"But that's how everyone has gone through it!"
It wasn't that Liu didn't understand what Yue Jiuyue was saying; she knew that eating wild vegetables all day was bad for her health, since wild vegetables had no nutritional value. If eating wild vegetables was good, why would everyone bother planting crops? They could just go up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables every day.
But isn't that how we make a living, saving little by little? Otherwise, after a year of planting grain, if nothing is left, what happens to the men in the family—won't they get married? What happens to the women—won't they get married? What if someone gets a headache or fever? Are they just supposed to lie on the bed and wait to die?
If anyone else had said those words, Liu would have had a whole repertoire of arguments to retort. But since her mother-in-law had said them, she really had no answer. After all, her mother-in-law was rich!
It's been over two months since she last managed the household or the finances. I wonder if her mother-in-law will let her continue managing the household after this pregnancy is over?
As she pondered, Liu's thoughts drifted, and she couldn't help but worry about herself.
"Look at how much land we have now, are you still worried about not having enough food in the future?"
Yue Jiuyue stood up and pointed to her three mountains, her expression somewhat like someone surveying the landscape.
"Well……"
How could she forget about this?
Liu was utterly speechless.
However, if she were in charge, she would definitely, well, be a little better than before. At least she wouldn't feed her family wild vegetable dumplings for three meals a day. But she would still be frugal where possible. She would never get carried away just because her mother-in-law was rich and the family owned land. She believed that only through diligence and thrift could they live a good life.
Yue Jiuyue didn't expect to change Liu's mind with just a few words. She would just bring it up from time to time. Even if it couldn't work its magic, it would be good enough if it could make Liu change her mind a little and not have to eat wild vegetables and cornbread every day.
Yue Jiuyue's expectations were just that low.
In the evening, they naturally ate the leftover dumplings from lunch. Yue Jiuyue was worried that there wouldn't be enough to eat, so she cooked a pot of dumpling soup. It contained not only mixed flour dumplings, but also two eggs and two handfuls of wild vegetables.
Yue Jiuyue was speechless at Liu Shi's words. She had originally taken a handful of eggs, thinking of cracking three into the dumpling soup and boiling the remaining six, so that each person could have half a boiled egg.
Unexpectedly, Liu saw it and started chattering on and on, implying that she didn't know how to manage a household. Of course, she said it rather subtly, but how could she not understand?
For the sake of family harmony, Yue Jiuyue kept four eggs. However, after cracking two eggs into the pot, when she reached for the third egg, she found that Liu had already taken it away.
"Mom, let's save these eggs for tomorrow."
Liu put the eggs in a basket to the side, making it clear that she didn't intend to hide them from others, but simply didn't want to eat so many at once, as it would be "wasteful."
What could Yue Jiuyue say?
And those wild vegetables, Yue Jiuyue put in a handful, and in the blink of an eye Liu Shi threw in another handful. They were already in the pot, what could Yue Jiuyue do?
She noticed that after Liu took over the household, she became increasingly audacious. Although she didn't dare to openly oppose her, she did a lot of things to oppose her indirectly.
On the matter of food and sustenance, Liu was an unyielding and stubborn person.
"Mother! Mother! Come here quickly! Look! Aren't those stars?"
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