Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Jinjiang exclusive, plagiarism will be investigated (catch...
"I'm so happy. Finally, I don't have to face my unreasonable mother-in-law all the time."
Zhang Mengyao looked at the worry in her brother's eyes and couldn't help laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
Zhang Mengzhi looked at her sister in confusion.
"I am very happy."
Zhang Mengyao held her brother's hand. This person was not her biological brother but her blood cousin. They were blood relatives.
"Sister, come back whenever you're happy. Now we're close to home. It only takes less than ten minutes to get there."
Zhang Mengzhi never thought that his sisters would no longer be members of the Zhang family after they got married. He always tried his best to provide support for his sisters and let them know that even after they got married, home was still their home.
When he makes money in the future, he will build a big house and give his sister and younger sister a room of their own at home, decorating it according to their preferences. In this way, he wants to tell them and the world that even if his sister gets married, it does not mean that they have no way out.
This is not her natal home. Home is home. It will not cease to be home just because she gets married. If they are unhappy after getting married, they can leave and go home at any time. There is a place for them to live in the house. They and their parents will never drive them out.
Before Zhang Mengzhi traveled through time, she remembered watching a video in which a girl said that she had no home after getting married. Neither her parents' home nor her husband's home had a place for her.
When she quarreled with her husband, he told her to get out of his house. When she returned to her old home with injuries, her parents asked her what she was doing back home. Her room was also full of clutter. Her mother even said that she would renovate her room and make it a children's room after her sister-in-law gave birth.
At that moment, Zhang Mengzhi could feel her despair through the screen. There was no place for her in such a big world.
"good."
Zhang Mengyao did not refuse her brother's kindness and agreed.
During the meal, her brother and sister tried their best to pick up her favorite dishes. Seeing that most of the dishes on the table were her favorites, Zhang Mengyao felt that she was really the happiest woman in the world.
After getting married, she was treated the same as before she got married, which made her happier than any sweet words.
"One to nine, who wants it?" After dinner, the three siblings sat together to play cards, while Xia Dayong took the two children to chat with his parents-in-law and the eldest mother-in-law.
Occasionally they would watch the three siblings playing Landlord.
This was passed on from somewhere else. The gameplay is quite interesting. The three siblings had a lot of fun playing it.
"Pass."
Zhang Mengzhi folded his cards.
"Me too."
Zhang Mengyu shook his head.
"A pair of queens, and I have one card left."
Zhang Mengyao said to her younger brothers and sisters with a smile.
"Pass."
Zhang Mengzhi looked at her and continued.
"Neither do I."
Zhang Mengyu looked at the cards in his hand and sighed.
"A ten. I win."
Zhang Mengyao cheered.
"Sister is so lucky. I don't even have a pair in my hand."
Zhang Mengyu threw her cards down and let everyone see her cards, which were terrible.
"Brother, why don't you play the cards in your hand? I don't believe you don't have a pair."
Zhang Mengyu looked at the cards on the table and found a bright spot.
"Look for yourself."
Zhang Mengzhi threw the cards in his hand to her.
"Hey, you obviously have a pair of kings in your hands, why don't you want them?"
When Zhang Mengyu called out, she felt strange because the big and small kings had not appeared. She thought they had been separated, but her sister did not produce the king in the end, and she did not have it in her hand.
Then they can only be in Zhang Mengzhi's hands.
"Xiao Yu, have you forgotten? Your brother and I are on the same side! You are the landlord!"
Zhang Mengyao reached out and poked her sister's forehead. Has this girl gone stupid from playing cards?
"...I forgot. I thought my brother and I were on the same side."
Zhang Mengyu widened his eyes with an expression of disbelief.
"Hahaha……"
The whole family laughed.
“Chuckle, chuckle.”
The two children also laughed. Although they didn’t know what the adults were laughing at, they knew that their mother won the card game and their aunt lost.
"Well, you two little brats actually made fun of your aunt, wait and see how I punish you."
Zhang Mengyu jumped up to grab his two nephews.
"Wow, Auntie is here, run!"
The children were running around the house.
"Don't look, or I'll take care of you."
Zhang Mengyu deliberately acted like a ferocious monster and was going to catch his nephews.
"ah."
The children were so frightened that they ran around the house screaming.
