"Look at my sister-in-law. She always gives Lian Bao the best food at home. She even wants to take out the food from our child's mouth. When has Lian Bao ever been hungry? How can she have the nerve to ask you for food?" After washing the dishes, Second Aunt Lian was furious when she heard Miao share what happened in the yard with her. How could she become a sister-in-law with such a person? "If my mother-in-law knew, she would definitely blame her!" It's so embarrassing!
Miao also said: "If I took more, I would give her one piece, but children are greedy. I took two pieces with me and gave them to Rong Jie'er. Should I get them from the previous house or let Rong Jie'er take them out? Neither is appropriate." Shen Qing bought this jujube paste cake specifically for Miao. Miao had red diarrhea, and her body was always weak and she often felt dizzy. The farmers did not understand medical theory, but they had heard that red dates were good for replenishing qi and blood. Shen Qing thought that it would be good for Miao to carry the jujube paste cake with her and eat a few bites from time to time, if it could slowly warm up her body.
Second Aunt Lian snorted twice: "If it hadn't been given to Sister Rong, I'm afraid I wouldn't have needed it as a sister-in-law. It has to be picked out of my child's mouth to be delicious."
Not to mention these two pieces of snacks: Shen Qing had previously sent two pounds of taro cakes, and there was a big fuss at home just over this bag of cakes!
According to Second Aunt Lian, Miao is a sister of the same clan, and can be considered as her own family. Before, Old Lady Lian did not allow them to interact with the Shen family, so she had been interacting with them secretly and used her dowry to subsidize Miao, which is why they have such a good relationship now. Now Qing Ge'er sent Caozi Cake to repay her, which is naturally a way to repay her aunt who is of the same clan.
She was willing to take out the tiaozi cake for her family to taste, because she was kind-hearted. However, Wang took advantage of Lian Bao's greed and wanted to take most of it back to her room. She was so angry that her face turned green: How could Wang be so bold?
I have never heard of any daughter-in-law taking more than half of the things sent by her parents' family to give to her sister-in-law in the next room!
Second Aunt Lian started arguing with Wang Shi at that time, but Old Lady Lian really felt sorry for her little grandson Lian Bao, so she took sides and asked Second Aunt Lian to give a small portion of the cake to Lian Bao: "Your children are all grown up, they are boys and girls, why do you still want to eat cakes? If you get out, you will be known as greedy, and it will be difficult to get married in the future. Lian Bao is just a child, and Ou Ge'er and Rong Jie, as the older brother and sister, should give in to his younger brother."
Second Aunt Lian was so angry that her face turned red, but Wang was like a big cock that had won a fight. She took the benefits but deliberately complained that it was not enough. Second Aunt Lian was still angry when she thought about it today: "I think it was my mother-in-law who took sides that day and made her feel proud. She thought I was easy to bully! If she dares to do it again, I will make a scene and not even give face to my mother-in-law!"
The sisters-in-law of the Lian family had a long history of grudges, which could be traced back to when the two of them got married. The Lian family was relatively wealthy in the village, with only two boys in the family. When the two boys were looking for marriages, the girls and boys in the family were also married, and they received a lot of betrothal gifts. With enough money, they did not have to marry girls like other families did, where the eldest son married a girl and the younger brother married a boy. Instead, both sons married girls.
Wang married the eldest son, and she originally considered herself the eldest son's daughter-in-law, which made her a little more noble. She was originally a competitive person, and she always wanted to suppress the younger sister-in-law, Aunt Lian. But after she got married, Wang's first child was a boy, and Aunt Lian got a boy at once, taking the title of the first boy of the grandchildren.
From then on, Wang felt that Second Aunt Lian overshadowed her and she always disliked Second Aunt Lian: "Later, I gave birth to Ou Ge'er and Rong Jie'er, but she finally gave birth to a boy as she wished for the second pregnancy, and two years ago she happily gave birth to Lian Bao. Just because of this, she felt that she had given birth to an extra boy who was taller than me, and she held the boy in front of me every day, showing off. It was as if what she gave birth to was not a child but a precious sword! Let me tell you, what kind of family is this? What's wrong with the eldest son and grandson? Does he have family land to inherit like those rich families?" Second Aunt Lian curled her lips and said, "I'm afraid she is squeezing you for things, and she was also implicated by me. After all, we are relatives."
Some people are like this. Do you think she really wanted that piece of snack because she was greedy? Maybe the snack was really delicious, but more importantly, she wanted to bully others and to show off her pride! Even if she threw the snack away afterwards, she could not let the second aunt's child eat it. Her child didn't have it!
Miao also sighed. She had been bullied by the old Shen family for many years, and was most sensitive to this kind of malice, and hated it the most: "Adults, just don't show off. Why are you bullying Sister Rong? It's just a child who provoked him."
"Why not? I ask Ou'er and Rong'er to stay away from her now. Whenever she meets her, she orders our children to serve her gold nuggets, which annoys me." Aunt Lian said, and took out a big bundle from under the table. When she opened it, there was a net made of hemp ropes as thick as two fingers: "Do you think this will work? Our children, big and small, stayed up all night with lights on to make the hemp ropes for you." Aunt Lian joked.
These hemp rope nets were made by Miao the day before yesterday, and she also asked a few other women and husbands who were on good terms with her to make them. Shen Qing was going to use them as traps to hunt wild boars.
Miao looked at it and said, "It should work. I don't know what to do. I'll listen to my Qing'er. The hemp rope you made is so strong, it must be used." Then she took out the money bag from her bosom and counted out twenty coins to give to Aunt Lian. "If Qing'er says there's something he wants to change, I'll come back to you. I came here today to exchange a few more eggs with you, as we're running out of eggs at home."
Miao didn't dare to say that it was actually gone.
