Chapter 358 Please Treat Me Like a Human Being
The aroma of braised pork wafted from the Gu family's courtyard, making several people from the Yu family next door salivate with envy.
"Sister-in-law, what are we having for lunch?" Yu Zhuang swallowed his saliva and walked into the kitchen.
The neighbors are making braised pork, so they should have meat to eat at noon.
Qian Lan cut potatoes into shreds and said, "Stir-fry some green onions and tofu, spicy and sour potato shreds, and stir-fried cabbage."
Yu Zhuang frowned, "Why is there no meat?"
Qian Lan paused while chopping vegetables. "Didn't we just eat meat yesterday?"
"Don't you city people eat meat every day?"
"Who said that? Your brother, I, and two nephews are at home, and we usually buy meat once a week. Besides, we used all the meat coupons for this month to buy meat before the New Year and took them back home to eat. We don't have any more meat coupons to buy meat."
She also brought back all the sausages and bacon she had smoked before the New Year to eat in her hometown.
There were guests at home every day. In order to save face, Yu Qiang's father would ask them to cook two or three pieces of meat every time, and they would be eaten up by the New Year.
Yu Zhuang didn't believe it. His mother said that during the more than one month that he was recuperating here, they ate meat every day.
"Sister-in-law, you're not going to pretend to be poor and not eat meat just because we're here, are you?"
Qian Lan laughed out of anger and called Yu Qiang over.
"What's wrong?" Yu Qiang walked into the kitchen with a frown.
"Have the meat coupons at home been used up?" Qian Lan looked at him and asked.
Yu Qiang nodded, not understanding why. "Didn't we buy meat and take it back home to eat?"
"Did you hear that?" Qian Lan looked at Yu Zhuang, who touched his nose awkwardly.
"What's wrong? Do you want to eat meat again?" Yu Qiang asked his brother.
Yu Zhuang nodded, "I'm a little greedy after smelling the braised pork next door."
Yu Qiang said, "We have no meat coupons left at home. We'll just have to bear it for the next two days. When my sister-in-law's noodle shop opens in a couple of days, we'll go there and have beef noodles."
Qian Lan was so angry that her liver hurt. He said it so lightly, with just a few words, and asked them to go to the noodle shop to eat beef noodles.
Don’t you need to pay for the noodles?
"Okay." Yu Zhuang smacked his lips and turned to leave the kitchen.
Seeing Qian Lan cooking alone in the kitchen while everyone else was sitting and playing in the main room, Yu Qiang said with some guilt, "Alan, there are so many people at home. You must have worked so hard cooking."
Qian Lan sneered, "I'll only be busy for the next two days. After the fifteenth, I have to go to work and won't have time to cook this meal."
"Who do you think will cook the meal at home? Your mother, your sister-in-law, or my sister-in-law?" Qian Lan looked at Yu Qiang and asked.
Thinking of this problem, Yu Qiang frowned. His mother disliked his brother-in-law and his wife, and she must be unwilling to cook for them.
His sister-in-law had to take care of the children, and Qian Lan's sister-in-law was a new bride. She probably hadn't cooked many meals at her in-laws' house. She and Qian Daxin were two people, so if she was asked to cook for so many people, she would probably not be happy.
He thought for a moment and said, "Whether you work the morning shift or the evening shift, you can always cook a meal at home. When you're at home, you cook. When you go to work, you can let them eat at the noodle shop."
Qian Lan even doubted whether Yu Qiang treated her as a human being. Not only did she have to go to work that day, but she also had to cook for more than ten people when she got home. These people who did not do anything at home were just waiting at home for ready-made food. Is this reasonable?
"Yu Qiang, have you ever thought about this? I have to go to work every day. I'm busy and tired at work. When I get home from get off work, I have to cook for more than ten people. And your mother and the others are playing at home, not having to do anything. And they still want me, a working person, to come home and cook for them?"
"Do you think it's easy to cook for more than ten people?"
"I've always known that you're not a man who would feel sorry for others, but I beg you, please, can you treat me like a human being?"
Yu Qiang frowned and complained, "If you hadn't agreed to bring your brother and sister-in-law here to look for work, my mom and my brother and sister would have come, and we wouldn't have been so troubled by the cooking problem. If you let my mom cook three meals a day, she would definitely be happy."