"Be careful, don't fall or get hurt."
The grandmother shouted worriedly.
"I know, mom."
"I know, grandma."
"Grandma, help me!"
Xiaoshuang ran towards Zhang's mother and hid behind her.
"Even if you call your grandma, she can't save you. Just wait and see how your aunt catches you."
Zhang Mengyu pounced on her niece.
"ah……"
The little girl cried out loudly.
"Hahaha."
The elders nearby didn't care and just watched the children make a fuss.
The New Year's Eve was already lively, with firecrackers ringing out from time to time outside, so even if they shouted loudly in the house, no one would come to complain about the Zhang family being noisy.
Zhang Mengyao stayed at home for the whole day. She didn't have to do anything that day. Someone took care of the children and cooked the meals. She just had to eat and play.
"very nice."
Zhang Mengyao was led by her mother into her and her father's room.
"Mom, I'm happy to be your dad's daughter."
"Silly child, what's so happy about this?"
Mother Zhang glanced at her eldest daughter and took out a cloth bag from the secret drawer of the closet.
"Mom, why did you call me in here?"
Zhang Mengyao was originally sitting on the edge of the bed and moved over curiously.
"This is what your biological mother, my sister-in-law, left for you."
Mother Zhang opened the cloth bag, revealing the gold bracelet inside.
"How could my mother have such a good thing? I remember my grandmother said that when she married into the Zeng family, she had nothing but a set of old clothes. Even the betrothal money given by the Zeng family was embezzled by my so-called maternal grandparents."
Zhang Mengyao pursed her lips and said.
"This was given to her by my mother after she married into the Zeng family."
Mother Zhang explained with a smile that she didn't say anything about her sister-in-law marrying into the Zeng family with nothing. It was all in the past and there was no point in talking about it anymore.
Since my sister-in-law died, that family has lost contact with the Zeng family. The Zeng family has never looked for them, and Zhang Mengyao has never asked about them. As a sister-in-law, Zhang's mother naturally would not ask about my sister-in-law's family.
"That still belongs to the Zeng family." Zhang Mengyao looked bored.
"Since my mother gave it to your mother, it is your mother's thing. After she and my brother left, your grandmother handed it to me and asked me to keep it for you and give it to you when you grow up. When you married Dayong, I wanted to give it to you. But you lived in the Xia family, and the old woman was not a good person. I was afraid that she would steal your bracelet, so I didn't dare to give it to you."
Mother Zhang explained why she gave the bracelet to her eldest daughter now.
"Mom, you did the right thing. If you had given it to me at that time, who knows who would have the bracelet now!"
I can't take it out, so I have to keep it at home. The Xia family is not a safe place, and the bracelet might be lost at any time.
"So, I really didn't dare to give it to you at that time! This is the only jewelry left by my sister-in-law. I will not feel at ease until I hand it over to you."
From the first time she saw the relative, she knew she was not a good person, so Zhang's mother had to consider her daughter. Therefore, she never told her son about the bracelet, and even her son didn't know about it.
"You didn't even take the dowry I gave you. Take it back today!"
Mother Zhang took out a box and handed it to her daughter along with the bracelet.
"Thank you, Mom. I'm sorry for worrying you."
The dowry was taken away the day before, and on the third day when she returned to her parents' home, Zhang Mengyao brought it back to her mother for safekeeping. After she moved, she took her salary back home, and only the money at the bottom of the box remained with her mother, and today she was finally going to take it away with her.
"You are my daughter, why are you thanking me? I am thinking about this for you, just don't blame me for meddling in your affairs."
Mother Zhang tucked her daughter's loose hair behind her ears and looked at her face, which looked more mature than a few years ago. How could she have matured if she hadn't suffered after marriage?
"Don't blame me, don't blame me. I know you are doing this for my own good. You helped Dayong find a job because of me. I owe you a lot of favors for this."
Zhang Mengyao kept all these things in mind. Compared to her niece, her parents had never been so worried about their own children.
"If I don't treat you well, I won't be able to face your biological parents, that is, my brother and sister-in-law, in a hundred years."
Mother Zhang explained the reason very frankly. There was the mother-daughter relationship, but there was also the reason of her brother and sister-in-law.
