The wicked sister-in-law is in charge; meals include fish and shrimp.

Chapter 423 There's food to eat!

As for those few broken plots of land, Wen Luozhi really asked the right question.

Fang Er's family were farmers, but they sold themselves because of a famine years ago. Although they worked as servants for that family, they still knew how to farm.

Fang Er even went to help out at the time, and only after the vegetables had grown tall did the supervisor let him go back to his own work area.

"Those few fragmented plots of land at the Black Mountain Mine were all given to the old Duke and his family; it's quite a sad story."

Fang Er paused for a moment and continued, "Other families usually receive gifts of silver from relatives and friends, but I didn't expect the Duke of Zhenguo's family to receive vegetable seeds. That's very thoughtful."

Few families in the mine have anyone to give them money; those who are exiled here are relatives and friends who have committed serious crimes and are trying to avoid them.

How could it resemble the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion?

In his opinion, these people probably don't lack money, but they are bottomless pits that can never be satisfied.

"Once, Fang Er and I were so hungry that we stole some vegetables to eat. The old Duke found out and picked a lot for us, telling us that if we ever got hungry again, we could sneak into the fields and eat our fill."

"It was just the two of us who were determined to die a horrible death; no one else dared to approach us."

Fang Da's eyes welled up with tears as he recalled those days. It was a time when they rarely had enough to eat, and the sweet and crunchy vegetables were a kind of salvation for him and Fang Er.

They don't usually get to eat good food; at most, they just add some vegetable leaves to their porridge to fill their stomachs.

Therefore, the vegetables planted on the broken ground were essentially grown for the officials, which is why the Duke of Zhenguo's family lived a better life than others.

"Yes! Also, the old Duke treated us extremely well after he learned about our affairs. How could a father like that betray his country..."

"Fang Er!" Fang Da called out to him in time, and Fang Er realized what he had said and quickly shut up.

Wen Luozhi clenched her fists as she listened to what he said. So all the vegetables that grew from her seeds were eaten by those bastards?

With so much money and food, how come they don't choke to death?

"Grandpa, the soil on that plot of land was very dry and sandy; some of the vegetables were quite small back then."

“When it rains, some of it gets washed away, and the soil doesn’t look very fertile,” Fang Er said after thinking for a moment.

He originally wanted to say that he had also watered the soil with manure, but he chose to keep quiet for fear of disgusting Wen Luozhi.

Wen Luozhi nodded but remained silent for a while. Fang Da and Fang Er exchanged a glance and became uneasy.

Was this guy scared as soon as he heard they were fugitives? But they didn't kill or commit arson; they really didn't do anything wrong except steal!

"Sir...we're telling the truth."

Fang Da kowtowed again and said, "Please take my brother out of this desolate town. In my next life, I, Fang Da, will repay your kindness."

Wen Luozhi coughed lightly, looked at the two brothers, and asked, "After you two escaped, you really only stole a few things, right?"

As she spoke, she had already activated the lie detector mode on the system. If anyone did anything utterly immoral, she would throw them back into the mine.

"No, no! Fang Da and I just worked and ate at the mine. After we came out, we would steal some food and clothes."

"As for silver and such..."

Fang Er glanced at Wen Luozhi and lowered his head guiltily. "As for the silver... this is the first time we've ever thought of stealing it."

Because the weather is warmer, they are more likely to escape this place, and that would definitely require money.

Who would have thought that his first attempt to steal someone's money would lead to such a disastrous outcome?

Fang Da nodded to the side, also keeping his head down guiltily.

The system didn't sound an alarm, and Wen Luozhi, seeing their reaction, decided to play a trick on them.

"If you don't believe me, think it over carefully and see if you've really done anything wrong?"

She stood up and looked down at the two of them, her flashlight sweeping over them again.

"No!" Fang Da raised his head and answered loudly and firmly.

Wen Luozhi nodded in satisfaction and looked at Fang Er again, noticing that the boy's ears were red.

“I…I’ve been spitting into that old man’s porridge for a whole month…”

Fang Er spoke softer and softer. The old man he was talking about was the master who had dragged them, his servants, into exile.

That old man sits there while ordering him around to get food. He's exhausted from all his work every day, but he still has to serve that old man.

He was so angry that he secretly spat into it. If that old man hadn't been sent to work elsewhere, he would have continued spitting.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft hahaha!"

Fang Da burst into laughter, clutching his stomach. "What kind of guilty conscience is this? But Fang Er, you..."

"Ugh, this is really disgusting!"

Fang was laughing so hard he forgot himself, but Wen Luozhi glared at him and immediately quieted down.

"Sir, I've only ever done this one inhuman thing. The rest of the time I've just stolen some food to fill my stomach," Fang Er said somewhat embarrassedly.

The alarm still didn't work, so Wen Luozhi sat back down.

"I'll be leaving here in a few days; you'll have to wait."

"Hey!" the two responded happily, then looked at each other in surprise after realizing what had happened.

"Us? Is this gentleman talking about 'us'?"

The two looked at each other in disbelief. Fang Er looked up at Wen Luozhi and asked uncertainly, "Master, you...you just said 'us,' what do you mean?"

"right"

Wen Luozhi stood up, yawned, and said to the two, "Considering you've only been doing petty theft, I'll take pity on you and take you out."

"But let's make this clear first, stealing is absolutely out of the question."

Fang Er was taken aback for a moment, then heard Wen Luozhi continue, "If you work for me, I'll provide you with three meals a day, and you can stay wherever you want."

As soon as she finished speaking, the two brothers were overjoyed and knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, "Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!"

Wen Luozhi felt a headache coming on just listening to them kowtow, and waved her hand at them: "Get up, all of you."

"Thank you, sir!" The two scrambled to their feet. Fang Er, a grown man, had tears streaming down half his face. "Waaah, we can leave here now! I want to go back to my hometown!"

"Waaah, we have food now! We don't have to be afraid to steal anymore!"

Fang Da was a little better off than him, but even this grown man's eyes turned red.

"If you want to cry, go outside and cry. We have little kids in our family."

"That's enough for now. Come back early when it's light."

She started to chase them away. Although the two brothers returned empty-handed this time, their hearts were full.

After locking the door, and learning from past mistakes, Wen Luozhi placed a flat stone on it this time, which wouldn't be easy to move even with a knife.

Not long after Fang Da and the others left, there was another sound outside the door. This time, Wolf Batian's tail hair stood on end.

"This person looks hostile. You stay here while I leave."

He vanished in a flash, and after a few breaths, there was no sound outside the door.

A moment later, there was a knock on the door. Wen Luozhi thought it was Lang Batian returning and was about to open it when...

Realizing something was amiss, she stopped. Wolf Tyrant had only been gone a short while, and even if he were to return, she wouldn't need to open the door.

What made her even more certain that something was wrong was that she had repeatedly told Lang Batian to observe for the next two days and not to rush into turning into human form to play.

Recalling the expression on Grandma Mi's face when she gave her instructions during the day, her eyes narrowed slightly.

There was another knock on the door, and Wen Luozhi knew that something bad was about to happen.

Hmph? Playing tricks? She'd like to see just how scary it is.