Before returning to the village, Shuying made a special trip to the tube building to confirm that the adulterer Li Yao lived downstairs from her second brother.
I learned from the lady who worked in the tube building that Li Yao was indeed married, and the woman he married was a city dweller named Jiang Fengying.
Jiang Fengying has a good reputation in the tube building. She is not calculative and is filial. Some time ago, Li Yao's father was in poor health, so she often went to his home to take care of him.
Recently, Li Yaoniang fell ill again and was hospitalized in the county hospital. This female comrade had to go out early and come back late every day to take care of her mother-in-law.
Good guys!
He let his wife take care of his parents while he messed around at home. No wonder he often went to the textile factory to pick up Zhu Wenwen and messed around with her when he had time.
Why did these two separate and not get married? Now they have brought trouble to her second brother and other lesbians.
Shuying also asked which county hospital Li Yaoniang was staying in.
After getting the news, Shuying went to the hospital again.
In the hospital ward, Jiang Fengying wiped her mother-in-law's body, fed her, and let her rest first.
The ladies in other beds in the hospital ward all praised Li Yaoniang for her filial piety. Before, they didn't know she was their daughter-in-law, but they didn't know she was someone else's daughter-in-law.
The aunts were particularly jealous of finding such a filial daughter-in-law.
These days they saw the daughter-in-law coming to the hospital every day, busying around and taking care of her mother-in-law in a nice and gentle manner.
Even when the mother-in-law got angry, her daughter-in-law didn't get angry at all. It was a great choice to marry such a good daughter-in-law.
Several ladies in the same ward were jealous.
Li Yaoniang was very dissatisfied.
In recent years, her daughter-in-law has been like an old hen who can't lay eggs. She has been married to her son for so many years and has even given her a grandson.
Before, she had encouraged her youngest son to move out and live in a tube-shaped building. If the tube-shaped building wasn't only a dozen square meters, Li Yaoniang would have wanted to move in with her whole family.
Now Li Yaoniang feels a little regretful. If she had known that she would let her son marry an old hen that couldn't lay eggs, why didn't she agree to her son being with the girl named Zhu?
Maybe she even has grandchildren.
Li Yaoniang had three sons. The reason she did not agree with her youngest son marrying his earliest boyfriend was that she felt that his boyfriend was too frivolous and had a bad temper.
She already had two daughters-in-law at the time. The eldest and the second daughter-in-law were both tough people. Of course, Li Yaoniang wanted her youngest son to marry someone who had a good temper, was hardworking and easy to control.
That's why he took a fancy to Jiang Fengying, who was good-tempered and hardworking. However, he didn't know that this daughter-in-law was actually a hen that didn't lay eggs.
Li Yaoniang looked at her with disdain, and Jiang Fengying looked gloomy and disappointed.
She also wants to have a child, but unfortunately she doesn’t know why she can’t get pregnant in the past few years.
"You're just standing here like a piece of wood. Can't you find some trouble to take?" Li Yaoniang scolded.
"Mom, I'll go get you some water!" Jiang Fengying immediately picked up the kettle and went out.
The other ladies in the ward looked at each other, thinking that if they had such a filial daughter-in-law, they would be so happy.
Seeing that Li Yaoniang got angry at her daughter-in-law from time to time, several aunts lost their good impression of Li Yaoniang.
Shuying had been standing outside the door in the corridor. When he saw Jiang Fengying coming out, he hurriedly asked, "Excuse me, are you Comrade Jiang Fengying?"
Jiang Fengying saw the pretty girl standing in front of her and asked in confusion, "I am, may I ask who you are?"
"Comrade Jiang, someone just asked me to pass on a letter to you!" She had just written the letter, and the content was of course about the affair between the adulterer Li Yao and her good second sister-in-law. She couldn't stay in the county town every day to catch the adulterer, so she could only count on Comrade Jiang.
Fearing that Comrade Jiang would keep silent, Shuying also wrote that the two had a close niece. Any female comrade would never tolerate this. If it were her, she would definitely catch the couple secretly and report it to the Revolutionary Committee.
Let this adulterous couple get their retribution.
Jiang Fengying had no doubts. She took the letter but did not read it immediately. She went to get the kettle to fill it with water. Shuying was just thinking about whether she should say a few words of comfort to the other person if he was upset. Seeing that the other person did not read the letter immediately, Shuying had to leave first. She just hoped that this female comrade would be more supportive.
Looking through the tree shadows, we saw that the sun was almost setting, so we walked back to the village.
It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon when Shuying arrived at the entrance of the village. He immediately took out the three pounds of spare ribs, several pounds of flour, two pounds of pork belly, a bag of White Rabbit milk candy, a bag of glutinous rice noodles, several canned food and a large pumpkin that he had exchanged from the space, put them in the backpack, and walked home.
