Chapter 35: Don’t Eat White Flour Porridge, Eat Black Flour
Seeing that the two girls were about to quarrel, Aunt Bai quickly tried to smooth things over and said, "Okay, okay, it's all my fault. I'll just come back early to cook.
Ladies, please sit aside and wait. The batter will be ready soon!"
"What? Aren't there a few bags of rice and flour in my aunt's cart?
There's so much bacon, why do we have to eat porridge for the first meal?"
The best white flour porridge in ordinary farmers' homes tasted as disgusting as dog shit in Bai Yue's eyes.
She used to eat well, and Bai Li had provided her with hunting supplies along the way. They had rarely eaten porridge, and all they ate were thin flour cakes and rice with stewed wild vegetables and meat.
At worst, there are fried small fish and shrimps, served with meat soup and noodles, which are still edible.
She was exhausted after a busy day today, and now she was asked to eat this disgusting porridge. She refused to do it!
When Bai Yue said this, even Aunt Bai's face changed!
Yes, there are still more than 100 kilograms of fine noodles and more than 100 kilograms of rice, but these are just the beginning of life. In the future, the men in the family will do the most tiring physical work. Don’t they have to eat a good meal from time to time to replenish their bodies?
There are also the elderly and children in the family who need to eat some fine grains when they are weak. Although these 200 kilograms of grain are a lot, it will not last long if each person eats one bite.
Li was originally a farmer's daughter. By chance, she saved Bai Zongren's father and thus formed a happy relationship with him.
However, after she took charge of the household, under the guidance of her mother-in-law, she did not have the petty-mindedness of a farmer. She saved when she should, spent when she should, and relaxed in moderation. No one in the entire general's mansion could say anything about it.
Being questioned by a junior like Bai Yue, she laughed in anger, "Okay, since you don't like eating porridge, you can cook your own food at home and eat separately from us from now on!"
"No, Grandma, I still call you grandma, how could you do this to my family?"
"Then tell me, what do you want me to do to your family?"
Bai Yue's face lit up with joy, and she said quickly, "I knew that my great-uncle treated our family like her own family, and never treated the other branches of the family badly.
It's okay to eat separately. Give us half of the fine rice and noodles. After Aunt Bai cooks for our family, she can cook for your family. This is the best arrangement."
"Tsk! You have such a big face!"
It was not easy for Bai Li to endure until now. If she continued to listen, she was afraid that she would not be able to help but sew that greedy mouth shut with her own hands.
"Bai Li! What do you mean!"
Bai Yue was furious, her voice as sharp as a shrew's.
Li reached out and held down Bai Li who was about to go berserk.
Her face was calm as she looked up at her nephew and niece-in-law.
"Zongshen, Mu, do you mean the same thing?"
The couple who were named hesitated and did not dare to look up at the old lady who still had some influence.
But the meaning is obvious, that's what they want.
"Good! Very good. You guys are planning to split up the family business, so let's discuss how to do it."
The old lady paused and looked at her sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren who were listening attentively.
"We were not a family before. Your family relied on my family's influence to enter the capital, get a job, live in a big house, gain a foothold in the capital, and become a high-ranking official.
So when my family stepped down, your family fell into poverty as well. This is natural and we can't be blamed.
It's impossible for you to take advantage of us when things are good and then leave us alone when things are bad, right?
We also wanted to leave you, but the Emperor wouldn't let us?"
What Li said was what everyone was thinking, and they had wanted to say these words for a long time.
"Aunt, when my uncle was alive, he took great care of me, his nephew. Now that he's gone, are you going to ignore me, your nephew?"
Bai Zongshen pretended to choke up and spoke in a pitiful voice.
Before the things are divided up, he should act pitiful first. The old lady will be soft-hearted and may give him all the noodles.
In the past, Mrs. Li would definitely have softened her heart for the sake of her late husband.
But after spending time together during this difficult period, she had already seen through that there was no good person in his family.
"Nephew, what you said is not true. My family is now prisoners, powerless and powerless. We are short of food and clothing and can barely protect ourselves. How can I take care of you?"
"Now that our Bai family has finally made it here, let's just live our own lives and accept our fate!
As for the food, it was bought with the money earned from hunting by that girl Li'er. It is not public property, so I, an old woman, have no right to distribute it.
Just take the portion the village chief just gave you and go back to cook it yourself."
When these words were spoken, Bai Yue and others were dumbfounded!
What the village chief sent was half a bag of black noodles for scraping the throat, which also gave off a musty smell. Is that food for human beings?
Before they could say anything else, Li spoke again.
"If you can't get used to eating those black noodles, you can go hunting in the mountains. Are the two grown men in your family not even as good as a little girl?"
Bai Zongshen swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. Although he wanted to take advantage, he was not so shameless.
Bai Yue was just about to ask for fine grains, but was choked by these words and her face turned red, but she had nothing to refute.
She has always been arrogant and very concerned about her reputation.
She was too embarrassed to ask for it, so she had to push her mother out to ask for it.
Mu was pushed to the front of the old lady by her daughter and turned around to ask the man and son for help.
But not only did they not speak up for her, they even made a gesture to make her ask for fine food.
Mu felt a chill in her heart, but she had no choice but to force a smile and speak.
"Aunt, that fine grain... can you give us some first? I'll return it to you after Ah Hu and his son go hunting and exchange it for fine grain."
"I told you, I can't help you with this matter. If you want to borrow it, you have to ask Li'er."
After the old lady finished speaking, she simply turned around and went back into the house, which made it clear that she really would not care about them anymore.
Mu was dumbfounded!
She's an aunt asking for a niece...
She looked up at her daughter, meaning that she was of the same generation as Bai Li, so she should go and ask.
Bai Yue turned her face away. She would never beg her!
She used to be the eldest daughter of the general's mansion, and she had all kinds of precious jewels and rare items, so she coaxed her.
Now we are all prisoners, and we ask her to coax her for a little food?
No way!
Bai Li had seen enough of the excitement and, before Mu could even begin, he said, "Instead of wasting time here, why don't you hurry up and go up the mountain and hunt some game? Even if you can't get any fine grains, having meat and some wild vegetables is worse than just eating black flour, right?"
"If you don't go now, you have to go to work on time tomorrow, so you won't have time to go, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Zongshen had no choice but to turn around and go up the mountain to find an axe, but when he turned around, he glared at Bai Li with a gloomy face.
Bai Li gave him a sharp look in the eye.
Bai Zongshen's back stiffened, and a sense of pressure came towards him!
He cried out inwardly, almost forgetting that this was a female devil who should not be provoked, and quickly took his son and left.
Bai Yue didn't expect that she didn't get to eat the meat and white rice. After making a fuss for a long time, she even lost the porridge!
Looking at the half bag of black noodles that Li Mingyue stuffed into her mother's pocket, she said angrily, "I don't want to eat it anymore!" She stomped her feet, turned around and ran back to the house, never to come out again.
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