"Here, for you." Li Cuilian placed the piece of fruit candy with a torn corner of its wrapping paper on Zhou Miaomiao's palm and looked down at Zhou Miaomiao, who was looking very happy.
Li Cuilian's heart was filled with pride. Look! Zhou Chunping's children were so happy to see the fruit stall that her two children had grown tired of. Did this mean that her family was much better off than Zhou Chunping's?
Zhou Miaomiao didn't care what Li Cuilian would think. As soon as she got the candy, she grabbed it in her hand and ran home like the wind.
"Huh?" This kid was so polite just now, why doesn't he even say thank you now? Li Cuilian was stunned.
Li Cuilian was standing at the door of Zhou Chunping's house, dazed. Across the street, someone ran and shouted, "Mom, Mom, Dad told me to tell you to come back quickly."
"What's wrong? What happened?" Li Cuilian was surprised to see her eleven-year-old son Zhou Tiechui running around sweating. She had just left home and everything was fine when she left.
"Mom, Dad asked you to go to Grandpa's house quickly. Grandma Xiaohong is blocking the door and cursing in the street!" Zhou Tiechui hurriedly repeated Zhou Hongming's instructions to Li Cuilian.
Huh? Her father-in-law is the old village chief, highly respected in Zhoujia Village. Has Grandma Xiaohong gone insane? She actually ran to her father-in-law's house to cause trouble?
Li Cuilian realized it later.
At Zhao Yunxiang's house, Zhao Yunxiang and Aunt Qiuju were busy early in the morning. With over a hundred pounds of fish, just scraping the scales and removing the bones was enough to keep them busy.
With the help of Zhou Yuanyuan and Zhou Jiasheng, the first batch of fish balls came out of the pot in the middle of the morning. Smelling the fragrant hot steam, Aunt Qiuju praised: "Yunxiang, your mother is really skillful. She can make such exquisite food."
To prevent the Zhou family from causing any trouble, Zhao Guohui simply had Zhao Yunxiang say that the fish balls were a secret recipe passed down from her mother's ancestors. If the Zhou family knew that the fish balls were made by Zhao Yunxiang, they would definitely ask for a share.
Zhao Yunxiang is the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family. According to the rules in the countryside, once a daughter-in-law marries into her husband's family, her things become the property of her husband's family.
Zhao Yunxiang earned a transfer fee from the Qingshan Food Factory using her fish balls, a fact neither Zhao Qingshan nor Zhao Guohui would reveal. However, sometimes things just go unnoticed, like when the factory director asked Manager Wang to contact Zhao Guohui for a supply. Manager Wang would undoubtedly be curious about how the Qingshan Food Factory's flagship product became associated with Zhao Guohui.
After a while, Manager Wang might find out from the food factory that Zhao Yunxiang transferred the secret recipe of fish balls. If more people know about it, there is no guarantee that the Zhou family will get wind of it.
Zhao Guohui asked Zhao Yunxiang to say that the fish balls were passed down from Zhao's mother's ancestors. Even if the Zhou family knew that Zhao Yunxiang made a fortune by selling fish balls, they would have no excuse to take advantage of Zhao Yunxiang.
This wasn't the first time Zhao Guohui's ingenuity had surprised Zhou Yuanyuan. When Zhao Guohui and Zhao Yunxiang discussed this, Zhou Yuanyuan had heard it all clearly.
Zhou Yuanyuan couldn't help but wonder why such a capable uncle had such a bad ending in his past life. Was it because the enemy was too powerful? Or was his uncle simply not smart enough in his past life? No! That couldn't be right. Zhao Guohui's shrewdness came from the Zhao family's genetics. Conversely, Zhao Yunxiang, born of the same mother, wasn't unintelligent, but rather less wary of her family.
Zhao Yunxiang treated the wolves of the Zhou family as her own, which was the cause of her tragic death in her previous life. In this life, Zhou Yuanyuan is determined to make Zhao Yunxiang see the Zhou family's true colors. Family ties and ethics are nothing in the face of life!
