Perhaps he was scared after being beaten.
This time, the eggs Lin Baoshan brought up weren't burnt, but Yuan Chun still found another excuse to not let him have dinner.
She ate all the dinner meant for both of them by herself.
Before sleeping, she went to the kitchen and locked the cabinet.
In the middle of the night, Lin Baoshan's stomach ached from hunger. He went to the kitchen intending to secretly boil two eggs, but found the cabinet locked, so he could only drink some cold water.
The next morning, Lin Baoshan got up early, went out to eat a bowl of soy milk and three large mantou. When he returned, he brought a bowl of soy milk and two corn cakes for Yuan Chun.
On his way, he met someone he knew, who, seeing his swollen face, asked with concern, "Xiao Lin, what happened to your face?"
"Uncle Zhang, I bumped into something; I fell yesterday, face down to the ground..."
