Xie Zhuo's cooking skills are truly good enough to be a head chef in a restaurant. This dish, braised pork, made the two little ones' mouths water uncontrollably.
"Oh dear," Chen Lihua wiped their eyes with a handkerchief and said with a smile, "Now you're not crying from hunger, you're almost crying from craving."
She was teasing her two children in the kitchen, and to her surprise, the neighbor's child actually cried from craving.
He kept nagging and begging his mother to buy him meat.
Niu Meihua, with a cold face, raised her hand and slapped him on the butt several times. "Cry, cry, cry! All you do is cry all day long! Other people have good grandparents who buy them meat to eat, but you don't. And you still have the nerve to ask for meat!"
While she was scolding the child, her gaze kept drifting towards the kitchen.
Hearing the noise, Zhao Jinfeng, who was cooking sweet potato chips in the kitchen, slammed her chopsticks on the table and started cursing back without even looking at the child.
"Exactly. Other people's grandparents can leave behind a few hundred dollars in savings when they die. I wonder what your grandparents can leave you when they pass away."
As soon as she said that, Niu Meihua exploded.
He jumped up and dashed from outside into the kitchen.
"What did you say? Who are you cursing, you little bitch?"
Zhao Jinfeng sneered and walked out of the kitchen. Seeing Niu Meihua about to enter, she deliberately rushed over and squeezed her.
Niu Meihua stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Oh my God! The daughter-in-law hit her mother-in-law! Is there no justice in this world?!"
She drew out her voice, screaming with all her might.
The men who were playing cards inside heard the commotion and ran out to see what was happening. They found the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law entangled in a struggle, each scratching the other's face.
Xie Zhuo had no idea that cooking braised pork would cause so much trouble.
After serving two plates, he put the last of the food in a bowl, placed it in a small basket, covered it with a clean cloth, and then called out to Xu Yan.
"What's wrong?" Xu Yan stepped into the kitchen.
Chen Lihua was also a little curious, but she didn't ask any more questions and continued to tidy up her work.
“I plan to take these to Sister Li,” Xie Zhuo said. “I just heard Da Bao say that Xiao Shuanzi peeked his head out of our front door for a long time.”
When Xu Yan heard him mention Xiao Shuanzi, he realized that "Sister Li" referred to Li Aihua.
Too.
Aside from Li Aihua, their family didn't have many other relatives with the surname Li on good terms.
“Okay, then you go and deliver it,” Xu Yan nodded. “I think she’s a straightforward person, it would be good to spend more time with her.”
Before Xie Zhuo could say anything after she said that, Chen Lihua slapped her and said, "Go and deliver it. Xie Zhuo has been cooking all day without a break. Let him deliver the vegetables."
After saying that, without waiting for Xu Yan to speak, he took the basket and said to Xie Zhuo, "You take the dishes out first. Da Bao and Xiao Bao have been waiting for a long time."
Xie Zhuo glanced at Xu Yan, then took the dishes out.
Hearing Da Bao and Xiao Bao cheering in the yard, Chen Lihua patted Xu Yan's arm again, saying, "How can you be so grown up and still be so naive?"
"Huh?" Xu Yan was taken aback.
I don't quite understand why her mother sent Xie Zhu away just to say this.
"Putting everything else aside, Xie Zhuo, a grown man, carrying meat to deliver to that Sister Li, wouldn't people gossip if they saw it?" Chen Lihua said.
"No way," Xu Yan said, "Her husband is home too, what gossip could he possibly be saying?"
"If a young and beautiful wife were to deliver meat to Xie Zhuo, would you think it would be alright?" Chen Lihua asked, frowning.
That definitely won't work.
A thought unconsciously popped into Xu Yan's mind.
“Besides,” Chen Lihua continued, “I think Xie Zhuo meant for you to deliver it and build a good relationship with this Sister-in-law Li.”
"At first I thought you were really talking more, but after watching you these past two days, I realized you just talk more with your own family."
“That won’t do. Now that you’ve married Xie Zhuo, you have to be prepared to live in the village and get along well with your neighbors.”
"As the saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. Besides, Xie Zhuo's family doesn't have any elders, and we're not here. We're far away, so we can't get here in time if something happens."
Xu Yan hadn't really thought that far ahead.
She was thinking of getting into university and leaving this place in two years. She would get along with the people in Qingshan Brigade if she could, and if not, she would just endure it for two years.
Two years later she left, and they did whatever they wanted.
Anyway, it doesn't bother her.
Now, Chen Lihua feels that two years is not a short time. If something really happens, it's better to have someone to help than no one to help.
"Have you figured it out?" Chen Lihua placed the basket in Xu Yan's hands. "If you have, hurry up and deliver it. We still need to eat after you bring it back."
Xu Yan took the basket and walked two steps toward the door, then, as if remembering something, turned her head to look at Chen Lihua.
"mom."
"Hmm?" Chen Lihua looked at her. "If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Didn't you say something like this before?" Xu Yan thought of some of the original owner's memories and thoughts in the original book, "It's okay to make a scene at home, but you have to give men face in public?"
Chen Lihua frowned. "When did I say that?"
A hint of doubt flashed through Xu Yan's mind again.
It was because she observed Chen Lihua over the past two days that she realized Chen Lihua wasn't the type to swallow her anger, which is why she asked that question.
really.
It doesn't match the original text either.
“You have to let your temper out,” Chen Lihua said. “It’s not good for your health to keep it bottled up, especially for young women.”
The two exchanged a few more words, and before Da Bao and Xiao Bao could get impatient and come over to urge her, Xu Yan took the basket and went out the door.
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