"Pfft, they'll just say you've spoiled me too much, they won't blame you!"
Zhang Mengyao couldn't help laughing out loud.
"You're talking nonsense again. I never spoiled you."
Mother Zhang rolled her eyes at her eldest daughter.
"Put your things away and let's go out!"
"good."
Zhang Mengyao opened the box, put the bracelet in, then closed and locked it.
"Let's go!"
Mother Zhang took the lead to leave, and Zhang Mengyao walked out with her holding the box.
The people who were chatting outside glanced at them and continued chatting. No one was interested in the box in Zhang Mengyao's hand, only Xia Dayong took a closer look.
"My brother's cooking is delicious. Let's ask him to make boiled cabbage for us. My brother said this dish is an official dish. Most people can't even eat it if they want to!"
Zhang Mengyu shook her brother's arm, wanting him to make the dish.
"Not now. It will take a few years before we can eat this dish."
Zhang Mengzhi rejected her sister's request.
"Why?"
Zhang Mengyu was puzzled. Usually, she just had to tell her brother what she wanted to eat, and her brother had never refused any of her requests. But today he directly refused, which made her really confused.
"Because this dish requires a lot of ingredients, and I can't get them together right now."
Zhang Mengzhi also beat around the bush and said it directly. In fact, if he was willing to spend a lot of money, he could find it, but he didn't think it was necessary. In a few years, when everyone's living conditions are better, those ingredients will be easier to get.
For example, the ham in the soup is a specialty from other places. You can't buy it in their city, so you have to go to the place of origin to buy it. And scallops are only available in coastal cities.
Therefore, it is not difficult to make an authentic boiled cabbage dish. What is rare is that he has to gather all the ingredients now.
"All right!"
Zhang Mengyu also knew her brother's temper. If it wasn't really troublesome, he wouldn't refuse her.
"good."
Zhang Mengzhi touched his sister's hair. He loved his sister very much. If conditions were not limiting, he would not have refused his sister's rare request.
"When I have the chance in the future, I will definitely cook it for you."
Zhang Mengzhi promised her.
"Then I'll wait."
After Zhang Mengyu pestered her brother, she went to pester her sister.
As the youngest in the family, she has always been loved by her brothers and sisters, so she has a lively personality. However, she is not willful and can be regarded as the best-tempered child in the Zhang family.
"Uncle, my sister and I want to eat apples."
Xiaoyu came over with two bright red apples. They were the New Year gifts Zhang Deshuang sent back from the capital to the Zhang family. Apples were not grown here, and if they wanted to eat apples, they had to go to the north, where they were more delicious.
"Okay, uncle will peel it for you."
Zhang Mengzhi took out a fruit knife, which was placed in the drawer because his two nephews came over.
He peeled the apple very quickly, and his slender fingers combined with the red apple stunned many people for a moment.
"Mengzhi's hands are the most beautiful in our family. My hands are a little fat, and my sister's hands are long, but there is no flesh on them, which is not beautiful at all."
Zhang Mengyao looked at her fingers that were getting fatter and fatter. Her biggest flaw was her hands. Fortunately, her fingers were long enough so they were not ugly.
"My hands are all bones and the joints are very prominent, so they are not good-looking."
Zhang Mengyu became interested, and after Zhang Mengzhi finished peeling the skin, she pulled her brother and sister's hands to compare.
It's not obvious when there is no comparison, but when the three pairs of hands are put together, the difference is huge.
The three brothers' hands have their own characteristics, and none of them are ugly, but if you really want to say which is the most beautiful, only Zhang Mengzhi's hands are the most beautiful.
"Brother, you've worked hard, so why do your hands look so beautiful? They don't look like a boy's hands. They look more like a girl's than mine and my sister's."
Zhang Mengyu puffed up his face.
Her hand joints were thick, so her hands looked like a boy's and not like a girl's at all.
On the contrary, Zhang Mengzhi's hands are like girls' hands. Not only are they whiter than his sisters' hands, but his fingers are also rounder, without even a barb. What's even more annoying is that he doesn't usually take care of his hands! They are even more beautiful than their hands after applying vanishing cream. How can his sisters be convinced?
"Mom, why did you give all the best to my brother?"
The girl refused to accept the result and sought out the factory responsible to hold them accountable.