On her way back, she greeted people in her village and met a few of her nephews who rushed towards her in a hurry.
Without waiting for Dahu and Xiaohu to speak, the clever Erhu asked first: "Aunt, aunt, grandma said you went to the county town, did you buy anything delicious for us?"
Big Tiger sniffed his nose, and Second Tiger and Little Tiger followed suit, tilting their heads upwards to look at the shadows of the trees.
Shuying couldn't bear to see this, so he took some paper and wiped the noses of his three nephews, nodding and saying, "Yes!"
Several nephews have eaten a lot of candy recently, so Shuying only opened a bag of glutinous rice sticks and gave each of them two.
The surface of the glutinous rice sticks was coated with white sugar. Dahu, Erhu and Xiaohu, who were eating glutinous rice sticks for the first time, took a bite with a crunch sound.
The crispy, fragrant and sweet glutinous rice noodles are even better than White Rabbit milk candy.
Several nephews were clamoring while eating.
The two nephews finished the two glutinous rice sticks in just a few bites. Xiaohu was small and ate slowly. He licked the second one slowly and looked at his two brothers proudly.
But Dahu and Erhu were so angry that they even wanted Shuying to give it to them.
Jiangmi noodles are a food that causes internal heat, so Shuying didn't plan to give them more. She just asked her three nephews to come home early tonight so that she could make something delicious for them.
When Dahu, Erhu and Xiaohu heard that their aunt was going to make something delicious, their eyes lit up.
Now the three nephews like their aunt the most. Their aunt is the best at cooking delicious food, and their uncle will also take them to drive a big car.
Da Hu asked hurriedly, "Aunt, what delicious food are you going to make for dinner?"
"Pork ribs stewed with radish!" said Shuying.
"What are spare ribs?" Xiaohu asked in a baby voice.
"It's meat! You're so stupid!" Dahu and Erhu knew that the ribs were meat, and they immediately drooled. They looked down on Xiaohu in unison, and then hurriedly promised to go back after playing for a while.
The angry little tiger screamed.
Shuying patted his two nephews on the head, telling Dahu and Erhu not to scold their younger brother.
"Aunt, I still want to eat some glutinous rice noodles, just one, the last one!" Erhu said.
Shuying disagreed, and Erhu actually stuffed the glutinous rice noodles that Xiaohu had licked into his own mouth and ran away. Shuying was stunned.
The little tiger who had his food taken away started to cry loudly, and the big tiger regretted that he hadn't taken the food away just now. Now the second tiger got the advantage, thinking so in his heart, but the big tiger said, "Brother, I'll go get it back for you!"
When the big tiger caught up, Shuying quickly gave the little tiger another glutinous rice stick, which made him happy.
Dahu and Erhu both ran away, so Shuying simply took his nephew home.
Xiaohu was still happy to follow his aunt, chatting with Shuying in a baby voice all the way. Shuying was very patient in replying to his nephew's words.
When they got home, the two little nieces were helping to sweep the floor. They were very sensible. Shuying quickly gave each of them two more glutinous rice sticks.
Xiaohu said to Daya and Erya in a baby voice: "Sister Daya, Sister Erya, this is delicious, even better than candy!"
Shuying went to the kitchen to help, so she asked Daya and Erya to help look after their younger brother.
"Got it, aunt!"
After the two rushed over, the house was not as busy as before. Shuying went into the kitchen, where Yang's mother and two sisters-in-law were all.
"Mom, sister-in-law!" Shuying put Belon on the small table in the kitchen. Mother Yang hurried to help him and waited to see that her daughter had bought so many things in the county town.
Mother Yang felt heartbroken.
She knew that her daughter had gone to the county to prepare the expenses, and her son-in-law's passbook was still in her daughter's hands. Mother Yang was afraid that her daughter would use her son-in-law's savings to buy good food for the family, so she hurriedly said, "Daughter, you and your son-in-law are not married yet. Although your son-in-law's savings are all given to you, you can't spend your son-in-law's money recklessly now!"
What would happen if my in-laws found out?
The eldest sister-in-law Hong Xiaojuan and the third sister-in-law Wang Rong hurriedly went to the youngest sister's backpack. When they saw that the youngest sister's backpack was filled with ribs, meat, flour, canned food, etc., their eyes suddenly widened and their faces were filled with joy.
Oh, there's something delicious for dinner again.
They knew that their little sister would go to the county town and would definitely bring back delicious food.
Shuying said hurriedly: "Mom, how could I use my partner's money before marriage? It was my second brother who gave me ten yuan today and bought me a box of vanishing cream!"
