Then, early the next morning, their mother went alone to the kitchen, knelt there, and finally begged them a full meal.
He still remembered the gentle smile on his mother's face as she watched them. He remembered her softly telling his younger brother, who was wolfing down his food, to eat slowly so he would not choke. He also remembered her telling him with the same motherly love to hurry up and eat.
But he also remembered just how hard it had been to swallow that food.
Watching his mother barely touch the food on the table, he felt an overwhelming emotion called guilt welling up in his heart with every bite he took. It was that emotion that made the food so difficult to swallow, even after he had gone hungry for an entire day!
That was the first time Dai Yunze had truly and most directly understood the real meaning of the saying, "A woman may be weak, but a mother is strong."
It was also from that time onward that he changed and began trying to steal food from the kitchen.
All so that what had happened that day would never happen again.
It had to be said that ever since transmigrating into this world, he had always felt somewhat detached from it. He did not seem to feel much toward his current mother, either.
After all, he had always believed that his real mother was not in this world.
But after that incident, he completely accepted this mother of his as his mother in his heart.
Before his transmigration, the novels had not described his mother much. Only after transmigrating did he realize what kind of suffering she had endured.
His only wish now was to help their family escape that suffering.
Fortunately, everything seemed to