Chapter 143: Chapter 143: Can’t Figure It Out
This isn’t scientific at all!
Noticing the possible change in her status within the Yuan Family, Yuan Bao felt like an uneducated person clutching at a straw.
The only girl child in three generations, she was the pampered one at the start, but now everything’s changing!
A cherished child turning into a weed, can you believe it?
After having this not-so-filling lunch, Yuan Bao felt quite heavy-hearted.
Even with an adult’s soul and mindset, Yuan Bao couldn’t figure out what exactly her current situation was.
"Mom, we’re going out to play!"
After her slow-eating older brother finished his meal, Yuan Bao shouted and was ready to leave. She needed to go ask her grandparents what had changed at home.
Why did the sudden and complete split-up with no warning happen?
"You’re not allowed to go out!"
Hearing Yuan Bao’s shout, Mrs. Xiao Li immediately prevented her.
"Huh?!"
Yuan Bao looked at her mother in shock, truly a bit dumbfounded this time.
Even if her treatment had been lowered, it shouldn’t affect her personal freedom, right?
"What’s ’huh’? From today on, when it’s cold, you’re not allowed to run outside and stain your clothes, there’s nothing clean for you to change into!"
Mrs. Xiao Li’s gaze was stern as she looked at Yuan Bao.
As for Yuan Shouhu, who was also planning to go out with Yuan Bao, he was similarly blocked by Mrs. Xiao Li.
"Jiaojiao, you be sensible and keep an eye on your brother, don’t let him run around outside!"
"Okay!"
Listlessly, Yuan Bao responded.
At this moment, she was already 100% sure she would truly turn into a weed.
The food, thin gruel and broth, not filling.
Playing?
Not allowed, afraid of dirtying the clothes.
Fine, with the cold weather, dirty clothes indeed are a hassle to wash.
Yuan Bao sat honestly on the heated brick bed, deciding to see what her treatment in this family would ultimately turn into.
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For the whole afternoon, Yuan Bao stayed on the heated brick bed, except for going out for convenience once, she did nothing else.
During this time, her slightly developmentally delayed older brother wet his pants.
Unfortunately, Yuan Bao became the one to be blamed.
Her own father, Yuan Zhaodi, remained silent when Mrs. Xiao Li was blaming Yuan Bao for not taking good care of her brother.
And because of this incident, during dinner, Yuan Bao didn’t even have the egg drop soup, what was placed in front of her was a small bowl of thoroughly boiled stew, which was the leftover dish Yuan Zhaodi and Mrs. Xiao Li didn’t finish at lunch.
Accompanying the boiled stew was a coarse grain steamed bun, very hard to chew.
All the egg drop soup was placed in front of Yuan Shouhu, and only when he couldn’t finish it, the remaining half-bowl was placed in front of Yuan Bao by Mrs. Xiao Li.
And throughout this process, Yuan Zhaodi still said nothing.
In this household, Mrs. Xiao Li was in charge!
With just a difference of two meals, Yuan Bao’s heart completely turned cold.
Her being the cherished child, the Bao of the Yuan Family, was indeed false.
Yuan Bao felt she had embarrassed the predecessors of time travel.
For other time travelers, life got better after the split, but for her, it stubbornly went the other way.
Yuan Bao didn’t eat the remaining half-bowl of egg drop soup and instead said she was full and couldn’t eat anymore.
So, that half-bowl of egg drop soup went to her father Yuan Zhaodi, who drank it.
At night, Yuan Bao lay at the foot of the bed, although covered with a quite thick quilt, she felt genuinely cold.
Usually, she would sleep with her brother at the head of the bed.
But now, there was no longer a place for her there.
Quietly lying there, Yuan Bao couldn’t understand why her treatment had changed so quickly, what was it all for?