When Yang's mother heard that it was the second son who gave money to his daughter, she was quite satisfied. Normally, the second son did not have much private money.
In the past, I would occasionally give some money to my daughter when I returned to the village.
This time he suddenly stuffed ten dollars into his daughter's pocket, presumably to compensate her for what his wife had done, and also bought her some vanishing cream.
It seems that the second brother still has some conscience and still cares about his younger sister.
Otherwise, the next time the second child comes home, she will want to chase him away with a broom.
The eldest sister-in-law Hong Xiaojuan and the third sister-in-law Wang Rong heard that the second brother actually gave the younger sister ten yuan. The two sisters-in-law were amazed. The second brother was too...generous. He even bought some vanishing cream for the younger sister.
This vanishing cream is also very expensive. I heard from the educated youth in the village that a box of vanishing cream costs fifty cents. Oh my goodness!
The second brother is really generous to the younger sister.
Women all love beauty, and the two sisters-in-law are very curious about the vanishing cream in the younger sister's hand.
"Little sister, would you like to let me see what vanishing cream looks like?" Sister-in-law Hong Xiaojuan couldn't wait. She had only heard of vanishing cream and clam oil, and didn't know what it looked like. People in the village also bought clam oil, which was much cheaper than vanishing cream, only one dime.
But this dime is very expensive for sister-in-law Hong Xiaojuan.
Third sister-in-law Wang Rong was a city girl, and she had bought some vanishing cream before, but it was too expensive. She was still a girl and had to save her own money for several years to buy a box of vanishing cream.
The smell is so nice and fragrant, and the skin feels smooth after application.
Third sister-in-law Wang Rong was so itchy.
Without waiting for the tree shadow to speak, Yang's mother said, "Go away, what are you looking at? There's nothing good to see!" Then she turned to her daughter and said, "Daughter, you're getting married soon. You should apply more of this cream these days. I heard that it can make your skin whiter! The second son has finally done something good!"
As Yang's mother spoke, she put the things in the backpack into the cabinet one by one.
Look, I saw my daughter buying spare ribs, pork chops, white flour, canned food, White Rabbit milk candy, and rice noodles.
Mother Yang was so frightened that she almost fell down. Could it be that her daughter had spent all the ten dollars that the second son had just given her?
The stitches her daughter made were getting bigger and bigger. When she confirmed from her daughter that most of the ten yuan had been spent, Yang's mother covered her chest with her hands and almost fainted from the pain.
She made up her mind to let the girl go to the county town less often in the future, and immediately asked her to put the remaining few dollars with her.
Shuying had a lot of money in her hands and didn't care about the few dollars, so she gave the money to her mother.
After Yang's mother went back to her room to hide the money, Shuying showed the vanishing cream to her two sisters-in-law.
If it wasn't a gift from my second brother, it wouldn't be a big deal to give the vanishing cream to my second sister-in-law. However, my second brother bought it for her personally, so it's not easy for Shuying to give it away.
If two people want to apply it, they can wash their faces and apply it to try.
The two sisters-in-law never expected that the younger sister would be so generous. They were extremely happy, especially the eldest sister-in-law Hong Xiaojuan, who had just heard from her mother that applying the ointment could make her hair whiter.
She had become a lot darker due to the recent competition, so her two sisters-in-law immediately took the soap and a wooden basin to fetch water to wash her face.
Shuying was busy in the kitchen, soaking the spare ribs in water to remove the blood.
She began to knead the dough and let it rest.
While no one was in the kitchen, Shuying mixed white flour into the mixed noodles. She originally wanted to make steamed buns, but then she thought she had made too many steamed buns recently.
To make crispy flower rolls, add a little salt and knead the dough.
After kneading the dough and letting it rest, I went to the yard and picked a handful of green onions.
After the dough has risen, use a wooden stick to roll it out thinly and widely, add green onions, fold it in half, cut it, press it with chopsticks and roll it into the shape of a flower roll.
It is decorated with green onions, which makes it so beautiful. Although it has many patterns and a yellowish color, it still looks very beautiful.
When Yang's mother returned to the kitchen, she saw her daughter had made something strange, including green onions. She was very curious: "Daughter, what is this?"
"Mom, this is flower rolls. Today my second brother took me to their cafeteria for lunch. We also ate flower rolls. They tasted pretty good. I asked the cafeteria chef and he told me about it. Shouldn't I go home and try it first?"
Mother Yang couldn't help but sigh at how clever and skillful her daughter was, and her son-in-law would be blessed in the future.
Yang's mother helped her daughter to make it. She didn't know how to make it at first, so she learned from her daughter. The flower roll looked a bit complicated, but it was quite simple to make.