"My mom would start an argument with your brother over going to the bathroom this morning. How could she possibly be willing to cook for your brother and his wife?"
"You know my mother's temper, don't you?"
Yu Qiang felt that the reason for all these troublesome problems now was because Qian Lan agreed to let her brother and sister-in-law come up with her.
Qian Lan put down the knife and said, "Do I want them to come? Didn't you hear what my mother said?"
"As their biological daughter, how could I say no? I was just waiting for you to reject my parents, but you never said a word. I thought you had no objection, so I nodded." Qian Lan put the blame on Yu Qiang.
Yu Qiang: “…”
"If you have any objections, go tell my brother and sister-in-law now that you don't want them to come and you can't help them find jobs, so let them go back. I have no objection anyway." Qian Lan said, pointing to the kitchen door.
If this person was really driven away, her brother and parents would not blame her.
Is this something he can say? If he does, he won’t be able to face his father-in-law and mother-in-law in the future.
"Forget it." Yu Qiang waved his hands irritably, "Why don't we just let them all go to the noodle shop to eat."
"Where's the money?"
"What?"
"Is it free to eat noodles at a noodle shop?" Qian Lan sneered. "With your brother's appetite, one bowl of noodles is enough? He even had four bowls of porridge this morning."
"The cheapest shredded pork noodles cost 20 cents a bowl. How much would five people eat in a day? Do the math yourself."
One meal costs one dollar, and two meals cost two dollars.
Seeing Yu Qiang remained silent, Qian Lan asked, "You're not thinking of letting them eat for free at the noodle shop, are you?"
"When I was on the morning shift, Li Xin and Jianshe went to the noodle shop to eat noodles at noon. That's because they also went to help out. Plus, they don't eat much, so eating one meal a day doesn't matter to them. My brother and your mother are different from Li Xin and Jianshe."
Yu Qiang touched his nose and denied it: "I didn't mean to let them eat for free."
"That's good." Qian Lan said, "Your salary is only a little over twenty yuan more. It's unbearable for so many people to eat in the cafeteria and restaurants every day. Even if they eat at home, the food they need to buy a month will be around 200 kilograms. You should do the math yourself."
Yu Qiang had never calculated this account at all. Now, after hearing what Qian Lan said, he did the math in his mind and was immediately shocked.
This is just for buying food, which costs more than 30 yuan a month, and you also have to buy vegetables and meat.
We have to find them jobs quickly. If we find Xiaozhuang a formal job, he can move his household registration to the city and have a ration of food every month.
He received his salary and could also use the money to buy food for his family of three.
The same goes for my brother-in-law and his wife. Now that they have found jobs and are earning salaries, Qian Lan and I no longer have to provide for their lives.
Find jobs, find jobs, we have to find them jobs quickly.
"Why is there no meat?" Mao Xiaoying pouted and complained softly while eating shredded cabbage, tofu and potatoes.
Bao Pandi couldn't stand her expression and said unhappily, "You eat meat every day at home?"
Mao Xiaoying pouted even deeper. "I don't eat meat every day at home, but how can it be the same at my sister's? My brother-in-law is an officer, and my sister co-founded a noodle shop to make money. Shouldn't they eat meat every day?"
Before she married Qian Daxin, the matchmaker told her that Qian Daxin had a brother-in-law who was an officer and lived in the city and ate meat every day.
If it weren't for the fact that Qian Daxin has a brother-in-law who is an officer and his sister who lives in the city and can help Qian Daxin, she would not have married him.
"What do you mean your sister? It's your aunt." Bao Pandid corrected.
Mao Xiaoying: "Aunt is also a sister."
"Grandma, aunt-in-law, could you please stop talking? Your saliva is spitting into the food." Yu Lixin looked disgusted.
"How can you talk like that!" Yu Qiang scolded with a stern face.
Yu Lixin pouted his lips, finished the rice in his bowl in a few bites, and put down his bowl and chopsticks, "I'm full."
After saying that, he ran out.
Qian Lan looked at her youngest son's back and sighed in her heart.
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