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If Madame Li wanted dumplings, she couldn't do it. On the contrary, she even ended up throwing a few holes. This made her feel like she was holding back her anger. She almost took a deep breath, and just lashed out at him.

That night, both Madame Gao and the Jiang Clan were detained for a meal, and even Erlang and Tian Yufang were detained for half their meals.

Early the next morning, when Tian Yuqiao saw that Lady Wang and Yutang were still awake, she tiptoed to the ground and secretly took out the half bowl of dumplings that she had previously hidden in the Emptiness Realm. She quietly placed it on the wok.

In the morning, Mrs. Wang cooked a small half pot of cornmeal sauce, heated up the half bowl of dumplings left over from the previous night, and pasted some black noodle cakes on it. He took out the remaining oil from the broken tank and hastily ate it for breakfast.

To the second branch of the Tian Clan, this was already equivalent to celebrating the new year, or even more so than celebrating the new year. These days, the food had kept up. The faces of the two children from the second branch weren't as dark and gloomy as before. Instead, there was a healthy redness on their faces.

After finishing his meal, Yutang still carried his little bamboo basket and went up the mountain to dig vegetables and catch bugs to feed the chickens. Tian Yuqiao planned to make another trip to the town, but Lady Wang also wanted to follow.

Lady Wang's reason was very simple. The embroidery threads at home were not enough. After all, Tian YuQiao had brought back a little too much cloth, so the threads at home were not enough. The remaining ones were the embroidery threads saved by the Wang clan. Although some of them were left in each color, they were all small threads that were not short or half a length in length.

Tian Yuqiao had originally planned to help Mrs. Wang buy them back, but Mrs. Wang said that she had been sick all this time and didn't have much to do at home. She planned to buy more daily necessities.

Mrs Wang already believed in Tian Yuqiao selling the herbs. Moreover, she also gave two taels of silver to Mrs Wang. After all, she was in charge of the finances of the family, so Mrs Wang had to extend her hand to buy things.

Mrs Wang did not ask how much money Tian Yuqiao had left. She was surprised to see two taels of silver.

"Qiao'er, your little brother hasn't come back yet. If we don't lock the door, I'm afraid your mother will bring someone here to search for something." However, if we lock the door, Yutang will not be able to come in once we return. Lady Wang carefully pocketed the silver and asked.

"Mom, I'll inform Grandma Chrysanthemum that I can't come in when I return. I will definitely go to Grandma Chrysanthemum's house, so we can just have Grandma Chrysanthemum tell him that." Tian Yuqiao said with a smile.

Chrysanthemum's home was on the way. Lady Wang told Pillar Wife about the matter, and together with Tian Yuqiao, they went to the village entrance to wait for the ox-cart ride to the town.

In addition to the mule-cart in the pillars, there were two other families with ox-carts in their homes. They would usually bring the villagers to the town to earn some money while at the same time.

Zhang Ronghua soon arrived with his oxcart. A few women who also wanted to enter the town paid a copper coin to each person according to their size, and even Lady Wang and Tian Yuqiao were no exception.

After everyone paid the driver, the ox-cart slowly moved forward.

However, just as they left the village, there were two boys who were worried about the Tian Residence. They were secretly hiding behind the houses in the west wing and roasting bird eggs.

The two men were Jiro and Saburo. They had just found four eggs in a nest today. Since he didn't carry any flint or paper with him, he hurriedly ran home to roast the eggs.

"Second Brother, you must not let Milkman and this Aunt see this egg, or else they will definitely take it from you again. What do you mean, you have to feed Fourth Uncle's brain?"

As his eyes rolled around, the two sneakily entered the old mansion through the courtyard gate and went straight to the west wing.

"Hurry up and come over here. Let's just hide behind this thatched cottage and roast the eggs while there's no one around for Second Aunt today." Jiro urged.

"Hey, got it, Second Brother. I'll go get the fire piston later. Wait for me here." He ran back to his own house.

In the past, just to be safe, they had obtained bird eggs or something like that. Normally, they would roast them on the mountain, which could be considered an accident this time. Since they couldn't be bothered to go up to the mountain to roast the eggs, the two gluttonous kids decided to roast the eggs at the back of Tian Yuqiao's house.

He had wanted to go to the woodshed to fetch some of the firewood, but instead said, "Isn't Second Aunt's roof full of thatch? It's already ready, you can just grab a handful and it'll be fine."

These two scumbags had already turned the small cottage that the Tian Yu Qiao family had gone through so much trouble into an outrageous state.

In addition to the thatch on the roof being pulled off, even several pieces of thatch that had blocked the cracks in the wall had been pulled off.

The two brothers didn't care at all, immediately starting to light the fire.

Soon, the fire was ignited. The two of them gathered together the fire while at the same time, they used wooden sticks to pick up the bird eggs. Very soon, the bird egg was roasted until cracks appeared. Following the sound of an explosion, the fragrant aroma pervaded the air, causing the two of them to become extremely greedy.

Jiro sniffed his nose and looked at the tiny egg. He couldn't wait to eat it.

The two of them hastily ate the still hot eggs. Each of them had two eggs to share, as if they were still eating.

After eating, he casually picked at the grass, wiped his mouth, and ran out to play.

The autumn wind was strong, and the sparks on the ground quickly reached the roof of Tian Yuqiao's thatched cottage. In addition, it hadn't rained since the beginning of autumn.

Soon the fire was up, crackling.

When the people of the old residence discovered this, Tian Yuqiao's house was already burnt down to two walls. Even the half of the west wing was affected and a large area of the house was burnt black.

Fortunately, the wall of the west wing was made of earth, and there wasn't much inflammable thatch inside. The roof was also made of tile, so the losses weren't that great. Tian Yuqiao's family, on the other hand, suffered a great loss. Their house was almost completely destroyed.

The thatch on the roof of the thatched cottage fell down and ignited the chest and bedding on the roof. Even the kitchen was no exception.

When Yutang found out the message, the two hens at the head of the house had already been turned into roasted chickens. The house was in ruins, and even the things inside the house had been burnt.

Although the children on the side of the house had tried their best to help, they were only "robbing while the fire was still burning". Lady Li had already put away the piece of cloth with blue and white flowers into her own box.

Madame Li even sent someone to bring the food back to the upper house. When Yutang returned, there was nothing left at home. The little guy was crying miserably.