Even Second Aunt was not polite to her - good sisters are like this. When Miao was in hard times, she was willing to secretly use her dowry to subsidize her without asking for anything in return. Now that Miao is rich, a good sister is willing to help her, why should she be polite? She put away the twenty coins and carefully hid them deep in the kang cabinet: this is their private room, and it is not known to the public.
He then led Miao to the kitchen to get eggs, and joked, "You eat the eggs so fast. My chickens are laying eggs so fast that we can't even supply them all.
Miao laughed and said, "My Qing'er eats a lot. He goes up the mountain to chop wood every day. It takes a lot of effort. He must have good nutrition. Before, he worked like an old ox in the Shen family, and he didn't even give my child good food. Now that the family finally has some money, the child can eat whatever he wants."
As mothers, Second Aunt Lian shared the same sentiment when it came to loving their children: "That's right. If you have good conditions, you have to feed your children well." She looked around and confirmed that Old Lady Lian and Wang were not around. She then complained to Miao in a low voice: "I'm a little envious of you now! You don't have a mother-in-law over your head, you can live your life as you wish, and you can eat whatever you want, right?"
What could Miao say? She could only comfort him, "That's true, but there are only two of us in our family, and we don't have much foundation. My brother lives far away, and I don't have anyone to help me with anything. Your mother-in-law isn't that difficult to deal with, so it's okay. Having a large family has its own advantages."
Second Aunt Lian snorted: "That's true. But my mother-in-law is a good person, but she can't stand that difficult person always poking her." It's also because the world values boys over girls and boys. Although Mrs. Lian is not as harsh to maids and boys as Mrs. Shen, when it comes to Lian Bao, she always makes Lian Ou and Lian Rong give in.
She opened the egg gourd and counted the eggs. She found that there were only ten eggs in the gourd. Second Aunt Lian took eight eggs and gave them to Miao: "I can only give you these. Lian Bao needs an egg every other day. If I don't leave some for him, his mother will make a fuss."
Miao nodded. Eight eggs were enough for two or three days, as long as Qingge didn't take them all away overnight. She would go to other people's houses to collect hemp ropes later. She would see who had some and exchange some.
These eggs were sold for one penny in the county town, but they were cheaper in the village, with small eggs being sold for three for one penny. Miao calculated the price according to the county town price and counted out four large coins and put them in Aunt Lian's hand.
Second Aunt Lian didn't dare to keep the money for herself, and she would hand it over to the public when Old Lady Lian came back.
"Do you have much food at home?" Thinking of her empty kitchen, Miao asked again.
"Why, your family still needs to exchange food? Didn't they exchange a lot before?" Even Second Aunt couldn't make the decision on such an important matter, but she knew roughly how much food there was at home: "Even if I exchange it for you, I'm afraid I can't exchange much, at most I can give you a few dozen kilograms. My mother-in-law is not the kind of person who lives by the clock, there must always be some extra food at home, so that we can have more food."
Their family had already exchanged 200 kilograms of new wheat for Miao, so Second Aunt Lian said, "Even if Qing'er can eat it, there's no need to store so much. If you keep it like that, the food will go stale, and old food won't be as fragrant as new food. Why don't you have enough to last until next spring and summer? Why don't you exchange it for new food after the winter wheat is harvested?"
"Isn't it Qingge'er who wants to catch wild boars? Qingge'er asked me to change some more to use as bait for wild boars." Miao said. This is the truth, Shen Qing did say so.
"Is that so?" Aunt Lian thought for a moment and said, "Then you can ask Yan Zi's family. Even if her family doesn't have it, her parents' family must have it."
Miao went around the village and brought back several bundles of hemp ropes and half a basket of eggs. Shen Qing had just woken up and was drinking dumpling soup from the pot in the kitchen: he was exhausted from carrying food up the mountain several times last night.
Miao asked him to come and look at the hemp rope: "Take a look at this net and see if it works. If not, I'll ask them to modify it." Then she said: "You took away too much of our grain. I was shocked when I entered the kitchen this morning. I just asked every household and no one has any surplus grain to exchange with us."
It would be fine if it was just after the autumn harvest. But when Shen Qing was able to go to that world, it was already two months after the autumn harvest. Those who really wanted to sell grain had already taken it to the county town to sell it. It was considered a bargain to be able to exchange some last time.
Shen Qing scraped the pot clean and put the last bit of the dumpling soup into his mouth before turning over the hemp rope: "Not bad. What's the use of this thing? It just needs to be strong." The aunts and uncles were all honest people and would not cut corners. "This thing only has an auxiliary effect. The key still depends on that." Shen Qing made a shooting gesture with his hand.
For Shen Qing, who now has a gun, hunting wild boars is not difficult, but hunting a group of wild boars is difficult: after one shot, a wild boar falls to the ground. Will the other wild boars just stand there and let Shen Qing continue to shoot? They will run everywhere, all over the mountains and plains. He is not hunting for the meat, but to eliminate the threat of the wild boars to the crops in the village. Of course, he has to cut the roots and kill all the wild boars in one fell swoop.
Miao couldn't understand Shen Qing's gestures at all: "What are you doing? Is your hand twitching?"
Shen Qing was stunned, and then looked at his hands. He suddenly realized that although he still felt that the world was very strange, he had been greatly affected without realizing it.
"...Nothing." Shen Qing said, "Don't worry about food, just go to the county town to buy it." He will need food in many places in the future. After all, he plans to support a team of superpowers! Not only does he have to feed them, but he also has to exchange food for crystal cores to improve their superpowers. How can the food in the village be enough to exchange?
However, buying grain in the city and bringing it back to the village, the grain trucks coming in and out are too eye-catching. Shen Qing thought, I still have to buy a house in the county town!
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