Director Chen smiled and spoke up for Song Xia: "Little Song is very capable. Not only is she a good cook, but she's also excellent at housework. I'm glad you like her."

"It couldn't be better." Xia Ru took another bite of the small fish, wishing she could eat the bones too. "This is so delicious, better than any restaurant I've ever been to."

Director Chen thought to herself, "Is it really that exaggerated? But Xiao Song's cooking skills are really good. How come the aroma is so strong? How did she make it?" She almost drooled.

Xiao Cheng was very perceptive: "Sister Song has prepared several dishes. Director Chen, please sit down and have some with us later."

"Then I won't stand on ceremony."

Soon, Song Xia placed all the dishes on the table. Including the soup, there were six in total. The braised pork was rich and flavorful, the salt-baked chicken was golden, the pan-fried small fish was crispy, the meatball and vegetable soup was plentiful, and even the broccoli stir-fried with shrimp and the Mapo tofu were particularly exquisite. The three of them stared in amazement. They were just ordinary home-style dishes, but how could they all be so beautiful and tempting?

"Come on, everyone, have a taste."

“Okay.” The three of them took their seats without hesitation. Xiao Cheng invited Song Xia to join them, “We don’t have many rules in our family. Sister Song, you can eat with us from now on.”

"Salt-baked chicken is delicious too!" Xia Ru's eyes lit up with every dish she ate. "Braised pork is also delicious, not greasy at all."

She almost cried. Ever since she got pregnant, nothing tasted good to her. Heaven knows how miserable she was! Now that she could finally eat food that satisfied her taste buds, she felt her whole body feel soothed.

"Honey, give us more money, you have to give Sister Song more money." She looked at Song Xia with pleading eyes, "Sister Song, can you move in today? I get hungry easily at night."

Song Xia smiled: "No problem."

Without much hesitation, Xiao Cheng said, "Originally, I told Director Chen it was 15,000 a month. Sister Song, we'll give you 20,000 a month!"

This price greatly surprised Director Chen—20,000! That's almost the price of a postpartum nanny!

She lowered her head, but the food Xiao Song made was really delicious. If she had money, she would treat him too. Waaah... why isn't she a rich person?

Sun Xiurong is truly blessed but doesn't know how good she has it. If it were her son, he wouldn't do any other housework, she would treat him like royalty just by cooking! And she would have to constantly remind him to be good to her son. It's a pity she doesn't have that kind of luck, her son doesn't even have a girlfriend now! Sigh, her son was born too late, if only he had been born earlier and was about the same age as Xiao Song.

"Isn't 20,000 too high?" Song Xia knew the price of nannies in the city, so she didn't want that much.

"No, no, we thought we didn't give you enough!" Xia Ru quickly waved her hand. "Sister Song, have you studied cooking? How did you make it so delicious?"

"I haven't studied it. It's just that the people I ate with before were picky, so I gradually learned how to do it."

Director Chen inwardly cursed Sun Xiurong again. Although she didn't like to gossip, she was determined to spread the word about Song Xia earning 20,000 yuan a month cooking for someone, so that Sun Xiurong would know what a precious person she had driven away.

Meanwhile, Sun Xiurong was unaware that she was about to face another round of ridicule and contempt. She was arguing with her grandson again over money and food.

"Why do you want money again? What's so good about eating out? You used to eat at home all the time."

"Your cooking is terrible, and there are only two dishes. How can we eat like this?" Qin Jiawei said with great disdain.

"Why can't I eat rice with just two dishes?" Sun Xiurong felt a headache coming on. Although she also thought the taste was a bit off, it was still edible.

She didn't know that the tastes of the elderly are different from those of children. In the past, in order to take care of them, Song Xia would put different amounts of salt in their favorite dishes. This is why Sun Xiurong was always picky and said that Song Xia's cooking was not up to standard.

"I just can't eat anymore, I want to go out to eat."

"We'd be so rich to eat out every day!"

Qin Jiawei's eyes darted around: "Don't think I didn't hear that day. My dad left me over a million yuan, enough for me to eat."

"That money is meant for your college education, and later for buying a house and getting married. You can't just waste it."

Qin Jiawei coaxed, "Grandma, I'll be very successful in the future. I'll definitely earn the money to buy a house and find a wife. If this money isn't spent, it will depreciate in the bank. Do you understand? If you starve me to death, there will be no one to carry on the Qin family line."

"You have quite a few excuses." Sun Xiurong softened, without even considering whether there was anything wrong with what Qin Jiawei said.

"grandmother……"

"Okay, okay." Sun Xiurong had a headache from the noise. "But I can only give you fifty yuan. Don't eat those fried skewers. Go to Old Li's place and have him cook two dishes for you. Ask him to put more meat in them."

"Okay." Qin Jiawei grabbed the money and ran, not caring what she had told him.

Sun Xiurong was facing the two dishes in front of her and found it hard to eat. Although Song Xia hadn't measured the salt, some dishes were just right and some were bland, the taste was still acceptable. However, she hadn't cooked for many years and was quite rusty.

She's so grateful to have food, drink, and lodging here. She's really ungrateful. She'll see how good Song Xia's life gets in the future.

However, just one day later, when Sun Xiurong heard that Director Chen had introduced Song Xia to a nanny job with a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, she couldn't hold back anymore. She gritted her teeth and said, "20,000? Who are you kidding? What family would be so stupid as to give 20,000 yuan to a nanny who can't even cook properly?"

Zhou Fengmei scoffed at her, "People only got their salaries raised from 15,000 to 20,000 because they thought Song's cooking was so good. Director Chen was there at the time, and he also ate Song's cooking and said it was better than anything in restaurants. Only you would say it's bad."

Grandma Liu added, "If it were really bad, would Qin Jiawei have been eating at home every day before? These past few days he's been eating out all the time. Sun Xiurong, is it so hard to admit that someone else's daughter is good?"

"Pah, what's so good about it? I wish every family had a daughter-in-law who was so greedy for money."

“Our daughter-in-law doesn’t want money because we respect each other and have given her enough! All these years of Song’s life in your family has been wasted. She could have made a small fortune working as a nanny outside, instead of ending up with nothing.”

Sun Xiurong was furious: "Do you think I would believe what you say? She'll suffer in the future without a son to support her."

"She really doesn't know how to repent." Zhou Fengmei shook her head and then stopped talking to her. As long as Song Guinu is doing well now, that's fine. She was worried for a while before, but she didn't expect that Director Chen would find her such a good job in the blink of an eye. It's also because Song Guinu is capable that she got the job and the salary to be raised. Although it's only for two months, she can earn 40,000 yuan, which is very good. At least it can help her get through the current difficulties. However, there is no need to tell Sun Xiurong that this is only for two months.