Chapter 121 Greed
Jiang Haitang returned home and put Li Shengli out of her mind.
She walked into the kitchen and frowned when she saw the radishes, cabbages, potatoes and dried vegetables in the kitchen.
I have been eating these dishes for several days, and the same cooking methods over and over again are really making me feel a little bored.
After thinking for a moment, she decided to make some potato boxes for a change of taste.
She first washed the potatoes carefully, peeled them, then skillfully cut them into thin strips and chopped them a few times.
Then, she chopped a handful of green onions, found the leftover lard residue from the cupboard, chopped it finely, and mixed it with shredded potatoes and green onions to make a fragrant stuffing.
After the filling was ready, Jiang Haitang began to knead the dough. She didn't use pure white flour, but mixed white flour and cornmeal in a certain proportion. To make the dough more chewy, she also beat an egg into it.
While kneading the dough, Jiang Haitang seemed to want to knead all the unhappiness brought by Li Shengli into the dough, again and again, with great force.
After kneading the dough, Jiang Haitang put a layer of oil in the pan and started to make potato boxes.
She was very skilled. After wrapping one, she carefully placed it in the pot.
After a while, a pot of potato boxes was wrapped.
As the temperature in the pot rose, the first potato box put into the pot gradually turned golden and the edges began to curl up slightly.
Jiang Haitang gently turned it over with a spatula, and suddenly, a rich fragrance filled the entire kitchen.
She turned the potato boxes over one by one, covered the pot, and listened to the sizzling sound in the pot, her heart full of anticipation.
At this moment, familiar footsteps and cheerful laughter were heard outside the door.
"What a nice smell!" As soon as Lu Liangchen opened the door, he was attracted by the tempting fragrance and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
Little Taozi clapped her chubby hands and smiled, "Mom's cooking is the best. I love Mom!"
"Do you like your mother, or do you like the food she cooks?" Jiang Haitang put down the spatula in her hand and deliberately teased the little guy.
Little Taozi tilted her head and thought seriously for a while before she said crisply, "I like my mom, and I also like the food she cooks."
Jiang Haitang couldn't help laughing and reached out to pinch Xiao Taozi's chubby little face.
Looking back a few months ago, when Xiao Taozi first came, she was so thin that her bones were visible, her face had no flesh at all, and her eyes were full of timidity.
But now, the little guy's face was chubby and rosy, exactly like the peach she saved in her previous life.
Jiang Haitang became more and more convinced that Xiao Taozi was the little angel sent by God to repay his gratitude.
"Hurry and wash your hands. I made a lot today, so I'll send some to Director Liu's house."
As Jiang Haitang spoke, she took a large bowl and put a few golden fried crispy potato boxes into it.
Lu Liangchen took Xiao Taozi to wash their hands. The father and daughter rubbed their hands seriously, and they looked very cute.
When Jiang Haitang returned from Director Liu's house, Lu Liangchen and Xiao Taozi were already sitting obediently beside the table waiting.
"Why don't you eat?" Jiang Haitang asked with some confusion.
Little Peach quickly answered: "We have to wait for mom to come back to eat together. We can't eat first. Mom works very hard to cook."
After hearing what Xiao Taozi said, Jiang Haitang felt warm in her heart and her eyes were slightly moist.
Lu Liangchen looked at Jiang Haitang gently, put a golden fried potato box into her bowl, and carefully broke half of it for Xiao Taozi before starting to eat.
The family of three sat around the dinner table, chatting with each other, and the atmosphere was very warm.
Jiang Haitang looked at the two people in front of her, her heart filled with happiness.
"Li Shengli came to see me today and said that she wanted her mother to live in my house."
Jiang Haitang thought about this and decided to talk to Lu Liangchen about it.
Lu Liangchen snorted coldly: "Are you dreaming? Is your dormitory for his mother to live in?"
"I'm so fed up. I wish Li Shengli wasn't in the textile factory." Jiang Haitang said depressedly.
"It's almost done. Li Shengli uses all his little brain to find loopholes. After such a long investigation, there aren't many problems found."
Lu Liangchen told Jiang Haitang about the current investigation into Li Shengli.
The initial direction of the investigation was that Li Shengli was pretending to be a martyr, but the source of this information only found that a person from the neighboring village who had fought on the battlefield with Li Shengli saw Li Shengli being carried off the battlefield covered in blood. It was speculated that the lack of news about Li Shengli was due to his sacrifice and had nothing to do with Li Shengli himself.
As for the issue of Lee Seung-ri's bigamy, Wu Xiuyun admitted that when Lee Seung-ri brought back the news that he was alive, he said that the two of them did not have a marriage certificate and did not have a de facto marriage, and asked her to adopt Jiang Haitang as her adopted daughter and marry her off to another man.
However, Wu Xiuyun did not want to lose Jiang Haitang, the cheap and strong laborer, so she chose to keep it secret.
Although I knew there was something fishy going on, I couldn't find any evidence and couldn't deal with him.
"Should we just let him continue to act recklessly like this?"
"When you pull out a radish, you bring out some dirt. We've found some other problems. Don't worry, we'll deal with it." Lu Liangchen comforted Jiang Haitang.