"You can't blame me for that. If you have to blame someone, you can only blame yourself for not growing up well when you were reincarnated. When you were born, I ate and slept better than when your brother was born, but you still don't look as good as your brother. Can you blame me for that?"
Mother Zhang doesn't want to be responsible. She is only responsible for shipping the products. The rest is up to them to make them themselves. If they don't look good, it's their own problem.
"Mom, you're going too far."
Zhang Mengyu didn't say she won, but her lips were curled up.
"Hahaha."
Everybody laughed.
"puff."
In the end, Zhang Mengyu laughed herself and held her brother and sister's hands tightly.
Looking at the three siblings loving each other, the elders' eyes were filled with satisfaction.
What the older generation wants to see most is their children being filial and loving, so they like the harmonious appearance of three siblings.
The New Year holidays always pass faster than ordinary days. The holiday is over in the blink of an eye. People go to school and work. Zhang's shop is also open.
There was no big celebration, just a string of firecrackers set off outside the store to mark the opening.
The new store was doing particularly well when it opened. People who used to buy spicy hot pot lined up in the store and then sat down in the store to eat after buying.
Not only is the place spacious, but most importantly, you don't have to get wet outside in the rain. Even if it rains, the Zhang family will open the store.
In addition to malatang, there is also fast food at noon, and braised dishes outside the store. With more dishes to choose from, the Zhang family makes more money.
Mother Zhang and the eldest mother-in-law no longer had to go to the market to buy vegetables. They picked a few honest vegetable vendors and asked them to deliver the vegetables to their store every morning. Although the price of the vegetables was cheaper than going to the market, the Zhang family wanted much more, so they were willing to deliver the vegetables to their door.
The same goes for meat, all of which are from suppliers carefully selected by Zhang Mengzhi. Unlike pork, chickens and ducks are slaughtered and sent to the store.
Of course the price is more expensive than buying live chickens, after all, they are not responsible for killing them!
Although the price is a bit higher, Zhang's mother and her family can save a lot of trouble. They only need to wash and cut the vegetables before Zhang Mengzhi comes.
Zhang Mengzhi would come over to fry the fast food in advance and keep it warm on the stove when he had no classes. If he had classes all morning, he would only come over to fry it at noon.
Therefore, the menu is different every day. If Zhang Mengzhi doesn’t have time in the morning, the dishes she cooks at noon will be simpler.
Regular customers all know that the fast food at Zhang's fast food restaurant is made by the boss's son. Compared with the taste of big restaurants, it is not inferior at all! Therefore, they would rather wait a little longer at noon and come to Zhang's for lunch.
In order to make it easier for Zhang Mengzhi to go back and forth from school to the fast food restaurant, the Zhang family bought another bicycle. Zhang's father even decided to exchange the new bicycle with the one originally given to Xia Dayong.
Since it is a dowry for my daughter, it must be new. At first, it was said to be borrowed, but now it is the real dowry.
Zhang Mengyao didn't expect that Zhang's father would do this, and she was so touched.
Even if she used the old bicycle as her dowry, she didn't feel that Zhang's father had treated her unfairly.
She has received a lot from her parents. If it were the thinking of most people nowadays, even if they love their daughters, they would not give so much money and things. Because Zhang's father and mother still have a son, most of the family property should belong to the son.
Look at the dowry that the Zhang family gave to their daughter. In addition to the 300 yuan in the bottom of the box, there was also a bicycle, a sewing machine and a full set of furniture, which together were worth several hundred yuan.
Adding the money for buying the house, the total value of the dowry that the Zhang family gave to Zhang Mengyao was over a thousand.
Many people who are familiar with the Zhang family say that the Zhang family treats their adopted daughter better than many people treat their biological daughters. Even Zhang Mengyao herself thinks so, let alone others.
If Zhang Mengyao knew that Zhang's mother sold gold bars for her dowry, she would probably be even more touched!
However, Zhang's mother and father would not tell their daughter these things, and even Zhang Mengzhi would not tell the truth to her sister.
"Mom, give me the onion."
Zhang Mengzhi held the pot in his hand and reached out for the chopped onions.
"Give."
Mother Zhang gave the chopped onions to her son, and a dish of twice-cooked pork was ready.