While Yang's mother was helping her make steamed buns, Shuying asked, "Mom, do we have radishes at home?"
"Go to the yard and pull them out!" said Yang's mother.
Although Yang's mother is reluctant to use oil when cooking, she never fails to use radishes. There are plenty of peppers at home, so she likes to make dried radishes in the second half of every year and pickle the peppers for a few months. The old man and the eldest son love to eat them.
Shuying went to the yard, pulled up a few large radishes, and washed them.
Light the fire and blanch the ribs. By the time Yang's mother reacted, her daughter had already blanched all the ribs.
Mother Yang hurriedly told her daughter to leave most of the ribs for the next day or the day after tomorrow, and then said, "My daughter, these ribs are all bones. Weigh them again. If you want to buy something in the future, buy the meat. Don't buy the bones. They don't taste good!"
Shuying thought to herself whether the ribs were delicious or not, her mother would know after dinner, and said, "Mom, we can't eat the ribs after blanching them. They will definitely go bad in the hot weather. Besides, there are so many people in our family, how can we eat enough. I won't cook too many dishes today, just two!"
Seeing that her daughter had cooked all those ribs, Yang's mother quickly hid the other few pounds of pork belly.
She had not originally planned to cook the pork belly, and her mother hid it. Shuying was not worried and brainwashed her mother, saying that her father was a worker with a salary, and her third and fourth brothers would definitely have a bright future, so there was no need to save as much as before.
Mother Yang thought that if her old man had not been a worker with a salary, she would have been so angry that she would have fainted to see her daughter spend so much money on a trip to the county town today. She would definitely not be able to bear to see her daughter spend so much meat in one meal.
Shuying put the fried pork ribs in the pot on the left, added cold water and stewed them, added ginger slices and green onions, and also peeled and cut a few white radishes into pieces.
While the spareribs were stewing, Yang's mother asked her daughter to close the kitchen door.
Now after the summer harvest, everyone in the village goes home early. If the smell of meat gets out, it will easily cause people to talk.
Although the Hongyang Society had a good atmosphere, there had been reports of wrongdoing in the family, and Yang's mother was afraid that if she ate some meat, her neighbors would become jealous and report her.
The only thing that made Yang's mother feel relieved was that the troublesome Huang Jinhua's family was no longer in the village, so Yang's mother quickly closed the door.
Hanamaki woke up for a few minutes and the shadow of the tree began to steam.
She also cut the orange pumpkin in half, put it in a large bowl, added water and steamed it together with the steamed buns without adding any other ingredients.
It was almost six o'clock in the evening when the eldest brother of the Yang family came back from the fields. As he approached the kitchen, he smelled a very delicious smell. His two sisters-in-law had already smelled the fragrance at home.
Ouch!
My little sister’s cooking skills are getting better and better.
Dahu, Erhu and the others came back very early today. They were screaming in the kitchen and were driven out to play in the yard by Yang's mother.
However, the three little guys tasted the sweet and sticky pumpkin and found it so delicious that they came out and told the eldest brother of the Yang family about it.
The eldest brother of the Yang family was so happy that he was drooling.
That’s all for dinner at home today.
The eldest brother of the Yang family carried the steamer in, and mother Yang brought the steamed pumpkin. Shuying scooped half of the ribs and radish into the casserole, which was brought in by sister-in-law Hong Xiaojuan.
After it was served, Yang's mother tasted the sweet and sticky steamed pumpkin and liked it very much. The little ones especially loved it.
Then there was a big pot of radish stewed with pork ribs, most of which were radishes. Knowing that the family liked spicy food, she also added a small bowl of pickled peppers.
The taste of pork ribs stewed with radish is naturally very good.
Even Yang's mother thought it tasted very good.
The ribs were stewed until they were soft. Yang's mother ate a piece of the ribs. She didn't need to chew much because the soft meat fell off the bones and tasted especially good. The radish and pork ribs soup was especially delicious.
How come radish and pork ribs stewed together are so delicious?
The eldest brother and two sisters-in-law of the Yang family also like the radish and pork ribs soup very much. They never thought that the radish and pork ribs stewed together would taste so good. They were so engrossed in the eating that their foreheads were covered with sweat.
The salty flower rolls have a scallion aroma. Yang's eldest brother especially likes them and likes to eat them with a little chili. If they are too spicy, he will eat a piece of pork ribs and soft radish, and drink a bowl of radish and pork ribs soup. He will eat without even raising his head.
Shuying ate a few bites himself, then scooped a bowl of carrot, pork ribs and meat soup for each of his nephews and nieces and placed it in front of them.
Whether it was the soft radish or the small radish eaten with pork ribs, the children all exclaimed in amazement and looked at the tree shadows with shining eyes.