Grandma Li was clearly aware of this problem.
Everyone only saw the good side of Secretary Li, but they didn't expect that her granddaughter had the same eyes as them.
Grandma Li sometimes thinks that Li Juan didn't inherit her cunning, but her granddaughter did.
Su Yan chuckled, "I'll say it right in front of you."
Grandma Li nodded and solemnly instructed, "You mustn't say things like that again. It wouldn't be good if it got back to Secretary Li's family."
"Grandma, why do you seem to dislike Secretary Li?" she asked, a little curious.
Grandma Li hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said, "Before I married your grandfather, Secretary Li harassed me many times at night, and it only stopped after I married your grandfather."
Su Yan's smile vanished.
Grandpa definitely didn't know about this, otherwise why would he have let Secretary Li build the wall?
“These things happened decades ago. When Secretary Li was in office, he didn’t cause any trouble for our family. Let’s just let this matter go,” Grandma Li said. “Don’t tell Grandpa. He’s not one to keep secrets.”
Su Yan responded.
At this moment, Li Juan called out, "Ayan, come and bring the dishes."
"They're here."
Tonight's meal consisted of sauerkraut and pork stew with glass noodles, braised mutton, and green vegetables.
Li Juan braised mutton according to the recipe Su Yan gave her, but it didn't taste as good as pork, and it had a strong gamey smell.
"Why doesn't it taste the same?" Li Juan said dejectedly after taking a bite.
Su Yan smiled and said, "Mother, different meats require different ingredients. The recipe I gave you is only suitable for braised pork; it's not suitable for other meats."
"It's all meat, how can it be made so complicated?"
"Oh, right." Li Juan remembered something and said, "I've memorized the braised meat recipe you gave me. I burned that piece of paper so no one can steal it."
How many people in the village are now interested in her family's braised food recipe? If she keeps it, what if it gets leaked if she doesn't keep it safe?
Su Yan gave her mother an approving look.
Just as Grandma Li was about to speak, a fragrant aroma suddenly wafted over from the neighboring yard.
Su Yan twitched her nose and looked in the direction of the fragrance.
It's Zhu Xiaoping's house.
The wall was built, and she could no longer see the other person's every move, but the smell was that of braised meat.
She can tell what ingredients and how much are in a dish just by smelling it.
Li Juan noticed it too, and instantly became angry, saying, "What does she mean? Is she trying to imitate our braised food?"
Her voice is quite loud; the neighbors next door can definitely hear it.
Zhu Xiaoping did not refute.
A little while later, Li Juan heard someone humming a tune next door.
Li Juan was so angry she could hardly breathe. She slammed her chopsticks down and yelled, "I'm going to tear her to pieces!"
"Mom!" Su Yan quickly grabbed her, saying with a headache, "Why are you so impulsive? Don't you even smell this? Does it smell as good as mine?"
Upon hearing this, Li Juan froze. She took a deep breath and hesitated, saying, "It smells good, but it still has a bit of a fishy smell... It doesn't even taste a tenth of what our braised dishes taste like."
"So let her follow suit if she wants, anyway, no matter what she does, it won't be as good as ours," Su Yan said.
Li Juan gritted her teeth, "That's what they say, but I'm still angry! Why did she have to make braised food of all things!"
"It's not like we're the only ones allowed to make braised food. If there's one Zhu Xiaoping today, do you believe that in a few days the streets will be full of braised food vendors? Are you going to curse them all?"
Su Yan said earnestly, "Mother, the braised dishes I make are all my own creations. I can guarantee that I am the only one in the world who can make them. Even if ten thousand people try to imitate our family's braised dishes, they will not be able to make them taste the same. So there is no need to get angry over people who are not worth it. People follow the crowd. Whoever sells the newest and best-selling dishes, everyone will follow suit. In the end, the one that remains will be the best."
"Also, I see that you have a lot of liver fire, which will not be good for your health in the long run. So you should get angry less often in the future, just do your own thing and don't worry about what others do."
"Mom, impulsiveness is the devil. Just now, if I hadn't stopped you, and you had laid a hand on Zhu Xiaoping, then even if you were in the right, you would be in the wrong. No matter what, people will always side with the weaker party."
"Then...if that's the case, won't we just be bullied from now on?" Li Juan said, feeling aggrieved.
Su Yan: "...Mother, besides not resorting to violence, we can also reason with each other. If reasoning fails, we can call the police. Look at me, when have I ever laid a hand on someone who wants to take advantage of me?"
Li Juan frowned, seemingly finding it difficult to digest the knowledge of "using words without lifting a finger".
In the countryside, she had seen nothing but fights between women. Why was it so complicated for her?
After a long pause, she hesitantly replied, "Mother will try to revise it."
"That's more like it, I..."
"Bang bang bang!"
"Su Yan! Su Yan, come out here!"
A sudden roar from outside interrupted Su Yan's words.
The door was pounded so hard it was on the verge of collapsing.
Tiger was startled and, after a moment of confusion, burst into tears.
Su Yan's face darkened instantly, and she immediately got up to open the door.
Open the door.
Standing outside the door were Li Dajun and three others who had come up the mountain today.
Oh no, to be precise, Li Dajun was lying on a stretcher, his clothes were tattered, his left knee was fixed with a wooden board, blood was still gushing out, his face was very pale, but that did not stop him from being full of anger.
His shout reached the entire village, and everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks to come out and watch the show.
Su Yan didn't need to guess what Li Dajun and his group had encountered on the mountain, and said impatiently, "Speak quickly if you have something to say, or shut up if you have something to say."
Li Dajun was furious that she dared to be so arrogant even after seeing how badly he was injured: "We went up the mountain in the direction you gave us, and we encountered a leopard. My leg was bitten off, and half of my knee is broken. It will never heal. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been injured. You will be responsible for my life!"
These words caused an uproar among the crowd!
"How can a broken kneecap heal? Li Dajun is truly pitiful!"
"Isn't that terrible? Su Yan is in big trouble this time. Li Dajun is the captain's son! Even if the father and son don't get along, he's still the captain's son. The captain will definitely protect his son!"
"Pah! Su Yan was so arrogant today, now look what happened, karma's come back to bite her!"
...
The crowd's words were extremely harsh, placing all the blame on Su Yan.
"Bullshit!" Li Juan spat directly at Li Dajun's face in anger, gritting her teeth as she retorted, "When you asked my daughter for the location, she already told you there were tigers on the mountain. She said if anything happened to you, it had nothing to do with our family. At the time, none of you four took it seriously and even signed a guarantee. Now that something's happened, you want to blame it on my daughter? Bah! No way! We told you not to go, but you insisted on going. You brought this on yourselves!"
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