Chapter 57 Wanwan's Happy Life
Cheng Hanzhang: "Obedience is worse than respect. Sorry for bothering you."
Jiang Wanwan put on a scarf and went out.
Qin Xiao was also sitting in the car. Seeing Jiang Wanwan come out, she took the bag from the car and went into the house.
"I brought you the things, Captain."
It's quite heavy.
Cheng Hanzhang asked Qin Xiao to put his bag on the kang. He opened the bag and found junior high school math, Chinese and English books inside: "Can you learn it by yourself?"
Ever since he met Shen Xingjiang, Cheng Hanzhang has admired him and felt that he was no ordinary person. Among the descendants of the Cheng family far away in the Forbidden City, no one could match Shen Xingjiang.
He has a ruthlessness that others don't have.
God placed him on the vast grassland and intended him to be a soaring eagle.
Shen Xingjiang picked up the book and flipped through it: "I'll memorize Chinese and English first. I'll mark down the math if I don't understand it and ask you when I get back to the army."
In the remaining time at home, he wanted to memorize all the textbooks and catch up as soon as possible.
Cheng Hanzhang was a little curious: "Jiang Wanwan's junior high school knowledge is very solid, why don't you let her teach you?"
Shen Xingjiang put the book down and lifted his thin eyelids: "...I will study hard and teach her later." Letting her teach and him teaching her must be a different feeling.
He looked forward to Jiang Wanwan's admiring gaze.
Cheng Hanzhang had never expected Shen Xingjiang to have such an excuse. He asked jokingly, "Apart from Jiang Wanwan, is there no one else in your mind?"
"Why should there be someone else? When we get married, there will only be the two of us at home." Shen Xingjiang's concept of home is different from that of ordinary people. He values his and Jiang Wanwan's small home more than anything else.
Therefore, it doesn’t matter whether he is a member of the Cheng family or the Shen family.
The fact that the Shen family is not his biological child will not affect his filial piety to his father and grandparents in the future. The Cheng family is rich, and he does not want to marry into the rich and powerful. He wants to give Jiang Wanwan a good life, and he can do it with his fists.
"By the way, after I finish the textbook, can you speed up and teach me how to appraise treasures? I don't want Cheng Shiguan to regret not marrying Jiang Wanwan in the future and turn around and snatch her from me."
The Jiang family is good at making porcelain, the Cheng family is good at identifying jade, and as the leader of Liulichang, the Cheng family's descendants are more or less proficient in all of these. Cheng Hanzhang has been learning how to appraise treasures since he was a child under the influence of his old master, and he is eager to pass on all the knowledge he has learned to Shen Xingjiang.
Because he also didn't know... whether this body could last the five years the doctor estimated for him.
Before he died, he wanted to help Shen Xingjiang stand up and put him on the same starting line as the descendants of the Cheng family.
"Ahem... you have ambition. With your aura, Cheng Shiguan will never be able to snatch your woman away even if he works himself to death."
He sometimes felt very strange. It seemed that Shi Guan’s feelings for Jiang Wanwan disappeared overnight. He would wonder from time to time whether Cheng Shi Guan would regret it.
I didn’t expect Shen Xingjiang to care about this too.
Unfortunately, the opponent is Shen Xingjiang, and Shi Guan has no chance in this life.
Snowflakes were falling outside again, as if snow was free, falling all day and all night. Jiang Wanwan fished out two pig's trotters and two spare ribs from the vat, planning to make braised pig's trotters and stewed spare ribs with potatoes and beans to entertain the guests.
The beans were frozen in the winter, and grandma gave them a bag when they divided the family property this time.
Jiang Wanwan picked up the things and put them in the basin. Shen Yejun, who was sweeping the snow outside, saw it and came in to help his daughter-in-law cook.
"My dear girl, put your things there and let daddy do it." Shen Yejun was sweeping the snow outside. He was wearing an old black jacket that had turned white from washing, with patches on the cuffs and collar.
Among the elders of the Shen family, Shen Yejun was the most handsome, with a thin face, big eyes, kind and gentle features, and his skin was tanned by the scorching sun and had wrinkles on his face.
As a father-in-law, Shen Yejun scored perfect marks. Jiang Wanwan was curious whether he knew that Shen Xingjiang was not his child... When Zhu Puran came here, did she marry him with the child?
