vrcanaries Chapter 415 Internal strife
Chapter 415 Internal strife
"She specifically ordered the maid to bring dinner to Young Master Wu for him to enjoy."
Taozhi brought the food in and placed it on the wooden table inside in order. There were two vegetarian dishes and one meat dish, plus a steamed bun.
Before leaving, she looked at Wu Chaoyang who was standing in the shadows and gave him a special reminder.
"Young Master Wu, the food I brought is for you alone. There is no portion for your parents. Please go in and eat!"
Wu Chaoyang's eyes flashed, but he stood there without moving.
Chen Huaxiu just felt that her youngest son was a little strange today. After coming back from Ji Yuntang, he remained silent.
He didn't say anything no matter what I asked him. He just looked at me with his dead eyes.
Chen Huaxiu checked his body and did not see any wounds.
After Taozhi left, Wu Shijie stared at the food on the table with shining eyes.
He was already starving, and without saying hello, he rushed into the room and picked up the only chicken leg on the plate to start eating.
Unexpectedly, before Wu Shijie could put the chicken leg into his mouth, he was hit on the back of his head with a stick.
"Don't eat my food. This is given to me by Sister Yuntang."
Wu Chaoyang took a wooden stick that was longer than himself and hit Wu Shijie on the back of the head without mercy.
He roared angrily at Wu Shijie, "Put down my chicken leg, or don't blame me for being rude."
Wu Shijie touched the back of his head and ended up with blood on his hands.
He said angrily: "Third brother, you can't finish all this by yourself, what's wrong with me helping you share a little?"
"No, no, this is mine, no one of you can eat it."
After he finished yelling, he pushed Wu Shijie away, snatched the chicken leg from his hand and started chewing it.
He ate quickly and anxiously, as if he was afraid that someone would snatch his food away.
Chen Huaxiu was a little worried that he might choke, so she stepped forward and gently patted Wu Chaoyang on the back.
"Yang Ge'er, eat slowly. No one is going to snatch it from you."
"Get out! Don't touch me!" Wu Chaoyang pushed her away while gnawing on a chicken leg, staring at her warily as if he was protecting his food.
Chen Huaxiu was pushed out and his waist hit the cabinet behind him.
But her first reaction was not anger, but looking at Chen Chaoyang with worry.
"What happened to Yang Ge'er today? Why is he so irritable?"
Wu Chaoyang used to guard his food, but it had never been as serious as it is today.
Even if one of his own people came a step closer, he would push them away with a wary look on his face, like an angry lion.
Wu Jinxi took a puff of his pipe and said gloomily, "He is just hungry."
"In the Night Palace, we don't have enough food or sleep, and we are forced to work by that money-loser. Today, from morning till night, our whole family only had one meal, and we didn't see any meat. How can we continue like this?"
"We adults can't handle it, let alone Yang who is only seven years old."
Wu Shijie clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and suddenly suggested: "Dad, Mom, let's go, we don't want to stay in the Night Palace anymore!"
"My third brother is still growing, so he can still eat one more meal. If we continue like this, I'm afraid we will starve to death here!"
"You all have seen what Ji Yuntang is like now. She is relying on her status as a princess to take revenge on us. If we stay here any longer, wouldn't that be exactly what she wants?"
Chen Hua frowned. "Where can we go now? Are we going back to that small mountain village where we don't have enough food or clothes?"
Her trip to the capital this time was not only to improve the lives of her family, but more importantly, she hoped that Wu Chaoyang would have the opportunity to learn to read and write, and become an official in the court in the future to bring honor to the family.
She wanted to let those country folk who bullied them in the small mountain village see that their Wu family could also produce a high-ranking official.
"Of course not." Wu Shijie glanced at the steamed bun in front of Wu Chaoyang and swallowed.
"Mom, we can go to Second Sister's place. We are her relatives. She can't ignore us."
"If all else fails, we can go and ask the Marquis to take us in."
"Anyway, I don't want to stay in the Night King's Mansion anymore. Look at my hands, they are all covered with blisters now."
As Wu Shijie spoke, he spread out his hands for Wu Jinxi and Chen Huaxiu to see.
Aren't Wu Jinxi and Chen Huaxiu the same?
One of them was chopping wood and his hand was cramped and covered with blisters.
A person's hands got frostbite from washing clothes, and now the skin is wrinkled.
When Wu Jinxi thought about how long this kind of life would continue, he felt sick!
He took two puffs of his pipe, was silent for a moment, and finally made a decision.
"Okay, we will go to Yongning Marquis' Mansion at dawn tomorrow and rest here for the night."
All their belongings are still in the Yongning Marquis Mansion. Although they are not valuable, they are much better than what the Yewang Mansion gave them!
There was only one bed in the room, and Wu Chaoyang slept on it alone. He didn't allow anyone to squeeze in with him.
There was no other choice but Wu Jinxi, Chen Huaxiu and Wu Shijie could only spread some hay and sleep on the ground.
The three of them were hungry and couldn't sleep the whole night, but Wu Chaoyang was the only one who slept soundly.
Wu Shijie was filled with jealousy. He felt that his third brother was an ungrateful person.
He would rather break the big steamed bun into pieces and feed the mice than leave a single bite for himself.
As soon as the sky was getting light, Wu Shijie pulled Wu Chaoyang out of bed.
"Stop sleeping, we should go!"
Wu Chaoyang was already in a bad mood when he woke up, and with the influence of the drugs, he started punching and kicking Wu Shijie.
"Go away, go away, don't bother me!"
Wu Shijie wanted to fight back, but was held back by Chen Huaxiu.
"Brother Jie, Brother Yang is only seven years old. You are the eldest brother, so you should give in to him."
"He just didn't eat enough and was in a bad mood, so he attacked you. He didn't do it on purpose."
Wu Shijie didn't attack Wu Chaoyang in the end. He looked at Chen Huaxiu with red eyes.
"Mom, you're not protecting him, you're harming him!"
Chen Huaxiu disagreed with her eldest son's statement at all, "He is only seven years old, what does he know?"
After she finished speaking, she gritted her teeth and said, "It's all that damn Ji Yuntang's fault. She forced our whole family into this state. I don't know what she did to my Yang Ge'er yesterday."
After Wu Chaoyang finished his work, he took another nap. When he opened his eyes again, an hour had passed.
The sun was high outside, he rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked in a daze: "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, is it time to eat?"
"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat. If you hadn't refused to get up, we would have already arrived at the Yongning Marquis's residence and had eight dishes and a soup!"
Wu Shijie's voice was so loud that Wu Chaoyang was so scared that he hid behind Chen Huaxiu, hugging her and trembling.
"Mom, what happened to my brother? He looks so fierce!"