Chapter 50 Three Cousins

"Where do you think I got the eggs I gave you? Come on, go sit in the main hall. The food will be ready soon. When everyone arrives, we can start eating."

I saw Zhou Xiufen looking around the kitchen.

Zhang Jinlan hurriedly took her to the main room.

A quarter of an hour later.

Everyone is here.

The meal is officially served.

Because the Zhou family is coming to have dinner today.

The table can't accommodate everyone.

The children were moved into the yard.

Each of them held a bowl and ate without raising their heads.

"My dear in-laws, are you having a hard time?" Zhou Xiufen, who was sitting in the main room, was stunned by the large servings of egg custard, scrambled eggs with Artemisia annua, and the thick rice porridge on the table.

Whose way of eating eggs is this?

"Do you think I'm as stingy as you?"

Zhang Jinlan glared at her.

This meal used twelve eggs alone.

One was to celebrate the eldest grandson's successful break-off of the engagement, and he also made some money.

Second, her daughter and granddaughters were too thin, and she felt very distressed and wanted to nourish them.

Otherwise she wouldn't be willing to eat so many eggs.

After all, one can be sold for two cents.

It was rare for Zhang Jinlan to be so generous. She raised her chin high and kept this posture all the time.

"Yes, yes, you are generous. I can't compare to you."

Zhou Xiufen did not refute the request.

She picked up the chopsticks, picked up a big piece of egg and stuffed it into her mouth.

Sun Fu was so busy eating that he didn't even have time to speak.

"My dear relative, since you are the one who spent the money, I will not be polite." Sun Tiesuo had some dignity. He first took a spoonful of rice porridge before he picked up some vegetables with his chopsticks.

"Mom, why is there refined rice in the porridge? Is life so good at home?"

Jiang Sanhe looked at the two kinds of porridge in the bowl and took a breath of cool air.

I heard from my husband that the price of fine rice in this town is more than one hundred coins per bushel.

My family can actually afford refined rice.

Could it be that her parents were living a good life behind her back?

"How could that be possible? Fubao fell into the water a few days ago and got sick. I felt sorry for her, so I bought some refined rice and brought it back for her alone. But Fubao is a filial child and she refused to eat it no matter what I said. She insisted that I mix the refined rice with the brown rice and let us all eat it together. I had no choice but to do as she said. You guys are also benefiting from Fubao's kindness."

Naturally, it was impossible for Zhang Jinlan to tell the truth.

Her voice echoed faintly in the main room.

If it weren't for the refined rice, I wouldn't be able to pick it out.

When she was cooking just now, she wanted to pick a pot of brown rice to cook alone.

The Zhou family got a great bargain.

"Why treat a little girl so well? She will get married when she grows up. It's a big loss to raise her so carefully. It's nothing more than a small gift of two taels. Don't make a loss."

Zhou Xiufen heard how Zhang Jinlan doted on her granddaughter.

He looked at her as if she were a fool.

"My Fubao will not marry outside the family. She will find a husband in the future." Zhang Jinlan's tone was even colder than before.

"What? Find a son-in-law? Are you crazy? You have so many grandsons at home, and you want to find a son-in-law for your granddaughter? Where will he live? Your house is so small. When all the grandsons get married and have children, there will be no room for them."

When Zhou Xiufen heard about the recruitment of a son-in-law, she even stopped eating.

She was drooling.

Persuade her to talk about Zhang Jinlan.

"Okay, okay, stop talking and eat quickly. After eating, we'll go home. We still have a lot of work to do in the fields."

I saw that my in-laws looked unhappy.

Sun Tiesuo knocked on the bowl with his chopsticks.

Shout loudly.

Zhou Xiufen shut up immediately.

Inside the main room, the atmosphere was chilly.

There was a burst of joy in the yard.

"Cousin, grandma really loves you." Jiang Sanhe's eldest daughter, Sun Zhaodi, heard the voices in the main room.

She looked at Jiang Fubao with envy.

"Yeah, grandma is very kind to me. Sister, are you doing well at home?"

There were no three cousins ​​in the original owner's memory.

Because I saw them for the first time today.

With curiosity, Jiang Fubao asked cautiously.

"Although grandma always scolded us, she never hit us. Compared with other girls in the village, we lived well, but we often didn't have enough to eat. Grandma said that if I gave birth to a younger brother in the future, I would have to save money for him to marry a wife, so the family's money could not be spent carelessly.

My mother often takes medicine, which is also an expense. On weekdays, I take my sisters to the mountains to pick up dead wood, catch insects, and dig up young sprouts. We live pretty well."

Sun Zhaodi, who was only eight years old, would not lie.

She answered truthfully.

"Is Auntie sick?"

I heard that Jiang Sanhe often takes medicine.

Jiang Fubao thought she was sick.

"No, grandma said that mom was a hen that couldn't lay eggs, so she made a lot of folk remedies for mom to drink. Those medicines were all obtained from quack doctors, and they were very expensive. But mom drank them for more than a year, and she didn't get pregnant with my brother."

Sun Zhaodi was a little disappointed.

She really wanted her mother to give birth to a younger brother right away.

This way grandma won’t scold mom every day.

"My little sister, eat more." Without waiting for Jiang Fubao to say anything, Sun Zhaodi picked up another egg and put it in her sister's bowl.

"Fourth sister? Sister, didn't aunt only give birth to the three of you?"

Jiang Fubao tilted his head, very confused.

Could it be that Jiang Sanhe gave birth to four children?

Where did the extra one go?

Did it die young?

"It's not the fourth sister, it's the dead... Grandma gave this name to me, saying it cursed the fourth baby in my mother's belly, saying she couldn't give birth to a sister."

Sun Zhaodi has been sensible for a long time.

Naturally I know the meaning of my sister's name.

She lowered her head somewhat ashamedly and continued speaking.

"Grandma said, I was called Zhaodi, but I didn't get a younger brother. My second sister was called Lai Di, but she still didn't get a younger brother. The names weren't effective, so I just gave my younger sister a different name."

The words fell.

Jiang Fubao felt upset.

She can't eat.

Who would name a granddaughter "Simei"? What if Jiang Sanhe gave birth to a girl as her fourth child?

Isn't this a curse to the child?

Sure enough, God is still kind to her.

If I had traveled through time to my Sun family.

She was just afraid that she would run away in the middle of the night.

There was no need for her to stay in such a family, and she would not use the good things in the space to help improve the lives of such a patriarchal family.

Jiang Fubao stood up and gently placed the bowl in his hand on the bench.

He went back to the house without saying a word.

Just now, she suddenly remembered that there were some leftover candies in the space that she had eaten before she traveled through time.

She can't help her cousins, but she can make them sweet-mouthed.

If your mouth is sweet, your heart will not be bitter.

Back inside, she closed the door and entered the space.

I dug out three pieces of candy, no more.

Unless you wait for the space to refresh.

There is exactly one for each of my three cousins.

Jiang Fubao tore off the candy wrapper.

There are all kinds of words and expiration dates written on it, and you can't take out any space.

Fortunately, the candy was wrapped in a layer of edible rice paper, and the weather was not yet hot.

It's not sticky when you hold it in your hands.

She hid the candy in her sleeve.

Leave the room.

I dragged my three cousins ​​to the backyard.

"Ladies, open your mouths."

She looks mysterious.

The three were a little confused, but they still opened their mouths obediently and moved in surprisingly unison.

Like the chicks in a nest crying for food.

Somewhat cute.