Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 428 Island Life

Gu Juncheng pretended not to see it and nodded, "Okay, you two come back quickly too."

The two breathed a sigh of relief as they watched Gu Juncheng's figure finally leave the reading room.

"Quick, put it away."

After a flurry of activity, the two finally managed to erase all traces of their involvement.

"Let's go home!" Zhiyuan slung his schoolbag over his shoulder and waved with an air of importance.

Lin Qingping was baking food in her earthen kiln at home again. The aroma could be smelled from afar, and the two boys quickened their pace.

It is said that ever since Lin Qingping started using this earthen kiln in the courtyard, the entire residential area has been in an uproar. What exactly is it that makes it taste so good when roasted?

Some family members even wanted to make one in their own yard, especially Fang Tuan's wife, who asked Fang Tuan to ask Gu Juncheng how to make one.

Fang Tuan verbally agreed, but when he got back he told his wife, but Gu Shi refused to tell her.

From then on, Lin Qingping earned a bad reputation with Fang Tuan's wife. Fang Tuan's wife didn't think it was because Gu Shi was unwilling to tell, but was convinced that it must have been Lin Qingping who prevented it from being told! How stingy!

How could Lin Qingping know about these things?

She was intently scooping the things that were roasting in the earthen kiln out!

When Zhiyuan and Chen Lei arrived at her house, she had just taken out a beggar's chicken covered in mud.

"What is this? Are you eating mud today?" Chen Lei asked Zhiyuan in a low voice, looking very worried.

Zhiyuan doesn't understand either...

"Zhiyuan, Chen Lei, come here, the task of breaking up the mud is yours today." Lin Qingping smiled and handed a small hammer to the two of them.

Chen Lei was uneasy, but Zhiyuan had faith in his mother; she had never cooked anything bad!

With a few hammer blows, the mud broke open, and a fragrant aroma filled the air, making even the neighbor's child drool. At least, at that moment, Fang Yi from the Fang family next door was perched on the fence, peering over and swallowing hard.

Chen Lei looked at the exposed palm leaves and, besides the aroma of palm leaves, seemed to smell of meat as well. He asked with surprise, "Is there meat inside?"

“That’s right!” Lin Qingping smiled as she peeled off the leaves, revealing a whole, oily chicken inside.

I wanted to make beggar's chicken, but I didn't have lotus leaves. However, the island had all kinds of palm leaves, and even several kinds. So I decided to make palm leaf beggar's chicken!

"Alright, let's take it inside to eat." It was so hot in the yard at midday. After knocking down the mud, Lin Qingping put the chicken on a plate and carried it inside.

Suddenly, a child's cry came from behind. It was a loud wail, accompanied by shouts, "I want to eat mud! I want to eat mud too! Why can Chen Lei eat it, but I can't?"

It turned out that Fang Yi from the Fang family next door had started crying.

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingping quickly grabbed a plate, divided a quarter of the chicken, and took it to the next room. She also brought two loaves of bread that had just been baked in the earthen oven, as she remembered that Fang Yi really liked this bread.

Fang Yi's crying continued, so Lin Qingping walked even faster. But when she arrived at Fang Tuan's courtyard gate, she heard Fang Tuan's wife beating the child.

"Have you no ambition? Are you some kind of beggar? If others don't give you food, you still have to beg for it? Have you no shame!" Fang Tuan's wife was scolding.

Lin Qingping became even more anxious upon hearing this. She quickly went inside, pretending not to have heard anything, and said with a smile, "Fang Yi, have you eaten yet? Aunt Lin will add some food for you, okay?"

Fang Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he forgot to cry. He was about to shout "Okay!" when his mother coldly refused, "No need, we've already eaten."

After saying that, he picked up Fang Yi and headed home.

Fang Yi went from joy to disappointment, and the contrast was so great that he cried and screamed until his voice was hoarse, "No, I want to eat mud! I want more food! We haven't eaten yet!"

"Cry, cry, cry! If you cry again, go call someone else's mom!" Fang Tuan's wife said, throwing him into the house and closing the door, shutting Fang Yi's crying out inside.

Lin Qingping stood in the yard holding a chicken, completely baffled.

This was clearly someone who had a problem with her, but she couldn't remember what she had done to offend them.

"Sister-in-law, you've come to visit? Why don't you come in and sit down?" Fang Tuan had just returned and saw Lin Qingping standing in the yard, lost in thought.

Lin Qingping thought for a moment, then handed the plate to Fang Tuan and said with a smile, "Oh, it's nothing. I roasted a chicken and brought it here for Fang Yi to try. I saw the door was closed and was afraid of disturbing the mother and son's rest. Since you're back, you can take it in."

Fang Yi is still inside howling like a banshee; who would believe he's resting?

Fang Tuan probably guessed what was going on. He knew his wife well enough to know her, and he felt very guilty, but he couldn't say anything. He just smiled and thanked him, then took the plate and went home. He didn't have the face to invite Lin Qingping to sit at his house.

Lin Qingping smiled and went home. Fang Tuan opened the door and saw his son rolling around on the bed, crying with his face red. His wife was sitting to the side with a stern face.

"Fang Yi, look what I brought you!" Fang Tuan said.

Upon seeing this, Fang Yi sprang up and immediately climbed off the bed. Children's tears come and go quickly; he had just been crying his heart out, but the moment he saw the beggar's chicken, he was all smiles.

Fang Tuan's wife was unhappy. "What's so good about it? It's all covered in mud. Aren't you disgusted? People give you charity, and you bring home anything dirty?"

Fang Tuan's expression was also not good. "If someone else gave it to me, I'd take a bowl of poison home today!"

"you……"