Zhang Mengzhi poured the twice-cooked pork into a basin, then washed the pot under the tap and started cooking the next dish.
In addition to twice-cooked pork, there are also fish-flavored pork shreds and black fungus pork slices. Vegetarian dishes include stir-fried potato shreds, hot and sour cabbage, stir-fried lettuce, mapo tofu, scrambled eggs with chives, etc., all of which are quick-cooking dishes.
There was no way, he had classes all morning today, and the last class ended at almost twelve o'clock.
"Big wife, it's OK."
Zhang Mengzhi poured the last dish into the basin and shouted.
"The fast food is ready. If you want fast food, please come and get it."
Zhou Guilan stood in front of the dining table and spoke to the waiting guests.
"I."
"Me too."
"And me."
A dozen guests lined up to get their meals, and then chose the dishes they wanted to eat. Because the prices of meat and vegetables were different, more people ordered vegetarian dishes.
Therefore, the amount of meat dishes is more than half less than that of vegetarian dishes, but they are still sold out every day. After all, there are always people who love to eat delicious food in every era.
They are also willing to spend money on meals. Zhang Mengzhi's cooking skills are well-known in the neighborhood. Many people come to Zhang's fast food restaurant to eat every day, and many of them come with their families.
"How's it, wife? I said it was delicious!"
If the elders at home knew that a newlywed husband and his wife were eating fast food, they would definitely scold them for wasting money. But for a young couple, what's wrong with spending a little money on a delicious lunch?
“Mmm, delicious.”
A bite of the sweet and soft braised pork was so delicious that it touched her heart.
"Will we come tomorrow?"
We haven't even finished eating today, and my newlywed wife is already thinking about the next meal.
"Come."
The newlywed husband nodded without hesitation. He basically spent all his salary on fast food restaurants, but he thought it was worth it.
"Very good."
As his wife, she naturally has the same hobbies as him. They both love to eat, and they became friends because of eating.
So every day after that, they were seen coming to Zhang's fast food restaurant to eat, rain or shine.
"Will your family agree to your eating like this?"
Mother Zhang was sitting in the store peeling garlic. Today was the weekend, and the young couple who usually came at noon came here before eleven o'clock.
"We earn our own wages, so we can eat whatever we want. My mother has no say in that."
The wife in the young couple has a puffy cheek. She has loved eating since she was a child, and her face looks a little round because of her love of eating. In later generations, she might look fat, but in this era, everyone only thinks that she is blessed.
"Yes, my mother doesn't care about me either."
The young husband was also very proud. He was the youngest in the family and had never suffered from hardship since childhood. His parents also favored him. However, apart from his obsession with food, he had a good temper. Therefore, his brothers were not dissatisfied with his parents' excessive favoritism towards him.
Besides, he uses his own salary to eat, and as an elder brother, you can’t control how your younger brother spends his money!
"You are still young, save some money and don't spend it all."
As a person who has experienced this, Zhang's mother still gave them some advice. Don't think you are free now, what will you do when you have children and have no money?
"Thank you, Auntie. We know about this. But don't worry, we still have our parents. My wife is an only child, and all my parents' money belongs to her. My parents also favor me and often give me money."
The young husband didn’t think there was anything wrong with this as he had been living this way since he was a child.
“…”
When Mrs. Zhang heard what he said, she didn't know how to respond.
It was obvious that the young couple had never suffered from hardship since childhood and took their parents' favoritism for granted. As a person from an outsider's family, she had already crossed the line by giving a few words of advice, and it would be inappropriate to give more advice.
So Zhang's mother didn't say anything else, but just sighed for the young couple. It's good to have parents to help them now, but what will they do when their parents get older?
Because she had something on her mind, Mother Zhang's face was filled with worry until the evening.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?"
While cooking dinner, Zhang Mengzhi asked his mother who was helping him light the fire.
Unless he is too busy, he makes all the meals at home, including the fast food and braised food from the fast food restaurant. Only the spicy hot pot is prepared by Zhang's mother. After his teaching, she can cook it independently, and the taste is not worse than Zhang Mengzhi's. However, when Zhang's mother was making the fire tonight, she was distracted frequently, making it difficult for Zhang Mengzhi not to notice.
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