Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Going Home
"Ouch, what happened?" Li Guifen quickly put down the rag in her hand and quickly pulled Shu Niannian back to the yard. Shu Niannian lay in Li Guifen's arms, crying heart-wrenchingly.
This scared Li Guifen. She patted Shu Niannian on the back and asked her what was wrong.
Shu Guodong and his two sons quickly put down their work and circled around Shu Niannian, "What's wrong with you? Why don't you say something?"
Shu Niannian's elder brother Shu Wenhui even pointed the finger directly at Shu Meilan, "Tell me, did that damn girl Shu Meilan bully you again?"
It's no wonder Shu Wenhui spoke harshly. It's really that Shu Meilan is a very evil girl. Since two years ago, Shu Meilan seemed to have taken the wrong medicine. She does whatever Shu Niannian does, and Shu Meilan has to buy whatever Shu Niannian has.
But Shu Meilan herself is not good enough. She is not as smart as Shu Niannian, nor as pretty as Shu Niannian. Not only is she trying to imitate Shu Niannian, but she is also jealous of Shu Niannian.
Whenever Shu Niannian appeared in front of him, Shu Wenhui would feel scared by her dark eyes.
Shu Meilan always put obstacles in Shu Niannian's way. If it weren't for Shu Wenhui's protection, Shu Niannian would have suffered a lot.
Every time Shu Meilan tried to trip up Shu Niannian and was exposed by Shu Wenhui, Shu Meilan would squeeze out a few tears and pretend to be pitiful, saying that she was just inconsiderate and did not intentionally target Shu Niannian.
But Shu Niannian was simple-minded and never doubted it once.
Shu Wenhui was angry, but there was no other way. He could only protect the house carefully on weekdays. After all, the two courtyards were only separated by a half-person-high adobe wall, so there was no way to hide even if he wanted to.
Fortunately, Shu Niannian will get married at the end of this year. After she gets married, she will have her brother-in-law to take care of her, and he will have to worry less, Shu Wenhui thought.
However, he didn't expect Shu Niannian to take the initiative to complain this time: "Yes, Shu Meilan went to the county town for a blind date, and Second Aunt insisted on taking me with her. I didn't want to, so Second Aunt wanted to catch me. If I hadn't run fast, Second Aunt would have caught me and taken me to the county town. Mom, I'm so scared, I think they have bad intentions."
Shu Wenhui was shocked, he knew it was Shu Meilan who was doing bad things.
But why did Second Aunt insist that Shu Niannian go with Shu Meilan when she went to the county town for a blind date? Shu Wenhui had no idea.
Li Guifen had more life experience after all, and she figured out the key after just a quick thought. She was so angry that she wanted to scold Yang Guihua, but she thought that Shu Niannian was going to get married at the end of the year. If she made a big deal about it at this time, it would not only do no good to their family, but also make the people in the village laugh at her.
At the moment, he could only suppress his unhappiness, comfort Shu Niannian in a gentle voice, and let Shu Niannian eat lunch first.
Shu Niannian decided to stop while she was ahead. After all, she couldn't tell everything. If she told her parents now that she was reborn, they would be scared to death.
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For lunch today, Li Guifen steamed a full pot of white flour buns, stewed pork and vermicelli which her two brothers liked, and her favorite scrambled eggs.
Usually they eat mixed flour steamed buns at home, but the reason they are so extravagant today is because his father Shu Guodong is back.
Shu Guodong is a level 5 fitter in a county machinery factory. His monthly salary plus subsidies are enough for his family of five to live on, but there is not enough spare money. Fortunately, his family still has six acres of land, which is usually well managed by his two elder brothers and Li Guifen. If the weather is good throughout the year and the harvests of two seasons are good, they can still save some money.
Shu Niannian followed Li Guifen into the kitchen. Before she had time to think deeply, the aroma of fried eggs aroused her appetite. After putting the lard into the pan, she beat the eggs and stirred them evenly before putting them into the pan. Before the eggs were formed, she put the chopped garlic sprouts into the pan and stir-fried them together. This was the fried eggs with garlic sprouts that Shu Niannian liked. In fact, she lived a good life in her previous life, but no matter how authentic the local eggs she bought, she could not make them taste this good.
After flipping the eggs until both sides were golden brown, Shu Niannian put them on a plate and sniffed them, feeling refreshed both physically and mentally.
The white flour steamed buns are white and big and fragrant. The moment you lift the lid of the pot, a rich wheat aroma hits you in the face.
The pork stewed with vermicelli has been cooked and is kept warm in the pot. The pork chosen is the front leg pork trotter. Shu Niannian likes to eat pork trotter which is chewy. The vermicelli is homemade sweet potato vermicelli, which is soft after stewing but not mushy.
The soup made from the stewed pig trotter was particularly rich and thick. Li Guifen also added dried mushrooms and Chinese cabbage into it. Although it was just a random stew, Shu Niannian was actually drooling with greed.
In her previous life, even though all the delicacies from land and sea were placed in front of her, she couldn't eat a single bite. In the end, she had to rely on nutrient solution to stay alive and became as thin as skin and bones.
Li Guifen also cooked a pot of rice porridge. After it was served, the rice oil quickly formed a layer of oil film, and it was obvious at a glance that this was porridge made with high-quality rice.
It was sunny and windless at noon, so the eldest brother Shu Wenhui moved the dining table out, and the family had lunch in the yard. They basked in the warm sun, ate their favorite meals, looked at their beloved parents and brother right in front of them, and drank a mouthful of hot porridge, feeling extremely satisfied.
