Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 799 Provocation...

Anjie: "..."

Chen Yi couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He Lingling also smiled slightly, and the unease that had been lurking in her heart quickly subsided.

Xu Han grimaced and complained, "What could it be? I bet it's just bread and water again, oh my god! Not a drop of oil or fat?! I'm so hungry..."

"Shut up."

He Lingling weakly interrupted Xu Han's dry wailing, "You should all go back. Your foster mother will be here soon."

Xu Han stopped howling and went back to the matchbox bed, clutching her rumbling stomach and sighing as she lay down again.

Yu Shijiu was close enough to hear Xu Han muttering a lot of things, which were roughly—

"Ugh, this is so tough. This is the first time I've ever felt so hungry, and all I got was a tiny bit of bread crumbs. I'm speechless. Is my foster mother out of her mind? That little bit of food isn't even enough for a hamster! Is she stingier raising a child than raising a hamster?!"

What followed was a series of rambling complaints about her adoptive mother.

Although Yu Shijiu was thinking about other things, she nodded in agreement upon hearing Xu Han's words and whispered:

"This is outrageous! The foster mother is abusing the child..."

Seeing that Yu Shijiu shared the same idea, Xu Han instantly perked up and tilted his head back, saying:

"That's right! If you ask me, a foster mother should..."

On the other side, after Fang Youhua softly voiced her guess, she looked at the expressions on the faces of those around her and lowered her eyes, saying:

"Go back to your beds and lie down, your foster mother is coming."

Fang Youhua shared the same guess as An Jie and the others; she also believed that the toad would probably come to steal Thumbelina on the night of the next day or the day after.

After she finished speaking, except for Gao Zhen who remained seated, the other four nodded and stood up and left.

Fang Youhua stood up and saw Gao Zhen sitting still. She frowned and patted him on the shoulder.

"Gao Town?"

Startled by the pat on the shoulder, Gao Zhen looked up at Fang Youhua in a flustered manner and said somewhat blankly:

"Sister Fang..."

"What are you doing standing still?"

Fang Youhua looked at him with some doubt, "Hurry back, your foster mother is coming."

"Sister Fang, I didn't sleep well last night..."

Gao Zhen shuddered at the call, quickly stood up, and left with a bow and scrape.

Fang Youhua watched his retreating figure, her brow furrowing even deeper.

Why did Gao Zhen suddenly seem so weak and listless? He's always been in great health!

Click.

Fang Youhua, with her sharp ears, heard the door being turned open. Her expression changed, and she quickly ran back to her bed and lay down.

"La la la la~"

The foster mother, dressed in a drab blue-gray dress, walked into the room, carrying a tray that emitted the sweet aroma of bread and desserts.

As expected, it was bread again.

Xu Han, who was standing nearby, exchanged a glance with Yu Shijiu, who was filled with grief and indignation, and smiled bitterly in silence.

Yu Shijiu: "?"

Yu Shijiu blinked blankly.

He thought the bread actually tasted pretty good, not bad, and quite fragrant and sweet, but the portion was too small... Although his adoptive mother wasn't a good person, her cooking skills were actually quite good.

"children."

After placing the bread on the table, the foster mother smiled and peered into the "children" in the matchbox bed, gently calling out before saying:

"Get up and eat! There's milk today."

"..."

There's milk?!

Xu Han suddenly raised his head from between the beds and cautiously glanced at the food on the tray.

Sure enough, besides some golden-brown, fragrant bread, there was also a large bowl of milky white milk.

The foster mother even brought them milk.

Xu Han was somewhat incredulous.

The foster mother didn't notice him. She slowly filled a small cup with milk and went to find Thumbelina. She looked at Thumbelina with gentle eyes as she opened her eyes and greeted her. She watched as Thumbelina carefully tried to please her by singing and dancing. After a long while, the foster mother gently told Thumbelina to stop dancing.

"My dear daughter," the foster mother pushed the small cup full of milk toward Thumbelina with a smile, "Have some milk first, then eat breakfast. You can't miss breakfast."

But aren't you the one wasting time?

Yu Shijiu stared at this point and silently complained for a while before slowly sitting up like the other players.

All the players pretended to have just woken up, and amidst the foster mother's enthusiastic greetings, the players received more bread crumbs this morning than yesterday.

This morning, their foster mother let them break off their own bread.

Upon hearing this, Anjie and the others, as well as Fang Youhua and the others, all had their eyes light up and quickly jumped off the bed to grab the bread from the tray.

Xu Han and Yu Shijiu ran the fastest.

Of course, they were also the closest to the tray.

"I can eat my fill today!"

As Xu Han stuffed bread crumbs into his backpack, he whispered to Yu Shijiu to break off more—and then he stopped talking.

Yu Shijiu could break bread slices much faster than him; in fact, Yu Shijiu was even eating them as he broke them.

For a moment, apart from the sounds of people scrambling for bread crumbs, no one made a sound in the room.

Thumbelina doesn't participate in this battle for bread; her foster mother has already prepared her share.

"see it?"

The foster mother gently stroked the head of the thumb and whispered:

"Besides your mother leaving you enough bread and milk to fill your stomach, your brothers and sisters, who grew up in the same soil as you, won't care whether you're hungry or thirsty..."

Thumbelina had her head down, still clutching the breadcrumbs her foster mother had just given her, with a glass of milk beside her.

"Alright," the foster mother didn't have time to stay in the room any longer. After checking the time, she hurriedly said, "Mommy has to go to work in the fields. My good daughter, stay home and wait for Mommy to come back."

"Good mother."

Thumbelina nodded obediently, waved to her foster mother, and said softly:

"Mom, you work hard farming, please take care of yourself."

"Mommy's little daughter is so good..."

The same insincere conversation faded into the room as the foster mother hurriedly left, leaving only the tray on the table.

"almost."

After grabbing enough bread, Anjie stopped. "Chen Yi, that's enough!"

Seeing Chen Yi still frantically grabbing the crumbs at the bottom of the basin, An Jie frowned and said:

"This is enough for us to eat."

"..."

Having already grabbed enough, Yu Shijiu and the other two looked at Chen Yi curiously.

Chen Yi grabbed a lot, and before he knew it, he had two or three plastic bags in his hand, filled with pieces of bread he had broken off from the whole loaf.

"..." Chen Yi reluctantly withdrew his hand. "Is that really enough? Actually, we could make a little more."

"almost."

Anjie knew why Chen Yi had taken so much, and a pang of sadness welled up inside her, but she still said:

"There will be more tomorrow, but we may not need that many."