He didn't want to see this man even more than Haitang did.
After dinner, Lu Liangchen washed the dishes, Jiang Haiyang sewed shoe soles, and Xiao Taozi played beside them. It was a very heartwarming scene.
However, this warmth was broken by someone.
The three members of the Li family were wrapped in faded cotton jackets, enduring the pain of the cold winter wind wrapped in fine ice chips hitting their faces. They kept banging on the door, and their shouts broke the silence of the night.
"Sister-in-law, please open the door. I know you are inside!" The weather was too cold. Li Qiulan jumped on tiptoe, and her pigtails swayed violently with the movement, which looked a bit weird.
"Haitang, Mom is here, why don't you even open the door? It's so cold, how can you bear it?"
Wu Xiuyun sat on the ground, a few tears squeezed out of her cloudy old eyes, but the drooping corners of her mouth still showed the sharpness of years of giving orders.
In the room, Jiang Haitang and Lu Liangchen both heard it. Lu Liangchen piled up the washed dishes and wiped his hands with a towel.
"Ignore him." He had seen all kinds of things in the market, but he had never seen such a shameless person.
Jiang Haitang put down the half-finished shoe sole in her hand and looked at the snowflakes falling outside the window. Many years ago, when she first arrived at the Li family, it was also a snowy night like this. She curled up in the Li family's leaky straw hut and almost froze to death.
"Let's go out and take a look. It's not a big deal if they make such a fuss." She sighed softly, pulled up her thick cotton coat and put it on, then put on her wool scarf.
Lu Liangchen pulled his military coat over, and the hem blew up a breeze: "I'll go out with you."
His tall figure cast a huge shadow under the warm yellow light, giving people a sense of security.
Jiang Haitang raised her hand to stop him, her fingertips accidentally brushing against his warm wrist.
"Don't go out yet. If you go out with me, I don't know what kind of trouble you will cause. I can handle it."
The people in the Li family are shameless, especially Li Qiulan. If she sees Lu Liangchen, she will probably become a fangirl again.
"Then I'll be inside the gate. If there is any unexpected situation, I will come out immediately." Lu Liangchen compromised.
With a creak, the door slowly opened. As Jiang Haitang stepped out, the biting cold wind blew in her face, accompanied by Li Qiulan's shrill voice: "Hey, you think you're a big shot? I'm freezing to death, let me in."
Jiang Haitang stopped her, pushed her away, and blocked the door herself.
Among the crowd of onlookers, Aunt Wei pushed through the crowd and squeezed to the front.
The retired worker, who had worked in the factory cafeteria for twenty years, had a face red from years of cooking fumes and was filled with indignation. "Haitang, what's wrong with these people? Why are they saying she's your mother?"
"Auntie Wei, this is Li Shengli's mother."
Jiang Haitang's tone was as calm as if he was talking about the weather, but his eyes were cold enough to freeze.
She noticed the cotton shoes on Wu Xiuyun's feet - she made them for her last year, but because Wu Xiuyun stayed on the kang all year round, the shoes looked as good as new.
When Li Shengjie saw Jiang Haitang, he was stunned. Jiang Haitang was different from the person in his memory who was always covered in dust and dirt and only knew how to work. Her hair, which used to be messy, was now neatly braided and hung in front of her chest, and her clothes were brand new.
In a few months, she became whiter, more beautiful, and had an indescribable charm, like a completely different person.
"Sister-in-law, I'm Shengjie!" He put on a flattering smile, revealing his two fangs. This was the "innocent expression" that Jiang Haitang liked the most when she was a child.
He was not there when the trouble happened last time, so Jiang Haitang should not have taken her anger out on him because of her mother and sister.
After all, his sister-in-law used to treat him better than her own brothers, loved him from the bottom of her heart, and definitely couldn't bear to see him suffer any injustice.
"I'm not your sister-in-law, your sister-in-law is Liang Suya." Jiang Haitang's voice was colder than the wind today.
"I only recognize you as my sister-in-law!" Li Shengjie took two steps forward and said flatteringly.
Although he has not been in the factory for a long time, he can see that Jiang Haitang is now much more capable than his brother. She has to work hard to please Jiang Haitang. Maybe she can get many benefits.
Jiang Haitang looked at him. The ugly face that had let her die in her previous life overlapped with the slightly immature face in front of her.
"Li Shengjie, from the day I left Qingshuigou, I have no relationship with your family anymore. If you want to find your brother or sister-in-law, go find them yourself. Don't bother me."
"Jiang Haitang, you bitch, do you really think you are the best in the city?"
Li Qiulan started to attack Jiang Haitang, and her domineering and condescending look showed that she still treated Jiang Haitang as a maid.
"Haitang, I raised you. No matter how I look at it, I'm indebted to you. You can't just ignore me." Wu Xiuyun also said tearfully.
"Sister-in-law, you came to our house when you were six years old, and it was your mother who raised you. You must remember this kindness." Li Shengjie helped Wu Xiuyun.
Jiang Haitang looked at them with a look of sarcasm on her face.
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