Li Guifen saw that she was eating with great relish and laughed at her for being a little greedy cat.
Shu Niannian rubbed Li Guifen's arm and acted coquettishly, "Nonsense, it's obviously because you cooked such a delicious meal!"
She spoke in a soft voice and acted coquettishly.
That is a feeling of relaxation that can only be felt in front of family members.
After dinner, Li Guifen asked Shu Niannian to go back to her room to rest and did not let her get involved in the kitchen affairs. However, Shu Niannian did not go back to her room as usual. Instead, she stuck to Li Guifen like a little tail, making Li Guifen laugh and cry.
After rushing several times, Shu Niannian finally left the kitchen reluctantly.
When Shu Niannian returned to her own room, she couldn't stop crying. Their family didn't have many houses, just three main rooms and two side rooms. Among the three main rooms, the main hall was the living room and dining area, to the east were the rooms of her father Shu Guodong and her mother Li Guifen, and the room to the west was reserved for her.
She lived alone in the main room, while her two brothers lived in a side room. The main room was obviously more spacious, but because there was a kang in it while there was no kang in the side room, the two brothers were afraid that she would be cold in winter, so they took the initiative to choose the side room.
Shu Niannian even has her own wardrobe. Although her family is not wealthy, her parents have spoiled her since she was a child, buying her new clothes every season of the year, so she is a fashion trendsetter in the village.
People in the village have always said: If you want to know what clothes are popular in different seasons this year, you don’t need to go to the big market, just look at Shu Niannian.
Ask why?
Why else?
Because Li Guifen loves her daughter!
Before each season came, Li Guifen would take Shu Niannian to the market to make new skirts in the summer and flowery cotton-padded jackets in the winter, changing the pattern every year.
The old ladies in the village would sometimes say to Li Guifen: You spoil your daughter like this, don’t you plan to let her get married? If you want to get married, you have to learn to work first. After all, there is no mother-in-law in your husband's family who will treat your daughter-in-law as her own daughter!
Li Guifen also knew that what the old lady said made sense, but she just couldn't bear to let Shu Niannian do the work.
In her previous life, when Shu Niannian just married Li Chuangye, she couldn't do any work. In the end, she was forced by Li's mother to cook soup and do all the work at home and outside. The price she paid was severe lumbar muscle strain and a pair of swollen and deformed hands due to arthritis.
In this life, from the moment Shu Niannian confirmed her rebirth, she had already thought about how she was going to live.
First: She wants to go to college.
She has a high school diploma and her grades are pretty good. If she studies hard for the college entrance exam next year, she will have a good chance of getting into a university. After all, in the near future, academic qualifications will become a stepping stone to enter a higher level of an industry.
Second: She wants to do business and make money.
Her great-great-great-grandfather was an imperial physician in the Qing Dynasty. Although his grandfather's generation fell into decline, there was still some family heritage passed down. In her previous life, she had followed her grandfather to the mountains to collect herbs since she was a child, and followed her grandfather to memorize pulse diagnosis and classical prescriptions. Therefore, she also had some knowledge of Chinese medicine.
In her previous life, she relied on these pulse cases and prescriptions to earn a place for herself in this world.
In this life, she still wants to develop in that direction, and she wants to start as early as possible. In her previous life, her elder brother stole because he had no money and was forced to do so, so he took that wrong path. Otherwise, with her elder brother's law-abiding behavior, he would never take a single needle or thread from others.
Third: She doesn’t get married.
But not getting married doesn't mean she will give up Lu Jianjun. Shu Meilan and Yang Guihua hurt her so badly in her previous life. In this life, she must make them taste the feeling of being plotted against. At the very least, she will firmly pin the charge of having an affair with her cousin's husband on Shu Meilan's head.
After quickly making a life plan, Shu Niannian felt much more relaxed and happy.
Shu Niannian graduated from high school at the age of 17 and did not take the college entrance examination. She lived a simple life in her previous life and did not have any big ambitions. Her family arranged for her to get married at the age of 18. She thought that since she was already married, there was no point in getting into a university, so she simply did not take the exam.
Thinking about it now, it’s such a pity. Nothing is more important than enriching yourself!
She took out her high school textbooks to dry in the sun, wiping them clean one by one and arranging them neatly. All the books from the first to the third year of high school were spread out flat, taking up half of the yard.
Yang Guifen saw it but didn't say anything. In this family, Shu Niannian could do whatever she wanted, and she let Shu Niannian do whatever she wanted.
It's just that she doesn't have the ability to pick stars. If she had the ability to pick stars, she could even pick a few stars from the sky and use them to decorate Shu Niannian's room.
It was just getting dark, Li Guifen was cooking dinner in the kitchen, and Shu Niannian took the initiative to ask to light the fire. Li Guifen smiled like a flower and kept praising Shu Niannian:
Grow up!
Do you know how to light a fire?
It’s actually cooked quite well? !
I really underestimated you!
There was laughter and joy in the kitchen.
However, Yang Guihua suddenly barged in unexpectedly. She came in aggressively with a dark face and said, "Sister-in-law, you have to take care of your Nian Nian. I invited her to the county town for lunch at noon. She agreed, but changed her mind halfway through the journey! Meilan and I were left standing in the mountains in the cold wind. As human beings, the least we should do is to keep our promises. If we break our promises, we will be struck by lightning!"
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