"That's impossible. I've asked around and that's exactly how it's done."
Liu Miaohua didn't believe it, so she also picked up the freshly cooked chestnuts and took a bite.
"Pooh……"
The one she ate was rotten and smelled musty!
She saw many people selling roasted chestnuts in the town. She gritted her teeth and spent six cents to buy the cheapest ones on the whole street. They were soft and sticky, and tasted slightly sweet. They were quite good.
I heard that everyone has been selling sugar-roasted chestnuts recently and making a lot of money.
She became jealous and cursed Xie Yunjiao countless times in her heart.
Xie Yunjiao is so selfish that she didn't tell her such a good way to make money.
Using chestnuts that can be found everywhere in the mountains to trade is simply a good way to make money without any investment!
After returning to Hexi Village, she went straight to the mountain and picked chestnuts whenever she saw them. In a short while, she had filled a large bamboo basket and carried it back.
I didn't even cook rice, but instead made a pot of chestnuts according to the recipe I had learned.
I wanted everyone to enjoy the meal, but I ended up making everyone feel sick.
"Mrs. Liu, I'm afraid you've gone crazy. You wasted firewood and my oil and sugar to make such a rubbish." Mrs. Fan cursed unhappily.
Old Man Gu looked at Fan scolding Liu Miaohua coldly and didn't want to help.
Liu Miaohua also felt aggrieved. She also wanted to do good for her family. She spent the pocket money she had saved after scrimping and saving to buy sugar-roasted chestnuts from outside. Wasn't it just to make life better for her family?
Their son Zhuangzhuang has become so skinny because of his greed for meat. Others may not feel sorry for him, but she, as his mother, feels sorry for him.
But everyone scolded her without any reason, and she felt wronged.
"Why are you still standing there? Go cook."
Fan threw a chestnut and hit Liu Miaohua on the forehead.
After being hit, Liu Miaohua felt even more resentful towards Xie Yunjiao.
"By the way, put less rice and more water, otherwise the rice at home will not be enough." Fan said.
She had been working in the fields since morning and was already starving.
I originally wanted to go home and have a meal, but I didn’t expect that Liu Miaohua would make me so angry that my stomach hurt!
“It smells so good.”
Gu Lan couldn't help swallowing and glanced towards Gu Huai's yard.
No one knew what Gu Huai's family was cooking, but it smelled like meat, making her drool so much that she couldn't swallow it in time.
Old man Gu also smelled the aroma of meat. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time. The aroma of meat seemed to have legs and walked to his nose by itself. It also seemed to have hands, tickling his heart and lungs, making the glutton in his stomach break out!
His eyes turned and he had an idea.
"Old woman, go tell Gu Huai that I'm dying. I'm so hungry I've lost my human form."
Fan glanced at Old Man Gu. He was full of energy and didn't look like a hungry person at all.
"Just go if I tell you to. Why are you still standing there?" Old Man Gu snorted unhappily.
Gu Lan was smart and she immediately understood what Old Man Gu meant.
She volunteered to go find Gu Huai.
Seeing that Gu Lan was smart, Old Man Gu let her do what she wanted.
He went back to the house and lay down.
Doudou was playing with two little pigs in the yard: "Dabao, please don't bite Xiaobao's tail all the time. It hurts."
Suddenly, he felt a dangerous aura at the door, and when he looked up, he saw Gu Lan.
Doudou felt a tightness in his heart, thinking that Gu Lan had come with ill intentions.
He looked around and finally saw a weapon that suited him.
He rushed over, grabbed the broom and stopped Gu Lan.
"What are you doing here?!"
Gu Lan glanced at Doudou and curled her lips in disgust: "A bastard born by a mother but not taught by her, bah.
If you don't move aside, don't blame me for being rude."
This is really outrageous. This bastard used to be very timid and cowardly. How could he dare to speak to her so loudly?
He must have learned bad things from being around Xie Yunjiao.
"I won't let you. You are all bad people. Nothing good happens every time you come to our house." Doudou said loudly.
Mother said that he is a little man now and he will protect the family together with his parents.
He couldn't be afraid anymore.
"You bastard, you're rebelling, aren't you?"
Gu Lan raised her hand to hit Doudou, but before her hand touched Doudou, Doudou hit her hand with a broom.
She screamed in pain, which actually attracted Gu Huai out.
"What's wrong with Doudou?" Gu Huai asked.
"Dad, she wants to hit me." Doudou said aggrievedly.
Gu Huai's face turned cold, and he looked at Gu Lan unhappily: "You are bored, right?"
Even Gu Huai has changed, becoming much more indifferent than before.
Gu Lan looked at her red hands and felt extremely aggrieved.
"Is this how you teach people? After all, I am his aunt. He hit me with a broom, and you still blame me?" Gu Lan looked at Gu Huai with misty eyes and said angrily.
Gu Huai frowned, but did not criticize Doudou as Gu Lan intended. Instead, he said, "Doudou won't hit anyone randomly, unless you say something."
Gu Lan's throat tightened; she had indeed said something unpleasant.
Even if she was in the wrong, she couldn't admit defeat.
"I'm here to tell you that my father just fainted in the field. The doctor said he was starving to the point of looking like a skeleton."
Gu Huai frowned. Even though he had separated from the old Gu family, Old Man Gu was still his adoptive father.
Now that Old Man Gu is in trouble, he can't just ignore it.
"If you are a human being, you shouldn't eat alone." Gu Lan glanced at the kitchen behind Gu Huai.
Oh my god, the meat tastes even better when you’re up close.
She was already hungry and her stomach was rumbling.
"I was wondering why my eyelids kept twitching today. Turns out there's something dirty at home." Xie Yunjiao said unhappily.
Doudou saw Xie Yunjiao happily drop her broom and run towards her: "Mom, why are you back so early today?"
"I came back early today because I'm not so busy." Seeing that Xiao Ding and Xiao Jidan were soft-hearted and couldn't lift the knife, Xie Yunjiao let them leave early today.
She can also go home on time, so why not?
"What's going on?" Xie Yunjiao touched Doudou's head and asked in a low voice.
Doudou leaned close to Xie Yunjiao's ear and whispered, "She scolded me, saying I was a bastard born by a mother but uneducated, and she even wanted to beat me."
Xie Yunjiao's eyes darkened, and a hint of anger appeared in them.
Doudou is a child who lacks love and has a fragile heart. Gu Lan deliberately said these words, which is like rubbing salt into his wounds.
"Don't be sad, Doudou. Your mother is here. You have a mother."
Doudou smiled and nodded: "Yeah!"
Yes, he has a mother, and his mother loves him very much.
"What did you cook today? It smells so good. Can we eat now? I'm so hungry." Xie Yunjiao took Doudou's hand and walked towards Gu Huai with a smile, as if she couldn't see Gu Lan.
"Okay." Gu Huai said.
Gu Lan was annoyed. They treated her as if she didn't exist, right? She wouldn't let them have their way.
"Dad is already ill, are you really so unfilial as not to visit him?"
"He's just sick, not dead. We're not doctors, so it won't help him even if we go see him.
It will pass naturally after we have eaten our fill."
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