who?
Fang Yan discovered that the original owner's memories were sometimes rather vague. Some people and events were blurry in her memory, the kind that she couldn't recall at all.
For example, Fang Baishuang just now;
For example, was there anything fishy about the original owner's marriage to Zhang Jizhou?
For example, the sound that was just coming from outside sounded familiar to her, but she just couldn't remember it.
She quickly went outside, and there stood a dark-skinned, thin man.
"Yan Yan, open the door, Mom asked me to come and see you."
Hearing this was like a key unlocking the original owner's memories, making Fang Yan suddenly remember. She quickly went to open the door, "Brother!"
That's right, it was Fang Jie, the original owner's older brother, who came.
Fang Jie was carrying two bunches of fresh greens. After entering the house, he handed the greens to Fang Yan, saying, "These were grown by Mom."
“Go back and tell your mother not to bring anything over again next time, so that Grandma won’t find out and make things difficult for her and you.”
After her memories returned, Fang Yan recalled that the original owner's father had passed away not long after she was born.
It was Zhu Xiuhua, the mother, who raised the original owner and Fang Jie all by herself.
Grandma Fang believed that the original owner's birth had caused the death of her son, so she was particularly harsh on Zhu Xiuhua and her two children.
Old Mrs. Fang, who was already biased towards her eldest son's family, treated the widowed mother and her orphans from her second son's family even more like livestock after her second son died.
How harsh was Old Mrs. Fang on her second wife?
Even if Zhu Xiuhua gave the original owner a blade of grass, Old Lady Fang would not be happy, because that blade of grass grew in Fang's field.
Fang Yan is still dealing with her own problems and can't take care of her family for the time being, nor does she want to cause trouble for her mother and brother.
"It's alright, Grandma doesn't know."
Fang Jie said nonchalantly, his eyes fixed on Fang Yan ever since he entered the room. As he stared, his eyes reddened, and he suddenly turned around and strode out aggressively.
Fang Yan was a little confused by his action, so she quickly chased after him and grabbed him, "Brother, brother, where are you going?"
"The Zhang family has gone too far! Even if it means going to jail, I'm going to stand up for you today!" Fang Jie was truly furious.
His younger sister, who was perfectly healthy, became like this skeleton in less than three years after marrying into the Zhang family. It breaks his heart!
“Brother, it’s not worth getting ourselves into trouble for those people. Don’t worry, I didn’t lose anything either,” Fang Yan stopped Fang Jie and pulled him towards the main room. “Come in first, I have something to ask you.”
"What's wrong?" After calming down, Fang Jie realized that if he went to jail for hitting someone, his mother and sister would be even more vulnerable to being bullied. So he couldn't act impulsively and temporarily put aside his anger, walking towards the main room with Fang Yan.
"Didn't Zhang Jizhou and I get engaged and married after our blind date? Why is Sister Bai Shuang saying today that there's a problem with our blind date?"
Fang Yan was really curious about the "bomb" that Fang Baishuang had dropped. Just then, Fang Jie arrived, so she decided to ask him about it first.
As it turns out, Fang Jie happened to know a little bit about it. "The matchmaker initially wanted to arrange a marriage between Bai Shuang and Ji Zhou, but Bai Shuang said that she wasn't going to get married for the time being, so she discussed it with Grandma and arranged for you to go on a blind date."
It turns out that this is how it happened!
But why would Fang Baishuang do this?
If she had married Zhang Jizhou earlier, she wouldn't have had to become a cannon fodder mother. Wouldn't it have been better if she and Zhang Jizhou had become a couple and lived a happy and fulfilling life?
Fang Yan thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.
Considering it was getting late, she decided to stop thinking about it for now. "Brother, sit here for a while, I'll go cook dinner."
Fang Jie had just learned about the whole process of Fang Yan's family division, and since Fang Yan had received almost nothing in return, he was naturally embarrassed to stay for dinner.
However, being as taciturn as he was, he couldn't possibly win an argument with Fang Yan, and in the end, he agreed to stay for dinner.
Fang Jie was very diligent. Seeing that the yard was empty, he asked Fang Yan what she planned to do. Then, seeing a hoe that Fang Yan had borrowed at the entrance of the woodshed, he started turning over the soil under the blazing sun.
Knowing she couldn't persuade him otherwise, Fang Yan let him be.
Once inside the kitchen, she quickly went into the kitchen space and cooked a large pot of rice.
I took a pig's head from the meat I bought today, washed it, blanched it, and then pressure-cooked it in the kitchen for fifteen minutes.
We're using firewood to slow-cook the food right now, but there's not enough time. Luckily, we have a kitchen with all the necessary utensils and plenty of supplies, making it both convenient and safe to use.
When Fang Yan came out of the kitchen, she took a large piece of sea bass from the refrigerator, intending to make braised sea bass with pickled vegetables.
Cut the cleaned sea bass into chunks. Heat oil in a pan, spread the sea bass in the pan, and fry it briefly. Add ginger slices and a large spoonful of fermented soybean paste, then pour in an appropriate amount of water.
Simmer for about eight minutes, then open the lid, sprinkle with thinly sliced pickled vegetables, and let it simmer for another two minutes without covering the pot again. Add some red chili threads and celery for color.
A delicious and visually appealing dish of braised sea lettuce and pickled vegetables is ready to be served.
Fang Jie brought some fresh and tender greens, including a bunch of cabbage sprouts and a bunch of rapeseed sprouts. They could use one bunch to make soup, saving the trouble of stir-frying the greens separately.
Fang Yan took a bunch of cabbage seedlings, picked and washed them, and made a cabbage seedling soup with spring water and pork meatballs.
Once the soup was ready, the pig's head meat was also cooked.
Fang Yan quickly chopped a few mildly spicy chilies, a pig's ear, and some pig's head meat, and stir-fried a large plate of pig's head meat with chilies.
"Brother, dinner's ready." Fang Yan called out to Fang Jie, then turned around and woke up Xiao Yuzai, "Lazybones, get up and eat."
Little Fish, seemingly half-awake, paused for a moment in a daze, then, upon seeing Fang Yan, grinned happily and called out, "Mommy~"
The little baby looked so adorable that Fang Yan felt her heart melting. She picked him up from the bed and said, "Uncle's here. You have to call him Uncle later."
When she and Xiaoyuzai arrived at the kitchen, they saw Fang Jie staring blankly at the fish, meat, and soup on the table.
"Uncle~" Little Fish remembered his mother's words.
Although he couldn't remember what his uncle looked like, he was the only outsider there, and the little guy immediately concluded that this must be the uncle his mother had mentioned, so he politely greeted him.
"Hey," Fang Jie rummaged in his pocket for a while, finally pulled out a piece of candy, and handed it to Xiao Yuzai, "Here you go."
With his mother's permission, Xiaoyuzai reached out and took it, saying, "Thank you, Uncle."
Once the children started eating, Fang Jie finally had a chance to ask Fang Yan, "How come you have so much meat? How much did this cost? Isn't this kind of lifestyle a bit... excessive?"
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