Chapter 20: Ant Egg Drop Soup is Here
Xu Shaojun lowered his head, with obvious dark bags under his eyes. He yawned, his head felt dizzy, and he could hardly open his eyes.
The aroma of eggs filled his nose, and his stomach was empty, so he leisurely grabbed the bowl.
Xu Shaojun had long been accustomed to Xu Lili's jealous and resentful eyes and chose to ignore them.
He picked up the bowl, took a sip, smacked his lips, and suddenly frowned.
"Mom, did you put in the oil?"
The egg soup in the bowl was rich. He couldn't see it clearly before, but now he looked carefully and saw that there were black spots the size of sesame seeds on it. But he clearly remembered that he used lard at home. When did he buy sesame oil?
"Oil?" Zhou Ping was puzzled and leaned closer to look into the bowl. "I didn't put any oil in it."
Lard was precious, so she didn't add any at all. She only dared to make a bowl of egg drop soup with boiling water.
"So what is this...?"
Xu Shaojun swallowed the egg drop soup in his throat, even savoring it for a moment. He rubbed his eyes, held the bowl up to the light, and took a closer look—
The "black sesame seeds" on the surface of the egg drop soup were actually ants of various sizes! Their corpses floated on the surface of the soup. Although they were not densely packed, there were still quite a few of them.
"vomit--"
Xu Shaojun put down the bowl, his stomach churning as if it were a raging fire. He ran outside frantically, supported himself on the edge of the well with one hand, and desperately scratched his throat towards the puddle.
So disgusting!
He actually drank two big mouthfuls of egg drop ant soup!
Xu Shaojun couldn't hold back his tears.
Xu Lili also saw it, and resisted the urge to vomit. She said with disgust, "Mom, how could you give my second brother ant soup?!"
Fortunately, she didn't drink it, and her second brother enjoyed it all.
Zhou Ping picked up the bowl, looked at it again and again with her presbyopic eyes, and said firmly, "Impossible, this is egg drop soup! Don't talk nonsense."
"Mom, I'm so mean to you!" Xu Lili was so disappointed that she held her forehead in her hand, speechless. "I told you not to do it, your eyes are not good, just rest at home, but you insisted on doing this."
Zhou Ping was angry.
"Your old man died early, and I, your mother, have been serving you and your family since before dawn. Even if I don't have any credit, I have worked hard, right?! You two ungrateful bastards, not only did you not eat what I cooked, but you also wasted this bowl of delicious food!"
Xu Lili poked her chopsticks at the murky cabbage and tofu stew and muttered, "Didn't Zhong Qiao go through the same thing? She used to be a famous lady in Hong Kong, and the food she cooked was cleaner and more delicious than Mom's."
When Zhou Ping mentioned Zhong Qiao, she became furious.
However, Xu Lili, who had been fed several meals of cabbage and tofu stew during this period, actually missed Zhong Qiao's kindness.
Xu Lili fell into memories and still remembered the first time she met Zhong Qiao.
She has big eyes, curly hair, and smells fragrant. She is wearing a red plaid dress, two round and delicate pearls on her ears, and has a long neck, like an elegant white swan.
Standing in the muddy yard, it was so pure and white that it seemed out of tune with everything here.
After marrying her second brother, she and her mother never treated Zhong Qiao well, but it must be said that Zhong Qiao had a really good temper.
There are four people in their family. She wants to drink porridge in the morning, the eldest brother wants to drink the newly brewed wine from East Street, the second brother wants to eat egg drop soup, and the mother wants to eat pickled radish. Zhong Qiao meets all their needs without any regrets.
Now that Zhong Qiao is gone, the house is in a mess under the care of my mother.
There were always undried chicken droppings on the dining table, traces of sticky rice porridge, and the same old hodgepodge of vegetables and tofu. From time to time, they had to eat leftovers from the previous few days, which made her have diarrhea several times.
Now, I just fed my second brother a bowl of ant egg drop soup!
Seeing that no one paid attention to her, Zhou Ping became more and more angry. She wanted to prove that the egg drop soup she made contained only pure maternal love and no additives.
She gritted her teeth, grabbed the bowl on the table, and gulped down a few big mouthfuls.
Xu Lili was stunned: "Mom...you——"
Zhou Ping slammed the bowl on the table. "No ants! Where did the ants come from? I drank it all myself! It's clean!"
"vomit--"
This time, Xu Lili couldn't help but rush out and found a corner to vomit!
Xu Shaojun vomited everything out of his already empty stomach, and in the end, only sour and sour gastric juice was left.
He wiped the corner of his mouth with trembling hands and propped up half of his body.
Until a figure stood in front of him, blocking the light.
Xu Shaojun was stunned for a moment and slowly raised his head.
It’s Zhong Qiao.
He was in a trance for a moment.
But, it doesn’t seem like it.
Because Zhong Qiao was always busy taking care of all the things at home and had no time to take care of herself, her skin was rough and dull, and her temper was so good that even if he slapped her a few times, she would only look at him timidly with an incomprehensible look.
It seemed like pain, confusion, doubt, heartbreak, and something else, but he couldn't remember clearly.
And now.
After not seeing each other for a month, Zhong Qiao has become more beautiful and her skin has become fairer. She is wrapped in a bright yellow coat, but she does not look bloated. Instead, she looks particularly bright and eye-catching in the snow.
Xu Shaojun gasped for breath rapidly. It was unclear whether he was nauseated by the bowl of ant egg drop soup or because of the freezing weather, but his voice was shaking.
"Zhong Qiao." His tone was full of disbelief, "You're back."
A smile broke out on Xu Shaojun's face.
He knew that Zhong Qiao was soft-hearted. Her son was still in his hands. She couldn't possibly abandon them and their son to live a good life!
Zhong Qiao looked at him coldly.
After not seeing him for a month, Xu Shaojun was no longer as arrogant as he was in the hospital. Instead, he had an unshaven beard, messy hair, sunken eye sockets, and dark circles under his eyes, as if a female ghost had sucked all his energy away.
"Xu Shaojun, I'm here to sign the divorce decree." Zhong Qiao said truthfully.
As soon as these words came out, the upward curve of Xu Shaojun's mouth froze.
His Adam's apple rolled and he was about to say something when he saw the Zhong family members standing behind Zhong Qiao, as well as a strange woman who was dressed formally with a book tucked under her arm.
Xu Shaojun smiled bitterly, he had guessed it.
The man in this outfit clearly belongs to a court staff member who witnessed his divorce from Zhong Qiao.
"Zhong Qiao."
Xu Shaojun stood up and said to Zhong Qiao with a look of deep hatred, "I was wrong about you. You are a cold-blooded and heartless woman who abandoned your husband and children! I really threw my sincerity to the dogs!"
The Zhong family had long been accustomed to Xu Shaojun's shamelessness. Now, no matter what he said, they just wanted to get a divorce.
Zhong Qiao chuckled: "You are right, sign it quickly."
However, it was her reaction of "a dead pig not afraid of boiling water" that made Xu Shaojun feel unprecedented humiliation.
"good!"
Xu Shaojun was so angry that he almost laughed, "Very good, Zhong Qiao, you are so eager to divorce me, are you cheating on me with another man?"
Zhong Qiao nodded randomly: "Yeah, yeah, that's all right, you're all right."
"You--" Xu Shaojun tried to utter a word, but was completely blocked by Zhong Qiao's perfunctory attitude.
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