Chapter 5: The Spoiled Bag
"Mom and Dad, you guys should eat too! You are not allowed to leave the table until you finish all the meat!"
Su Wan turned around and had to consider Su's father and mother, which made the couple feel very guilty. They acted very coldly as soon as their daughter came in, but their daughter thought about them in everything.
Although the child is their own, they have no feelings for him. Yueyue and his family have raised him for more than ten years. It would be a lie to say that they have no feelings for him. Even if he is not their biological child, they treat him as their own.
"Okay, Wanwan, eat too!" Su's mother took the initiative to pick up some food for Su Wan.
"Thank you, mother!"
She was well-raised by Mrs. Gu, and was sweet-spoken and polite. On the contrary, they raised their daughter poorly, and she lived a hard life for more than ten years.
Su Wan naturally took a sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth.
"You eat rice, sweet potatoes don't taste good!"
Seeing this, Su's mother quickly stopped them. They had specially steamed white rice for her. Japonica rice was very expensive in the market. Their family had little land, only three acres in total, and they had to grow potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other crops that were filling. They only planted rice on two acres of land every year, and went to the village chief to get seeds when it was time to sow in spring. The ancients did not farm like modern people, with all kinds of scientific products and no hybrid rice, so the harvest was average. Two acres of land could produce a maximum of 500 kilograms of millet a year, and there were still about 400 kilograms after shelling. They also had to pay taxes to the government. Their family had many people, so they paid more taxes.
According to the rules, one person had to pay fifty coins a year. The eight people in the Su family had to pay four taels of silver. If they didn't have silver, they would use grain to pay it. A pound of polished rice in the market cost ten coins, and brown rice cost six coins. Their rice was brown, so each person had to pay more than eight pounds of rice, and the total amount they had to pay was almost seventy pounds.
There were eight people in the family, and 300 kilograms of rice was not enough to last them for a year, so they could only eat potatoes and sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs. In years of famine, there were no potatoes or sweet potatoes to eat.
Su Jing can get 30 kilograms of rice every month, but it is not enough for his family to eat for a month.
I happened to have brought back some rice two days ago, so I saved it all for her.
"It's delicious. Sweet potatoes are fragrant and sweet. I love them!"
Su's mother came to grab it, but Su Wan dodged it. She had read the original novel and knew what the situation of the Su family was, so she could not be pretentious.
She didn't waste any food. She ate a sweet potato, a vegetable pancake, and finished the rice.
The first meal after returning to the Su family was finished. Except for the little episode with the fourth brother, everything else went smoothly. She should have left a good first impression on the Su family, right?
Be neither arrogant nor impatient, be gentle and polite!
After dinner, Su Jing took her to her room. There were only three rooms in the house. Su's father and mother had one room, she had one room by herself, and her five brothers squeezed into one room. They slept on a big bunk bed. It was warm in the winter, but it was miserable in the summer. Everyone was sweating profusely.
The room is small, but it has everything it needs. She has her own bed and her own cabinet. Since she is the only daughter in the family, she has a room to herself.
Although the Su family's living conditions were not good, they loved their only daughter very much. In the original novel, the five brothers never let Gu Yue work in the fields or cook. Although she lived in the countryside, she had never done housework. Except for her food, clothing, housing and transportation, everything else was impeccable.
There were several pairs of embroidered shoes placed in front of the window, with the soles and uppers intact. In comparison, the shoes of several brothers had torn cloth on the toes, revealing their feet, or had holes in the uppers, or were patched.
The same goes for clothes: new for three years, old for three years, mended for another three years, worn by the eldest brother, then by the second brother, and as long as they can still be worn, they will be worn by the next brother.
"You're tired today too. I'll get you some hot water so you can wash up and have a good sleep!"
The eldest brother still fulfilled his obligations as the eldest brother. Although he was still unfamiliar with his own sister for the time being, he still took her feelings into consideration.
"Brother, go and get some rest. I'll do it myself. We've been walking all day, and you have to go back to the academy early tomorrow morning!"
He came to pick her up in the morning and took her back in the afternoon, so he had been gone for more than a whole day.
Unexpectedly, Su Jing just smiled:
"It's the busy farming season now. The academy has a month off every year for spring planting and autumn harvest, and the teachers in the academy also need a break, so I've been busy harvesting at home this entire month!"
It is September now, the harvest time, but Su Wan did not expect this.
"Then big brother, take me to the kitchen to get some water so I can get familiar with the house!"
"Okay!" Su Jing agreed with a smile, and then the two went to the kitchen.
Su's mother was still boiling water, and the smoke in the kitchen was choking. When she saw her eldest son coming in with his new sister, she immediately blamed him:
"Boss, the kitchen is full of smoke, take your sister out!"
"Mom, I'm not that spoiled. I'm a farmer now, so don't treat me like a young lady!"
Su Wan is not from a wealthy family in modern times. She is actually very hardworking. They will know it later.
After she said that, Su's mother no longer tried to stop her. She thought, "You'll have to get used to this kind of life sooner or later."
At this time, the fourth child, Su Yun, came back. As soon as he came back, he rushed to the kitchen to find something to eat. Then he met Su Jing carrying a bucket of hot water and taking Su Wan back to her room.
"Help you carry the water back to your room!"
"Thank you, brother!"
"Why are you always so polite?" Su Jing is always so gentle.
"Why are you so pampered? You need help from others even to fetch water?" Su Yun asked with a frown.
Su Jing's face darkened when he heard this:
"Wanwan is our sister. She just came back so it's only natural for us to take care of her. As her brother, you should give in to her. Why are you still throwing a tantrum like a child?"
"But Yueyue never saw you get water for her before?" Su Yun argued unreasonably.
"She has you protecting her so well, it's not my turn to fetch water. Besides, she is the daughter of the Gu family now, and she has a bunch of servants to serve her every day, so you don't need to worry!" It was the first time that Su Jing argued so much with his brother.
This fourth child is so ignorant.
"Brother, why are you so malicious towards Yueyue?" Su Yun didn't understand, because it was obvious that his brother doted on Yueyue.
"You were the first to show ill will towards Wan Wan!"
Su Yun was choked with words and couldn't find any refutation, so he simply walked around them and went to the kitchen to find something to eat.
As soon as he came in, Su's mother said that the food was heating in the pot. Su Yun saw the meat and gobbled it up voraciously. It was different when the spoiled boy came back. There was meat to eat, so much meat.
After he finished eating, Su's mother slowly explained:
"Your sister Wanwan specially saved this for you. I didn't eat much of the meat I fried for her. I shared it all with my brothers. You ate the most!"
When Su Yun heard that the meat was left for him by Su Wan, he stopped and even paused for a moment. Obviously, he didn't expect that Su Wan would miss her so much.
Maybe Su's mother understood him, so she waited until he finished eating before telling him!
He didn't say anything else, but continued to eat.
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