The era of "If the king wants his subject to die, the subject must die; if the father wants his son to die, the son must die" has long passed. In the new society, everyone is an independent individual, everyone has independent thoughts, and no one has the right to decide the life or death of others, not even parents!
Every time she interacted with Zhao Guohui, Zhou Yuanyuan discovered something new. She would rather believe the rumor that Zhao Guohui had gone abroad in his past life than believe that Zhao Guohui had died young in his past life. Her uncle didn't deserve such a tragic death.
"Aunt, it's just a snack. My ancestors on my mother's side used to make that." Zhao Yunxiang pointed to the top of her head, hinting at the Zhao family's identity as imperial physicians in the previous dynasty.
There is no way. In this era, many things cannot be said openly. If it were not for Zhao Qingshan's identity as a combat hero, the identity of the Zhao family's ancestor as an imperial physician would have ended up in an unknown way.
"That's true." Aunt Qiuju nodded, agreeing with Zhao Yunxiang's statement. In the minds of ordinary people, imperial physicians were as unattainable as the emperor. However, the food handed down from the Zhao family, a family of imperial physicians, was considered a noble and prestigious thing in Aunt Qiuju's mind.
Zhou Miaomiao ran to the backyard with the fruit candy given to her by Li Cuilian. Smelling the fragrance coming from Zhou Yuanyuan's kitchen, Zhou Miaomiao felt that the candy in her hand had lost its appeal to her.
Zhou Miaomiao slowly walked to the door of the small kitchen and took a few quick glances inside.
In the kitchen, Zhao Yunxiang and Aunt Qiuju were chatting and laughing as they worked. Beneath the stove, Zhou Jiasheng was adding firewood to the hearth with a serious expression, as if he were doing something extremely sacred.
Zhou Yuanyuan was helping Zhao Yunxiang remove fish bones on a small chopping board. This was something Zhou Yuanyuan had to do after insisting on Zhao Yunxiang.
It would be too hard for Zhao Yunxiang and Aunt Qiuju to make so many fish balls. Zhou Yuanyuan decided to help out a little to make her mother's life easier.
The most time-consuming part of making fish balls is removing the fish bones. If this step is not done properly, if someone accidentally gets a fish bone stuck in their throat while eating, it would be no joke.
Zhou Miaomiao shook the fruit candy in her hand, but Zhou Yuanyuan didn't leave her and continued with the things at hand.
"Yuanyuan, is Miaomiao looking for you to play?" Zhao Yunxiang saw Zhou Miaomiao standing at the door in such a ostentatious posture. Even if she wanted to pretend not to see it, she couldn't. Besides, Aunt Qiuju was here! No matter what, Miaomiao was a member of the Zhou family. You couldn't write two Zhou characters with one stroke.
"I'm not going. I don't want to talk to her." Zhou Yuanyuan felt very depressed. Zhao Yunxiang's occasional stupidity made Zhou Yuanyuan feel powerless. In Zhou Yuanyuan's opinion, she and Zhou Miaomiao would never be good sisters in this life. Why bother pretending to be "sisters" in front of others?
"Yuanyuan, you're right to ignore her. Miaomiao is such a mean girl! Stay away from her." Aunt Qiuju didn't think Zhou Yuanyuan's attitude was wrong. The month before last, Zhou Yuanyuan was pushed into the pond by Zhou Miaomiao. She was lucky not to drown. Even though she was lucky enough to be rescued, she still caught a cold. I heard that when she was taken to the town hospital, her fever was over 39 degrees Celsius! Yuanyuan is fine, thanks to God's blessing!
Zhao Yunxiang was stunned when Yuanyuan fell into the water. Even Zhao Guohui had to be informed by Aunt Qiuju! Fortunately, Wu Jinfeng didn't know about this, otherwise, Wu Jinfeng would have come to the door long ago.
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