"It's just time to finish cracking the snails. You should each go back to your parents' homes later and bring some wild boar meat back with you." Madam Su pushed open the main room door and pointed to the cut meat outside. "Ten catties for each of you. Take it back to your in-laws to help them recover."
"Really? Mother is willing to send ten catties of wild boar meat to my family?" Upon hearing this, Madam Qian stood up abruptly, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Zhao was also somewhat agitated.
Having been married into the Su family for so many years, they knew Su Bai's personality very well.
The Su family has always been poor, barely managing to save a few copper coins a year. Su Baishi is especially greedy, only taking in money and never giving it out.
These days, it's hard to believe someone would offer ten catties of wild boar meat so readily.
"Don't you want it?" Su Bai snorted coldly, her tone indifferent. "Since you don't want it, then keep the two pieces of wild boar meat for Da Hu and the others to sell in town for money, which can also offset some of the silver."
"I want it, of course I want it! I'll go to Qianjia Village right now and deliver the meat," Qian said hurriedly.
Before he finished speaking, he had already darted far away as if his feet were smeared with lard.
She stood in front of the wooden board, stretching out her hands and picking through the cut meat for a while before finally carrying a large piece of fatty meat out of the courtyard gate, completely satisfied.
"Mother, let's keep this meat to sell for money at home," Zhao said softly, glancing outside the courtyard.
Wild boar meat costs at least twenty coins per catty, so ten catties of wild boar meat would cost two hundred copper coins.
If her husband went to the docks to do hard labor, he might not earn this much money even after working himself to the bone for more than ten days.
How could she just take it to her parents' home like that?
“You’ve always treated Hua’er well, so it’s only right that some of the pork she hunted be sent to her sister-in-law’s family.” Su Bai smiled at Zhao Shi and said slowly, “Besides, didn’t your sister-in-law give birth to a baby last month? Wild boar meat is nourishing, so it’s perfect to send it over to make some soup to help her recover. It’s also a token of the Su family’s goodwill.”
In the past, the Su family was poor and often struggled to make ends meet, so they were unable to afford many social obligations.
Now that they've got a big wild boar, there's no reason for them to share it with the villagers but not with their in-laws.
Most importantly, this pork was caught by Hua'er. If some of it is given to her sister-in-law's family, they will remember Hua'er's kindness in the future.
Even if she were to pass away one day, Hua'er would not be disliked by her sisters-in-law while staying at home.
Although the sons are reliable, the most powerful influence in the world is the influence of one's pillow.
In this world, life is most difficult for women; she needs to think ahead for Hua'er.
"Thank you, Mother, thank you, Hua'er..." Zhao felt very comforted upon hearing this. She had been worried that she hadn't done anything to celebrate her sister-in-law's childbirth and that it would be awkward for her to return to her parents' home later. Now, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law had thought of everything for her.
"Let's hurry up and go while it's still early. If it's late when we come back, we can stay overnight in Zhao Family Village and then come back." Su Bai waved her hand.
Mrs. Zhao was even more moved, "My daughter-in-law knows."
Zhao Family Village and Qian Family Village are not far from Shanghe Village, about five li away and six li away respectively. It takes less than half an hour to walk there and back. If you include the time spent stopping in the village, it will be dark by the time you get back.
The oxcarts are full today; if there were oxcarts available, it would be much faster.
"Mom, I'll stir-fry the snails later." Su Hua carried the basin of snails to the kitchen. Today she was going to stir-fry half a basin more snails than yesterday. Just blanching and stir-frying the snails was a lot of work.
"It's nothing." Su Bai waved her hand. "You don't know, I'm in great spirits today. I'm not tired at all. Let alone stir-frying a few bowls of snails, I feel like I could run around Shanghe Village a few times without even panting."
After saying that, he picked up the snails and put them into the iron pot to blanch them.
Su Hua was taken aback. Su Bai's complexion was indeed very good today, even radiant.
She couldn't help but recall the two drops of water she had fed Su Baishi while she was unconscious.
Could it be that the spatial water droplets have such a great effect on people? Now, just drinking two drops of spatial water droplets has such a miraculous effect. If one drinks more, I wonder if the effect will be astonishing?
Just as she was wondering, she heard a 'tick' sound in her mind again.
Upon closer inspection, three more water droplets appeared in the space of the pigeon egg.
"This is truly a treasure." Su Hua smiled, looking at the roaring fire in the stove, feeling that this time travel was definitely worthwhile.
Su Bai was turning over the stone snails when she was taken aback. "What did Hua'er say? What great treasure?"
"I said Mother is my precious treasure!" the girl said with a sly smile.
"Hahaha, I'm your big baby, and Hua'er is your little baby..."
The lively laughter coming from the kitchen made the group of kids guarding the yard lose interest in watching the meat and keep turning around to look at the kitchen.
"Big brother, what are Grandma and Aunt talking about that makes them so happy?"
"Don't call me Dalang, you have to call me brother! Auntie must have said something happy to make Grandma so happy."
"Big brother is wrong." Chunhua stared at the pig offal in the wooden basin, then looked up and said, "Auntie is Grandma's darling. No matter what Auntie says, Grandma will be happy. There's no need for Auntie to coax her at all!"
The way the little boy acted like a grown-up took the eldest and second sons by surprise.
Hearing this, Su Erhu chuckled, "Our Chunhua knows everything perfectly well."
Chunhua's face darkened slightly as she stared at the large basin at her feet. "Father, do you know how we're going to eat the pig offal in this wooden basin?"
"Huh?" This time, Su Erhu was completely baffled.
How could he not know that his own daughter spoke so erratically?
One moment it's Hua'er, the next it's pig offal.
Could it be that in her little head, Hua'er is equivalent to pig offal?
However, he really didn't know how to eat the pig offal. In Cangwu Town, no one ever ate pig offal. It was either used to feed dogs or thrown away directly, since the smell of pig offal was too strong and could not be removed no matter what.
In the end, all that oil, salt, and firewood was wasted, and nothing was made.
A short while later, Su Sanhu returned after delivering the meat, and the two large basins of flavorful snails in the kitchen were officially cooked. The Su brothers carried the snail basins onto the oxcart, and then carried the remaining half of the wild boar meat onto the cart. With these additions, the oxcart was already crowded with three more people.
Su Hua managed to steal a moment of free time from her busy schedule and stayed home.
Make something delicious while you're at it.
"Mao Xue Wang?" the three brothers exclaimed in surprise. "What is Mao Xue Wang?"
After saying that, they all lowered their heads and glanced at the wooden basin.
Chunhua looked at the pile of black pig bristles on the ground, her face slightly embarrassed. "Auntie, is this the 'Mao Xue Wang' you're talking about? It's made by mixing wild boar bristles and blood together and then feeding it to the dog?"
Su Hua, who was carrying pig offal to the riverbank, almost stumbled upon hearing this.
It's a good thing for a little girl to have an imagination.
But too much imagination goes too far.
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