Chapter 12 They are happy!

The neighbors next door listened curiously to the laughter coming from the house where Jiang Lianzhu and her mother and son lived.

In their house, I always heard only sounds of beating, scolding, and crying. Today was the first time I heard laughter.

Everyone was surprised that the sun really was rising from the west.

What on earth does Jiang want to do?

Don’t do anything weird again and hurt the children’s feelings!

Kind-hearted people secretly worry about the children.

Those with bad intentions secretly hoped that Jiang would make more ruthless moves in the future. They would have something exciting to watch if they could stir up trouble. Otherwise, without comparison in life, how could they feel that they were living a good life and that their children were lucky...

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In the afternoon, Jiang Lianzhu pickled the remaining wolf meat.

Hang it outside to dry in the sun and turn it into jerky wolf meat.

People in the countryside here like to make smoked meat jerky, but they are afraid of wasting salt. Jiang Lianzhu thinks smoked meat is delicious, but she feels it is not good to eat too much, and it is troublesome to make, so she made pickled bacon.

There was too much wolf meat to eat, and the weather was hot, so we were afraid it would go bad, so we pickled it so that we could eat it for a few more days.

She only gave the house a rough clean yesterday, and the tall weeds in front of and behind the house had not been cleared yet, so she started to clean it up again.

The three cubs helped her to the best of their ability.

Especially Erbao went exploring holes everywhere, hoping to catch a few more big centipedes to sell for money.

Subsidize the household expenses.

He actually got some results, catching more than ten fish. Although not as big as yesterday's, it was still pretty good.

Jiang Lianzhu cleared the weeds behind the house and loosened the soil, preparing to buy some rapeseed and other crops to plant next time she went to the market.

Autumn is here, and it's almost time to start planting cabbage, radishes and the like.

She was an agent in her previous life and was basically an all-rounder, knowing everything, whether it was fighting skills, various life skills, wilderness survival skills, etc.

I have learned how to grow vegetables, cook, raise chickens and ducks, etc.

I was exhausted by the evening. My physical condition is still not good enough.

I kept dinner simple and made a dish of boiled pork slices. I used a pound of lean pork, a pound of wolf meat, and half a pound of bean curd, making it spicy.

Corn flour and white flour are mixed evenly in a ratio of one to one, and corn oil is added to make cornmeal pancakes.

She didn't buy eggs. If she had, it would have tasted better if she had added two eggs.

Each person had three or four cornmeal pancakes and a large bowl of spicy boiled pork slices.

The kids were so excited about the food that they said it was delicious.

The cornmeal pancakes are golden in color, soft and chewy, with a rich corn aroma and the chewiness of white flour, and are of moderate thickness.

The boiled pork slices are spicy and tender. The wolf meat is darker in color, while the pork is lighter in color, making them easy to distinguish. The same seasoning may have different tastes, but they are both delicious. The ancient thousand-piece bean skin is a bit thick, but it does not affect the flavor of the broth at all. It is sprinkled with sesame seeds, red oil, and minced garlic, which makes people drool just by looking at it.

The children have never seen it, let alone eaten it.

After taking a bite, the kids’ eyes sparkled.

They are no longer afraid that Jiang Lianzhu will poison them. To be honest, the food their mother cooks is so delicious.

If he is poisoned to death, he is poisoned to death.

They love it!

Erbao was especially impressed. As he ate, he sighed, "Mom, don't the landlords' families eat as well as we do? It's so delicious!"

Jiang Lianzhu smiled. "I don't know about that. I just used local ingredients. Tomorrow, we'll make dumplings."

The three kids all smiled brightly, "Okay! Listen to Mommy!"

Jiang Lianzhu specifically asked Xiaonanbao, "Dumplings, do you want to eat them?"

The little girl nodded and whimpered, like a chick pecking at rice.

During the Chinese New Year, other wealthy families would eat dumplings, and they had smelled the fragrance.

Jiang Lianzhu took the opportunity to teach her how to speak, "Then say it with me, little girl, eat... eat... eat..."

Little Nanbao: "Ah...ah...ah..."

Dabao...

Second treasure...

Jiang Lianzhu laughed.

This is a good sign. The little one is willing to listen to her and learn from her.

Not bad, not bad.

After dinner, Jiang Lianzhu was about to take out some cotton cloth to make a underwear, but she was so tired that she fell asleep as soon as she touched the kang.

Instead, the cubs went to bed later and did not buy lamp oil. In the darkness, they opened their eyes, shining brightly, and looked at the sleeping Jiang Lianzhu silently. They were no longer as far away from her as they were last night.

Little Nanbao tilted his head and thought for a while, then cautiously moved closer to Jiang Lianzhu and fell into a deep sleep.

***

There were several people sitting in the main house in the village and refusing to leave.

They were all crying poor, "Uncle, our house is about to collapse, it leaks every day, please have pity on us and arrange a place for us to live."

"That's right, uncle. The house was empty before. You said it belonged to the scholar and his family and that they would come back to live there in the future, so it couldn't be moved. How come it was given to a widow named Jiang in the blink of an eye? This is unfair."

"We can't even write two Wangs in one stroke. This is Wangjia Village. Why should we give our house to a widow from another family and a few kids of unknown origin? The Wang family has already kicked them out and doesn't want them anymore. Why should we support them?"

Lizheng Wang slammed his pipe on the table and said, "Regarding the house, I just received a letter from the scholar saying that they have been relocated to the provincial capital along with their master and might not return for ten or eight years. He asked me to handle it myself, so I dared to make any arrangements without authorization. As for you, don't bother to talk nonsense here. If you have the guts, go to the mountains and kill a big wolf first!"

Wolves are not wild boars, wild sheep or the like. If ordinary people encounter them, they will lose their lives.

"Village head, those two are just lucky. Do you really think they can kill a wild wolf?"

"That's their good luck, you can try your luck too! Okay, stop being jealous. We have watched these three children grow up, and they all have the surname Wang. Even though the fifth child is missing now, he is still his child after all. You should help as much as you can within your ability. It's not a big deal, it's worth you being so jealous..." Li Zheng Wang's tone was already unhappy.

He is usually a kind person and rarely speaks harshly to others.

But that doesn't mean he has no prestige.

Once this unhappy tone was revealed, everyone knew what was happening.

I didn't dare to force it any further, so I could only go back reluctantly.

…

Old Wang’s house at the east end of the village.

It was Jiang's former husband's family and Wang Laowu's parents' home.

Old Wang's family has many people. Old Wang and his wife, Mrs. Wang Liu, have four sons, two daughters, daughters-in-law, and more than a dozen grandchildren. There are more than twenty people in the family in total.