"Yes, Mother, I'll go right away." Although Xie hesitated, she still obediently agreed when she saw that Jiang Nuan had lost her temper.
She moved quickly and efficiently, and with Wang's help, the earthen stove had a strong fire and cooked quickly. In just fifteen minutes, a pot of steaming hot noodles was ready.
Knowing they were going to eat noodle dumplings, everyone lost their appetite for the watery, almost transparent wild vegetable porridge. When they saw the two people coming over, they all looked at them expectantly.
"Mother, you eat first, I'll bring you the bowl." Xie Shi brought over a bowl of noodles and placed it in front of Jiang Nuan.
Jiang Nuan didn't like eating noodles before; they were hard, dry, and tasteless. But now, looking at this bowl of noodles with only coarse salt, her mouth was watering.
She glanced at the dough ball with gleaming eyes and remembered her identity.
Jiang Nuan, calm down, you must calm down.
You're a grandmother now, so hold on and don't embarrass yourself!
Pretending not to care, I glanced away, trying to ignore the dough balls in front of me.
"Eldest brother, second brother, your wives have finished cooking. You two don't need to act like lords. Go to the kitchen and get the bowls."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Nuan saw Huang Xiaowu's eager expression and quickly stopped him, "Xiaowu, don't go. You're still young. Don't spill the bowl and get burned."
Huang Xiaowu is seven years old this year, but he looks like a four or five-year-old child. He is so thin that you could wrap your whole body in one hand, like a paper doll.
As soon as Jiang Nuan finished speaking, Huang Laoda and Huang Laoer quickly rushed into the kitchen and brought over all the family's bowls.
Only after all the bowls were served did Jiang Nuan realize what was going on.
This restaurant also serves meals according to social class.
The best was Jiang's, a bowl of thick, gooey noodles that was practically overflowing.
Next, the three Huang brothers had a slightly thinner bowl than the Jiang family's, just a plain bowl. Then came Huang Xiaowu and Da Niu Er Niu, who had half a bowl of thin, runny dough balls.
Finally, there were Wang and Xie, whose bowls were full, but only contained noodle soup.
well!
With a sigh, Jiang Nuan picked up her own bowl and poured half a bowl of noodles into her two daughters-in-law's bowls.
"Make more next time, so we don't run out of food like we did today." Seeing their anxious expressions, Jiang Nuan quickly reassured them, "I'm not blaming you, I'm just worried you won't have enough to eat."
The two sisters-in-law were alarmed to see the extra dough pieces in their bowls.
"Mother, it's already kind of you that your daughter-in-law is only drinking noodle soup. Which wife in the village is as lucky as us? Such precious things as noodles really shouldn't be eaten." Wang was about to cry.
“Sister-in-law is right, Mother, you eat it yourself, we can’t accept it,” Xie also declined.
"Just eat what we give you, and stop talking nonsense." Jiang Nuan put on a stern face again, afraid of scaring her two daughters-in-law. She softened her expression and said, "Other people's families are other people's families, but our family is different. You two are my Jiang family's daughters now that you've married into the Huang family. You're not like those timid little wives who are constantly being harassed by their mothers-in-law."
These words moved the two sisters-in-law to tears. With tears streaming down their faces, they put the noodles in their bowls into their mouths and vowed to be even more filial to Jiang Nuan in the future.
Hearing Jiang Nuan's words, Huang Xiaowu said cutely, "Mom, I want to marry into the Huang family too, so I can be your daughter forever."
These words made Jiang Nuan laugh. "Silly girl, people with the same surname can't marry each other. You can't marry into the Huang family. Besides, no matter if you get married or not, you'll always be your mother's daughter."
“But,” Huang Xiaowu pouted, feeling wronged, “I heard Shuanzi’s mother say that once a daughter gets married, she belongs to someone else’s family and is no longer her daughter.”
Shuanzi's mother?
Jiang Nuan thought for a moment and didn't remember her. However, just because she had poisoned her daughter's young mind, Jiang Nuan immediately blacklisted her.
"She's lying to children, don't believe her. You'll always be your mother's daughter. If you don't believe me, ask your sister-in-law and the others, see if they're their parents' daughters."
"Sister-in-law, Second Sister-in-law," Huang Xiaowu looked at the two of them hopefully.
“Mother is right. Whether I get married or not, my parents will never change. Xiao Wu will always be my daughter,” Xie Shi said.
Despite saying that, she felt a pang of bitterness in her heart.
The saying "a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl" is not as simple as it sounds. Before marriage, even if her parents treated her badly, at least they would give her food so she wouldn't starve. But after marriage, they can't even go back to their parents' home without bringing gifts. If they bring too little, they won't be left with any food and will be scolded and kicked out. They completely disregard their own daughter's well-being.
Fortunately, she met a good mother-in-law. Although she was often scolded and occasionally beaten, she truly treated her as family. Not only did she not mind that she had no dowry after marrying into the family, she also protected her in every way.
For all of this, she should be a good daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law.
Besides, compared to the young wives in the village who had to work every day and were still beaten and forced to follow rules, her sisters-in-law lived a life that seemed like heaven, so she had no reason not to be filial to her mother-in-law.
Thinking of all this, Xie couldn't help but give Jiang Nuan a grateful smile.
Jiang Nuan was confused by the laughter, so she simply ignored it and turned to comfort Huang Xiaowu, "Now you believe me, right? Don't worry, no matter whether you get married or not, your mother will always love you."
"I understand, Mother." Huang Xiaowu nodded and smiled sweetly.
After finishing their meal, it got dark, and the Huang family members, reluctant to light kerosene lamps, went to bed early.
After everyone fell asleep, Jiang Nuan quietly opened the door, crept into the storage room, and took the seeds and various farm tools into her spatial storage.
"This is so hard for me! I have to sneak around even to plant crops. Sigh!"
Jiang Nuan majored in agriculture as an undergraduate and taught in a mountainous area of Sichuan Province for two years after graduation. Before the accident, she was a graduate student studying paleontology, a subject that is extremely unpopular. Therefore, farming was not difficult for her.
She herself has a deep love for farming. She specifically chose agriculture as her major in college, hoping that one day she could have a few acres of land to tend to as she pleases.
With a small cloth bag containing wheat seeds, various vegetable seeds, and a few watermelon seeds, Jiang Nuan busied herself in the space.
Generally speaking, crops have a higher survival rate when transplanted after seedling cultivation. However, Jiang Nuan had a mysterious confidence in the land in the space, so she planted the seeds directly after preparing the land.
This reduced the workload considerably, and the soil in the area was exceptionally soft, so all three acres were planted in one night.
Feeling guilty, I changed out of my mud-covered clothes, washed them clean while the sky was just beginning to brighten, and then lay down on the bed to sleep.
When I woke up, the sun was already high in the sky.
He went into the space to take a look and saw that the crops he had planted had already sprouted. He nodded in satisfaction.
Then, he stretched and walked out of the room.
The courtyard was quiet, and it seemed that no one was there. Jiang Nuan called out, "Is anyone home?"
"Mother, you're up," Wang Shi said as she came out of the house. "Are you starving? There's breakfast left in the pot, Mother, please eat quickly."
"Hmm, are you home alone?"
"Yes, Xiao Wu and the others went to dig for wild vegetables, Second Sister-in-law went to find bamboo, and the family members went to work."
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