Shen Yejun found that his daughter-in-law looked at him with a very strange look today, puzzled, pitying, distressed... He also looked at Jiang Wanwan for a while with his hands behind his back, but he didn't understand, and his eyebrows were wrinkled into a "川" shape: "What's wrong, Wanwan? You look at me and make me feel scared, as if I've been cuckolded, but you don't dare to ask me directly."
Doubt and pity are just like being cuckolded.
Jiang Wanwan was choked by her saliva. Was she showing it so obviously?
"No, Dad, you're overthinking it."
She pointed at the aluminum basin on the stove and said in a panic, "I want to braise the pig's trotters, stew the ribs with potatoes, and we have sauerkraut at home, so I can stew vermicelli with sauerkraut and stir-fry some hot peppers and potato slices."
For farmers, this dish is quite hard.
Shen Yejun walked to the stove, scooped two buckets of cold water into the basin, thawed the meat, then washed the rice and cooked. Jiang Wanwan wanted to peel potatoes and help wash vegetables, but was driven out by him instead.
"Go inside and help pour the tea. Dad can do it here."
A few side dishes are easy to make, he can prepare them by himself. Wanwan was sent down from the capital, and judging from the expensive clothes her mother wears, Wanwan must have lived a good life in the past.
Such a pampered child, married into their family without any complaints, gave him delicious food and nice clothes, he couldn't bear to let this child do any work.
Jiang Wanwan was driven out of the kitchen by Shen Yejun: “Dad, if you are too busy, call me.”
Shen Yejun put the rice into the pot: "Hurry back to the house."
Jiang Wanwan rubbed her red, frozen hands and went back.
An hour and a half later, Shen Yejun finished cooking four dishes. Jiang Wanwan used hot water to scald a bottle of sorghum wine. "Dad, you can accompany Captain Cheng and the others to drink and eat. I'll pick some pickled cabbage, pig's trotters and ribs to send to my grandparents, and pick some potatoes and ribs for Sui Sui and Guo Guo to eat."
Jiang Wanwan was a good child. Shen Yejun knew that she would feel uncomfortable if she didn't do some work, so he let her do some work.
It's a good idea to let her do this job. The old lady and the first wife both remember her kindness.
Jiang Wanwan first picked up some pickled cabbage, then picked up two pig's trotters, three or four ribs and some potatoes and brought them to the east room: "Grandpa and grandma, Captain Cheng is here. We made some delicious food in our room. Bring some to you. Eat it while it's hot."
The sauerkraut was fried with lard, with oil floating on the yellow sauerkraut. Jiang Wanwan also cut two charred dried red peppers and added them to the soup. The sauerkraut soup was sour and spicy, and the smell made people drool.
The pig's trotters were colored with rock sugar and stewed with various spices and soy sauce until they were soft. When the bowl was put down, the fat on the pig's trotters was still trembling.
Not to mention the pork ribs and potatoes, they are both good meat, and the potatoes have absorbed the ribs' juice, making them even more fragrant than the meat.
When Mr. Shen saw these delicious dishes, he immediately smiled and said, "Are you still warming up the wine? Give me two taels."
Old Mrs. Shen glared at Old Mr. Shen and said, "Don't give it to him. He had a stomachache and got angry after drinking it last time."
Jiang Wanwan also remembered that Mr. Shen was not very good at drinking, so she poured a teacup of hot water on the table: "Drinking water is also good."
Mr. Shen took a bite of the pig's trotter, his mouth full of the aroma of meat: "Delicious, so fragrant!"
The first potato that Old Lady Shen took a bite of was so soft and tender, full of the aroma of meat, and paired with rice, it was so delicious that it was like a god.
"Well, we have to thank our good granddaughter-in-law. Wanwan always thinks of us when she has any good things." A smile appeared on the old lady's face.
Jiang Wanwan felt a little embarrassed by the compliment: "You guys eat first, I'll go back first."
Old Lady Shen: "Go ahead."
This smells so good.
Jiang Wanwan wanted to go back to the kitchen to get some potatoes and pork ribs for Sui Sui and Guo Guo. When she entered the kitchen, she saw Liu Yeju squatting by the stove. She hurriedly threw something into the stove and stuffed some firewood into it with her feet. There was a circle of brown soup hanging from the corner of her mouth. "Wanwan is here. I came to see if you have finished using the pot."
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