Lu Yin couldn’t help but feel unjust. It was just cooking a few bowls of rice and frying a few pieces of eggplant coated in spices. How come she couldn’t do something so simple?
"Alright, calm down." Mother Lei patted the back of her daughter’s hand and asked her to sit still. "We can still eat it." Though these things looked inedible, they had no choice; Lu Yin had already wasted the supplies that Lei Qian brought with him, and they couldn’t throw this meal in the trashcan.
"How can I sit still!?" Lei Yan turned to look at her mother with an angry look in her eyes. "If she doesn’t know how to cook, then she shouldn’t experiment! Its already kind of us that we are letting her stay with all the trouble she keeps causing. Now she is even ruining the supplies that I and my brother got after going to great lengths."
Lei Yan knew that she was harsh and her words were going to make Lu Yu feel awkward but was it her fault? She had asked Lu Yu to control Lu Yin but the man was too soft on his sister. He would scold her as if he were hitting a child. A light tap and nothing more.
Because of this, Lu Yin was getting more and more lawless. She knew that supplies in the kitchen were limited and yet she went ahead and cooked this disastrous meal. In times like these, even a single grain of rice was more precious than gold.
How could Lu Yin waste it like this? Did she think that they were still living in the past? That she could burn the supplies if she wanted and then replace them by buying more?
Lu Yin’s face flushed red. She raised her head and looked at Lei Qian and saw the man frowning while looking at the burnt dishes in front of him. "I said I was sorry!" She was worried that Lei Qian would hate her and couldn’t help but curse Lei Yan a thousand times in her heart. If she knew that this woman would make things difficult for her like this, she would have given her all to kill Lei Yan.
Lu Yu was also embarrassed. But there was nothing he could do or say at this point. If he had known that Lu Yin would do such a thing, he would have stopped her.
But now that it had already happened—he sighed and said with an apologetic tone, "I will go on a hunt and make up for the supplies. I am sorry that my sister was insensible, Master Lei."
Lu Yin heaved a sigh of relief when she heard Lu Yu say that he was going to make up for the supplies and her spine straightened a little.
"Instead of making up for the losses, why don’t you teach your sister to stop acting as a monster?" Lei Yan shot a fierce look at Lu Yu and said to him in disgust, "If you keep covering for her, she will sooner or later cause big trouble. How long do you think you can take care of her mess?"
"Sister Yan—"
"Yan’er is right, Ah Yu." Lei Qian raised his head and looked at Lu Yu with a stern look in his eyes. "I can ignore such things happening once and twice but if it becomes a habit, then it will become a problem for everyone."
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