"Sheng Jun, you were born after ten months in my womb; the pain is in my heart even as it aches in your body. How can I not be concerned about you? I'm worried for you."
Granny Chen wanted to follow him inside, but the door of the thatched house slammed shut with a bang, nearly hitting her face.
Granny Chen's face turned dark, and she immediately put her hands on her hips, cursing, "Chen Shengjun, you ungrateful thing, I care about you, and you dare slam the door on me? Come out here..."
Bang, bang, bang...
She kicked the door forcefully a few times.
Chen Shengjun said irritably, "Mother, can you stop making a fuss? Let me rest for a while."
"Rest my ass! You want to rest? Get up quickly and take me and your three brothers to settle this matter." Granny Chen wouldn't let it go as she continued kicking the door.
Chen Shengjun covered his face with the quilt, ignoring her.
He couldn't let his mother go to the Feng family to stir up trouble.
He couldn't let the situation escalate.
Before he and Feng Yuanchun have cooked rice, their affair cannot be known by the Feng family, or else the Feng family won't agree to the marriage and will prevent him and Feng Yuanchun from being a couple.
That's right.
Today, Chen Shengjun met with Feng Yuanchun, not to break up, but to make things unchangeable between them.
As long as he destroyed Feng Yuanchun's purity, it wouldn't be him begging Feng Yuanchun to marry him, but rather the Feng family pleading for him to marry her.
In his past life, Chen Shengjun's scheme succeeded.
But in this life, Yuan Chun came, making his plans fall apart.
After Granny Chen cursed outside for a long time and found her youngest son still not opening the door, she angrily stormed off to the main house and scolded her three sons lying on the wooden plank bed, "It's almost dark, and you're still not up. Why don't you just die of laziness?"
"Mother, it's already dark; have you cooked yet? We're all hungry."
Oldest son Chen Shengjin sat up unhappily, "The village chief has said that since the autumn harvest is near and there's less work in the fields, everyone should rest at home for a couple of days to be in good shape for the harvest. How can listening to the village chief be wrong?"
Second son Chen Shengfu nodded in agreement, "Mother, men's work is strenuous. If we don't recover our strength, we won't handle the autumn harvest, earn few work points, and the grain we get won't last us a few months."
"Mother, cook more wild vegetable buns tonight so your sons can eat well before the harvest." Third son Chen Shengcai was only concerned about filling his stomach.
Looking at her incompetent sons, Granny Chen's old face puffed up with anger, "Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eating. Sheng Jun has been beaten, yet you as his brothers don't stand up for him but only think about eating. Why don't you eat me instead? Chop me up and stew, so you can have a satisfying meal of meat."
"Mother, don't mention meat. When you do, I start craving it. Mother, the autumn harvest work is tiring; let's kill a chicken to boost our bodies then." Chen Shengcai glanced at the chicken coop, swallowed his saliva, and looked full of expectation.
Chen Shengfu's eyes lit up, "Mother, why not kill a chicken to eat tonight? The earlier we eat, the earlier we nourish ourselves. I'll go boil the water."
"Mother, I'll catch the chicken." Chen Shengjin quickly put on his shoes and was about to run towards the chicken coop.
Granny Chen, enraged, grabbed a broom and angrily hit her three sons, "You still want to eat meat? I'll give you poop to eat instead. I warn you, if anyone dares to kill my chickens, I'll take a knife and chop you into pieces to stew with!"
The broom swung with great vigor, causing the Chen family's three brothers to cry out in pain and flee outdoors, frightening three old hens that had just entered their coop and sending them flying out.
Chickens scattered, people jumping around, lively and chaotic.