Chapter 52: Who is taking advantage of whom?

 "Sister Yundong." Her voice was a little loud. 

  Gu Yundong couldn't help but frown before putting down her pen a little annoyed, and she asked with a loud voice, "What's the matter?" 

  "It's getting late, and my mother said to let me help you if you want to cook dinner. I will show you were we put the firewood and where to draw water." 

  Gu Yundong looked at the sky. It was already Shenshi, around four o'clock, which was a bit too early for her to start cooking dinner. 

  In addition, she hadn't finished her drawing yet, and it would get dark later in the evening. Now that there was no electric light, and even with an oil lamp it was still dark, so she had to finish it while there was still light. 

  So she directly said to Chen Yulan who was standing at the door, "We ate late at lunch, so we are not hungry yet. You guys can cook dinner first. We will eat later. I have some things on hands that I need to finish first." As she said this, she looked at Gu Yunshu and the other two. 

The two children patted their bellies, and said, "Still full.

Chen Yulan at the door curled her lips when she heard this, and left soon after. 

  Madam Fang was watering the vegetable field in the yard. When she saw her coming back in anger, she couldn't help but ask, "What did they say?" 

" They said that they are not hungry yet." 

Chen Yulan snorted, "They must have eaten steamed buns at lunch. I heard them when I walked by their window. I could even smell it. They ate so much, there must have been a lot of steamed buns. They didn't even spare some for the two of us. So heartless." 

  After saying that, she raised her head and asked Madam Fang, "Do you think she wants to take advantage of us, so she refuses to cook first, and then asks the two children to come over while we eat" 

  Mother Fang's eyes flashed, "What you say makes sense. They are fleeing the famine. I heard that the refugees who came here had nothing to eat on the road, and even if they had money, they had no place to use it, so they all ask others for food. Maybe they all have the habit of using the two children to take advantage of others." 

  " Then what should we do?" 

  "We will wait!! I want to see who gets hungry first. There are children among them." 

  "Well, if they ask us for some food later, we will let them buy it. Of course the price will be high. Ah ah… I am rich." 

  Little did Gu Yundong know that as she was just planing to eat later, the mother and daughter duo figured out a conspiracy. 

  She had reached the finishing stage of her drawing, and she continued painting for half an hour. When it got dark and Mother Yang lit the oil lamp, she stopped. 

After exhaling she rubbed her shoulders and she packed up the drawings before putting them away. Then she said to the three others, "It's getting late, and we didn't bring any food. We still have the dumplings we made at Madam Ke's house when we got up early yesterday morning. How about we eat dumplings tonight?" 

  The dumplings had been steamed, and with the weather being cooler now, they didn't go bad after almost two days, not to mention that she had secretly stored the in her space to keep them fresh. 

  In fact, Mother Yang was perfectly capable of cooking, but she had just arrived in a strange place, and the mother and daughter duo was not as clear-cut as Madam Ke. Mother Yang would panic, so Gu Yundong didn't want to let her out for the time being. 

  When they heard that they would eat dumplings, the three of them couldn't help but swallow their saliva. 

  Although they had eaten dumplings twice at Madam Ke's house, they still wanted to eat them. 

  "I want to eat two bowls." Gu Yunke said. 

  Gu Yundong took the dumplings out, exited the room, followed by Mother Yang who would help her with the fire. 

  Entering the kitchen, Gu Yundong couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she saw that both cold pot and the stove were cold. Madam Fang and Yulan hadn't cooked dinner yet? 

  At this time, Chen Yulan had run into Madam Fang's room and said excitedly to her mother who was filling her stomach with jujube cakes, "They finally couldn't bear it anymore and started cooking dinner."