicken?" Li Yuezhu also got dressed and walked out of the house. She bought this chicken to make chicken soup.

Mrs. Zhou looked at the two eggs with some reluctance: "Since these are chickens that lay eggs, don't kill them. Keep the eggs to replenish your health, and give some to your brother."

So, I couldn’t finish the hen soup, so I had to drink white flour and egg soup.

The scratches on the mother's face are still there, and the bruises have receded a lot. The scars on Xiao An's body are still very obvious. Mrs. Zhou applied medicine to Xiao An in the house, because the lights were dark last night and she could not see the scars on his body clearly.

When she saw Xiao An's body was bruised and purple in the daytime, Mrs. Zhou was so angry that she cried and cursed.

"How could that old guy be so cruel? Xiao An was still a child, and she beat her like this. It's my mother's fault. It's all my fault. She didn't protect you."

Mrs. Zhou burst into tears as she spoke.

Li Yuezhu was responsible for washing dishes outside. Listening to her mother's cry, she felt bad. It seemed that the lesson she received yesterday was light and did not leave a deep impression on them.

"Hey, sister-in-law, what's going on?"

A voice sounded from outside the door. Li Yuezhu looked up and saw a woman leading Hu Zi in.

"Zhu'er, what's going on? Why is your mother still crying?" The woman's hair was fixed with a wooden hairpin, and her clothes had several patches. She was also holding a basket in her hand.

Put some dried sweet potatoes in it.

"My mother feels sorry for my brother. He is covered in bruises, all caused by that old woman."

Li Yuezhu didn't know what to call this woman, so he simply didn't call her.

After listening to Li Yuezhu's words, the woman said indignantly: "That Li Cuihua has been running rampant in our Lijia Village for decades and has harmed many people. This kind of person deserves to be cut to pieces. She will definitely be killed when she dies.

Eighteen levels of hell."
Chapter completed!